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Michael Moore Raises an Army of Freedom Fighters to March on Michigan
Filmmaker Michael Moore issued a battle cry today to every one of his fellow Michiganders to take action and March on Lansing tomorrow to fight back against Gov. Rick Snyder’s dismantling of the state’s democracy. Moore wrote, “The call has gone out and I’m asking everyone who can to take Wednesday off and head to the State Capitol in Lansing to protest the cruel and downright frightening legislation currently being jammed down our throats.”
On his website Michael Moore discussed Snyder’s Jekyll and Hyde transformation from candidate to governor, “What is most shocking to many is that the new governor, who ran against the Tea Party and defeated the right wing of his party in the primaries — and then ran in the general election as “just a nerd from Ann Arbor” who was a moderate, not an ideologue — has pulled off one of the biggest Jekyll and Hyde ruses I’ve ever seen in electoral politics. Governor Snyder, once elected, yanked off his nice-guy mask to reveal that he is in fact a multi-millionaire hell-bent on destroying our state and turning it over to his buddies from Wall Street.”
After a point by point detailing of Snyder’s agenda to destroy all liberty in the state, Moore urged his people of his home state to stand up, “I know many of you are filled with a great sense of despair and a justifiable loss of hope these days in Michigan. But you must not let things get even worse. You must stand up against these Draconian measures and this outrageous attempt to rip our democratic rights from us by turning our state over to well-paid hacks from Wall Street and corporate America. They see our state as one big fire sale — and they are licking their chops to get their hands on what is still a state rich in natural resources and industrial infrastructure.”
He urged everyone to show up at the mega rally tomorrow, “Please show up at noon on Wednesday for our first mega-rally against this insanity. Hundreds of groups are already organizing car pools and buses. You can right now just declare yourself an organizer and get your friends and neighbors committed to being in Lansing. If ever there were a day to call in sick, Wednesday is it (because this IS sick). Students, if ever there were a day to cut class and become a participant in your democracy, Wednesday is it. This event needs to be HUGE — and I believe it will be if you will simply be there and take a stand.”
Michael Moore closed by pointing out that Wisconsin has gotten most of the attention, but Michigan faces an even more immediate threat to its freedom, “Much attention has been paid to Wisconsin in recent weeks. Well, they got nothing on what’s going on here in Michigan. Rick Snyder is Scott Walker on steroids. There’s never been what even the AARP calls “an all-out attack” like this on us. Trust me, you will rue the day you sat home and did nothing while thieves posing as politicians stole your Great Lakes State from you.”
To anyone who values personal liberty and freedom the Rick Snyder’s despotic plan to undermine liberty should be enraging. Gov. Snyder is making Scott Walker look like a happy go lucky moderate. The nation banded together behind Wisconsin’s patriots to reject the belief of the special interest titans that men and women are disposable assets whose should be compensated based on nothing more than their employer’s whim. What is at stake in Michigan is not only the right to negotiate, but the very voice of the people.
Rick Snyder is trying to strangle the dreams of our founders, and mute the ideals of democracy. Snyder isn’t a governor he is an auctioneer of Michigan’s assets, and an enslaver of the people that he had sworn an oath to represent. What the people of the state are being forced to endure is a crime of the greatest cruelty. Michigan has been economically battered for decades, but its people have shown the strength, character, and courage to fight on.
Dear Michiganders you survived the Reagan years, the decline of the auto industry, an economic recovery that skipped many of you, the Lions 0-16 season, and a Great Recession that hangs over you like a depression. You have overcome so much, but now you are facing your greatest challenge yet.
If Gov. Snyder is successful there will be no prosperity in your future. A dark pit of downtrodden sorrow and subservience will be the destined residence not only for yourself, but your children, and their children as well.
Now is the time, and Lansing is the place. Since tyranny never discriminates, you must come together, and stand arm in arm. Mother democracy is calling out to you. Heed her call and rise in her defense.
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galactus6x
Mar. 15th, 2011 at 5:59 pm
God Bless Michigan! God Bless Michiganders! God Bless Michael Moore for being the voice in the wilderness calling out the evil despots for their tyranny! STAND UP PEOPLE OR DIE TRYING! NOTHING LESS THAN THE FUTURE OF THIS NATION IS AT STAKE! ALL REAL AMERICANS SEE THE EVIL IN OUR MIDST. LET US REMOVE THIS BLIGHT FROM OUR LAND!
RECALL,REPEAL,REMEMBER 2012! TAKE BACK OUR GOVERNMENT FOR THE FUTURE!
Joline Chaney
Mar. 15th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Lets get Rick out of OUR government before its to late !
