Re: What Europena Court for Human Rights ruled about online gamling
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This argument won't work in U.S. courts because U.S. courts are less willing to just make stuff up as they go. That's probably one reason why the EU keeps falling further and further behind economically and in the protection of personal freedoms.
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Either you're joking or you really are living up to the very worst stereotype of your country. The guy making the original post was trying to help out by pointing out how we do things in Europe.
The 'making stuff up as we go along' I assume your referring to is the law of precedent, where the ruling of a court affect how a similar case is dealt with in future. This allows for a flexible legal system that can change with the times and reflect the opinions of society.
Secondly, do you even know what the economic situation in Europe is? We are far from falling behind, especially in the UK where unemployment is much lower than the US and our currency is stronger.
As for personal freedom?!?!? How can you even say that when the very thing this whole section of the forum is about is your government taking away your personal freedom to gamble as you wish?! This would never happen in Europe, especially in the underhand manner in which Frist achieved it, by simply tacking it onto an important bill of a competely different nature.
Wake up Greg, Americans have a lot less personal freedom than Europeans, Australasians and many Asian countries. When you start to realise this, maybe you can do something about it.
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