Department of Injustice Comedy Show Continues
Online casinos and sportsbooks are releasing more wacky
wagers than ever. You can bet the odds on when your favorite
divas will get pregnant or married. You
can bet on pretty much every reality show and online gamblers can even
speculate on the weather. To our
knowledge, there were no betting odds on who would be the first government
official to postulate that the Department of Injustice’s “Tobetaman
Square Massacre” e.g. the arrest of BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers, was
somehow, even indirectly tied to our war on terror. But perhaps you found such
a Calcutta Auction.
If you had
Catherine Hanaway in your brain death pool, you
win. However, we all lose. As previously
reported on CasinoBettingNews.com,
she uttered, “We need to check it (casino revenue) is not being used for money
laundering, drug financing or terrorism. Because it’s flowing out of the
country in an unregulated way, we simply don’t know the ultimate destination”.
The sad and unassailable fact is that the government’s
crackdown on legitimate sportsbooks opens the door for funding terrorists
inside our borders. Our own Department of Homeland Security has been quite
sobering in admitting they know there are several sleeper terrorist cells
inside our borders. One of the most
controversial provisions of the Patriot Act allows for the government to
monitor bank transactions of “suspected terrorists”. Put the civil liberties arguments aside for
another time, even opponents will acknowledge it aids the government in
tracking money being wired internationally to domestic cells.
One way to sneak under such surveillance is to instead
earn funds locally and without a paper trail.
Perhaps terrorists would open a bunch of lemonade stands and not report
the income. No pun intended, but do not bet on that happening.
Should gamblers no longer feel secure making deposit to
well-respected offshore casinos, they will not quit gambling to take up cake
decorating classes. They will bet the
old fashioned way—through a local guy on a cell phone. According to Cy McCormick of the popular cyber handicapping syndicate AllianceHandicapping.com,
“Many gamblers I know are diversifying”.
He says while few are abandoning the offshore books completely, “They
are using local guys they had not been clients of for years” feeling safer
betting with “Big Ernie” instead of the regulated Costa Rican books.
Oh Catherine dear, how do you know that big wad of hundred
dollar bills now going to some guy in a sweat suit isn’t being used for “money
laundering, drug financing or terrorism?” now that the Department of Injustice
and you helped eliminate some semblance of a paper trail?
Like we asked in a previous article, “Do you feel safer
now”?