Last year noted jackass and former California Senator, Leland Yee was arrested on charges of corruption and conspiracy to traffic firearms. This week he has plead guilty to racketeering. Perhaps he played too much Godfather II, since he made such a massive stink about how video games will basically be the downfall of society as a whole, turn our children into apathetic cannibals (as opposed to empathetic ones) and basically any dubious negative connotation that is possible to assert against violent games and those who play them.
He also sponsored the 2005 law prohibiting the sale of mature games to minors in California. The law was struck eventually down in 2011 by the SCOTUS in the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association decision, which ruled that video games were protected speech under the First Amendment.
Yee will be sentenced in October, facing up to 20 years in prison and joins the grand tradition of the disgraced such as disbarred lawyer Jack Thompson, who, for some reason, work so hard to persecute gaming, but apply so little effort to developing their own ethics.
