Posted on 05/26/2013 9:09:13 AM PDT by Hojczyk
An editorial at Investors Business Daily may wind up being filed under how did I miss this one? Following the recent revelations of cases where the administration appears to have used the muscle of the federal government to go after its political enemies, IBD takes a walk down memory lane to the strange case of Gibson Guitars and the federal raids on their facilities for alleged illegal importing of exotic woods used in their products. They reach one provocative conclusion.
The inexplicable raid nearly two years ago on a guitar maker for using allegedly illegal wood that its competitors also used was another targeting by this administration of its political enemies…
Interestingly, one of Gibson’s leading competitors is C.F. Martin & Co. According to C.F. Martin’s catalog, several of their guitars contain “East Indian Rosewood,” which is the exact same wood in at least 10 of Gibson’s guitars. So why were they not also raided and their inventory of foreign wood seized? Well, let’s see… maybe C.F. Martin was getting their supplies from a properly regulated source? No. Did they fill out some forms that Gibson forgot to submit? No… so what could it be?
Grossly underreported at the time was the fact that Gibson’s chief executive, Henry Juszkiewicz, contributed to Republican politicians. Recent donations have included $2,000 to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and $1,500 to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
By contrast, Chris Martin IV, the Martin & Co. CEO, is a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the Democratic National Committee over the past couple of election cycles.
“We feel that Gibson was inappropriately targeted,” Juszkiewicz said at the time, adding the matter “could have been addressed with a simple contact (from) a caring human being representing the government. Instead, the government used violent and hostile means.” The end of that story was a travesty, with Gibson being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in a settlement where there was no finding of criminal action just so they could get back to business. At the time of the judgement, our own Mary Katharine Ham covered the story and found a lot wrong with it, but even she didn’t seem to suspect this situation. And in retrospect, it doesn’t seem all that surprising.
While all this was going on, there was plenty of reason to suspect that there was politics of some sort involved. With Democrats in control of the White House and the Senate, it didn’t seem much of a stretch to think that the eco-warriors were in full throated, chest thumping mode and they would be pushing the limits to show how much they were doing to save the planet. The Gibson story, with its hook of endangered forests and evil manufacturing giants stripping the land, was a perfect fit. But I don’t think many of us imagined that even the Obama administration would be so blatant as to simply launch a police state style attack on a company which supported their enemies while leaving friendly, Democrat donating competitors alone. Or at least I didn’t.
Is this paranoid, tinfoil hat territory? I assure you that Obama supporters reading this will declare it to be exactly that. But given what we’ve been finding in the news recently, is it really that far fetched? Not any more.
Judge Roberts and Obamacare suddenly make sense...
And Obama said that he will take revenge on his enemies.
IRS - Intimidation Reigns Supreme
is a 22 minute expose of the raid on Mountain Pure Water, and has info from Henry Juszkiewicz of Gibson included, as well as Duncan Outdoor.
Watch it all.
Seems like a lot of people need to pay back prison time for their misuse of government authority. Is there a statute of limitations on this kind of thing?
Third world president, third world justice.
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Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us, and they better be ready, because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded; the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over, and we have two judges ready to go.”
It all ties in to the government employee unions. THAT'S where the rot is. Because these faceless little Eichmann bureaucrats CAN'T be fired and are going to sabotage our country in order to protect their little fiefdoms, pensions, expense accounts and salaries.
Those are the little cockroaches that need to be ferreted out and imprisoned or fired. Start at IRS, TSA, every flag officer that signed off on the Gay agenda and State. Every single political appointee needs to be fired or put on a list for observation and scrutiny in order to file charges of tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud or any number of legal statutes these punks have violated.
Not inclusive of violating our trust in government and our constitution.
Mine has Ebony too.
And I LOVE it!
And let’s not forget Government Motors. R and conservative owners were stripped of their dealerships, while D’s were not. All this will come out and become clear and it won’t be pretty for Dems.
LOL!
Let’s not forget that they also closed republican GM dealers too.
Rock On!
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Excellent! Who do I pay copyright royalties to? I put that in my wallpaper rotation.
I don’t know who created that graphic, but I have been saving it since the Gibson incident occurred!
Enjoy!
From the article: “Pilot Flying J is confident that the matter will be resolved fully.”
What matter? This is just Chicago thug BS!
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