You paid for this
Gibson Guitar was raided by the Feds and had this to say:
The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department’s interpretation of a law in India. (If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.) This action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India.
What part of “out-of-control” can’t some of our fellow citizens understand? HT: GR
August 27th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Perhaps Gibson should just move their guitar making to India?
Am sure that would give our parasitic bureaucratic microbes satisfaction. Problem solved.
This is a sterling example of one of the many things wrong with our regulatory complex.
August 27th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Maybe Gibson missed a payment to the appropriate goons … or they don’t have a union shop … or they were too vocal in support of Republicans.
Car czar Bloom said: “We know that the free market is nonsense. …We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.” Bloom selected certain GM dealerships for extinction … seemingly according to political affiliation. It’s the Chicago way.
August 27th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Let me get this straight:
Dept of Education has body armor and lots of guns to raid citizen’s homes over student loans (So the federal government is now more like a loan shark than the private banker was a few years ago…). Now Fish and Wildlife had body armor and lots of guns to raid citizen’s business and homes for the wrong wood (please don’t let SNL make a skit about fed raiding people for having the wrong wood…).
Marijuana is de-criminalized in my hometown, but Madagascar ebony will get staring down the business end of an MP5!
Who in the government does not have body armor and lots of guns to raid “citizens”… Please keep adding example to this list.
August 28th, 2011 at 4:12 am
A commenter at Belmont Club provides no citation but he stated the the President of Gibson Guitars donated money to Darrell Issa’s campaign and this is payback.
August 28th, 2011 at 8:57 am
And there is this:
A competitor of Gibson and big dem donor uses the same wood and they have experienced no raids.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2011/08/27/report-gibson-competitor-is-dem-donor-uses-same-wood-experienced-no-federal-raids/
And this from Gateway Pundit:
Gibson is the only guitar company targeted by the Obama DOJ under the
Lacey Act.
Tennessee is a right-to-work state.
Fender, Taylor, Rickenbacker, Danelectro, Carvin, MusicMan, and ESP
are in California;
Spector is in New York;
Martin is in Pennsylvania;
Guild, Ovation, and Hamer are in Connecticut;
Alvarez is in Missouri;
B.C. Rich is in Kentucky;
Heritage is in Michigan;
Washburn is in Illinois.
All are forced-union states.
Peavey is another guitar and electronics company, located in the
right-to-work state of Mississippi.
August 28th, 2011 at 9:06 am
This OT but it well could be another case of Government run wild.
In eastern LA County, people are being forced out of their homes by armed “Nuisance abatement teams” from LA County.
These are obviously low income home owners. The report does not mention if they are violating any actual laws, but as county officials are mum when asked about the operation, one wonders about the legality of what is happening.
It is about a 9:50 broadcast, but I found it quite compelling, as well as outrageous and infuriating.
http://biggovernment.com/reasontv/2011/08/25/reason-tv-battle-for-the-california-desert-why-is-the-government-driving-folks-off-their-land/