That whole Paraquay land deal makes a LOT more sense, now, don't it?

[Lerkfish]

:hi:

[Nozebro]

1. Say WHAT?

nt

[Selatius]

2. The Bush family bought up thousands of acres of land down there.

There is speculation if worse comes to worse, they will move down there to their fortified retreat to avoid prosecution by the US government or US extradition to the Hague for war crimes.

[HereSince1628]

4. It's a compound for the Blackwater Strike Force...the Bush's have their

sights set on taking over South American countries that appreciate dictators.

[seemslikeadream]

3. time to move on georgie

:hi:

[blm]

5. Here's a DU trip down memory lane....Oct 2004......

blm (1000+ posts) Fri Oct-15-04 10:48 PM
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RevMoon owns land above Guarani aquifer, largest supply of fresh water.

Guarani aquifer? Just the largest supply of fresh drinking water ON THE PLANET.

from moonwatcher@bartcop:

HELL-O IS ANYONE LISTENING?
IMHO, Moon's organization IS 1000000000000 times more of danger to the future of the planet than any terrorist. At least SOME in South American aren't afraid to face him and try to protect their citizens from this group of fraudsters. That's a LOT more than we can say for ANY politician in this Moonized country of ours. Oh, and he has said that by living there they are less likley to get hit should the nukes start flying.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8997-Moonies_accused_of...

PARAGUAY: The Reverend Moon has carved out a section of Paraguay that is twice the size of Luxembourg. Seamus Mirodan went to see it
Reverend Sun Myung Moon, spiritual leader of the Unification Church, self-proclaimed Messiah, multimillionaire and a generous contributor to the US Republican Party, has been showing a strong interest over the last five years in little-known Paraguay at the centre of the South American continent.
Since 1999, Rev Moon has built his personal empire which begins on the marshy banks of the River Paraguay and stretches beyond the hazy, level horizon through 600,000 hectares of arid land - equivalent to more than two Luxembourgs - punctuated by solitary clusters of withered trees and sad bushes which struggle desperately for air.

The scorching sun beats relentlessly on one of Latin America's most desolate zones. It is here in the northern province of Chaco, directly above the GuaranI aquifer, the largest resource of fresh drinking water in the world, where Moon's associates claim he wishes to build an ecological paradise.

Nevertheless, national Senator Domingo Laino sees a different pattern in Moon's acquisitions. "There are two principal branches to Moon's interest in Paraguay," he said, "control of the largest fresh drinking water source in the world and control of the narcotics business", which is so prevalent in this area. "President Lula told me that Brazil took serious measures to curb Moon a few years back as it became evident that he was buying up the border between our two countries," said the senator. ...

Not content with expanses of potentially invaluable land, Rev Moon has also taken over entire towns, including factories and homes. In Puerto Casado, tensions between Moon disciples and locals led to violent confrontation over the last year following the closure of the only source of work, a lumber factory, and the dismissal of 19 workers who tried to form a union in order to demand an eight-hour day and the national minimum wage of GBP80 sterling per month.

According to Senator Emilio Camacho: "The Moon sect is a mafia. They seek to subvert government control and are effectively building a state within a state. I believe they are hoping the local population will leave so they have unquestioned authority in the zone and are free to do whatever they want."
This is not the first time such accusations have been levelled against Rev Moon and his associates in South America. Last June, the Chilean government refused to recognise the sect as a religious association and accused them of being "a danger to society". An aid to the Chilean Interior Minister described Rev Moon's ideology, somewhere to the right of the Taliban's Mullah Omar, as "profoundly anti-communist, xenophobic and with a marked Nazi inspiration". Venezuela and Honduras have expelled the cult.....
In 1999, the Brazilian federal police launched an investigation into the involvement of Rev Moon's associates in money-laundering and tax evasion, amidst accusations of drug-running. By October of that year, he had down-sized his operation in Brazil and bought land in Paraguay. According to local landowners, everything was paid for in cash, often for more than it was actually worth.