New York Times Features Letter Backing Online Poker
December 27, 2007
Since the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), poker players accross the nation have been encouraged to send letters to their newspaper’s editors. John Andrews of Shelton, CT did just that. The following letter was featured in today’s New Your Times.
Re “Ruling Lets Antigua Be Pirate to Punish U.S. in Trade Fight” (Business Day, Dec. 22):
The “stern warnings” of the United States to Antigua are arrogant and hollow. They are based ultimately on two bad arguments: that Internet poker is “gambling,” and that government should criminalize Internet “gambling.”
Poker is an intellectually challenging game of skill, like chess. It is fun. It is educational. American citizens should be free to play it on the Internet and wherever they wish.
Antigua, supported by the World Trade Organization, has every right to punish the United States for the idiocy of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, passed by Congress in 2006.
John Andrews
Shelton, Conn., Dec. 22, 2007
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