Kerry Attacker Protected Rev. Moon

[George_S]

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.

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This is well worth reading.

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

[starroute]

1. This is a very important piece

If your post sinks overnight, you might consider reposting tomorrow at a more user-friendly hour.

I'm becoming convinced that not only is Moon a pivotal figure in many of the more mysterious doings of the right, but that Moon's operation began as nothing less than a rebirth of the original World War II Axis -- combining Japanese war criminals and their Korean adherents with the leftover Nazis and neo-fascists of the World Anti-Communist League, and then adding in the essentially fascist dictatorships of Latin America.

Moon's operation is scary stuff -- fundamentally anti-democratic and anti-American. I'm trying not to get too tinfoil about it, but the more I learn the more sinister it seems. Behind the ditzy religious ravings, Moon has a serious long-range agenda, and he's made it clear that he means America no good.

[eagler]

3. Moon is one of the scariest of them all and it boggles the mind

how unreported he really is.This is just an example.

www.hillnews.com/news/062204/moon.aspx

[George_S]

4. Fascinating

The Heritage Foundation seems to be the common link between all of them in one way or another.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Heritage_Foundation

Is it any wonder...

Josh Silver, executive director of the non-profit advocacy group Free Press, said: “Sinclair is putting their political interests ahead of journalistic standards by calling this anti-Kerry documentary news, which it’s not. ... It’s reprehensible at best, illegal at worst.”

But Heritage Foundation media analyst Mark Tapscott called it a free speech issue, saying: “Why are we even thinking about limiting what a media organization can publish? There are lots of things in the world that are unfair.”

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/9898536.htm

[starroute]

17. Paul Weyrich is another scary dude

I've been trying to sort out the New Right recently, and it's becoming clear that there are distinct factions (even though they all work together at times.) The Weyrich faction makes the rest of them -- the fundamentalists, the libertarian/free market dirty tricksters, and even the Neocons -- look almost benign in comparison.

Weyrich, who founded the Heritage Foundation in 1975, is an ultra-reactionary and exponent of a particularly regressive brand of Catholicism. He's even an admirer of Father Coughlin, a prominent American fascist of the 1930's. Weyrich has explicitly stated that he wants to overturn democracy and return the world to rule by traditional elites. His friend Morton Blackwell (the purple heart band-aid guy) has also expressed a hankering after old-fashioned aristocracy.

Weyrich may have invented the term "culture wars." He, like Moon, clearly sees democracy and individualism as modern evils to be destroyed. This warped vision of history is what makes him particularly dangerous.

The Heritage Foundation has many ties to racists, neo-fascists, and old-line Nazi supporters. Roger Pearson, organizer of the Nazi Northern League, was on the editorial board of the Heritage Foundation's "Policy Review" in the late 70's. At about the same time, Weyrich, the Heritage Foundation, and its subsidiary the Free Congress Foundation sponsored Laszlo Pasztor and his racist Coalition of the Americas.

Much of what was going on in the 1980's involving the Reagan Administration's support of the Contras and of the most repellant Latin American dictatorships was prompted by these people and their allies. Their agenda was not merely anti-communist but actively pro-fascist and often racist. Many of the same people and groups were supporters of the South African apartheid government at the same time.

Moon has funded most of the New Right at one time or another, but the Heritage Foundation has had particularly close ties to him and to his backers in the Korean CIA.

The line-up of forces has changed somewhat since the 80's, and I don't have a clear sense of the current setup. The ties of the Heritage Foundation types to the religious right seem to be weaker, and there are more connections to former military men, the government contractors they work for, and the military-industrial complex in general. I'm currently trying to get a line on where those active connections lie.

[George_S]

19. Connections to Oil

Starroute, you will probably really like this if you haven't seen it yet. The intro explains how it works, but in the nutshell, you can find all the connections to the Heritage Foundation - people and/or organizations.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org

Of course, it's not limited to only the Heritage Foundation.

For example, related to this thread, a search for Moon found this:

FACTSHEET: Ron Arnold
DETAILS

Executive Vice President, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Advisory Board, National Federal Lands Conference (a property rights group that has hosted Posse Comitatus figure Eugene Schroeder and holocaust denier Eustace Mullins). Former consultant, Dow Chemical. Head of Washington State Chapter of the American Freedom Coalition, the political arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church(1989-1991)

The so-called "Father of the Wise Use Movement," Arnold's publications include a series on "EcoTerrorism" for Reason magazine and the book "At the Eye of the Storm: James Watt and the Environmentalists," about the controversial former Secretary of the Interior. Other book titles include "Ecology Wars," and "Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature. "

QUOTES

"We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members."
Source: Timothy Eagan, "Fund Raisers Tap Anti-Enviornmentalism," The New York Times, December 19, 1991.

"Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality."
Source: Boston Globe, "New, militant antienvironmentalists fight to return nature to a back seat." January 13, 1992.

"We are sick to death of environmentalism and so we will destroy it. We will not allow our right to own property and use nature's resources for the benefits of mankind to be stripped from us by a bunch of eco-facists."
Source: Boston Globe, "New, militant antienvironmentalists fight to return nature to a back seat." January 13, 1992.

Direct link to the search result:

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=42

[George_S]

23. More on Weyrich and Moon

EDIT: the posted link was kind of out there. Here is another as a filler:

http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.w.htm#pweyrich

[George_S]

28. EDIT: “Club of the most powerful gathers in strictest privacy”

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Council_for_National_Policy

[George_S]

29. Perspective: Who funds whom? (old)

by Jill Junnola
Energy Compass
October 4, 2002

Will US plans to depose Iraqi President Saddam Hussein be derailed by his agreement this week to accept the return of UN weapons inspectors? Not if US neoconservatives—well-placed in President George W. Bush's cabinet, and in the State and Defense Departments—have anything to do with it. But where do the main conservative think-tanks get their funding? Energy Compass looks at some of the key foundations that back them, as well as the highly convoluted relationships between foundations, think-tanks, and the administration.

