If a person do drugs that should be there business also or if they sell their body, the point is there have to be some moral standards in a country, even if gambling is allowed there have to be some restrictions because once you legalize it you cant go back and make it illegal, and I'm telling you from experience it isn't a good thing. Bahamians going on about this gambling thing about buying numbers and all of that, why not pressure the government to make it legal for you guys to buy stocks in BPC, I don't live in the Bahamas and I made a comment about Bahamians complaining about drilling for oil, why not just buy some stocks, and someone responded about Bahamians not being allowed to buy in. This is the kind of things that will set the average Bahamians free, numbers is only going to set Mr. Bastian and those politicians who he brought free.
Positiveinput if you read my post you wouldn't only reflect on gambling you would've reflected on prostitution and drugs, with your points then you might as well legalize those two also, because on the surface it is just people doing what they want to do with their things, but under the surface a lot of other innocent people will suffer and that is the reason why Bahamians are not allow to gamble in the first place. If you are going to legalize it then make a state run lottery system that will probably cut out the numbers house and then watch them complain because they are looking out for their own pockets. I don't live home and yes I play a little powerball hear and there but I've learn the hard way from the freedom of being able to gamble by loosing a lot of money in vegas and other places and most Bahamians doesn't have that discipline. I wouldn't allow Bahamians to gamble in the casino unless it is once a month like in Aruba like another person stated. Because most of us never gamble in the casinos before we would have trouble knowing when to stop, we wouldn't know how to react to people who is sitting at the table with you and making dumb plays( which is that person's rights). Some of the things that goes on in a casino like someone pointing it out to the dealer that you bust, when the dealer didn't realise it, or someone splitting two tens with minimum a bet while you have considerably more money bet on your hand than them will send most Bahamians over the edge.
There is some rights that any government needs to restrict or make illegal, if people can talk about the pros of gambling then what stop the drug dealers from talking about the pros of drugs or the prostitutes from talking about the pros from prostitution, because who could agrue that this could bring down the stats of rape, while employing many young ladies. Before someone says the CONS of prostitution or drugs, gambling also have a lot of CONS including addiction just like drugs and robbery as well as others, so I say that every government needs to keep lays to help protect citizens from themselves.
I can't say what is in their hearts they could be the biggest sinners out there, but wearing chains and living good isn't a sin, then again I blame it on the church for teaching people that in order to be save you would have to suffer for Christ. Christ did all the suffering for us already, so that beleive that christians should be poor is foolishness.
Yeah, but the being a pastor that collects tithes and offering for his own purposes isn't illegal. There is a difference between morality and legality, so those pastors you are talking about and not all of them are wicked by the way are not breaking the law.
Comparing the numbers man to the drug man is a good comparison, they are all illegal, and if need be they would defend their turf. The drug man have plenty of employees also and in fact some of them donate plenty of money to churches and other charities, let's take Pablo Escobar or that dude in Jamaica that nickname "Cokes" those two as well as others in the Bahamas did a lot of good in the community, but they also did a lot of bad. So Mr. Bastian may where a suit and walk with a brief case but that doesn't seperate him, because the smart drug dealers could do the same thing and a few of them does it. If the U.S didn't want ninety he would've been in Nassau probably running for a seat by now.
Speaking about rum and coke, I use to work for a hotel back home during his first term and HAI stayed there a few days, he probably had a few of his security because you could hear conversation going on in the room, after they left and I inspect the room, it was a bar of empty rum bottles in there. I taught to myself that was enough rum to get a party drunk.
I don't think they know because one thing I could say about a lot of Bahamian men is even if they are bad man who would that, they don't want it to happened to their daughter, little sisters or neices. So the most no gooded man who would sleep with age 9-90 blind, cripple or crazy will almost always protect their own.
spoitier says...
