Posted on 08/27/2011 6:58:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., has responded to the August 24 raid of Gibson facilities in Nashville and Memphis by the Federal Government. In a press release, Juszkiewicz said: “Gibson is innocent and will fight to protect its rights. Gibson has complied with foreign laws and believes it is innocent of ANY wrong doing. We will fight aggressively to prove our innocence.”
The raids forced Gibson to cease manufacturing operations and send workers home for the day while armed agents executed the search warrants. “Agents seized wood that was Forest Stewardship Council controlled,” Juszkiewicz said. “Gibson has a long history of supporting sustainable and responsible sources of wood and has worked diligently with entities such as the Rainforest Alliance and Greenpeace to secure FSC-certified supplies. The wood seized on August 24 satisfied FSC standards.”
Juszkiewicz believes that the Justice Department is bullying Gibson without filing charges.
“The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department’s interpretation of a law in India. (If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.) This action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India.”
To read the entire press release, click here.
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.
And there are still people who think this is a free country!
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?
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