Michael Moore Speaks With Roseanne Barr on HLN, Part 1, 2 & 3 -- March 29th, 2011

Michael Moore on The Colbert Report - Comedy Central

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Michael Moore says labor unions are on the ropes because wealthy people have done everything they can to destroy them. (07:17)

'America Is NOT Broke': Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI -- March 5, ...

"Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich." -- Michael Moore


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How I Got to Madison, Wisconsin...a letter from Michael Moore - Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Friends,
Early yesterday morning, around 1:00 AM, I had finished work for the day on my current "project" (top secret for now -- sorry, no spoiler alerts!). Someone had sent me a link to a discussion Bill O'Reilly had had with Sarah Palin a few hours earlier about my belief that the money the 21st Century rich have absconded with really isn't theirs -- and that a vast chunk of it should be taken away from them.
They were referring to comments I had made earlier in the week on a small cable show called GRITtv (Part 1 and Part 2). I honestly didn't know this was going to air that night (I had been asked to stop by and say a few words of support for a nurses union video), but I spoke from my heart about the millions of our fellow Americans who have had their homes and jobs stolen from them by a criminal class of millionaires and billionaires. It was the morning after the Oscars, at which the winner of Best Documentary for "Inside Job" stood at the microphone and declared, "I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail. And that's wrong." And he was applauded for saying this. (When did they stop booing Oscar speeches? Damn!)
So GRITtv ran my comments -- and all week the right wingopoly has been upset over what I said: That the money that the rich have stolen (or not paid taxes on) belongs to the American people. Drudge/Limbaugh/Beck and even Donald Trump went nuts, calling me names and suggesting I move to Cuba.
So in the wee hours of yesterday morning I sat down to write an answer to them. By 3:00 AM, it had turned into more of a manifesto of class war -- or, I should say, a manifesto against the class war the rich have been conducting on the American people for the past 30 years. I read it aloud to myself to see how it sounded (trying not to wake anyone else in the apartment) and then -- and this is why no one should be up at 3:00 AM -- the crazy kicked in: I needed to get in the car and drive to Madison and give this speech.
I went online to get directions and saw that there was no official big rally planned like the one they had last Saturday and will have again next Saturday. Just the normal ongoing demonstration and occupation of the State Capitol that's been in process since February 12th (the day after Mubarak was overthrown in Egypt) to protest the Republican governor's move to kill the state's public unions.
So, it's three in the morning and I'm a thousand miles from Madison and I see that the open microphone for speakers starts at noon. Hmm. No time to drive from New York. I was off to the airport. I left a note on the kitchen table saying I'd be back at 9:00 PM. Called a friend and asked him if he wanted to meet me at the Delta counter. Called the guy who manages my website, woke him up, and asked him to track down the coordinators in Madison and tell them I'm on my way and would like to say a few words if possible -- "but tell them if they've got other plans or no room for me, I'll be happy just to stand there holding a sign and singing Solidarity Forever."
So I just showed up. The firefighters, hearing I'm there, ask me to lead their protest parade through downtown Madison. I march with them, along with John Nichols (who lives in Madison and writes for the Nation). Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin and the great singer Michelle Shocked have also decided to show up.
The scene in Madison is nothing like what they are showing you on TV or in the newspaper. First, you notice that the whole town is behind this. Yard signs and signs in store windows are everywhere supporting public workers. There are thousands of people out just randomly lining the streets for the six blocks leading to the Capitol building carrying signs, shouting and cheering and cajoling. Then there are stages and friendly competing demos on all sides of the building (yesterday's total estimate of people was 50,000-70,000, the smallest one yet)! A big semi truck has been sent by James Hoffa of the Teamsters and is parked like a don't-even-think-of-effing-with-us Sherman tank on the street in front of the Capitol. There is a long line -- separate from these other demonstrations -- of 4,000 people, waiting their turn to get through the only open door to the Capitol so they can join the occupation inside.
