Scare Tactics and Missinformation. Masterful manipulation of the masses is how the government stripes your rights away.
September 27, 2004
Congress Again Considers Internet Gambling Bill
by Keith Peters, Washington, D.C., correspondent
Lawmakers are hoping to put restrictions on Internet gambling by attaching their plan to a homeland security bill.
Conservative lawmakers are trying to ban bank transfers to offshore Internet gambling groups by attaching their plan to a bill that fights terrorism. What does Internet gambling have to do with homeland security?
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0033890.cfm
See it as a game. How many sentences can we find in this article which are misleading, outright lies and dishonest manipulations?
I found these:
1. “Organized crime and other shady operators run internet gambling sites from offshore to stay out of reach of U.S. law enforcement.”
2. “”This would prevent those who operate these illegal internet gambling sites from being paid and that’s what they’re after,” “
3. “Attaching the proposal to a homeland security bill makes sense to Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa. He’s worried about the possibility of offshore sites funneling money to terrorists.”
4. Previous tries were scuttled by the powerful gambling lobby.
Catch-words:
– Organized Crime – negative.
– U.S. law enforcement – positive, the guys on the white horses.
– illegal internet gambling – negative and untrue.
– terrorists – this hardly needs explanation.
– powerful (gambling lobby) – If they’re powerful, we should be afraid of them!
This article is so incredibly biased and baseless it’s enough to make you laugh. I’m too annoyed to laugh, though. Grrr! 😡