Online Gambling Opponents Continue War of Mistruths

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Online Gambling Opponents Continue War of Mistruths As usual, online casino opponents offered up statements that twisted and distorted facts to prove their anti-gambling points.

As Barney Frank's bill to license online gambling sites was publicized this week, the foes of Internet gaming began another verbal assault against the move toward personal freedom. As usual, online casino opponents offered up statements that twisted and distorted facts to prove their anti-gambling points.

Citizenlink.com, the website for the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, noted that Frank introduced two bills, one to license Internet gambling and the other to delay compliance with the UIGEA. Explaining the UIGEA, the site says, "UIGEA requires financial institutions to block payments to off-shore Internet gambling operations that are not licensed to operate within the U.S."

But OCA gambling analyst Sherman Bradley points out that, until and unless Frank's first bill passes, there are no licensed operators. The Focus definition is phrased in such a way to imply that the UIGEA only blocks uncontrolled offshore gaming, not mentioning the effective ban on New Hambpshire and North Dakota lotteries.

"Frank is pushing dangerous, foreign gambling policy down the throats of U.S. citizens and families who do not want this predatory industry soliciting and exploiting them or their children," says Focus analyst Chad Hills. Using the assertion that the UIGEA only affects foreign operators, Hills now belittles Frank's move as un-American, says Bradley.

Hills does not offer proof to back up his claim that the gambling reform is not desired by US citizens. A recent USA Today poll found over ninety percent of respondents thought online gambling should be legal.

Hills also compared the Internet to a public library, saying residents wouldn't want casinos in libraries. Bradley replies, "Hills notes one of the myriad uses of the Internet, and claims that should make his point. But he ignores the tremendous commercial and retail use of the Internet, because it causes his point to collapse."

Focus ally and US Representative Spencer Bachus has also weighed in, saying that allowing online gambling is like putting casinos in children's bedrooms. Bachus is the same man who claimed last year both that teenage online gaming is an epidemic, and that one in three teenagers who gambled online attempted suicide.

Both claims were refuted, and many observed that the two statements were mutually exclusive, unless millions of suicide attempts were going unreported.

But Bradley says it's all about the repetition with the religious right. "They are not concerned with accuracy. The tactic is to emotionally appeal to fearful responses, because reason defeats their purpose."

Published on May 9, 2009 by JulieWong Help Spread the News

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