What's Moon Got to Do With It (Abramoff/Rove/College Republicans)?

[UpInArms]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/010706a.html

excerpt:

In the book, Gang of Five, author Nina Easton wrote that the Abramoff-Norquist leadership transformed the College Republicans into a “right-wing version of a communist cell – complete with purges of in-house dissenters and covert missions to destroy the enemy left.”

Under Abramoff and Norquist, the College Republicans also allegedly began tapping into Rev. Moon’s mysterious well of nearly unlimited cash. In 1983, Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, then chairman of the GOP’s moderate Ripon Society, released a study saying the College Republican National Committee “solicited and received” money from Moon’s Unification Church in 1981.

Leach said the Korean-based Unification Church has “infiltrated the New Right and the party it wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well.”

Before Leach could finish the press conference, Norquist disrupted the meeting with accusations that Leach was lying. For its part, Moon’s Washington Times dismissed Leach’s charges as “flummeries” and mocked the Ripon Society as a “discredited and insignificant left-wing offshoot of the Republican Party.”

To this day, largely through lavish spending on right-wing causes, Moon has made his cult-like movement a political powerhouse within conservative circles. However, evidence has continued to mount that Moon’s operation is a complex web of secretive businesses and groups that launder millions of dollars from suspicious sources in Asia and South America into the U.S. political system.

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http://www.nndb.com/org/770/000079533 /



Name OccupationBirthDeathKnown for

Jack Abramoff

Government

28-Feb-1958 Lobbyist, friends with Tom DeLay

Lee Atwater

Politician

27-Feb-195129-Mar-1991RNC Chairman 1988-90

Morton C. Blackwell

Activist

16-Nov-1939 Influential conservative activist

Phil English

Politician

20-Jun-1956 Congressman, Pennsylvania 3rd

Bobby Jindal

Politician

10-Jun-1971 Congressman, Louisiana 1st 2005-

Patrick McHenry

Politician

22-Oct-1975 Congressman, North Carolina 10th 2005-

Grover Norquist

Activist

19-Oct-1956 Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader

Ralph Reed

Activist

24-Jun-1961 Former head of the Christian Coalition

Karl Rove

Government

25-Dec-1950 Turd Blossom

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Tied to Richard Viguerie

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/05/abramoff_associ.php

David Keene Lobbied for Organization Linked to Abramoff. According to Senate records, David Keene lobbied for the United Seniors Association, now known as USA Next, from 1998 through 2004 while a lobbyist at the Carmen Group. Abramoff served as a board member for United Seniors, a group created by archconservative and GOP direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie that lobbied for Medicare cuts in the 1990s. The United Seniors Association is also known as USA Next, the group that earlier this year was criticized for running ads linking the AARP to gay marriage and accusing them of not supporting US. Troops.

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and Who is Richard Viguerie?

Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right

excerpt:

Another element of Moon's strategy is to approach a conservative leader when he's financially down. Moon quietly infuses money and gains the leader's gratitude. Again, Viguerie is an example of that tactic. When he fell on hard times in the late 1980s, Moon directed more business his way and had a corporation run by Moon's lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak,
buy one of Viguerie's properties for $10 million. < Orange County Register, Dec. 21, 1987 / Washington Post, Oct. 15, 1989>

With Moon's timely intervention, Viguerie survived financially and remains an important fixture in conservative political campaigns to this day. When Iran-contra figure Oliver North ran for the U.S. Senate in Virginia in 1994, his principal direct-mail contractor was Viguerie's company, according to Federal Election Commission records.

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[formercia]

1. Alexander Strategies

well tied into the scandals as well as Moon connections.

[KoKo]

2. Kick and Recommend. Glad to see the Moonie Connections resurfacing

for hopefully a more thorough look. It's time that it was exposed and Neil Bush running around the Soviet Union and China with Moon drumming up support for that fantasy tunnel would hopefully give a sense of "urgency" to the exposure.

[blm]

13. You'd think Moon buying up all the land over world's largest aquifer

would make the media sit up and take notice.

[Octafish]

3. Yours is most imporant info! Don't forget Bathtub Grover Norquist...

From Consortiumnews.com:

Mysterious Republican Money

By Robert Parry
September 7, 2004

SNIP...

As Moon continued to expand his influence in American politics, some Republicans began to raise red flags. In 1983, the GOP’s moderate Ripon Society charged that the New Right had entered “an alliance of expediency” with Moon’s church. Ripon’s chairman, Representative Jim Leach of Iowa, released a study which alleged that the College Republican National Committee “solicited and received” money from Moon’s Unification Church in 1981. The study also accused Reed Irvine’s Accuracy in Media of benefiting from low-cost or volunteer workers supplied by Moon.

