LVRJ: Online gambling ads draw scrutiny

[Ed Miller]

I'm surprised I haven't seen this posted yet. Forgive me if I missed it already.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_ho.../22969041.html

[Poker blog]

Sigh. Government is way, way too big.

[Redhot_man]

thank god that the government is here to control the way we think and live.

[Cubswin]

I agree that government is way too big but i wouldnt be against the government getting bigger in this case if it meant fully legalizing online casinos/cardrooms and then regulating this industry. It is a $5 billion dollar industry and the government stands to make their 'fair share' if they allow these cardrooms/casinos to operate on US soil. This would also mean that we would be protected against those rouge operations that pop up from time to time. The likely downside would be closer scrutiny of winnings by the IRS. Will this happen anytime soon? Not as long as the Republicans are in control and the gambling lobbys keeping pouring money into the pocket books of politicians.

regards
cubswin

[Legend27]

Blame the Democrats.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Blame the Democrats.

Sorry. They get half the blame. The GOP is also a big-government party.

Don't get stuck on stupid. Vote Libertarian.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

typical government hardball strongarm tactics. anyone who thinks the government, in particular law enforcement, is at all interested in anything whatsoever other than making money, is fooling themselves. It's all just state sanctioned organized crime, and these a-holes are just pissed because the government isn't getting a big enough cut from online gaming to be happy, so instead they'll just be assholes.

al

[rkiray]

Sorry in case you haven't noticed the DOJ (who issued the subpeons) is run by Republicans. This is another clear case of King George and his right wing evangelical Christian fanatic wackos trying to impose their religion on us.

[DrSavage]

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Sorry in case you haven't noticed the DOJ (who issued the subpeons) is run by Republicans. This is another clear case of King George and his right wing evangelical Christian fanatic wackos trying to impose their religion on us.

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I don't think this has anything to do with religion. Until all lotteries are banned (or even at least their ads are removed from public broadcast channels), I will only beleive that government's fight against gambling is because they want their piece of the pie and has nothing to do with any moral problems whatsoever. This hypocrisy is way too obvious.

[rkiray]

John Ashcroft and King George are the biggest threat to our constituation in the nations history. There actually no federal laws that prohibit on-line gambling (except on sports). But that's small potatoes compared to locking up citizens indefinately without accesses to the courts, lawyers, or their families.