April 03, 2003

Politics: USA Patriot Act.com

Apparently, the Justice Department is hoping to lock up eBay and prevent them from seeing a lawyer. Or maybe we'll just start airstrikes. Anyhow, PayPal has been charged with violating the USA Patriot Act. Something about gambling and Josh Ashcroft's lunatic neo-puritanism, I guess. In any case, it should probably be mentioned here that USA Patriot Act isn't a racketeering statute, but in fact is supposed to be a terrible acronym standing for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism." Anybody see anything about internet gambling? Anyone? Yeah, didn't think so.

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