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Originally Posted by Hopey
The problem is not that they have a checkered past, it's that they have a checkered present.
No, that's not the problem. The problem is the US government is, at present, a bunch of douchebags.
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I guess the "risk takers" who have the "sheer gall" to set up phishing scams and fake escrow sites should held in high esteem as well.
That's a logical fallacy. Nobody wants to be scammed. Lots of people want to play online poker. Lots of people want illegal firearms or discounted cigarettes, and lots of people want to smoke weed. The point is that the Kahnawake tribe has repeatedly given the US (and Canadian) government the middle finger, and by hosting online gambling sites, they're doing it yet again. The kind of upstanding citizens you wish would run online gambling sites aren't willing to do that.
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Yeah, he's a real hero. We should be petitioning the government to get him his Order of Canada post haste.
He may not be a hero, but he's certainly only a minor league villain when compared the governments and agencies he's willing to stand up to. If it weren't for the Joe Nortons of the world, you wouldn't even be able to play online poker.
You guys really are an unbelievable bunch of whiners. You want to engage in an activity deemed illegal by many of the world's governments (namely, the US government) and, when you realize one of the only guys willing to spread the game might be a criminal with underworld ties, you get all bent out of shape. Ergo, you all are ******s. As long as I keep on winning, I'll take a game at a Kahnawake poker room over no game at all any day.
In short, it's all George Bush's fault, not Joe Norton's.