Still, something else has come to light. While Gibson is being harassed, Martin Guitars, which uses the same kind of woods from the same regions, gets a pass. I guess it helps if your company executives are big Democrat contributors, and it sure as hell don't hurt that Martin is a union shop. Guess who is not a union shop. That would be Gibson.
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Here they fucking go, brave and tireless agents of-The Fish And Wildlife Service. Note that those aren't rods and reel they're checking up on. It's guitars at a Gibson guitar factory. What's going on here?
According to the Wall Street Journal, they are checking to make sure none of the guitar parts are made out of protected wood from species of trees deemed to be endangered. Don't worry, it gets worse. Much worse.
According to Right Truth, you might lose your guitar even if you purchased it decades ago, or even if its a family heirloom from generations past. That's why you should make sure you have the proper paperwork that would prove that every single part-not just the guitar itself, but every single part-was made before the law went into effect.
John Thomas, a law professor at Quinnipiac University and a blues and ragtime guitarist, says "there's a lot of anxiety, and it's well justified." Once upon a time, he would have taken one of his vintage guitars on his travels. Now, "I don't go out of the country with a wooden guitar." [snip]
It's not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What's the bridge made of? If it's ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and where that wood was harvested and when and where it was made into a bridge? Is the nut holding the strings at the guitar's headstock bone, or could it be ivory? "Even if you have no knowledge—despite Herculean efforts to obtain it—that some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever," Prof. Thomas has written. "Oh, and you'll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration."
A commenter at Right Truth pointed out that Gibson is not a unionized company, therefore this might at least in part be an effort of the Obama Administration to come down on behalf of its union lackeys.
But perhaps an even more pertinent point might be-I thought we were operating under a deficit. Is this kind of shit the reason the nation was held hostage by Democrats during the budget negotiations? So asshole cunts like this would have the money to operate at a further detriment to American business, and the overall economy?
Throw all these cocksuckers in chains as far as I'm concerned. Tarring and feathering just wouldn't be good enough for these fucking jackals all the way up and down the food chain, including Obama and the Congressional Democrats.
