Dem State Senator Who Allegedly Trafficked in Automatic Weapons and Missiles Favors . . . Gun Control
Of course.
The allegations against Leland Yee are . . . remarkable:
A California state senator has been arrested for promising shoulder-fired automatic weapons and missiles from a Muslim separatist group to an undercover FBI agent in exchange for campaign donations, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
In San Francisco, FBI agents have charged California State Sen. Leland Yee with conspiracy to deal firearms and wire fraud. The allegations were outlined in an FBI affidavit against Yee and 25 others. The allegations against Yee include a number of favors he requested in exchange for campaign donations, as well as performing “official acts” in exchange for donations to get himself out of a $70,000 debt incurred during a failed San Francisco mayoral bid, according to court documents.
Yee discussed helping the undercover FBI agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder-fired automatic weapons and missiles, and showed the agent the entire process of how to get those weapons from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines into the United States, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua.
Yee favors gun control and closing loopholes in laws against assault weapons.
Hey, if you can pass laws that increase the demand for your product, why not, right?
Ding.
Patterico (c29bec) — 3/27/2014 @ 10:24 amCreate a problem – Solve a problem = Effective legislator.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/27/2014 @ 10:28 amActually, I’m pretty sure Leland Yee was a cheerleader for pretty much the entire left-wing agenda of California Democrats, not just gun control. I know that the Democrat media is now trying to claim that he was a “loner” and not a party stalwart, but if you read closely you can see that their main gripe was that he criticized the party from the left, e.g. his vote against the budget because he thought it cut too deeply into social spending.
What this shows is something that us right-wingers have been saying all along: that liberalism is often just a convenient mask for someone who wants to enrich themselves via government, that those who claim to work on behalf of “the poor” are very often only working on behalf of themselves and their allies, and that the more you demand that government be involved in everyone else’s life, the more you justify exempting yourself from its effects.
JVW (9946b6) — 3/27/2014 @ 10:55 amthe Democrat media is now trying to claim that he was a “loner” and not a party stalwart
I wonder if he’ll roll on others to avoid dying in prison. I’m willing to bet that several other senators are sanitizing their emails and such as I type.
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/27/2014 @ 11:30 amI guess this statement of support from Pelosi in a letter to the governor kind of kicks the legs out from under that lie.
http://weaselzippers.us/180803-nancy-pelosi-strongly-supported-dem-state-senator-who-was-arrested-for-trying-to-make-arms-deal-with-islamic-rebels/
Steve57 (a017ec) — 3/27/2014 @ 11:37 amHis website is still up.
http://sd08.senate.ca.gov/
Let’s see…
Some loner.
Steve57 (a017ec) — 3/27/2014 @ 11:45 amThe Koch Brothers framed Leland Yee.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 3/27/2014 @ 11:49 amOr something.
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
He’s going to need their help.
Sammy Finkelman (2c707f) — 3/27/2014 @ 11:49 amI don’t think it will be up long. The links that go to the .senate.ca.gov address don’t work anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Yee
He’s been in politics since 1988. That’s when he first became a member of the SF schoolboard. he later became President. That’s interesting because his time on the school board seems to overlap with one of his co-conspirators/co-defendants, Keith Jackson.
Steve57 (a017ec) — 3/27/2014 @ 11:56 amGood thing he wasn’t a loner, Sammy.
Steve57 (a017ec) — 3/27/2014 @ 11:57 amnow, if only Sammy would leave us alone…
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 3/27/2014 @ 12:00 pmJim Geraghty has an excellent essay that explains liberal hypocrisy:
I agree, but there’s more to his analysis and argument so read the whole thing.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 3/27/2014 @ 12:20 pmI am sure, that upon closer examination, anything Lee did will be proven to have been…..
“For the Children”
Orcadrvr (38828c) — 3/27/2014 @ 12:44 pmMany progressives organize their worldview in the reverse order: They pick the good people — themselves — and everything else is negotiable. And as it’s currently practiced, liberalism doesn’t really require much of anything.
