Re:What is it with US and the word "illegal" (Score 1)

Part of it is the redundancy of Americanized English (IE ATM Machine, PIN Number etc). Another part is the sensationalizing of news in the US (personally I think we are getting very close to returning to the days of Yello Journalisom). Illegal and other buzzwords are used to grab the attention of the sheeples that consume most news here in the US. The third part of this is the more insidious nature of business in the US. Because of the very close ties that bind many business ventures together they are able to place pressure on the news media to spin things in the direction of certain interest groups. Here we have the news and entertainment divisions of larger corporate interests using their shared influence to reinforce the idea that activity X is illegal by forcing the word down consumers throats. The sad thing is most people are to asleep to realize whats happening.