Leach said the Unification Church has “infiltrated the New Right and the party it wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well.” Leach’s news conference was disrupted when then-college GOP leader Grover Norquist accused Leach of lying. (Norquist is now a prominent conservative leader in Washington with close ties to the highest levels of George W. Bush’s administration.) The Washington Times dismissed Leach’s charges as “flummeries” and mocked the Ripon Society as a “discredited and insignificant left-wing offshoot of the Republican Party.”

Despite periodic fretting over Moon’s influence, conservatives continued to accept his deep-pocket assistance. When White House aide Oliver North was scratching for support for the Nicaraguan contras, for instance, The Washington Times established a contra fund-raising operation. By the mid-1980s, Moon’s Unification Church had carved out a niche as an acceptable part of the American Right. In one speech to his followers, Moon boasted that “without knowing it, even President Reagan is being guided by Father .”

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/090704.html

Liars. Crooks. Warmongers. Traitors.

Bush Transnational Criminal Empire.

EDIT: Wanted to make it clear: Your post is most important, UpInArms! Thank you!

[UpInArms]

10. Thanks Octafish! Moon has been working at subverting our

government for a long time now.

Mr. Moon was quite excited at this glowing recommendation and felt that Mr. Bush's presence as keynote speaker gave the event invaluable prestige. George Herbert Walker Bush also appeared in promotional videos for the Unification Church. In 1995, he and Barbara, his wife, gave six speeches in Asia for the Women's Federation for World Peace, a group led by Moon's wife. In 1996, Bush addressed the Moon-connected Family Federation for World Peace in Washington. The estimates of Bush's fee for the Buenos Aires appearance alone ran between $100,000 and $500,000, and some have said that the speaking fees that Bush has garnered for his appearances may be in excess of ten million dollars.
[br />By speaking on behalf of Mr. Moon and his organizations, our former president (father of our current president) has lent credence and prestige and an air of respectability to what many might deem as someone downright sinister.

On January 19, 2001, Mr. Moon's Unification Church sponsored an "Inaugural Prayer Luncheon for Unity and Renewal" for George Walker Bush. Two Bush administration nominees were in attendance: Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will promote "charitable choice" initiatives, and Attorney General John Ashcroft. Mr. Goldsmith promoted the Bush plan to give churches federal funds to offer social services, later called the "Faith Based Initiatives". Mr. Ashcroft was the keynote speaker. Another attendee was Jerry Falwell, who has "allowed" Mr. Moon to generously restructure a three million dollar debt for his Liberty University through the Women's Federation for World Peace, which promptly "forgave" the debt.

A Unification Church report describing the luncheon said that these events show Moon's ability to draw a broad cross-section of religious leaders to his events, asserting that the gathering "united Christian leaders black and while, including Robert Schuller, Jerry Falwell, the leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, a representative of the Bill Graham organization, and many others."]

[Catrina]

17. Omg, so the Young Republicans were Moonies!

I knew there was a cult-like aura about these rightwingers. But I'm confused, weren't Moonies more often thought of as leftists? Weren't the 'flower-children'? I saw a program several years ago about people whose loved ones got involved in Cults and who had to kidnap them to get them out, and then have de-programmers work with them to undo the indoctrination they had undergone.

One family said that their son was a victim of the Rev. Moon, he was a Moonie, they said.

Moon has called America 'The Great Satan'. Until he surfaced recently with stories of his connections to the Bush family, I assumed he had simply gone away, like all the other cultists. This truly is amazing, and even more amazing is that not one word of the Bush/Moon, or the Young Republican Moon cult, has ever once made it into the MSM.

I told one Bush supporting friend about this, and she would not at first believe it. When she realized it was true, she said to me 'I feel sick'.

I've seen lists of his businesses across the US, they are extensive. You would not know who really owned them, and recently I read that he now owns UPI as well as The Washington Times and many other media outlets. No wonder we do not get news.

I used to joke that rightwingers would have to be de-programmed. Norquist, Reed, Abramoff and Kidan were all College Republicans ~ it seems they were prime material for a cultist like Moon. But how on earth did we get to this point? With a bunch of real loonies in charge of things?

[blm]

20. The GOP and fundies like Tim LaHaye LEARNED from Moon's techniques.

The LEFT BEHIND series is so influential with the feeble-minded because they use all the elements necessary to lure the reader into their realm and worldview.

Well, Moon was a key moneyman for LaHaye since the early 80s and maybe earlier.

