Reason.tv’s Drew Carey Project Episode 4: Texas Close’Em - Cops Raid Poker Games
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, crime, Dallas, Drew Carey, Entertainment, freedom, gambling, Internet wagering, liberty, police, politics, property, Reason, regulation, Texas, Veterans of Foreign Wars, your rightsIn his latest video for Reason.tv, Drew Carey goes all in to report how Dallas cops carried out a paramilitary-style raid on a poker game at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1837, which has now been forced to close its doors.
The raid is part of a broader move by local police to shut down poker games, arrest players, and seize property - even in low stakes games benefiting charity, like at the VFW. And it’s emblematic of the government’s misguided war on gambling, such as the recently enacted federal ban on Internet wagering. In most jurisdictions throughout the country, consenting adults are banned from gambling — unless of course they want to bet on low-odds games run by the government. State lotteries, that is.
The Dallas VFW case goes to court December 5.
This episode is pretty disappointing. They don’t talk about the whole internet gambling issue nor mention what’s being done to other groups nor what’s being done to combat all of it.




