Does that Gibson Guitar raid make more sense now?

[JoeBlam]

BTW, my brother worked ONE DAY at the old Gibson plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was threatened by a large black man for working too fast and making them look bad. He quit rather than get his ass beat by the union boys.

 

[longknife]

Gibson Gives “uh” The Middle Digit to Holder

Gibson Guitar’s new line is a middle finger to Holder’s unjust Justice Department
February 2, 2014 by Joe Saunders 13 Comments

The Gibson Guitar company is fighting the “powers that be” – making “Government Series” guitars for sale out of wood confiscated in a Justice Department raid but eventually returned to the company.

Read the great story @ Gibson Guitar?s new line is a middle finger to Holder?s unjust Justice Department - BizPac Review thanks to BadBlue

 

[JWBooth]

Gibson Gives “uh” The Middle Digit to Holder

Gibson Guitar’s new line is a middle finger to Holder’s unjust Justice Department
February 2, 2014 by Joe Saunders 13 Comments

The Gibson Guitar company is fighting the “powers that be” – making “Government Series” guitars for sale out of wood confiscated in a Justice Department raid but eventually returned to the company.

Read the great story @ Gibson Guitar?s new line is a middle finger to Holder?s unjust Justice Department - BizPac Review thanks to BadBlue

Good for them.

 

[depotoo]

I love it!

As part of the agreement, Gibson demanded the supposedly illegal wood be returned — and last week it unveiled a new guitar line made from it: The Government Series II Les Paul.

The company, owned by no-nonsense conservative Henry Juszkiewicz, made its motives clear in a news release announcing the guitar:

Great Gibson electric guitars have long been a means of fighting the establishment, so when the powers that be confiscated stocks of tonewoods from the Gibson factory in Nashville — only to return them once there was a resolution and the investigation ended — it was an event worth celebrating. Introducing the Government Series II Les Paul, a striking new guitar from Gibson USA for 2014 that suitably marks this infamous time in Gibson’s history.

 

[natstew]

If someone in the administration doesn't go to jail over this it will be a travesty.

The whole damn Obama Regime is a travesty, and yes it is a REGIME, not an Admistration.

 

[longknife]

Gibson Guitar Raided Because of … Unions?

They're located in Tennessee, a right-to-work state. Their competitors aren't. And the raid was conducted by a para-military type unit of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service! You gotta be kidding me?

Read more @ The true villains behind the Gibson Guitar raid are revealed | Human Events

 

[boedicca]

Our government no longer exists to protect the rights of all the people, it is run as a protection racket for the benefit of Big Government Cronies.

 

[Plasmaball]

hey a cut and paste!

 

[Howey]

NOTHING to see here...this is what you people brought down us who put this administration BACK in power over us..Businesses and the American people are being targeted..
links in article at site

The inexplicable raid nearly two years ago on a guitar maker for using allegedly illegal wood that its competitors also used was another targeting by this administration of its political enemies…

Interestingly, one of Gibson’s leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Co. According to C.F. Martin’s catalog, several of their guitars contain “East Indian Rosewood,” which is the exact same wood in at least 10 of Gibson’s guitars. So why were they not also raided and their inventory of foreign wood seized?

The end of that story was a travesty, with Gibson being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in a settlement where there was no finding of criminal action just so they could get back to business. At the time of the judgement, our own Mary Katharine Ham covered the story and found a lot wrong with it, but even she didn’t seem to suspect this situation. And in retrospect, it doesn’t seem all that surprising.

all of it here
Does that Gibson Guitar raid make more sense now? « Hot Air[/QUOTE]

There was no finding of criminal action, but Gibson admitted to breaking the law. These things always happen when cases are settled.

Gibson Guitar Corporation admits to importing endangered wood - CSMonitor.com

Gibson Guitar Corporation acknowledged Monday that its importations of exotic wood, including ebony, violated environmental laws. Federal prosecutors will drop criminal charges against Gibson Guitar Corporation, and the Nashville-based insturment maker will pay a hefty fine.

So there's no hidden agenda. Let's move this to conspiracies where it belongs mods.

 

[Howey]

Read more @ The true villains behind the Gibson Guitar raid are revealed | Human Events

Why does that state they weren't aware?

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2...rs-legal-troubles/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Gibson concedes that after traveling to Madagascar in 2008, it received a report concluding that “It is currently illegal to harvest or export ebony.” In 2009, on the advice of a Gibson employee who counseled that a German wood supplier named T.N. (Theodore Nagel) could supply the company with ebony obtained from “the grey market,” Gibson arranged for four shipments of Madagascar ebony.

