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DOJ Advises Gibson Guitar to Export Labor to Madagascar
Red State ^ | Wednesday, August 31st at 11:16PM EDT | Ben Howe

Posted on 09/01/2011 12:02:29 AM PDT by Cymbaline

The Gibson Guitar saga has taken a sinister turn.

It seems that the Department of Justice wasn’t satisfied with merely raiding the law abiding factories of Gibson Guitar with armed agents, shutting down their operation costing them millions, and leaving the American company in the dark as to how to proceed without going out of business.

Now, according to CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, agents of the United States government are bluntly informing them that they’d be better off shipping their manufacturing labor overseas.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


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To: j_tull
I’m a Strat guy, but my next axe may have to be a Les Paul. Better start working out though, they weigh a ton!

I'm a Strat guy too, but I've wanted a Les Paul ever since I was a kid, when I saw the Frampton Comes Alive album cover.

61 posted on 09/01/2011 5:27:20 AM PDT by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: Cymbaline

BTW, I got the pic from here:

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=949678


62 posted on 09/01/2011 5:30:30 AM PDT by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: Condor51

What exotic? The vast majority of Gibson guitars are made from Mahogany and Maple, with Rosewood and Ebony for fingerboards, with Spruce for their acoustic guitars.


63 posted on 09/01/2011 5:33:54 AM PDT by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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To: Cymbaline

This whole affair stinks of International poop.

There is no reason for this. They were raided by 0bama’s DOJ in 2009. The DOJ still has their property from that raid, in which NO CHARGES, or even allegations, have been made to date. They have still not said why they they raided them at that time or this most current raid.

Gibson has meticulous records showing that they were in compliance with every International law, India’s domestic laws, and our our laws. The rumor I hear, from a Music store owner and former Gibson employee, is that this has something to do with Pakistan claiming some kind of Civil Rights violation, if you can believe that.

Gibson is not active in Political activism or donations, I find only that they donated a total of $4000 to the NRSC in 1996.

It seems that every freakin’ facet of our lives is being shredded by 0bama and his criminals-in-suits-henchmen.

Here’s a warning for you that hate us, our traditions, culture and America so badly...if you come to take the wood of my Strat or my Dobro, I’ve got some lead to exchange for them. lol


64 posted on 09/01/2011 5:46:37 AM PDT by papasmurf (0bama...just doing the job Americans won't do.)
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To: MomwithHope
asks the CEO if Gibson is a union shop - NO, asks if his competitors are union - YES.

We had really better unite and take back this country in 2012 or we're finished.

65 posted on 09/01/2011 5:51:34 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Cymbaline
Geeeez, it isn't like they were running guitars to mariachi bands in Mexico or something....unlike the DOJ with guns to drug cartels.

Holder needs to be given the boot, ASAP, and the rest of these unconstitutional thugs sent packing. Maybe they can be sent to Madagascar instead.

66 posted on 09/01/2011 5:54:52 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cymbaline
*** What exotic? ***

This attack on Gibson was first reported last week. Those early articles have all that info on the 'exotic illegal woods'(1).

The subsequent ones are about Barry's Gestapo tactics. So if you missed the beginning reports there's a lot of catching up to do and now hard to understand 'the why'.

(1) But you got two of them Ebony and Mahogany. There's good (legal) and bad (illegal)

67 posted on 09/01/2011 5:55:34 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: oyez

Gibson’s competitor donates to the Demorat Party.


68 posted on 09/01/2011 6:09:05 AM PDT by IbJensen (Welfare: putting a cake under the sink expecting that it wonÂ’t attract cockroaches.)
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To: rawcatslyentist

Il Duce.

Someone needs to rip that flag off his lapel and shove it up his asshat.


69 posted on 09/01/2011 6:10:37 AM PDT by IbJensen (Welfare: putting a cake under the sink expecting that it wonÂ’t attract cockroaches.)
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To: Cymbaline

I cannot write what I’m feeling I would be banned for life. ~!@#$%^&*()_


70 posted on 09/01/2011 6:22:57 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Mad Dawgg

Now THAT’S a good idea!


71 posted on 09/01/2011 6:24:52 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Cymbaline
probably nothing special about the wood. There are now a whole set of regulations concerning the importation of wood products due to the risk of spreading wood-borne insects between countries. You can't even use a wooden skid any longer, they've gone to "processed lumber" (ie. laminated plywood) or polymer skids. This has forced a lot of companies to add a hefty "Shipping & Handling" charge onto most industrial shipments. If you business is importing wood for processing into finished products, I can't imagine all the hurdles that you'd have to jump over. Probably all kinds of certifications are needed. Now if Gibson's Indian supplier cut some corners, then you can bet that some eager-beaver at the Obama DOJ is going to try and prove that Gibson knew about it. I also read that this case is basically one where DOJ is enforcing Indian law. Really? We're going to put a US manufacturer out of business because a foreign country is alleging that they broke an environmental 'law'?
72 posted on 09/01/2011 6:59:37 AM PDT by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: All
Gibson is nonunion.

In light of the NLRB Boeing case is this a thinly veiled threat to unionize or get out of the U.S. for Gibson's manufacturing?

73 posted on 09/01/2011 7:08:01 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Will racist demagogue Andre Carson be censured by the House?)
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To: Cymbaline
It's a soviet-style pogrom meant to demoralize and to push our society over the edge. Plain and simple.

We need soeomone to make a call for resistance against this sweeping tyranny before it's too late.

74 posted on 09/01/2011 7:44:07 AM PDT by semaj
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To: Faith

It’s beyond ‘no longer’ defending. Liberal elites are forcing a company to dump American workers. There’s a reason so many Americans are unemployed - and it’s starting to look like it’s not an accident.

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CHRIS DANIEL: Mr. Juszkiewicz, did an agent of the US government suggest to you that your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of American labor?

HENRY JUSZKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that in a pleading.

CHRIS DANIEL: Excuse me?

HENRY JUSKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that it a pleading.

CHRIS DANIEL: That your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of our labor?

HENRY JUSKIEWICZ: Yes


75 posted on 09/01/2011 7:59:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: Faith
Our government no longer defends working citizens or American businesses.

Not only has our government not represented the interests of Ameican workers and companies for a long, long time, it has actively worked against them.

McCarthy, Birch, and Goldwater were are all correct about the enemy within.
76 posted on 09/01/2011 8:14:14 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: concerned about politics
Martin & Company — one of Gibson’s main competitors

This isn't quite true. Yes, Martin is a competitor to Gibson, but they only make acoustic guitars, while Gibson is primarily in the business of making electric guitars. There's actually little overlap between their primary markets. Gibson's chief competitor is Fender Guitars, and has been for over 40 years.

77 posted on 09/01/2011 8:21:38 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Cymbaline

“So now we’ve gone from railing against companies exporting jobs overseas, to REQUIRING companies to export jobs overseas?”

Democrats have been OUTFORCING America’s jobs for 40+ years. What’s new about that??

The 1970 Clean Air Act amendments killed the US Steel Industry, and it’s been downhill ever since.


78 posted on 09/01/2011 8:26:15 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Democrats have been OUTFORCING America's jobs for 40 years)
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To: Nachum

This is a travesty of justice !!

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=105&load=5962


79 posted on 09/01/2011 8:36:05 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal In Sarah.)
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To: Cymbaline

I heard about the raid.

Where’s CONgress? < crickets>

Darrell Issa? < crickets>

Charles Grassley? < crickets>


80 posted on 09/01/2011 9:37:32 AM PDT by sauropod (ObaMao: Let them eat peas!)
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