California state senator Leland Yee (D) indicted on arms trafficking, corruption.

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werepossum

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Understanding America's historical founding relationship with firearms in the hands of individuals, can you explain what you meant then?

Who are the "right hands"? And why are "assault weapons" bad?
Thy meter, she is doing the twitching. Attend, friend.
 

moonbogg

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This asshole tries to screw us by taking away "bullet buttons" and "violent video games", both of which are lame punch lines to a bad joke, meanwhile he is offering people AUTOMATIC WEAPONS to be illegally trafficked into the country? Good God almighty, should you exist, I pray that you fuck this man ever so properly.
 

momeNt

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This guy really understands the true power of politics and government though.
 

OCGuy

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This is huge for Californian's civil liberties, specifically 2A rights. What a piece of shit.

Next that needs to be busted is Steinberg, I'm sure he is dirty.
 

Kadarin

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And to think this asshole was the driving force behind the most odious gun control legislation the state has yet seen.
 
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Ugh. You really can't make this stuff up. May Yee and his political career spend the rest of his life behind bars if these allegations are true.
 

Ns1

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the shocking part to me is the amounts of money he received seemed so small.

really? you sacrificed your political career for 5k/50k envelopes to your campaign?
 

DominionSeraph

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What is this? He was exercising his SECOND AMENDMENT right to bear arms and his CAPITALISTIC right to sell as he sees fit, and DICTATOR OBAMA comes in with his BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING on the FBI to oppress this good conservative? Let the FREE MARKET decide! If the consumer doesn't want politicians who sell machine guns and their influence, they won't buy them.
They pay him a six-figure salary, ergo the market has decided that the services he provides are wanted.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves with your support of Obama's liberal tactics.
 

Matt1970

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What is this? He was exercising his SECOND AMENDMENT right to bear arms and his CAPITALISTIC right to sell as he sees fit, and DICTATOR OBAMA comes in with his BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING on the FBI to oppress this good conservative? Let the FREE MARKET decide! If the consumer doesn't want politicians who sell machine guns and their influence, they won't buy them.
They pay him a six-figure salary, ergo the market has decided that the services he provides are wanted.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves with your support of Obama's liberal tactics.

I am beginning to think if Obama nuked NY City, you would find some way to blame Conservatives. You really are in a class by yourself.
 

Darwin333

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Maybe the FBI should see if other anti-gun nut Senators and Congressmen are involved... Who knows how far the conspiracy stretches. Good thing they have those Rico powers for instances such as these.

At least in this case it actually makes sense. The harder it is to legally obtain a firearm the more lucrative selling or facilitating the sale of illegal firearms is.
 

Knowing

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"It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion" - Leland Yee May, 2012

"People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things." - Leland Yee February 25, 2014 FBI affidavit page 93, line 6.
 

compuwiz1

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Keep it going Dems, you're looking mighty well positioned for the mid-terms. ;)
 

momeNt

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What is this? He was exercising his SECOND AMENDMENT right to bear arms and his CAPITALISTIC right to sell as he sees fit, and DICTATOR OBAMA comes in with his BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING on the FBI to oppress this good conservative? Let the FREE MARKET decide! If the consumer doesn't want politicians who sell machine guns and their influence, they won't buy them.
They pay him a six-figure salary, ergo the market has decided that the services he provides are wanted.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves with your support of Obama's liberal tactics.

You are wrong.

He was seeking to restrict the free market using the authority of the government, and then insert himself as an arms dealer in order to exploit his authority.

Free markets do not have authority. This is not a problem with free markets, it is a problem with authority.
 

moonbogg

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"It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear, there is no debate, no discussion" - Leland Yee May, 2012

"People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things." - Leland Yee February 25, 2014 FBI affidavit page 93, line 6.

Makes me sick. Think of the worst, most vulgar and violent RANT imaginable and insert it right here for me and that's what I wish I had the time to say about him.
 

DominionSeraph

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You are wrong.

He was seeking to restrict the free market using the authority of the government, and then insert himself as an arms dealer in order to exploit his authority.

Free markets do not have authority. This is not a problem with free markets, it is a problem with authority.

Supply and demand applies to coercive power unless there is an authority to regulate it out, so a free market may purchase an unfree one beneath it through the purchase of coercion.

A government was demanded. A government was supplied. For its existence to not suffer from market failures it had to be coercive, so coercive powers were purchased. Yee marketed himself as being able to supply a continuation of government services. His services were purchased. He then sold shares in his monopoly power.

That the continuation of the government is coercive doesn't change that his sale of his influence was not. He did not use the government to steal the bribe money, he sold government power for money. He was in possession of a resource and he voluntarily exchanged it for money. The free market at work!