Moon also funded fundamentalist movements in EVERY major religion. They started as anti-communist fronts and then even stood guard against the leaders in their own religion, like the Pope, who they accused of being communist.

I know becaue my mother joined TFP, a fundie Catholic group then and turned into a rabid rightwinger and I would have to attend some of their meetings. Only in recent years did I discover that Moon was one of the moneymen behind this group.

[Cell Whitman]

24. This doesn't mean they are "moonies"

Not in the sense that they screw under a photo of Moon. In the sense that they have helped his agenda, yes.

Moon doesn't need people to "be" members - he uses people, uses others to do his bidding. He is in front of the UN now with a proposal to add a theocratic body to the UN. He is using the Philippines. The speaker of the house of the Philippines openly admits Moon is leading their effort.

But in that, I do NOT believe the Philippines understands Moon's plan.

Anyway, I think you lose listeners if you call them Moonies. Reagan wasn't a Moonie but he helped them. He literally asked for Moon's "prayers" and "support" during the '80 campaign.

Bush "chump" 41 I doubt is a moonie yet he said he supports the work of Moon's "federations" - that is he supports the Unification Church in so many words.

[Catrina]

27. I was reacting to this:

Leach said the Unification Church has “infiltrated the New Right and the party it wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well.” Leach’s news conference was disrupted when then-college GOP leader Grover Norquist accused Leach of lying. (Norquist is now a prominent conservative leader in Washington with close ties to the highest levels of George W. Bush’s administration.) The Washington Times dismissed Leach’s charges as “flummeries” and mocked the Ripon Society as a “discredited and insignificant left-wing offshoot of the Republican Party.”

Despite periodic fretting over Moon’s influence, conservatives continued to accept his deep-pocket assistance. When White House aide Oliver North was scratching for support for the Nicaraguan contras, for instance, The Washington Times established a contra fund-raising operation. By the mid-1980s, Moon’s Unification Church had carved out a niche as an acceptable part of the American Right. In one speech to his followers, Moon boasted that “without knowing it, even President Reagan is being guided by Father .”

As I recall, Moon targeted college age students for his mind control tactics. It seems he found fertile ground among College Republicans. That is contrary to what I had understood ~ aren't they the 'reality based' community? If thit is true, it would not seem so. I think the word 'moonie' does apply to Norquist, Reed, Abramoff and Kidan in the sense that they were hooked while in college.

Norquist attacked a Republican lawmaker who was warning people about Moon, and defended him! If all this was known about Norquist, how come we never heard of it until now? Why, if Moon is so 'mainstream' that Bush Sr. accepts his Unification Church, has it all been such a secret?

As for his Unification Church, the man believes he is 'the father' of the whole world. This is delusional, so if Bush Sr. supports this, then what is he, if not delusional also?

The problem is, this is all new to most of us, that this man, who was dismissed as a lunatic (and imo, rightly so) has, through his acceptance by the extreme right, managed to get so much control over the affairs of this country.

From what I read, Reagan was not at all supportive of Moon, quite the contrary actually. Yet, Moon claims in typical delusional fashion, that Reagan supports his nonsensical claims also, 'without realizing it'.

I've read the rantings of Moon, go to any of his own websites, and see for yourself. The man is nuts and I am not being disrespectful, but anyone who accepts his 'Unification Church' deserves to have their own sanity questioned. Moonie is too kind a word for them, imo.

Edited to add: Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, or missing something. If so, my apologies, but from my readings of his 'teachings' anyone who accepts him, is someone whose sanity I would seriously question.

[Cell Whitman]

29. my point is that you will shut people off calling non members moonies

until they understand your meaning at least. I agree that those who accept and help him have more than a screw loose. Moon lies and they want to believe him. Like acting like the Washington Times is "independent" of him and that the WT isn't an integral part of Moon's effort to manipulate the nation right and theocratic. I would call conservatives relationship - working with Moon - treasonous.

Reagan literally asked for Moon's prayers and support during the 80 campaign. He had Bo Hi Pak in for meetings and told him to thank Moon. Moon was a VIP guest at the Reagan/Bush inaugural. He said his "Reagan doctrine" would not have succeeded without Moon's paper. Reagan did an ad for Moon's propaganda paper. Moon brags about "influencing" Reagan and our nation through the paper and he has.

"A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy."

-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)
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I have studied Moon for years. I have read hundreds of speeches and countless articles and books on him. I have been trying to get people to see what he has done for years. Read the links in my post below #23 for more.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Moon owns the Bush family too

Poppy Bush and than Neil is in with him now too.

[WhiteTara]

5. k&r

:kick:

[Wilms]

6. .

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Oh come on...What about George Soros?!

