Today, June 23, is the day.

A few weeks ago, the European Commission sent a questionnaire to a number of US government agencies, basically asking them to clarify and/or justify their position of persecuting and prosecuting foreign online gambling companies.

Those American agencies were given until today to respond.

Now, given America's track record of meeting deadlines with regard to online gambling disputes, I fear that participation in the questionnaire by all requested American government agencies will be somewhat less than 100%.

That being said, the EU is a much larger and more meaningful trading partner than tiny Antigua, so hopefully the American agencies will move a bit to cooperate with the EU requests.

Really, any failure by the Americans to respond to this polite questionnaire could (and should) be viewed as a blatant insult. It would be the equivalent of saying, "Yeah, we know you are pissed about what we are doing, but we don't want to talk about it. So what are you gonna do about that?"

Hopefully, America does the right thing in this matter - for once.