The influence of neoconservatives on US policy has been on the rise for the past two decades (EC Aug.30,p5). Nurtured in the Reagan administration, their influence is again flourishing, courtesy, in part, of conservative think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Hudson Institute, Hoover Institute, and the more libertarian Cato Institute—all of which are funded by a select but loyal group of like-minded foundations and corporate sponsors. But the build-up to war on Iraq is where neocons have really come into their own, and where their ideas—barring Bush's reluctant decision to seek a new resolution from the UN last month—appear to have been adopted lock, stock, and barrel. A book written in 1999 by David Wurmser, now special assistant to John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control—the man responsible for labeling Syria, Libya, and Cuba as a secondary "axis of evil" earlier this year—appears to lay out the rationale for war on Iraq, as well as the pressing need to reassert US influence in the Middle East.


http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/243

[MisterP]

69. whee! Campus Watch! another stone in the arch of the Secret 4th Reich!

Lieberman (the Senator, not Seinfeld's casting director) is up to his boring neck in with them

[starroute]

20. Another good resource on Moon

I bookmarked this the other day, haven't had the chance to explore it in detail yet, but there seems to be a lot there. It's an anti-Moon blog by John Gorenfeld, who also writes for Salon:

http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/

Stories like:

"Paraguayans accuse Moon of carving out an empire of smack"
"Rory O'Connor on the Sherwood/Moon connection"
"Reverend Moon and the fascist movement in Japan"

[Octafish]

11. There isn't enough tinfoil in the world to protect one from Moon.

Friend of Bush.



Friend of Falwell.



Enemy of Kerry.

Parry's ConsortiumNews.com is one of the brightest places in the world for real jouranlism. Here's what he's got on the The Dark Side of Rev. Moon:

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

[Octafish]

13. A kick to the pants of the BFEE! -- Rev. Moon loves Congresscritters...

Hey! Where's blm?

Davis faces challenge for seat in Congress

BY CHERI BENTRUP
STAFF WRITER

EXCERPT...

One issue that has dogged Davis since June is his involvement in a March 23 ceremony held in Washington, D.C., in which the congressman crowned the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who proclaimed himself the messiah.

Davis-Fairman doesn't have much to say about Davis's involvement with Moon, but "when we go throughout the district, people will bring it up," he said. "This isn't about Moon, it's about Danny Davis."

Moon and his Unification Church are branded by critics as anti-Semitic and anti-gay. But Davis said he's not one to make quick judgments about others.

"The interaction I have had with Rev. Moon's group has been around peace and family values - every discussion I had, every conversation I've been engaged in. I'm not a hate monger. I know what my values are. I know what I believe in," Davis said, adding that he would be willing to talk about peace and family values with the Ku Klux Klan.


CONTINUED...

http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/el/10-13-04-405912.html

[Career Prole]

39. Damn! The things you see...

...when you're all out of exploding cakes! :eyes:

[Octafish]

47. LOL! That's not the worst of it. Moon Crowned King in Congress!!!

This nut's been a master BFEE paymaster turd.




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.

By John Gorenfeld

June 21, 2004  -- You probably imagine your congressman hard at work in the Capitol debating legislation, making laws -- you know, governing. But your newspaper probably didn't tell you that one night last March, members of Congress hosted a crowning ritual for an ex-convict multi-billionaire who dressed up in maroon robes and declared himself the Second Coming.

CONTINUED (AND YOU'LL NEED A DAY PASS OR SUBSCRIPTION -- WELL WORTH BOTH)...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/index_np.html

This is your US Congress, folks, big names on both sides of the aisles bought and paid for by Rev. Moon's billions. Nice.

[starroute]

42. Info on Moon's early days and intelligence connections

This piece is originally from the LaRouche magazine by way of Rense -- two good reasons to take some of it with a grain of salt. (The obsession with "Anglo-American intelligence" in the paragraphs quoted below is typically LaRouchie, as is a later digression on the Jewish Defnese League.) But much of what it says is supported by other sources people have brought out on these Moon threads. And the additional information, if it can be independently confirmed, would cast a lot of light on what has really been going on with Moon and his influence in the US.


http://www.rense.com/general31/toobig.htm

"Moon might have simply wandered around the Korean countryside, dodging the law and practicing 'sexual purification' on young girls, but for the intervention of two of the Korean CIA's founders--Kim Jong-Pil and Bo Hi Pak--and their patrons in the radical right wing of Anglo-American intelligence. Those ultra-right-wing Anglo-American intelligence networks were pivotted around William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Carlist, nominally Catholic, fascist apparatus he was building, under the cover of his National Review magazine, and the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) anti-Communist youth movement.

<snip>

"In June 1964, Kim Jong-Pil, Bo Hi Pak, and Reverend Moon were among the founders of the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League. APACL created a student front, the Free Asia Youth Alliance (FAYA), which, from its inception, was formally linked to Buckley's Young Americans for Freedom, which had established its own international youth federation, the International Youth Freedom Foundation. YAF/IYFF and FAYA signed a 'Declaration of Common Purpose' in their first months of existence.

<snip>

"In 1966, APACL became a core component of the larger World Anti-Communist League (WACL), which was a front for the same Anglo-American ultra-right-wing dirty spook networks that had picked up the dregs of the wartime Nazi and Fascist apparatus, for use as 'resistance' networks, in the event of a Communist takeover of any country in the 'Free World.'

<snip>

"The Iran-Contra "secret parallel government" operation afforded the Moonies the opportunity to do what they do best: launder vast sums of cash from undisclosed offshore enterprises into the hands of rogue anti-Communist spooks. The largest recipient of Moonie largesse was Lt. Col. Oliver North. Moon's and Bo Hi Pak's CAUSA International became a prime source of funding for North personally, and for the Iran-Contra gang more broadly."