If you read the article, this was a win/win for both the government and Gibson.

 

[Bloodrock44]

I've got a Les Paul Black Beauty, a Sunburst and a Silver Burst. Gibson be da shits bro!

 

[JoeB131]

Point was, they paid the fine. They didn't fight it out in court.

Which means they knew they didn't have a case.

 

[jon_berzerk]

NOTHING to see here...this is what you people brought down us who put this administration BACK in power over us..Businesses and the American people are being targeted..
links in article at site

SNIP:

posted at 11:01 am on May 26, 2013 by Jazz Shaw

An editorial at Investors Business Daily may wind up being filed under how did I miss this one? Following the recent revelations of cases where the administration appears to have used the muscle of the federal government to go after its political enemies, IBD takes a walk down memory lane to the strange case of Gibson Guitars and the federal raids on their facilities for alleged illegal importing of exotic woods used in their products. They reach one provocative conclusion.

The inexplicable raid nearly two years ago on a guitar maker for using allegedly illegal wood that its competitors also used was another targeting by this administration of its political enemies…

Interestingly, one of Gibson’s leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Co. According to C.F. Martin’s catalog, several of their guitars contain “East Indian Rosewood,” which is the exact same wood in at least 10 of Gibson’s guitars. So why were they not also raided and their inventory of foreign wood seized?

Well, let’s see… maybe C.F. Martin was getting their supplies from a properly regulated source? No. Did they fill out some forms that Gibson forgot to submit? No… so what could it be?

Grossly underreported at the time was the fact that Gibson’s chief executive, Henry Juszkiewicz, contributed to Republican politicians. Recent donations have included $2,000 to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and $1,500 to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

By contrast, Chris Martin IV, the Martin & Co. CEO, is a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the Democratic National Committee over the past couple of election cycles.

“We feel that Gibson was inappropriately targeted,” Juszkiewicz said at the time, adding the matter “could have been addressed with a simple contact (from) a caring human being representing the government. Instead, the government used violent and hostile means.”

The end of that story was a travesty, with Gibson being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in a settlement where there was no finding of criminal action just so they could get back to business. At the time of the judgement, our own Mary Katharine Ham covered the story and found a lot wrong with it, but even she didn’t seem to suspect this situation. And in retrospect, it doesn’t seem all that surprising.

all of it here
Does that Gibson Guitar raid make more sense now? « Hot Air

glad to see it making the news now

some folks had brought this up two years ago

back then it fell on deaf ears

most likely it will this time around

i mean it is the same ol same ol corrupt administration

pick a topic any topic this admin has its hand in

and you will see the same thing

the further we slip down this Soviet style form of government

the more and more this will become common place

 

[Howey]

the further we slip down this Soviet style form of government

Weren't you one of the folks on here praising The Pootin a short while back?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Point was, they paid the fine. They didn't fight it out in court.

Which means they knew they didn't have a case.

No...it means it was CHEAPER to pay the fine than to fight it out in court. Come on, even YOU must realize this!

 

[R.C. Christian]

Gibson Guitar Raided Because of … Unions?

They're located in Tennessee, a right-to-work state. Their competitors aren't. And the raid was conducted by a para-military type unit of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service! You gotta be kidding me?

Read more @ The true villains behind the Gibson Guitar raid are revealed | Human Events

Every cabinet department has a SWAT team in the tyrannical U.S. government. What does the department of education need with a SWAT team? This is trick question so you better do your research sarge.

 

[R.C. Christian]

I've got a Les Paul Black Beauty, a Sunburst and a Silver Burst. Gibson be da shits bro!

You still here? I thought that psychopath Jew from NC got you locked up by now. LOL!

I've had Gibsons and loved them but my ultra rare Jeff Beck Graffiti Yellow Strat Ultra wins the day for a rare guitar. 1 of 550 made.

Anyway, you'd think the government would have better things to do like take care of their vets.

 

[edthecynic]

Point was, they paid the fine. They didn't fight it out in court.

Which means they knew they didn't have a case.

No...it means it was CHEAPER to pay the fine than to fight it out in court. Come on, even YOU must realize this!

That is the rationalization of the guilty.

 

[JoeB131]

Point was, they paid the fine. They didn't fight it out in court.

Which means they knew they didn't have a case.

No...it means it was CHEAPER to pay the fine than to fight it out in court. Come on, even YOU must realize this!

No, they knew they were guilty as sin.

"Some other guy did the same thing and he didn't get punished" isn't a defense.

 

[jillian]

The history of federal politicians using the Lacey Act to punish nonconformists in their districts is over a century long and disturbing.

you mean punishing people who BROKE THE LAW.