TRUE STORY: (by Michael Moore)

Today, December 10, 2002 at approximately 1:00 pm EST, at my residence ( His Address has been removed from this story), Goldston, NC. I noticed 2 then 3 then 4 cars enter my driveway. I went out to greet them and asked if I could help them with something. The gentlemen introduced themselves by name and stated that they were from the Secret Service, showed me their identification, and then asked if I was Michael Moore. One of the other gentlemen was the Chatham County Sheriff. The agents said that they work with the FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) jointly on national security issues. One of the Secret Service agents (all were wearing side arms) approached me with why they were here to see me, in that they intercepted one of my email messages I had written to an online friend expressing my outrage over the election results where I called Bush "Satan" and that he’s the “third anti-Christ” among other things. They said that they had to assess the situation regarding my email to see if I posed a national security risk to the President, whom I’ll now call “Bush-Whacker”.

I allowed them to come inside my home after they asked if they could, because they needed to ask me some questions and fill out some forms, which they said would take about 30 minutes of my time. Actual time was more than an hour. They asked questions from “what drugs I am on” all the way to my ex-wife’s contact information. They had me to sign a form to allow them access to all my medical history in the San Diego, CA Veteran’s Hospital and to the Veteran’s Hospital in Durham, NC. They asked for all my family member’s names, addresses, and phone numbers. I was also asked for any friend’s names, addresses, and phone numbers. They wanted to know if I had a history of mental illness, what I thought about assassinations, was I going to Washington, DC to shoot the president, when was the last time I was out of the state, had I had any sniper training in the military, what work I did in the Navy, if I had a grudge against the Navy, etc. They wrote down information from my military Retiree’s I.D. card, my driver’s license, and my vehicle license plate number. The Sheriff and one other man wandered through my house casually everywhere while I was being interviewed by one of the other Secret Service agents in my dining room. The agents wrote down all my medication label information. When all of this was over, one of the agents took 4 Polaroid pictures of me and asked me in a kind way to not go to Washington, DC.

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 and very sensitive interrogation? I was absolutely correct in my interpretation of “Bush-Whacker,” and this ordeal today is THE prime example and proof of our democracy in the “Republic of the Divided States of America”.

Michael Moore 12/10/2002