Poker Players Alliance board member Rich Muny reviews “The Conscience of a Libertarian” by 2012 Libertarian presidential hopeful Wayne Allyn Root at Gambling911.com. Muny says Root “asserts that America is a nation of gamblers and always has been.”
Most of Muny’s review deals with Root’s chapter entitled “The End of Prohibition — Why Gamblers Will Empower the Citizen Revolution,” in which Root “notes that the proponents of a new Prohibition — a prohibition on online poker — are straight-laced, nanny state busy-bodies who are afraid to take risks. They want to police what others do, this despite the fact that it does not affect them in any way. He notes that there are people in the Middle East who think the same way — the Taliban.”
Muny concludes, “The chapter is well-written, and Mr. Root does a fine job in explaining the phenomenon of gambling in American culture and how gambling and freedom are intertwined.” Root “‘gets it’ in a way that few who have run for national office do. I wholeheartedly recommend this chapter of the book.”
Gambling is just one of several victimless crimes which need to be taken off the criminal statute books.
Jeff Daiell
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