America - You can't handle the Truth!!!

...or so the U.S. Goverment thinks.
Say what you will about Michael Moore , he gets people participating in an open dialogue and that is always a good thing. Of course his new documentary is gaining lots of heat, and it seems like once again it is the U.S. conservative government lighting the matches.

From ‘ The Hollywood Reporter ”
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko" which promises to take the health-care industry to task the way Moore confronted America's passion for guns in " Bowling for Columbine " and skewered Bush over his handling of Sept. 11 in " Fahrenheit 9/11."
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. A copy of the letter was obtained Wednesday by the AP.
"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, said a person working with the filmmaker on the release of "Sicko." The person requested anonymity because Moore's attorneys had not yet determined how to respond.”


This sounds all too much like someone is trying to lay the groundwork to prevent America, and the rest of the world, from seeing this movie. Most other countries know that the U.S. heath-care system is broken and at times even deadly, but what the documentary will do is shock and re-educate many people. You know the U.S. government does not like re-education of it’s people unless authorized by them.

“Sicko" is Moore's followup to 2004's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a $100 million hit criticizing the Bush administration over Sept. 11. Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" won the 2002 Oscar for best documentary.

A dissection of the U.S. health-care system, "Sicko" was inspired by a segment on Moore's TV show "The Awful Truth," in which he staged a mock funeral outside a health-maintenance organization that had declined a pancreas transplant for a diabetic man. The HMO later relented.

Republican Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson , who assailed the filmmaker in a blog at National Review.com, has openly criticized Moore for distorting facts…unsurprisingly Thompson is EXTREMELY conservative. He is also the subject of speculation about a possible presidential run. Oh lord help us all.
In a letter in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Friday, Moore says that the White House may have opened the investigation for political reasons.

“Secretary Paulson,
I am contacting you in light of the document sent to me dated May 2, 2007, which was received May 7, 2007 indicating that an investigation has been opened up with regards to a trip I took to Cuba with a group of Americans that included some 9/11 heroes in March 2007 related to the filming of my next documentary, on the American Healthcare system. SiCKO, which will be seen in theaters this summer, will expose the health care industry’s greed and control over America’s political processes. ” Read the rest here

What is exciting is when I looked on the IMDB earlier and saw THIS coming out in 2008.
Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2 which looks how in the wake of the 2004 United States Presidential election, Michael Moore continues to examine what happened to the United States after September 11, and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Heee!!!! Clappy hands, clappy hands!!! I love this man.