I’m sending this to the asterisk
list – consciously knowing it will piss some people off but this is the most important business issue of the day
for anyone doing business in or with a US company.
Oh and before anyone on this list thinks
of calling this OT – how about Mark Spencer being arrested while
travelling in a country like India or the Middle East that has banned VOIP
services (which is still illegal because they cant tax it of course).
I don’t know what you are going to
be able to do with this information but this has to be discussed as it affect
the future of international commerce when dealing with the USA.
From:
Dean Collins
Sent: Friday, 8 September 2006
10:15 AM
Subject: Peter Dicks Chairman of
Sportingbet PLC is arrested at JFK!!
This is bullshit.
I don’t know how to effectively express my outrage over this action by
the US
government.
Check out these links for
background info;
www.nytimes.com
money.cnn.com
today.reuters.co.uk
www.businessweek.com
So basically we have a UK
citizen, operating a UK
business (sportingbetplc.com
board) who the moment he steps foot into the USA is arrested, not for crimes he
committed but for crimes committted by US citizens.
Oh and arrested under ambiguous Louisiana
law, that defines all interstate gaming as illegal.
I cant wait for the chairman of the NY Times to be arrested on a visit to China because
chinese citizens were reading copies of the NY Times on the internet.
Oh and as for visiting 'unfriendly' countries, how about if Castro started
shooting american tourists he found in Cuba for 'crimes of treason' in
carrying US dollars in their wallets?
This is insane America.
When are you going to wake up and begin to be a good 'world citizen'?
You cant just arrest people for 'crimes against the state' that dont even occur
in your country........isn't that what terrorists do? Impose their will against
the world at large.
I keep hoping I will wake up and the insanity will end? it's like a bad dream.
It's getting hard to tell who is the bad guys anymore.
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/peter-dicks-chairman-of-sportingbet.html
Dean
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