Online Gambling and Port Security
Evidently, online gaming endangers US ports.
It takes a special kind of egomaniacal narcissist to run for office. To think that you have in depth knowledge of the myriad topics that confront the country requires self delusion beyond the standard deviation. This was known by the framers of the US Constitution. That’s why they envisioned limited government with defined powers. This was a short lived idea as those that sought to fill their shoes assumed they could improve upon the original notion. This is why in the land of the free, we cannot be trusted with flavored cigarettes, absinth, and now online gambling.
Apparently, I’m not fit for public service as the dire consequences to port safety from rampant internet gaming are unknown to me. Fortunately, our betters in Washington realized the critical threat to freedom created by Americans at home pursuing happiness on their computers. This must be why Congress passed a bill that prevents gamblers from paying their online debts with credit cards and checks. This seems to have been obvious to most members of congress and the president who signed the bill on October 13.
We owe a debit of gratitude to Congress and the President for their ability to see this danger when it was invisible to the rest of us. Not one news outlet has run a story exposing the danger to us all from these uncaring gamblers carelessly sitting home playing poker on their computers. While our ports were in some type of unspecified danger from online gambling, those slackers in the fourth estate were busy writing stories about the War on Terror™ and congressmen that want to bugger little boys.
One can only hope that law enforcement was quietly feeding knowledge of these as yet unspecified dangers to Capitol Hill. If the FBI and CIA were unaware of these internet gamblers exposing our ports to a terrorist attack we need a bipartisan panel similar to the Nine Eleven Commission to figure out why Homeland Security could not connect the dots and Congress could.
So this Christmas when your kid opens that must have toy that was imported from China, you can thank Congress for making it possible by thwarting those devious internet gamblers.