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It's their site, and they are not a US company, so the decision is their's, and I'll respect it.



I think you hit the real issue. Obama is not their president.

It may be an issue that does not cross borders, but the USA has lost ENOUGH businesses. To put such a venerable, long respected business like Gibson in jeopardy over some grandstand play like this.... what is there to be gained from harrassing Gibson? With a SWAT team raid no less?

Could it be the your typical consumer of the Gibson product like is slightly more affluent and this not as widely found in the urban areas? Another "let's level the playing field by bringing this side down instead of trying to raise that side up?" Who do you think Cash For Clunkers was intended to aid? Not upper middle suburbia.

I don't know what the economy is like in the land of PG Music where medical care is provided for everybody and women who choose to have litters of children with no father figure receive "Mother's Aid". Here in the US we have to fight to keep EVERY JOB WE CAN, and moves like this one will cause a company the magnitude of Gibson to relocate to Mexico and take advantage of that $4 an hour labor, maybe next door to Fender's Ensenada plant on the Baja.

American musicians everywhere are very upset by this move reminiscent of Nazi Germany. It is all over Facebook, MySpace, and every music forum I visit, and I haven't yet mentioned news shows and radio broadcasts.

This issue is something close to our hearts.

This is right up there on the despicable level with cities suddenly deciding to charge clubs with live music an "entertainment tax". Nobody was aware that such a tax even existed, since it has never been enforced. Now, years later, they are like sharks swimming in the blood filled waters waiting for prey to get tired of swimming so they can consume them. They are adding penalties and interest to taxes they did not even know they owed.

And on any scale, that is the poor stealing from the rich, like this president attacking Gibson. Some modern day Robin Hood taking from the rich to lower the standard of American living yet again.

I am SO glad my trip is almost over....