Bush, Moon, and Fundies - an article for discussion

[brokensymmetry]

I came across this article, and thought we might wish to discuss it. If the statements are true, it seems pretty horrific. I'd like DU input, pro, con, or otherwise.
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Link: http://www.alternet.org/election04/20812/

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This wintry season, as the faithful continue to receive alarming reports from the news that Republicans are all that stand between them and the outlawing of Christmas itself by hordes of secular humanists, the two presidents Bush have endorsed a powerful conservative interest group specializing in removing the cross – not from schools or courthouses, but from churches.

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Moon was keynote speaker last week, declaring in remarks reprinted by the Times that "God's heart is under confinement." In some ways it was a repeat performance of the Senate coronation ceremony, which The New York Times editorial page compared to an act of the mad emperor Caligula.


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According to a report in the Washington Times as well as video found on the Moon-affiliated Web site FamilyFed.org, the elder Bush made a taped appearance before the ACLC's 3,000-strong crowd, which he thanked for their work. "I thought about parachuting into the building," he joked about wishing he could make it. And he paid lip service to Moon's unwieldy religious jargon, using phrases like "peace centered on God," a goal that he called "right on target."

His son, George W. Bush, wrote a warm letter of support presented at the event by a state senator, in which the president and his wife Laura sent his best wishes to the sponsors – and thanked them for rallying his "armies of compassion." It is unclear what the ACLC has done for society's problems, though its Web site is selling a video called "Beyond The Cross," and an affiliated Moon front group, Free Teens USA, has received almost half a million dollars under Bush's abstinence-only program.

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Notice the phrase "In some ways it was a repeat performance of the Senate coronation ceremony, which The New York Times editorial page compared to an act of the mad emperor Caligula.
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I only included 4 paragraphs excerpted from the article, but if I'd like other DUers views on this. If this is all true, my view is that * may be way more dangerous than I've thought in the past.

[AntiFascist]

1. This may be only the tip of an iceberg...

Stay tuned for more information about corruption of the Religious Right.

[Karenina]

28. This thread DEFINITELY needs

the photo of Moon's "coronation" on FEDERAL PROPERTY with your political representatives in attendance. I be a Luddite and no can do much with these new-fangled machines. SURELY someone has it! ;-)

[KamaAina]

33. You mean this??

best I could do on short notice.

[Karenina]

34. Good one, not the one I'm looking for

But you got the photo-op right. IT has robes and crowns and was first reported in the KOREAN PRESS. Moon and his wife being crowned by David Drier, IIRC.

[Karenina]

45. Go to post# 40

Go DIRECTLY to post #40
LOOK AT PICTURE
WHOOMP, DEY IT IS!!!!

OK, it was Danny Davis...

THANX, TINOIRE!!! :loveya:

[Old and In the Way]

2. The Bush-Moon-Falwell connections goes back decades.

I suspect that Moon has funneled lots of money into the Bush campaigns and I know he bailed Falwell's sorry ass out of a pending bankruptcy. This guy proclaim's himself the son of God....I really don't see how he's a lot different than David Koresh or the Rev. Jim Jones. Just another megalomaniac who funnels money from the easily duped to the easily bribed.

[brokensymmetry]

3. You mention Koresh and Jones...

true. He's not a LOT different, except for one little thing. He can drop a couple BILLION (with a B) on a failing newspaper.

So I ask myself, what do you get if you combine someone like Koresh or Jones...with lots of money...and lots of true believers...and political connections?

That's what concerns me.

[salvorhardin]

8. Exactly right.

Another question people should be asking is, "Where did he get so much money?"

I don't mean where he gets his money right now or even 20 years ago, but rather how did he come to so effectively build the massive organization that the Unification Church has become and where did the seed money come from. It seems unlikely that he could have made enough by scamming little old ladies in Japan.

[blm]

32. Moon controls almost half the United States' fishing industry.

He also owns most of the news studios around the DC area and leases them at bargain rates to all the mainstream media. That and his Bush connections prevent any further scrutiny from the media.

Moon also owns over a million acres of land along the border of Paraguay and Uruguay as well as huge stakes in Argentina and Brazil. He also owns the land directly above the world's largest aquifer.

[Old and In the Way]

16. Think: New World Order

Really, I have no doubts that Moon is the key international guy is this RW vision of total world domination.

[blm]

31. Washington Times was originally named New World Times and

his publishing is New World Communications.

New World Order, indeed.

[ChicanoPwr]

10. Here is a link

http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5684&abbr=cs_

Moon also has ties to TV preachers Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Falwell has accepted money to speak at several Moon events, including a July 26, 1994, meeting of the Youth Federation for World Peace, yet another Moon front group. After that gathering, a photo of Falwell standing alongside Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, appeared in the Unification News. About a year a half later, Falwell participated in a Moon-sponsored "Christian Unity in the Americas" conference in Uruguay.

In 1997, Moon money bailed Falwell out of a tight financial spot. A Moon-run group, the Women's Federation for World Peace, gave $3.5 million to the Christian Heritage Foundation with instructions to use it to buy some of the debt incurred by Falwell's Liberty University, reported The Washington Post. (The group later forgave the debt.) The paper also reported that a Moon publishing outfit had lent Falwell $400,000 at a low interest rate in 1996 for use in propping up Liberty.