(For more on the World Anti-Communist League and its Iran-Contra connections, see my post in the Moon/South America thread at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2497387#2499315)

[starroute]

50. Moon's fascist connections

http://www.freepress.org/journal.php?strFunc=display&strID=147&strJournal=20

"In 1992, a PBS Frontline investigative report claimed that a key money source for Rev. Moon’s far-flung world financial empire was Ryoichi Sasakawa, the self-proclaimed 'world’s richest fascist' who died in 1995. At the time of his death, Sasakawa administered a 'charitable foundation' taking in nearly $24 billion a year from a monopoly on legalized gambling in Japan.

"Sasakawa was one of Japan’s foremost fascists in the 1930’s. He modeled his own private army of 15,000 men and 20 warplanes after Mussolini’s Black Shirts. After the World War II, Sasakawa, a classified Class A war criminal, awaited death in a military prison before suddenly being released by General Douglas McArthur. Also released with Sasakawa was leading Japanese organized crime syndicate leader Yoshio Kodama of the Yakuza.

"The Japanese News Service KYODO released documents linking Sasakawa to U.S. military intelligence. Declassified documents link Kodama’s release to the CIA. Both Kodama and Sasakawa played a key role in the rise of the Moon organization. In 1977, Congressman Donald Fraser launched an investigation into the Moonie organization. The 444-page Congressional report alleged Moonie involvement in arms sales, bribery, bank fraud and illegal kickbacks. Not surprisingly, the report suggested that Moon’s Unification Church was a tool of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) and was being used to influence U.S. foreign and domestic policy. The U.S. CIA created the Korean KCIA and also established the ties between Sasakawa, Kodama and Moon.

"Moon, a Korean, and his two Japanese buddies, first joined forces in the 1960’s to form the Asian people’s Anti-Communist League with the aid of KCIA agents and allegedly financed by Japanese Yakuza money. In 1964, League money set up Moon’s 'Freedom Center' in the U.S. with crime boss Kodama serving as Chief Advisor to the Moon subsidiary 'Win Over Communism.' In 1966, the League merged with the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, a group with strong fascist ties to form the World Anti-Communist League led by retired U.S. Major General John Singlaub. Singlaub, a good friend of the Bush family, serves on the CNP and enlisted paramilitary organizations to support the contra cause in Nicaragua."


On edit: There's a slightly different and longer version of the same materials at:
http://www.americanatheist.org/spr00/T2/fitrakis.html

[yardwork]

68. Note connection to Regnary - the publisher of Swift Boat Liars

In 1991, the book was republished by Regnery-Gateway, which was run by conservative operative Alfred Regnery, who worked in Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department.

[juajen]

2. We desperately need to bust Rev. Moon

I know a lot of very religious people who would be horrified at the complicity of this administration with the moonies. They sure keep it below the scope of ordinary people. You have to dig on the net to find the connections. The purchase of all that property in the South American triangle is fascinating also. Anything new on that anyone? I know the amount of land purchased was huge, but can't remember the numbers. This triangle is heavy into the drug trade. Strange place for supposedly religious people. These people are downright scarey.

[George_S]

5. Yes, good talking point to the religious right n/t

[belle]

22. I agree.

Why isn't there more in the mainstream news about this?

[trueblew]

36. Moon, Robertson, Faldwell, Bush...

why are religious fanatics obsessed with taking over America?

[Moderator]

6. Kick

:kick:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Wow...

<snip>
Moon cemented his relationship with the U.S. conservative movement by creating the Washington Times in 1982 and making it a reliable propaganda organ for the Republican Party. Moon’s newspaper also promoted conservative causes dear to Ronald Reagan’s heart, such as the contra rebels who were fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government. In the 1980s, Moon’s organization and the Reagan-Bush administration found common cause, too, in covering up evidence of contra-connected drug smuggling.

Ironically, in 1986, the leading U.S. senator who challenged the contra cocaine cover-up was John Kerry. Soon, the freshman senator from Massachusetts found himself under attack from Moon’s Washington Times. The newspaper published articles depicting Kerry’s contra drug probe as a wasteful political witch hunt. “Kerry’s anti-contra efforts extensive, expensive, in vain,” announced the headline of one Times article.
<snip>

[UpInArms]

15. Billy - this is directly from Moon's Unification Church website

http://www.unification.net/1993/930128b.html

For Rev. Moon my enemy is the United States and the Christian world. The entire Christian world and the free world is my enemy. I have to love them with True Love. God's method is always to be beaten and then gain the victory. The Unification Church history of development has followed that principle. The entire world has come against me. I do not hate those people who come against me. When the Messiah comes and has to take the entire world, it ~s natural that the entire world comes against me. On whose side is God? The satanic world or with Rev. Moon? Father came here not for revenge but to save and to love. Father went to the USSR not to destroy but to love. Father went to Kim IL Sung, the most evil man, not for revenge, but to love. At the gates of heaven Satan will bow down to him because he is the model.

Father came to America and created the AFC and the ACC and many other organizations. They are American. Father is foreign. Father came to love America, but they come to meet Father through these projects. They will realize the true meaning of these projects and what Father is saying. You should be loving America more than Father does. Be more sacrificial than Father. Otherwise, to whom can I inherit these missions. But many come to the Unification Church movement to exploit and take advantage. The subject and object must unite. For the sake of the United States. Instead of having Father in the forefront, it's Americans that should stand in the forefront representing Father. Let Americans take responsibility. Let Americans become the central figure. This ~s the reason Rev. Moon Is retreating back Americans must move forward.

