I have meant to post about this here for the longest time here , now I want to do it before it completely loses its topicality ~ Therefore I am doing it two monthsish before its next topical moment .
A San Francisco politician named Dr. Leland Yee is those two monthsish away from being sentenced after pleading guilty to federal charges of racketeering . (His doctorate is in child psychology .)
Before this development , he was discussed at the old CBG boards relating to a bill that he wrote in 2005 when he was a California State Senator ,and got passed through the legislature and signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger , AB 1179 , which restricted the sale of violent video games to children .
The VG industry challenged it in in a lawsuit , and it was declared unconstitutional in 2007 .
In discussion of the law , the obvious comparison was made to the " Seduction Of The Innocent " era's movement against comic books seen as too violent & sexy ~ not only by us , but by the San Francisco Chronicle , say , whose story regarding the bill I recall linking to " here " at the time !!!!!!!!!!! (Okay , to spell it out ~ the old CBG boards . Leeps , ten years ago - (Gulp .) Time sure do pass !:--...........)
More recently , as I said , FBI charges regarding bribery and gun trafficking (buying guns from a Phillippines extremist Islamic group and attempting to sell them in the USA) led to the guilty plea , with a sentence of as much as twenty years possible .when sentencing comes on October 21 .
That'll show him .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Yee
Much of the reporting in the San Francisco Chonicle , San Francisco Examiner , and San Jose Mercury News about Lee's case covered his alleged association with Raymond " Shrimp Boy " Chow , an ex-convict and allegedly reformed Chinatown gangster who is alleged to maybe not have reformed all that much !:-) Maybe the linking of Yes with " Shrimp Boy " has gone down somewhat , since his guilty plea . (" Shrimp Boy " has the same birthday year as I ~ So I HAVE to have a little sympathy for him !!!!!!!!!!!:-) He has a Wiki-page too ) When I recently returned to San Francisco , that week's Examiner headlines were filled with allegations , revealed by Chow's lawyers in their legal filings , made against sundry San Francisco politicians , these at least pointing toward Mayor Ed Lee - the " paper of record " Chronicle rather ignored thes echarges (Which of course are just charges , made by someone with his own major legal problems ~ There , said .) initially , but finally did cover them IIRC ~ I didn't actually see the giveaway Examiner while I was away from SF , but I presume they covered the Lee case loads .
As I said , the Chron , Ex , and Merc all covered this case at length , and if you really care to , go to those papers' sites and lap it up , um , " chow " it down~:-) ~ Realistically , I doubt anyone here is much going to care about " yet another corrupt politician case " in an area where no other?? prominent poster here lives...Anyway , that's what Dr. Leland Yee gets for trying to make it difficult for fantasy violence ! Ahh-nuld (Hello , Figserello ?) signed it and you see what happened to him...........)
" Shrimp Boy " will be avenged !!!!!!!!!!! Yowzah .
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..." Shrimp Boy " . I just like writing " Shrimp Boy " .
Today , of course , is Election Day , vote-if-ya-can , Eddie Kendrick sang " Vote for me and I'll setcha free !!! " , etc....San Francisco's Mayor Ed Lee is running , but " effectively running unopposed " , as the saying goeth...But if some (Completely nonproven and denied by Lee's camp) if some accustaions by Shrimp Boy's (he's up on murder now) lawyers against Maylor Lee's peeps , had they gotten front-page screaming headlines on the San Francisco EXXAMINER earlier , might have led to some " real " opposition !!!!!!!!! Well , maybe I just like writing " Shrimp Boy " . Shrimp Boy .
The NYTimes did a -farily positive ~ Sunday Magazine story concerning Shrimp Boy ~ Shrimp Boy ~ that must have been in prep for a while , a bit unfortuately timed , a few weeks ago !!!