"Swingman" wrote in message
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IOW, the raid on Gibson's facilities, with guns drawn,

Can do document that the agents who conducted this search had guns in their
hands? If not, why do you believe something you don't have reasonable
grounds to accept as true?

disrupting the production and jobs of workers at one of the few American
companies still "manufacturing" products

Q: Which is the number one manufacturing nation in the world?

Is the answer:

A) China
B) Japan
C) The United States of America
D) Luxembourg

is based on a difference of 5/32" of thickness, AND TO PROTECT INDIAN
WOODWORKING JOBS.

The way it works is if you want other nations to adhere to treaties on
imports and exports and environmental protection and so on you have to
demonstrate that you will enforce those laws and agreements too even if it
impacts companies in your own nation. The notion that for some reason the
Obama administration if obsessed with the idea of protecting jobs in India
just as part of their general wickedness is so laughably childish that
anyone promoting it ends up looking like a clown. I saw one right-wing
blogger claim the Obama administration is actively hostile to any successful
business and that's why Gibson was raided--talk about rampaging paranoia.
Meanwhile a long list of other companies that make guitars in America and
also rely on imported rosewood, ebony etc. haven't been raided. So is that
because they adhere to the law and properly document their imports, or is it
because (as some folks would have you believe) all those other companies are
run by Democratic supporters? Which explanation is more credible (to
someone with a reasonable mind)?

Do you really think that Gibson should be held accountable, and be subject
to a police action, computers seized, production disrupted, jobs lost, by
buying rough stock, sight unseen, that is approximately 1/8" thicker than
it's supposed to be?

Do you think that any company should get a pass on allegedly falsifying
import documents about the nature of the products they are bringing in?
Keep in mind that the previous raid was about Gibson importing wood from
Madagascar that at the time wasn't supposed to be exported from there at
all--kind of looks like a pattern, doesn't it.

Granted, Gibson has a lot of things going against it in the current
political climate ... it has actually publicly supported Republican
politicians in a "right to work" state. Heaven forbid.

Sure, the CEO of Gibson giving $3,500 to a couple of Republican candidates
would obviously have triggered all of this [rolls eyes].

Now, if Gibson would only move their operations to India, their would be
no problem.

That is what this is about!!

Absolutely, trying to force American companies to send jobs overseas is
clearly what the govt. is trying to do, it's all part of their overall
wicked un-Americanism, but that's what happens when you elect a black Muslim
from Kenya, right?