In some social circles a rule exists that if you compare anything, anything at all, to Hitler in an argument you automatically lose.  The rule exists as a way to keep people from going to extremes and using excessively passionate points of view to win an argument.  After all, few can come up with an individual that embodies evil more so than Adolph Hitler.  In honor of that tradition, I will avoid bringing up the several parallels between the United States under the Presidency of George W. Bush and Germany under the Third Reich.  There are other accurate parallels to be drawn from the policies under Bush that will make American skin crawl.  The People’s Republic of China is one of those disturbing parallels.

Back in 2006 when the World Trade Organization attempted to address the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the United States government defended the ban on online casinos by using a tactic that has been favored by the Chinese for years.  In order to prevent foreign media products from entering China, the Chinese government would claim that the products represented a cultural threat to its people.  

That is the exact same line that the United States attempted to use against online casinos.  Online casinos were considered a threat to American culture and way of life.  The World Trade Organization simply did not allow that argument to stand.  In the United States almost every form of gambling is legal in one state or another.  It is clear that the argument was simply a weak attempt to keep online casinos out of the United States market.