California state Sen. Leland Yee arrested in corruption case

Re: California state Sen. Leland Yee arrested in corruption case

by Longshadow in Vermont

Note the simple logic of what Yee was doing: arguing there was a pressing need for more stringent gun control laws, while facilitating the illegal importation of machine guns and rocket launchers in return for bribes. The connection is clear: to the extent more machine guns are made available to criminals via Yee’s gun-running to commit their mischief, Yee’s gun control obsession would be fed with a steady flow of gun violence and associated dead bodies, fueling the MSM anti-gun narrative, which he could then exploit as further evidence of the urgent need to pass more draconian restrictions on the right of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.

This is similar to campaigning for laws banning the purchase and ownership of flammable liquids while selling gasoline to arsonists, and then pointing at the ensuing conflagrations as proof of how urgent it is to pass his pet legislation. Or, if you prefer, it’s like campaigning for more strict anti-drug laws while aiding the drug cartels importation of more illegal drugs, which causes more violence and death that can be used to promote the anti-drug legislation. 

It’s diabolically brilliant political boot-strapping — like an alcohol rehab business owner who is secretly helping to sell booze to drunks — Yee was stimulating demand for his own liberty-destroying legislation.

And if you think he’s the only anti-Second amendment politician doing this, I have a bridge in Brooklynrocket launcher in San Francisco I’d like to sell you.

Obamic Foreign Policy

Obama’s foreign policy is loosely based on an analogue to what in theological circles is known as “laying on the hands” — both are “fantastical thinking” approaches which have no basis in reality. The religious practitioners “touch” people and think it will cure illnesses, while the Obama administration pressed a magic reset button (literally, as wielded by the High Priestess of Obamic Foreign Policy, SecState Hillary!,) thinking with would transform, or more aptly, transmute Putin — a KGB thug — into Mr. Nice Guy, as if water were being turned into wine. It is foreign policy based on faith trumping reality, and we are now reaping the frightful harvest sown by it.

It’s times like this that we can all be thankful for an administration that has its priorities set, focused like a laser on hobbling our own economy in a futile gesture towards reining in Global Climate Conflagration, on protecting Wymyn from rampaging GOP members of congress intent on stealing their uterii, and, oh, yes, trampling the 2nd Amendment in its zeal to disarm law abiding citizens, while legislating from the Oval Office as it jams its profoundly flawed take over of the Health Insurance system down our throats. And in the meanwhile, the Ukraine strangles as Putin’s noose tightens, Libya is a mess, being taken over by Jihadists, and Syria is in the process of being taken over by the same. One must admit, this is, both domestically and abroad, an administration of extraordinary multidisciplinary incompetence and malfeasance.

_ Longshadow in Vermont