Gibson Guitar Corp. Responds to Federal Raid (Claims DOJ wants wood finished in India)

Gibson.Com ^ | August 25, 2011

[CanaGuy]

I have a Gibson F-9 Mandolin. It has a spruce/maple body, ebony fingerboard and bridge, with a bone nut. Not sure if any of that is illegal under the Lacey Act of 1900. How do I prove where that wood came from if I'm going over the border with it?

I'm pissed! Can you imagine the feds just NOW enforcing this very old legislation. Sheesh. Talk about hard up if you're attacking the music world. This stinks out loud.

[jeffc]

And there are still people who think this is a free country!

[dools0007world]

Most policemen are union members. Do you really think calling them in will help?

I’ve been a law and order guy all my life. But increasingly I find the police not only irrelevant to my life but antagonistic to it. In SF police stood by while a person drowned near the Golden Gate bridge. DUI checkpoints are nothing more than devices for population control. Stopping me without cause is unconstitutional. Interfering with my right to defend myself and property and the list goes on.

Seems to me we’re on a track taking us back to the Middle
Ages. The serfs work the land for the ruling elite. In return the ruling elite promise to protect them. I guess its appropriate, therefore, that we’re also engaged in a religious war—again.

That’s what I call progress. Or is it hope and change?

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

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