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Richas,

As I have said before, I do understand how a citizen of another country can be interested in what happens over here and its possible global effects. However I still don't see why that legitimate interest translates into the specific organization that americans might or might not use to fight for their interests. Nor indeed why you would spend more time in these forums focusing on the PPA instead of trying to rally your fellow countrymen into taking some actions in your own country to stem the apparently rising anti-online gambling tide.

Regarding your criticisms of the way 2+2 conducted and posted the results of an investigation, I think despite being a regular here you don't understand some some things fully. Posters here hounded Mason for not backing the PPA or through some other means fighting the legislation in its runup to passage. However he made it clear he certainly didn't support the legislation, but as a publishing entity lacked the expertise or direct interest (they sold books to B&M players long before online) so as to take a more direct political role. And as to supporting the PPA, he had some prima facie concerns and wanted to see if those were valid.

So he had his attorneys do an investigation. But as to giving either a very short response regarding same as you suggest, posters here just wouldn't have accepted that. They would want to know the reasons and judge for themselves whether they would reach the same conclusion from the facts uncovered.

Of course you might still fairly not agree with the above. But note as well that Mason has allowed not just the PPA, but you or any interested party to have his say on these matters in this forum, even when all parties aren't being forthright as to their vested interests in the issues, and obviously some very interested parties have their HQ in London, which is why I asked you a question regarding yourself.

And note one final thing, which is that the PPA prez has thus far not come here and discussed not just the issues raised by Mason's attorneys, but also by many of us player-posters. He's the one who let a sore fester and get infected, and so far he is just trying to put a band-aid on it and hope it gets better by itself.