Michael Moore's Bodyguard Arrested on Airport Gun Charge

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Thursday, January 20, 2005



NEW YORK — Filmmaker Michael Moore's (search) bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday night.

Police took Patrick Burke, who says Moore employs him, into custody after he declared he was carrying a firearm at a ticket counter. Burke is licensed to carry a firearm in Florida and California, but not in New York. Burke was taken to Queens central booking and could potentially be charged with a felony for the incident.

Moore's 2003 Oscar-winning film "Bowling for Columbine" criticizes what Moore calls America's "culture of fear" and its obsession with guns.

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Moore is an idiot.
His body guard is an idiot too.
He probably caught a case of idiocy from Moore.

Somebody call the CDC. Moore is a walking plague. :D
 
Too funny

but did you have to post that huge, disgusting picture. Look at that chin/ neck! he better be careful he might end up on a thanksgiving dinner platter next year. gobble gobble
 
Well, the question then becomes whether he was trying to declare a locked, unloaded firearm in his checked baggage, or was declaring that he was carrying a loaded firearm on his person.

If it was the former, that could have been any one of us. If it was the latter, he's an idiot and should have known better.
 
Much as I'm eager to visit a couple political forums and do a polite version of "neener neener neener" (kidding) (mostly) I'd prefer that this story be confirmed by someone other than FoxNews, and as yet Google isn't showing any independent confirmation.
 
What did everybody think about Farhenheit 9/11 and the threat of World Capitalism, and greed, and money, etc.

The bastard is in love with "Progressive Canada" that experiencing a resurgurent intellectual drift toward eugenics, government sponsored euthanasia and abortion, social Darwinism, etc.

Michael Moore is truly a horrific, gluttonous, evil troll. He's a liar and spin doctor. His agenda is extreme like no other.
 
Wana bet?

I will bet ya the big media machines know about it but are quick to turn and look the other way..... He is their type and face it........they don't want to report on anything that could hurt his wonderful image......... If the story is true I think it's on the same step as Rosie's little firearms issue...... Aint it GREAT..... :D
 
You aren't gonna hear about this on the six o'clock news. If this was a high profile pro gun person it would be repeated for days by every news hack on every network. Disgusting :mad:
 
Michael Moore's bodyguard arrested-film noir at 11. :D

One body guard? One would think that with an ego that big that he would need a squad of football players in orbit around him.
 
Another liberal for the Rosie award....

Michael Moore's bodyguard arrested on gun charge at JFK

Associated Press


NEW YORK - A bodyguard who has protected outspoken moviemaker and gun control advocate Michael Moore was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport for carrying a pistol without a New York license, authorities said Thursday.

The bodyguard, Patrick Burk, was questioned by Port Authority police Wednesday night after he notified a United Airlines ticket agent that he wanted to carry his weapon - unloaded and in a bag - on a flight to Los Angeles, Port Authority spokesman Tony Ciavolella said.

Burk, 34, was arraigned Thursday evening in Queens on a felony charge of criminal possession of a weapon and was released on his own recognizance, Queens district attorney's office spokesman Patrick Clark said. A return court date was set for Feb. 3.

Burk's attorney, Marc Greenwald, said his client "was following proper airline procedures when he was checking in and informed the airline that he had an unloaded and locked weapon in his checked baggage, which he is entitled to do."

Moore spokesman Mark Benoit said the filmmaker "wasn't there and had nothing do with this."

The bodyguard, who works for the California-based security firm Gavin de Becker & Associates, told police he had traveled to New York with Moore earlier this month, Ciavolella said. He produced licenses for his Mauser handgun from California and Florida but not New York, which prompted his arrest.

Burk has been assigned to protect Moore in the past but is not his personal bodyguard, Gavin de Becker said in a statement.

De Becker defended Burk, saying he had followed proper procedures at the airport. He called him "a leading professional in his field."

Moore, the director of "Fahrenheit 9/11," won an Academy Award for best documentary for "Bowling for Columbine," a scathing look at the gun culture in America.

In an interview last year with Playboy magazine, Moore called the National Rifle Association a "radical, freaky group."

"Most Americans are with me on this," he said about stricter gun controls. "They understand duck hunters don't need Uzis and cop-killer bullets."

When asked to comment Thursday on the arrest of Moore's bodyguard, NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said: "Based on empirical evidence, this is the height of hypocrisy."
 
From the SAF:
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Adding to the irony, said SAF Founder Alan M. Gottlieb, is the fact that bodyguard Patrick Burke was arrested for violating the kind of Draconian gun law that Moore and his extremist gun control contemporaries would support. Burke was reportedly arrested at JFK International Airport when he declared his firearm at the ticket counter, as required by law when traveling.

New York authorities habitually arrest private citizens at airports around the state when they declare firearms as required by law, and do not have a New York firearms license. It is a technicality that has tripped up many travelers who may simply be going through the state on their way to or from other destinations.
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There's already a thread discussing this in the L&P forum.

From the SAF site:
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Adding to the irony, said SAF Founder Alan M. Gottlieb, is the fact that bodyguard Patrick Burke was arrested for violating the kind of Draconian gun law that Moore and his extremist gun control contemporaries would support. Burke was reportedly arrested at JFK International Airport when he declared his firearm at the ticket counter, as required by law when traveling.

New York authorities habitually arrest private citizens at airports around the state when they declare firearms as required by law, and do not have a New York firearms license. It is a technicality that has tripped up many travelers who may simply be going through the state on their way to or from other destinations.
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Just another example that "Liberals" totally despise the "regular" citizens(meaning the serfs). Yet there are a lot of sheeple that worship these hypocrites.

I am always puzzled how many people lick the boot that trample on them!
 
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