Posted on 11/21/2015 4:18:41 PM PST by Impala64ssa
"I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer MY home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you've decided to keep out."
Filmmaker Michael Moore is speaking out about the Syrian refugee crisis.
Moore, a Michigan resident, penned a letter that he posted on Facebook to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, opposing his announcement in regards to a ban on Syrian refugees in the state.
In the letter Moore writes, "I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer MY home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you've decided to keep out." He goes on to call Snyder's actions "anti-American," adding that "this is not who we are supposed to be."
But, in a postscript, he does invite the governor to his home for a hot chocolate.
Moore, a controversial documentarian whose work includes Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story and Bowling for Columbine, won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2003. His latest film, Where to Invade Next, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and opens in a limited release in LA and NY on Dec 23 and nationally on Jan 15.
Read his full letter below:
Dear Gov. Snyder:
I just wanted to let you know that, contrary to your declaration of denying Syrian refugees a home in our state of Michigan, I myself am going to defy your ban and will offer MY home in Traverse City, Michigan, to those very Syrian refugees you've decided to keep out. I will contact the State Department to let them know I am happy to provide a safe haven to any Syrian refugee couple approved by the Obama administration's vetting procedures in which I have full faith and trust.
Your action is not only disgraceful, it is, as you know, unconstitutional (only the President has the legal right to decide things like this).
What you've done is anti-American. This is not who we are supposed to be. We are, for better and for worse, a nation of descendants of three groups: slaves from Africa who were brought here in chains and then forced to provide trillions of dollars of free labor to build this country; native peoples who were mostly exterminated by white Christians through acts of mass genocide; and immigrants from EVERYWHERE around the globe. In Michigan we are fortunate to count amongst us tens of thousands of Arab and Muslim Americans.
I'm disappointed in you, Governor Snyder, for your heartless and un-Christian actions, and for joining in with at least 25 other governors (all but one a Republican) who've decided to block legal Syrian refugees from coming into their states. Fortunately I'm an American and not a Republican.
Governor, count me out of whatever you think it means to be a Michigander. I look forward to welcoming Syrians to my home and I wholeheartedly encourage other Americans to do the same.
Michael Moore
P.S. By the way, my 700-sq. ft. apartment in northern Michigan is a little small, but it's got cable, wi-fi and a new dishwasher! Also, no haters live on my floor! Stop by any time for a hot chocolate this winter.
Hey, what did the JETS ever do to you? :)
Don’t you just love it when anti-Christian bigots tell Christians what their religion demands of them?
Oh, I get it.
NOW we’re a Christian nation.
Last week, not so much.
MM is now an expert on Christianity? Seriously.
It would be suicide to accept more muslims, mm. Suicide is quite frowned upon in Christianity.
Classic!
“It’s a Quo’ran!”
Muzz, the other white meat.
It's Un-Christian to support gay marriage and abortion (just read your Bible, Catchechism of the Catholic Church, and the USCCB's "Faithful Citizenship" voting guide, which describes abortion and gay marriage as intrinsically evil), but that's never stopped you before.
He has no idea what the Federal Government’s Vetting Procedures are, yet he has full faith in them.
What a Maroon.
He was fat and ugly before, now you can add stupid.
So, Michael, being Christian is a good thing or a bad thing? If good, who defines it, God or unbelievers?
Man these leftists are pushy. First, they claim be the only ones to define ‘true’ Islam. Now the claim to define Christianity.
It sure is!
Bingo!!!
So I wonder if he offered the torch lake property to the refugees?
As I understand it, that property is in contest with his former wife in a nasty divorce.
If so, typical liberal..
So Michael Moore is tacitly saying that America is a Christian nation. If not then it makes no sense to hold America to that standard.
Did 0bama approve the switch back from muslim nation?
What would this FAT liberal PIG know about Christianity?
The terrorists and gonna need an extra big knife to cut this pig’s head off.
LOL! What would that slovenly overweight facist know about Christianity?
What a perverted look at a country that he hates so much!
700 square foot apartment?! That’s where he stores his toilet paper, that fat SOB owns a dozen nice houses. Typical liberal liar, talk small, live large!
Revise and extend, forgot his divorce, his ex probably got six of those properties in their recent divorce. But they were all his before...
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