Operator Of World's Smallest Gambling Ring Faces Jailtime
from the zero-tolerance dept
For the past several months, we've been following the ever-expanding war on gambling that's currently going on in the US. Most of the activity has involved the arrests of foreign gambling execs that happen to be passing through the US. More and more, others are coming under scrutiny. Last month it came out that the DOJ had subpoenaed investment banks that were involved with the IPOs -- in Europe -- of online gambling firms. Things are no better on the statewide level. Last year, in Washington, the operator of a website that merely discussed and linked to online gambling sites was warned that he could face criminal charges unless the site was taken down. Now, in California, a 73-year old great-grandmother who tends bar at an Elks lodge could see up to a year in prison for organizing a $50 football pool. If it weren't for the threat of prison, this story would be a laughable joke. The cops, acting on an anonymous tip, found an envelope containing ten $5 dollar bills behind the bar, which is apparently enough to qualify as a gambling operation. In the past, law enforcement typically ignored low-stakes betting between friends, but now it appears that even this may be at risk.
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Freedom is a well armed sheep.
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I bet..
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SIN
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Oh, and I'm doubting the veracity of your name here. Maybe if you could give me an immolated talking shrub or something?
Thanks!
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I bet
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Hey "SIN"...
FUCK that christian bullshit.
It's OUR property and we should have NO opposition in doing with it as we damn well please. It is OURS to do with as we see fit.
Your "God" can go FUCK himself on that note. Right along with all of the RIGHT-WING PIECES OF SHIT that use "God" as an excuse for all of the shit that they pull.
I'm no gambler myself by any means... But I sure as hell don't believe that it's right for anyone to tell someone what they can or can not do with their own property.
I can't believe that my time in the US Army was used to protect THIS. I can't believe that my time as a soldier was used to protect these supposed (APPARENTLY MYTHICAL) things that we call, "Rights".
Time WASTED.
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Re: Hey "SIN"...
You don't have to drag God through the mud, you miserable fucking cunt, whether you beleive in God or not. I don't know what religious problems you've had in the fuckin past but I am sick of this extreme Athiest shit. I'm not a very religious man, I'm not. But I do beleive in God and I am a God fearing man. You need to show some respect, something I thought the Army would teach you. Appearently not. So I suggest you learn some or I'll have to arrange for some to be forced into you. Capisce, paisan?
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You Yanks...
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I was gonna say
An the other hand, WTF is going on with this country? I hardly recognize it sometimes. "Land of the free"? The real problem here isn't that gambling is a SIN but rather than it's a sin to take a bite out of the revenue the government makes...with legalized gambling. Go lotto.
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FUCK that christian bullshit.
It's OUR property and we should have NO opposition in doing with it as we damn well please. It is OURS to do with as we see fit.
Your "God" can go FUCK himself on that note. Right along with all of the RIGHT-WING PIECES OF SHIT that use "God" as an excuse for all of the shit that they pull.
I'm no gambler myself by any means... But I sure as hell don't believe that it's right for anyone to tell someone what they can or can not do with their own property.
I can't believe that my time in the US Army was used to protect THIS. I can't believe that my time as a soldier was used to protect these supposed (APPARENTLY MYTHICAL) things that we call, "Rights".
Time WASTED.
Forget to take your Prozac?
I agree with your premise, but damn.... lol
No reason to go slamming people who believe in God AND people's rights.
Afterall - God gave us 100% FREE WILL
No government even comes close to that.... not even close.
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Watch out Grandma!
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WTF is wrong with this country?
It's time to go back a re-read the Declaration and Constitution.
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
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Hypocritical politicians...
It's just they are so very greedy they need a cut from EVERYTHING.
Politics is supposed to be the 2nd oldest profession - it's amazing how much it has in common with the world's oldest profession..
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Gamble
Smoke Pot
Prostitution
Donate to their Church..
Ya, I'm serious - as long as it's not infringing on someone else's rights - like say Murder or Rape would..
But really - I think many of these 'sins' relgion has spun upon the world is a function of RELIGION, not God - and yes, there is most certainly a differance.
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So you have it: the 'legal' ones don't see kindly the unfair competition, the politics don't see kindly the loss of revenue.
Everybody wins.
Myself? Little interest here. Gambling is like doing drugs: better avoid it.
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Irony?
I mean, blasphemy is one thing, but outright claiming to be God? That's a hellworthy sin if I ever heard of one...
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love
I love you ... I really do ...
love ...
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The Boss Jr. bets on the Super Bowl
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Hey "SIN"... by STFU
WE ALL put our lives on the line to allow other morons to say what they want, trying to use the veteran card, worse the Christian card, is anthemic to what we actually fought for... or did you even fight?
We don't always agree with other peoples opinion, but I WILL ALWAYS fight for the right (sounds like an old Beastie Boys song) for poeple to express their opinions... even yours... but, plrease don't pull the veteran card, nor the Christian card... it is wrong on so many levels.
That said, thank you for your unguided opinion, agreed or not, I still believe in your right to make it.
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LoL
Religion is the weak man's crutch.
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When I was in Russia...
She looked at me with a confused look on her face then said "Why shouldn't they? It's a free country!"
Sounds more and more like even the former home of the Soviet Union under a sleazeball like Putin is home to more freedoms than the USA.
BTW - I heard something *extremely* frightening on NPR last week. The number of US Government employees who are employed as contractors now exceeds the number that are actual civil servants working directly for the US government.
I wonder how much of these sleazeball power plays like this story are simply contractors out there trying to justify their position and/or contract?
You know it's going to get worse when a government that's already on an out-of-control death spiral is now using contractors who have even less responsibility and transparency requirements than the amoral, unethical power hungry freaks that hired them.
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Arrest them all
Its no accident. Get into a position of beauracratic power, spend all your time carving out sections of public services that can be privatized for "efficiency gains", chair the board that decides how much we're going to pay these private companies, make sure the actual total is about 50% more expensive while politicking that it'll be twice as cheap, award the contract to your brother in law, resign from office and kick back, care of the overpriced services and products your brother in laws company provides (the one that naturally he asked you to be CEO of)....then when your not playing golf or banging your fresh faced PA, do what you can to get your nephew elected into office so he can continue your good work.
Oh and of course arrest as many little old ladies as you can while your at it. Lest people have nothing else to occupy their minds with and start thinking about what you're really up too..... because God knows you cant rely on the MSM to tell them what to think anymore..... filthy little free thinkers they are.
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Toast
Can you say Patriot Act ?
Who, in their immortal wisdom is holding the keys ?
We live in a republic folks, ergo, state sponsored capitalism.
I am ashamed at what this country has become and the downward spiral we are going. Out of toilet paper ? Here, use the US constitution.
*wanders back into bunker, shuts door*
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Here is a nationwide study on Office Gambling
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This country's gonig to shit, I'm moving to Canada
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meh
We've been through Great Awakenings, temperance movements, decades of rampant hedonism, the construction of continent-spanning monopolies and their destruction.
This, too, will pass.
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To Mr/Ms/MRs DV82XL
Pot meet Kettle
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California
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Sin?
or even a Papal comment if you are Catholic?
I doubt you will find one.
Also related to sin, read some of proverbs, and the Fundies will shit themselves over sexual morality.
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