Leland Yee: Lord of War 2?

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A little surprised that no one's brought this up on here. Messed up story. So the guy was playing the drug game with the gun racket - pushing for gun control to put more money in his own pocket.

It just goes to show that we can have a drug war and a gun war and have it played the same way by the big heads. Disgusting.

http://www.oafnation.com/obbk/2014/3/27 ... o4ytivgl4s

I'm not; Yee has a 'D' after his name and not an 'R'.

This really is an amazing story, how deep does the rabbit hole go? I don't think it stops with Leland Yee, hell he's just doing what our ATF already does. The Democratic Party of California is corrupt to its core, 3 state senators have felony charges right now(all still getting paid) with more being investigated including incoming State Senate President Kevin "Ghost Gun" De Leon.

Someone did post the story in the news forum. Most of the threads and pointless troll-polls in PPR are started by the liberals for the express intent of sowing discord and provoking a response from the beleaguered minority of conservatives and/or libertarians.

Makes you wonder if some members of the US Congress didnt purposely prolong Prohibition because they were involved in bootlegging on the side!

Or if some legilstators today are resisting legalizing pot because they traffic in it illegally and would loose money if it were legalized.

It's not quite that direct, but the actual dynamic is quite similar. Take pot. Who benefits from keeping pot illegal? The DEA spends billions of dollars every year on "cannabis suppression", money that pays for officers and equipment and someone's little bureaucratic empire, to say nothing of what trickles down to local police departments in the form of federal grants, and every person who benefits from that money now has a reason to want pot to stay illegal lest the money tap get shut off. That would include police unions, who are major players in politics, and private prisons and their lobbyists and guards and their unions, which are sometimes even more powerful than the police ones. So, what you have is a situation where no one in the government actually has to be dealing pot on the side in order to benefit from it's continued illegality, all they have to do is support that status quo and receive money and political support from the various constituencies who directly or indirectly profit from enforcing the stupid pot laws. It's pretty sick, a whole economy based on locking people up for jobs and favors. Now apply that same dynamic to other federal laws and regulations, and you'll start to see the true scope of the problem.

And if you take your thoughts and apply them to the prosperous poppy growers in Afghanistan we've put back in business, who keep the U.S. supplied with cheap heroin................?

Is it any coincidence that this heroin epidemic is happening at the same time the US military occupies 97% of worlds illicit opium supply? The CIA isn't called the Cocaine Importing Agency for nothing, the US government is the biggest drug trafficker in the world, the Drug War is a matter of turf to them.

Yeah, I'd suppose between that and borrowing money from China we have to finance our lavish spending habits somehow.

Remember Ollie North's "neat idea" to sell weapons to Iran and use to money to fund the Contras in Nicaragua? Our government is involved in so many illicit activities, they're no different than the mafia or street gang.

Yeah, and sadly the bread and circus keeps people from wanting to know much.

Ignorance is bliss.....