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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 871804" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>[h=2]<a href="http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2011/08/28/doj-raids-gibson-guitars-over-alleged-environmental-infractions-but-mums-still-the-word-on-fast-and-furious/" target="_blank">DOJ Raids Gibson Guitars over Alleged Environmental Infractions, but Mum’s Still the Word on ‘Fast and Furious’</a>[/h]</p><p>To be honest, when I first read the story, I thought maybe Gibson Guitars had done something terrible like sell 2,500 guitars to <a href="http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2011/07/08/eric-holder-feigns-ignorance-of-operation-fast-and-furious-now-but-he-bragged-of-overseeing-its-implementation-in-2009/" target="_blank">straw purchasers</a> who were then going to do something crazy, like illegally transporting the instruments out of the country and into the hands of Mexican cartel members south of the border.</p><p> But alas, as the details of the raid have come out it’s apparent that the reasons behind it were far less substantial: in fact, the reasons behind it seem to be flimsier than flimsy.</p><p> This is because the reason provided for raiding Gibson and confiscating half a million dollars worth of guitar making material is an alleged violation of environmental standards on Gibson’s part.</p><p>I stress<em> alleged </em>because Gibson <a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/08/26/exclusive-interview-the-obama-administration-war-on-business-attacks-iconic-american-manufacturer/" target="_blank">has documentation</a> that proves the charges are baseless and the materials they’re using to make fingerboards for their instruments were acquired under the law, rather than in circumvention of it.</p><p> What’s especially troubling about this raid – besides the fact that it was conducted by the DOJ of an administration that has no qualms with ignoring laws they don’t agree with (like the Defense of Marriage Act) – is that it’s the second one Obama’s DOJ has carried out against Gibson. (<a href="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/08/26/exclusive-interview-the-obama-administration-war-on-business-attacks-iconic-american-manufacturer" target="_blank">The first</a> was in 2009.)</p><p></p><p>In other news, while the death toll in Mexico continues to climb and “Fast and Furious” weapons are showing up at crime scenes in the U.S. at a rate that even <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110817,0,7742514.story" target="_blank">the L.A. Times can’t ignore</a>, the DOJ’s ridiculous attempt to catch Mexican drug cartel members (at the expense of American laws and American lives) has yet to result in any raids on Attorney General Eric Holder’s office or the home of the ATF’s William Newell or the residences of any number of other administration officials.</p><p> Call me crazy, but it seems that harassing a successful American business (Gibson Guitars) under the guise of protecting a tree in India is just another distraction from what our own government did via “Fast and Furious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 871804, member: 12952"] [h=2][URL="http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2011/08/28/doj-raids-gibson-guitars-over-alleged-environmental-infractions-but-mums-still-the-word-on-fast-and-furious/"]DOJ Raids Gibson Guitars over Alleged Environmental Infractions, but Mum’s Still the Word on ‘Fast and Furious’[/URL][/h] To be honest, when I first read the story, I thought maybe Gibson Guitars had done something terrible like sell 2,500 guitars to [URL="http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2011/07/08/eric-holder-feigns-ignorance-of-operation-fast-and-furious-now-but-he-bragged-of-overseeing-its-implementation-in-2009/"]straw purchasers[/URL] who were then going to do something crazy, like illegally transporting the instruments out of the country and into the hands of Mexican cartel members south of the border. But alas, as the details of the raid have come out it’s apparent that the reasons behind it were far less substantial: in fact, the reasons behind it seem to be flimsier than flimsy. This is because the reason provided for raiding Gibson and confiscating half a million dollars worth of guitar making material is an alleged violation of environmental standards on Gibson’s part. I stress[I] alleged [/I]because Gibson [URL="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/08/26/exclusive-interview-the-obama-administration-war-on-business-attacks-iconic-american-manufacturer/"]has documentation[/URL] that proves the charges are baseless and the materials they’re using to make fingerboards for their instruments were acquired under the law, rather than in circumvention of it. What’s especially troubling about this raid – besides the fact that it was conducted by the DOJ of an administration that has no qualms with ignoring laws they don’t agree with (like the Defense of Marriage Act) – is that it’s the second one Obama’s DOJ has carried out against Gibson. ([URL="http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2011/08/26/exclusive-interview-the-obama-administration-war-on-business-attacks-iconic-american-manufacturer"]The first[/URL] was in 2009.) In other news, while the death toll in Mexico continues to climb and “Fast and Furious” weapons are showing up at crime scenes in the U.S. at a rate that even [URL="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110817,0,7742514.story"]the L.A. Times can’t ignore[/URL], the DOJ’s ridiculous attempt to catch Mexican drug cartel members (at the expense of American laws and American lives) has yet to result in any raids on Attorney General Eric Holder’s office or the home of the ATF’s William Newell or the residences of any number of other administration officials. Call me crazy, but it seems that harassing a successful American business (Gibson Guitars) under the guise of protecting a tree in India is just another distraction from what our own government did via “Fast and Furious. [/QUOTE]
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