[ChicanoPwr]

4. Moon Shadow

Moon Shadow
By Rob Boston
http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5684&abbr=cs_

Why is the Republican Party working hand in glove with Moon front groups? The partnership stems largely from Moon's phenomenal ability to make inroads in GOP and Religious Right circles. Despite his unorthodox theological views Moon teaches that he is the new Messiah, sent by God to complete the failed mission of Jesus Moon has had little difficulty penetrating the upper echelons of American conservatism.

While a number of Republican-aligned private organizations have promoted President George W. Bush's religion funding scheme, only Moon won an official relationship with the Republican leadership to rally grassroots forces on behalf of the "faith-based" summit. This enhanced status enabled him to do grassroots political organizing and religious recruitment with the apparent blessing of Bush and his GOP allies in Congress.

Just a few years ago, Moon announced he was ready to give up on the United States, but the change of administrations in Washington seems to have sparked a change of heart in him. Frederick Clarkson, a journalist who has studied Moon and other far-right movements, notes that Moon specializes in the creation of "Astroturf organizations" groups that appear to have grassroots power but that in reality speak mostly for Moon. Moon has used these groups to curry favor with Republicans for more than 30 years, Clarkson said, and is revving them up again to help the new Bush administration.

"Whenever the conservatives identify an issue as important to their agenda, Moon creates an Astroturf organization to create the appearance of grassroots support for these initiatives," Clarkson said.

[Carl Brennan]

5. Moon links to Christian Evangelicals

Moon funds filter to Christian orgs:
http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/feb9/8t2082.html
Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals
by John W. Kennedy
Affiliates of Sun Myung Moon, controversial leader of the Unification Church, have a history of supporting and courting conservative evangelicals. Now, according to published reports, financial support has been filtered to Liberty University from Moon-related enterprises. But Liberty founder Jerry Fallwell told Christianity Today that the source of the funds does not influence his ministry.
"If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries," Falwell says, "be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check."
While Moon may not be the Devil, Christians contest Moon's claim that he is destined by God to complete an unfulfilled mission of Jesus. Moon claims Jesus failed as the Messiah because he did not wed and have children. The divorced 78-year-old Moon says he and his current wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, 53, are the "true parents of all humanity."
$3.5 MILLION GIFT: In November, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP), which is headed by Moon's wife, contributed $3.5 million to Christian Heritage Foundation (CHF) of Virginia for "educational purposes" in 1995.

That part in bold makes laugh every times I sees it. :bounce:

[brokensymmetry]

7. I sorta like the preceding sentence....

But Liberty founder Jerry Fallwell told Christianity Today that the source of the funds does not influence his ministry.
"If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries," Falwell says, "be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check."


That's gotta be a classic! :)

[InvisibleBallots]

6. Expose Moon's influence on the GOP to the Fundies

An excellent wedge issue.

[brokensymmetry]

9. Great point!

It isn't like this is any secret. Why not let the fundies know the facts about *?

[Carl Brennan]

11. Rev. Moon and Klaus Barbie, Nazis

Rev. Moon Connection to Klaus Barbie/Nazi's

I hope that Robert Parry stays safe. He has exposed alot of muck on the Bushies.


This is excerpted from Robert Parry's book Lost History (pages 200-203):

Moon's Korea-based church got its first boost as an international organization when Kim Jong-Pil, the founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, brokered a relationship between Moon and one of Japan's leading rightist financiers, Ryoichi Sasakawa. Sasakawa had been jailed after WWII as a war criminial, but was freed, along with Yoshio Kodama , by U.S. military intelligence officials eager to enlist their help in combatting leftist political forces in Japan.......

In the early 1960's, Kim Jong-Pil's intelligence contacts with these right-wing leaders proved invaluable to Moon, who had made only a few converts in Japan. After Kim Jong-Pil opened the door to Kodama and Sasakawa in late 1962, 50 leaders of an ultra-nationalist Japanese Buddhist sect converted en mase to the Unification Church, giving it a strong base in Japan that remains to this day.....

Through WACL and other political relatioships, Moon built bridges to right-wing forces in South America during the 1970's. As DEA agent Michael Levine noted in his book Deep Cover, the DEA arrested Jose Robeto Gasser in May 1980 for allegedly smuggling 854 pounds of cocaine base. To Levine's amazement, Gasser, the son of a Bolivian WACL leader, 'was almost immediately released' for what Levine suspected were geopolitical reasons. Gasser's father was a leading figure in the coup to overthtrow Bolivia's left-of-center government. The putsch on July 17, 1980, became known as the Cocaine Coup because it gave the drug lords free rein of the country and allowed protected shipments of coca base in Columbia.

Among the well-wishers arriving in La Paz to congratulate the new government was Moon's top lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak. The Moon organization was so proud of its new contacts that it published a photo of Pak meeting with Gen. Luis Garcia Meza, the new ruler. After the visit to the mountainous capital of Bolivia, Pak declared: " I have erected a throne for Father Moon in the world's highest city."

According to later Bolivian government and news paper reports, a Moon representative invested about $4 million in preparations for the coup. CAUSA, one of Moon's anti-communist organizations listed as members nearly all the leading Bolivian coup-makers.

Shortly after the putsch, the neo-fascist shock troops recruited by fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie , moved into the business of transporting cocaine for the drug lords. "The paramilitary units, conceived by Barbie as a new type of SS, sold themselves to the cocaine barons," wrote German investigative reporter Kai Hermann. "The attraction of fast money in the cocaine trade was stronger than the idea of a national socialist revolution in Latin America." (For details, see an English translation of Hermann's work published in Covert Action Information Bulletin, Winter 1986)......