Joe Hill V
Mar. 15th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
we shall overcome
Reynardine
Mar. 15th, 2011 at 8:09 pm
Every politician wants to end up in the White House. No politician wants to end up in the Big House. Someone has evidently begun to tell Governor Walker which house he’s headed for, and now someone needs to make the case still more forcefully to Governor Snyder.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 15th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Both SNyder and Walker went to far to be able to back out gracefully.
But snyder really bit the spider. He is committed
CINDY ROGERS
Mar. 15th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Michael, please please can we do this again on a Saturday or Sunday, most (sorry) Corporations want an advance notice of a day off. Keep up the good fight. Rallies all over the state today and we must continue. Power to the People.
Alejandro Garcia
Mar. 15th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
People, “We the People…”, the time to fight it has arrived; is not tomorrow, is not at next elections, is not in foreign lands…
It is right here in our Homeland… “corpocracy” is making bold moves to restrict our rights up to a point of transforming the USA, into one of the worst dictatorships the world have ever seen…
Wake up fellow Americans… the red coats are marching on your homes, bedrooms, pockets, refrigerators, wombs, children’s rights, work-places and everywhere “We the People…” exist… and they are doing it now, without any shame or even hiding it… their gloves are of… either we “neutralize” them or we’re doomed into a long and bloody dictatorship…
get ready to give your life for freedom, thousands will have to do it before this is over…
look at your history books and read about South America during the 60′s and 70′s… read about the “Condor Plan”… (Nixon & Kissinger’s baby), and the CIA manuals, to put down “unfriendly” governments, then compare… to what’s going on in the USA right now…
next will come “martial law”… then will be too late to be a peaceful marching demonstrator…
that is how my brother got shoot in the eye by a Texas-trained-sniper in Uruguay…
Terry Walsh
Mar. 16th, 2011 at 1:31 am
I would think, that if Snyder ran for Governor, on a platform, that He is now taking a 180 degree turn on, that maybe He can be Recalled as Governor, just as Governor Gray, from California was.
A Candidate is held accountable, for what They promise to try to do and what actions They take, if elected. If the double-cross, is serious enough, He can be Recalled and a new Election be held, in the near future, as was the case in California.
What Snyder has done, seems serious enough to me. Gray was Recalled, just for understating the States Debt, by $15 or 20 Billion.
I would look into this and see if it is doable, If I lived in Michigan. If it is feasable, then you need to obtain enough Petition Signitures, something that would be easy to do, considering the circumstances.
amethystlady2
Mar. 16th, 2011 at 2:30 am
I especially 2nd the “God Bless Michael Moore.” He has to be standing with you, Michael.
Please keep an eye on Colorado too…things are being done here in an underhanded way as well…
Michskin
Mar. 16th, 2011 at 6:51 am
Hey when even the Free Press supports the Emergency Financial Manager bill signed by The governor, do you think you that you all might just be hyperventilating just a bit? I urge you to slow down take a few deep breaths, stop with end of the world vitriol and think. This is not about the end of democracy, but forcing good government on locals that can’t or won’t get it together. Teddy Rosevelt, a wonderful Progressive for his time said “speak softly and carry a big stick”. The point of this legislation is to have it and never use it!
Reynardine
Mar. 16th, 2011 at 9:05 am
Government that is forced seldom ends up being good, and extraordinary powers, once bestowed, are seldom not used.
Jr
Mar. 16th, 2011 at 8:42 am
The Tea Party will ultimately save our freedom from bigger government. We are becoming more and more enslaved everday with Bushes Patriot act and Obamacare.
Before judging really look into the Tea Party and there stand. Don’t watch any censored and controlled media to get your answers. Do your homework and look at the entire bill before critisizing and going by what others say, including the media. Visit the watchdog sites such as Judicialwatch.com for no partisan answers and official government links to read the bills.
Sarah Jones
Mar. 16th, 2011 at 10:34 am
Yeah, you all were all over that Bush Patriot Act.
Jr
Mar. 16th, 2011 at 8:45 am
Oh and Michael Moore is a hypocrit. Is he going to redistribute his millions of dollars made from propaganda? I don’t think so. Funny how so called “progressives” listen to Bill Maher Jon Stewart and others talk about how the CEOs make too mucuch, yet they are worth millions and do nothing but bank their own moneys as well.
Lora
Mar. 24th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Please visit WWW.firericksnyder.org for information on the recall petition, sign up to volunteer. Also can be found on Face-book Recall Governor Rick Snyder. We all need to come together in one spot once the petition is out we will only have 35 days to get all the signatures in order to get it on the ballot by Nov. Please forward this information to everyone you know!! Thanks