You think they can't get more evil and stupid, and something like this happens.
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.
This must be read to be believed, because it is simply unbelievable.
Guitarists, violinists, clarinetists, bassoonists, all manner of acoustical musicians play instruments made of wood. They tweak them, renovate them, overhaul them, customize them endlessly. They use bits of wood to create bridges, bows, neck joints, fingerboards, etc., endlessly. There is absolutely no way on God's Green Earth to know the provenance of each bit of wood--many of the instruments are decades, even centuries old, and are maintained and renovated with parts from similar instruments.
Obama's goons have decided they know better. This is Hope and Change, unmasked.
OS will on the phone to his Congressman bright and early Monday.
Folks, these criminals with badges must be removed from their offices, and they must be barred from any position that would allow them to create this sort of harm in the future.
November 2012 cannot come soon enough.
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