{"id":725,"date":"2006-08-08T22:14:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T03:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/your-us-government-at-work\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T22:14:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T03:14:25","slug":"your-us-government-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/your-us-government-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Your US Government at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Department of Injustice Comedy Show Continues<\/h1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Online casinos and sportsbooks are releasing more wacky<br \/>\nwagers than ever. You can bet the odds on when your favorite <st1:place>Hollywood<\/st1:place><br \/>\ndivas will get pregnant or married.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>You<br \/>\ncan bet on pretty much every reality show and online gamblers can even<br \/>\nspeculate on the weather.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>To our<br \/>\nknowledge, there were no betting odds on who would be the first government<br \/>\nofficial to postulate that the Department of Injustice\u2019s \u201c<span class=SpellE>Tobetaman<\/span><br \/>\nSquare Massacre\u201d e.g. the arrest of BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers, was<br \/>\nsomehow, even indirectly tied to our war on terror. But perhaps you found such<br \/>\na Calcutta Auction. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>If you had <st1:State><st1:place>Missouri<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>\u2019s<br \/>\n<st1:country-region><st1:place>US<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> attorney<br \/>\nCatherine <span class=SpellE>Hanaway<\/span> in your brain death pool, you<br \/>\nwin.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>However, we all lose. As previously<br \/>\nreported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinobettingnews.com\/\">CasinoBettingNews.com<\/a>,<br \/>\nshe uttered, \u201cWe need to check it (casino revenue) is not being used for money<br \/>\nlaundering, drug financing or terrorism. Because it\u2019s flowing out of the<br \/>\ncountry in an unregulated way, we simply don\u2019t know the ultimate destination\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The sad and unassailable fact is that the government\u2019s<br \/>\ncrackdown on legitimate sportsbooks opens the door for funding terrorists<br \/>\ninside our borders. Our own Department of Homeland Security has been quite<br \/>\nsobering in admitting they know there are several sleeper terrorist cells<br \/>\ninside our borders.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>One of the most<br \/>\ncontroversial provisions of the Patriot Act allows for the government to<br \/>\nmonitor bank transactions of \u201csuspected terrorists\u201d.<span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>Put the civil liberties arguments aside for<br \/>\nanother time, even opponents will acknowledge it aids the government in<br \/>\ntracking money being wired internationally to domestic cells. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>One way to sneak under such surveillance is to instead<br \/>\nearn funds locally and without a paper trail.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'><br \/>\n<\/span>Perhaps terrorists would open a bunch of lemonade stands and not report<br \/>\nthe income. No pun intended, but do not bet on that happening. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Should gamblers no longer feel secure making deposit to<br \/>\nwell-respected offshore casinos, they will not quit gambling to take up cake<br \/>\ndecorating classes.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  <\/span>They will bet the<br \/>\nold fashioned way\u2014through a local guy on a cell phone. According to <span\nclass=GramE>Cy<\/span> McCormick of the popular cyber handicapping syndicate <span\nstyle='color:#666666'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancehandicapping.com\/\">AllianceHandicapping.com<\/a>,<br \/>\n\u201c<\/span>Many gamblers I know are diversifying\u201d.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'><br \/>\n<\/span>He says while few are abandoning the offshore books completely, \u201cThey<br \/>\nare using local guys they had not been clients of for years\u201d feeling safer<br \/>\nbetting with \u201cBig Ernie\u201d instead of the regulated Costa Rican books. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Oh Catherine dear, how do you know that big wad of hundred<br \/>\ndollar bills now going to some guy in a sweat suit isn\u2019t being used for \u201cmoney<br \/>\nlaundering, drug financing or terrorism?\u201d now that the Department of Injustice<br \/>\nand you helped eliminate some semblance of a paper trail? <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Like we asked in a previous article, \u201cDo you feel safer<br \/>\nnow\u201d? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Hollywood 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/your-us-government-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your US Government at Work<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}