Michael Moore: 'Refuse to Leave Your Home'

This is a portion of Michael Moore's acceptance speech for the John Steinbeck award in San Jose, California, on Thursday, October 14th, 2010.

Witnessing a modern day 'Grapes of Wrath' at http://www.michaelmoore.com

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[davidwbaty]

Michael Moore is a true American patriot and my hero.

[kurtilein3]

@VIDEOTIMEMACHINE

how could you possibly go to jail because of this? i mean, they dont have the documents that are necessary to show that ownership of the house actually changed and that they can now kick you out. so they cannot win in court. for you to go to jail because of refusing to leave your home would require them to win that case.

so what are you talking about? refusing to leave will in many cases allow you to keep your house. people are doing it, it works.

[pherronii]

regardless of my feelings about michael, I agree with him on this issue. The banks are criminal institutions, If they are not required to follow the letter of the law, why the hell should we. Some mortgages were sold to multiple investors, with multi levels of insurance. a 100K mortgage might generate 10 million in payments. They WANTED bad loans. Yeah, there's some undeserving dead beats out there, get em out, their crimes pale in comparison to the financial sector.

[pherronii]

@VIDEOTIMEMACHINE Perot was a real patriot, not a washington insider like the rest of the republicans, and democrats who are entrenched there. Likely he was warned by the goon squad, they probably threatened to wipe out his family if he did'nt drop out. They are ALL theives, and will never allow anyone in office that will honestly represent americans, or uphold the constitution. Am I a tin hatter? yep, guilty as charged. prove me wrong

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

@Tones4me1 Another thing. Moore wanted us to vote for Obama. They attacked Bush for spying on us listening in to phone calls etc. Fact is Obama wants more power to do this. Look it up. In the last week he has asked for more federal power to spy on internet users with no justification at all.

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

@Tones4me1 No but Clinton could have not signed it into law. Ross Perot warned us about what would happen but both Clinton and Gore wanted it. So don't blame Republicans for what's going on now.

[Tones4me1]

@VIDEOTIMEMACHINE You still don't get it do you? Now do your home work & look up the names of those who voted for NAFTA. If you are trying to say that only Dems voted for it and that all Republicans voted against then I think you are on thin ice. You can't REALLY believe that, can you?

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

@Tones4me1 When NAFTA was signed into Law Democrats controled the house senate and Clinton was President

[Tones4me1]

@VIDEOTIMEMACHINE Gee, Bill is powerful. One signature did it all? How about listing the names of those who voted for it in Congress & those who didn't. The big pix here is that all politicians are on the same side, no matter what party they belong to. It is them against us. Nothing more or less to it.

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

@Tones4me1 Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. He's a democrat . Blame him for the jobs being shipped to China.

[Tones4me1]

@VIDEOTIMEMACHINE The titles to our homes are also used as collateral on the loans that we borrow from China. As is our National Parklands and bridges. Isn't it ironic that our politicians sold us out by shipping our jobs to China, which made them so rich that they now loan us money because we have none. The only ones who won here are the politicians who got a kick back for voting for shipping out the jobs. And yes, they bundles up the mortgage titles & sold them. Know your facts.

[VIDEOTIMEMACHINE]

@Tones4me1 No, Michael Moore is wrong, again.