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Now The Gibson Guitar Raids Make Sense
Investor's Business Daily ^ | May 23. 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 05/23/2013 4:16:11 PM PDT by raptor22

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To: raptor22

Thanks for posting. I’ve been trying to follow this story.


41 posted on 05/24/2013 1:53:23 AM PDT by Daaave ("Where it all ends I can't fathom my friends")
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To: Randy Larsen

He was a very gracious man.


42 posted on 05/24/2013 1:58:25 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: raptor22

Sounds like the multi-agency coordinated harassment experienced by True-the-Vote, and its leader, Catherine Engelbrecht!

http://radio.foxnews.com/2013/05/22/true-the-vote-founder-catherine-engelbrecht-multiple-gvt-agencies-targeted-me-and-my-business/


43 posted on 05/24/2013 3:10:46 AM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: SunkenCiv
When the final list is made of all groups, companies and individuals targeted for the ‘crime’ of being conservative it'll shock even the most jaded among us.

The IRS was not the only group doing this...

44 posted on 05/24/2013 3:11:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (It's Gotten So Bad for Obama Fox News Changed Its Slogan to "See. I Told You So!"- Leno)
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To: gorush

He played at the White House, and didn’t greet or speak to obama. He didn’t even shake his hand. The irony was in a Pawn Stars episode, the owner of the Pawn Shop tasked his employee “Chumlee” to wait outside a casino where he was performing to autograph an artifact brought into the store. Chumlee succesful met Bob Dylan shook his hand and got the autograph.


45 posted on 05/24/2013 4:38:15 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: raptor22; SunkenCiv

So many parts of this article are parsed or present as factual statements that aren’t correct.

Here’s the first hint that this journalist based his story on press releases and other journalists, and never read any of the court documents related to either confiscation action. He refers to East Indian Rosewood; the wood involved in the August 2011 raids and confiscation action was East Indian Ebony.

Henry J’s not remotely conservative. He’s an early member of the Clinton Global Initiative (’We are passionate about our commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative’). During the days when every room of the Clinton White House was for sale, Gibson hosted a 50th Anniversary Concert for President Clinton.

Gibson CEO Henry J. was a presenter at MTV’s Rock the Vote the year that Clinton won the Lifetime Achievement Award and Barack Obama was recognized.

He’s a founding member of the Rainforest Alliance, which believed in man-made global warming but now believes in man-made climate change.

He just made a contribution to Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee; his only other contribution to a candidate or party since 1990 was to Mike Huckabee, according to opensecrets.org.

He’s on the board of a group that sponsors poetry slams for diversity and other diversity causes.

His company sponsors the John Lennon bus museum.

And he’s on the board of a bunch of environmental groups.

Some Tea Party bloggers said he was conservative because it sounded good in the “Eric Holder’s Raids” blogs.

In 2009, Gibson knew what it was doing was wrong and they did it anyway.


46 posted on 05/24/2013 5:17:13 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (What happens over the rainbow stays over the rainbow)
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To: raptor22

Article neglects to mention Gibson is a non-union shop. The others are union. Follow that money, too.


47 posted on 05/24/2013 6:39:46 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Cyclone59
But the LSM used that word in their headlines when talking about W

Liberals project a lot, which is useful--it tells you what they are up to, themselves.

48 posted on 05/24/2013 7:11:29 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: castlegreyskull
Chumlee succesful met Bob Dylan shook his hand and got the autograph.

One problem: He got Dylan to sign the album "To Chumlee" which made it basically worthless as an item the pawn shop could sell. Who's gonna pay top dollar for an autograph directed to someone else?

49 posted on 05/24/2013 8:36:49 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

Chumlee will quickly be forgotten in the next few years. He is bareky known at that.

My point was that Bob Dylan showed Chumlee more respect than he showed to obama.


50 posted on 05/24/2013 10:20:50 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: raptor22

I’m a guitarist by hobby. I’ve bought several guitars in the past. I currently own a Gibson Les Paul. My next guitar will be a Gibson. I’ll support them over any company that gives money to Democrats.

And now the raids do make sense. Sad that the Dems have debased themselves to such a low level. Have they no concept of shame?


51 posted on 05/24/2013 11:12:48 AM PDT by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: llevrok

They are certainly not doing anything to prevent someone(s) from reacting in such a drastic manner...


52 posted on 05/24/2013 12:39:03 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Rodamala
guess i'm not surprised
53 posted on 05/24/2013 2:39:46 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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