Former FBI and HLS Heads Support National Online Gambling Legislation

Serious thought has been put into online gambling legislation in the USA and when two former heads of the country’s national security organizations come out and publically announce they are in favour of a regulated system, someone should take notice.
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Director Louis Freeh and Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge have put it in writing via the Washington Examiner stating their support for legislation that would see online gambling legalized and regulated on a national level.

The co written letter to the press read, “We all know that Internet gambling takes place in a borderless enterprise outside an already ambiguous policy arena that affects millions of Americans. Americans across the country can gamble on various games on the Internet such as cards, sports and games of chance.”
It is obvious these enlightened individuals see the benefits of a licensed jurisdiction beyond just the tax revenue advantage. As law enforcement officers both gentlemen are in agreement that a regulated environment is better than one that can not provide a safe place for Americans to play for money over the internet. The letter continued, “Individual states simply do not possess the necessary law enforcement tools to effectively police gambling in a borderless Internet.”

A situation is developing in the USA similar to that in the European Union where the laws are diverse and complicated across the different jurisdictions. A nightmare scenario will develop for law makers in each individual state and a goldmine for lawyers who will debate the details. Surely those holding the reigns of power in Washington will listen to these two experienced and learned men and come to available solution to a problem as complex as this one. It is the American gaming public that suffers the threat of losing their money and their rights as free thinking individuals.