Monday - May 19, 2008

Sicko

Moore is such a goat dropping. Not to worry for Yon’s sake, he and his lawyers are on it:

Many readers have complained that Michael Moore, in the conduct of his latest crusade against whatever he is against this month, has illegally used one of my photos on the banner of his website. Mr. Moore is not the first to have done so, and my readers can get pretty upset when it happens.

My lawyer has demanded that Mr. Moore take it down.

I usually freely grant use of my work to truthful, peaceful, non-commercial, non-political outlets. For instance, a church group wanted to use one of my photos for their congregation. I was honored and gave it to them freely. On another occasion, a peaceful, non-profit Islamic organization wanted to use the same photo that Michael Moore has infringed upon (Major Mark Bieger cradling a little girl named Farah), and I was honored to contribute to their peaceful cause. I’ve seen grandmothers use my work in technically illegal ways, but since they’re not a big company, they probably have no idea about copyright, and usually use the work in tasteful, appropriate ways, I just smile and say “Go ahead, Ma’am.”

But frequently, big companies and individuals who are knowledgeable of copyright laws filch my work and use it in ways that many readers consider partisan, highly political or incendiary. When this happens, I usually go after the infringer, and so do my readers.

Michael Yon took the photo in Iraq several years ago, after one of those “brave freedom fighters” ( the ones that Moore equates with American Minutemen ) set off a suicide bomb. In the middle of a crowd of Iraqi children. In many ways it is the defining picture of the Iraq war because of what happened:

Farah was killed by a suicide car bomb in Mosul on May 2, 2005. Major Bieger and other soldiers literally risked their own lives to save many children and adults that day, but Farah didn’t make it.

To have such a telling and honorable photograph co-opted for Moore’s twisted propoganda purposes is, as Yon put it, pornographic. Moore is supporting Obama. Because Obama didn’t vote for “Bush’s War”, but McCain and Clinton did. Of course, Obama wasn’t even a Senator then, but why should that basic truth matter to this bloated propaganda hustler?

Michael Yon asks that the VRWC and patriotic internet readers NOT bombard Moore’s website with angry messages. His lawyers will handle it.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/19/2008 at 12:19 PM   
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