Guitar makers Under Siege

[RidgeRunner]

By Environmentalist Whack Jobs. Careful when you go to buy your teak and mahogony boys. There is a new Sheriff in town. You better damn well know what the country of origin is if you require the exotic stuff.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...471223268.html

[RidgeRunner]

So much for innocent until proven guilty. The Lacey Act is a real legislative POS.

[bradford]

It's good to know my tax dollars are finally being spent to benefit me and my family and make us safe.

[SkunkBoat]

Un friggin' believable...they'd have to pry my Les Paul from my cold dead hands

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by RidgeRunner

So much for innocent until proven guilty. The Lacey Act is a real legislative POS.

According to that law, they could imprison Wellcraft Boats, all Wellcraft dealers who sold our V20s W/TEAK...AND US for owning them, even though most of us didn't buy new...whoever that Lacey dude is, he needs to be lead out, tarred and feathered, strapped on a donkey and run outta town...when these pin-heads write law, they need to consider unintended consequences...and if they don't have enough brains to do that, then they don't have enough brains to write law...A$$HOLES!!...

[Destroyer]

Anyone care to disagree with me that the enviormentalists are out of control? In the name of saving the enviorment they have become a real and present danger to our Country's way of life and the freedoms that we had. These are the same people that are pulling all that same crap with the fishing limits and laws, etc etc etc. How long do you think it will be before they start telling us what kinds of grass we can and cannot plant for our lawns?

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Anyone care to disagree with me that the enviormentalists are out of control? In the name of saving the enviorment they have become a real and present danger to our Country's way of life and the freedoms that we had. These are the same people that are pulling all that same crap with the fishing limits and laws, etc etc etc. How long do you think it will be before they start telling us what kinds of grass we can and cannot plant for our lawns?

I don't blame the environmentalists...they have a valid point...we NEED to clean up the mess we've made of our country...but it can be done in such a way that it doesn't put people out of work and make the gov't look like a bunch of Nazis...JMHO, but again the politicians who do such a poor job writing our laws are to blame here, as well as, in this case, those who decide how to ENFORCE those F'd up laws...in short, the Fed Gov't...

[lathehand]

So much for freedom .The last time I looked they still call this place AMERICA

[ssiredfish]

Originally Posted by SkunkBoat

Un friggin' believable...they'd have to pry my Les Paul from my cold dead hands

I hear ya Skunk......they aint touchin my Bird's Eye.......yea Bird's Eye

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by reelapeelin

I don't blame the environmentalists...they have a valid point...we NEED to clean up the mess we've made of our country...but it can be done in such a way that it doesn't put people out of work and make the gov't look like a bunch of Nazis...JMHO, but again the politicians who do such a poor job writing our laws are to blame here, as well as, in this case, those who decide how to ENFORCE those F'd up laws...in short, the Fed Gov't...

Reel, I completely agree with you about needing to clean up the mess we've made.. In fact, I belong to the Passaic River Coalition, and one of the things I do with them is walk the banks of the river one weekend every year pulling tires, shopping carts, cans, bottles and junk of all kinds, sizes and shapes from the river and it's banks. But when the same enviornmental groups that are doing so much good cross the lines and start telling people what they can and cannot use, what they can or cannot fish for, what kinds of trees they can and cannot cut, what rivers they can and cannot dam (anyone remember the snall darter?) etc, etc, etc, then I think they have crossed the line, have outlived their usefullness and need to be reigned in. I'm all for keeping the enviornment clean, but this particular story is way beyond just an enviornmental issue. Gibson made contributions to the Republican National Committee. Two of their major competors made contributions to the DNC... Guess which company got raided not once, not twice, but three times... Guess which companies didn't get raided at all.. I'm sure it's just a coincidance...in a pigs eye.