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12/08/2006 - 16:07

George W. Bush teaches America how to play online poker in a new portal protesting the anti-gambling prohibition signed by the president.

New York, NY (Poker4bush.com) December 11, 2006 – Leading the growing backlash against the U.S. government’s war on Internet gambling, a new web portal, poker4bush.com, gives millions of Americans a place to protest, vent, and learn how to get around the new law and keep playing legally on American soil.

For two months now, since Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, millions of Americans have been searching for a “virtual speakeasy,” a place to meet and chat with their fellow players—and of course—to learn how to keep playing in peace without the nanny state coming after them.
Poker4bush was conceived as a result of the call of millions of American poker players to protest. The portal includes web forums, commentary, and great caricatures of Bush at the casino tables. Poker4bush also invites players to express their anger at Bush by submitting their own caricatures Bush playing craps, roulette, and poker.

The creators of the site believe that the new casino anti-gaming legislation is similar to prohibition in the 1920s, an attempt by conservative politicians to legislate morality and impose their beliefs on the larger public. We also believe it was a pre-election gimmick by the Republicans that could do lasting damage to Americans’ respect for the law. As Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute wrote in an editorial in The New York Times on October 19th:

“…society is weakened every time a law is passed that large numbers of reasonable, responsible citizens think is stupid. Such laws invite good citizens to choose knowingly to break the law, confident that they are doing nothing morally wrong The reaction to Prohibition, the 20th century’s stupidest law, is the archetypal case.”