Screw You, Senator Frist...and your Fat-Cat Friends, Too...
Internet Gambling Bill passes Senate attached to Port Security Bill
From EOG.com
written September 29, 2006
Republican leaders reach a port security conference deal and the Internet Gambling bill also was included and passed tonight.
A major maritime security bill headed to the House floor tonight with a last-minute provision that cracked down on the $12 billion online gambling industry but without other controversial additions, such as court security measures and protections for phone companies that cooperate with government wiretapping, House Homeland Security Chairman King told CongressDaily today.
King earlier said the text of the conference report had been completed and would be brought to the House floor tonight for a vote. House and Senate Republican leaders were trying earlier today to attach last-minute measures to the bill. The only one that survived was from Senate Majority Leader Frist that would crack down on Internet gambling, King said.
Sadly, a bill to make 361 seaports safer from biological, chemical or nuclear attacks was passed tonight in the House and Senate. Democrats complained it shorted security for railroads and mass transit. Republicans successfully added a measure to restrict Internet gambling.
The bottom line is that the our government has now passed a bill making Internet gambling a crime for both the operator and any individual or institution involved in online gambling.
All that's left is for the President to sign it before it becomes law.
George Orwell had it right over 20 years ago when he wrote, "1984."
"Big Brother" is indeed watching you.
God bless America, land of the free?
I will be speaking with my vote in November. Now, we're pissed. All of us. To reiterate a London newspaper after the re-election of Bush in 2004, "How can 53 million people be so stupid?"
From EOG.com
written September 29, 2006
Republican leaders reach a port security conference deal and the Internet Gambling bill also was included and passed tonight.
A major maritime security bill headed to the House floor tonight with a last-minute provision that cracked down on the $12 billion online gambling industry but without other controversial additions, such as court security measures and protections for phone companies that cooperate with government wiretapping, House Homeland Security Chairman King told CongressDaily today.
King earlier said the text of the conference report had been completed and would be brought to the House floor tonight for a vote. House and Senate Republican leaders were trying earlier today to attach last-minute measures to the bill. The only one that survived was from Senate Majority Leader Frist that would crack down on Internet gambling, King said.
Sadly, a bill to make 361 seaports safer from biological, chemical or nuclear attacks was passed tonight in the House and Senate. Democrats complained it shorted security for railroads and mass transit. Republicans successfully added a measure to restrict Internet gambling.
The bottom line is that the our government has now passed a bill making Internet gambling a crime for both the operator and any individual or institution involved in online gambling.
All that's left is for the President to sign it before it becomes law.
George Orwell had it right over 20 years ago when he wrote, "1984."
"Big Brother" is indeed watching you.
God bless America, land of the free?
I will be speaking with my vote in November. Now, we're pissed. All of us. To reiterate a London newspaper after the re-election of Bush in 2004, "How can 53 million people be so stupid?"
1 Comments:
It was well over 20 years ago that Orwell wrote his masterwork. It was published in 1948!
Ireland anyone?
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