The United States is fighting online casinos like
it resembles the spread of Nazi Germany. To be more specific this is
the policy of the United States under the Bush Administration. Many
people expect that President-elect Barack Obama will be much friendlier
to online casino.
Keeping online casinos out of the United States has
caused our government to reinterpret language, break treaties, and
generate an all out witch hunt; clear sign of taking the wrong side of
an issue.
The Wire Act of 1961 clearly means nothing under
this administration, or it simply means whatever they want it too. The
Wire Act has been used to pursue cases against online casinos, while the
crime that the Wire Act was put in place to prevent, betting on horse
racing over the phone and Internet, is being allowed to live on openly
in the forms of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and the
Churchill Downs TwinSpires website.
Even the international trade community is pursuing
actions against the United States. These blatant protectionist policies
have incited actions against the United State from the Remote Gaming
Association before the European Union and Antigua before the World Trade
Organization. Unfortunately, the Bush administration is all too
familiar and comfortable with the having the international community
oppose their actions.
It is time for a change and Barack Obama does not
have to do much to bring it. American policy against online casinos is
just one small example of how much the country has lost its identity
under the current administration. This policy of enforcing laws as the
executive branch sees fit as opposed to the way laws are written is
making the United States itself seem like Nazi Germany.