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2011-08-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

New Scandal at DoJ as Illegal Guitars End Up In Hands of Mexican Drug Lords - Iowahawk

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Posted by Beavis 2011-08-27 07:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Viva Les Paul!

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-08-27 09:58|| 2011-08-27 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 If next-door keeps practising I might go in for a War on Drums...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-08-27 10:19|| 2011-08-27 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Groan - the truth is stranger than fiction:
from WSJ today:
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. "The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier," he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in a case with the delightful name "United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms." The question in the first raid seemed to be whether Gibson had been buying illegally harvested hardwoods from protected forests. The tangled intersection of international laws is enforced through a thicket of paperwork. Recent revisions to 1900's Lacey Act require that anyone crossing the U.S. border declare every bit of flora or fauna being brought into the country. One is under "strict liability" to fill out the paperworkand without any mistakes. "Even if you have no knowledgedespite Herculean efforts to obtain itthat some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever," Prof. Thomas has written. "Oh, and you'll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration." Even your toothpicks must have papers!

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-27 11:24|| 2011-08-27 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Those guitars can be deadly.

El Mariachi.

Desperado.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-27 13:07|| 2011-08-27 13:07|| Front Page Top

#5 It turns out the CEO of Gibson is a Republican donor. The CEO of Martin, which buys wood from the exact same suppliers as Gibson, is a Democrat donor. Martin has not been raided. Coincidence?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-08-27 14:30|| 2011-08-27 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 ...I guess that means his Obamacare waiver didn't get approved either.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-27 14:50|| 2011-08-27 14:50|| Front Page Top

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