CAUTION: The following unedited manuscript is being constructed online. It is being edit continually. We apologize for the rambling nature of this work but, it has not been edited by a skilled editor. It will be a much better (and shorter) read, when we locate one.
Until that time, it is essential to maintain a public journal. We feel it is important to document our struggles, as well as, the abuse our members have had to endure, during the long and difficult Arizona Poker War.
The following is another chapter or two in our continuing saga:
Academia’s Deep Sleep
For you first time readers, we believe chronicling our ordeal, is likely to provide the best defense, to the antics of the paid enforcers from the private gambling industry. The Arizona Department of Gaming. This private police agency, is better known to our poker players association, as the The Arizona Mafia, or simply: The DOG.
This organization was born of an illicit conspiracy involving unprincipled leadership and organized crime. Together, they concocted an amoral public policy to protect two different criminal enterprises: The closed racial enclaves operated by the BIA and their funding partners the outlawed privateers of the gambling industry, along with their enforcement arm, The Arizona Department of Gaming.
Included within their illicit conspiracy is a monopolistic claim over the International Sport of Professional Poker. For more than five years the International Card & Game Players Association (ICGPA) has objected vehemently to that claim. In fact, the DOG police know full well that POKER is not even mentioned in the gambling statutes.
Actually, we are certain that Poker qualifies for the exclusion, afforded to all bona fide businesses, provided within the gambling statutes. Regardless, Arizona does not own the sport of poker, and we believe the players have a substantive right to organize the sport. We have enjoyed virtually unanimous community support for our efforts.
This case is not about gambling. It is about intimidation and extortion, by paid enforcers from the private gambling industry. Terry Goddard already announced that they can’t get a conviction. Which, we have all known for five years.
There has been no evidence gathered by these private detectives from the gambling industry, that wasn’t already provided to the AG more than five years ago. So who promised you what to change you mind and sucker punch the union Mr. Goddard.
This is the main reason we have been publishing our ordeal on this blog (www.icgpa.org) and at arizonacardroom.com, as we have been experiencing it. After all, it is a well known, that the privateers of the gambling industry, are notorious for eliminating their competition. Often employing very painful, primitive, and permanent methods (as my friends and associates frequently remind me).