George Bush, I am sorry. I had a recommendation for George Bush. Father was the one to have George Bush elected four years ago. But there were certain mandates. Certain reciprocal responsibilities which he did not listen to. What happened? He's finished. In the republican establishment, the only hope is for them to unite with Father. I have great hope for America. However, if America is not going to heed Father's wishes, then Father has an alternative. The former Soviet Union. All those former communist countries. They will be my object. I will work through them. Ultimately one way or another Father's wishes will be accomplished. Father came to the white world to save it. Why did Father spend money that was not earned in this county? To educate Americans and to educate the UTS graduates. This is another manifestation of loving the enemy. Since American Christian churches have come against Father so adamantly, Father created the Unification Church to replace the Christian world in America. Father invested considerable resources to save America. So now not only this world, but the communist world, the eastern European block, China and N. Korea will all come under Father's wings.

What is the Victory of our True Parents? It is the liquidation of the satanic world. God's strategy has always been to crease a chosen people. In the Old Testament era God worked for 4000 years to restore the lineage of man. In Jacob's era a particular dispensation occurred. The fall occurred with God, Adam and Eve. Eve deceived God, her father, and Adam her husband and went to Satan. This created Satan, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel. God has worked to recreate the perfected Adam God works from the bottom with Abel. All the relationships within this family are enemy relationships. Their minds and bodies are enemies. Cain and Abel should unite and then unite with their Mother. The chosen nation is divided into two. The Israel nation represents Cain, and Judaism represents Abel The two brothers should unite and go to their Mother. This is the providential picture at the time of Jesus. Cain and Abel should unite with their Mother and go to the Father.

...more if you can stand to read it...

[eagler]

26. You know if more evangelicals were being told about this

and being shown it could very much change things.I have managed to change a few minds by just letting them see the evidence and they realize how much they are being scammed. One of them was a southern baptist minister who realized that he could no longer support someone else who claimed to be God.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

27. I've read his rhetoric before...

I have to ask, how did this man get to where he is? Is the American populace as stupid as I fear?

[Tsiyu]

52. Presently Americans are diverted

from the truth. Most people do not know the details of Moon's ideology, nor do they know the extent of his influence. Many older fundies cannot read; they depend on their pastors to guide them. Many of these pastors will never believe this stuff is true even if Jesus himself presents the evidence. It's pride over proof.

Religion has always been about power. Since the disciples asked Jesus who was the greatest (Luke 9:46) - and no doubt, before then - certain Christians have been squabbling over position. They are merely the Scribes and Pharisees in sheep's clothing. They don't understand Christ at all.

And they will always use the weak-minded, the hate-filled and the ignorant to accomplish their aims.

Evil can't thrive where there is wisdom.

Good work to all who are curious and thrifty enough to get these threads going.
:kick:

[Rex]

53. Freaky, I looked at the mission statement for Parent's Day

part of what they highlight is this, "Unfortunately, our popular culture over the past several decades has emphasized self-fulfillment and self-gratification. Such focus on the self runs counter to the essence of parenthood, which fundamentally involves unconditional true love. http://www.parentsday.com/why_pday.htm

Now look at what Holy Moonie says in that third sentence, "I have to love them with True Love.

I shudder to think what 'true love' means.

[WoodrowFan]

63. true love

I think it involves falafa....

[Chelsea Patriot]

8. KICK!!!

Everyone needs to read this article!

[Ladybast]

9. Send this to the DNC!

Perhaps you could go to JohnKerry.com and use their online form to send this to the DNC so they can use it immediately in the campaign?
Jenny Decker

[Octafish]

12. Good idea, Ladybast!

Kerry knows about Moon, but many DEMs don't.

Another group that would benefit are all the fundies who think Smirk is the Messiah.



BTW: A hearty welcome to DU, Jenny! Welcome home!

[UpInArms]

10. Moon and his organizations have been attacking Kerry since 1986

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon1.html

excerpt:

In the mid-1980s, for instance, when journalists and Congress began prying into Oliver North's secret support for the Nicaraguan contras and their ties to drug trafficking, Moon's paper led the counter-attack. "Story on drug smuggling denounced as political ploy" was the subtitle of a front-page Washington Times article criticizing a piece that Brian Barger and I had written for The Associated Press about a Miami-based federal probe into gun- and drug-running by the contras.

When Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., uncovered more evidence of contra drug trafficking in 1986, The Washington Times denounced him. The newspaper first published articles suggesting that Kerry was on a wasteful political witch hunt. "Kerry's anti-contra efforts extensive, expensive, in vain," announced one Times article.

But when Kerry exposed more and more contra wrongdoing, The Washington Times changed tactics. In 1987, it began intimidating Kerry's staff with front-page accusations that they were obstructing justice. "Kerry staffers damaged FBI probe," declared one Times article. It opened with the assertion that "congressional investigators for Sen. John Kerry severely damaged a federal drug investigation last summer by interfering with a witness while pursuing allegations of drug smuggling by the Nicaraguan resistance , federal law enforcement officials said."

As the Iran-contra scandal continued to spread and threatened Bush's public insistence that he was "out of the loop," Moon's paper turned its fire on special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. Over and over, the paper attacked Walsh for allegedly wasting money with first-class air fare and room-service meals.

...more...

Gives me more reason to really like John Kerry!

[blm]

21. This is why they have been fighting Kerry so fiercely.

BushInc never wanted Kerry to be the nominee. They know he KNOWS.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Bob Parry doesn't publish anything unless he has all of his facts....

...lined up and in the correct order. He is an EXCELLENT investigative journalist.

I personally consider him to be one of journalism's heroes, often writing stories that placed him on the rightwing's "bad" list.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

16. nominate for front page

[UpInArms]

18. kicking back to the top

:kick:

(must read material in this thread)

[struggle4progress]

24. Does Sherwood believe that Moon is the messiah? eom

[goforit]

25. George HW Bush is a MOONIE fan too... nutt'n but CULTISTS!!!!

[mcg]

73. Are George Bush Sr and Jerry Falwell Moonies?

<http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies/bush.htm>

<http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/bushmoon.html>

has a picture of Moon hugging Jerry Falwell

<http://www.geocities.com/craigmaxim/p-politicians-governorgeorgewbush2.html>

Moon was a V.I.P. guest at the first Reagan-Bush inauguration

<http://home.earthlink.net/~zkkatz/page76.html>

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church and a self-declared Messiah from South Korea, is a major behind-the-scenes GOP player. ...

