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Secret Service Intercepted Michael Moore's Email and Searched His Home
Without A Warrant
The Story of a Vietnam Vet Caught in a Government/Celebrity Surveillance
Crossfire
Exclusive print-publication interview/story
by Tom Flocco
December 17, 2002
In a not-so-cryptic "message" eventually intended for all U.S. citizens --
but likely one very famous American in particular, three armed U.S. Secret
Service agents and a local sheriff employed psychological intimidation to
invade the privacy of retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Michael Moore,
49, of Goldston, North Carolina at his home on December 10, 2002.
In another warning sign of what lies ahead for all Americans regarding
police-state abuse of power (thanks to sections of the post-September 11
"Patriot Act" approved by Congress and signed into law by President Bush),
U.S. Intelligence intercepted North Carolinian Michael Moore's email --
likely believing it was written by independent film producer-icon ("Bowling
for Columbine") and author ("Stupid White Men") Michael Moore. In other
words, they got the wrong
Michael Moore.
The Michael Moore raided by the Secret Service last week is a 20-year war
veteran who put his life on the line for his country during two separate
tours of duty aboard the U.S.S. Paul Revere off the coast of Vietnam in 1971
and 1972 -- one of which was a highly dangerous mine-sweeping operation.
Finding a few controversial albeit First Amendment-protected words in the
Navy vet's email, the Intelligence agents apparently decided to kill two
birds with one stone:
1) intimidate the former Vietnam veteran into allowing them to violate his
personal privacy by performing a search of his home while knowing the story
would reach the public -- thereby inculcating citizen fear of government
power; and,
2) send a veiled "message" to fervent presidential-critic and celebrity
Michael Moore to let him know what lies down the road for him should his
high-profile and media-oriented presidential disdain persist.
There are no reports yet as to whether Michael Moore, the film and book
luminary, will join the Navy vet with his appellation to promulgate a legal
inquiry into how various sections of the Patriot Act are abused by government
officials in order to intimidate and distress the citizenry. That may
require the services of a constitutional attorney as valiant as the two
Moores will need to be.
According to Moore -- the North Carolinian who served in Vietnam, the Secret
Service agents informed him that "they work with the FBI and National
Security Agency (NSA) jointly on national security issues" -- all of which
was exclusively reported yesterday via the probingly perceptive questioning
of Meria Heller during a live interview on her Meria Heller Internet Show.
One of the agents told Moore that they had "intercepted his email written to
an online friend expressing his outrage over the recent election results and
that he had called President Bush 'Satan -- the third anti-Christ,' and a
'Communist Republican'," among other soubriquets.
In a special-report/email posted on Tom Flocco.com from his online friend
"BlackBear," the 20-year war veteran revealed that the agents said that they
"had to access my email to see if I posed a national security risk to the
President -- who I now call the 'Bush-Whacker'."
The Secret Service agents and the local sheriff -- all displaying side-arms
-- wanted more, however -- a portent of police-state prospects facing all
Americans. They asked Michael Moore if they could enter his home because
they "wanted to ask him some questions and fill out forms for about a half
hour -- which turned into more than an hour."
Moore said "they asked me what kind of drugs I am on, and where they could
contact my ex-wife," adding that "they also required that I sign a form
permitting them to access all my medical history in the San Diego and
Raleigh-Durham Veteran's hospitals."
"I was in shock and intimidated," he told us in a phone interview last
night, adding "I just cooperated in order to get them out of my home as soon
as possible."
Curiously, the next series of questions became all the more abusive to Moore
as he began to realize that "if the agents were already intercepting my
email, they undoubtedly also had total prior access to my military
occupational specialty (MOS) records, and other personal information not
available to other citizens -- before they even entered my home."
"I was also upset when they asked for the names, addresses, and phone
numbers of all my family," the Navy vet continued: "They wanted to know if
I had a history of mental illness, what I thought about assassinations, if I
was going to Washington, D.C. to shoot the President, when was the last time
I was out-of-state, whether I had sniper training in the military, what work
I did in the Navy, and if I had a grudge against the Navy, etc."
His close friend, BlackBear, said: "Here is a guy who called me and asked if
I would come to Goldston the first Saturday in November when the tiny town
hosted the First Annual Chatham County Veterans Day Parade in which Mike
Moore proudly donned his Chief Petty Officer's uniform and marched in the
parade, passing out miniature American flags to the spectators."
Moore was adamant when he told us "they point-blank asked me if I was going
to Washington to shoot the President -- after they had already intercepted
the email I wrote to my friend saying that 'under no circumstances would I
ever leave my house until the Democrats regained control of the White
House'," adding "they knew I wasn't going anywhere."
"They literally raped my mind -- psychologically," he said.
