Gibson Under Attack By U.S. Justice Department
In the radio interview, the Gibson CEO first pointed out that this is not the first time the company has been subjected to a government raid. In 2009, the government seized $500,000 of Gibson’s property, but the company was never charged with any offenses and Gibson is now suing the government to get its property back.
The current allegation is that Gibson has obtained illegal, partially finished, wooden guitar fingerboard blanks from India. Under Indian law, wood products have to meet certain minimum “India content” requirements before they can be certified for export. Then the exported wood and documentation from India has to be cleared by U.S. Customs. In this case, all of the legal requirements by the Indian government were met, legal paperwork accompanied the wood to the U.S., and the materials and accompanying paperwork were then approved by the U.S. government before delivery to Gibson.
But now the government is apparently claiming that according to its peculiar interpretation of Indian law, Gibson’s fingerboard blanks don’t have sufficient “Indian content,” and the guitarmaker is in violation of Indian law.
The Gateway Pundit summarized it well, “Gibson is under attack by the the Obama Justice Department for accusations that the company broke American Indian laws.”
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The f..ken illegals get a free pass after breaking the law for being here, but an innocent harmless company like Gibson gets raided . There is something very wrong with this country and its jerkoff in chief
This is the kind of thing that will ultimately bring the Tea Party and its political offshoots into the American mainstream.
Just because you have an African American in the White House doesn’t mean you can’t have a tyranny.
What has “OUR” country become. It makes me sick. How many more is our government going to put out of work?
This is Chicago mob style tactics in the big time arena of our federal government. If you think is bad just wait till they really get their stuff together, it will be nothing more then a full blown tyrannical government. The founding fathers aren’t rolling over in their graves, they are openly weeping crying out how we could as a country let this happen. It openly makes me sick and somewhat ashamed anymore to call myself an american. But i guess this is what we get when we allow the government to start teaching our kids and start electing socialists into office. Tea Party? Yeah a tea party couldn’t happen fast enough but it think its way past the time for that, whats needed now is a full blown revolution.