Paid speakers at his Family Federation for World Peace have included George Bush, William Bennett, Jack Kemp, and Ralph Reed. In the early 1990s, his organization funneled millions to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University when it was facing staggering debts.

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

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.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon[br />
has a picture of Moon crowned in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 23, 2004.

[Bozos for Bush]

30. Link to scary Social Security letter, and great thread

Thanks to Teach1st for posting the letter online:

http://www.tuff-teach.com/ss/

This letter for those who haven't seen other threads going on right now was sent to my mom from Gary Jarmin, and his American Federation of Senior Citizens, a (gonna barf) charitable organization. Seems Gary has a lot of scams going on.

Most of all though, he was/is the partner of Tim Lahaye, which means we have a direct link to the chimp.

John

[Bozos for Bush]

31. Links to related threads

Friends, there are a lot of folks working this on two other threads...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2500661

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1093320

I suggest we merge in this thread, if that is OK with George_S, since this is definitely becoming Late Breaking News.

BTW I have emailed the Scary Social Security letter to everyone on Skinner's list, and I also talked to Kerry HQ in Florida an hour ago and will be faxing them the letter tomorrow morning.

And if anyone in the Orange County California would like to see the actual letter (I am still a newbie here so just in case...) please contact me at [e-mail] and I can meet.

Good job and let's get these bastards.

John

[salvorhardin]

32. Gary Jarmin and American Federation of Senior Citizens

Since all of the threads on the Moonies and their connections to (perhaps) illegal fund-raising on behalf of the BFEE seem to be merging here, I'm reposting the information I uncovered with help from Amen1234. This information is all from the original thread Bozos For Bush started.

The American Federation of Senior Citizens' use of scare tactics regarding social security seems to go all the way back to at least 1998, and there seem to be connections to right-wing talk radio and Bob Dole as well as can be seen in this article from the SF Gate: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/a/1998/02/08/NEWS3642.dtl

Quote:

OAKLAND - Every day, the letters arrive by the fistful in Faye Shelby's mailbox.

One warns that her Social Security is in jeopardy. Another worries that Medicare soon will collapse. Yet another says, "You won't believe what Bill Clinton has in store for Washington."

In one four-month period last year, Shelby was besieged by 700 mailings, some marked "Urgent!" "PERSONAL" or "Jury Duty Notice." All of them aimed at one thing: a piece of her checkbook.

****

Moritz Ridenour is unapologetic about the mailings.

"We assume most people are capable of taking care of themselves, and if there is something they have a desire about, they will let us know," she said.

The appeals often are packaged with "open me" gimmicks:

*A delivery marked "EXPRESS" is fourth-class bulk mail from the American Federation of Senior Citizens.

*An envelope that says Jury Duty Notice is a pitch from the Coalition of Politically Active Christians.

*Another with what appears to be a handwritten address is a computer-generated plea for money from the American Federation of Senior Citizens.

***

Right-wing radio connection
But according to tax reports filed in 1995, the center, which sends out tip sheets to 1,200 radio talk show hosts twice a week offering a right-wing perspective on issues in Washington, spent more than 77 percent of the more than $2.3 million it collected on fund-raising. At the time, the organization had a staff of five, according to Moritz Ridenour.

At the prompting of KoKo1 I pursued the research further.

Googling on "American Federation of Senior Citizens" only returned 2 pages of links, one of which was the SF Gate article I referenced above.

Most of the others were links showing that this group is a registered charity in some states.

The name "Marvin Mondres" and the term "Social Security Preservation Card" return 0 links.

Bozos For Bush didn't include a street address in his original post, but I used the phone number and tracked down a street address using superpages.com which showed that they are located at 208 Patrick St., Alexandria, VA. 22314

Other entities listed at that address include:

Christian Voice
[phone]

Jar-Mon Consultants
[phone]

US Cuba Foundation
[phone]

American Christian Cause
[phone]
[phone]

American Federation of Senior Citizen (variant name?)
[phone]

Pacific Asia Foundation
[phone]

Further googling on that street address reveals:

National Parents' Day Council
208 North Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: [phone]

So it would seem there are a lot of "interesting" organizations at that street address. Googling on the one that seems to stick out from the rest, "Jar-Mon Consultants" leads to this web page: http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.ijk.htm

Quote:

Gary Jarmin - CNP 1984-85, 1988, 1996, 1998; president, Jar-Mon Consultants, Inc; Legislative Director, Christian Voice, a front for the Unification Church; Lobbyist and political consultant in Washington, D.C.; President of Jar-Mon Consultants, Inc., a firm specializing in political activism, election campaigns and foreign policy matters in East Asia; designed and directed registration drive in 1884 for American Coalition for Traditional Values; Chaired Christians for Reagan campaign in 1980 and 1984;

Ah! Now we're getting somewhere. There would also seem to be a connection to the Moonies.

Aw man! It gets weirder! Googling "Gary Jarmin" brings us here: http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/08/jarmin-warne...

Where we have our man involved in the coronation of Moon in Washington earlier this year. He is also listed on that page as the liaison for the Washington Times Foundation and...

Quote:

Above: Gary Jarmin, liaison for the Washington Times Foundation. According to the Washington City Paper, Jarmin was also involved in the "Parent's Day" campaign fooling Bill Clinton into recognizing Moon as the True Parent.

Gary Jarmin also leads us to The Seniors Center at http://www.theseniorscenter.com/background.html where we also learn...

Quote:

Well-respected as a political commentator, Mr. Jarmin has made numerous appearances on radio and television, including CNN, Good Morning America, 20/20, ABC, CBS and NBC news, and has been quoted by hundreds of major news publications.

