The neverending quest to protect (for our own good that is) us from the evils of online gambling seems to be quite fruitful. The latest news is about an arrest, made at an airport no less, of a chairman of a gamling company from other country.
Agents of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey arrested Peter Dicks [chairman of Sportingbet, a company in the U.K.] upon his arrival at Kennedy Airport late Wednesday night, acting on a warrant issued by the state police in Louisiana.
The arrest comes seven weeks after federal law enforcement officials arrested the chief executive of a competing Internet betting site, BetOnSports, while he was on layover at an airport in Dallas. That executive, David Carruthers, and his company, which also trades in London, were charged with taking bets illegally over the Internet.
Federal and some state laws prohibit online gambling, a peaceful entrepreneurial effort so that folks can easily have fun instead of driving long distances to a barge or riverboat somewhere or other places the local overlords have allowed it to take place. And even then there are strict regulations and controls even though some states, like Mississippi, cash in heavily from this industry.
Another reason to try to avoid airports. Something tells me that over time, CEOs and chairmen of companies will be making fewer trips to the Federal Fatherland.
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Just another round of government enforcement of private profit. Pet industries are always protected by government from competition, gambling is one, pharmaceuticals another.
I don’t know about you fellas, but I sure as heck feel a lot safer now!
Pet industries? This is a turf war, plain and simple. The government is directly involved in gambling and they don’t like competition. No flex players needed.
As a resident of Las Vegas, I find this to be especially troubling. When it is illegal for me to do online what I can walk down the street and do, it becomes self-evident that this is protectionism of U.S. gambling interests.
Not that I gamble at all anymore, the best I have ever done when I did was through a sportsbook subject to British jurisdiction. Bowmans International is the name of the company. I set up an account all through mail back in the 90s when I was in the Marine Corps. I started with $40 in my Bowmans account, and through sports betting I worked it up to $800 within 1 year, at which time I got out of the Marine Corps and I asked for my money, and got a nice $800 check right as I got out of the Corps.
I guess that would be called “terrorist” activity now.
Joe, that is exactly what Vince was trying to say. The government, by stopping one group of gambling houses, is protecting another group of gambling houses.
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