Someone here tried convincing me and others that it was a republican thing here in Minnesota where they were behind banning sites.Grant you that republicans are fascists and socialists too and people like Kyll in Arizona did the national online gambling debacle but it's a democrat thing in Minnesota.Pawlenty the repub gov can't even use veto power anymore to override bills because the democrats have the majority in both houses and the courts.The whole state is demo socialist and Al Franken will be our gift to the country so he can disease you with his socialism.
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Rep. Garofalo tells state: Don't block online gambling
By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune
Last update: May 4, 2009 - 3:48 PM
state representative wants to prevent state law enforcement from following through on it effort to keep Minnesotans from gambling online.
Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, introduced legislation today that would bar the Department of Public Safety from forcing Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to 200 online gambling Internet gaming sites that the state wants targeted.
The legislation is in response to a letter sent last week from the state Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division to 11 ISPs directing them to block the sites. There is no indication yet that any of the ISPs intend to act on the state's behalf.
Minnesota says all online gambling within the state is illegal, even if the games are hosted outside the United States. Operators of these types of sites are most commonly in the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.
Written notices from the division were served Monday to AT&T Internet Services, Charter Communications, Comcast Cable, DirecTV, Dish Network, Embarq and Sprint/Nextel, Frontier Communications, Qwest, Verizon Wireless and Wildblue Communications.
In making the announcement, John Willems, director of the state's Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division, made sure to alert players in Minnesota that any balances they have with online gambling sites could be in peril if access is denied.
"The Department of Public Safety has to have better things to do with their time than to go after a college kid in his dorm room or some guy sitting in his basement spending a couple of hours playing online poker," Garofalo said this afternoon. "Demanding that a private-sector Internet service provider block access to websites is not a proper function of our state government."
Willems initially said he needed to see the bill before he could comment. Soon after receiving a copy of the brief legislation, he said he would have to hold off reacting until he speaks with the commissioner's office for the Department of Public Safety.
As for how the ISPs are reacting to his agency's initiative, Willems said: "We have not heard from the ISPs apart from Dish TV, which has told me that they work with a third-party company to provide Internet access to their customer who need it."
Garofalo's legislation would stop such an action by the state unless there is legislative approval.
"I'm certainly not condoning online gambling," Garofalo said. "But I have serious concerns about government banning access to web sites. This is the kind of thing they do in communist China, not the United States of America.
"Besides, how about we focus on balancing the state's $6.4 billion budget deficit and not harassing Minnesotans anymore than Democrat legislative leaders are already trying to do."Comment -
The information in this site is probably correct but I am pretty sure that pokerstars owns this domain.Originally posted by WileOutComment -
there must be a lot of brick-and-mortor casinos in Minnesota.
Here's how it works typically:
1.) Politician (usually a self-righteous Republican) is bribed by the brick-and-mortor casinos who ask him/her to stop citizens from using offshore websites, otherwise known as "competition!"
2.) The Repubican politician pretends to go to bat for the evengelical, bible-thumping conservatives and thus launches a crusade against gambling by attacking the offshore websites.zen
Result:
A.) The citizens lose their freedom.
B.) The Republican politician gets money from the brick-and-mortor casinos and raises money from the evangelical christians.
c.) The brick-and-mortor casinos don't have competition inside their resident state anymore
Last note: Whoever thinks the Republicans are for free-market economies are sadly mistaken. If the Republican party had it's way, we'd be living in a theocracy where only the priests and politicians can sleep around and steal money from everybodyComment