The other organization on that page that sticks out like a sore thumb is the US Cuba Foundation and doing a little googling we find at http://cubacontact.fiu.edu/organizationnames.asp that...

Quote:

U.S.-Cuba Foundation

To build constituency within G.O.P. and Republican members of congress, including staff, to support lifting of the trade embargo. Organize fact-finding visits to Cuba for Congressional members/staff. Primary supporter of National Bipartisan Commission on Cuba.

...and, surprise, surprise, our friend Gary Jarmin is listed on this page http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/jun00/02e16.htm as...

Quote:

Says Gary Jarmin, a longtime conservative who now runs the US-Cuba Foundation, a group that favors lifting the embargo, "For the first time in forty years, Republican members feel the time has come to break ranks with their colleagues."

So this slime Gary Jarmin is a busy man. I posted a request for help in the D.C. and Virgina forums here on DU. It seemed like there was a lot going on at 208 N. Patrick Street in Alexandria, VA. I wanted to see what the building looked like and whether there was any signage. Amen1234 who lives not too far from there volunteered to drive over and give us a report on what she found. before she did that though, she dug up this interesting property record at http://alexandriava.gov/city/reasearch/rea_search_detail_record.pxe?REA_ID=34087 which shows that Gary Jarmin is the owner of 208-210 North Patrick Street in Alexandria, VA. I wonder how much the American Federation of Senior Citizens and all the other Moonie front groups pay Mr. Jarmin in rent each month?

Here is a copy of Amen1234's little trip over to 208 North Patrick Street.

Quote:

full report from my trip to 208 North Patrick St, Alexandria VA....

I hate it when those bush* "Christians" rip off OUR seniors...it's real slime....


anyhow...I went over to 208 North Patrick Street....as I thought, it's OLD OLD town Alexandria...I took a whole roll of film (Kodak 35 mm, 200 speed)....if you want to develop it, PM me and I'll send it to you...your local film developer could put it on-line for you)

the house is historic, in fairly good shape, painted a light blue....NO SIGNS at all, except for a "little" security alarm sign in the corner of one window...TWO addresses posted over the double front door...208 and 210....those cheap white blinds cover every window, and were all closed...

reviewing the Alexandria Real Estate link for 208...it does show 208-210 for that address...so it's a DOUBLE lot....but posted an "unknown" 210 address (unknown by the City of Alexandria Real Estate web page)....strange....perhaps the City of Alexandria should take a trip over there and examine the tax records....could be some typically "Christian" real estate LIES here...

the front building is the OLD building, but there is a HUGE addition onto the back of the historic house, two story addition HUGE...bigger than the original house (could there be something wrong with Alexandria real estate assessment, as a 90 sq ft addition and a 60 sq foot addition???? it's clearly additions MUCH BIGGER THAN THAT)....the house wall on the NORTH is directly against the next house wall....there's a "little" strip of vacant land on the SOUTH, which is enclosed with a matching blue wood fence (perhaps the extra lot?, but it is real small and narrow)....this narrow yard had just trash, building stuff, and NO landscaping at all....

Amen1234 is sending me the roll of film she took at that location and I will be posting it as soon as I receive it and get the photos developed. Thanks to Bozos For Bush, Amen1234 and KoKo1 (for goading me on :) ).

Linnk to Bozos For Bush original thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2500661

[salvorhardin]

34. Marvin Mondres

Just a quick follow-up.

That name "Marvin Mondres" bothers me as I can't seem to find him connected to this group other than in the scare letter Bozos For Bush's mom received. I wonder if it isn't a made-up name.

For what it's worth, I did a telephone lookup on superpages.com for Marvin Mondres in or near Alexandria, VA and there is a Marvin Mondres listed. There is no way to know if it is the same person, but this Marvin is listed as living in Vienna, VA which is about 21 miles away from 208 N. Patrick in Alexandria, VA.

I won't post his phone and address here since it appears to be a private residence.

[starroute]

37. Reverend Moon owns Gary Jarmin's soul

Dr. Bo Hi Pak's 60th Birthday Celebration
http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/Tims2/Tims2-56.htm

Bi Hi Pak is Reverend Moon's right-hand man, his link to the Korean CIA, and the person who spent the 1960's here in the US laying the groundwork for Moon himself. This is what he had to say about Gary Jarmin back in 1990:

His wife may not be here tonight, but I want to talk about Gary Jarmin. Many people may not know Gary as I know him. He truly loves our True Parents, and he is someone who can do what Father needs. He is a political strategist like I have never seen. He has a precise and most acute mind. He makes things happen. I would like to give you a couple of examples. Many of you may not know about them because these things happen behind the scenes.

On August 31, the Universal Ballet Academy will be inaugurated, another victory for Father. Without Gary Jarmin, this school would not be there. What do I mean by that? Oleg Vinogradov is an important Russian citizen, a great artist who had won the Lenin Cultural Award, the highest honor in the Soviet Union. He could not come to America to work without his government's permission, and to get that, he needed an invitation from the United States at the highest level -- he needed a letter from President George Bush. The Soviet Union was still an adversary in terms of diplomatic relations, and it was very difficult for the president of the United States to write a letter to an individual, even the artistic director of the Kirov Ballet. So I brought this matter to Gary Jarmin. To make a long story short, that request went to the State Department to the Security Advisor's desk, to get clearance. Finally, thanks to Gary's tenaciousness and doggedness, his strategy and influence, everything worked out. Gary is the one who made that happen. Now Father is coming to honor that opening, and I want you to know that it is Gary who did it.

You know the president of the United States does not just sit down and write a letter to anybody. It is not that easy. But the president wrote me a beautiful birthday letter. He recognized the work of the Washington Times, but there was a personal part too. Unless you have the right connection, that kind of thing cannot happen. Again, Gary pulled it off. I have asked him to reserve that strategy and power, so that someday he can pull off something very big for the sake of Father's great providence. For this reason, I would like to show my respect and love for Gary Jarmin.

http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/Tims2/Tims2-56.htm

[salvorhardin]

38. Oh great! Jarmin

is the Moonie Karl Rove! Just what we needed.

