Setting Priorities

The Monitor chimes in on the Cameron County District Attorney's waste of time persecuting grandparents who play video slot machines. In an editorial reprinted from the Valley Morning Star, it questions the law enforcement priorities in the Lower Rio Grande Valley:

[T]he primary challenges facing lawmen aren’t battles between drug warlords or coyotes leading hordes of illegals onto private property. No, claiming their place as the main nemesis of the law enforcement community are the owners of eight-liner parlors and the Winter Texans and others who drop coins into their machines.

As the editorial points out, it's all about money. Much like the Mafia, the state runs a protection racket. Texas "protects" us from gambling our hard-earned cash. Why? Because gambling's bad, unless it's in the state-run lottery -- which has its own problems with misleading gamblers.