{"id":4309,"date":"2011-09-02T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2011-09-02T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T17:11:02","slug":"government-thuggery-at-gibson-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=4309","title":{"rendered":"Government Thuggery At Gibson Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On August 26, I reported on the Wall Street Journal report on the federal raid on the Gibson Guitar factory (rightwinggranny.com<\/a>). Yesterday the Wall Street Journal<\/a> updated the story.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Federal agents first raided Gibson factories in November 2009 and were back again Aug. 24, seizing guitars, wood and electronic records. Gene Nix, a wood product engineer at Gibson, was questioned by agents after the first raid and told he could face five years in jail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Can you imagine a federal agent saying, ‘You’re going to jail for five years’ and what you do is sort wood in the factory?” said Mr. Juszkiewicz, (Henry Juszkiewicz, chief executive officer of Gibson Guitars) recounting the incident. “I think that’s way over the top.” Gibson employees, he said, are being “treated like drug criminals.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michelle Malkin<\/a> added a few new facts to this story yesterday on her blog. She points out two very interesting aspects of the story:<\/p>\n

1)Andrew Lawton and Landmark Report note that Juszkiewicz has donated<\/a> to GOP candidates, while one of his leading competitors \u201cis a long-time Democratic supporter, with $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the DNC over the past couple of election cycles.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) Stacy McCain has the transcript<\/a> and Ben Howe at RedState<\/a> also spotlights Juszkiewicz\u2019s recent KMJ interview in which the CEO revealed that the feds asserted in a court pleading that Gibson would be better off shipping their manufacturing labor overseas to Madagascar…\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aside from the thuggery, what impact does this kind of behavior on the part of the government have on unemployment in this country?<\/p>\n

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