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Britain Attacks U.S. Online Gambling Ban
Friday October 27, 11:54 am ET
By Jane Wardell, AP Business Writer <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="4"><tbody><tr><td height="4">
</td></tr></tbody></table>Britain Criticizes U.S. Online Gaming Ban As It Prepares for International Summit

Britain's culture secretary on Friday compared the U.S. crackdown on online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as she prepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center">

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Tessa Jowell warned that the U.S. ban on Internet gambling would make unregulated offshore sites the "modern equivalent of speakeasies," illegal bars that opened in 1920s America when alcohol was banned.


U.S. Congress caught the gambling industry by surprise earlier this month when it added to an unrelated bill a provision that would make it illegal for banks and credit-card companies to settle payments for online gambling sites. President Bush signed the law Oct. 14.
The decision closed off the most lucrative region in a market worth $15.5 billion this year in "spend" value -- the amount gambling companies win from their clients, or the amount gamblers lose.


Several London-based Internet gambling companies and a handful in Europe and Australia subsequently sold off or shut down their U.S. operations, losing around 80 percent of their combined business in the process.


U.S. officials have declined to participate in Tuesday's gambling summit in London, where lawmakers from 30 countries will discuss ways to regulate the industry, including the protection of minors and keeping the industry free of crime.


Officials from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, Malta, Costa Rica and Antigua and Barbuda are expected to attend.


Antigua in particular has been engaging in a strong defense of Internet gambling, one of the tiny Caribbean state's few economic success stories.


It argues that the U.S. ban is in direct contravention to a ruling by the World Trade Organization last year that the United States amend some of its legislation to permit Antiguan gambling operations to offer their services to U.S. citizens on a level playing field.


Mark Mendel, who leads Antigua's WTO legal team, said Friday that the summit would put further pressure on the United States to comply with the ruling.


"Ultimately, I think they are going to have to satisfy us," he said. Mendel said online gambling was vital to Antigua, whose only other industry of note is tourism.
Next week's gathering has been months in the planning and officials intended to discuss ways to stop criminals from defrauding online gamblers and to prevent sites being used for money laundering.


However, the new U.S. law is likely to be the focus of talks. Jowell said that regulating sites worked better than prohibition.


"America should have learnt the lessons of Prohibition," she said, noting that legislation that was meant to stop alcohol from causing harm in practice forced otherwise law-abiding customers into the hands of the bootleggers.
Under new British gambling laws, online operators have a "social responsibility" duty written into licenses and policed by the independent Gambling Commission watchdog.


It requires them to work to prevent underage gambling, give prominent warnings about addiction and inform users how much time and money they have spent on the site.


"Broadly speaking we have three choices: you can prohibit, like the U.S., do nothing or regulate, like we have," Jowell said. "I firmly believe we have chosen the path that will do the most to protect children and vulnerable people and keep out crime."
 

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U.S. officials have declined to participate in Tuesday's gambling summit in London, where lawmakers from 30 countries will discuss ways to regulate the industry, including the protection of minors and keeping the industry free of crime.


PAR FOR THE COURSE.....GEEZUS!
 

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Oh. I see, now they want to open there moths and say something.

I suppose after awhile you get tired of running away like dogs.
 

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What a bunch of jokers....

but isnt the average citizen responsible for all this? after all y'all voted these jokers in didnt you?
 

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it doesn't matter who you vote in these days in america they are all jokers wearing different costumes. they just want the masses to either be hard right or hard left nothing in the middle. the corporate infestation of politics has become too rampant at this point.
 

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it doesn't matter who you vote in these days in america they are all jokers wearing different costumes. they just want the masses to either be hard right or hard left nothing in the middle. the corporate infestation of politics has become too rampant at this point.

YUP
 

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tiznow said:
it doesn't matter who you vote in these days in america they are all jokers wearing different costumes. they just want the masses to either be hard right or hard left nothing in the middle. the corporate infestation of politics has become too rampant at this point.

then why not vote for a third party, not one of the big two?

obviously people arent frustrated enough....
 

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is it really a democracy when you can only vote for 1 of 2 parties? seems strange
 

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SportSavant said:
is it really a democracy when you can only vote for 1 of 2 parties? seems strange

One can vote for NUMEROUS parties.........however the majority of AMERICANS are facing propaganda of GIANT PROPORTIONS by the U.S. GOVERNMENT.
 

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Ironic how a "protect our children" from online gaming theme is cried by those ordering their children to senselessly dodge bullets in Middle Eastern countries.

Americans should embrace the prohibition of Government control, regulation and taxation of their gaming entertainment instead of fighting for it.
 

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Fishhead said:
One can vote for NUMEROUS parties.........however the majority of AMERICANS are facing propaganda of GIANT PROPORTIONS by the U.S. GOVERNMENT.

It took myself well into my 40's before I finally figured this out for myself..........not it's plain as day to me.
 

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Fishhead said:
One can vote for NUMEROUS parties.........however the majority of AMERICANS are facing propaganda of GIANT PROPORTIONS by the U.S. GOVERNMENT.

im aware of that, was being sarcastic:toast:
 
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Oh. I see, now they want to open there moths and say something.