Moon's organization continued to flaunt ints new-found influence in Bolivia. On may 31, 1981 Moon representatives sponsored a CAUSA rreception at the Sheraton Hotel's Hall of Freedom in La Paz. Bo Hi Pak and Gen. Garcia Meza led a prayer for President Reagan's recovery from an assasination attempt......

During the 1980's, Moon's organization demonstrated unprecedented financial strength. In 1982, Moon launched The Washington Times a right wing daily that cost Moon an estimated $100million/year in losses. In 1983 Moon established a financial base in Uraguay with the purchase of the country's third largest bank, the the Banco de Credito, which soon became the center of allegations about money laundering. (For details, see iF Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 1998.

Moon's CAUSA also continued to organize pro-contra rallies in the United States and coordinated contra activities with the right-wing forces in Honduras and other Central American countries. Through the 1980's, Moon's Washington Times aggressively defended the contra operations raised money for the contras after Congress cut off funding. In 1984, the Times also published the first reports about Sandinista drug suspicions, a story that helped the contra cause in Congress while killing a major DEA investigation of the Medellin carte."

It should be noted that when George Bush became drug czar during the Reagan Administration, hard drug importation increased 1000% according to Brig. General Russell Bowen in his book "Immaculate Deception". Poppy also removed the only federal program that addressed money laundering, a vital component of drug dealing as cited in Noam Chomsky's "Chronicles of Dissent".

[TexasChick]

12. I'm getting ready to debate my Reich Wing fundie Aunt view email. I have

several links to share with her about this damn Reverend Moon, whatever his sick ass name is. She thinks the Chimp is all glorious and holy and Christian. Well, she's going to freak out when she finds out that the Bushits are tied to this asshat who called Jesus the failed Messiah.

Wish me luck. Not holding my breath though but maybe she'll wake the eff' up!

We need to keep an eye on this Moon guy! He is a major whackjob and our Congress is giving him annointing parties? Makes you wonder what the eff' is going on in this country.

[brokensymmetry]

14. Consider luck to have been wished!

We all need to wake a lot of people up.

[blm]

29. Here...this will help curl her hair.

The Unholy Alliance - Part 1 of 4

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (The Moonies), and
the Unification Church
For those few of you who are not familiar with the Rev. Moon, in the 60s both he and his Unification Church were universally regarded as a dangerous cult. The abuse his followers suffered at the hands of their mind manipulating master is indeed very well established.

His claims include stating that Christ failed His mission, and that Moon himself is the "new messiah" who is come to fulfill the mission of God. He also claims that it is his mission to 'unite the world through uniting religious forces'. But would it shock you to know that nearly all the big name Christian evangelicals have extremely strong ties to him?

One such Church leader and internationally recognized evangelical Christian, Jerry Falwell, readily admits that he accepted 2.5 million dollars from Moon in 1994 in order to bail out his Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. This was funneled through a Moon organization known as the 'Womens Federation for World Peace' which has been chaired by Beverly LaHaye, Wife of Timothy LaHaye, who is the popular co-author of the "Left Behind" Christian fictional book series and a well known evangelical Christian. The Womens Federation for World Peace paid 3.5 million to the Christian Heritage Foundation, which in turn bought Falwell's $73 million debt, and then frankly wrote it off. The Heritage Foundation then seems to have paid themselves a fee of one million dollars for their trouble.

Since that time Falwell has spoken at many of Moons functions, embracing the cult-leader with unabashed reverence and friendship. Even writings from Moons' Church confirm Falwells comradeship with 'the new messiah' and his cult. Moon has even been a guest speaker in mainline denominational Churches in the past few years. Falwell further praised Rev. Moon calling him, "An unsung hero to the cause of freedom, who is to be commended for his determination and courage and endurance in support of his beliefs."<2>

According to official court records of a lawsuit that was filed in Bedford County Circuit Court (West Virginia), it was alleged that Falwell and an associate flew to South Korea, January 9, 1994 to meet with Unification Church officials. This trip came shortly before Falwell was awarded the Moon money. Falwell stated openly, "If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check."<1>

Falwell is not the only evangelical reported to have accepted money from Rev. Moon. Other notable speakers for Moon's organizations and affairs receiving as much as $80,000 to $150,000 have included Ralph Reed, Beverly LaHaye, Gary Bauer, and Robert Schuller, well known for his "Crystal Cathedral" in Southern California and "Hour of Power" 'positive-thinking' television ministry.


The Council Of National Policy (CNP)
Another Moon sponsored organization is the Council of National Policy founded in 1981 by Tim LaHaye, the aforementioned co-author of the "Left Behind" book series. It is reported that he received $500,000 from a Mr. Bo Hi Pak, Moons #1 man, and a former Korean CIA officer. Though a tape exists showing that LaHaye thanked Pak for the money, LaHaye never denied the charge but verbally attacked the sources verifying the allegation with a barrage of insult.

