Poker Legislation Post

	TAKE ACTION: Tell Obama to reverse the DoJ online poker players' fund freeze
	TheEngineer (United States) 2,064 Posts. Joined 11-23-2007. 06-10-2009 11:41 AM

Outraged by the freezing of our funds???  I sure hope so!  Let's take a stand and fight back.  OldBookGuy put together a nice action plan.  Simply: Got to http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact to send a letter to Obama. Cut and paste the letter text below (editing to suit, of course). Click here to Twitter an announcement of this alert. Reply to the thread with "sent" "Twittered", etc to encourage others (you know the drill). Takes less than 60 seconds! Also, please sign the PPA petition to Obama at www.pokerpetition.com. ------------------------------------------------------ Dear President Obama,   It seems your White House has not taken the Government Briefing Book very seriously.   The number one issue in Technology is Online Poker.   Politics and political support as we all know permeates from the bottom up. So it is with issues. Though many pressing issues face you and me, more often than not it is the little -- and, to most in Washington, insignificant -- issues that personally affect the individual that matters most.   This technology issue, online poker, is VERY important to many Americans -- Americans who supported you and the Democratic Party, both locally and nationally -- in the belief your administration would treat poker players at least equally to those who play other online games such as Spades, Hearts, Solitaire and dozens of other games who enjoy the right of privacy in their own homes to play online games of skill both for real money and for fun.   Last week, YOUR Department of Justice continued the Bush era assault on poker players' privacy by freezing the personal funds of an estimated TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND (24,000) American Citizens in the estimated amount of THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS ($30,000,000) of your American Citizen supporters' money.   However, given the current action, if this belief was misplaced then support for Democratic candidates AND your administration will likely suffer.   I implore you to direct action be taken addressing this issue and treat me, a poker player with respect and equality. Thank you for your consideration.