![]() In 2011, Governor Beverly Perdue amended the compact with the Cherokee to allow for Class III gaming (Las Vegas style) and add two more casinos on reservation lands. Then in 2005, North Carolina enacted a state-operated lottery. The first casino in Cherokee opened in November of 1997, largely forced upon the state by the federal courts. Its proponents are constantly pushing North Carolina lawmakers to loosen its resistance to the industry. Gambling continues to threaten to swallow up the Tar Heel state. It will have all the bells and whistles of a full-fledged Las Vegas style casino, featuring hundreds of slot machines and dozens of table games. The new casino will be hailed as Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino & Hotel. Those words came to mind this week when I read the news stories about the Eastern Band of Cherokee officially breaking ground for their second casino near Murphy, North Carolina. Cronkite argued that he believed it is the destruction of "who we are as Americans." ![]() In the program, "The Dice are Loaded," Walter Cronkite indicated that the collapse of moral resistance against gambling is among the worst things that could happen in the United States. ![]() One of the most trusted men in America once expressed the way he saw the danger of gambling to our nation.
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