Stephanie
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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..
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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.
Well, lets 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?
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 didnt seem to suspect this situation. And in retrospect, it doesnt seem all that surprising.
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Does that Gibson Guitar raid make more sense now? « Hot Air
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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 Gibsons leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Co. According to C.F. Martins catalog, several of their guitars contain East Indian Rosewood, which is the exact same wood in at least 10 of Gibsons guitars. So why were they not also raided and their inventory of foreign wood seized?
Well, lets 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 Gibsons 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 didnt seem to suspect this situation. And in retrospect, it doesnt seem all that surprising.
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Does that Gibson Guitar raid make more sense now? « Hot Air