Other members of the CNP have included:
Beverly and Lee LaHaye, also associated with Moons CWA group. Gary Bauer, Bill Bright, James Dobson (Focus On The Family), Bob Dugan, Ron Godwin, Robert Grant, Rebecca Hagelin, Bob Jones the 3rd (Bob Jones University), Alan Keyes (Outspoken ultra-conservative black talk show host and author), Dr. D. James Kennedy (noted television evangelist and Pastor), Peter Marshall, Sam Moore of Thomas Nelson Publishing, Pat Robertson (founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and former Presidential aspirant), Rev. Duane Motley, Ralph Reed, Oliver North (formerly with the National Security Council), Phyllis Schlafly (ultra-right columnist and pundit), Rev. Jim Woodall, John Ankerberg (internationally recognized Christian television personality), Rev. E.V. Hill, James Robison, Jay Sekulow (Attorney and activist for ultra-right/Christian causes), Pat Boone, Larry Burkett, Reed Larson, and many others.

Some of the political leaders involved with the Moon sponsored CNP group include Senators Jesse Helms, Don Nickles, and Trent Lott. Also Representatives Tom DeLay, Dan Burton, and Bob Dornan.

http://www.rense.com/general20/unholy.htm

[ChicanoPwr]

13. B* In Rev. Moon's Pocket?

http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/p-politicians-governorgeorgewbush.html

It was not that many years ago that former President George Bush was having great difficulty in expressing a clear agenda for America. He called it "The Vision Thing", refering to it with obvious lack of interest. And, not surprisingly, because it was that "thing" that he sorely lacked as he watched his Presidency sink in floods of discontent of the American people, who chose not to wait for Bush to find a vision, and joined a growing chorus of citizens not wanting Bush to have a second term.

Possibly seething in dissapointment over the rejection of the electoral college to give him another term, George Bush decided to pursue a "vision" in South America. Only, it was not Bush's vision, but Sun Myung Moon's that had Bush there! In fact, Bush himself had praised Moon as "...the man with the vision." Bush had arrived in Buenos Aires on Nov. 22, 1996 by private plane, to perform his contractual duties as a speaker for the opening of Moon's newspaper in Argentina. The Argentine Press had spoken out against Moon's venture, detailing the sordid history of the convicted felon, messiah, business man, Rev. Moon, but the prestige that a former United States President like Bush, brought Moon, quickly quieted some, and opened doors to others. Moon opened his paper, and George Bush opened up his pockets to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and received fees that one Article suggested could be as high as Ten Million Dollars for a "package" of speaking engagements on behalf of Moon's Tiempos del Mundo, a new regional newspaper in South America that Moon hopes will provide the same power and influence that the The Washington Times has brought him in America's capital.

[brokensymmetry]

15. Sounds like it.

And a combination like that - money, political power, and religion - is, in my opinion, dangerous. If the present leaders don't have a clear understanding of what they're playing with - and I suspect they don't - it may be even more dangerous.

[ChicanoPwr]

17. The question is how do we get the info out

I wonder what it would take to wake people up. It is like the movie the Matrix. People have either decided they don't want to know or their are those who are awake.

[Old and In the Way]

18. Micheal Moore could really hammer out this story in under 2 hours.

Can you imagine a double billing of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Mooning for a New World Order"?

[brokensymmetry]

19. The Antichrist and the chimpy?

More people know about it now than did a few hours ago. So, maybe if each of us tells just a few other people, the story may get to Mr. Moore.

Can you imagine a movie that starts as a comedy and ends as a tragedy, titled "The Antichrist and the Chimp"? The right would have meltdown, all the while advertising the movie. :evilgrin:

[Old and In the Way]

21. How about "The Mooning of America"? or "Bad Moon Rising"?

Are these great titles or what?

:-)

[ChicanoPwr]

22. I would go see a movie with that title

Then again I will go see a M. Moore anyway.

[TexasChick]

23. "Bad Moon Rising" is great! n/t

[blm]

41. Frontline did a piece on Moon in 1991. Moon has used his Bush connections

to triple his power worldwide since then.

I doubt anyone will ever get near enough the story about Moon and Bush.

[InvisibleBallots]

20. oh, oh, oh - GREAT idea

Calling Michael Moore...

[Octafish]

24. Good article. A kick for BLM

Bush Luvs Moonies knows ALL about this stuff. Why CNN and the mainstream media don't cover it, should be obvious -- Moon is a totalitarian turd of the first rank, major drug dealer and a principle financier of the BFEE.

Until BLM chimes in, here's what Robert Parry's found:

The Dark Side of Rev. Moon

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html

And a little sampler:

Kerry Attacker Protected Rev. Moon

By Robert Parry
October 15, 2004

Carlton Sherwood, who has produced an anti-John Kerry video that will be aired across the United States before the Nov. 2 elections, wrote a book in the 1980s denouncing federal investigators who tried to crack down on Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s illicit financial operations.

In retrospect, Sherwood’s book, Inquisition: The Prosecution and Persecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, appears to have been part of a right-wing counter-offensive aimed at discouraging scrutiny of Moon and his mysterious money flows. The strategy largely succeeded, enabling Moon to continue funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into the U.S. political process, most notably to publish the ultra-conservative Washington Times but also to make payments to prominent politicians, including former President George H.W. Bush.

New evidence also makes clear that Moon resumed his practice of laundering money into the United States after serving a 13-month prison sentence for a 1982 conviction for tax law violations. Former Moon associates, including his ex-daughter-in-law, have disclosed that Moon’s organization smuggled cash across U.S. borders, but those admissions have not led to renewed federal investigations.

Indeed, the pummeling of federal investigators who examined Moon’s financial schemes in the 1970s and early 1980s – and Moon’s enormous clout among conservatives in Washington – have made the South Korean theocrat something of a political untouchable. The congressional investigators, who first uncovered Moon’s financial irregularities, and the federal prosecutor, who narrowed that evidence into a successful prosecution for tax evasion, were made into cautionary tales for others thinking about challenging Moon.

