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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's also not forget the Gibson Guitar raids, in which wood was taken at gunpoint, not returned for two years, with no criminal charges filed. And Gibson had to settle otherwise the costs of the lawsuit would have been ridiculous.

Furthermore, the government admits there were inconsistencies in the policy from their end to begin with!

[i]Further, the settlement states that the Government and Gibson "acknowledge and agree that certain questions and inconsistencies now exist regarding the tariff classification of ebony and rosewood fingerboard blanks" under the Indian government's Foreign Trade Policy. [/i]

Statement from Gibson's CEO:

[i]"We feel that Gibson was inappropriately targeted," Juszkiewicz said, adding that the matter "could have been addressed with a simple contact (from) a caring human being representing the government. Instead, the Government used violent and hostile means," including what Gibson described as "two hostile raids on its factories by agents carrying weapons and attired in SWAT gear where employees were forced out of the premises, production was shut down, goods were seized as contraband, and threats were made that would have forced the business to close."

Further, Gibson noted that the years-long investigation has cost taxpayers millions of dollars -- and put a "job-creating U.S. manufacture at risk and at a competitive disadvantage." [/i]
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Jump forward from that 2011 story of yours to a year later, in 2012...   Turned out that Gibson had been making a lot of fake claims about supposed government abuse and how this "unjust" investigation was supposedly wasting millions of dollars in taxpayer dollars for nothing.   They ultimately admitted their wrongdoing and violations of the Lacey Act and paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement...   http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/242357-gibson-guitar-agrees-to-pay-300000-to-settle-lacey-act-violations

Oooops.  Guess you picked a really bad example of so-called government abuse there.[/quote]

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