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"Gibson Guitar Raid by U.S. Fires Up Tea Party, Charlie Daniels"
"A raid on Gibson Guitar Corp. by U.S. agents seeking illegally imported wood has given anti- regulation activists from the Tea Party to fiddler Charlie Daniels one more reason to dislike the Obama administration.
“Thirty agents with guns” showed up unannounced at Gibson’s Nashville, Tennessee, factory on the morning of Aug. 24, Chief Executive Officer Henry Juszkiewicz, 58, said in an interview. “They wouldn’t let me come in my office. I had to come in the conference room and conduct business as best as I could while they did whatever.”
Wearing bulletproof vests, agents from the Justice and Homeland Security Departments sent workers home and seized almost 100 guitars and boxes of raw materials, Juszkiewicz said. The raid has incensed Tea Party groups and Republican lawmakers such as House Speaker John Boehner, who say it’s yet another example of an overreaching big government."
“The company’s costs as a result of the raid?” Boehner said in aWashington speech on Sept. 15. “An estimated $2-to-3 million. Why? Because Gibson bought wood overseas to make guitars in America. Seriously.”
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