And inside the Rotunda is ... well, it will bring tears to your eyes if you go there. It's like a shrine to working people -- to what America is and should be about -- packed with families and kids and so many senior citizens that it made me happy for science and its impact on life expectancy over the past century. There were grandmas and great-grandpas who remember FDR and Wisconsin's La Follette and the long view of this struggle. Standing in that Rotunda was like a religious experience. There had been nothing like it, for me, in decades.
And so it was in this setting, out of doors now on the steps of the Capitol, with so many people in front of me that I couldn't see where they ended, that I just "showed up" and gave a speech that felt unlike any other I had ever given. As I had just written it and had no time to memorize it, I read from the pages I brought with me. I wanted to make sure that the words I had chosen were clear and exact. I knew they had the potential to drive the haters into a rabid state (not a pretty sight) but I also feared that the Right's wealthy patrons would see a need to retaliate should these words be met with citizen action across the land. I was, after all, putting them on notice: We are coming after you, we are stopping you and we are going to return the money/jobs/homes you stole from the people. You have gone too far. It's too bad you couldn't have been satisfied with making millions, you had to have billions -- and now you want to strip us of our ability to talk and bargain and provide. This is your tipping point, Wall Street; your come-to-Jesus moment, Corporate America. And I'm glad I'm going to be able to be a witness to it.
You can find the written version of my speech on my website. Please read it and pass it around far and wide. You can also watch a video of me giving the spoken version from the Capitol steps by clicking here. I will be sending you a second email shortly with just the speech so you can forward a clean version of it without the above story of how I abandoned my family in the middle of the night to go to Wisconsin for the day.
I can't express enough the level of admiration I have for the people of Wisconsin who, for three weeks, have braved the brutal winter cold and taken over their state Capitol. All told, literally hundreds of thousands of people have made their way to Madison to make their voices heard. It all began with high school students cutting class and marching on the building (you can read their reports on my High School Newspaper site). Then their parents joined them. Then 14 brave Democratic state senators left the state so the governor wouldn't have his quorum.
And all this while the White House was trying to stop this movement (read this)!
But it didn't matter. The People's train had left the station. And now protests were springing up in all 50 states.
The media has done a poor job covering this (imagine a takeover of the government HQ in any other country, free or totalitarian -- our media would be all over it). But this one scares them and their masters -- as it should. The organizers told me this morning that my showing up got them more coverage yesterday than they would have had, "a shot in the arm that we needed to keep momentum going." Well, I'm glad I could help. But they need a lot more than just me -- and they need you doing similar things in your own states and towns.
How 'bout it? I know you know this: This is our moment. Let's seize it. Everyone can do something.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
P.S. This local Madison paper/blog captured best what happened yesterday, and got what I'm really up to. Someone please send this to O'Reilly and Palin so there's no mistaking my true intentions.
P.P.S. Full disclosure: I am a proud union member of four unions: the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA (the last two have passed resolutions supporting the workers in Wisconsin). My production company has signed union contracts with five unions (and soon to be a 6th). All my full-time employees have full medical and dental insurance with NO DEDUCTIBLE. So, yes, I'm biased.

