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08-26-2011, 11:40 PM
Will the Music World Protest Against Feds Eco-Zealous Raid On Gibson Guitar?
by Hollywoodland
BigHollywood.com
Posted Aug 26th 2011
The music world stand up against overzealous Feds? This is 2011, when Fascism is cool, not 1968 when rock -n- roll meant freedom – as opposed to Bigger, Fatter, Government.
Gisbon CEO Hanry Juszkiewicz contributes to conservative candidates, so that probably won’t endear him to the music world either, no matter how righteous his cause.
Those contributions, however, might help to explain this absurd raid:
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.
It isn’t the first time that agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service have come knocking at the storied maker of such iconic instruments as the Les Paul electric guitar, the J-160E acoustic-electric John Lennon played, and essential jazz-boxes such as Charlie Christian’s ES-150. In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in a case with the delightful name “United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms.”
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The Rest of the Story (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/08/26/will-the-music-world-protest-against-feds-eco-zealous-raid-on-gibson-guitar/)
I scratched my head at the shut down of GM dealerships that contributed to Republicans. This is straight up making me go...
http://www.aaanything.net/wp-content/gallery/best-photos-of-the-week-31-2011/thumbs/thumbs_the_fuck_is_this_shit.jpg
~QC
by Hollywoodland
BigHollywood.com
Posted Aug 26th 2011
The music world stand up against overzealous Feds? This is 2011, when Fascism is cool, not 1968 when rock -n- roll meant freedom – as opposed to Bigger, Fatter, Government.
Gisbon CEO Hanry Juszkiewicz contributes to conservative candidates, so that probably won’t endear him to the music world either, no matter how righteous his cause.
Those contributions, however, might help to explain this absurd raid:
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.
It isn’t the first time that agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service have come knocking at the storied maker of such iconic instruments as the Les Paul electric guitar, the J-160E acoustic-electric John Lennon played, and essential jazz-boxes such as Charlie Christian’s ES-150. In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in a case with the delightful name “United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms.”
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The Rest of the Story (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hollywoodland/2011/08/26/will-the-music-world-protest-against-feds-eco-zealous-raid-on-gibson-guitar/)
I scratched my head at the shut down of GM dealerships that contributed to Republicans. This is straight up making me go...
http://www.aaanything.net/wp-content/gallery/best-photos-of-the-week-31-2011/thumbs/thumbs_the_fuck_is_this_shit.jpg
~QC