The_Tracker
07-22-2004, 12:36 PM
It seems I keep seeing more and more stories pop up regarding the legality of playing poker. Just recently there was a raid at a bowling alley in minn. at a tourney where no money was awarded or exchanged.
It's a crime to play cards to try and win a T-shirt or keychain.(!?)
There is also a bill I believe that would ban online gaming and make such cases prosecutable.(sp?)
Does anyone else see this whole thing coming to a crashing halt soon? As the popularity continues to grow, so do the complaints of Joe Public about people playing cards in places like bars and bowling alleys.
As is typical, I believe the US government will have to step in and tell us how to live life and protect us from ourselves. Cause lord knows the saftey and morality of the free world hangs in the balance.
It really boils down to all the bible thumpers and tight a$$ed conservatives. Let your ridiculous ideas of a wonderful sin free eutopia go, and realize that this is the 21st century and things have changed. People should be able to make decisions for themselves as to what they choose to do with their money, body, time etc. As long as your actions are not directly harming other people, then what is the problem?
We need to get off this moral high ground.
Oh yea, and get Bush the hell out of the white house!
It's a crime to play cards to try and win a T-shirt or keychain.(!?)
There is also a bill I believe that would ban online gaming and make such cases prosecutable.(sp?)
Does anyone else see this whole thing coming to a crashing halt soon? As the popularity continues to grow, so do the complaints of Joe Public about people playing cards in places like bars and bowling alleys.
As is typical, I believe the US government will have to step in and tell us how to live life and protect us from ourselves. Cause lord knows the saftey and morality of the free world hangs in the balance.
It really boils down to all the bible thumpers and tight a$$ed conservatives. Let your ridiculous ideas of a wonderful sin free eutopia go, and realize that this is the 21st century and things have changed. People should be able to make decisions for themselves as to what they choose to do with their money, body, time etc. As long as your actions are not directly harming other people, then what is the problem?
We need to get off this moral high ground.
Oh yea, and get Bush the hell out of the white house!