Bluegrass Institute Takes up for the Citizen
When you go to a casino, or play online poker, you can make a 100% true bet that the odds are stacked against you.
But the odds are not the question here. Neither are the morals. And neither are the chances that one could become addicted to gambling or poker.
No the problem here is that these things, going to a casino, how one feels about gambling, well they’re supposed to be choices. Not mandate.
But the exact opposite is what Kentucky Governor Beshear is thinking in his court case on behalf of the state. You know, the one where he wants to commandeer the domain names because he calls them gambling devices. Well, the Bluegrass Institute of Kentucky is speaking out against this, and not on the grounds of morals or mathematics or logic, but on the grounds of the human freedom and personal liberty.
On Monday October the 13th, the Bluegrass Institute submitted an amicus brief to the Franklin Circuit Court along side the PPA and iMEGA, an online media mogul. And guess what, it worked. The judge was forced to hold off on his ruling.
Again, this isn’t so much about how one feels about online gaming and poker. It’s about having the choice to like it or hate it. To have the choice to partake in it or refuse to. It’s part of the basic guarantees of not only the free market, but the free society that too many Americans have seen slip away, become smaller in recent years.
But regardless of exactly what Governor Beshear’s motives were or are, we can be assured that such a monumental decision won’t die in the hands of a circuit court judge. Expect this to work it’s way up the appellate ladder. And if congress doesn’t do it, perhaps the courts willrepeal the UIGEA.
