MOORE'S 'SICKO' STUNT - TAKES 9/11 WORKERS TO CUBA

MOORE'S 'SICKO' STUNT
TAKES 9/11 WORKERS TO CUBA

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04152007/news/worldnews/moores_sicko_stunt_worldnews_janon_fisher.htm

By JANON FISHER

April 15, 2007 -- Filmmaker Michael Moore's production company took ailing Ground Zero responders to Cuba in a stunt aimed at showing that the U.S. health-care system is inferior to Fidel Castro's socialized medicine, according to several sources with knowledge of the trip.

The trip was to be filmed as part of the controversial director's latest documentary, "Sicko," an attack on American drug companies and HMOs that Moore hopes to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month.

Two years in the making, the flick also takes aim at the medical care being provided to people who worked on the toxic World Trade Center debris pile, according to several 9/11 workers approached by Moore's producers.

But the sick sojourn, which some say uses ill 9/11 workers as pawns, has angered many in the responder community.

"He's using people that are in a bad situation and that's wrong, that's morally wrong," railed Jeff Endean, a former SWAT commander from Morris County, N.J., who spent a month at Ground Zero and suffers from respiratory problems.

A spokeswoman for the Weinstein Co., the film's distributor, would not say when the director's latest expose would hit cinemas or provide details about the film or the trip.

Responders were told Cuban doctors had developed new techniques for treating lung cancer and other respiratory illness, and that health care in the communist country was free, according to those offered the two-week February trip.

Cuba has made recent advancements in biotechnology and exports its cancer treatments to 40 countries around the world, raking in an estimated $100 million a year, according to The Associated Press.

In 2004 the U.S. government granted an exception to its economic embargo against Cuba and allowed a California drug company to test three cancer vaccines developed in Havana, according to the AP.

Regardless, some ill 9/11 workers balked at Moore's idea.

"I would rather die in America than go to Cuba," said Joe Picurro, a Toms River, N.J., ironworker approached by the filmmaker via an e-mail that read, "Joe and Mike in Cuba."

After helping remove debris from Ground Zero, Picurro has a laundry list of respiratory and other ailments so bad that he relies on fund-raisers to help pay his expenses.

He said, "I just laughed. I couldn't do it."

Another ill worker who said he was willing to take the trip ended up being stiffed by Moore.

Michael McCormack, 48, a disabled medic who found an American flag at Ground Zero that once flew atop the Twin Towers, was all set to go to.

The film crew contacted him by phone and took him by limo from his Ridge, L.I., home to Manhattan for an on-camera interview.

"What he [Moore] wanted to do is shove it up George W's rear end that 9/11 heroes had to go to a communist country to get adequate health care," said McCormack, who suffers from chronic respiratory illness.

But McCormack said he was abandoned by Moore. At a March fund-raiser for another 9/11 responder in New Jersey, McCormack learned Moore had gone to Cuba without him.

"It's the ultimate betrayal," he said. "You're promised that you're going to be taken care of and then you find out you're not. He's trying to profiteer off of our suffering."

Moore's publicist did not return calls from The Post. But McCormack played a tape for The Post of a telephone conversation between himself and a Moore producer. The woman is heard apologizing for not taking McCormack, while saying the production company was not offering anyone guarantees of a cure.

"Even for the people that we did bring down to Cuba, we said we can promise that you will be evaluated, that you will get looked at," said the woman. "We can't promise that you will get fixed."

Participants in the Cuba trip were forced to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting them from talking about the project, the sources said.

Travel to Cuba is severely restricted from the United States, but Moore's crew was granted access, the producer told McCormack, through a "general license that allows for journalistic endeavors there."

Some called the trip a success, at least logistics-wise.

"From what I heard through the grapevine, those people that went are utterly happy," said John Feal, who runs the Fealgood Foundation to help raise money for responders and was approached by Moore to find responders willing to take the trip.

"They got the Elvis treatment."

Although he has been a critic of Cuba, Moore grew popular there after a pirated version of his movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," was played on state-owned TV.

Moore's working on a new film, huh.

After seeing this documentary a while back, in which he appears, I assumed he was working on something similar.

-The Drugging of our Children-

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3609599239524875493&q=The+Drugg...

HOPEfully

He is sticking his toes in the 9/11 waters with this, and will do more in the future.

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http://www.chico911truth.org/

"When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

9/11 Truth is the Path to Peace

I just...