Accused Investigators

Government investigators, including former Rep. Donald Fraser and ex-federal prosecutor Martin Flumenbaum, were accused by Moon defenders of offenses ranging from a lack of patriotism to racial and religious bigotry. Sherwood, a former Washington Times reporter, was among the Moon defenders who lashed out at Fraser and Flumenbaum, portraying them as unscrupulous witch hunters who abused their investigative authority.

CONTINUED...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/101504.html

[jokerman93]

25. "God's heart is under confinement."

Fascists love the power of religion. If deployed effectively, it's one of the surest ways to enslave a frightened population's hearts, while giving a bad name to the legitimate values of spirituality and reason.

[Al-CIAda]

26. Evangelical Leader Threatens to Use His Political Muscle Against Some Demo

Evangelical Leader Threatens to Use His Political Muscle Against Some Democrats
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Published: January 1, 2005

OLORADO SPRINGS - James C. Dobson, the nation's most influential evangelical leader, is threatening to put six potentially vulnerable Democratic senators "in the 'bull's-eye' " if they block conservative appointments to the Supreme Court.

In a letter his aides say is being sent to more than one million of his supporters, Dr. Dobson, the child psychologist and founder of the evangelical organization Focus on the Family, promises "a battle of enormous proportions from sea to shining sea" if President Bush fails to appoint "strict constructionist" jurists or if Democrats filibuster to block conservative nominees.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/politics/01dobson.html?oref=login

[Octafish]

27. Moon & Bush, a kick.

Since 1972, it's like family, as in "Bush Family Evil Empire."

[blm]

30. Bushes and Moon have worked together since the 60s. Moon has aligned with

fundies, teaching his mind control techniques since the mid-seventies. Moon and Tim LaHaye (LEFT BEHIND series) were both considered experts on mind control back then, but I doubt that is something LaHaye would like the public to know.

If you want to learn more, please google nomoonies or Bush Moon LaHaye and give it the hits.

For a direct link: http://www.geocities.com/nomoonies1/1/

Everything there is footnoted.

[Octafish]

42. Does Moon Make Money off Narcotics and NAZIs, like BFEE?

He sure as shootin' does. BFEE and Moon cash cows include narcotics.

Dark Side of Rev. Moon (Cont.): Drug Allies

By Robert Parry
(Posted in 1997)

Amid debates over the 115-year-old Pendleton Act and whether it covers fund-raising phone calls from the White House, a more sinister money-in-politics issue continues to go unnoticed: the vast political influence-buying operation of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The Clinton administration appears no more interested in where Moon's mysterious millions originate than was the Reagan-Bush administrations which benefited from Moon's largesse.

Our recent series, "Dark Side of Rev. Moon," documented how Moon's organization purchased influence through secret payments to key political figures, including former President George Bush and Religious Right leader Jerry Falwell. Moon also financed costly media outlets, such as The Washington Times. Moon has built this U.S. network even as he tells his followers that America is "Satan's harvest" and vows to subjugate the American people under a Korea-based theocracy.

SNIP...

South American Drugs

Meanwhile, after World War II, South America was becoming a crossroads for Nazi fugitives and drug smugglers. Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the so-called Butcher of Lyons, earned his living in Bolivia by selling his intelligence skills, while other ex-Nazis trafficked in narcotics. Often the lines crossed.

In those years, Auguste Ricord, a French war criminal who had collaborated with the Gestapo, set up shop in Paraguay. Ricord opened up French Connection heroin channels to American Mafia drug kingpin Santo Trafficante Jr., who controlled much of the heroin traffic into the United States. Columns by Jack Anderson identified, Ricord's accomplices as some of Paraguay's highest-ranking officers.

SNIP...

During this period, the CIA actively collaborated with right-wing army officers to oust left-leaning governments. And amid this swirl of anti-communism, Moon became active in South America. His first visit to Argentina was in 1965 when he blessed a square behind the presidential Pink House in Buenos Aires. He returned a decade later and began making high-level contacts in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia and Uruguay.

CONTINUED...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon6.html

Which is the subsidiary? Moon of Bush or Bush of Moon?

[blm]

47. I think they were equal partners at one time.

Moon is so filthy rich and it is hidden. Both Bush and Moon probably have more wealth than Bill Gates but keep it hidden in unregulated accounts. One of the first things Bush did in office was to stop a Clinton order for all banks to be transparent in their dealings so it would be easier to track terror funding and corporate criminals. Of course, Bush stopped that from happening, even after 9-11. Always protecting his international financier cronies and partners.

[Octafish]

49. Bush Praises Sun Myung Moon as 'Man of Vision'

Great crooks scheme alike. These guys both have the BFEE Vision Thing down pat.

Bush Praises Sun Myung Moon as 'Man of Vision'

07:10 Nov 25, 1996 EST
BUENOS AIRES
(Reuter) -

The South Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launched a new Spanish-language newspaper for the whole of Latin America this weekend, with the backing of guest George Bush who praised Moon's respect for editorial independence. The former U.S. president, guest speaker at a banquet Saturday to launch Moon's new publication ``Tiempos del Politics Mundo'' (Times of the World), was full of praise for the controversial evangelist's best-known newspaper, the Washington Times, and referred to Moon as ``the man with the vision.'' Bush then travelled with Moon to neighboring Uruguay Sunday to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital Montevideo to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America.

