As you said, nothing you can do.
bfl
Las Vegas is a much better overall experience, from the food, the lodging, the gaming and the overall atmosphere. It's fairly cheap to travel there as well.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned but I don’t think it is ever a good strategy to broadcast your intention to murder people before the fact . . . but that just me.
One of the legal quandaries is, if they are allowed to build casinos on their own tribal territory, are they therefore allowed to buy land outside their territory and then claim that as tribal land too. I remember a case in California that a tribe whose land was up in the mountains away from any highways wanted permission to buy land for a casino on the highway, and were denied. But it was being litigated and I don’t know how it all came out.
The casino will create a lot of jobs and bring in a lot of money to your town. Some have great restaurants and bring in top flight entertainers.
There is nothing you can do about it.
Even the mob which owns Vegas and Reno could not stop all of the casinos from building and doing business in California.
Blame Andrew Jackson....
Well, the Native Americans were a peaceful group who never hurt the land, and only shot buffalo to eat them. And they were never at war with each other.
How can you be angry at such a nice group of folk....?
//Sarcasm off
when they built a casino in South Florida they did not even have to meet hurricane codes - crazy!
I never understand how Indians are treated as special.
I understand about Indians reservations. I don’t understand how Indians can do things that are illegal for the rest of us.
How is it legal, or giving us all equal protection of the laws, that people of certain ancestry are allowed to have a gambling casino, when people of other ancestries are not allowed to run that sort of business???
As I said, while this is all legal, I don’t understand the legal justification under our laws.
The land is probably designated as part of their ‘reservation’.
I live about a mile from one of the casinos. It does bring in a lot of visitors to the area and it does employ a good number of people. [I have never been inside it — have no interest in gambling.]
Another way to scalp-um white man who can’t control self?
The location might be the only thing that could be pressed to change. They might be forced to move the casino operation out of the no-gambling zone. But not if the city has been bought off, etc.
If you want to see how our PC government knuckled under to the Native American mob, read the book “No Reservations”, which details how the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut got started back in the 70s.
Indian casinos around here are nice. And among the best concert venues “in” town. Not much you can do about it one way or the other.
Its called ‘getting even’. Remember the “Trail of Tears”?
Casinos have cheapened Oklahoma, if that was possible,and are mostly trashy and a blight on the state. Some tribes, Choctaw, have provided some good tribal programs. Others, Cherokee, you wonder where the money goes.
In small towns the small casino is like a dark shadow. They remind me of the old county and state line beer joints but just newer models.
You would think they are already overbuilt with more than 90 in the state. I dont see how they can avoid becoming unsightly blights that need to be condemned. This will lead to even worse indian poverty.
It is a shame, the more indian an area is the more blighted and trashy it is. If the redman was ever dignified he has been stripped of it. One road I know is just a linear trash can.
If they are on sovereign land they can do what they want...
certainly the land was aquired under false pretences... and bet your town has some sort of zoning laws..???
such as # of parking spaces, handicapped parking ratio... signs allowed in certain zones...
However the anti gambling law ought to require a special exemption regardless of indian acquisition of the property...
and that exemtion can be denied...
another tact might be taxing the gross revenues to the point it makes no economic sense
but i think the building permit issue and the local law prevails.... next they will build a brothel ... hahahahaha
Most Casinos today except the costly ones in Vegas are same crowd as obese walmart shoppers
Not for me
And pricey casinos are too much and often kids from LA bunk 4 to a room to go get drunk and vomit in the pool
I was at the VenetianPalazzo a few years ago and the pool scene was just that at 450/night two rooms
I’ll pass