Read all about it I just don't know what to think when undercover Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents have so little real fucking work to do that they: 1-- Conduct an "investigation" into the possibility that illegal betting on a football game is occurring at an ELK'S lodge. You read that right...an ELK'S lodge. 2-- Send armed agents into said lodge to search it, and confiscate an envelope containing $50 from the so-called illegal gambling operation at said ELK'S lodge. 3-- The "head" (yeah, dickhead) of the Riverside ATF justifies this outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars by saying the football pool is a "violation of the law" and that the agency must "take whatever we feel is appropriate action to ensure compliance". You read that quote right as well... "whatever WE feel" is the appropirate action. Who the hell do these people work for anyway? Who pays their paychecks? YOU my friends, YOU do! This dickhead furter states that he is recommending a one year probationary period for the non-compliant ELK'S LODGE which would require the Elk's lodge to cease and desist all "gambling activities" (since when the hell is a $50 football pool a gambling activity! JFC!) must be halted. He confirms, my friends, that such a suspension includes the Elk's Lodge 50-50 raffle event that raises money for disabled children and veterans. Oh, and by the way, a 73 year-old great grandmother and a 39 year-old Elk's Lodge volunteer are facing a year in jail due to the powerful gambling racket they were running over there at the ELK'S lodge. Can I say this enough times? It was a $50 football pool at an ELK'S Lodge! I don't know about you folks, but I am really starting to believe we live in a poilce state and we need to be very, very afraid of our police, government, and politicians. Very, very afraid.