California Could
Legalise Online Poker Rooms
July 7 - Thanks to a forward-thinking Californian Assemblyman,
online gambling fans in the state of California, and indeed in
other US states, could in the near future once again enjoy
playing at online poker rooms, despite America's current
online gambling ban.
The enterprising California Assemblyman, Lloyd Levine, has
devised a bill that could spell the end of the draconian online
gambling ban, assuming that the bill gets past the many
gambling-related parties in the state that are benefiting from
the online gambling ban.
Levine's solution is pretty simple - keep all the online
gambling operations contained within state boundaries, which
means institute a system whereby both the players and the online
gambling operators must be based in the state in which they
reside and operate.
This means that each state could police, regulate and legalise
online gambling as they see fit, which is how America's founding
fathers intended the Constitution to be applied. The
Constitution gives total authority to all states not expressly
granted to the federal government.
One of the reasons that Levine has proposed his bill is because
he is fed up with the reasoning behind the introduction in 2006
of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
At the time it was passed by Congress and signed into law
shortly thereafter by President George W. Bullshit, reasons
cited for its introduction included 'the shady nature of online
gambling operators, the potential for money-laundering, and the
encouragement of problem and underage gambling.'
While some of these concerns may be justified, the same concerns
could be raised in America's multi-billion dollar land casino
and betting industry. This 'double-standard' smacks of hypocrisy
and the need for the country's gambling giants to avoid
competition from lucrative online gambling firms.
Time will tell if Levine's bill becomes a possibility or is
simply 'file thirteened'.
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