BigDawg Spotlight: Singer/Songwriter Nathan Picard Weighs In On Gibson Guitar Raid
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by Lisa Mei Norton
bighollywood.breitbart.com
When the story of last month’s raid on the Gibson Guitar factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville broke, the first thought that hit me was…”Were the drawn weapons really necessary? Is this still America?” Imagine my complete surprise when I learned Gibson’s Chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, is a staunch Republican who does not bow at the altar of Obama; Gibson is the only major guitar manufacturer in a non-blue (read non-union) state; one of his company’s leading competitors, C.F. Martin & Company, uses the same materials in their products with impunity; and Martin’s CEO, Chris Martin IV, is a long-time Democratic supporter.
Sarcasm off.
This incident has vintage guitar owners left wondering…”What next?” Will the Feds be busting down the doors of musicians, guns drawn, to inspect our guitars to see if we have any contraband they can confiscate? I have a hunch if that were to happen, they’d target musicians who are openly…dare I say…conservative.
And guess where they would start.
 Nathan Picard
It just so happens that our featured artist, conservative singer/songwriter Nathan Picard, makes his own guitars. Here is what he had to say about the latest display of thuggery by this Administration:
The irony of an out of control administration raiding Gibson guitars (one of the all-time most successful producers of some of the highest quality musical instruments and employer of thousands) during one of the worst economic downturns in our county’s history shouldn’t be lost on anyone. The raid is reminiscent of a raid on a crack-house except the only crime of which Gibson is guilty is not towing the Big Government, Keynesian, Socialist line. The message that one could take away from this is…don’t dare speak out against the Obama administration or they will use any means necessary to silence you.
Silence us? Good luck with that.
As you will see in Nathan’s music video “It’s A Beautiful World”, Americans have a proud history of defeating tyranny and come November 2012…we will do it once again.
YouTube Nathan Picard - "It's A Beautiful World"
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Music truly is universal and while the messages in the songs of the artists at our site may not appeal to most on the left side of the political spectrum, all musicians should be alarmed at what has happened to Gibson Guitars. This is how this administration intends to silence the opposition or force us into submission to their policies and is a harbinger of things to come . Does anyone really want the government to have that kind of power? How would liberal musicians feel if a Republican administration did this to Martin Guitars? There would be riots in the streets and you know it.
Juszkiewicz has since launched a petition asking President Barack Obama to resolve the inquiry and now the Feds want to meet with him next week to talk.
Silencing Obama’s opponents may be the goal of the left and if their latest attempts at doing so with the Gibson raid as well as their recent launching of the now-widely-mocked Attack Watch (snitch-on-your-neighbors) website are any indication of just how low they will stoop, the immediate conservative response should be an indication to them of just how threatened we feel.
Thanks to artists like Nathan and so many others at our site, like Ezra Dulis, one of the comedic geniuses behind the hilarious “Attaaaack Waaaatch” ad which has gone viral, we have absolutely no intention of accommodating them.
That which does not kill us (unless Teamster thug Hoffa has his way) only makes us sing louder. |
