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He has the tenacity and the will and his record is proof. I might add that he has been on the front lines battling illegal immigration since the Reagan Amnesty of 1986, which he opposed. Your article might well have offered some truth about online gambling and the marriages and lives it has destroyed, instead of the laser-like focus and support of some internet purity pipe-dream you seem to have. One does not log on and have diplomatic immunity, and laws must be enforced, whether the reality is virtual or otherwise. Duncan Hunter is not going to lead us into some ultra-controlled internet situation, he just does not see it as free pass to indulge illegal vice. You are correct there is really no such entity as “fair trade” but you failed to mention there is no such animal as “free trade” either. I think with some research it comes clear that Hunter and his trade issues have everything to do with the security of this country,and less with the economics of international trade. It is much to do with Americans being able to manufacture for it’s security, and not being dependent on Maoists. It is about time someone in a leadership position put China on notice. I fail to see how enormous trade deficits are a good thing, year after year, fighting with our hands behind our backs, unless you intend on invoking magic. Hunter thinks we got a bad deal and he wants to renegotiate, and perhaps not subsidize the Chinese war machine with American dollars to the extent we see now. Everything continues on smoothly for now, but there is a debt bubble that will burst eventually, and eventually the nanny-state won’t be able to bear it when there are far more riding in the wagon than pulling it. I appreciate your concerns, but I find them ill placed and largely unfounded, it’s slippery slope logic and I think it’s well beyond Hunter’s intent.