FOX: Michael Moore's Bodyguard Arrested on Gun Charge

9:56am Thursday, January 20, 2005

The FOX News Channel is reporting that anti-gun, anti-America filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night.

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FOX reports police took Patrick Burke, who says Moore employs him, into custody after he declared he was carrying a firearm at a ticket counter.

According to the story, Burke is licensed to carry a firearm in Florida and California, but not in New York. Burke was taken to Queens central booking and could potentially be charged with a felony for the incident.

The FOX story concludes by noting that Moore's 2003 Oscar-winning film Bowling for Columbine criticizes what Moore calls America's "culture of fear" and its obsession with guns.

This latest example of Michael Moore's hypocrisy is going to make waves that reverberate through the rest of his sorry life.

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When commenting on the story, weblog Moorewatch.com puts it like this:

You gotta be kidding.

Moore went even further than to call gun owners paranoid in Bowling for Columbine. He calls them racists.

When on television to promote his movie, Moore told Oprah's audience that he thinks all whites are instantly afraid when they see a black person. White folks buy guns because they’re afraid of blacks, he claimed. This is one of the central conclusions made in his film, which uses a cartoon "history" of the U.S. (drawn in the style of a South Park episode) in which guns are depicted as the weapons of paranoid white folks...

So what does that make Moore and his felt-need for an armed body guard? And why doesn't Moore celebrate how arms have been used by minorities to protect against racist groups like the KKK or the Nazis?

Millionaire Moore has often been called a Marxist, but his tendancies in that direction may never have been more obvious than they are in this story.

Like another overweight gun ban extremist before him (Rosie O'Donnell), we now see that Moore believes guns are necessary to protect Hollywood aristocrats like himself, but that the working class schlubs he claims to speak for in his movies simply cannot be trusted with arms.

Despicable.

UPDATE: A statement is being distributed by a security firm that says it employs the man who, according to FOXNews, identified himself to police as being employed by Michael Moore.

The statement does not deny that this person has been assigned to Michael Moore in the past, nor that he told police that he was employed by Moore, but does clarify that the bodyguard was not protecting Moore when he was arrested for carrying a firearm in his luggage without a license to carry a firearm in New York City.

A widely distributed Associated Press wire report states "Burk has been assigned to protect Moore at times in the past, but is not his personal bodyguard, [employer] Gavin de Becker said."

Whatever the most appropriate terms to describe Burk's relationship with Moore are, it is the revelation that Michael Moore has previously employed armed guards to protect him that is driving this story, since he hypocritically seeks to deny the right to
choose armed self-defense from the rest of America.

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