[Nachum]

Full title: Eco-zealous feds target Gibson guitars, antique piano sellers; Updated: Gibson explains, exposes DOJ overreach

[Nachum]

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[youngidiot]

Sick bastards.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Obviously, the fed Eco-Nazis have run out of stuff to do. It’s time to fire all of their asses! America is broke. We don’t have money to waste on this kind of garbage anymore.

[ilovesarah2012]

I swear I feel like I’m living in some sort of parallel universe.

[Thane_Banquo]

Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. “The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier,” he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.

More likely this is a Jesse Jackson-style shakedown in disguise because Gibson either isn't unionized or doesn't hire enough of Holder's people to please Der Furher.

[colorado tanker]

This administration is doing everything it can to destroy the American economy and American jobs. Just another day at the office for those fools . . . .

[MNJohnnie]

Anyone still want to argue we cannot balance the budget on spending cuts alone?

[livius]

There was an article about this in the WSJ today. It’s not only Gibson, and not only guitars. Some poor guy was threatened with years in jail for exporting an instrument that had ivory. His crime was that he had actually checked with Customs first, and this put him on a watch list; even though he had certificates that the instrument was old enough to have been before the ban, they didn’t consider this sufficient. He actually had to plead guilty and pay a $17,000 fine in order to avoid jail.

This is killing the importing and exporting of instruments, to say nothing of building them. It’s the US government eco-terrorists at work.

[CORedneck]

Really ! Federal busybodies taking down more businesses just because they have nothing better to do. I bet Gibson didn’t pay his shakedown fee to those favored by the current regime !

[Navy Patriot]

I wonder if any of the leftie musicians will switch sides.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[NRA1995]

Time for every department in this stinking morass of a federal government to be impeached and thrown out of office.

[4yearlurker]

This is all about The MONEY!! Fed agents=revenuers.

[TexasRepublic]

Speaking of wood, I hope those nouveau Nazis are buried in cardboard boxes, because even #2 yellow pine caskets would be too good for them. Can we revolt now?

[apillar]

Sounds like another industry the feds are trying to drive offshore...

[6SJ7]

This is just the Fed’s version of the mafia protection racket.

“Yous mights want to consider a campaign contribution, strictly voluntary mind you, ‘cause you never knows what could happen to your bidness. The Fish and Wildlife might pay yous a little visit.”

[PapaBear3625]

Was Gibson on a list of Republican donors?

[Gena Bukin]

I was researching this law a little bit. Apparently, the Lacey Act of 1900 (designed to protect species from overhunting and prevent the interstate transportation of certain plants) was expanded in 2008 to include logging.

I was going to blame this on Bush but...

He vetoed the Farm Bill that this expansion was attached to. Twice! (Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.)

Bush's veto was overridden by congress.

Yep. Guitar players can truly blame the democrats for this mess.

[444Flyer]

The Obama administration won't be happy until nothing is “Made in America”. Not even Americans.

[COBOL2Java]

Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars.

"Guess what, girls? I'm getting you Gibson guitars for Christmas!"