Nowhere is that more apparent than progressives treatment of Bill Clinton. He’s spent his whole career careening from the party savior who would redeem the Baby Boom generation to the guy who sold out progressivism in order to be reelected to the brilliant triangulator charting a moderate third way to the reckless self-indulgent narcissist whose incessant whoring was destroying his causes to the wise avuncular elder statesman with his finger on the pulse of the country to the rich out-of-touch multimillionaire who spends too much time paling around with CEOs in Mailbu, Aspen, and Palm Beach to the humanitarian whose charitable foundation is curing disease in Africa and empowering women all over the third world. But the whole time his stature in the Democrat Party is entirely contingent upon whether he can bring in money and/or votes, so he is always welcome at party confabs.
It really is largely a party of and for the unprincipled when you get right down to it.
JVW (9946b6) — 3/27/2014 @ 1:40 pmI expecting interview as follows:
“None of us knew him very well; he kept mostly to himself. He was always very quiet and polite, but you knew that there was maybe something just a bit off.
It’s always the quiet ones, it seems”
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/27/2014 @ 2:00 pmBy next week, the Matty Yglesiases and MSNBCs of the world will be describing Leland Yee as a tea party Republican who watches Fox News, attends church, and is a paid shill for the NRA.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 3/27/2014 @ 2:20 pmOr something.
Painted Jaguar (Gleam in eye): Sen. Yee is all in favor of the saying, “Outlaw guns, and only outlaws will have guns.”
Painted Jaguar (a sockpuppet) (f9371b) — 3/27/2014 @ 4:27 pm😉
Weaselzippers put something together on Uncle Leland’s homeboy, Shrimp Boy.
http://weaselzippers.us/180878-meet-raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-notorious-gangster-given-awards-by-diane-feinstein-other-sf-dem-politicians/
The embedded videos are pretty amusing. Did he have people fooled. Not all, but quite a few.
Steve57 (a017ec) — 3/27/2014 @ 4:54 pmTen years ago a conservative needed some cash so Rush stepped in to publicize his bake sale, which netted amounts that would have helped with Yee’s campaign debts. A mainline California DemocRat needs some bucks so he arranges with Philippine terrorists to smuggle shoulder-fired missiles into the U. S. The implications of Yee’s readiness to work with muslim terrorists on such a project are huge. In Yee’s world, it must have been rather ordinary to have such dealings. You would have a hard time writing a novel using this premise. And yet this is the reality. Can anyone else see the elephant in the lobby?
bobathome (c0c2b5) — 3/27/2014 @ 4:58 pmSounds like something out of Burn notice,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/27/2014 @ 5:09 pmAlthough someone made a comparison to that show ‘the Wire’
narciso (3fec35) — 3/27/2014 @ 5:12 pmComment by bobathome (c0c2b5) — 3/27/2014 @ 4:58 pm
A mainline California DemocRat needs some bucks so he arranges with Philippine terrorists to smuggle shoulder-fired missiles into the U. S.
I think that was a sting operation. There were no actual Phillipine terrorists who were going to sell their weapons.
His defense will probably be entrapment, or that he had no intention of supplying any weapons – he only wanted to swindle the man who turned out to be an FBI agent.
Sort of like the father of newly elected Congresswoman Grace Meng, (former state Assemblyman Jimmy K. Meng) who lied when he claimed he had a connection into the Manhttan DA’s office and there was someone there who would take a bribe.bribe to obtain a lower sentence for tax fraud. He told him that for $80,000 in cash he would receive a sentence of no more than one year, but the target turned around and went to the prosecutors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/nyregion/ex-assemblyman-jimmy-k-meng-sentenced-in-bribery-scheme.html?_r=0
The implications of Yee’s readiness to work with muslim terrorists on such a project are huge. In Yee’s world, it must have been rather ordinary to have such dealings. You would have a hard time writing a novel using this premise. And yet this is the reality. Can anyone else see the elephant in the lobby?
