[ColdOne]

If Gibson hired only Union employees maybe this would all go away?

[WKUHilltopper]

How long do we continue to tolerate these nation destroyers?

[Retain Mike]

The federal administrative laws and regulations applied to Gibson Guitar are the soft underbelly of our Constitution. Under English common law, which serves as the basis for our Constitution, a person is innocent and not subject to the penalties of the law until proved guilty. Under administrative law like Roman civil law a person is subject to its penalties and restrictions until they discover a way to legally extricate themselves.

This country no longer subscribes to the concept that preserving human freedom must be a precondition to any discussion about how or if an activity should be regulated.

Pursuit of happiness first means seeking spiritual prosperity within the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. Politicians and bureaucrats were never meant to care for us by requiring our subservience to rules vastly increasing their power.

[the invisib1e hand]

omg let ‘em try to seize a guitar player’s axe.

[unixfox]

These “feds” as they are called may want to rethink who they go after.

Sooner rather than later they will rue the day. And they will deserve it.

[ConservaTexan]

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - DOI, 1776

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Can one imagine someone with a zillion dollar Stradivarius violin at a U.S. concert and the Feds steal it because it is made of some protected wood?

[HereInTheHeartland]

” federal agents poised to seize the instruments of rock and country stars because the wood used to make them may have been illegally harvested—and without their knowledge. “

Ok, I'll say it again. We have overwhelming material and evidence of the huge overreach of all levels of government. A reading of the Declaration of Independence contains things like this that the British were doing.

Where are conservative politicians using this material to totally demolish the liberal nanny state politicians and govt employees dreaming up this CRAP?

[a fool in paradise]

Lawmakers are scrambling to save the summer concert season from federal agents poised to seize the instruments of rock and country stars because the wood used to make them may have been illegally harvested--and without their knowledge.

This is discrimination because rappers don't use instruments!!!

[a fool in paradise]

Tell established acts like The Who, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, AC/DC, and even Femi Kuti that the instruments they’ve owned for decades are at risk of being confiscated by customs as they enter the US on tour.

[Nachum]

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[healy61]

Won’t sieze instruments made before 2008? You don’t suppose some of the best tend to keep the best instrument year to year. Yah, the feds will sieze them guitars.

[x1stcav]

Ja, das ist Schadenfreude.

I hope these mostly lefty-leaning musicians are enjoying the guvment’s attention.

Go ahead, vote demonrat again.

The creeps are getting what they deserve.

Wait, I forgot to check! Was this a Semmen’s?

[Chode]

and how many thousands of Gibson's were made BEFORE the wood was declared illegal???

this is such bullsh!t...

[combat_boots]

AxeGoebbels and JarrHimmler want a Gibson. Maybe Malia or Sasha want some lessons.

[Old Sarge]

“Senator Wyden and I are going to write the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a letter in the next couple of weeks..."

[SoFloFreeper]

The Obama thugs aren’t interested in the rappers who might have illegal weaponry or guns....only rockers who might have wood. Obama hasn’t had wood in YEARS so he is naturally jealous.