But the intimidation didn't stop there. The soldier with a well-known name
added, "They wrote down information from my military Retiree's I.D., my
driver's license, and my vehicle license plate number." (Information they
already possessed before they even made the decision to pay Michael Moore a
visit.)
In another abuse of his rights against unwanted search without a warrant,
Moore revealed that "the local Sheriff (who accompanied the agents into his
home) and one other agent wandered throughout my house while I was being
interviewed by one of the other Secret Service agents in my dining room."
One wonders whether legislators would even do anything about such abuse of
power -- given the current state of affairs.
"Feeling that I had been psychologically raped by these government agents, I
was also intimidated into allowing them to take four Polaroid pictures of me,
after they asked me not to go to Washington, D.C. in the future."
The strange irony of this disturbing, Patriot Act-enabled incident is that
Michael Moore the celebrity is very likely the real person to which the
Secret Service, FBI, and NSA was issuing a warning.
Many Americans already know that taxpayer-funded echelon satellites
regularly monitor phone calls, movements, and electronic communications of
American citizens on "the list" of dissenting individuals who protest the
loss of individual rights and freedoms which have accompanied the current
administration -- even patriotic, law-abiding, military veterans who have
faithfully served their country, government "chicken-hawks" notwithstanding.
The real question is whether the two Michael Moores will test the abuse of
power in a court of law.
Abuse of power used to be an impeachable offense. And if a Vietnam vet like
Michael Moore had Secret Service agents visit him, question him, and search
his home when they already had access to the very information they were
requiring from him in his home, is it likely that other far more out-spoken
individuals like 9/11 victim-family activists Kristen Breitweiser, Ellen
Mariani, and Stephen Push are being monitored too.
And what about other Americans, famous or not, who are critical of the loss
of their individual freedoms in verbal interviews and written stories, or
when they communicate with one another in what used to be personal emails --
or when they make what used to be personal phone calls?
The only difference with Breitweiser, Mariani, and Push is that government
agencies will not violate them personally in their homes like Michael Moore.
That would be too damaging politically -- given their high profile. Theirs
will be a more subtle and clandestine administration-sponsored scrutiny,
thanks to a secret court in Baltimore.
More reasonably, they can expect that their phone calls and emails are being
quietly monitored since these brave Americans -- like celebrity Moore and his
film ventures -- are in the vanguard of those who could do the most political
harm to certain government officials.
By exposing corruption through the art of film-making, pressing for the
testimony of high-ranking officials, or demonstrating for subpoenas of
suppressed yet crucial FBI, CIA, and presidential briefing documents, these
individuals are a real threat to uncover the truth of 9/11's events and its
unanswered questions.
For just like the famous Michael Moore with his movies and books, and
Michael Moore the war veteran from North Carolina, these 9/11 victim-family
members are also protesting in their own way.
They are expressing dissent about the current congressional cover-up of the
events of September 11 and the efforts of the administration to appoint
"independent" investigators who will sabotage their private or legal efforts
to unlock the unanswered secrets to the 9/11 questions.
Asked how he would handle the same situation if Secret Service agents ever
knock on his door again: "I would never let them into my home again without a
valid, notarized search warrant issued by a judge; and if I am forced to let
them in, I will have a camera ready at the door to take their picture, just
like they took mine," replied Moore.
"What kind of democracy is this in our 'so-called' great nation when we
cannot even write an email message without the fear of our government
intercepting it and then being violently raped through an intense personal
interrogation," Moore added, as the interview concluded.
While we will wait with anticipation to hear the reaction to this story by
the OTHER Michael Moore, we can envision another inimitable, unique tour d'
force film-production complete with hovering helicopters, secret agents,
listening devises, home searches, surveillance cameras, and neighbors spying
on one another -- all part of the new Bush Administration Americana and
secrecy with which we are becoming acquainted.
Tragic? Yes. Unavoidable? Of course not. You see, the rest of the world
is watching to see whether the Breitweisers, Marianis, Pushes, and Moores of
America have the endurance to keep fighting back and pressing on. It won't
be easy -- given the "oil-soaked, energy-grabbing, spy-riddled monopoly
press" (to coin a Sherman Skolnick phrase) -- who are providing cover for
much of the corruption and abuse of power which never reaches the
sensibilities of Joe Six-pack. They will need help from other patriots.
But Michael Moore -- the Navy vet -- couldn't resist reiterating just one
"more" dig that he had stated earlier during Meria Heller's exclusive and
live internet dialogue yesterday: "The ordeal I had to go through seven days
ago is THE prime example and proof of our democracy in the 'Republic of the
Divided States of America'."
And with that, we could hear in the background the mesmerizing and melodious
strains of that recent Will Smith film epoch: "Here come the Men in Black --
galaxy defenders!"
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