Posted on 05/14/2007 12:55:14 PM PDT by Puppage
Joe Boucher is calling for Michael Moore to go to jail for a decade. With abuse from a big guy named bubba demanding him put of the lotion. More Lotion.
First he leaks the info and now all he is doing is milking the media for all the free coverage he can get solely because he will be in Canes later this month.
End to probe? Absolutely not.
I call for a REAL federal probe; of Michael Moore’s posterior region, preferably to be done with a high-pressure steam hose.
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"The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control notified Moore in a letter dated May 2 that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba.
"This office has no record that a specific license was issued authorizing you to engage in travel-related transactions involving Cuba," Dale Thompson, OFAC chief of general investigations and field operations, wrote in the letter to Moore.
In March, Moore took about 10 ailing workers from the Ground Zero rescue effort in Manhattan for treatment in Cuba...
Moore received the letter Monday. "Sicko" premieres May 19 at the Cannes Film Festival and debuts in U.S. theaters June 29. After receiving the letter, Moore arranged to place a copy of the film in a "safe house" outside the country to protect it from government interference...
The letter noted that Moore applied Oct. 12, 2006, for permission to go to Cuba "but no determination had been made by OFAC." Moore sought permission to travel there under a provision for full-time journalists, the letter said.
According to the letter, Moore was given 20 business days to provide OFAC with such information as the date of travel and point of departure; the reason for the Cuba trip and his itinerary there; and the names and addresses of those who accompanied him, along with their reasons for going.
Potential penalties for violating the embargo were not indicated. In 2003, the New York Yankees paid the government $75,000 to settle a dispute that it conducted business in Cuba in violation of the embargo. _____________________________
There you have it. It cost the Yankees $75,000 to do business with Cuba. It should cost Moore at least as much if he did "business" with Cuba.
http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/05-10-2007/410b002b12aa1ad6.html
He has nothing to fear from the Bush Justice Department — he’s a leftist and therefore immune from serious inquiry. They’ll look at it for a while and then cut a deal to let him off if he agrees to say 15 Hail Hillary’s.
Perhaps the White House can tell Mikey to suck the big one........in a nice way, of course.
Looks like SpongeMike Sweatpants has a rather aggrandized sense of importance - look, Lumpy Reifenstahl, if Bush wanted to come after you, he’d have done it in 2004 - he didn’t. He doesn’t give a rat’s patoot about you. You went to Cuba and the government found out about it and now the government is doing to you what it does to anyone who goes to Cuba.
Which is, I suspect, what you wanted all along. No one has cared a fig about your new documentary. If you really wanted them to get good health care and showcase a “national health care that [according to MM] works,” you’d have taken them to your precious Canada.
If that is what they are going to do, then they should quit wasting money on the investigation.
Few people will believe that the government caught Moore red handed and just decided not to prosecute. If you have already decided not to prosecute, then don't waste taxpayer money investigating.
If the discover that he did break the law, and that they have a solid case, prosecute him.
Good point.
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