The United States Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Comments?
Question by photografr7: The United States Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Comments?
Answer by ZCT
It’s disgusting. Bill Frist who slid it into an unrelated anti-terror bill, should be fired for completely disregarding the democratic process to push his radical right wing agenda.
There has been no poll published indicating that the majority of Americans wanted this. It is a big brother measure, telling citizens of a free country how they are allowed to spend their money. The law will involve a bunch of companies such as banks and ISPs having to spend a fortune to police this. In addition thousands of people world wide will be affected by it. Various online companies that were operating completely legally in other countries will lose millions, thanks to this unnecessary legislation.
Frist argued that gambling hurts families, yet legalized three major forms of gambling in his anti-gambling law. I’m sure he’ll get a lovely kick-back from those sectors of the industry.
If America is going to brag about bringing democracy to the rest of the world (whether they want it or not), then they should lead by example. Laws should be properly debated, not attached as riders in a sneaky underhand manner. Laws should be enacted when they are supported by the majority of the people, not because some radical idiot wants to impose his half-assed ‘morals’ onto others to appeal to fundamentalists in his base.
It should be an embarassment to any American.
THIS WAS DONE TO PROTECT US FROM OURSELVES. SOME PEOPLE, IF ALLOWED TO, WOULD DO ANYTHING THEY WANTED TO WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, AS IF THEY HAD A RIGHT TO.
THEN WHERE WOULD WE BE?
It’s a BS enforcement Act. The Indian Casinos are behind it. They give a lot of money to representatives when they’re running for office. They will give money to both competing parties so that they have a win-win situation. Once they’re in office, they expect those representatives they bought to back them on any issue the Indian casino may deem necessary. Like I said, this is a BS enforcement because the Indian Casinos feel they are loosing money. What’s worse, there’s really nothing we can do about it.
It does embarrass America. Poker was delevoped and cultivated in the USA. It is a part of our culture and history. Now with it reaching its highest point of popularity globablly, and the whole world coming together in cyber-space to play, Americans will oddly be absent.