IMO all these guys are just trying to make a buck in a tough economy, good for them when they succeed!
I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a lot about this seizure or the specifics of the case, but I have to disagree with this general sentiment.
Trying to make a buck is all well and good but if the result of making this buck is the general decline of the place where we live.... well, I find it hard to stomach.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a bleeding heart environmentalist. Some environmentalists want to keep everything just as it is when even nature doesn't do that, and I view any sustainable resource as fair game, but laws were set up to try and protect that which is unsustainable. The macro view is that forests are being cut down by the shipload to feed a lumber industry that isn't (largely) replanting, and even though rare guitar tonewoods are a small cause of the problem, they ARE a cause nonetheless, and it's part of the reason that these woods are rare in the first place.
Whatever the reality of the case, I don't think anybody except Gibson's wood suppliers and the investigators know the truth. IMHO (and I MUST stress that I'm coming from a place of relative ignorance regarding the specifics of the case.... as are most people, truth be told) it seems a little cheeky of Gibson to offer a guitar line that profits off the case while not offering a similar line from sustainable wood. (EDIT: A quick search for the term 'sustainable wood' yields 0 results on Gibsons page, but I may be wrong about that. If anybody does know, I would genuinely be glad to eat my words.)
Everything in balance and all of that.