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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m sending this to the asterisk
list – consciously knowing it will piss some people off but this is the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>most important business issue of the day</span></b>
for anyone doing business in or with a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> company.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Best intentions,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Dean<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Dean Collins</st1:PersonName> <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 8 September 2006
10:15 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Peter Dicks Chairman of
Sportingbet PLC is arrested at JFK!!</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>This is bullshit.<br>
<br>
I don’t know how to effectively express my outrage over this action by
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
government.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Check out these links for
background info;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#cccccc" face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#CCCCCC'><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/technology/08gamble.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">www.nytimes.com</a>
<br>
<a
href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/08/news/international/bc.leisure.sportingbet.reut/?postversion=2006090808">money.cnn.com</a>
<br>
<a
href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-09-07T160138Z_01_N07242747_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-LEISURE-SPORTINGBET-DICKS.XML">today.reuters.co.uk</a>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8K02SM85.htm?sub=apn_euro_up&chan=gb">www.businessweek.com</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>So basically we have a <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
citizen, operating a <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region>
business <a
href="http://www.sportingbetplc.com/pages/15/Our+Board.stm?PHPSESSID=15ba3131b6035fc855dabdde5c19b246"
title="http://www.sportingbetplc.com/pages/15/Our+Board.stm?PHPSESSID=15ba3131b6035fc855dabdde5c19b246">(sportingbetplc.com
board)</a> who the moment he steps foot into the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> is arrested, not for crimes he
committed but for crimes committted by US citizens.<br>
<br>
Oh and arrested under ambiguous <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:place></st1:State>
law, that defines all interstate gaming as illegal.<br>
<br>
I cant wait for the chairman of the NY Times to be arrested on a visit to <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> because
chinese citizens were reading copies of the NY Times on the internet.<br>
<br>
Oh and as for visiting 'unfriendly' countries, how about if Castro started
shooting american tourists he found in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region> for 'crimes of treason' in
carrying US dollars in their wallets?<br>
<br>
This is insane <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
When are you going to wake up and begin to be a good 'world citizen'?<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I keep hoping I will wake up and the insanity will end? it's like a bad dream.<br>
It's getting hard to tell who is the bad guys anymore.<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/peter-dicks-chairman-of-sportingbet.html">http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/peter-dicks-chairman-of-sportingbet.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dean<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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