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Because he’s afraid the evil, meanie Republicans might try to take it from him.  To, you know, shut him up.  As though a film glorifying the social wonder that is communist Cuba won’t be so stupid as to essentially censor itself.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Filmmaker Michael Moore has stashed a copy of his latest documentary in Canada because he fears the U.S. government will try to confiscate it after part of it was filmed during an unauthorized trip to Cuba.

The U.S. Treasury Department is investigating Moore’s trip to communist Cuba in March to film part of his documentary, “SiCKO,” which takes a swipe at the U.S. health-care system and is due to be released in U.S. theaters on June 29.

U.S. citizens are generally barred from going to Cuba, unless approved by the government under a broad trade embargo imposed since 1962. But Moore says he has not broken any laws because he traveled to Cuba for a “journalistic endeavor.”

“We brought back 15 minutes of the movie and we’re concerned about any possible confiscation efforts,” Moore told a news conference in New York.

“We took measures a few weeks ago to place a master copy of this film in Canada so if they did take our negative we would have a duplicate negative of this film in Canada.”

Total conspiracy-kook B.S. from Moore.  The American government is going to seize his film.  You know why?  Because America isn’t Cuba, and Bush isn’t Castro.  In this country, Moore is free to be as big of a jackass as he wants to be, unlike Cuba (which Moore, again, glorifies) where people who make political documentaries critical of those in power are routinely put in jail and tortured.