Moon already owns a major newspaper, bank and hotel in Uruguay and is buying up land in the Argentine province of Corrientes, where he plans to construct what his followers call ``ideal cities''.

``I want to salute Reverend Moon who is the founder of the Washington Times and of the new paper here,'' said Bush, who was reported by the Washington Post to have been paid $100,000 for his Buenos Aires appearance.

``A lot of my friends in South America don't know about the Washington Times but it is an independent voice,'' said Bush. ''The editors of the Washington Times tell me that never once has the man with the vision interfered with the running of the paper, a paper that in my view brings sanity to Washington DC.''

``I am convinced that Tiempos del Mundo is going to do the same thing,'' said Bush, who managed to avoid being photographed with the 76-year-old South Korean evangelist during his whole stay in Buenos Aires.

CONTINUED...

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/BUSHMOON.HTM

[blm]

35. Google nomoonies or Bush Moon LaHaye

and keep up the hits for http://www.geocities.com/nomoonies1/1/

[Octafish]

37. I approve this messiah dot com

http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/



http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html

[Al-CIAda]

36. Interesting links....

Here's another that is MANDATORY viewing/listening IMO

"The Rise of Dominionism"
recorded October 6, 2004, 41 minutes
http://www.theocracywatch.org/audio-video.htm

[eagler]

38. Do you realize that ordinary evangelicals know nothing

about these things. If we could start a massive effort to simply and respectfully e-mail these stories to as many churches and pastors around the country as possible ,it would have to have a major impact on their blind support for Bush.

[derby378]

39. I'm trying something like that...

Many evangelicals refuse to believe that Falwell, etc. would have anything serious or substantial to do with Moon. They know that Moon owns the Washington Times, but they wonder if the paper itself may attain a status similar to the Christian Science Monitor, which is generally respected despite its religious past.

[Tinoire]

40. Not just Republicans. DLC was there too. Harold Ford co-hosted

Damn, I had a long post about this last week but have no idea where it is... I wish I could find it because I spent about an hour or two researching- there's some really strange stuff going on. Plenty of Dems were there to include Rangel who wrote a "proclamation in honor of the "true parent"





Hail to the Moon king
The deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office building -- crown, robes, the works -- is no longer one of Washington's best-kept secrets.

(snip)

On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill.

(snip)

A flier for the event claimed an impressive who's-who of organizers, including Republicans Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland and Charlie Black, a top Republican strategist. Democrats were named, too, like Rep. Harold Ford of Tennessee, who, incidentally, claims to have not even heard of the event.

(snip)

www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon



"We have no king but Jesus." -- John Ashcroft (quoting someone else)

That didn't take long. After members of Congress invited Sun Myung Moon into the Dirksen Senate Office Building Mar. 23 (as covered exclusively on this blog; here's the impressive guest list), where he was crowned the Messiah, his movement was quick to incorporate images of the event in this movie (mms://211.174.185.3/vod/2004/q2/20040426179502.wmv) about Moon's accomplishments. It's the best footage yet of this remarkable Washington Times event. (This Quicktime movie in English is also excellent, and more accessible.)

Above 12:30 into the Windows Media link, there's a shot of Congress, emphasizing that this is the peak of the Times publisher's glory:

At 12:44, there ensues footage of the Dirksen Senate Office Building event. Q: Where'd they get this shofar-blowing rabbi, "Rabbi Waldmann," who introduces Moon as quite possibly the Messiah?

(snip)

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html

[Octafish]

43. It's not Rangel's fault Mrs. Moon is so attractive.

It's the phenomes
or pheromes or whatever it is
the whiff what's given off
by money.


Former Moon family member chronicles abuse, corruption

By Clark Morphew
Saturday, October 10, 1998
Knight Ridder Newspapers

What does a woman do if she is a member of a religion, married to the founder's son, beaten, raped and humiliated? She runs.

SNIP...

As Moon becomes more powerful and corrupt, she says, the religion is being damaged beyond repair. Many members have left and returned to everyday life, and there are few new members joining. The intense recruitment tactics used during the 1980s are now all but forgotten, and the so-called brainwashing is also a thing of the past.

"Much has been written about the coercion and brainwashing that takes place in the Unification Church," Hong writes in her book. "What I experienced was conditioning. You are isolated among like-minded people. You are bombarded with messages elevating obedience above critical thinking. Your belief system is reinforced at every turn. You become invested in those beliefs the longer you are associated with the church. After 10 years, after 20 years, who would want to admit, even to herself, that her beliefs were built on sand?"

As Moon ages, Hong says, he is concentrating on big conferences and on South America, where he buys hotels and newspapers. Apparently all the early talk about world dominance is gone, and even though the 78-year-old Moon has crowned himself king of the universe, there is no longer talk of ruling the world.

"He's giving his money to government officials in South America," Hong says. "He wants to leave a legacy. I think when the South Americans see him, they see green dollar signs."

CONTINUED...

http://www.texnews.com/1998/religion/morph1010.html



Sure are a lot of Them, aren't there, Tinoire?

[Tinoire]

44. Just sick. What's sicker is the amount of pull he has in Washington

Things that make you go "hmmmmm".

[Octafish]

46. IMO, Moon's using his "wealth" to create a safe-haven from Chimpageddon

You know all the muckety-mucks will be safe from the disasters, diseases and war. Many can find shelter as guests of Rev. Moon in Brazil. From Third World Traveler, a nice profile...

