[WarmonkEd]

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Gambling on the Internet has become an extremely lucrative business, particularly for criminals. The U.S. department of Justice and the F.B.I. have testified that Internet gambling serves as a vehicle for money laundering activities that can be exploited by terrorists and organized crime rings.

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1. Online gaming is lucrative for criminals because online gaming is illegal; ergo, anyone profiting from online gaming is a criminal. This is circular and fallacious logic.

2. Simply because "terrorists and organized crime rings" can exploit online gaming for nepharious purposes does not mean they are exploiting it. If the FBI or DOJ had evidence, you can be damn sure that they'd be parading it up and down the streets of D.C.

3. All the arguments against online gaming -- fraud, terrorists, money laundering, etc. -- can be solved simply by making it legal and regulating it. But they say it can't be legalized and regulated because it is rife with opportunities for terrorists to launder money. More circular and fallacious logic.

This phraseology is the kind of language manipulation that savvy marketers and politicians employ. Ridiculous.

Here's my sarcastic reply: "So you're saying you can't make online gaming legal and regulate it because it's illegal and unregulated?"

Has anyone read "Catch 22?"

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You're distorting what he means to say. He is not saying online gaming should be illegal because anyone profiting from online gaming is a criminal because it is illegal. That would be circular logic, like you say. He is just saying it should be illegal because organized crime can use it to launder money.