Bob,

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This is only in the investigation stage, nobody's been convicted yet.



Shucks Bob, Gibson hasn’t even been charged yet! Since you are focused solely on the affidavit, let’s look at “sawn logs” from pages 8 - 10.

http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/20110819154237897.pdf

The dimensions are 510-530 X 70/75 X 10mm. That’s less than 21in. long X less than 3in. tapered to 2-3/4in. wide X slightly over 3/8in. thick. Does that sound like “sawn logs”? Or does that sound like fretboards? The wood was declared on the Certificate of Origin from India as “Indian ebony finger boards”. The wood was already pre sized and tapered for guitars. All that was left was for them to be fitted and sanded to suit individual guitars.

The “sawn logs” term makes it sound as if a tree was strapped to a pallet with a shipping label stuck to it.

I don’t want to try to dissect this mind numbing affidavit and debate minutiae, but this whole thing stinks to high heaven, or as Scott said:

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There's a vendetta underlying this thing with Gibson - it just stinks of that.



Could it be that George Soros found out the Gibson CEO is a long time Republican contributor and decided to have him targeted because of that?

Bob
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