President Obama, Replace Rahm With Me: An Open Letter From Michael Moore

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Friday, March 5th, 2010

Dear President Obama,

I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chief of staff.

I would like to humbly offer myself, yours truly, as his replacement.

I will come to D.C. and clean up the mess that's been created around you. I will work for $1 a year. I will help the Dems on Capitol Hill find their spines and I will teach them how to nonviolently beat the Republicans to a pulp.

And I will help you get done what the American people sent you there to do. I don't need much, just a cot in the White House basement will do.

Now, don't get too giddy with excitement over my offer, because you and I are going to be up at 5 in the morning, 7 days a week and I am going to get you pumped up for battle every single day (see photo). Each morning you and I will do 100 jumping jacks and you will repeat after me:

"THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED ME, NOT THE REPUBLICANS, TO RUN THE COUNTRY! I AM IN CHARGE! I WILL ORDER ALL OBSTRUCTIONISTS OUTTA MY WAY! IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T LIKE WHAT I'M DOING THEY CAN THROW MY ASS OUT IN 2012. IN THE MEANTIME, I CALL THE SHOTS ON THEIR BEHALF! NOW, CONGRESS, DROP AND GIVE ME 50!!"

Then we will put on our jogging sweats and run up to Capitol Hill. We will take names, kick butts, and then take some more names. If we have to give a few noogies or half-nelson's, then so be it. In our pockets we will have a piece of paper to show the pansy Dems just how much they won by in 2008 -- and the poll results that show the majority of Americans oppose the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and want the bankers punished. Like drill sergeants, we will get right up in their faces and ask them, "WHAT PART OF THE PUBLIC MANDATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, SOLDIER?!! DROP AND GIVE ME 50!"

I know this is the job Rahm Emanuel was supposed to be doing.

Now, don't get me wrong. I have always admired Rahm Emanuel (if you don't count his getting NAFTA pushed through Congress in the '90s which destroyed towns like Flint, Michigan. I know, picky-picky.). He is what we needed for a long time -- a no-apologies, take-no-prisoners fighting machine. Someone who is not afraid to get his hands dirty and pound the right wing into submission. Far from being the foul-mouthed bully he has been portrayed as, Rahm is the one who BEAT UP the bullies to protect us from them.

That's certainly what he did in 2006. After six long, miserable years of the middle-class getting slaughtered and the poor being flushed down the toilet, Rahm Emanuel took on the job of returning Congress to the Democrats. No one believed it could be done.

But he did it. Big time. He put the fear of God into the party of Rush and Newt. They had never been so scared. More importantly, though, he instilled a sense of hope in the Democrats that they could actually score the mother of all hat tricks in 2008 -- and with you, an African American no less, in the pole position!

It worked. The Darkness ended. The vast majority of nation wept with joy on the night of the election (those who weren't weeping went out and bought a record number of guns and ammo). Unlike the last president, you didn't "win" by 537 votes in Florida (although Gore won the popular vote by a half-million), you beat McCain nationally by 9,522,083 votes! The House Democrats got a walloping 79-vote margin. The Senate Dems would caucus with a supermajority of 60 votes unheard of in over 30 years. The wars would now end. America would have universal health care. Wall Street and the banks would, at the very least, be reined in. Hardworking citizens would not be thrown out of their homes. It was supposed to be the dawning of a new age.

But the Republicans were not going to go quietly into the night. You see, instead of having just one Rahm Emanuel, they are ALL Rahm Emanuels. That's why they usually win. Unlike most Democrats, they are relentless and unstoppable. When they believe in something (which is usually themselves and the K Street job they hope to be rewarded with someday), they'll fight for it till the death. They are loyal to a fault to each other (they were never able to denounce Bush, even though they knew he was destroying the party). They dig their heels in deep no matter what. If you exiled them to a lone chunk of melting polar ice cap, they would keep insisting that it was just a normal "January thaw," even as the frigid Arctic waters rose above their God-fearing necks ("See what I mean -- this water is COLD! What 'global *warming*'?! Adam and Eve rode dinos...aagghh!!... gulp gulp gulp").

We thought we were all done with this craziness, but we were mistaken. Like a beast that you just can't cage, the Republicans convinced not only the media, but YOU and your fellow Dems, that 59 votes was a *minority*! Precious time was lost trying to reach a "consensus" and trying to be "bipartisan."

Well, you and the Democrats have been in charge now for over a year and not one banking regulation has been reinstated. We don't have universal health care. The war in Afghanistan has escalated. And tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose their jobs and be thrown out of their homes. For most of us, it's just simply no longer good enough that Bush is gone. Woo hoo. Bush is gone. Yippee. That hasn't created one new friggin' job.

You're such a good guy, Mr. President. You came to Washington with your hand extended to the Republicans and they just chopped it off. You wanted to be respectful and they decided that they were going to say "no" to everything you suggested. Yet, you kept on saying you still believed in bipartisanship.

Well, if you really want bipartisanship, just go ahead and let the Republicans win in November. Then you'll get all the bipartisanship you want.

