In FrontPage Mag I discuss a California politician’s quest to send millions of dollars’ worth of arms to Islamic terrorists.
California State Senator Leland Yee is the very model of a modern public servant.
Yee, a Democrat, has amassed a well-deserved reputation as an anti-gun crusader: shortly after Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, Yee helped spearhead one of the toughest gun laws in the entire nation, banning the “bullet button” that allows shooters to change magazines on assault weapons quickly and easily. California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed this ban, but Yee remained committed to getting it enshrined in California law. So intent was Yee that Americans should not have various kinds of lethal weapons that he took it upon himself to hook up with international arms traffickers and an Islamic jihad group, in order to sell them millions of dollars’ worth of automatic weapons and missiles and thereby empty the U.S. of this lethal materiel.
Now that’s the kind of selfless willingness to put the public interest first that is so rare in American politicians today. This anti-gun public servant asked an FBI agent whom he thought was an international arms trafficker to give him a shopping list of weapons he wanted in exchange for $2,000,000 in cash, which was apparently to go to Yee’s campaign for California Secretary of State.
And why not? How urgently California needs Leland Yee! How many other anti-gun officials would be willing to take it upon themselves to rid their state of guns, by facilitating their shipment out of the country altogether? This wasn’t just a token gesture: Yee recounted that he told the undercover agent that some heavy weaponry was available: “I told him about the rockets and things like that.”
Yee was determined to make it happen. According to the agent’s affidavit, Yee’s fundraising chief asked for a donation to Yee’s campaign, in exchange for which he promised that Yee would “facilitate a meeting” between an arms dealer and the supposed arms trafficker, so that the trafficker could “purchase a large number of weapons to be imported through the Port of Newark, New Jersey.” At a meeting during these negotiations, Yee “discussed certain details of the specific types of weapons [the agent] was interested in buying and importing.”
Yee boasted that he had “an unidentified Filipino associate who was supplying ‘heavy’ weapons to rebel groups in the Philippines.” The Senator explained that “Mindanao was largely populated by Muslim rebel groups who were fighting the federal government. Yee continued by saying the Muslim rebels had no problem ‘kidnapping individuals, killing individuals, and extorting them for ransom.” When the undercover agent asked him which Muslim organization he meant, Yee answered: “M.I.L.F.”
That’s the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Islamic group in that wants to establish an Islamic state in the southern Philippines, and to that end last September took over four Christian towns, terrorizing the residents and murdering six, wounding 24, and murdered six more people in a restaurant bombing last summer. The MILF has been waging jihad against the Philippine government for years, and Filipino authorities appear to be weary of the whole mess and ready to give the jihadis what they want, up to and including an autonomous region in which they can impose Sharia. However, taking a cue from the “Palestinians,” the MILF keeps ratcheting up its demands, stymieing peace talks and keeping the central government on the defensive.
This is the group that Leland Yee apparently wanted to arm. Automatic weapons are in his view apparently no good on the streets of South Central LA, but just fine in the jungles of Mindanao in the cause of Islam. This doesn’t mean, of course, that Leland Yee is a true believer in jihad, or a Muslim at all. There is no indication whatsoever that he is.
He is just another corrupt pol who wanted to make a buck. And in this age when Islamic jihadists and supremacists are awash with cash, the temptation can be too much for corrupt and short-sighted Infidels.
Yee, according to the agent’s affidavit, “stated he was unhappy with his life and said, ‘There is a part of me that wants to be like you […] Just be a free agent out there.’ Senator Yee told [the agent] that he wanted to hide out in the Philippines.”
Yet had he realized this dream and gotten to the Philippines, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front would not have spared Yee himself, even if this deal had gone through. If he had then proved useful to their Islamic cause as a hostage or a dead body, that would have been it for him, despite his services to them. Such is the fate of all those who cooperate with Islamic supremacists and jihadists.
But some Infidels never learn. As the story of the selfless public servant Leland Yee proves yet again, there will always be some who put their narrow self-interest above their nation and their people. And always some Islamic jihadists willing to make the deal, and buy from them the scimitar they will ultimately use to behead them.
JamesonRocks says
Perhaps Yee will “feel free” in prison…
Northern Virginiastan says
Is he related to former Army chaplain James (Yusuf) Yee?
Paleologos says
I am a native of “The Empire State,” the once great state of New York.
