shasha
Fractal Fanatic
The question I had about politically driven motives here was based on the accusations that Gibson is one of the few guitar companies not in lock step with the current administration and that there was some kind of political motive behind the raid. You're talking about fines as motivation? Gibson isn't that big a company; they could go after someone like WalMart and have a much bigger payday if that was the case.
Plus didn't the gov't just give out billions to bail out a bunch of companies to keep the economy afloat? Do you really think that a million dollars or so in fines is going to be something that gets them all lathered up? Hell they'll spend that much just on the investigation and it's not like that money goes into their christmas bonuses; actually I wonder where that money goes now that you bring it up.
I think that it really comes down to people really looking at things and trying to read way too far into everything for something diabolical or unjust. I think that the poor communication is probably the biggest transgression here and that's more a matter of piss poor performance than malitious intent.
Plus didn't the gov't just give out billions to bail out a bunch of companies to keep the economy afloat? Do you really think that a million dollars or so in fines is going to be something that gets them all lathered up? Hell they'll spend that much just on the investigation and it's not like that money goes into their christmas bonuses; actually I wonder where that money goes now that you bring it up.
I think that it really comes down to people really looking at things and trying to read way too far into everything for something diabolical or unjust. I think that the poor communication is probably the biggest transgression here and that's more a matter of piss poor performance than malitious intent.