Let me be clear about one thing: The Democrats on Election Day 2010 are going to get an ass-whoopin' of biblical proportions if things don't change right now. And after the new Republican majority takes over, they, along with a few conservative Democrats in Congress, will get to bipartisanly impeach you for being a socialist and a citizen of Kenya. How nice to see both sides of the aisle working together again!

And the brief window we had to fix this country will be gone.

Gone.

Gone, baby, gone.

I don't know what your team has been up to, but they haven't served you well. And Rahm, poor Rahm, has turned into a fighter -- not of Republicans, but of the left. He called those of us who want universal health care "f***ing retarded." Look, I don't know if Rahm is the problem or if it's Gibbs or Axelrod or any of the other great people we owe a debt of thanks to for getting you elected. All I know is that whatever is fueling your White House it's now running on fumes. Time to shake things up! Time to bring me in to get you pumped up every morning! Go Barack! Yay Obama! Fight, Team, Fight!

I'm packed and ready to come to D.C. tomorrow. If it helps, you won't really be losing Rahm entirely because I'll be bringing his brother with me -- my agent, Ari Emanuel. Man, you should see HIM negotiate a deal! Have you ever wanted to see Mitch McConnell walking around Capitol Hill carrying his own head in his hands after it's just been handed to him by the infamous Ari? Oh, baby, it won't be pretty -- but boy will it be sweet!

What say you, Barack? Me and you against the world! Yes we can! It'll be fun -- and we may just get something done. Whaddaya got to lose? Hope?

Retardedly yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. Just to give you an idea of the new style I'll be bringing with me, when a cornhole like Sen. Ben Nelson tries to hold you up next time, this is what I will tell him in order to get his vote: "You've got exactly 30 seconds to rescind your demand or I will personally make sure that Nebraska doesn't get one more federal dollar for the rest of Obama's term. And then I will let everyone in your state know that you wear Sooner panties, backwards. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME 50!"

Watch Sicko - A Michael Moore Documentary on Healthcare...

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A must watch film to understand the health-care reform debate..

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Sicko is a documentary film by Michael Moore. The film investigates the American health care system in 2007, focusing on its health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.

According to the movie Sicko, almost fifty million Americans are uninsured and those who are covered with insurance are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. Interviews are conducted with people who thought they had adequate coverage but were denied care, as well as former employees of insurance companies who describe cost-cutting initiatives that encourage bonuses for insurance company physicians to deny medical treatments for policy holders.

In this documentary, the director / writer Michael Moore exposes the dysfunctional North American health care system, oriented to huge profits and not for their mission of saving lives. Further, Moore shows the corruption in the political system, with members of government and congress “bought” by the corporations and the situation of the average American citizens.

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The Worlds Best Country to Live in - Left Out of the Michel Moore Film -SICKO

This is a video clip teaser from the bonus material on the DVD-version of Michel Moore' movie Sicko.

This clip was left out of the original movie because it was said to be "unbelievable" and "people wouldn't believe it" because it was too good to be true.

The movie "Sicko" is know for its critique of the US health care system and it praised systems in Canada, UK and France. This praise reaped a storm of protests through the media and big corporations but as you will see in this video, those countries who were told to be "not as good as Michael Moore told them to be", is nothing compared to the legal system and state welfare we have in Norway.

YouTube - Michael Moore on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on July 12, 2007...

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SF Chronicle: 'Sicko' a Pain in the Neck for Healthcare Industry / Uncomfortable Attention on Insurers, Drug Companies

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by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, June 30, 2007
Filmmaker Michael Moore (left) in a scene from his movie,...

In "Sicko," his new film assailing the U.S. health care system, filmmaker Michael Moore doesn't try to be fair to health insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

That's because Moore -- the man behind anti-Bush "Fahrenheit 9/11" and pro-gun control "Bowling for Columbine" -- makes no pretense of balance. He has a point of view: Greedy pharmaceutical companies need to be much more tightly regulated. And health insurers? They shouldn't exist at all, replaced instead by government-subsidized health care.

It's safe to say the health care industry looked forward to the film's opening Friday about as much as they would to open-heart surgery.

