Chad Hills Ignores Reason to Attack Online Casino Regulation

Hills cites a "potentially massive increase in gambling addictions," despite empirical evidence to the contrary in countries employing Internet gambling regulation.

Call your Representative today and urge him or her to support Barney Frank's continuing efforts regulating, taxing, and controlling Internet casinos. Rep. Frank will submit yet another proposal to legalize Internet gambling this coming Tuesday (9/16/08) in the House Financial Services Committee.

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After Barney Frank announced his renewed attempts to guard individual liberty and protect the children of the United States by proposing a bill to regulate online gambling, Chad Hills posted a call to arms on the Focus on the Family website.

Hills actually has the nerve to quote John Adams on the unmalleable nature of facts and evidence, and then immediately list unsubstantiated facts, prejudicial opinion, and manufactured numbers to back his dubious case against regulation.

Hills cites a "potentially massive increase in gambling addictions," despite empirical evidence to the contrary in countries employing Internet gambling regulation. He says that "many" marriages and families will be destroyed, without quantifying or presenting evidence.

He notes a history of corruption among some online casino operators, making an unintended point for the need for regulation.

He says, "Citizens lose their vote to oppose gambling if they allow unwelcome casinos into their homes through the Internet." Yet, not only are they still able to vote as they choose, but they are now able to choose whom they accept into their house via the Internet, rather than have a zealot like Chad Hills decide for them.

By Hills' reasoning, the allowing of religious fanatics to have Internet access means they are in my home whether I like it or not. But I do not advocate the banning of moronic religious nuts from the Internet. I simply utilize my power of freedom and choice, and do not visit his site when I don't wish; allow me the same courtesy, please. Of course, I am all for parental blocking of inappropriate sites; I would advise all parents to not allow children to look at brainwashing websites like Focus on the Family.