BACHUS COMMENTS ON 60 MINUTES PROGRAM (Update)
5 December 2008
The Representative from Alabama predictably goes
against the flow on 'illegality' claim
Spencer Bachus, the anti-online gambling representative
from Alabama, was quick to respond to last weekend's 60
Minutes program on Internet poker, posting a statement
on his website.
Bachus took an opposing view to almost the every
knowledgeable writer on the subject by agreeing with 60
Minute's controversial assertion that online gambling is
illegal in the United States, saying: “Off-shore
Internet gambling sites operating in the United States
are all illegal and therefore, by definition, they are
run by criminals. When you deal with criminals, you
should expect to be cheated and taken advantage of.
“My concern is for our youth who are subject to becoming
addicted to gambling at an early age. If you put a
computer in a teenager’s bedroom, or in a student’s dorm
room at college, it’s a temptation that many fall prey
to.
“Those who have opposed my efforts to stop these
criminal activities have claimed that these are simply
games of skill in which adults should be allowed to
compete against each other without hindrance.
“The revelations in The Washington Post and 60 Minutes
stories show once and for all that these are criminal
enterprises and that like all operations run by
criminals, they steal from those who become involved
with them.
“Hopefully, the publication of this information will
warn people to avoid these unsafe gambling sites, but it
is welcome news that the regulations to enforce the
provisions of the law we adopted two years ago to stop
these criminal activities are finally being put into
effect.”
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