… a life long Catholic Yankee fan who worshipped at the sub alter of Mickey Mantle …
http://m.mlb.com/video/v20095791/ws-1964-gm3-mantle-hits-a-walkoff-home-run
After bouncing around various other northeastern states, VA, PA, MA, RI, the cold northeast climate finally got to me, and I headed west in ’83, starting in San Diego. I languish in California to this day, and am surrounded by idiots.
I am compelled by my membership in “People Living In California Who Are Not Completely Nuts” to tell the board, the entire state of California is controlled by EVIL … AND I WISH I WAS KIDDING!
We have second time around Governor Moonbeam, and ALL his little democrat retard friends running the show.
The state that gave us the great President Reagan is now serving up BIG STEAMING BATCHES OF ILLEGAL ALIENS.
… south americans, and, ugh! … muslims, oh yeah! …
Give me your tired, your poor, and your idiots-that-follow-the-teachings-of-murderous-pedophiles.
The Supreme Court has told California to release prisoners because the prisons are overcrowded, and unhealthy. Gee, I guess that’s what happens when you arrest someone for spitting on the sidewalk.
You know those “islamabad armed muslim training camps”? … yeah! we got those too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN3R054Eurg
Help!
I’m in Hell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R/
Paleologos
jihad3tracker says
Thank you, Paleologos, for a thousand-pound dose of truth — with a pinch of humor mixed in, for a bit of breathing room.
I just want to let JW readers here who live in cities of moderate size and larger, that NOT ALL DEMOCRATS ARE ANTI-GUN !!! It might seem that way.
Our young liberty-loathing Leftist media have never FOUGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM in contrast to the very old & rapidly passing WW II patriots (thereby ensuring America’s survival).
WELL, HERE IS ONE 2ND AMENDMENT DEMOCRAT — YOURS TRULY.
I am a participant in “self protection” — having personal defense firearms, training, a concealed carry permit, and vigilance about what goes on in my county.
Educate yourselves on protection, get to know a local gun shop proprietor. Then, if the need seems evidentiarily established, purchase something useful for the day Bad Guys decide they’ve heaved enough taqiyya into the public square — and get started on concocting a hellacious rumble.
Joel says
The Demorat Party of TODAY IS NOT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF TRUMAN OR EVEN KENNEDY.
It is the party of McGovern, and Pelosi and Obama, who have no loyalty to this country, (or anyone) but themselves. My view.
Republican and proud of it
bonnie loranger says
just get the hell out of California.
CaoMoo says
If this ever gets made into a movie please let it be called The MILF Connection.
Got to love the crazy and blatant hypocrisy I mean self sacrifice of this guy. Video Games Bad, Guns Bad, Terrorism A OK partner.
Charli Main says
Disarming the Infidels and forcibly removing their stockpiles of privately held weapons, is of course a fundamental objective of the Muslims invading the USA.
If the natives are unarmed, they can´t fight back and defend themselves.
GOOD PLAN–GOOD PLAN !!!!!!!
mariam rove says
What a traitor! He wants to keep guns out of the hands of law abiding Americans yet he has no problems arming jihadists who are hell bent to destroying our way of life. M
Bezelel says
Traitor, exactly, and since he holds office,even more so.Gitmo.
Joel says
Gitmo? And feed and clothe him ( and his fund raiser) (and, I read elsewhere, that there might be w2 other members–surprise, surprise-Demo rat liberturds -involved.
Hang the bastard. And his fund raiser. And all others involved-on his side. (Not the FBI agent)
MrSquat says
Is he Uighur?
mariam rove says
His actions are….m
ambertop says
No, Yee is a PHD Child Psychologist who would apparently do anything for a dollar including put children in danger from his actions. He is best described as a creature older in human history than Islam………..a hypocrite.
Transmaster says
Uighur? No he is not, worse he is a California Democrap, and associated with the California Chinese mob.
umbra says
Not uyghur. Chinese.
gravenimage says
MrSquat wrote:
Is he Uighur?
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No. Yee appears to have been in it for the money, and because he found organized crime “glamorous”. Not everyone who enables evil is a “true believer”. This makes him no less dangerous, though.
Mirren10 says
Will he be prosecuted, and jailed ?
Joel says
He has quit his campaign to be Cal Sec. of State AND MIGHT be suspended from the Cal. Senate.
