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Outside the Beltway, way out there in flyover land on the prairies of North Dakota, not all Republicans are lining up to support U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's call to ban Internet gambling.
In fact, North Dakota State Rep. Jim Kasper says, "My fellow Republicans just don't get it" when it comes to Internet gambling.
In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which updates the 1961 Wire Act banning sports wagering over the telephone to include all forms of online gambling.
Frist (R-Tenn.) wants the Senate to approve the same legislation in the waning days of the 109th Congress.
Kasper calls the proposal "ridiculous."
"The people of our nation want to do what they want to do in the privacy of their living rooms," Kasper told internetnews.com.
Contrary to the intent of his national party leaders, North Dakota will become a safe harbor for Internet poker players worldwide if Kasper has his way.
Kasper plans to introduce bills in the next session of the North Dakota legislature legalizing Internet poker for online casinos that will bring their software, hardware and employees to North Dakota.
I'm with Kaspar on this. If people want to gamble on the internet I say we let 'em.
Frist and the national Republicans making a priority out of this internet gambling thing is a joke. It will become a boondoggle. It will be another prohibition. It will be unenforceable, and the people who want to gamble will find away around it. I understand that some people find gambling to be immoral, but so what? People find porn to be immoral to but there are no efforts to try and take that off the internet.
Anyway, while we're on the subject I found this rather stupid criticism of Kaspar over on the Flickertail Journal blog:
...in 2001, Kasper introduced and helped pass a bill specifically to allow landlords the ability to discriminate against unmarried couples by refusing to rent to them.
Well, landlords should get a choice when it comes to who they rent to shouldn't they? Maybe a landord has some moral objections to couples cohabitating before marriage. Would we force a Muslim landlord to rent property out to a butcher shop that sells pork products? Should a black landlord have to rent out an apartment to a white supremacist? Which isn't to say that cohabitation is equivalent to white supremacy (I cohabitate with my finace out of wedlock), but you get my drift. Landlords should be allowed to make decisions like that.
Of course, to liberals the idea of citizens being allowed to make their own choices on these matters is just plain wrong.
To be fair, though, in 2005 Kaspar did vote against repealing North Dakota's existing laws against male/female, pre-marital cohabitation (something Flickertail Journal did point out) and that was pretty stupid. But that doesn't make Kaspar wrong on internet gambling.
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