:sarcasm:

I'm kidding...Moon's given way more to the right that George Soros could even contemplate giving to the left....and Moon is but only one of many billionaire elitist benefactors of the right.


Anyhow,,,k&r

[blm]

8. Moon is just one of the billionaire theocrats and fascist ARCHITECTS

of the Bush family's New World Order. They've been working on this agenda for over 4 decades now.

[ComerPerro]

25. Exactly

I heard someone mention Moon on the radio the other day, him and Murdoch, when OhReally was ranting about Soros (as he often does).

OhReally responded that Murdoch and Moon give money to both sides, so they can't compare to the evil Soros...

:crazy:

[Cell Whitman]

28. What a lying fraud.

Moon has NEVER to my knowledge supported a liberal cause of any kind. Some say his support of the UN is "liberal" Moon doesn't give a damn about the UN only in so much as he can manipulate it, use it to shape the world as he pleases.

Keep in mind also, Moon would have dried up on the vine and been a nobody were it not for the conservatives HELPING HIM!!! They gave face to him, huge face by sucking up to the Washington Times. Bush 41 toured for him, selling the name and prestige of the presidency to Moon. That was HUGE for Moon and has allowed him to manipulate the planet.

Reagan and Bush sold this nation out when they invited Moon into help them deceive our nation. Today's conservatism is NOT in power without the efforts of their savior, Moon.

The man has been operating in DC for decades. The REPUBLICANS accepted and worked with him.

Read my post below and read the article linked in it.

Years ago before the Fraser report exposed Moon some dems could be found taking a picture with Moon but it was the conservatives who Moon has used and worked through to fuck our nation right and theocratic.

It is the republican mind control bullshit. Just like "Kenny boy" - they both did it eh?.. they can tell their cult anything... So Moon may have given about 2500 bucks to Danny Davis who NO LONGER attends Moon functions but that is about of what you will find.

Moon is not just a funder of the right HE IS ONE OF THEIR LEADERS. His fronts and BILLIONS have brought the right to power. Moon said his job as messiah was to bring the "Christian" right into control of America. He did it, he IS their savior.

Soros is a U.S. CITIZEN and spent about 25 million one election cycle, NON-CITIZEN Moon has been the go to guy for the right for 30 years - spending BILLIONS to bring right wing theocratic politics to America.

"A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy."

-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)





HE IS THEIR SAVIOR.

[Rex]

9. Don't piss off our real masters!

"US serfs should know their place...fetch me some grapes!"

[Toots]

11. I have read that Moon puts more money into GOP than all Unions combined

put into Democrat's coffers. He is their money tree. He is chief money launderer of the world....

[blm]

14. And Democrats should pound home that point at every opportunity.

.

[Amonester]

15. And this should be Front Page far and wide.

Dear readers, like it or not, we now live in a Monarchy, thanks to the (Hypocrit) Republican Criminal Culture Of Corruption.

Why is it not? :shrug:

Of course, they "hide" 'em.

[UpInArms]

16. here's some text to go with that picture

Warner Helped the Rev. Moon be Coronated in the Senate Office Building - Senator's Office Says He Arranged for Meeting Space in March

Wednesday, July 21, 2004; Page A02

Sen. John W. Warner's office acknowledged yesterday that the Virginia Republican arranged for religious activists to use a Senate office building last March for a ceremony in which the Rev. Sun Myung Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons."

The senator did not attend the coronation-like ceremony or realize it would involve Moon, a controversial figure who spent 18 months in prison in the 1980s for tax fraud, said Warner spokesman John Ullyot. "Our office felt misled" after news accounts described a long ceremony in which Moon and his wife were crowned as leaders of international peace, he said.

Many private groups use Senate office buildings for receptions and meetings, but they must obtain a senator's approval. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee has declined to reveal who approved the use of the Dirksen Senate Office Building for the March 23 ceremony, and a key organizer said last month the question was "shrouded in mystery." Warner's office acknowledged its role yesterday when asked for details by The Washington Post.

When news accounts last month described the ceremony, several of the approximately dozen lawmakers who attended said they were duped into going and had no idea the Moons would be the chief honorees. Some said they simply went to see a constituent receive an award and were unaware of Moon's long speech in which he said, "Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."

<snip>

A March 8 invitation sent to many lawmakers and others said the "primary program sponsor" would be the "Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP), founded by Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon." Several co-sponsors were listed, including the Washington Times Foundation, but Christian Voice was not mentioned.

The group, however, has been linked to Moon's far-flung religious and business empire in numerous articles over the years. An April article in Church & State magazine referred to "Christian Voice, a Religious Right group connected with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon." It said the group was "long associated with Moon operative Gary Jarmin."

