Jimmy R":330hzcvt said:
sixstringking713":330hzcvt said:
using FOX "news" as a news source was your first mistake
Specific reasons why, please?
kissmyace":330hzcvt said:
sixstringking713":330hzcvt said:
using FOX "news" as a news source was your first mistake
so, are there things wrong with this report ???
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120 ... -Act-heard
from text quote:
Adam Gardner, guitarist and vocalist for the band Guster and founder of the environmental nonprofit Reverb, disagreed.
“Lacey does not pose a threat to musicians,” he said. “By contrast, the Lacey Act provides comforting assurance to conscientious consumers like myself that the wood I am buying in my instruments or elsewhere is legally sound.”
Obama administration officials said enforcement efforts are aimed at commercial trafficking of illegal wood, not at individual retailers or musicians.
Eileen Sobeck, deputy assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks at the Interior Department, said the RELIEF Act would weaken environmental protections.
“Limiting prosecutions to only those who knowingly violate the law would provide an incentive for importers to be ignorant or claim ignorance of the contents of his or her shipments and undermine the administration’s efforts to combat the trafficking of protected wildlife,” said Sobeck.
Executives of the furniture retailer IKEA and the American Forest and Paper Association said they like parts of Cooper and Blackburn’s bill — for example, the provision that would exempt wood products imported before 2008 — but don’t support the legislation as a whole.
Another bill discussed at the hearing, introduced by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, both Republicans, would repeal the requirement that U.S. companies comply with foreign environmental laws.
Paul said forcing U.S. companies to comply with foreign laws is “absurd on its face” and may not be constitutional.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Cooper said he doesn’t support Paul and Broun’s bill because it goes too far.
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All I'm saying is FOX is always missing part of the story to make it more controversial and/or to spur political arguments. I'm not trying to argue, I just want to point out that to me it seems like this is not aimed at musicians at all (it is a finished product at that point and prior to 2008 especially), it is a matter of if it is illegally imported. That is all.. I hope Gibson still can get the wood legally, as they claim, and continue to make guitars!
