Jim,

They are not using illegal materials. They are using the very same materials Martin, Taylor, Guild, and other companies use. There is nothing different about what they are doing. It is purely political.

MAB

You are right as always Jim .There is no problem. It is just a bunch of "right wingers making noise."

Thanks for pointing it out for us. Your understanding of this country is always interesting.

MAB

... What I find puzzling and totally bizarre is that people can be biased and side with Gibson without knowing the proper facts. This is taking patriotism far too far....perhaps a common failing. I do not think I need say any more on the subject.

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

The materials AREN'T Illegal. They aren't endangered. There is not one thing in either of these catagories. It is an attack on a Non-Union company. It has absolutley nothing to do with illegality or endangered species. That has not even been alleged. The problem with this is that there are no charges of illegality. That is what is so frustrating with the legal team of Gibson.

This is 100% political.

MAB

The law that Gibson allegedly violated is the Lacey Act, which bars importation of wildlife or plants if it breaks the laws of the country of origin. It was intended to stop poachers. The ebony and rosewood that Gibson imported was harvested legally, and the Indian government approved the shipment of the wood. But Fish and Wildlife bureaucrats claim that, because the wood was not finished by Indian workers, it broke Indian law. In other words, a U.S. agency is enforcing foreign labor laws that the foreign government doesn’t even think were violated.

This travesty smacks of pro-union cronyism... very similar to the Boeing Plant deal in South Carolina. Our current administration is getting very good at following the tactics of the National Socialist Movement in Germany. Find a purported violation of some arcane law and use it to bully the company or entity in question into submission.

November of 2012 can't arrive quickly enough. If we don't rid ourselves of these liars and wealth redistribution zealots... America will become a wasteland... and the world we live in will not be able to escape the "black hole" of tyranny and political greed.

Looking out over the crowds of demonstrators in New York who have aligned themselves against Wall Street... it does not take long to observe the vast majority of them are unshaven fools. Hell bent on nothing more than creating anarchy before retreating to their gay bars and social atmospheres. It's all about hidden agendas... and our liberal press is ecstatic.

Marc, I know that you already know this, but I feel like I have to explain that Jim was born a socialist, raised as a socialist, and will die a socialist. No one can change his views. He has never lived in a truly free society and will never know what real freedom feels like as he has been taxed to the hilt every day of his working life and never enjoyed the real potential fruits of his labor because of his government.

Now I'd like to blame all my troubles on Rich People, but I can't. After all they're the ones that are providing the jobs for us.