Check out Ed Brayton’s post on Dispatches from the Culture Wars, and this take on anti-gambling legislation: “[the government] spend[s] millions promoting games that are purely games of chance – lotteries – while sending SWAT teams to stop people from playing poker, a game of skill. Apparently, it’s only immoral and dangerous to bet against one another in a game where your skill has some control over the outcome; it’s perfectly fine to bet against the government in a game that they are guaranteed to win.” Mr. Brayton’s post cites The Agitator‘s link on the same subject. (Good stuff.)
The operative word: millions.
The UIGEA will miserably fail in the long run and online gambling will ultimately be regulated within the United States.