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Nancy Pelosi is a enemy of online gambling. She supported UIGEA and even criticized it for not being strong enough. This is not good news.
If she dosn’t know how people feel than she won’t do anything about it. The gambling bill doesn’t belong with the port security bill and the way it was buffloed into law, she might look at it.
Any rewiew is good news….
The DOJ has created an international mess with demands directed at foreign banks, and it may not be something a lot of politicians like…
I sent off a ong winded letter, anything can help in the end.
I wouldnt put much stock into that. They don’t even know the name of the Senator who helped put the thing on the ports bill! Fisk?
Has anyone been able to find an article about this? I’ve looked all over and have not been able to.
I’m hoping that if people are writing they have changed the name from Fist to Frist
Email to Nancy Pelosi
Regarding the Port Security Act, and more specifically, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
This law that restricts how Americans may not use their bank accounts, credit and debit cards, is extremely troubling to me. It’s not the fact
that online gambling is the target, but the fact that this law opens a “Pandora’s Box” that Americans will come to regret. So, in the
interests of stamping out online gambling in the US, we are supposed to give all of this power to the US government, an institution which
is known for overreaching, and using laws for purposes for which they were not intended.So, it’s online gambling we need to be protected from this time. What’s next? We can’t be protected from outselves by the government.
That is not, or should not be, its job. that’s not democracy. It’s an authoritarian form of government.I, for one, do not trust the employees empowered with this law to be very circumspect in how it is applied. I know of too many instances where
powers once given, have been abused in the most egregious ways.This smacks too much of the recent authoritarian turn in our government, what with reading mail without a warrant, and CIA and Military Intelligence doing
domestic surveillance of US citizens. Our founding fathers and mothers fought against just this type of tyrannny. But it seems that a certain form
of fascism is alive and well, and growing in popularity in our country.Madame Speaker, you’re a soldier in this battle, and if you don’t step up and speak out against just such laws as this, what hope do we private
citizens have?You know, it wasn’t so very long ago, many brave men and women made the ultimate sacrifice to stop another authoritarian figure who usurped power
through promoting fear, and using intimidation. Don’t think it can’t happen again. Those who forget (or ignore) the past are doomed to repeat it.I believe the plan was always to revist the Port Security Bill, and to patch up any loop holes in there.
But revisting the Port Secruity Bill also means that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act can come under review. This Act will come before the law makers again, and this is where law makers can actually be critical of the Act.
Let your politicians know that you think of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, so when it comes up(what better chance then when the Port Security Bill gets reviewed), hopefully public opinon can show some force.
With the WTO ruling today this could make them reevaluate the gambling bill
We can only hope that the WTO ruling will help with the current situation.
Im looking forward to waking up tomorrow and this was all just one of those “I ate some bad shit” dreams
Always hated commies, but I guess since the russians arent using it the US can now?
Dominique wrote:Any rewiew is good news….The DOJ has created an international mess with demands directed at foreign banks, and it may not be something a lot of politicians like…
I think the politicians are concerned about the billions being sucked out of the US economy.
If they were that concerned, they’d at least consider regulating it. Nope, I believe they were concerned about money alright, but only the money that was handed over to oil the wheels of Just-US
john1124 wrote:I wouldnt put much stock into that. They don’t even know the name of the Senator who helped put the thing on the ports bill! Fisk?Hi Folks!
I want to apologize to Gamblers Oasis and anyone else who posted the email with the mis-spelling of the Senators name, it was my board who sent out the initial email and one of my Admins. that posted it at some of the boards. HOWEVER…the fact that there was a typo regarding the Senators name does not have anything to do with the integrity of the post. She was sent the email and believed it to be something that COULD help. Additionally…you are sending the email to Nancy Pelosi not the Senator…so what difference does that make.
Really… kind of suprised by the attitude. (In just about every post in this thread I have seen a typo)
Again, apologies on behalf of the Boardwalk for the typo.
titus wrote:With the WTO ruling today this could make them reevaluate the gambling billIf this is in regards to in Antigua and the US battling out at the WTO, the US will go against the WTO ruling.
If the US does not go with the WTO ruling, what it means is that Antigua can put trade restriction on the US. Antigua would be able to say to the US, “we will not export goods to you, because you wont listen to the WTO’s ruling”
BUT – “what does the US want from Antigua, that it cant get elsewhere”
The ruling in favour of Antigua, and the US ignoring the WTO’s ruling will only allow people to critise the US, which I am sure the DOJ is willing to bear if it means saving billions.
