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September 3rd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda NSW clubs that declared war on the Salvation Army as payback for supporting a cap on poker machines are starting to make peace.
The risk of public embarrassment from taking on such a fondly-regarded institution has proven too much for clubs in their campaign to protect their income from the machines.
The St George Motor Boat Club is one of six of 1500 clubs that had banned Salvation Army members from selling the War Cry on Friday nights. Three months ago the club refused to allow the Salvation Army on its premises.
”The board decided that if the Salvation Army was going to act against the club, long a generous financial supporter, well, they could go elsewhere to raise their own money,” club operations manager David Moffatt said.
However, the club backed down and last night allowed Salvation Army officers back on site to sell its weekly magazine.
Mr Moffatt said the change of heart followed reports that the Salvation Army had withdrawn support for the Gillard government’s proposed poker machine cap or mandatory pre-commitment technology.
The Salvation Army’s territorial director social mission, Major Paul Moulds, denied there had been a backflip.
He said the Salvation Army’s Eastern Territory (NSW, Queensland and the ACT) still maintained its long-held support for mandatory pre-commitment but, unlike colleagues in Southern Territory (Vic, TAS, SA, WA, NT) also wanted further trials to ascertain its efficacy before fully endorsing it.
”The Eastern Territory shares a similar concern for the impact of gambling, however based on consultations with its frontline staff, people in its programs affected by problem gambling, and researchers, the Eastern Territory supports further trials of mandatory pre-commitment before fully endorsing it.
”The Salvation Army values its access to the clubs and hotels but any threat to this access was not a factor in determining the position of The Salvation Army Eastern Territory.”
The ban played into the hands of the Independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie, who criticised the industry for resorting to threats in its attempt to stop reforms.
”The big story here is actually that clubs in NSW have started preventing the Salvos from fund raising on club premises and threatened to stop other support for the iconic Australian welfare organisation,” Mr Wilkie said.
”That the industry is prepared to stoop so low as to intimidate and misrepresent an iconic welfare group like the Salvos just goes to show how desperate the industry is to protect its profits.”
The executive director of Clubs Australia, Anthony Ball, said there was no excuse for Mr Wilkie’s ”hysterical attempts” to taint the Salvation Army’s decision to support a trial of mandatory pre-commitment.
”Clubs have always supported the Salvation Army and will continue to do so. The evidence of that lies in the hundreds of Salvo officers who walk through clubs every Friday night receiving donations,” he said.
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