Sun Myung Moon

The main plank of their belief-system, laid down in Moon's Divine Principle, is that you can help people after they die. So recruits are encouraged to buy expensive trinkets from the church that, they are told, will assist loved-ones who are suffering deprivations in the afterlife. A settlement of $150 million was made to former members of the Unification Church in Japan who claimed that undue pressure had been exerted on them to buy the otherwise worthless artifacts.

This determinedly materialist approach to the spirit world may help to explain some of Moon's other activities. His business interests began in South Korea in the 19605 with the establishment of Tong II Heavy Industries, which produced rifles and guns for tanks under contract to the then dictator Park Chung Hee - contracts which are still operative today.

Moon's involvement in the arms industry tied in neatly with his missionary anti-communist zeal, which made him a lot of powerful allies. In 1982, Moon, with his associate Pak Bo Hee, founded the notorious Washington Times newspaper, a mouthpiece for the reactionary Right in the US that was much favoured by President Ronald Reagan. President George Bush also endorsed it as 'a paper that in my view brings sanity to Washington DC'. Moon regularly claims credit for getting George Bush elected President of the US.
Four years after losing to Clinton, Bush was flown off to Montevideo, Uruguay, to inaugurate a seminary training 4,000 young Japanese women to spread the word of Moon throughout Latin America. The Washington Post reported that Bush was paid $100,000 for his trouble. Uruguay became a base for the Moonies when the country was under the heel of one of the most vicious military regimes in the region during the1970s. They acquired the one luxury hotel in Montevideo, the Victoria Plaza, as well as its largest printing works and a number of prominent local publications.

SNIP...

But Moon is indomitable. He recently staged a 'World Culture and Sports Festival' in Seoul, South Korea. The star guest was Al Hague, former US Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff to President Nixon. Hague introduced Moon as 'a leading force for inter-religious dialogue and understanding between peoples of all backgrounds'.

On the face of it, the combination of fanatical belief with unquestioning obedience and international big business is unique to Moon's Unification Church. But then, when you come to think of it, that's hardly so different from your average transnational corporation.

SOURCE:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zeroes/Sun_Myung_Moon.html

[anarchy1999]

48. I've posted this here many times before, here it is again.

http://www.rense.com/general20/unholy.htm

The Unholy Alliance -
Christianity & The NWO
Part I
EXCLUSIVE TO RENSE.COM
By Eric Jewell
[e-mail]
2-25-2

Part II

Eric Jewell will be Jeff's Guest, Thursday, March 14, 2002


The Bilderbergs.
The Trilateral Commission.
The Council of Foreign Relations.
The Central Intelligence Agency.

Most everyone has heard of these groups and some of the conspiracy theories surrounding them regarding the development of the 'New World Order.'

Now imagine for a moment there is something to this (and there appears to be no lack of documented material justifying these theories). That would mean that at almost every elevated level of business and government, world wide, men and women have infiltrated, become the controlling administrators and are working to effectively control every aspect of the life of the "world citizen."

One aspect of this that has not been properly searched out is the "religious" connection. Surely, given that much of the world is religious, and in the currently reigning SuperPower nation of the U.S., predominantly "Christian," then it would only make sense that these organizations have infiltrated the Church itself and are also actively leading it to into the New World Order as well.

Do the worlds leading Christian evangelicals have ties to these organizations?

Yes they do, and it is thoroughly documented.



Rev. Sun Myung Moon (The Moonies), and
the Unification Church
For those few of you who are not familiar with the Rev. Moon, in the 60s both he and his Unification Church were universally regarded as a dangerous cult. The abuse his followers suffered at the hands of their mind manipulating master is indeed very well established.

His claims include stating that Christ failed His mission, and that Moon himself is the "new messiah" who is come to fulfill the mission of God. He also claims that it is his mission to 'unite the world through uniting religious forces'. But would it shock you to know that nearly all the big name Christian evangelicals have extremely strong ties to him?

One such Church leader and internationally recognized evangelical Christian, Jerry Falwell, readily admits that he accepted 2.5 million dollars from Moon in 1994 in order to bail out his Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. This was funneled through a Moon organization known as the 'Womens Federation for World Peace' which has been chaired by Beverly LaHaye, Wife of Timothy LaHaye, who is the popular co-author of the "Left Behind" Christian fictional book series and a well known evangelical Christian. The Womens Federation for World Peace paid 3.5 million to the Christian Heritage Foundation, which in turn bought Falwell's $73 million debt, and then frankly wrote it off. The Heritage Foundation then seems to have paid themselves a fee of one million dollars for their trouble.

Since that time Falwell has spoken at many of Moons functions, embracing the cult-leader with unabashed reverence and friendship. Even writings from Moons' Church confirm Falwells comradeship with 'the new messiah' and his cult. Moon has even been a guest speaker in mainline denominational Churches in the past few years. Falwell further praised Rev. Moon calling him, "An unsung hero to the cause of freedom, who is to be commended for his determination and courage and endurance in support of his beliefs."<2>

According to official court records of a lawsuit that was filed in Bedford County Circuit Court (West Virginia), it was alleged that Falwell and an associate flew to South Korea, January 9, 1994 to meet with Unification Church officials. This trip came shortly before Falwell was awarded the Moon money. Falwell stated openly, "If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check."<1>

Falwell is not the only evangelical reported to have accepted money from Rev. Moon. Other notable speakers for Moon's organizations and affairs receiving as much as $80,000 to $150,000 have included Ralph Reed, Beverly LaHaye, Gary Bauer, and Robert Schuller, well known for his "Crystal Cathedral" in Southern California and "Hour of Power" 'positive-thinking' television ministry.