Sammy Finkelman (2c707f) — 3/27/2014 @ 5:24 pmIf he, and others in the United States really has connections to a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines that’s much bigger news than his indictment and the tip of an iceberg.
Sammy Finkelman (2c707f) — 3/27/2014 @ 5:26 pmIn the ‘mountain out of a moundhill’ category;
http://minx.cc/?post=348175
narciso (3fec35) — 3/27/2014 @ 5:33 pmWhy does everyone have to be so hard on Leland Yee ?
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 3/27/2014 @ 6:22 pmHe’s merely facillitating the northern California strategy of Eric Holder’s ‘Fast & Furious.’
It would seem very stupid to even entertain a gun running operation to the Moro Liberation Front, sounds like something out of the Departed, in that case, it was microprocessors to the Chinese,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/27/2014 @ 6:28 pmmicroprocessors to the Chinese
Toshiba got caught selling advanced milling machines to the Soviet submarine industry at the height of the Cold War.
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/27/2014 @ 6:46 pmA friend of mine, came up with this;
http://mattsmeditations.com/2014/03/27/the-deafening-silence-on-leftist-corruption/
narciso (3fec35) — 3/27/2014 @ 6:52 pmSammy,
“Yee discussed helping the undercover FBI agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder-fired automatic weapons and missiles, and showed the agent the entire process of how to get those weapons from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines into the United States…”
Note the operative phrase “Yee … showed the agent the entire process …” etc. The FBI didn’t offer the weapons and the delivery, a golden-haired boy wonder of the DemocRat party took that role. So what gives with the politicos in Sacramento?
What else are they up to?
bobathome (c0c2b5) — 3/27/2014 @ 7:31 pmhttp://www.calnewsroom.com/2014/03/27/editorial-to-separate-themselves-from-yee-lawmakers-should-repeal-gun-control/
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:23 amSee? Crony capitalism at work!
J.P. (bd0246) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:44 amI want a suppressed MP5 in the worst way, and I could get one direct from the factory, perfectly legal, if I had a Class 3 dealer’s license. I wonder if Mr. Yee could have gotten me one (the license). Too late now, nobody tells me anything.
nk (dbc370) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:48 amApparently, the State Senate has now suspended all three Dems who are in legal trouble.
Lights. Cockroaches. Scurry.
http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ln-state-senate-suspends-three-lawmakers-20140328,0,4464252.story
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/28/2014 @ 3:06 pmThey were not expelled, however, and will continue to be paid.
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/28/2014 @ 3:08 pmLets see now…
The new chant from the Brady Campaign:
“Guns for Yee but not for thee!!
The newest super villians coming soon to a Marvel film:
Two Gun Yee and his henchman Shrimp Boy Chow
“All the finest disgraced politicians moonlighting as gunrunners support gun control.
angry webmaster (c2a001) — 3/28/2014 @ 3:43 pmTo give credit where credit is due, Yee should be complemented for acting on the principle that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns … Of course this ignores the SWAT teams that are becoming an increasingly common part of “civilized” life. They are heavily armed and armored whether in pursuit of the St. Francis Animal Shelter scofflaws, or an assistant county prosecutor who irrated a convicted felon on the far side of the continent.
bobathome (c0c2b5) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:10 pmmake that irritated … not sure how one would irrate something.
bobathome (c0c2b5) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:12 pmAnother one!
FBI raids another Dem office holder’s home and office—-followed up with his resignation.
There’s got to be a party purge of miscreants going on. Too coincidental.
http://www.redstate.com/2014/03/27/openly-gay-speaker-rhode-island-house-resigns-fbi-raid/
elissa (89f75d) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:24 pmI don’t know anything about these sort of things (purges) but I bet these same names will come up later in a different context. Maybe these guys have info that would help enemies of the party so they must be discredited now! Like I said, I know nothing!
felipe (6100bc) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:34 pmFrom the caption under the photo:
“He resignation followed an FBI raid in which most, if not all, of his stuff was boxed up and taken away”.
