I normally don’t have the time of day for Michael Moore, the far-left filmmaker, but count me on his side in his current run-in with the U.S. Treasury Department.

Moore is under investigation for allegedly violating the U.S. government’s virtual ban on travel to Cuba. In February, Moore traveled to the socialist workers’ paradise with a group of Americans seeking medical care. The trip formed a segment of Moore’s new film “Sicko” that takes a critical look at America’s health care system.

According to an Associated Press story this morning:

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control notified Moore in a letter dated May 2 that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba. A copy of the letter was obtained Tuesday by the AP.

This office has no record that a specific license was issued authorizing you to engage in travel-related transactions involving Cuba,” Dale Thompson, OFAC chief of general investigations and field operations, wrote in the letter to Moore.

According to U.S. law, Moore could be fined thousands of dollars for violating our decades-old ban on travel to, trade with, and investment in Cuba.

As we have long argued at Cato [check out our research on the subject], the economic embargo against Cuba violates the freedom of Americans while giving the Castro government a handy excuse for the economic failures of its communist system.

By bringing this action against Moore, the U.S. government will turn him into a sympathetic martyr while providing millions of dollars of publicity for his latest piece of propaganda.