Thanks for the info starroute. I'm saving copies of all this information on my HD in case it should ever "disappear".

Notice the invocation of Bill Frist in the scare letter from this group. Bill Frist is the grand-daddy of corporate medical fraud. How appropriate he should be mentioned in relation to these swine.

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2003/january/the_bad_doctor_bill_.php
Quote:

The Bad Doctor: Bill Frist’s long record of corporate vices
January 10, 2003

by Doug Ireland
LA Weekly
While TV gushed last week over the Republicans’ new Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, intervening in a traffic accident, portraying the former heart surgeon as a "Good Samaritan," in truth the GOP has simply replaced a racist with a corporate crook.

Frist was born rich, and got richer — thanks to massive criminal fraud by the family business. The basis of the Frist family fortune is HCA Inc. (Hospital Corporation of America), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, which was founded by Frist’s father and brother. And, just as Karl Rove was engineering the scuttling of Trent Lott and the elevation of Frist, the Bush Justice Department suddenly ended a near-decadelong federal investigation into how HCA for years had defrauded Medicaid, Medicare and Tricare (the federal program that covers the military and their families), giving the greedy health-care behemoth’s executives a sweetheart settlement that kept them out of the can.

[Bozos for Bush]

41. whoa, more ties - thanks starroute (nt)

[Bozos for Bush]

40. Thanks for all the hard work Salvorhardin, I needed a few ZZZZzzzs

My, you've been busy :)

[salvorhardin]

43. Thanks.

I never did get around to cleaning my apartment. :-)

[salvorhardin]

33. American Federation of Senior Citizens scare letter

For those who haven't seen it, here's the scare letter that Bozos For Bush's mother received in the mail.

[Bozos for Bush]

44. Despite a strained budget, I have enclosed a reply envelope for you LOL

Salvorhardin, wow, great job getting it posted for me.

I can't help but laugh at the strained budget line.

Did you see that Kerry is speaking out now about a January surprise concerning Social Security? I wonder if my phone call to Kerry HQ in Florida this morning helped lead to that (pats self on back).

Keep up the great work everyone,

John

[trueblew]

35. Another Anita Hill job?

[trueblew]

45. Sherwood says in Stolen Honor itself ...

that this subject matter is "a lot more personal" to him than other reports he has done because this is a war he fought in. He goes on to say that Kerry's "treachery" was, in its own way, as frighenting to the hand to hand combate he allegedly faced. He is so biased.

[Laelth]

46. How it all fits together ...

I scanned this thread, and I'm not certain that this hasn't been mentioned before, but the thread that holds together the Bushes and the Moonies is Tim LaHaye and his secretive CNP (Council for national policy).

Go to my "Who Is George Bush?" thread, and skip down to the 3rd essay, the one by Robert Dreyfuss entitled, "According to Tim LaHaye, the Apocalypse is now.".

That essay explains a lot.

-Laelth

[Bozos for Bush]

48. Hi Laelth, yea I saw that earlier while researching - huge stuff

So we've got Bush, apparently determined to help bring about the rapture and armageddon, funded and influenced all over the place by Tim Lahaye. Gary Jarmin, Lahayes former/current partner, is probably just one of many with lots of dummies charitable organizations set up to rake in money for the Moonies cause.

Very solid ties here to Bush - hopefully this will all get out on TV, etc. I emailed the Scary Social Security letter to everyone on Skinner's list, with a short, concise explanation of the link to Bush. In addition, the Kerry HQ in Florida was extremely interested earlier today, so I'll be faxing them the letter tomorrow morning.

BTW, from one newbie to another, welcome to DU :)

John

[Laelth]

51. Thanks!

*******
BTW, from one newbie to another, welcome to DU :)
*******

Right back at ya'! :toast:

-Laelth

[starroute]

49. Bush and the CNP

From Online Journal:
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/brambles/499/Bush/W_Hiding/w_hiding.html

What is 'W' hiding?

March/April 2000 Freedom Writer


SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's speech at the ultrafundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina this past February wasn't the first time in recent history that the Texas Governor addressed such a gathering. Just last October, Bush appeared behind closed doors at a Council for National Policy meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Efforts to obtain a tape or transcript of his remarks at the secretive meeting have been blocked by the Bush campaign.

The Council for National Policy (CNP) is a right-wing umbrella group founded in 1981 through the inspiration of the Rev. Tim LaHaye, a graduate of Bob Jones University. (Bob Jones III, the chancellor of Bob Jones University, who considers Roman Catholicism and Mormonism cults, is also a member of this elite group.)

Subsequent to the conference, Freedom Writer ordered a full set of its audiotapes. Upon their arrival, the Bush tape was missing from the set. We called Skynet Media, Inc., an independent Oregon company that records the meetings for the benefit of CNP members. They apologized for not including the Bush tape, and offered a partial refund. They explained that the Bush campaign wouldn't allow them to release the tape.


On edit: As of July 29, 2002, Salon was reporting that, "George W. Bush is still refusing to release a tape of a speech he gave to the group in 1999." (http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/07/29/left_behind)

For more on Bush, the CNP, and questions raised by this speech, see:
http://www.buildingequality.us/ifas/fw/0009/bush.html
http://www.longstoryshortpier.com/vaults/2002/12/22/chickenhawks_of_the_kulturkampf

[Bozos for Bush]

54. Tim Lahaye even met his wife at Bob Jones

Back in the days when a guy couldn't get any closer than 6 inches from a woman. LOL

We still need to find a more current connection between Gary Jarmin and Tim Lahaye, besides the American Coalition for Traditional Values.

[Bozos for Bush]

55. Need some more help on this thread

Sherwood is now linked to the Moonies, which means the Scary Social Security letter which is posted farther down, Gary Jarmin, Tim Lahaye, Sherwood and Bush have all been linked together somewhat.

