Author of Martin Luther King Bio Fighting Against Gambling Freedom

Sometimes, the facts get twisted depending on which side of an argument a person is on. For Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, he has chosen a cause that is in direct contrast to a person he wrote about many years ago.

Branch is the biographer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and is an award winning writer. His newest cause, however, is in direct contrast from everything that the Reverend was fighting for.

Branch will head a national anti-gambling conference at National Harbor on Friday. His message will be in direct contrast than the one Martin Luther King Jr. delivered during the civil rights movement.

The Reverend spoke of equality, and the freedom of every American to have choices. Gambling is a choice that Americans should have the right to decide whether they want to take part or not.

The government has spent years turning a perfectly operational constitution into a blurry, hard to read, law manual. The gambling issue is yet another in which the government feels it has the right to tell people what they should and should not be doing.

The gambling issue is big in Maryland right now with an initiative to bring slots to the state on the ballot for November. People such as Branch are coming out against the slot initiative with the same stale arguments.

Gambling is addictive. gambling ruins lives. Many things are addictive and ruin lives that are already legal, and most do not bring the upside that gambling does for an area.

Education and the community benefit from expanded gambling. Jobs are created, money is raised in record numbers, and the education system benefits greatly. These are freedoms that all people should have the right to enjoy.

September 21, 2008
Posted By Larry Rutherford
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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