By Scott Shackford, Apr. 1, 2014, Reason.com
A politician honored for his gun control
efforts is arrested for attempted arms smuggling. He held press
conferences denouncing violent video games and helped pass legislation in
California prohibiting sales of such games to minors. And yet, secretly, he was
living the life of a Grand Theft Auto character.
The downfall of Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee of
San Francisco should be an utterly captivating, fascinating story, and the
national media should be sinking its teeth into the details. I joked when Yee
was first arrested
about how he is destined to be parodied in Grand Theft Auto. That was
before the FBI’s report was even released. Now, I’m convinced the report could
be the outline for an entire Grand Theft Auto installment (have they set
a game in a parody of San Francisco yet?). Yee’s story of corruption, attempted
gun-running and accusations of vote-selling (an undercover FBI agent posing as
a medical marijuana clinic owner wanted him to support legislation introducing
new barriers to entry for potential competition) is actually just a small part
of a larger story about the crime scene in San Francisco. Beyond Lee’s role,
the whole story
(pdf) is full of drug transactions, stolen booze fencing, a home invasion by
apparently Mexican gangsters, what appears to be counterfeit credit cards
supplied by a Russian hacker, and more. It has everything. There’s even a
money-laundering scene that takes place inside a massage parlor. It’s
part FBI report, part Hollywood pitch
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