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Daniel posted this on his site's message board. Is there any merit to what he is saying?

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Guys, I woudn't sweat it, seriously. Clearly we are dealing with a bunch of bafoons (the gov't), but there is only so much they can do. They aren't going to put an end to online gaming. They simply don't have the resources to enforce a law like this.

The only thing they may accomplish is putting some pressure on banks to not fund online poker accounts. Whoopy. They tried to crack down on credit card companies before this and it hasn't hurt online poker all that much thanks to Neteller and other such companies.

If a new banking company, let's call it "Booga Booga" opens up in the U.K. and takes funds from U.S. customers they'd be doing nothing illegal since the U.S. doesn't have a say.

The bank sending funds to Booga Booga wouldn't be doing anything illegal since they aren't funding online poker accounts- Booga Booga is.

Lastly, I don't endorse www.fullcontactpoker.com on television. I endorse www.fullcontactpoker.NET on television which is a very different story. It's akin to be advertising for yahoo games since they can't legally prove that I'm endorsing any illegal activity.

It's all more political blah, blah, blah, that's been thrown at us by a moronic and conservative administration that just needs to go. After this, I can't imagine I'd vote Republican regardless of who runs. This issue hits too close to home and I believe the Democrats would be more likely to legalize and tax online gaming.

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Pretty meaningless I think.

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Daniel posted . . . After this, I can't imagine I'd vote Republican regardless of who runs. This issue hits too close to home and I believe the Democrats would be more likely to legalize and tax online gaming.

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There is indeed a silver lining within even the darkest cloud.

The current Administration is . . . I cannot think of a word other than evil. The world has not seen this kind of divide and conquer strategy for 60 years. But what we are seeing now is eerily parallel.

I would hope that ALL persons who EVER play poker go out and VOTE them out in NOVEMBER. THIS NOVEMBER. Let your voice be heard, up and down the slate.

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Pretty meaningless I think.

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He clearly understands far less about the situation than many of the respected posters on this board.

He clearly has personal incentives to downplay the impact of this legislation.

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I thought Daniel was Canadian?

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bafoons

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He can't even spell "buffoon." Aside from that, his post stinks of head-in-the-sandedness. In all seriousness, I hope that he is right, but how many more gaming executives are going to have to get arrested before people wake up?

In any case, let's see what happens tomorrow.

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Trust me, if they get around to attacking Iran like they desperately, desperately want to do, even this issue will seem minor by comparison and we will all rue the day...

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Well, at least FCP doesn't sound like it'll be banning US players!

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I'm not really worried, honestly. When the government oversteps its boundaries like this there is always public backlash. They might succeed for a year, tops - but people will fight it. And if they start trying to arrest the Avg Joe American for playing poker online there will be a [censored] storm...

I really don't know of a single person that believes Poker should be illegal. All we have to do is protest, guys - why the [censored] are you so afraid of your government?

Organize and protest. That's what we need to do. Maybe we can even get Bush to veto the bill [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] - unlikely, sure - but we have 270 days afterwards to organize on this...

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Well, at least FCP doesn't sound like it'll be banning US players!

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I doubt that. the quote your reading is from a thread asking if he could be charged for sponsoring FCP.