Open letter to Michael Moore

Mr. Moore,

My name is Chris Lowel and I’m pretty much a nobody in every sense of the word, but the few folks who bother reading anything at Moorewatch might know me by the endless rants I’ve posted there under the handle “biafra”.

Moorewatch is where I’d been forever - what’s the word - spewing the vilest, bitter, woefully hate-filled monologues against all and any (primarily non-American) visitor who’s ever offered any (world)views deviating even mildly from the white, hetero, Xtian, right-wing, hardline American Way, that is, until even the most die-hard Bush drones in charge there had had enough and decided to ban me from their site, Rightfully and even cosmically so, I’ve come to realize.

Relegated to silently sulking around online, I actually read your open letters to the people posted there, along with the usual snide responses and derision they invariably drew. Lastly, I took a look into the recently released “Slacker Uprising”, which documents your past efforts to swing the vote.

During this time of “inaction”, as it were, I’ve come around to thinking that you do perhaps indeed have God’s ear - good karma, whatever the magic is called.  Its on record that you saved the life(style) of a major detractor of yours, and then I, too, was recently stricken with a serious illness whilst eagerly adhering to his anti-welfare stance. I’m alive, but $50,000+ in debt.

Thing is, after their taking the helm, constantly encouraging me to take it easy and rest, praise the Lord, read the Bible and “just get some credit cards already” several people I’d long considered my closest friends and allies eventually abandoned me for greener pastures - literally.  Four months of second-hand hardship in the form of my fretting over mounting debt exacerbated by unnecessary “conveniences” that amounted to nothing more than late fees and daily runs to Starbucks, was too much for some to bear. They “fixed” my books for me, and then booked.

Case in point: The neurosurgeon who saved my life gets all of $50/month for his efforts while that monthly Amex finance charge swallows $56/month. Oh, and that unused LA Fitness membership? A measly $42/month. I fixed that and other boondoggles, but its not enough to stave off bankruptcy. I’ve heard that once I’m in the “system”, it won’t get any better. The operation was successful, but this patient is dead.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/18/223744/567

Either way, Moore has done it again.  And there’s a larger point.  A society that’s not constantly fretting about how to pay for medical bills is a BETTER SOCIETY, and the “magic benefactor” can easily be a single-payer system that would cost less than we pay for health care now, and provide better quality service.  Moore is a genius at finding real-world ways to illustrate his point of view.  This is an excellent example.

Praise the Lord, indeed: I’ve come up with a simple idea to clearly illustrate what universal health care - truly caring for your neighbor - is all about.

“Slacker Uprising” has successfully created pre-election buzz, and to keep the ball rolling I suggest you add another dimension of punch to, repeat: demonstrate how free health care, and by extension, caring for your neighbor, works.

Race, creed, color, political leanings, religious beliefs - whoever the person in need, true humanists will always put all and any differences aside, step up and deliver. The haves must always come to the aid of the have-nots; until their vote makes it law, the good people will do so voluntarily and without reserve.

In these, the last few weeks leading to the most important election in modern times, I say post an online donation drive for me at www.michaelmoore.com, set up a counter to show the amount of donations made, the number of donators, and perhaps even a (voluntary) tally of which side of the fence they stand on.

Let’s show those voters still on the fence how a new and improved nation will deliver on its promises, and how many are willing to lead by example, not just spout empty platitudes.

I have little use for opulence, living large, and, least of all, waste of any kind, so what I don’t need to cover my bills I could, in turn, eventually pass on to the next person in need - hey, starting with the folks at Moorewatch.

What say you? Yeah, or HELL, YEAH!!

biafra