11 Arrested in Crackdown on Online Gambling - US seeking to recover $3 billion

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"Then, some of the defendants found banks willing to flout the law for a fee.” Watch for charges to NEVER be laid against any bank involvement in this.

Everyone should know that gambling is the domain of the government, and if people are going to lose their savings from it it should go to valuable causes like waterboarding, bridges to nowhere, killing journalists and children with Apache gunships, and bailing the banks out of their atrocious management of client funds.

When private individuals run gambling operations with the full consent of all parties it removes precious resources that the government needs to deprive people of the rights endowed to them by their creator.

from reddit: "Eleven people just went to jail for bank fraud in running essentially harmless poker sites. Funny, that is eleven more people than went to jail for the bank fraud that bankrupt our entire economy."

this is exactly how the internet should frame the issue. don't let anyone think about the government going after online poker without thinking about the government failing to go after the banking executives.

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