Considering the new Unlawful Internet Gambling Law just passed in America.....are we free if I can gamble in my own city at the indian casino I can buy lotto tickets at the grocery store I can fly to las vegas or I can go too my local bowling alley and gamble...yet I can't go on the internet and gamble? How does this law save me in anyway? Sounds to me like GREED! This i just one very important freedom that has been taken from us...whats next? Whats already been taken? I don't think we really wante dto know..because if we did...we would all be so traumatized we couldn't even deal.....thats my opinion...let me know what you think!
2007-02-12 05:16:54 · 13 answers · asked by Jeromy B 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Nothing is free in America - if they cant tax it then it is ILLEGAL. For example , if they can find a way to tax the sale of marijuana, they will legalize it. It wont matter the children affected by the legal use of it by their parents in their homes as long as the government is making money too. It is ridiculous.
2007-02-12 05:22:36 · answer #1 · answered by Tink 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Law you are refering to is about running an online casino in the US. Not about gambling on one.
Also, that bill passed in the House of Representatives. In the USA you need both the House and the Sentate to make a bill into a law. You can still gamble online.
If you want to read more about it, check out the link below.
2007-02-12 05:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by Drew P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we were all free to hurt ourselves with the most dangerous addictions known to Humankind,
then we would not be free to refrain from the constant worry we'd feel about our sons and daughters who have fallen into them.
We are far too concerned with individual freedoms in the West.
All for the self, and nothing for the responsibility we bear to others.
And for that reason, we need the law in the first damned place.
Other people would realize they had a problem and get help, but no, not the ever-loving radically "independent" American.
2007-02-12 05:25:08 · answer #3 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As free as free can be with a few guide lines of course. Just think If we were without some restrictions Crimes would be outrageous. Some people can not control themselves. There would be more murders,more robberies and raps etc.
2007-02-12 05:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by Sugar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ROFL
Gambling is a "very important" freedom? I think not.
And FYI you're free to gamble all you want over the internet, you just can't pay via credit card.
2007-02-12 05:20:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
none of us is absolutely free, no matter where we live. as a member of a certain society, you should respect its rules, whether they seem unjust or not ; or, you can always protest (peacefully, of course).
gambling, however, does not seem to me like "one very important freedom" - you can certainly live without gambling, can't you ?
2007-02-12 05:26:25 · answer #6 · answered by Ioana M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that yes, there's freedom in the country. This is the complain of a compulsive gambler.
2007-02-12 05:25:59 · answer #7 · answered by Lil' Gay Monster 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is total greed you are right. You are as free as the government feels you should be. They do not see it as taking away your rights they see it as they are not profiting off of it why should you.
2007-02-12 05:23:48 · answer #8 · answered by daisy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We don't have a constitutional right to gamble.
Write your legislators and urge them to change the law, if you are so inclined.
2007-02-12 05:27:45 · answer #9 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are free, for now.
2007-02-12 05:21:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