This week's raid by U.S. Fish & Wildlife agents at the Gibson Guitar factory in Downtown Memphis has been attracting a lot of attention from national media. What's not to like about a story featuring $5,000 guitars, exotic tropical woods, shady import-export trade, the enchanting and exceedingly rare silky sifaka lemur, and a chief executive taking to the ramparts against relentless Interior Department bureaucrats enforcing an obscure anti-poaching statute from 1900? The Atlantic has one of the better pieces out there for details and background, and its post supplied some of the links I have used here.
UPDATE: More from The Atlantic: "How to Turn Guitarists into Tea Partiers."
UPDATE: More from The Atlantic: "How to Turn Guitarists into Tea Partiers."
Thank you Dept. of Justice and Mr President.
I will sleep better tonight knowing that you are protecting my wood.