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US Outlaws Online Gambling
imaginaryelf writes, "As reported earlier on Slashdot, in the closing hours of the US Congressional session on Friday, September 29, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (H.R.4411.RH) was attached to the Safe Port Act of 2006 H.R.4954.EAS.
To the surprise of many, the bill passed both the House and the Senate, and Bush is expected to sign it into law this week. This effectively outlaws online gambling in the US, by way of making it illegal for credit-card companies to collect payments for bets. The financial markets punished the stock of online gambling companies as some prepared to pull out of the US entirely."
You're a MORON. Just because you disapprove of the law doesn't mean you have the right nor the moral obligation to violate it at will. The law was created by a legal government with which the people have agreed to a social contract for the past 230 years. You do NOT have the right to opt out, otherwise everyone would opt out in their own selfish interest and the world would revert to a state of war of all against all that Hobbes predicted.
Your libertarian garbage has been tried repeatedly in idealized communities with upper-class people (so you can't blame the masses for their failure) and has failed horribly each time. Locke would puke if he saw what you wrote. It's funny how far people have perverted his views.
Sure, violate the law in your own "moral judgement." Then go to jail, and suffer all the shit that goes on in the big house, and the vast majority will neither care nor empathize.