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Making Top 5

The United States is undeniably one of the world superpowers. Although the US’s reputation was sullied a bit over the past eight years, with a new administration in place there is hope around the world that the US will begin to repair some of the rediculousness perpetuated by former president George W. Bush. A recent op-ed article out of a Hawaii newspaper looked at all of the US legislation – federal and state laws and picked out five of the dumbest bans that just have one place left they ought to go – into the trash bin.

Interestingly enough, although the state bans on sex toys made the list, as did a ban on bottled water, the only federal legislation to make the top five is the US government’s ban on offshore online casinos accessing the US market. The UIGEA is a Bush-era piece of legislation that severely restricts the level of civil liberties of gamblers in the US. The op-ed piece notes that while some of the bans seem frivolous, there is a very real threat behind all of these bans because of the way that they over-step the boundary-line between protecting citizens and nonsensical laws that infringe on civil liberties. The article argues that this is the case with all five of the bans, including the online casino ban, and that these five bans need immediate attention.

The ban on internet poker and online casinos though is an issue that goes far beyond merely a funny joke – the situation is much more serious than all of that and the US government really needs to address the negative implications of the UIGEA on domestic and foreign relations.