The Council Of National Policy (CNP)
Another Moon sponsored organization is the Council of National Policy founded in 1981 by Tim LaHaye, the aforementioned co-author of the "Left Behind" book series. It is reported that he received $500,000 from a Mr. Bo Hi Pak, Moons #1 man, and a former Korean CIA officer. Though a tape exists showing that LaHaye thanked Pak for the money, LaHaye never denied the charge but verbally attacked the sources verifying the allegation with a barrage of insult.

Other members of the CNP have included:
Beverly and Lee LaHaye, also associated with Moons CWA group. Gary Bauer, Bill Bright, James Dobson (Focus On The Family), Bob Dugan, Ron Godwin, Robert Grant, Rebecca Hagelin, Bob Jones the 3rd (Bob Jones University), Alan Keyes (Outspoken ultra-conservative black talk show host and author), Dr. D. James Kennedy (noted television evangelist and Pastor), Peter Marshall, Sam Moore of Thomas Nelson Publishing, Pat Robertson (founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and former Presidential aspirant), Rev. Duane Motley, Ralph Reed, Oliver North (formerly with the National Security Council), Phyllis Schlafly (ultra-right columnist and pundit), Rev. Jim Woodall, John Ankerberg (internationally recognized Christian television personality), Rev. E.V. Hill, James Robison, Jay Sekulow (Attorney and activist for ultra-right/Christian causes), Pat Boone, Larry Burkett, Reed Larson, and many others.

Some of the political leaders involved with the Moon sponsored CNP group include Senators Jesse Helms, Don Nickles, and Trent Lott. Also Representatives Tom DeLay, Dan Burton, and Bob Dornan.

Very long read, 4 parts, but well worth it, if you really want to take the red pill.


on edit:

read it and weep and then remember Dobson's threats against members of Congress and the Senate.

[Octafish]

50. Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld

Sometimes ya just gotta keep pluggin' away, anarchy1999! Thanks for the great articles and all the names and dates and places. In return...

Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld

by Robert Parry
Published on Wednesday, January 3, 2001 in The Consortium News

George W. Bush’s choice of Donald Rumsfeld to be U.S. defense secretary could put an unintended spotlight on the role of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon – a Bush family benefactor – in funneling millions of dollars to communist North Korea in the 1990s as it was developing a missile and nuclear weapons program.

In 1998, Rumsfeld headed a special commission, appointed by the Republican-controlled Congress, that warned that North Korea had made substantial progress during the decade in building missiles that could pose a potential nuclear threat to Japan and parts of the United States.

"The extraordinary level of resources North Korea and Iran are now devoting to developing their own ballistic missile capabilities poses a substantial and immediate danger to the U.S., its vital interests and its allies," said the report by Rumsfeld's Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States.

"North Korea maintains an active WMD program, including a nuclear weapon program. It is known that North Korea diverted material in the late 1980s for at least one or possibly two weapons," the report said.

CONTINUED...

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0103-07.htm

Hey, New York Times lurkers! Robert Parry is a real journalist!

[anarchy1999]

51. Thank you back. Why can't we make this be mainstream and I

personally have two younger brothers that are fundamentalists. One is a used to be pastor and the other lives in a 1/2 million dollar home. He works for the medical community selling and she used to be VP of HR at Halliburton (whoops, Dresser), now she arbitrates human relation issues for corporations (what side do you think she takes?).


Christians for Bush, one and all.

(haven't talked to ex-pastor in at least two years, sad but true)

[Karenina]

52. TOUCHDOWN!

:kick: for the extra point!

[Octafish]

53. Is Gov. George W Bush in Rev. Moon's Pocket?

And the game goes into overtime.

An eerily prescient story, from long ago:

Governor George W. Bush
In Rev. Moon's Pocket?

Imagine This Scenario...

~Following through on one of his campaign promises, President George W. Bush announced today a major increase in funding for a sweeping program of abstenance based sex-ed curriculum to be instituted throughout America's public school system. The program, teaching sexual abstenance as a means to deter teenage pregnancy, was developed through "Pure Love Alliance" a front group funded by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, more popularly known as Moonies. Responding to criticisms that embedded in the program are buzz-words and terminology exclusive to the Unification Church, designed to encourage future membership among high-school age youth, the newly elected President responded that the program would meet all requirements of the Public School system's official guidelines for new curriculum.

The above scenario was fictional, but....

Can A George W. Bush Presidency
Lead To Moonie School Curriculum?

The above scenario, was fiction, but what is frightening, is that it is not at all "far-fetched". Recently, in a press release by the Unification Church, they promoted the efforts of their organization in reaching 40 million youth with their own abstenance message, interestingly the Moonie press-release mentions presidential candidate George W. Bush by name, and credits him with promising to increase abstenance education funding, if elected President. Why is the Unification Church promoting George W. Bush in this way? The answer may be that the Moonies see their best hope for influencing American society and government through a Bush whitehouse. The question of a possible Bush initiative that would use a Moonie created program arises, because the cult has successfully sold their program to numerous public schools and churches in America already, many of which may be unaware of the Moonie connection

CONTINUED WITH SOME STUFF DAMAGING to the BFEE...

http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/p-politicians-governorgeorgewbush.html