NEWS: Fed Gambling Study - Binion & Blitzstein Ties - Stupak's Titanic
Ken Churilla
Fed study recites ills of gambling
A draft report says casinos bring economic benefits, but it calls youth gambling
a major problem. A draft report prepared for a federal commission calls gambling
addiction a "significant" problem and youth gambling "startling." Yet it also
depicts casinos as a uniquely effective economic tool, particularly for Indian
tribes. The "most startling and unexpected conclusion" of the commission's two
years of work, the report says, is how little is known about the gambling
industry's economic and social impact.
In the Las Vegas Sun on May 7, 1999
Testimony: Binion had close ties to Blitzstein
A protected FBI witness has provided sworn testimony that alleges the late Ted
Binion once loaned slain mob figure Herbie Blitzstein $100,000. Blitzstein,
according to the witness, Joe DeLuca, then loaned the money on the street to a
California associate, named Ivy Ong. The reported business deal was not known to
state gaming regulators at the time they revoked Binion's license last May as a
co-owner at the Horseshoe Club because of his ties to Blitzstein, an underworld
loan-shark who was killed gangland style Jan. 6, 1997.
In the Las Vegas Sun on May 7, 1999
Residents want to sink Titanic-themed hotel
The sunlight pouring through the leaves of a large elm bathes lilies, hollyhocks
and apricot trees in a warm glow as sprinklers spread rainbow droplets of water
onto Fifth Place lawns...Yet if casino developer Bob Stupak has his way at
Monday's City Council meeting, the Thunderbird and several adjacent businesses
will be christened anew as a 280-foot-tall Titanic-themed hotel with an adjacent
iceberg-shaped shopping center.
Related story: Opposition Mounts Against Stupak's Titanic
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Terrence Chan
Ken Churilla <k...@elsop.com> wrote in message
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> In the Las Vegas Review-Journal on May 8, 1999
>
> Fed study recites ills of gambling
>
> A draft report says casinos bring economic benefits, but it calls youth
gambling
> a major problem. A draft report prepared for a federal commission calls
gambling
> addiction a "significant" problem and youth gambling "startling." Yet it
also
> depicts casinos as a uniquely effective economic tool, particularly for
Indian
> tribes.
Of course it's a uniquely effective economic tool for the tribes; they've
been given licence by the vast majority of state and provincial government
throughout North America to hold a coercive, government-enforced monopoly
over a legitimate form of business, unfettered by competition or even the
threat of competition. Giving tribes--and no one else--license to run
casinos is such an arbitrary selection it's absurd. It is analogous to
having governments declare that "only Japanese people can own gas stations",
or "only Italians can own television set companies", or "only people with 11
toes can run golf courses" etc.
--
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"Terrence Chan" <terren...@bc.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Ken Churilla <k...@elsop.com> wrote in message
> news:pgpmoose.1999...@shell9.ba.best.com...
> > In the Las Vegas Review-Journal on May 8, 1999
> >
> > Fed study recites ills of gambling
> >
> > A draft report says casinos bring economic benefits, but it calls youth
> gambling
> > a major problem. A draft report prepared for a federal commission calls
> gambling
> > addiction a "significant" problem and youth gambling "startling." Yet it
> also
> > depicts casinos as a uniquely effective economic tool, particularly for
> Indian
> > tribes.
>
> Of course it's a uniquely effective economic tool for the tribes; they've
> been given licence by the vast majority of state and provincial government
> throughout North America to hold a coercive, government-enforced monopoly
> over a legitimate form of business, unfettered by competition or even the
> threat of competition. Giving tribes--and no one else--license to run
> casinos is such an arbitrary selection it's absurd. It is analogous to
> having governments declare that "only Japanese people can own gas stations",
> or "only Italians can own television set companies", or "only people with 11
> toes can run golf courses" etc.
Japanese people, Italians, and eleven-toed people don't comprise sovereign
political entities. The tribes do.
--
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mailto:abos...@netcom.com | as they left. "'Pataphysics is, after all, the
news:alt.grelb | ultimate weapon." -- Max Merriwell
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~abostick
pat gilvary
>
>
> Japanese people, Italians, and eleven-toed people don't comprise sovereign
> political entities. The tribes do.
>
> --
> Alan Bostick | "Ah, never wager with a pataphysician," he said
> mailto:abos...@netcom.com | as they left. "'Pataphysics is, after all, the
> news:alt.grelb | ultimate weapon." -- Max Merriwell
> http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~abostick
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Terrence Chan
Mr. Alen I. Koy <mr.ale...@anagrams.r.us> wrote in message
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> "Terrence Chan" <terren...@bc.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> >Giving tribes--and no one else--license to run
> >casinos is such an arbitrary selection it's absurd. It is analogous to
> >having governments declare that "only Japanese people can own gas
stations",
> >or "only Italians can own television set companies", or "only people with
11
> >toes can run golf courses" etc.
>
But then Western Civilisation would have to take back everything they
brought here and continued upon for it to be truly even. Like the
Enlightenment, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, concepts like division of
labour, science, logic...
....but really, I'm far too humanitarian to see a whole race starve
themselves to death.
Larry Kulp
> Japanese people, Italians, and eleven-toed people don't comprise sovereign
> political entities. The tribes do.
>
Your legalistic point is well taken, but it does show the irrational distinctions
that result from the recognition of sovereignties other than the only true
sovereigns under natural law, i.e, individual human beings.
KULP