Posted on 11/21/2015 4:18:41 PM PST by Impala64ssa
"I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer MY home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you've decided to keep out."
Filmmaker Michael Moore is speaking out about the Syrian refugee crisis.
Moore, a Michigan resident, penned a letter that he posted on Facebook to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, opposing his announcement in regards to a ban on Syrian refugees in the state.
In the letter Moore writes, "I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer MY home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you've decided to keep out." He goes on to call Snyder's actions "anti-American," adding that "this is not who we are supposed to be."
But, in a postscript, he does invite the governor to his home for a hot chocolate.
Moore, a controversial documentarian whose work includes Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story and Bowling for Columbine, won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2003. His latest film, Where to Invade Next, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in a limited release in LA and NY on Dec 23 and nationally on Jan 15.
Read his full letter below:
Dear Gov. Snyder:
I just wanted to let you know that, contrary to your declaration of denying Syrian refugees a home in our state of Michigan, I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer MY home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you've decided to keep out. I will contact the State Department to let them know I am happy to provide a safe haven to any Syrian refugee couple approved by the Obama administration's vetting procedures in which I have full faith and trust.
Your action is not only disgraceful, it is, as you know, unconstitutional (only the President has the legal right to decide things like this).
What you've done is anti-American. This is not who we are supposed to be. We are, for better and for worse, a nation of descendants of three groups: slaves from Africa who were brought here in chains and then forced to provide trillions of dollars of free labor to build this country; native peoples who were mostly exterminated by white Christians through acts of mass genocide; and immigrants from EVERYWHERE around the globe. In Michigan we are fortunate to count amongst us tens of thousands of Arab and Muslim Americans.
I'm disappointed in you, Governor Snyder, for your heartless and un-Christian actions, and for joining in with at least 25 other governors (all but one a Republican) who've decided to block legal Syrian refugees from coming into their states. Fortunately I'm an American and not a Republican.
Governor, count me out of whatever you think it means to be a Michigander. I look forward to welcoming Syrians to my home and I wholeheartedly encourage other Americans to do the same.
Michael Moore
P.S. By the way, my 700-sq. ft. apartment in northern Michigan is a little small, but it's got cable, wi-fi and a new dishwasher! Also, no haters live on my floor! Stop by any time for a hot chocolate this winter.
Great!
Michael Moore would probably eat the refugees, yum yum tasty Jihadists
Find it amazing that the Left, a wildly Anti Christian entity, now tries to use Christian values to convince people to take in 7th century savages.
By the way, some of these guys love beheading Christians. And that’s definitely NOT un-Muslim.
No Muslims will go to his house. The Muslim ban on pork and all...
Hey fat man, come round our neighborhood and we will show you some extremely un-Christian acts.
Obamahole!
I love how the godless left have embraced Christianity as of late. Amazing, isn’t it?
Apparently the Christian thing to do is commit cultural suicide, in his mind.
Come on blood clot make your way to his brain.
Anybody know if a permit is needed to buy a harpoon?
Does anyone want to look up the scripture where good leads his people out of Egypt and tells them not to mix with and take part with other cultures. When they do it anyways then he makes them wait another generation to be delivered to the promised land.
It seems that the moral of that is quite clear to me. It is about corrupting yourself. And in the current case it is even about survival.
So then that’s good, right leftard? I mean, Christians are bad, right, so.....
It’s also “Un-Christian” to hide nativity scenes and remove crosses from memorials.
But then again a book of “fairy tales about an invisible guy that lives in the sky” was never something these retarded leftists ever thought was good enough to look at before, so why start now?
It was about survival of a nation.
Still is.
Mohammedanism is evil.
the fear of the lord is to hate evil (Prov 8:13)
let those who love the lord hate evil (Ps.97:10)
hate what is evil (Rom 12:9)
you love righteousness and hate evil (Ps 45:7)
Still trying to be relevant.
When did suicide become a Christian trait.
He’s not a Christian, how would he know what’s christian or not?
If MM knows much about Christianity he sure fooled me.
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