I suppose after awhile you get tired of running away like dogs.

That pretty much sums up my thoughts. It's about time, but may be a little late.
 

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SportSavant said:
then why not vote for a third party, not one of the big two?

obviously people arent frustrated enough....

3rd party votes just end up being wasted votes in the end i know if everybody didn't think like that maybe they'd have a fighting chance but its just the reality of the situation, basically voting in america at this point has become the lesser of two evils

america is heading for a huge fall in the not to distant future with the middle class being evaporated and the creation of a hierachical society the cogs are already turning towards this end point, wiyh the masses becoming a slave to debt for life to the filthy rich

maybe obama, if he even runs, would have a fighting chance in 2008 but than again i'm probably a lunatic thinking a black man could win the presidency in racist america. he's a great unifer type that the US desperately needs. i'd flip my lid if hillary won in 08

starting to get into my "lunatic" rants :puppy:
 

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Fishhead said:
U.S. officials have declined to participate in Tuesday's gambling summit in London, where lawmakers from 30 countries will discuss ways to regulate the industry, including the protection of minors and keeping the industry free of crime.


PAR FOR THE COURSE.....GEEZUS!

That's frickin' amazing....so I guess all of the Bible thumpers rants that they needed to ban online gambling to protect the "children" was just BS.
 
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tiznow said:
Britain Attacks U.S. Online Gambling Ban
Friday October 27, 11:54 am ET
By Jane Wardell, AP Business Writer <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="4"><tbody><tr><td height="4">
</td></tr></tbody></table>Britain Criticizes U.S. Online Gaming Ban As It Prepares for International Summit

Britain's culture secretary on Friday compared the U.S. crackdown on online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as she prepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center">

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Tessa Jowell warned that the U.S. ban on Internet gambling would make unregulated offshore sites the "modern equivalent of speakeasies," illegal bars that opened in 1920s America when alcohol was banned.


U.S. Congress caught the gambling industry by surprise earlier this month when it added to an unrelated bill a provision that would make it illegal for banks and credit-card companies to settle payments for online gambling sites. President Bush signed the law Oct. 14.
The decision closed off the most lucrative region in a market worth $15.5 billion this year in "spend" value -- the amount gambling companies win from their clients, or the amount gamblers lose.


Several London-based Internet gambling companies and a handful in Europe and Australia subsequently sold off or shut down their U.S. operations, losing around 80 percent of their combined business in the process.


U.S. officials have declined to participate in Tuesday's gambling summit in London, where lawmakers from 30 countries will discuss ways to regulate the industry, including the protection of minors and keeping the industry free of crime.


Officials from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, Malta, Costa Rica and Antigua and Barbuda are expected to attend.


Antigua in particular has been engaging in a strong defense of Internet gambling, one of the tiny Caribbean state's few economic success stories.


It argues that the U.S. ban is in direct contravention to a ruling by the World Trade Organization last year that the United States amend some of its legislation to permit Antiguan gambling operations to offer their services to U.S. citizens on a level playing field.


Mark Mendel, who leads Antigua's WTO legal team, said Friday that the summit would put further pressure on the United States to comply with the ruling.


"Ultimately, I think they are going to have to satisfy us," he said. Mendel said online gambling was vital to Antigua, whose only other industry of note is tourism.
Next week's gathering has been months in the planning and officials intended to discuss ways to stop criminals from defrauding online gamblers and to prevent sites being used for money laundering.


However, the new U.S. law is likely to be the focus of talks. Jowell said that regulating sites worked better than prohibition.


"America should have learnt the lessons of Prohibition," she said, noting that legislation that was meant to stop alcohol from causing harm in practice forced otherwise law-abiding customers into the hands of the bootleggers.
Under new British gambling laws, online operators have a "social responsibility" duty written into licenses and policed by the independent Gambling Commission watchdog.


It requires them to work to prevent underage gambling, give prominent warnings about addiction and inform users how much time and money they have spent on the site.


"Broadly speaking we have three choices: you can prohibit, like the U.S., do nothing or regulate, like we have," Jowell said. "I firmly believe we have chosen the path that will do the most to protect children and vulnerable people and keep out crime."


Bullshit
 

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I can not believe I was a Repub at once point....Frist has doomed himself politically so im comforted by that ...what that ignorant idiot did backfired on him ...good stuff :o)
 

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tiznow said:
3rd party votes just end up being wasted votes in the end i know if everybody didn't think like that maybe they'd have a fighting chance but its just the reality of the situation, basically voting in america at this point has become the lesser of two evils
:puppy:

As long as people keep thinking like that we will never have a viable 3rd party. That is the propaganda that the Repubs and Dems want you to believe. Remember, when you are voting for the lesser of 2 evils you are still voting for an evil.
 

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The cry goes out as it did over 200 years ago, "the British are coming!"

What are the British looking for this time?

The same as they did over 200 years ago...

American tax revenue, once again without representation.


Them Bloody Redcoats!!
 

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It does not matter who you "vote" in (in other words who they place into office.) The same people run this country no matter what. Big business and private bankers have run this country since 1913. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act was the downfall of this nation. Internet gambling is big business but not Amerikkkan big business, or else they would be sitting pretty.
 

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