Just a few days ago, we reported that the state of Minnesota had decided to join the fight against freedom along with states like Kentucky by taking drastic authoritarian measures in order to fulfill a political agenda. In fact, Minnesota has gone a lot further than Kentucky arguably because they have actually ordered that their residents be banned from accessing the websites altogether, whereas Kentucky was still willing to allow access to the domains even as they were trying to confiscate them from the websites in question.

Well, as could have been predicted at the time, Minnesota’s legislators have come under intense fire from both online gambling advocacy groups as well as groups that advocate the complete freedom of the internet and technology. Of particular interest is the case of Chris Wallace, a man otherwise known as Fox to the people that know of his online poker exploits in the world of online gambling. Minnesota faces heat from other sources, but for the moment the media appears to be running with the interview that Fox did with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

In the interview, Fox made no bones about his disdain for the current situation and intimated that he would lose around $2,000 a week in income because of the legislation were it to pass and survive all of the challenges. In total, that amounts to around $104,000 annually, which is a large amount of money for anyone to end up losing because of a single government action. At the same time however, Fox was not willing to take the loss lying down. In one of the most reported moves in recent online gambling history, Fox admitted his playing of online poker and challenged authorities in Minnesota to come and arrest him if it was illegal to do so. He pushed the bar even higher by volunteering to be arrested if the state felt it was in the best interests of putting this law forward.

This puts the ball squarely back in the court of the state of Minnesota. Arresting Fox would be a high profile move that would get national scrutiny for a significant period of time, but doing nothing would in effect be a silent admission of the ridiculousness of their current position.