Congress bans internet gambling

Reuters/Washington Post ^ | 9/30/06 | Peter Kaplan

[The_Media_never_lie]

Congress took a stand against these websites that are preying on the most vulnerable members of our society.

Oh, the paragons of virtue!!! Wonder if they will now ban sexiul explicit e-mails to pages (Foley) and gay prostitution rings out of their Capitol Hill residences (Frank)?

[pepperhead]

We can thank the Republican leadership for standing up for morailty and not caving into the popular will of the masses.

Well if it is a truly righteous stand when will they be shutting down the B&M casinos? What about the tracks or the lottery? And what about one of the biggest destroyers of families, alcohol?

[Gradient Vector]

Then make online gambling legal and tax free in America, and then I'll open up my online gambling site in America, and then no criminals will profit.

During prohibition the mob made a killing off alcohol, it wasn't alcohol that was the problem is was the banning of alcohol. Now street gangs make multi millions on drugs that fund violence that kills thousands of innocent Americans every year, many of them children. If Walgreen's sold pot and heroin that would stop. Criminal profiteering from the black market is a reason not to ban things.

[pepperhead]

Oh, the paragons of virtue!!!

Yes they are so full of it. Hypocrites, every last one of them.

[khnyny]

http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/0801/ijge/gj07.htm
Organized Crime and Cybercrime:
Synergies, Trends, and Responses

The above was written a few years ago, but does a good job of outlining some of the problems that can be associated with internet gambling, etc.

This issue is really about cybercrime, international organized crime and terrorism.

[Alterboy1964]

While I would not oppose an outright prohibition of alcoholic beverages, I doubt that is possible. But perhaps some sort of restriction on the amount an individual could buy in a given week or month.

[khnyny]

[Now street gangs make multi millions on drugs that fund violence that kills thousands of innocent Americans every year, many of them children. If Walgreen's sold pot and heroin that would stop. Criminal profiteering from the black market is a reason not to ban things.]

I see where you are coming from now, lol. Try going to the Netherlands and then tell me drug legalization is a good idea.

[pepperhead]

Why stop there?

[pepperhead]

Maybe you can say your a indian and set up one anyway. ;)

[Gradient Vector]

"I see where you are coming from now, lol. Try going to the Netherlands and then tell me drug legalization is a good idea."

I agree drugs are bad, but only for those who choose to use them. Thats why I never have. But let me tell you this. Until I went to college, it was easier to get pot than it was a 6 pack of beer. And i didn't' grow up in the ghetto, I grew in a Midwest upper middle class suburb. Why is it easier to get pot, because drug dealers are criminals, and will tell to a 14 year old no problem, but the Walgreen's clerk isn't a criminal, and won't even sell to an adult who is 20.5 years old. Make drugs legal 21 and up, the drug dealers disappear, and kids will find it much harder to buy drugs.

Banning drugs hurts those who aren't even involved, by letting gangs make millions and destroy neighborhoods with violence against its citizens.

BTW before Amsterdam made drugs legal the under 22 drug addict rate was a staggering 14%, its now 2%.

If we could magically declare drugs illegal, and they'd all disappear I'd be all for it, but we just punish those who use it anyway. Drugs are still cheaply available to anyone who seeks them. The WOD is a huge failure. But don't worry its good practice for when the feds declare the war on guns, or the war on fatty foods.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Futhermore gambling has always been held by the church to be a sin.

Bingo!!!!

[BritExPatInFla]

(Perhaps forbidding is too strong a word, because the credit card companies agreed to this in exchange for some favor, but I can't remember what that favor was.)

Probably bankruptcy reform, iirc they made it alot harder for those filing to avoid credit card principal, interest and fees being paid in the procedings.

[mware]

Congress bans internet gambling

Wanna bet????

[MMcC]

I honestly might sit out in Nov. over this. Screw em.

[delacoert]

Gimmee more time and I'll come up with something dumberer.

What would be the point?

BTW, is lying to make a point still telling a lie no matter how much of a dumbass you are?

[savedbygrace]

I wasn't lying. But you'd have more than a double digit IQ to figure the angle. You don't qualify.

Now go away young'n. You're annoying the adults.

[Semper911]

Probably bankruptcy reform...

You are exactly correct. Thanks for remembering and posting. I knew someone would come up with it.

[not2worry]

Well, gambling one's own money away is their business.

Call me stupid, but my company had more than 1/2 Millions Dollars embezzled by an employee who was addicted to on line gaming. You'd be surprised at how many other companies have been hit by this kind of financial setback.
Prosecuted and the woman served five year in the pen.

For those who think these sites are fine for consenting adults, then let the porno and all the other deviate sites available on the Internet not be infringed upon. Freedom has moral and ethical components, IMHO.

[djl_sa]

All these incidents of the bad cases are stupid and have no bearing on this. How many times do we read about a teenager drinking, driving, and ending up dead. Or another teen walking into a high school and shooting a principal. We can cite all these examples till we are blue in our faces.

I'm really disappointed with this. I had wrote letters to both my Senators (Texas) a month ago expressing my opposition to banning online gambling. It is a farce and they all know it. They can't stop it... they only make it more difficult. So instead of using my credit card I have to go buy a phone card and then transfer the funds into my online account.

My view of this is that the political types are pandering and I hope they all pay for this pandering. If it wasn't pandering then they would outlaw ALL forms of internet gambling and while they are at it... shut down Las Vegas.

[MMcC]

I agree... this won't stop anything, it will just make you have to go through another step. The gambling sites will find (or buy) an offshore bank that you can open and easily fund an account. You'll fund the gaming account with that.

I'm getting to the point where I really don't care who wins in Nov. It doesn't matter anyway.