Saturday, October 07, 2006

"The new law passed because members of the pro-family movement -- including
a great many Southern Baptists -- brought the issue to the attention of both
Democrats and Republicans," Bill Frist says in a letter to the Southern
Baptists, a minority group not representative of all, or even a majority, of
citizens of the United States of America. In an attempt to explain his way
out of attaching a ridiculous law that prohibits the rights and freedoms of
American citizens, in the midnite hours of the last day of Congress
sessions, Frist explains that "...rigorous state enforcement means that
brick and mortar casinos make a good faith effort to keep minors away from
gambling. The same isn't so for online casinos: A website can't tell whether
someone is 13 or 35." Frist makes a good point about underage gambling
online, if it were true. When 60 minutes did a report on internet gambling
and the producer let his son attempt to play online, he was consistently
denied by online casinos and poker rooms. The kid had to search through
several casinos before finding a shady website where he was allowed to use
his parents credit card, which he somehow was in possession of. Frist also
showed his ignorance of the subject of online casino regulation in his
letter to the Southern Baptists. Online casinos are legal and highly
regulated by the UK government and the other countries where they hold valid
gaming licenses. And everyone in the industry knows that if an online casino
is shady it would be online gaming suicide. Online, a casino running a tight
ship is what equals success. The problem Mr. Frist, with all this (and I
could go on disecting your article to your minority backers but I won't
waste my breath) is that this bill was attached to a Port Authority Bill and
was not given a chance to be debated in Congress. The bill was not even
presented to anyone in the House until 30 minutes before it went to the
floor. You actually attempted several times before the midnite hours of that
last night to bring it up to your cronies in the Senate only to have it be
knocked down by the more honest politicians who believed it was not nearly
as important as National Defense and the Security of our Nation.