Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Government in Louisiana
If one hundred people were surveyed, I wonder how many would find this distinction honest...
David Freddoso discusses it at the National Review Online:
"Louisiana’s constitution requires the state legislature to “define and suppress gambling,” a crime that carries a $500 fine and up to six years in prison. So in 1991, the criminal code and the English language were altered in Baton Rouge so that “[t]he intentional conducting or assisting in the conducting of gaming activities upon a riverboat…whereby a person risks the loss of anything of value in order to realize a profit is not gambling..."
