GOP wants Michael Moore locked up ..No Kidding !

10/6/04

Friends,

You may have heard by now that the Michigan Republican Party has called for my arrest. That's right. They literally want me brought up on charges -- and hope that I'm locked up.

No, I'm not kidding. The Republican Party, yesterday, filed a criminal complaint with the prosecutors in each of the counties where I spoke last week in Michigan.

My crime? Clean underwear for anyone who will vote in the upcoming election.

Each night on our 60-city "Slacker Uprising Tour" through the 20 battleground states, I've been registering hundreds (and on some nights, thousands) of voters at my arena and stadium events. I then ask for everyone over 23 who has never voted (or didn't vote in the last election) to stand up. I tell these slackers that I understand and respect why they think politicians are not worth the bother. I tell them that I may have been the original slacker, and that I do not want them to change their slacker ways. Keep sleeping 'til noon! Keep drinking beer! Stay on the sofa and watch as much TV as possible! But, please, just for me, on 11/2, I want you to leave the house and give voting a try -- just this once. The stakes this time are just too high.

If they promise me that they'll do this, I give the guys a 3-pack of new Fruit of the Loom underwear, and the women get a day's supply of Ramen noodles, the sustenance of slackers everywhere.

I then close by having them repeat the 2004 Slacker Oath: "Pick nose! Pick butt! Pick Kerry."

It seems to have worked, as each night the volunteer tables are swamped afterwards with hundreds of new and young voters signing up to campaign for regime change for the next four weeks.

The satire of all this seems to have been lost on the Republicans. Or maybe it hasn't. The state of Michigan (where we spent most of last week) reported that over 100,000 young people recently registered to vote, a record that no one saw coming. The Slacker Tour has turned into a huge steamroller with a momentum all its own.

So, the Republican Party, to show their gratitude that so many young people will now be involved in our system, has demanded that I be sent to jail for trying to "bribe" students to vote.

Of course, this would be quite laughable if they weren't so serious about their charges. But they are. I may soon be a wanted man in Michigan -- simply because I convinced a few slackers to change their underwear and eat a healthy meal of artificially flavored noodles.

I thought I'd seen it all this year -- Disney refusing to distribute the film they paid for, right-wingers harassing theater owners who showed "Fahrenheit 9/11," conservative action groups trying to get the FEC to kick our film ads off the air, the unnecessary restrictive R-rating that forced teenagers to sneak in to see it, and all the stupid, crazy attacks on me and my movie that I've had to listen to as I watched the public ignore them and pack the movie houses anyway, where my film was being shown. And when all that failed, five different Republican groups made five different attack dog tapes (oops, "documentaries"!) against me in a period of about six weeks. But they were all so bad, so boring, so right-wing, no one wanted to watch them and they too went away, a sad waste of good videotape.

Now, after enduring all this, with no tricks left in their bag, they've just decided, "Let's toss his sorry ass behind bars -- him and his noodles and his gift of clean underwear!"

My friends, they will not catch me. Though I may be on the run, and I may never be able to return home to my beloved Michigan, I make this solemn vow to you and yours: The slackers of America shall not be denied their noodles, they will proudly wear their clean underwear as free Americans, and they will vote Bush out of office come November 2nd (though they will not show up to the polls until well after noon)!

Stay strong, stay slacker, and please remember to turn the underwear inside out every three days. As for the noodles, add boiling water, stir.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com

P.S. My favorite moment of the VP debate: Cheney saying to the moderator that this was the first he heard that that many black women in America had AIDS. Clueless. Cheney, for an entire 90-minutes, only mentioned Bush's name -- that's his running mate, the "president" -- once. They should have called this the "President (Cheney) -- Vice President (Edwards) Debate

Written or spoken, he always sounds like he's speaking directly to you. He's a master of the English language.

in clean underwear ! LOL Didn't their Mothers tell them about accidents and being caught with poop in your drawers !

what a great meme! "The GOP doesn't believe in clean underwear!" But of course! They've been scaring the crap out of us for 3 years!

What a hoot!

Evil will stop at nothing to incarcerate truthseekers and honest men and swing the election for that demon from Hell they call George W. Bush*.
On edit: I wonder if they'll be checking men's underwear next to determine if they accepted the "bribe" to go do their duty as citizens. Everyone wearing Fruit of the Loom will be prosecuted!

I hate what Bushco thinks he can do to freespeech!

had the Sisters
and we have
the GOP.

How often do Republicans change their underwear?
If they do it every time Bush flip flops,
it must be very often.

break up noodles so they fit in a cup/bowl. add water, microwave for 90 sec

after turning them inside out every three days.

from the bu$h admini$tration, and they think that's just dandy.

Not step out of your car..Step out of your undies !

Skipping the middleman of the ACTUAL ELECTED OFFICIAL. They have no shame.

:D :bounce: :D

and what's even funnier is that some Repukes can defend this with a straight face

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy had to dismiss the charges against the guy they were holding for the shooting at the Detroit fireworks display last summer. One of the schools MM visited was Wayne State. I doubt anything will happen there.

What other schools did he visit? UM and MSU? Both are in counties that are not going to prosecute (Washtenaw and Ingham). If he went to Grand Valley State U, Calvin College or CMU, well, those counties (Ottawa, Kent and Isabella) are a whole different world from metro-Detroit and Lansing.

He violated the Elections Act in Canada last spring and got away with it, so he's going for the big leagues now.

Thanks Vetwife.

could it? The GOP has truly lost it! Bribing with underwear and soup? Hahahahaha! They're like a bunch of 2 years old! First we have (Faux News) O'Liely who gets mad at Franken and sues him, loses, and looks like TOTAL FOOLS. Now this? These people are beside themselves because they KNOW they're going to lose HUGE in Nov. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

this isn't news. they destroy of otherwise get rid of anyone that disrupts THEIR flow.

him the EXACT controversy he needs just in time to remind folks to go see F-9/11 on DVD or video!

What an embarrassing mess, the GOP flailing against free speech like this. Every time they attempt to attack Moore, it results in nothing but free publicity for the guy!