Who wrote this, a 12 year old? “…all of his stuff..”
felipe (6100bc) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:38 pmThere just might be a connection with the Rhode Island raid and the raid of the Ilinois State Rep and resignation which occurred in the same general timeframe. That one turned out to be child porn. If the Dems want to rid themselves of their biggest potential embarrassments before Nov. and also give the public time to forget it, this is a good month to do it.
elissa (89f75d) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:43 pmThey write for a 12-year old reading level, felipe. It’s been surveyed. The NYT is probably the highest level at 8th-grade.
nk (dbc370) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:45 pmI aim for that, myself. It gives me a folksy, guy-next-door style. It does have the risk, though, of making me seem condescending. (That means talking down to people.)
nk (dbc370) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:49 pmYes, in terms of diction, in terms of ideology, it might as well be written in crayon,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:52 pmYour metric (grade level vs age) is more accurate than mine, what with 12 year olds in Universities.
felipe (6100bc) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:55 pmI know what you mean, nk. There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don’t.
felipe (6100bc) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:57 pmI’m generally amazed they can keep there, their and they’re straight at most of these outlets.
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:57 pmAlso, then/than.
felipe (6100bc) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:59 pmConsidering the reputation of RI politicians, and RI in general, this is quite a feat. Do they usually do it at night?
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:00 pmAlso, then/than.
That fails a lot.
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:01 pmNow, if I might suggest a few more raids here in CA:
Governor Brown (bullet train land scheme)
Rep Maxine Waters (embezzlement from hubby’s bank)
Sen Barbara Boxer (keeping slaves in basement)
AG Kamala Harris (covering up for Yee)
Pretty please?
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:06 pmTo be
nk (dbc370) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:06 pmfarefair, the stuff felipe quoted is from Red State not the Providence Journal.And, you would think there might be some arrests at the IRS, but no.
Kevin M (b11279) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:08 pmHas anybody else read through the entire 137 page complaint? I did, and as a result I like Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow a lot more than Senator “Uncle Leland” Yee.
I don’t know how it will turn out. I don’t know what really are the elements of all the crimes charged.
Still, Shrimp Boy seemed like he didn’t want to live the life anymore. He was doing it, but what other options did he have? He’s an ex-con.
Meanwhile “Uncle Leland” had all kinds of options but his lust for power meant he’d break the law. How bad Chow wanted to quit is an open question. But if the affidavit is true Yee wanted his hand in.
At some point in the affidavit the undercover agent notes that Yee didn’t think Chow could be trusted because Chow “told on his friends.”
I wonder what Yee is going to do when he’s sitting in a cell instead of a state senator’s office? I bet he’ll be aching to make a deal. The kind of thing he looked down on “Shrimp Boy” before.
Disclaimer: When I say I find “Shrimp Boy” the more sympathetic of the two it doesn’t mean I want to hang out with him or “Uncle Leland.”
Steve57 (a017ec) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:30 pmIt does have a ‘House of Cards’ feel to it,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:33 pmDon’t read too much into this. “Who is the leader of a kabuki chorus?” “The second man from the left in the third row.” Yes, I know kabuki is Japanese, but you get the point. Even the Italian mob has cutouts and frontmen, and it’s very hard to pin anything solid on the don.
nk (dbc370) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:41 pmtoo much chow and shrimp
Colonel Haiku (cd2f41) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:42 pmYee Gods its a Chinese Buffet
heh all you can jail
Well consider the Bulger bros, one didn’t operate without the other’s protection,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:45 pmShrimp Boy Chow was troubled to read his fortune cookie Tuesday night… “Okay to look at past and future… just don’t stare.”
Colonel Haiku (cd2f41) — 3/28/2014 @ 7:54 pm38. Comment by elissa (89f75d) — 3/28/2014 @ 6:24 pm
There’s got to be a party purge of miscreants going on. Too coincidental.
Even simpler: a policy decision, almost orders, not to make arrests too close to an election.
FBI cases run on for years, so a bunch of them are getting closed.
Sammy Finkelman (3bf07f) — 3/30/2014 @ 10:17 am