Obama Justice Department engaged in a vendetta against Gibson
Guitar Company
Out of Tune and Out of Touch - by Newt Gingrich
When I first read about dozens of federal agents descending on an admired
American business with automatic weapons drawn, I thought the story was
bizarre.
When I learned that what prompted this attack was the Justice Department’s
interpretation of an Indian law, in a way that even India doesn’t interpret
it, I could hardly believe it was true.
The government’s actions are so outside normal behavior, so lacking in
common sense and such an outrage against the freedom of every American that
it sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel.
The Obama Administration is engaged in a vendetta against the Gibson Guitar
Company of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn.
Gibson Guitar makes very high quality guitars and attracts customers and
tourists from all over the world. Amazingly, this was the second assault on
this small business. In 2009, federal agents seized six guitars, which they
have not returned despite filing no charges in the investigation. It is so
bizarre it bears repeating. In 2009, armed federal agents seized six
guitars.
According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, during the most recent
government assault on Gibson Guitar there were three dozen Australian
tourists watching big government attack a small company.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service apparently believes Gibson made
inappropriate use of foreign wood under a 1900 law designed to ban materials
illegally exported from other countries.
Gibson Guitar maintains it has papers from Madagascar in 2009 and India in
2011 proving the wood from both countries is legal, but hasn’t been given
the opportunity to defend itself in court since the government has filed no
charges.
There were apparently 26 armed federal agents assaulting Gibson Guitar in
pursuit of endangered wood.
The Obama administration could use 26 armed agents to 1) help control the
border; 2) fight drug cartels; or 3) hunt down terrorists.
But given the hard left bias of President Obama and his appointees,
endangered wood from India was a higher priority.
With 14 million Americans unemployed and another 11 million underemployed or
dropped out of the work force, the Obama Administration is trying to
pressure Gibson Guitar into moving its wood-finishing jobs offshore.
Gibson Guitar’s CEO Henry Juszkiewicz has said that federal agents actually
told Gibson its problems would go away if the company just moved its
operations to Madagascar.
This is beyond ideology. It is insanity.
Congress should investigate these bizarre events and the Obama appointees
responsible for the abuse should lose their jobs.
Here is the local story about the government attack: Federal agents close
Gibson Guitar plant in Memphis in search for ebony.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/aug/24/federal-agents-search-gibson-guitar-factory-memphi/
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