Let The People Play Says Film Producer
Published: Friday, August 11, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
LET THE PEOPLE PLAY SAYS FILM PRODUCER
"The whole internet gaming ban is a joke...."
U.S. movie producer Philip Ittleson is following the ethos of his poker documentary "No Limit" this week by publicising his Let The People Play.org website to help educate and unite the millions of poker players in the United States who are against legislation that would ban online gambling, including poker.
"The whole internet gaming ban is a joke," Ittleson says. "Poker players aren't terrorists - let's get our priorities straight. The biggest crime is that we aren't regulating and taxing it."
In order to combat the legislation, Ittleson set up the Let The People Play organisation with the goal of raising a volunteer "army" to educate the estimated 70 million poker players in American about legislative moves in Congress and get them to sign up to defend the game and poker players' rights.
The website site urges players to band together to help defeat H.R. 4411, the Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act and the legislators who are supporting it. "We need to send a clear message to Washington: 'get your priorities straight, stop wasting time and tax dollars on frivolous legislation. American poker players are 70 million strong and we are outraged - we are not criminals,'" says the site.
Poker players can do their bit by just spreading the word at local card rooms and casinos or becoming a more active participant by helping the email campaign to Senators or wearing the appropriate T-shirts and slogans designed to spread the word that online gambling is not and should not be a criminal activity.
"It is utterly ridiculous that online poker is under assault," said Lucie Jourdan, a Los Angeles songstress who was recruited as LetThePeoplePlay.org's spokesperson. "Why not address important issues like the current chaos in the Middle East, global warming, Gulf Coast revitalization … When put into perspective it sickens me that Washington is wasting valuable time and our hard earned tax dollars on this frivolous bill."
