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To: blueyon; cripplecreek; Huck; yldstrk; ilovesarah2012; griswold3; Progov; GlockThe Vote; DYngbld; ...

http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/08/31/doj-advises-gibson-guitar-to-export-labor/

CHRIS DANIEL: Mr. Juszkiewicz, did an agent of the US government suggest to you that your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of American labor?

HENRY JUSZKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that in a pleading.

CHRIS DANIEL: Excuse me?

HENRY JUSKIEWICZ: They actually wrote that it a pleading.

CHRIS DANIEL: That your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of our labor?

HENRY JUSKIEWICZ: Yes


71 posted on 09/01/2011 9:25:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (126 people were indicted for being terrorists in the last two years. Every one of them was Muslim.)
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To: GOPJ
did an agent of the US government suggest to you that your problems would go away if you used Madagascar labor instead of American labor

Here's the context in which that comment was made.

You can't export raw Madagascar rosewood or ebony out of Madagascar except with a specific exception for that one shipment from the Minister of Madagascar.

However, the Madagascar government allows certain Madagascar tradesmen to make products out of ebony and rosewood if the fallen logs are recorded in the government records, such as those knocked down in a storm, or felled before a certain date (I think it's 2004, but I'd have to check on it). With the right paperwork, those handicrafts and manufactured products can be exported. But not the raw wood.

Gibson imported the raw wood to make its own fingerboards. The government's position - in response to an argument made by Gibson - was that there was a potential legal source for Madagascar ebony fingerboards. Gibson could buy fingerboards made in Madagascar by Madagascar labor. Because Madagascar could issue a permit for those to be exported. Gibson didn't want to play by those rules.

73 posted on 09/01/2011 9:38:48 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: GOPJ

The GOP should run with this.


75 posted on 09/01/2011 9:52:53 AM PDT by Huck (I don't believe there is just one God--humanity seems like the work of a committee to me.)
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To: GOPJ

yeah I have asked for a citation to the pleading.


83 posted on 09/01/2011 10:56:32 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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