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Posted At : September 29, 2008 04:49 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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International,Internet gambling,Politics,Kentucky
There are finally some roars of organized resistance to Gov. Steve Beshear (D-Ky.) and his unilateral war on Internet gambling. Both the Internet Commerce Association and the Poker Players Alliance have fired off salvos, and it that looks like just the beginning, especially once Bluegrass State taxpayers start getting hit with the legal bill for Beshear's tilt at the Internet windmill.
For all his moral posturing, Beshear looks like an arch-hypocrite with each new revelation. The best one yet comes from Beshear's hatchet man, J. Michael Brown, who -- as befits his name -- is doing a heckuva job. As he explained to the Louisville Courier-Journal, the gambit is to force the GoDaddy.coms of the world to surrender domain names of gambling sites to the State of Kentucky.
"Brown said the state's intention is to enter into settlement talks with the online casino operators, asking them to block Kentucky users from their sites and pay damages in exchange for the state returning control of the sites to them."
That's right: Beshear and Brown intend to take these sites hostage and hold them for ransom. This is a shakedown, pure and simple.
Happily, Judge Thomas Wingate got a glimpse of the enormity of the case and hit the brakes. Beshear had hoped to effect his money-grab last Friday, but he'll have to make a grudging concession to due process, looks like. Beshear may be an improvement on his corrupt predecessor in Frankfort but, in light of his continuing ass-clownery, that's the most relative compliment of 2008.
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