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According to Michael Moore, Canadians don’t lock their doors at night

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Michael Moore is convinced that, because there is so little poverty in Canada, we don’t lock our doors at night:

18% of Americans live in poverty. In Canada, it’s a little over 1%. That’s why Canadians don’t lock their doors,” he wrote

Mike, you really need to talk to Fred Hiltz so you can get your stories straight. Canada is awash with poverty:

The Anglican and Lutheran churches in Canada have asked the federal government to adopt recommendations made by a House of Commons committee to “immediately commit to an action plan to reduce poverty in the country.

I’m off to bed now – after I unlock my front door.

A new target for the Occupiers

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Michael Moore’s multi-million dollar house:


Not only could protesters demand that he give back the fortune he has made using capitalism to deride capitalism, they could also demand he donate his underpants to be used as tents.

From here:

It’s no secret that Moore has made millions from his muckraking documentaries, and there’s no reason he shouldn’t have. As one of the most successful documentary film-makers ever, he’s successfully tapped a rich vein of anti-capitalist rhetoric that sells well among U.S. liberals.

What puts Moore in the Gore camp is his refusal to admit he shares the wealth of his targets, as if wealth and success in themselves are dishonourable. In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan he quails when asked to admit “the bleeding obvious”, i.e. that he’s a member of the 1%.

“How can I be in the 1%?” Moore responds. “Even though I do well, I don’t associate myself with those who do well. I am devoting my life to those who have less and have been crapped on by the system.”

At the execution of Troy Davis

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Lesbian Unitarian ministers wept, Alec Baldwin called those who disagree with him “blood-thirsty right wing trash” and Michael Moore declared Georgia a “murderous state”, adding:

“I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia,”

Which is odd, since he has just made plans to travel to Iran which, in 1988, executed 30,000 people without any trial at all – and Iran continues to administer its version of justice with undiminished vigour.

That must be OK because, like Michael Moore, Iran hates America.

So go the arguments against the death penalty.