All the same, industry representatives tried to downplay the potential impact and insisted the film was causing them nothing more than a mild case of angina.

"Unfortunately, this is a Hollywood editorial. It is not a documentary and it should be seen as such," said Mohit Ghose, spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group. "He (Moore) made no attempt to contact us ... about the issues he raises in the movie."

Ghose said he has no plans to see the film. But many insurance insiders admit to having already seen the film in previews, clips or in a bootlegged copy that appeared briefly on the Internet almost two weeks ago.

Moore builds his case against managed care through a series of anecdotes: a woman whose health insurer denied treatment on the basis she was "too young" to have cervical cancer; another who was billed for an ambulance ride after a car accident because she failed to get the trip "pre-approved."

Some cases are heart-wrenching, such as a Kansas City man who died from kidney cancer after his insurer deemed his treatment options "experimental."

Focus on talking points

As part of its damage-control strategy, insurance industry executives talked among themselves and agreed to focus on a few "talking points." They say they encourage debate about health care reform and support initiatives to reduce the number of uninsured Americans.

Insurers decided it was not in their interest to enter a public battle of wits with Moore, whose "Fahrenheit 9/11" was the top-grossing documentary of all time.

"We all agreed that taking the high road as opposed to taking on Michael Moore is what we wanted to do," said Matthew Schiffgens, spokesman for Kaiser Permanente.

Shannon Troughton, spokeswoman for WellPoint Inc., the parent company of Blue Cross of California, said there was no "strategy on our part to handle this in any specific way."

"There's a difference between the movie, which is more of a one-sided piece of entertainment, versus what really needs to happen, which is a dialog and conversation at all levels about health reform," she said.

Kaiser's rebuttal

Still, many companies have taken it on themselves to clarify the ways they believe they've been misrepresented in the film.

Kaiser, headquartered in Oakland, posted a rebuttal on its Web site to the way it was portrayed in specific portions of the film.

The HMO features prominently in a 1993 case involving 18-month-old Mychelle Williams. The little girl died from a blood infection shortly after being transferred to a Kaiser hospital from Martin Luther King Jr. /Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.

While the film contends she died because Kaiser refused to authorize tests that would have determined her condition, Kaiser said it was a case of medical malpractice, not denial of treatment. The jury found both doctors involved to be liable, with King/Drew responsible for 75 percent of the more than $1.35 million in damages and Kaiser for 25 percent.

Kaiser also took issue with the film's portrayal of a conversation between Richard Nixon and John Ehrlichman, in which the former president's top domestic adviser urged him to set rules authorizing the health maintenance organization structure. He cited Kaiser as an example, arguing that its model of medicine provided less care and therefore made more money.

"Ehrlichman's distorted paraphrase badly misrepresents Kaiser Permanente, its goals, its strategy and its not-for-profit model," Kaiser's Web site states.

As for a segment in which Kaiser is accused of dumping an indigent patient near a Los Angeles shelter, Kaiser admitted to handling the transfer "very badly" but called it an isolated incident. Kaiser said it has changed its practices to prevent the inappropriate discharge of homeless patients.

Blue Shield of California, based in San Francisco, said Moore did not tell the full story in the case of Maria Watanabe, a woman who explained in the film she was denied an MRI and finally received one in Japan, where she discovered she had a brain tumor. The filmmaker ends her story by saying she hired a lawyer.

"Blue Shield was completely unaware of the women's medical condition until we were sued, and we prevailed in a jury trial. The filmmaker was aware of the trial and undoubtedly knew the outcome," Blue Shield spokesman Tom Epstein said.

Blue Cross of California declined to discuss the case of a woman whose policy was retroactively canceled for failing to disclose she had a yeast infection. The company said the case was "favorably settled by both parties."

A pharmaceutical-makers' trade group fired off an early counterattack with a press statement in May accusing Moore of producing a "biased, one-sided attack." The industry, which plays a smaller role in the film than it apparently expected, has laid low in recent weeks.

