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Title: Reason TV: paramilitary raid on veterans' poker game
Source: Boing Boing
URL Source: [None]
Published: Dec 3, 2007
Author: Reason TV
Post Date: 2007-12-03 18:47:36 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 116
Comments: 4

Recently, Dallas police staged a paramilitary-style raid on a poker game at a Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. Here's a video from Reason.tv hosted by Drew Carey, that looks into the raid and the subsequent closure of the post.

"Poker is about as American as baseball and apple pie," Carey says in the Reason.tv video. "It was born here in America. Mark Twain loved it. He's a great American. Until recently, Supreme Court justices had a monthly game. They're great Americans. You'd think playing poker in a VFW hall would be about as American as anything you could do."

"This story highlights the hypocrisy that surrounds gambling in this country," said Nick Gillespie, editor of Reason.tv. "States will gladly take your hard-earned money if you want to play the government's lottery. But if you sit down with some veterans to play Texas hold 'em you may end up with cops, in full riot gear, busting down your door. No one gets hurt when consenting adults sit down for a game of cards. And there's no reason for the government to get involved."

The busted poker players have a court date on December 5, 2007.

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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)

I'm so glad these guys have been stopped. I feel so much safer now.

Pinguinite.com EcuadorTreasures.ec

Pinguinite  posted on  2007-12-03   19:00:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Doncha though? .. gawd

www.reason.tv/video/show/172.html

Zipporah  posted on  2007-12-03   19:02:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

"Since 9/11, things are different...." I'm sure some cop uttered that BS at some point in the raid.

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." James Madison

X-15  posted on  2007-12-03   19:14:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Any cop who participated in that raid is a coward and has no excuse. There simply comes a time when you have to say- "this is nuts" and walk. This was one of those times for the officers who raided this game. They failed. They are failures as humans beings.

The Daily Burkeman1

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-12-04   5:47:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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