Isn’t that punishment enough? (sarcasm)
By the way, if it were a Republican, DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE BURIED BY THE LAME STREAM MEDIA, AS THIS IS?
Mazo says
JihadWatch and Frontpage Mag caught in the act of lying-
“”That’s the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Islamic group in that wants to establish an Islamic state in the southern Philippines, and to that end last September took over four Christian towns, terrorizing the residents and murdering six, wounding 24, and murdered six more people in a restaurant bombing last summer””
WRONG. It was the MNLF, Moro NATIONAL liberation front which took over the four towns, and it was the BIFF (Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters) which did the restaurant bombing. NOT the MILF, which the Philippine gov is signing a peace deal with.
I sincerely hope you learn to read before humiliating yourself like this
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/09/philippines-muslim-group-takes-over-four-villages-takes-38-hostages
“MANILA, Philippines (4th UPDATE) “” At least 100 suspected members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have taken over 4 barangays in Zamboanga City Monday, September 9, Mayor Maria Isabelle “Beng” Climaco told Rappler.”
And again, BIFF did the restaurant bomb.
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/08/02/1041781/biff-linked-cdo-blast
MILF, MNLF, and BIFF are seperate groups. MILF and MNLF in fact engage in clashes against each other, and BIFF split from MILF because they opposed the peace deal.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/california-state-senator-leland-yee-offered-to-set-up-arms-deal-with-islamic-jihadists-for-2-million-in-cash/comment-page-1#comment-1028795
mariam rove says
Lying? Everyone knows who the lairs are and it is not JW. M
umbra says
Regardless of what they call themselves, they are terrorists with the same primary objective, the establishment of an islamic state in Southern Philippines. Their MOs are identical, kill and/or kidnap (civilian preferably) to get get what they want.
Mazo says
Calling out someone for falsely accusing an entirely different group of conducting a terrorist attack than the actual group which was responsible, is not “splitting hairs”.
Imagine if people accused the IRA, which signed a peace deal with Britain, of committing terrorist attacks which the Real IRA group carried out, just because they have similar acronyms?
Defcon 4 says
IN the same way the OIC has changed what its acronym means several times. Islam0nazi terrorism is just as deadly no matter what alphabet soup of acronyms is used to refer to it.
Your objection is trivial, but of course that’s all you had.
gravenimage says
It was BIFF and not MILF? Well, that’s all right, then…sarc/off
Salah says
Keep your guns, no matter what.
MOLON LABE (Come and Take it)
http://youtu.be/3vcr5-QvMdY
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The background to all this is that California is broke, and well into the process of systematically destroying its Central Valley agribusiness in the name of a smelt. The valley is turning to salt, the state is broke, but the socialists don’t miss a beat. The people are multi-faceted, with several fictions to play. The freedom fighters of the MILF are a cohort of victims, people to help in the struggle.
Far be it from anyone to ask, struggle for what exactly?
Mazo says
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/california-state-senator-leland-yee-offered-to-set-up-arms-deal-with-islamic-jihadists-for-2-million-in-cash/comment-page-1#comment-1029080
Non-Muslim Chinese have fought side by side with Muslim Moros in the 18th century against the Spanish, and in the 19th century many Chinese became gunrunners and supplied the Moro fighters directly with firearms through a Spanish blockade, Chinese served as advisors to the Moro Sultans and the Sulu Sultanate itself was a protectorate and ally of China. Spain forced Chinese to live n a ghetto, made them pay higher taxes and massacred them, while Chinese could live in peace in Sulu and even build their own temple.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/philippines-frees-jihad-leader-to-make-peace-with-milf
Leland Yee might be sympathetic to the Moros because of this history. Its possible he was sympathizing with their cause and not just in it for the money.
“Yee yearned for a different life: “Senator Yee stated he was unhappy with his life and said, ‘There is a part of me that wants to be like you […] Just be a free agent out there.” Senator Yee told [the agent] that he wanted to hide out in the Philippines.”“
gravenimage says
Mazo wrote:
Leland Yee might be sympathetic to the Moros because of this history. Its possible he was sympathizing with their cause and not just in it for the money.
