Seems like some religious nut decided to publish Moore's home address.
From an online blog:
Quote:
According to the blog Non Prophet, James Dobson’s socially conservative activist group, Focus on the Family, has included Michael Moore’s home address in their daily email to supporters.
What legitimate purpose could this possibly serve? What have Moore’s neighbors, wife and daughter done to merit the danger that FOTF have foolishly put them in? Simply disgusting.
UPDATE: Several commentors have noted that this hasn’t been independently confirmed, which is fair. I’m calling Focus on the Family this morning to see if they can confirm or deny it; stay tuned.
ANOTHER UPDATE: This is for real. I’ve just spoken to a representative of Focus on the Family who has confirmed that Focus on the Family did, indeed, give out Moore’s home address. The person that I spoke to didn’t want to be quoted. I’ve asked the media relations department to see if they have any comment that they are willing to make, and I’ll update with any comment that they have.
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More info:
http://www.0xdeadbeef.org/blog/non_p...es/005330.html
For what it's worth, someone over at the Somethingawful forums called Focus on the Family (800-232-6459), who confirmed the story. You could call them yourself, I suppose; not going to check the number myself, living overseas and all.
The e-mail in question:
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========================= EDITOR'S NOTE:
Write Michael Moore -- at Home -- with Your Opinions of
"Fahrenheit 9/11"
Filmmaker Michael Moore, writer/director of the new
Bush-bashing documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," has made quite
a career out of marketing himself as a man of the people,
a populist everyman who fights passionately for the little
guy.
That's why we wanted to make sure "little guys" could let
Moore know exactly what they think about his new movie.
So, if you have an opinion about the film -- in which
Moore plays fast and loose with the facts to build a case
that President Bush is an idiot and the war in Iraq is all
about oil profits -- we suggest you send it to the
following address:
Michael Moore
[ADDRESS REMOVED BY N.P.]
That's his home -- a condominium this man of the people,
so critical of capitalism, spent $4.5 million on seven
years ago. And please don't worry that it's wrong to use
this address; it's public record, obtained through New
York State mortgage records and Federal Election
Commission filings.
Besides, Moore himself endorses the publication of this
kind of information: In "Fahrenheit 9/11," in fact, he
projects on screen the private office number of a
congressman whose views he opposes -- and urges viewers to
call it.
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And note that Michael Moore gave out the office number of a senator, which is an item of public record.
More importantly, the senator works for the people of his state. His office number is the way that the people who put him in office can communicate with him. Michael Moore is a movie maker. He doesn't owe you a forum for your opinion, especially at home, because you vote with your dollars.
If the people giving out his address simply wanted their opinion heard, they could've given out the mailing address to Moore's production company. This was meant purely for harassment.
[ 07-05-2004, 04:36 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]