Democrat proposes lifting federal ban on Net gambling

Just saw this on MSN this morning check it out:

Democrat proposes lifting federal ban on Net gambling - MSN Tech & Gadgets - News and Features

"The existing legislation is an inappropriate interference on the personal freedom of Americans and this interference should be undone," Frank said.

Here Here Barney Frank.

"The World Trade Organization ruled in March, for a second time, that the U.S. ban on gambling violates international trade rules and sided with the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda. But the tiny nation has little leverage to force any changes to federal law."

Guess our country only follows the rules when it works in their favor. Maybe this is why our country doesn't get support for the things, it ignores the same people when they don't like it.

well, i guess if Barney Frank is all we have on our side we might as well hope for the best. Personally i have nothing against the man, but his past can be used aainst him, remember the gay escort service fiasco of his a while back, and here's the joke,,, it's going to be hard to get behind him on this one for some people.

( you know how long ive been waiting for Barney Frank to do something newsworthy, to use that joke?)

that'd be great if his name was in fact barry.

With the Democrats taking over Washington I'm sure these things will change some. While I favor most Republican views they are usually the ones that break the rules that they are supporting. Our government needs a big wake-up call and even though online gambiling probably won't get anybody to really stand up against us I'm sure it'll later be thrown in with a big pile of similar violations.

Looks to me what will need to happen is for a corporation, maybe Netteller, to take the USAG to court for violation of the WORLD TRADE LAWS. My guess here is that if they could do it very very soon, the USAG would be helpless to defend the US position.

But what would that accomplish? The WTO going to actually sanction the USA for this???? For Neteller or any similar corperation they have nothing really to gain and a lot to lose. Is any government official going to lose thier job over this? Doubt it.

Saved me some typing T4E,,, I Agree with you whole heartedly,,,, buck