“Yee yearned for a different life: “Senator Yee stated he was unhappy with his life and said, ‘There is a part of me that wants to be like you […] Just be a free agent out there.” Senator Yee told [the agent] that he wanted to hide out in the Philippines.”“
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This is at least the second time that Mazo has pushed the absurd idea that the venal and corrupt Leland Yee—who considered it “glamorous” to pal around with Chinatown gangsters—is actually enabling Jihad because of the (supposed) wrongs done to Chinese in the Philippines.
I believe that last passage meant that Yee knew that the his crimes were likely catching up to him—*not* that he really longed to decamp to the jungle to join the violent Jihad against the “filthy Kuffar”.
Good grief….
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Davegreybeard says
@jihad3tracker
“I just want to let JW readers here who live in cities of moderate size and larger, that NOT ALL DEMOCRATS ARE ANTI-GUN !!! It might seem that way.”
Yeah, and not all Muslims support Jihad. But they will quietly watch as the Jihadists do their work.
Just as (non anti-gun) Democrats will sit by and not say a word as the Feinstiens and the Schumers work to destroy our rights.
At this point, all Democrats are part of the same Jihad against Freedom.
Will Doohan says
It doesn’t matter what titles, names, or acronyms that these jihadist groups are using, their goals are the same.
The Philipinos should apply dhimmi laws on the Muslims and treat them with as little mercy as they show to others in ‘their’ countries. They should send in their army and disarm them and have a land blockade around ‘Muslim’ areas, and have a Naval and Air blockade of so they can’t get any more weapons.
Driving the Muslims out of the Philippines could be the first great victory in the War against Islam. Then we can work on driving them off all the other islands in the Pacific and Indian ocean
Mazo says
If that is so, then China reserves the right to drive all the Filipinos out of the Philippines and turn it into Luzon and Visayas province, and free the Moros in Mindanao from colonial Filipino rule.
Mazo says
Hey Philip, having a Filipina mail order bride DOES NOT make you an expert on the Philippines, is that clear? I’ve talked to Filipinos who agreed with me that the Moros were attacked and colonized first, and its clear from history that America violated the Treaty with the Sulu Sultanate.
On the other hand I would love to know how Will Doohan seeks to accomplish his fantasy plan, that is all you guys can do, fantasize.
Mazo says
I wonder how you allegedly got the job you claim to have held with the obscenities you constantly spew. Do you act like this in public?
How about you answer the relevant points – who violated the Treaty? America or the Sulu Sultanate?
Which country illegally annexed the Moro lands into the Philippine Commonwealth after invading the Sultanate, after violating the treaty?
Which Filipino dictator started massive scale colonization of Filipino Christian settlers from the Visayas and Luzon into Mindanao?
Which Filipino dictator ordered Jolo burned to the ground and started the Jabidah massacre, starting a war which left over 100,000 dead?
Why does almost none of the revenue from resources rich Mindanao go to the local natives? Why are the natives living in poverty?
Why is the Philippine military so corrupt, it prefers to keep fighting the war with the Communist New People’s Army and the Moros so the army officers can pocket and embezzle funds intended to finance their military operations, so they can spend it on fancy sports cars and houses?
Mazo says
Every party in the Philippines, including both pro-government Philippine militia forces, the Philippine police, and seperatists engage in kidnapping and other illegal activities.
The Filipino Christian Ilaga militia slaughtered and cannibalized Moro civilians and one of the Ilaga, Norberto Manero even killed an Italian Catholic Priest named Tullio Favali and ate his brains. Truly sickening.
Joel says
I read elsewhere that there are TWO OTHER members of the Cal. Senate and Yee’s fund raiser, involved.
And Yee gave up his running for the Sec of State, and might be suspended from the Senate.]
I guess, being suspended, he would get his salary (and if convicted and not executed) a pension.
But, he will not be Sec of State.
Doesn’t one have to feel sorry for the bastard? (sarcasm)
gravenimage says
Joel wrote:
I read elsewhere that there are TWO OTHER members of the Cal. Senate and Yee’s fund raiser, involved.
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It’s not quite that bad, Joel—the powers that be had been waffling for some time over whether to suspend two other state senators.
When Yee’s bizarre and toxic indictment came down, they decided to suspend all three of them.
But the other senators’ peccadillos were unrelated—and much more ordinary and less disturbing.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Leland Yee: An Anti-Gun Democrat Jihadists Can Love
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When guns are outlawed only Jihadists will have guns…