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Lawmakers attend Moon ‘coronation’ in Dirksen

Coronations are not everyday occurrences on Capitol Hill — the Capitol being the people’s house, an indelible symbol of the republic, etc.

So it’s odd that a man was crowned in the Dirksen Senate Office Building earlier this year in the presence of several lawmakers and that the event is only now drawing attention.

It appears that at least some lawmakers were drawn to the event unaware of what would happen and who would be there. Others who the organizers claim were present say they were not.

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, former felon and current owner of The Washington Times, was the man in the spotlight, declaring himself humanity’s “savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”

The event, which took place March 23, was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation and the International Interreligious Federation for World Peace (IIFWP), a Moon-led group. Present at different points during the event were Reps. Danny Davis (D-Ill.), Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Sen. Mark Dayton (R-Minn.).

One of Moon’s claims that evening was that “Hitler and Stalin have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons.”

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[Amonester]

19. Me wonders who these psychopaths might be today...

One of Moon’s claims that evening was that "Hitler and Stalin have found strength in my teachings, mended their ways and been reborn as new persons."

Rumsfailed (H) & Gocheneyoself (S)

[Cell Whitman]

26. Moon outspent Scaife propping up and molding the "new" right

Bardach in her article on Moon written in 1992 stated many insiders believe Moon was the number one donor to Conservative causes in the 80s. The estimates on the money losing propaganda wing of Moon's efforts to manipulate our nation - Washington Times - run from 1-4 billion. Moon outspent Scaife propping up and molding his brand of conservatism.

Moon is the father of today's conservatism.

Moon is the conservative's savior...literally...

this shows some of how Reagan's 11th helped Moon find cover in the conservative movement, anyone who spoke out was shouted down or thought of as the enemy.

from -

U.S News and World Report March 27, 1989
Rev. Moon's Rising Political Influence
His empire is spending big money trying to win favor with conservatives.

On New Year's Day, 1987, South Korean mystic Sun Myung Moon, who considers himself to be the son of God, told his Unification church followers that he wanted to expand the church's political influence in the United States. His aim, Moon said, was "the natural subjugation of the American government and population." ...


...the church has established a network of affiliated organizations and connections in almost every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation, the largest of the conservative think tanks and an important source of government personnel during the Reagan administration. Although Heritage officials deny it, the foundation has dramatically changed its policy toward the Unification Church. In the early 80's the foundation, wary of the church's aims, prohibited staff or fellows from being associated with Unification Church organizations or taking money from the church or church-financed institutions.

As the Washington Times has become the voice of capital conservatives, the Heritage Foundation has become far more tolerant of church ties. The foundation accepts the participation of Lichenstein and other senior fellows in church-funded enterprises and allows its staff members to go to church conferences.

The Unification Church's newfound influence has occasioned intense debate among conservatives. One group of worried young conservatives meets regularly in private to compare notes about the problem. But little of the debate has surfaced in public forums. "Most people are afraid to address the issue because they don't want to publicize the extent of the church's involvement," says Amy Moritz of the Conservative National Center for Public Policy Research.

Because almost all conservative organizations in Washington have some ties to the church, conservatives also fear repercussions if they expose the church's role. That happened when one organization, the Capital Research Center, published a newsletter last November warning of the church's attempt to create a "centralized world theocracy." One of its board members, who was also on the board of the International Security Council, resigned in protest, and conservatives charging that the paper was creating discord on the right, besieged the center with angry calls. "We got a very, very strong reaction -- almost as if we were the enemy -- because we raised the issue," says CRC Chairman Willa Johnson, a former president of the Heritage Foundation.

[ClayZ]

12. "Bring nothing back from the Moon" Hopi Prophecy

Hopi Prophesy said to "bring nothing back from the moon". Perhaps they were
ahead of themselves when thinking it was Neil Armstrong we should worry
about.


http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi2.html


>snip<

Hopi prophecy warns that nothing should be brought back from the Moon -- obviously anticipating the Apollo 11 mission that returned with samples of lunar basalt. It this was done, the Hopi warned, the balance of natural and universal laws and forces would be disturbed, resulting in earthquakes, severe changes in weather patterns, and social unrest. All these things are happening today, though of course not necessarily because of Moon rocks.

>snip<

[WhiteTara]

18. does this mean we can charge him with foreign

influence in our elections? Thanks for this post UIA

[Sydnie]

21. Check out this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=86959&mesg_id=86959

DUer's had already done some great research on Moon for something else and Abramoff was talked about in that thread too. It's from 10/04. Lots of into there and more names to check out too.

