I think this Justice Department is getting a reputation for taking actions (crusader type-good description) against people to intimidate, knowing it will be a long haul in the courts for anyone to fight them. A good example of this is the assisted suicide law in Oregon. Ashcroft used the Controlled Substances Act to go after them. It doesn’t have anything to do with online gambling but the issue of how this Justice Department operates (stretching interpretation of laws) is similar. They just charge ahead and do anything they want, so it’s going to be up to someone with some deep pockets to challenge them in the courts.
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0604/0604csa.htm
This just burns me up how hypocritical the government is. It is okay for people to blow their paychecks on lottery tickets but that is only because it serves as a form of more tax money for them to waste. I am in Ohio and if it is legal for me to drive up to say Detroit, MI and gamble there what the heck is the difference if I sit in my own home and travel to Costa Rica on the internet except for less expensive “travel” fees. Oh-I know. No US state or federal government benefits that way.