If a person do drugs that should be there business also or if they sell their body, the point is there have to be some moral standards in a country, even if gambling is allowed there have to be some restrictions because once you legalize it you cant go back and make it illegal, and I'm telling you from experience it isn't a good thing. Bahamians going on about this gambling thing about buying numbers and all of that, why not pressure the government to make it legal for you guys to buy stocks in BPC, I don't live in the Bahamas and I made a comment about Bahamians complaining about drilling for oil, why not just buy some stocks, and someone responded about Bahamians not being allowed to buy in. This is the kind of things that will set the average Bahamians free, numbers is only going to set Mr. Bastian and those politicians who he brought free.
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spoitier says...
Positiveinput if you read my post you wouldn't only reflect on gambling you would've reflected on prostitution and drugs, with your points then you might as well legalize those two also, because on the surface it is just people doing what they want to do with their things, but under the surface a lot of other innocent people will suffer and that is the reason why Bahamians are not allow to gamble in the first place. If you are going to legalize it then make a state run lottery system that will probably cut out the numbers house and then watch them complain because they are looking out for their own pockets. I don't live home and yes I play a little powerball hear and there but I've learn the hard way from the freedom of being able to gamble by loosing a lot of money in vegas and other places and most Bahamians doesn't have that discipline. I wouldn't allow Bahamians to gamble in the casino unless it is once a month like in Aruba like another person stated. Because most of us never gamble in the casinos before we would have trouble knowing when to stop, we wouldn't know how to react to people who is sitting at the table with you and making dumb plays( which is that person's rights). Some of the things that goes on in a casino like someone pointing it out to the dealer that you bust, when the dealer didn't realise it, or someone splitting two tens with minimum a bet while you have considerably more money bet on your hand than them will send most Bahamians over the edge.
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Posted 24 July 2012, 5:35 p.m. Suggest removal
spoitier says...
There is some rights that any government needs to restrict or make illegal, if people can talk about the pros of gambling then what stop the drug dealers from talking about the pros of drugs or the prostitutes from talking about the pros from prostitution, because who could agrue that this could bring down the stats of rape, while employing many young ladies. Before someone says the CONS of prostitution or drugs, gambling also have a lot of CONS including addiction just like drugs and robbery as well as others, so I say that every government needs to keep lays to help protect citizens from themselves.
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spoitier says...
Great points...
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spoitier says...
I can't say what is in their hearts they could be the biggest sinners out there, but wearing chains and living good isn't a sin, then again I blame it on the church for teaching people that in order to be save you would have to suffer for Christ. Christ did all the suffering for us already, so that beleive that christians should be poor is foolishness.
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spoitier says...
No you are not, gambling is illegal as it stands. Is the drug dealer that is selling halfbag making an honest living?
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spoitier says...
Yeah, but the being a pastor that collects tithes and offering for his own purposes isn't illegal. There is a difference between morality and legality, so those pastors you are talking about and not all of them are wicked by the way are not breaking the law.
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spoitier says...
Comparing the numbers man to the drug man is a good comparison, they are all illegal, and if need be they would defend their turf. The drug man have plenty of employees also and in fact some of them donate plenty of money to churches and other charities, let's take Pablo Escobar or that dude in Jamaica that nickname "Cokes" those two as well as others in the Bahamas did a lot of good in the community, but they also did a lot of bad. So Mr. Bastian may where a suit and walk with a brief case but that doesn't seperate him, because the smart drug dealers could do the same thing and a few of them does it. If the U.S didn't want ninety he would've been in Nassau probably running for a seat by now.
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spoitier says...
Speaking about rum and coke, I use to work for a hotel back home during his first term and HAI stayed there a few days, he probably had a few of his security because you could hear conversation going on in the room, after they left and I inspect the room, it was a bar of empty rum bottles in there. I taught to myself that was enough rum to get a party drunk.
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spoitier says...
I don't think they know because one thing I could say about a lot of Bahamian men is even if they are bad man who would that, they don't want it to happened to their daughter, little sisters or neices. So the most no gooded man who would sleep with age 9-90 blind, cripple or crazy will almost always protect their own.
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