[Armstead]

22. This would be huge among the "American Christian Patriots"

...if the real extent of his influence on the right wing machine were ever covered to the extent it deserves.

Whatever one thinks of those Americans who buy into the right-wing version of Amercan Christian Family Values, the fact that so much of the Right Wing message Machine has been either created or is strongly in bed with Rev. Moon is disturbing.

Ir would also be disturbing to many knee-jerk conservatives, if they realized that so many of the individuals and organizations and politicians were being supported by someone with the, er, exotic views of Rev. Moon.

[Cell Whitman]

23. I think the way to expose Moon starts with learning about him.

I mean really learning about him.

Suggested reading below. If you don't know the information well, you can't face it, you can't really see it. imho.

If you want to be the first on your block to understand how the moonites operate and how deep they go, how deceptive they have been since day one, if you haven't already, read the Fraser report(link below) and Boettcher's book. (you can get a good copy for a buck last time I looked.)

The Fraser report lays out what Moon wants and how he plans to get there. The world is BLIND.

here's the link to Fraser Report:

http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/m/moonies/fraser-report/index.html
________

Below is an excerpt from Robert B. Boettcher's -
Gifts of Deceit - Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park and the Korean Scandal. (1980)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0030445760/qid%3D978915705/102-8084025-1605754

From the back cover of Gifts of Deceit - about the author Robert B. Boettcher's:

As staff director of the House Subcommittee on International Relations, Robert Boettcher was in on the Korean scandal from the beginning. It was the investigations done by his staff that lead directly to the breaking of the scandal. His work put him in liaison with top officials in the CIA and in the Department of Justice as well as with Special Counsel Lean Jaworski and the staff and principals of the Ethics Committee investigation. Fluent in two far eastern languages and with an M.S. in international relations from Georgetown University, Mr. Boettcher served five years as a Foreign Service Officer with a specialty in Far Eastern affairs before joining Congressman Donald Fraser's staff in 1971.

The Fraser committee could not charge anyone. The lying moonies will tell you they found no wrongdoing and therefore their investigation went nowhere. In fact, they found evidence of wrongdoing and recommended that further measures be taken. The Carter Justice department dropped the ball and then Reagan literally asked Moon for his "prayers" and "support" during the '80 campaign and that was when our nation entered the death spiral we are in now.

Moon has more to do with our nation's political climate than anyone.

excerpt from Gifts.

The Fraser Report recommended a federal task force to investigate the Moon organization for lawbreaking. Evidence of systematic violation of laws appears in the report. But a subcommittee of Congress is neither a law enforcement agency nor a court. It can only investigate and legislate. The Fraser Subcommittee did not recommend making any new laws to deal with the Moonies in the areas investigated. It found evidence that the Moon organizations had violated existing laws. What the subcommittee called for was for law enforcement and regulatory agencies to do their jobs, specifically the Department of Justice (including the FBI, the Antitrust Division, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service), the Treasury Department, the Security and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Past attempts at investigating Moon activities by each of those agencies alone had been piecemeal, inconclusive, and without the benefit of pooled information. That worked to Moon's advantage every time. It is one of the pitfalls of the Washington bureaucracy. That was why the Fraser Subcommittee recommended a coordinated effort by an interagency task force.

After the Fraser Report and the Guyana tragedy, there was still no indication that any such investigation would begin.

The American system is ill-equipped to deal with Moon. He knows this and benefits from it. He can break some laws and use others for protection. By perverting freedom of religion, he can keep thousands in brainwashed captivity while he intimidates and manipulates the non-moon world. He hurls lawsuits at those who offend him, whether parents of cult members or The New York Times. He has Nobel laureates feeding his ego and prestige by attending his conferences. He has high-principled civil libertarians and churchmen rallying to his defense.

Moon also has held the Department of Justice cautiously at bay for years. In 1976, Undersecretary of State Habib had asked for an investigation of the Moonies under the Foreign Agents Registrations Act. Justice refused to even look, because the Moonies called themselves a church.

It was still hands off in 1977. On July 29, Assistant Attorney General Civiletti, in a letter to a Congressman, wrote, "It has been our experience that members of these religious sects are apparently competent, consenting adults." He decided to do nothing because to take brainwashing seriously "would seem to require finding that the members' religious beliefs were false." The United States government believed brainwashing was real enough in the Korean War. Apparently that was different because Communists were doing it to American soldiers. When Moon does it the name of God he gets away with it.

Attorney General Griffin Bell added confusion to his departments caution. After the deaths in Guyana, he said, "I don't know what a cult is. I'm a Baptist. Maybe that makes me a member of a cult." Two months later, on February 2, 1979, he said he believed Patty Hearst had been brainwashed.

