Forward Area Analysis Report: My view of the Jarmin scandal

[jmowreader]

Some of this is derived from following links between organizations, some from knowledge of enemy operations, and some from my very favorite fill-in-the-gaps technique: rocking back in my chair and thinking, "if I were you, what would I do?"

Folks, we ain't never gonna find where Jarmin spends his money. Here's why:

a) From going through the five million posts associated with this problem, the linked articles, the other webpages and so on, one constant thread runs through it all: These guys are all either directly connected to the Unification Church, or they're connected to someone who is.

b) Hence the problem with looking at how Jarmin spends his money: the Unification Church probably runs a centralized accounting system when dealing with political monies. Christian Voice sends its money to Moon Central, who then disburses it as necessary. This solves the rather pesky problem of nosy liberals breaking out where Jarmin is spending his money--once it hits central office, you can't tell the difference between Jarmin money and flower-selling money.

More wild-ass supposition:

a) Moon is behind Free Republic. FR dovetails very neatly with Moon's agenda, which is to seize control of the American political process without letting anyone know who's doing it. Further, he's running Drudge, Limbaugh, Fox News, all the places freepers get their news. By using a group of activists all over the US, he can get his message across easier and cheaper than he can with the Washington Times, Insight on the News, and UPI. If you look at the signatories to that one letter, you can find a "Free Republic Foundation" signatory.

Exactly how the infil has been accomplished I don't know. One of two things has happened. The easiest to explain is that Moon has assigned four or five people to spend all day on FR starting threads that expound the Moonie viewpoint. The other is that Moon owns Jim Robinson, and this I can understand: Robinson claims Free Republic costs $240,000 per year to run. I assume this includes Robinson's draw. In the last fundraising campaign, Skinner told us that, including EarlG, Elad and Skinner's draws, Democratic Underground costs less than $200k per year. Free Republic is based in Fresno; DU in the DC area. Which one's more expensive? Taking all this into consideration, and that DU is a far larger community than FR (Robinson claims over 100,000 people have applied for posting privileges, but remember that this includes the people who applied and weren't accepted, the people who were accepted but who lost their privileges after one post--tell me this hasn't happened to you--and the ones who joined, found out what freepers are really all about and decided to vote for John Kerry.), you know all that money isn't coming just from freepers.

My theory: Moon bankrolls FR. If he were to pay the whole bill, it would be a smaller amount than what he loses by printing the Times for two weeks. Obviously he doesn't, but FR probably costs him a hundred grand a year. Chicken shit money.

If it got around that Moon was running FR, the freepers would converge on Conservative Underground or go back to Usenet.

b) Has anyone checked the Moonie affiliations of Coulter, Leo, Malkin et al? Could be interesting...

c) Most Americans hate moonies. Therefore, an ad campaign emphasizing that these letters are coming from the Unification Church, explaining some of the shit the UC has done in the past for those who don't follow politics, would shut down the letters. Further explaining the Bush-Moon ties we know exist will shut down Bush. "Why does a man who calls himself a Christian associate with a man who thinks Jesus came back to earth in the 1930s to admit defeat?"

It's worth a shot. We're not in desperation mode. Far from it--I think 350 EV is within our grasp right now. I want all 535, and Bush will give them to us if we let him.

[aquart]

1. Who is Jarmin?

[jmowreader]

2. Gary Jarmin's the one who started it all

This whole thing started over a four-page letter a DUer's elderly relative (I think it was their mother, but it could have been their grandmother) received. It was all about how the Democrats were going to eliminate Social Security and how only "our conservative leaders" could keep it going.

Which is bullshit on its face--Bush is on record as saying he wants to privatize Social Security, his friends in the financial industry want him to privatize Social Security, and there are some very powerful right-wingers who believe it should be ended. OTOH, John Kerry is on record as saying he wants to keep it as a government program.

We started tracking back through Jarmin and all of the organizations he runs out of his house. He connects straight back to the Reverend Moon, as do most of the RW groups out there.

I received a private message a bit ago...Jarmin is apparently a ghost. This means one of two things: he lives in a van down by the river, or he's so high up in the RW hierarchy that they don't want him to be seen.