Enough said

For his part, Moore has said he didn't try to hunt down industry executives as he famously did with General Motors in "Roger & Me." Industry -- pharmaceuticals in particular -- already has had more than enough say, he argued.

"The nightly news seems like every other ad is a pharmaceutical ad. Their story is told over and over again every single day. This is an attempt for two hours during the whole year -- two hours, the length of this film, to say here's the other side," he told the Seattle Times.

E-mail Victoria Colliver at vcolliver@sfchronicle.com.

Michael Moore's "SiCKO"...His Best Film to Date...

I went to see Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" last Friday on opening day...This is his best movie yet, it shows how our greedy profit-oriented insurance companies are killing us...I would whole-heartedly recommend every American see this film...it will open your eyes at how hypocritical and dishonest our politicians and HMO's are...The following are a few videos to give you a sense of the movie...

Michael Moore's SiCKO (official trailer)...

SiCKO- Michael Moore Interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher...

SICKO: Michael Moore on Capitol Hill...

Michael Moore Talks 'SiCKO' on Nightline (Part 1)...

Michael Moore Talks 'SiCKO' on Nightline (Part 2)...

Mayor Mike Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is by Co-founding ProtectPolice.org...

My heart goes out to the victims and the families of the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech University, I only hope that their sorrow can serve to wake-up Americans to the dangers of hand guns.

I commend Mayor Bloomberg and other national mayors who have united with many local and state police organizations to get illegal hand guns off our streets.

Mayor Bloomberg, Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and several other Ohio mayors joined last week to sign onto a national coalition seeking to curb illegal gun sales - Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

ProtectPolice.org is a project of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan coalition of more than 160 mayors in more than 40 states. Mayors Against Illegal Guns is dedicated to making America's cities safer by cracking down on illegal guns.

To the Mayor's credit he has put his money where his mouth is by co-founding the brand new campaign, designed to let the public know what the NRA is trying to do to our police officers in Congress.


Radical NRA-supporters in Congress are working hard to try and pass the Tiahrt Amendment, which would keep law enforcement officers from sharing data about where guns come from before they’re used in crimes.

”Keeping illegal guns off our streets has absolutely nothing to do with the Second Amendment or the rights of lawful gun owners,” Bloomberg said. “It’s about enforcing the law and cracking down on criminals.”

It's true, the illegal gun issue has nothing to do with the Second Amendment and everything to do with law enforcement.

Mayors have the direct responsibility to protect their communities and the police officers who put their lives on the line every day. This means working to keep guns out of the hands of criminals; imposing tough punishments on those who sell and possess illegal guns; and ensuring that police officers have the tools they need – including critical gun trace data – to do their jobs effectively. Illegal guns are firearms that are sold, bought, transferred, possessed, or used in violation of existing federal, state, and local laws, usually by those who already have criminal records.

The Tiahrt Amendment is a provision that members of the NRA-supported Congress's have tucked into federal spending bills that restricts cities and police from accessing and using Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) trace data from guns recovered in crimes.



The Tiahrt Amendment restricts local governments from accessing the ATF gun trace data they need in order to understand and address citywide and regional gun crime trends. So the amendment seriously limits the ability of cities to access their own crime gun data.

The Tiahrt Amendment prevents local governments and police from accessing ATF gun trace data from areas outside its geographic jurisdiction, greatly undermining regional efforts to control gun crime.

Cincinnati Mayor Mallory said, “Public safety is a regional issue that requires a united response...Criminals do not recognize municipal boundaries, and we need to make sure that our efforts do not stop at our individual borders either.”

The Tiahrt Amendment blocks trace data from being used as evidence in any state or local civil action—even a gun dealer license revocation. The Tiahrt Amendment also stops ATF from publishing reports that use gun trace data to analyze nationwide gun trafficking patterns.

“Plain and simple, we are trying to keep guns out of the hands of criminals,” Bloomberg said. “Those criminals are killing our children and killing our police officers and it’s just got to stop.”

Therefore, I enthusiastically support the Mayor's campaign and ask that everyone reading this visit their web site www.protectpolice.org and add your voice and assistance to the Mayor's noble efforts to protect us all.