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Vague Consequences The latest news is that the Department of Justice has seized funds that are in US banks that are allegedly owned by online poker casinos that do business within the United States borders despite the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Many are stunned that the government has even gone so far as to take that action, since there has been no due process taken and no identification beyond a reasonable doubt that those funds are in fact used to fund the online gambling that the accusations are saying. Furthermore, the money in these accounts has at times belonged not to the online poker and casino gambling website itself, but to an individual player. It is interesting that this action would not be taken against an individual without presenting first a valid search warrant, but the Department of Justice has taken the liberty of freezing the accounts anyway. What is most interesting is that citizens are left without any recourse since they are afraid of what the potential punishment might be. The law is unclear at best, and nobody know what is legal and what is illegal. Even credit card companies have been over blocking transactions in order to save their own behinds, and therefore hurting the revenues of several state’s lottery programs. If credit card companies don’t know what is going on, then the average citizen is certainly not going to know anything different, especially since access is still granted on several of these supposed illegal websites. Furthermore, only a few states out of the fifty have actually gone out and said specifically that their citizens are breaking the law if they log on to an online poker casino and gambling websites. The inconsistency in the legislation has made it nearly impossible to enforce any kind of law, and has also left citizens unprotected when they feel that they have been wronged by the government.
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