The IDIOT Mike Moore

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Yes, Michael Moore makes his living (and, probably more important to him, gets his jollies) tweaking the establishment, popping balloons and generally being a nuisance to the status quo. This probably pisses off the great majority of Americans (but does not keep him off the NY Times Best Seller list).

BUT, whether you agree with him or not, the fact that he was not arrested let alone summarily executed for what he did last night is proof positive of one of the very basic freedoms that many of us here (including me, 1st Armored Division, Germany 1975-9) served (and even fought and died) to defend.

As everyone from the founding fathers to various Supreme Court justices have pointed out, freedom of speech is not there to protect popular speech which needs no such champion but to protect unpopular, anti-establishment and even outrageous speech...


Roberto