Hooray for Gibson Guitars for taking the wood that was taken from them by the government’s political evil doers and producing something  good.  We all remember that in 2011, the Department of Justice (Holder) conducted raids on the Tennessee facilities of the famed Gibson Guitar Company and confiscated large quantities of tonewood that had been imported from India and Madagascar.  

The action included armed SWAT teams with automatic weapons.  These raids were conducted under the Lacey Act, which bans the importing of certain woods.  The issue was not that the wood was endangered or illegally harvested, but that it was not the proper thickness that would have meant that some labor had been performed on it by works in India and Madagascar. This was the law in Madagascar and India as a nod to the Unions in those countries.  Gibson, who hand-makes its guitars, cannot guarantee the craftsmanship of its products if a portion of the work is done outside their facilities.  It seems  India and Madagascar indicated they were not interested in pursuing the matter.  

The funny thing on the way to the forum was that guitar makers CF Martin and Fender, who are also guitar makers use the same kind of tonewood. Where were the raids on those companies?  The main difference is that those two companies contributed to Democratic candidates, while Gibson’s CEO just happens to donate openly to Republicans and has plants in a right-to-work state.  This company had to spend $2.5 million dollars in legal fees and paid a whopping $300,000 fine.  So this corrupted government of Democrats made Gibson donate to the Democratic Party whether they wanted to or not by making them pay this $300,000 fine.  

The government finally returned the confiscated wood and Gibson’s made it into the Government Series II Les Paul guitar.  These guitars are hot-stamped in gold with the series graphic, which is an American bald eagle holding a Gibson guitar neck.  It is a statement of defiance of an abusive government and a refusal of a historic American company to be intimidated.  

My take is – this is another reason, that if you vote for a Democrat in November, you are voting for a culture of corruption and an ideology of Islam which is holding America in a vice and continues to squeeze the American people and the businesses in this country.  We must take our country back, set these people aside in a holding tank, and then put these Democrats in a vat of decontamination fluid to cleanse their souls!

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