An open society must let totalitarians have their say. If the Nazis are allowed to march down the street, and the Communists can publish their Daily World, then Moon has the right to tell people God wants him to take over the world. Likewise, others are entitled to criticize what he says. Not so, says Moon.

Hundreds from his cult were shipped to Washington to protest Senator Dole's information meeting on the cult phenomenon. Outside the Senate Office Building, they waved signs proclaiming "Senator Dole, this is a witch hunt." Inside, Neil Salonen took the stand and told Senators and Congressman what the Moonies thought about the meeting.

"This very proceeding itself violates the spirit of the First Amendment and violates the rights of believers which the First Amendment was designed to protect. It will have a chilling effect on the free exercise of those beliefs."

George Swope, a Baptist minister, gave a different view of congressional inquiry into church activities:

"Members of the congress I tell you frankly, if you receive hundreds of accusing letters from parents of young adults who have joined the Baptist denomination, and if you receive hundreds of statements from young adults who have left the Baptists alleging mind control, the potential for suicide and murder, illegal immigration and financial practices, and other destructive physical and psychological activities, I feel it would be your duty to establish a task force to investigate those allegations against my own denomination." ....

Fraser was not the only one closing in on the Moonies. The Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation had been barred from soliciting contributions in New York after 1976. The State Social Welfare Board had discovered that less than 7 percent of the funds collected by KCFF for the Children's Relief Fund could have been used for that purpose. The public was told that money was needed urgently to save the lives of 350,000 children who were facing "terminal forms of malnutrition" in Southeast Asia. Contributions were to be used to buy emergency supplies of blood plasma and food. The Children's Relief Fund appears to have been more an exercise in image-building than a drive to raise funds for the cult's coffers. An audit showed that Bo Hi Pak himself got $26,000 each year, while the bulk of the contributions in 1975, $920,000, was paid to Richard A. Viguerie Company, a professional fund raising firm, for handling mail order solicitations. Another $58,000 went to the Associated Public Relations Council of Washington, owned by Donald Miller, who was also the executive director of KCFF.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/15/221015/62

Why TV news will NOT cover Sun Myung Moon's influence on our nation. (short answer - they would have to admit they have helped him)

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/2/224046/295

Neil Bush is traveling with Sun Myung Moon, here's what they are doing. No it's not to help promote that GD tunnel.
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http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5684&abbr=cs_

Moon Shadow by Bob Boston. Outlines how the republican party has worked with Moon to tear down the wall between church and state and used him to promote Bush's Faith Based Vote Buying Scheme. This helped Moon recruit black ministers.

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http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml

Transcript of FRONTLINE from 1992. Tells how Moon has held conservatives hands since Reagan asked for Moon to help them deceive a once great nation.

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http://www.cellwhitman.blogspot.com/

The first writing on the net which admits or takes the poisition that Moon is winning and it isn't close.

It explains some of the fact that Moon said his job as messiah was to raise up the Christain right to control America. He did it. I believe he had a fork in us by 1993. "Gingrich" revolution? Bullshit it was the "Moon" revolution he paid for it and guided it.

Problem is Moon has moved onto his plans for the planet and NO ONE SEES HIM.

TV will likely never cover Moon.

ONLY YOU will ever make it an issue and the only way to do that is read, read, read....
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http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/

[MrMonk]

30. 1981

is reported to be the year that the College Republican National Committee obtained funding from the Unification Church

1981 was the year that Moon's rehabilitation began, transforming his image from criminal cult leader to respected supporter of the religious right

1981 was two years after a theater arts professor told me that the religious right was in bed with Moon, and that he was one of the right's major sources of funds . . . That seemed so far out that I couldn't believe him.

It's going to be very tough to educate people about who Moon is and how far his influence extends.

[Cell Whitman]

31. Moon wants Korea to be the center of the world.

excerpted from:

Science, Sin, and Scholarship
The Politics of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church
Edited by Irving Louis Horowitz
Copyright 1978 second printing 1979
Printed and bound by Alpine Press
pgs. 120-147

The Activities of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in the United States
Jai Hyon Lee.

I appreciate the opportunity to speak before the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives to testify on the activities of the Korean Intelligence Agency, KCIA, in the United States in the context of U.S policy toward Korea and the developments affecting the human rights in that country .

