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Right now the FBI is cracking down on online poker in the United States online gambling
is illegal except for surprisingly in New Jersey there are some forms of online poker
that are legal but you know generally speaking online gambling is illegal in the United States
so what happened is a lot of different websites went abroad and they went to countries like
they went to Ireland they went to Costa Rica and they started operating abroad and they
would find ways to trick banks into allowing U.S. citizens or people in the U.S. to make
bank transactions to gamble okay so they would find ways to disguise the transaction so it
wouldn't look like online gambling well the FBI has cracked down on that and they've shut
down five different popular websites one of them them is pokerstars.com fulltiltpoker.com
absolutepoker.com ultimatebet.com and ub.com those website if you go to them have a government
seal on them they've been shut down and they're no longer operating people in the U.S. who
gambled on those websites now have their accounts frozen so they don't have access to that money
which could be disastrous for some right but the reason the reason why this story comes
up is because there was an interesting turn of events in december now the whole reason
why december of twenty ten the whole reason why online poker has been illegal in the United
States is because it creates competition for the casinos in the United States right so
the big casino owners don't like it except back in december twenty ten they realized
look there's nothing we can do about this people abroad are making millions of dollars
off these websites so if you can't beat them why not join them so there was Cesar's casinos
that attempted to create a partnership with some of these websites and then there was
also Wind industries that wanted to do a similar thing now back in december Cenk covered this
story and I think he did a great job I want to show you a clip of that video lets watch
[clip] turns out you can't stop the online gambling no matter how hard you try and no
matter how many senators you buy because people are going to find a way to do it and they
have and billions of dollars have flowed out of the country and now Cesar's is thinking
and they're the main company that's driving this they're thinking hey you know what I
want that money so screw that we're reversing positions we want online gambling to be legal
and get a load of this for the next two years in order to crush the competition and every
American should be against this this is exactly what's wrong with big government right we
want a monopoly for two years only established casinos people who run slot machines et cetra
can set up online gambling sites after that two years maybe we will let our dogs allow
others to compete with us but right now they're our bought *** so what they're going to
do is they're going to do our bidding because they're our master and we pay them [end clip]
honestly Cenk it made me miss you in that studio but yeah hold on hold on look you're
a hundred percent you're right in which direction you're going on this Ana I had forgotten that
I even made that prediction which now turns out to be accurate and you nailed it as soon
as I saw that story on them shutting down these websites I thought there you go the
American companies have told their bought government officials you know what we want
that monopoly and you're going to go ahead and shut those sites down those sites have
been operating for years on end with no prosecution nothing because why would anybody chase it
down there's no point in it what-so-ever why are you going to bother people in this case
the actual clients their account is frozen I'd be so mad if they froze my account and
my money's stuck there and you're probably never going to get that money back imagine
how much litigation that it's going to get tied up in why because Cesar's whats to dominate
the market so they pay of the senators et cetra et cetra I mean it goes to show you
how unbelievably corrupt the United States government is look at this man they control
our government and can get them to do whatever they want they're trying to clean out the
competition so they can come in and be the only ones in this business it sickens me and
you see it with every single policy issue the lobbyists that have the most amount of
money who are willing to give the most amount of money to politicians to their campaigns
always get their legislation passed and that's the same thing that's happening with the gambling
industry why does the government need to be involved in my gambling habits at all if I
am a resident in the United States and I want to gamble online why should the government
be involved what what's up with the big government in this case right it's none of their business
this case is even scarier right first of all of course you're right if you're conservative
or a liberal you shouldn't want the government involved in your private life on whether you
gamble or you don't libertarians obviously agree the american people totally and obviously
agree except we have big government in there anyway right and some will make nonsense arguments
oh it's immoral or whatever come on get off of it okay that train left the station a long
long time ago and it never made sense anyway it was a crazy train to begin with but that's
not what this is about the reason why this story is especially scary is because now they're
buying prosecutors I mean before I mean you buy a senator and he passes a bill you like
but prosecutors who've never been bothering these websites before all of the sudden when
american companies want to get into that business go around prosecuting those websites that's
not a coincidence that's obvious that mean our government is so corrupt you can even
buy justice I mean now we're really a third world country