Got off the phone with John Feal. It was John that gave Michael Moore the list of responders to take to Cuba. Apparently, Michael has been very supportive of the responders. John said he supports Michael Moore, and his movie. He said Michael Moore gave $1000 worth of toys to Jeff Picurro's family for Christmas.

John is going to be on Fox & Friends tomorrow to debate Jeff Endean about this at 7:40am.

Moore has not been 9/11 Truth friendly, but if he's helping responders, I'm going to cut him some slack.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

"Moore has not been 9/11 Truth friendly,

but if he's helping responders, I'm going to cut him some slack."

I'm not, nor am I falling for his PR stunt.

"He is sticking his toes in the 9/11 waters with this, and will do more in the future."

Don't count on it. Sometime I have to laugh at how naive even the best truthers can be at time.

I'm not defending him...

I just said I'm going to cut him some slack. Meaning, he's not as high on my shit list anymore. He's still on it.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

I know what you mean, I'm

I know what you mean, I'm just saying I disagree. :-)

Look man...

They're sick and dying, and if Michael Moore took 20 of them to Cuba to get them medical treatment, and he gave $1000 worth of Xmas toys to 9/11 Responders that couldn't afford presents of their own, then I have to say that his "PR Stunt" may be a "PR Stunt", but in the scheme of things, it was a nice gesture.

John says, "I gave him the list months before Christmas so there was no hidden agenda."

BTW... Fox & Friends is going to be live.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

Speaking of which...

I'm doing another fund-raiser within the coming weeks. FYI.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

imo, it is you who is being naive

Michael Moore has a LONG history of fighting for the underdog and fighting for what is right. MUCH more than most other people like him you could name. He is interested in truth and justice, and speaks out when it is not popular and he has always gotten a lot of crap for it. But he still does it.

Just like everyone else, he'll come around eventually.

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Senior 9/11 Bureau Chief, Analyst & Correspondent

http://www.chico911truth.org/

"When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

9/11 Truth is the Path to Peace

Foregrounding crimes against responders is good for 9/11 Truth

Moore, Rosie -- anyone who puts the EPA crimes against responders in the spotlight is doing us good. Maybe Moore isn't entirely convinced 9/11 was an inside job -- that doesn't mean all of his work is worthless.

Remember the article above is from the NY Post. Murdoch and other globalists will be attacking Moore's film from the get-go because it challenges privatized health care, which is a big cash cow for globalists.

Update:

He did not give the Picurro family $1000 worth of toys. He gave 9/11 Responders in general $1000 worth of toys. Sorry for the confusion.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

i think immortal technique said it best...

"farenheit 911, that's just scratchin' the surface."
this guy is as big a gatekeeper as chomsky, olberman, and goodman combined. fuck cutting that mickey d's raised catfish some slack.
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You need some psychological counseling and therapy

Being as paranoid and angry and bitter as you act is not healthy.

And you're likely to get worse over time than better without treatment.

Look over your shoulder and tell me how many "gatekeepers" you see shadowing your every move.

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Senior 9/11 Bureau Chief, Analyst & Correspondent

http://www.chico911truth.org/

"When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

9/11 Truth is the Path to Peace

zero,

doctor doughnut. sooooo boring dealing with you. adios, muchacha! oh wait! is that one of those cia-trained chupacabras looking through the window? crap! he's gone. i wonder if he's under the car.
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 89 (1886).
http://anti-neocons.com/

Can someone...

Please grab the video footage of the "Sicko" debate?

http://www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/index.html

Thanks.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

The video of his debate...

Is available here...

http://peppini.com/

Third one down on the right.


"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton

Psychotic Elisabeth Hasselbeck?

Is that female on that show the überWorthless Elisabeth Hasselbeck? (from "The View")

She was one of the originals from "Survivor". So-called "Reality TV" is one of the many banes of our society and culture, but she has taken it too far.

What a joke of an individual.

If anyone should be fired from "The View", it should be her on simple principles like (extreme lack of) common sense, common decency, and the like. And she's also obviously not too bright.

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Senior 9/11 Bureau Chief, Analyst & Correspondent

http://www.chico911truth.org/

"When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

9/11 Truth is the Path to Peace

And her voice...

it's like cleansing your oral cavities with sulfuric acid.

But my oh my, Rose McGowan is hot as hell, and that includes bright. They should keep her.
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interns < internets

Here's the video of the debate...



"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."

Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton