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Seems
as though talk radio was blowing up a little more than usual this morning. I
can’t really say I blame them for ranting the way that they have been doing
lately. In addition to the national scams and acts of severe dishonesty there
are also the local debacles. And I really don’t know which one is worse at this
point.
First
you have the overblown traffic jam from New Jersey which started as just that,
a means to try and blow a traffic jam way out of context in order to make
Christie look bad. Honestly, I don’t even know why the other party even started
this whole thing. Christie is one of those people that if you just let him talk
for long enough he is going to hurt himself. Just like with this ‘scandal, the
longer that it has gone on the more crap that Christie gets himself into.
Recently he decided to spend over a million taxpayer dollars to hire his
personal lawyer to prove his innocence. Let me see if I understand this… you
hired someone you know, from a firm you are affiliated, to conduct an unbiased
investigation which in the best case demonstrates that you have limited control
over your own staff. You have got to be freaking kidding me.
The
other situation going on is, unfortunately, in my state as the attorney general
is lawyering up and threatening a defamation suit in order to ‘prove’ that she
did not sweep a corruption investigation under the commonwealth’s carpet. This
is the type of over-reaction that almost proves that you are guilty. What gets
me is that this was allowed to just go unchecked for so long and that no one said
anything, especially those in higher political offices.
While
Kane and the fat man are enough fodder for a blogs worth of rants, there is
another story that broke early this morning that easily overshadows all the
aforementioned BS and so much more. Here is the first two paragraphs from the
Forbes story by Greg McNeal:
California Democratic State Senator and
candidate for California Secretary of State, Leland Yee, a gun control
advocate, has been charged with conspiring to traffic in firearms and public
corruption. The charges are part of a 26 person criminal complaint and a
major FBI sting operation. The full criminal complaint is a massive 137
pages that tells the story of Yee’s involvement with a broad ranging conspiracy
that includes firearms trafficking, murder-for-hire, drug distribution,
trafficking in contraband cigarettes, money laundering, and honest
services fraud.
Yee is charged with “conspiracy to deal
firearms without a license and to illegally import firearms” as well as six
counts of honest services fraud. Each corruption charge is punishable by
up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000, while the
gun-trafficking charge is punishable by up to five years and $250,000.
That’s
right, the gun control advocate is essentially an arms dealer. If he is so
comfortable with dealing
firearms, it makes you really wonder about his motivation to ban and control
firearms. After all, I am certain that he didn’t restrict himself to selling
six shot revolvers. There isn’t much more I can say to highlight the hypocrisy
and heinous acts. However, I will say this… why is there such a light sentence for
gun trafficking? While I am against the restriction of the legal ownership of
firearms of all kinds, I am a firm believer in the harsh punishment of those
individuals who so blatantly break the law and deal in illegal firearms. If
anything, the penalty should at least be equal to the sentences doled out for
the other corruption charges.
Well,
with the mid-term campaigns about to warm up along with the weather, put some
thought in to who you are really voting for. Don’t let a despicable donkey cave
like Lee hold public office and open your eyes to the hypocrisy that might be
as blatant. It is all around you and, in fact, you probably voted for some of
the ones that pride themselves on this practice. A traffic jam doesn’t seem so
important now, does it?
