Thugocrats Target Online Poker
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Big Government, The Nanny State & A Regulated Society
You, being too stupid to manager your own affairs, have been prohibited from playing poker online. Technically, financial institutions have been prohibited from helping you get your money on- and off-line, which has the same affect. Naturally, as this law was both unjust and unconstitutional, poker and financial institutions found a way to keep you playing anyway, because that’s what tens of millions of Americans, myself included, wanted.
This angered the thugocrats who commanded you not to use your own money in ways they disapprove (or in competition with their own gambling rackets), and so they have charged the CEO’s of the biggest poker sites with fraud, and also a fake crime known as “money laundering.” Any time prosecutors don’t have enough evidence to convict on real crimes, they pull out “money laundering” charges in hopes to confuse jurors, because no one really knows what it is, including the prosecutors. To add insult to injury, the thugs also stole their domain names.
This is not a partisan issue. A Republican Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act as a hidden inclusion in the Safe Port Act, and Obama appointed thugocrat U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought the charges (his office phone number is 212-637-2200, so call and tell him how much you appreciate his thuggery).
In case you have not figured it out, you are not free and this is not a nation of law. This is a Thugocracy.
I serve as Vice President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, a non-profit think tank dedicated to preserving tax competition and free markets. This site features my personal views, which are not reflective of CF&P.