Posted on 04/28/2004 7:12:54 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
“The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win.” These are not the words of Al Jazeera, or the ravings of some fanatical Moslem Sheik. They are the words of Michael Moore, Oscar-winning filmmaker, best-selling author, and ostensibly an “American.” There is only one word which can be used to describe such a man: traitor.
Based upon the success of his movies and the sales of his books, it’s fair to call Michael Moore the leading anti-American propagandist in the world today. He is widely admired in Canada, France, Germany, and virtually every foreign nation opposed to the United States. He is, in all probability, the single most popular American in any of those three countries. To put it another way: he is the leading American creator of seditious propaganda which is used by the enemies of the United States to defame the nation of his birth.
In wartime, there is only a single fate deserved by traitors and seditionists: death. Now, I’m not calling for anyone to go out and kill Mr. Moore on their own or without judicial sanction. There are laws for this sort of thing. It’s written right into the Constitution. “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” That’s from Article Three, Section Three of the Constitution of the United States of America. Look it up.
Look at Moore’s words and look at their effect. Is he adhering to the enemies of the United States? He’s comparing them to the Minutemen and, in fact, denying that they are enemies at all. I’d say that’s a check. Is he giving them aid and comfort? “They will win,” sure sounds like aid and comfort to me. This, of course, is taking only this single incident into account. When you consider the complete body of Mr. Moore’s recent book: his excreable film Bowling for Columbine which denounces the United States in every possible way, and his books Stupid White Men and Dude, Where’s My Country?, it must be conceded that no one has done more to advance the cause of anti-Americanism through the world. This, my friends, is treason in wartime.
Michael Moore reminds me of William Joyce, universally known as Lord Haw-Haw, the British fascist whose propaganda broadcasts from Germany were widely listened to during the Second World War. Believing that the war was the fault of “international Jewry”, Joyce used his broadcasts from Berlin to spread Nazi propaganda and undermine British morale.
Some might say to me, “well, Michael Moore is just doing what he thinks is right.” And so he probably is. But that doesn’t excuse it or justify it. Joyce thought he was doing the right thing as well. To the very end, he tried to warn the British people that they were being manipulated by the Jews, among other things. The sincerity of his absurd beliefs didn’t justify them or his actions. Theoretically good intentions are not a reason for evading the consequences of one’s actions.
Joyce broadcast from Berlin because the British were sensible enough to, on the commencement of hostilities, round up all potential subversives and intern them for the duration of the war. Michael Moore broadcasts freely because naively we have not. But their crimes remain basically the same. Joyce sought, as Moore still does, to undermine the morale of his own nation and to promote the victory of its enemies. Both give courage to those enemies (Joyce’s broadcasts were the most listened-to in Berlin), convincing them that the morale of their opponents is less strong than it actually is, thereby prolonging resistance and causing more death.
After the war British soldiers captured Joyce, who suddenly insisted that he couldn’t be tried for treason because he wasn’t a British citizen. That didn’t matter too much to the British who, using a technicality of the law, executed him anyways.
If the nation itself were not permeated with traitors and subversives whose objections would be nearly impossible to overcome, then perhaps we would be able to do the right thing. Michael Moore should share Lord Haw-Haw’s fate: he should be charged with treason, convicted by a jury of his peers, and then taken our and hanged by the neck until he is dead. Treason must be punished in such a way as to deter others.
To those who claim that such an extreme act would only inspire resistance, I point to the very good example set by Ben Butler when he was the Military Governor of New Orleans- surely a more difficult task than any we face in dealing with treason today. Shortly before Butler arrived in the city a frenzied mob tore down and desecrated an American flag which had been prematurely flown over the mint. A minor violation to be sure, but one to be taken seriously: minor rebellions precede major ones. Butler responded by ordering a search for the culprits. When a man named William Mumford was found still wearing a piece of Old Glory he was through a drumhead trial and hanged. Resistance by the men of New Orleans promptly ceased.
Butler knew how to deal with traitors. A woman who laughed at the funeral of a Union officer was sentenced to two years in prison. When women persisted in refusing to show proper respect for the soldiers of the United States, Butler issued his famous order declaring that, “when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.”
I don’t expect that anyone will take my advice any time soon (though I wish they would!). Of course, after our enemies manage to launch a nuclear or biological attack, they may very well do so. Frankly, if I were Michael Moore or someone like him, I’d have plans to make my way to Paris after a nuclear attack and to do so quickly for, under such circumstances, the justice system probably wouldn’t even get a chance to deal with him.
Of course, we all may take comfort from the fact that, whatever happens to traitors in this life, they all share the same fate in the next. Some time, be it next year or be it decades from now, Michel Moore will join his comrades-in-treason amid the lowest circle of hell.
Lando
That can't happen. Engineers have calculated that to hold Moore's weight, a rope would have to have a diameter of 32 feet. So it's not possible.
Nah. A standard hangman's rope and noose will hold up alright, but it's likely that Jabba the Filmmaker's enormous mass will snap his head clean off. Well, almost clean...
It's starting to stink.
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