Last summer when I testified before this committee with regard to the repression of human rights in South Korea and its implications for U.S. policy, I pointed out the existence at the Korean embassy in Washington of KCIA plans for clandestine operations in the United States. I testified that, in the spring of 1973, the ambassador called frequent staff meetings at which I had been also present as chief cultural and information attaché and, concurrently, Director of the Korean Information Office in the United States. In these meetings, the KCIA station chief and his senior aides orientated the key embassy staff to the clandestine operational schemes. After a few sessions I realized the meetings were in fact an initiation of converting all the diplomatic and consular officers into KCIA auxiliaries.

snip...

Political Activities of Sun Myung Moon

Nowadays virtually every business in Korea - including the media business - must have close connections with the regime and the KCIA in particular. A business that requires foreign loans and foreign exchange absolutely must have KCIA approval at every turn. In this respect what draws my particular attention, because of its financial scope, is the vigorous and strange political activities in the United States of South Korean industrialist-evangelist Sun Myung Moon since Park turned South Korea into a police state.

For instance, in 1973, Moon came to the United States and mounted a dynamic coast-to-coast campaign of the "Day of Hope," with full page advertisements in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other major dailies, proclaiming, "At this moment in history God has chosen Richard Nixon to be President of the United States." Apparently bidding for favor Moon proclaimed Watergate-besieged President Nixon as a leader by divine right, and later Moon was invited to the White House, where he embraced Mr. Nixon. Toward the end of 1973 and the beginning of 1974, Moon crusaded in behalf of President Nixon with two "evangelical" themes of "Forgive, Unite," and "God Loves Nixon," through full-page newspaper ads, mass rallies and street demonstrations in the United States, Europe and the Far East. Of course the scene was repeated in South Korea. The point is that Moon staged massive demonstrations in Seoul where such rallies have been strictly banned by the "emergency decrees" of dictator Park.

The KCIA is involved in virtually every aspect of Korean life; therefore it is entirely unthinkable that the omnipresent KCIA simply overlooked Moon's movement. On the contrary the KCIA would be most interested in putting some Korean like Moon, who supports all of its goals, in a position to work and lobby for the Park regime's position on the American political scene. Indeed as most Koreans know, Moon's huge constellation of businesses enterprises in Korea and his cult have risen to a flourishing empire under the Park government despite his early days of arrest on morals charges, controversy, and scandalous reports in the leading Korean dailies.

Among many things, it is strange to note that Moon operates, through his Unification church-controlled Federation for Victory over Communism, an anticommunist indoctrination center for Korean government employees and military officers. By the KCIA's unpublished charter, however, this area of "anti-Communist indoctrination and internal propaganda" is explicitly under the control of the KCIA's Second Bureau, which also controls the press with censors and supervising agents in each newspaper and broadcasting station.

"Little Angels" and Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation

For another thing, only in 1973, I learned from a calling card that Moon is the founder and chairman of the board of the "Little Angels" Korean children's dance troupe, which has performed throughout the world as the officially endorsed emissary of the Park government. But the Little Angels has always been a showcase exhibit of another organization in Washington D.C. -- the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation of which the founder and president is now a retired lieutenant colonel of the Korean army who was initially sent to South Korea's Washington Embassy as assistant military attaché in 1961 by Park Chung Hee's military junta. Recently it became known that he is also an important member of Moon's Unification church and his translator and constant traveling companion during his tours of the United States.

Parks' Government and Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation

Another of the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation's few programs was "Radio Free Asia," which had no transmitters of its own but used the government-owned and operated Korean Broadcasting System's transmission facility and its broadcasting time for free of charge to beam its programs to Vietnam. I also remember that in 1970 or 1971, Park Chung Hee sent out a personal letter, signed on the government stationary as president of the republic of Korea, to at least 60,000 prominent Americans, including many senators, congressmen, bankers and businessmen, and so forth, soliciting contributions for the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, Inc. It was also in this period that, by sheer accident, I came to know that the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation had access to the South Korean embassy's cable channel to Seoul, which goes only to the foreign minister, director of the KCIA, prime minister, and the president.

In Washington D.C., there is another organization of which Moon is also the founder and the chairman of the board, namely, the Freedom Leadership Foundation with which KCIA agents in the Korean embassy maintained contact while I was still with the embassy. I remember that at least three American secretaries in South Korea's Washington embassy had been hired upon recommendations of the Freedom Leadership Foundation which furnished candidates at the request of the embassy's KCIA agents. When these not-too-visible links are viewed along with the strange political activities of Sun Myung Moon in the United States following Park's "Yushin" coup in office, there appears to be a curious working relationship between Park's dictatorial regime, Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, the "Little Angels," Moon's Unification church-affiliated organizations, and the KCIA -- let alone dictator Park's patronage for Moon's multimillion dollar ventures in South Korea.