URGENT ALERT FROM CASINO WATCH

4/26/04
PLEASE CALL, E-MAIL OR FAX YOUR STATE SENATOR TODAY
(DO NOT WRITE - THE LETTER WILL GET THERE TOO LATE)

Unexpectedly, on Friday, the Senate introduce an amendment to remove the $500 Loss Limit. If the Loss Limit is removed the casinos will have been successful in removing the last protection that was in place to prevent families from suffering severe addiction consequences. Your calls and faxes will protect our families - BUT YOU MUST CALL TODAY.
Please ask all family, friends and church members to do the same.

WE NEED TO PROTECT THE $500 LOSS LIMIT BECAUSE:
1. It protects us from the mob and drug dealers that launder money at casinos with no loss limit.
2. It protects the elderly from losing everything in one gambling session. (75% of the Isle of Capri's customers are over 50 years of age.)
3. It protects our children from suffering a life of misery under a parent with severe gambling addiction. (Parents gamble food & medicine $.)
4. It protects our economy from losing hundreds of millions each year to the wealthy special interests in Las Vegas.

Please be polite and courteous. Our message must be:
 DO NOT REMOVE THE $500 LOSS LIMIT
Don't be led astray if your Senator tells you that they will just give you a chance to vote on the issue. That just gives the casinos the opportunity to buy an election with their deceitful message of more jobs. Please - just take 5 minutes before it is too late. Call others to help. Thank you.

Find your Senator

Contact your senator (at home or office)
or call the state capitol operator at
573-751-2000 and ask for him by name.

Money laundering is the conversion of money derived
from criminal activity to hide its illegal origin. Criminals
can spend $10,000 of illegal money for chips, gamble a
little, trade the chips back in for new, unmarked money.

"Casinos can play a significant role in money laundering"
Miriam Miquelon, U.S. attorney for Southern Illinois

Illinois riverboat casinos are especially vulnerable because
they have no loss limits, which means drug traffickers gamble
away tens of thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes
against their casino accounts. In contrast, gamblers on
Missouri boats may lose a maximum of $500 every two hours.

"The absence of loss limits is a major reason St. Louis-area
drug dealers flock to the Alton Belle and Casino Queen"
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Holtshouser
Eastern District of Missouri in St. Louis.

"When you're in St. Louis and you've got a choice between
Missouri and Illinois, if you're trying to launder money, you
might choose Illinois," Holtshouser said.

WWW.CASINOWATCH.ORG
Source: MIKE FITZGERALD, Belleville News-Democrat


Gambling Taxes are
Budget Busters not Budget Boosters

Removing the $500 Loss Limit will.......

threaten the health, welfare & safety
of all Missourians
(due to the shortage of State Highway Patrol & addiction crime)

cost Missouri's economy $2
for each dollar raised from gambling taxes
increase violent crimes,
increase crimes against business
increase suicides
increase bankruptcies
increase divorce
destroy the work ethic
destroy families
harm children

flood the casinos with "high-rollers"
Definition of "high-roller":
A gambler betting more than $500 every two hours
Drug runners laundering money
Terrorists laundering money
80% from Asian countries
Many are criminals
Ties to organized crime
The Japanese Yakuza
The Russian Mafia
Hong Kong mob
Colombians & Mexicans with questionable income

increase prostitution
casinos provide prostitutes for the "high-rollers"
prostitutes "follow the money"

1. The State Motto 2. Missouri Constitution, Article I, BILL OF RIGHTS Section 2.

Missouri Family Network
E-@lert
Casino Gambling
Missouri's $500 Loss Limit Under Attack!

New Developments Unfolded in the Missouri Senate
on Friday, April 23rd, 2004!
~ PLEASE HELP ~
ACTION NEEDED