Need more current info!

[starroute]

56. The most obvious Moon/Jarmin connections are to Bush Sr.

Someone already posted a photo of them together on one of these threads. There was the bit I posted about Gary Jarmin getting Bush Sr. to write a letter to the Russians on behalf of some Moon project. And here's another strong link, from a 1997 story by Robert Parry:

http://freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/articles/parry.htm

Given the controversy, Argentina's elected president, Carlos Menem, did decide to reject Moon's invitation. But Moon had a trump card to play in his bid for South American respectability: the endorsement of an ex-president of the United States, George Bush.

<snip>

Bush lavished praise on Moon and his journalistic enterprises. "I want to salute Reverend Moon, who is the founder of The Washington Times and also of Tiempos del Mundo," Bush declared. "A lot of my friends in South America don't know about The Washington Times, but it is an independent voice. 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, D.C. I am convinced that Tiempos del Mundo is going to do the same thing" in Latin America.

Bush then held up the colorful new newspaper and complimented several articles, including one flattering piece about Barbara Bush. Bush's speech was so effusive that it surprised even Moon's followers.

<snip>

"The day after," the Unification News observed, "the press did a 180-degree about-turn once they realized that the event had the support of a U.S. president." With Bush's help, Moon had gained another beachhead for his worldwide business-religious-political-media empire.

[starroute]

58. Moon and the faith-based initiative

I'm starting to doubt that you're going to find any way to link either Jarmin or Moon himself directly to George W. Bush. Moon has indirect connections all over the current administration, but they're mostly through the faith-based initiative, and Jarmin doesn't seem to play any part in it.

Here are the best resources I could find on Moon activities since 2001:

"Sun Myung Moon On The Move Again In America"
http://www.nhne.com/misc/sunmyungmoon.html

Moonies knee-deep in faith-based funds
Pushing celibacy, marriage counseling under Bush plan
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/03/MNG4M936HP1.DTL

THE MOON ORGANIZATION (current list of Moon front groups)
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/m/moonies/front_groups.htm


On edit: Add this one for more details on a particular Moon figure:
David Caprara's journey from Moonie front group to Americorps leader
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=14471

[starroute]

59. I found something linking Jarmin to Bush!

Unification News for October, 2001
Interfaith Prayer Breakfast and Day of Prayer and Healing
http://www.tparents.org/UNews/Unws0110/Jenkins_ALC_report.htm

"Rev. Chung Hwan Kwak represented our True Parents with a beautiful speech calling for peace through interfaith unity. President David Caprara brought Rev. Macklin faith based liaison for the Governor. President Caprera also introduced the One Church One Family effort to engage churches in disaster relief for the WTC victims. Betsy Orman is a super AFC hero. She literally brought dozens of VIP's including the secretary of state. She also had a hand in helping Gary Jarmin secure a letter to the event from President Bush."

This not only shows that Jarmin was able to get a letter from Bush on behalf of a Moonie prayer breakfast, but also mentions David Caprara (I put a link to an article on him in my post on Moon and the faith-based initiative) and the AFC.


A couple of other Moon-related contexts where Jarmin's name shows up:

We Will Stand! - Invitational Committee (2001)
http://www.wewillstand.org/together.html

America Come Together Inaugural Prayer Breakfast
Invitational Committee
http://www.cephasministry.com/church_and_account_america_come_together.html

[starroute]

61. More items indicating Jarmin's recent whereabouts

One is a paper titled:
Mandate for Strengthening Marriage and Families
Submitted by the American Family Coalition, David Caprara, President
Prepared by Gary Jarmin and Pat Hickey, Marriage and Family Committee Chairs

I get a "forbidden" message when I try to access it directly, but it's available through the Google cache:
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:iuvEDc1Lb-4J:64.82.73.94/Activities/2001/ILS/Docs/AFC.doc+jarmin+caprara&hl=en&client=firefox-a

The American Family Coalition is a Moon front organization, and its president, David Caprara, is now with the Bush administration. There's no date on the document, but it makes references to events in 2000.


The other, from the same site, is also "forbidden" but accessible through Google. It's a symposium brochure headed:
Governance and the Challenge of Contemporary Crises
Kellogg Conference Center, Gallaudet University
The Washington Times
Hart Senate Office Building
June 18-19, 2002, Washington D.C.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:JuXycaFGUH8J:64.82.73.94/Activities/2002/USUNJune/USUNprogram.pdf+jarmin+caprara&hl=en&client=firefox-a

Most of the names seem like respectable world affairs types, but if you scroll down to the bottom, the organizers all turn out to be Moon affiliates, mostly connected with the International Federation for World Peace (a Moon front group.)

The organizing committee also included both David Caprara, then still president of the American Family Coalition, and Neil A. Salonen, who was president of the Unification Church of America back in the 70's. And the program committee included our good friend, Gary Jarmin, listed as "Congressional Liaison, The Washington Times Foundation."

[starroute]

62. Something interesting on the Washington Times Foundation

This presumably dates to before Jarmin's connection with them, but I thought it was worth reporting because it's uncomfortably close to the current situation with Sinclair Broadcasting.


http://watch.pair.com/database1.html

"Max Hugel ... After Reagan's victory Hugel was appointed Director of Operations of the CIA but was later forced to resign after the Washington Post revealed that he had been engaged in illegal stock market dealings. Hugel was also a staunch supporter of the contras. Shortly after the death of William Casey (CFR), Hugel worked with Casey's wife, Sofia, in organizing a fund raising dinner in which 50 percent of the monies went to cancer research, and the other 50 percent, to the "Freedom Fighters Fund" set up by Casey's widow to continue "private" support to counterrevolutionary groups around the world.

"In a 1990 article in the Washington Post, exposed dealings between Max Hugel and Jonathan Park, the son of Bo Hi Pak who is President of Moon-owned The Washington Times Foundation and who as a colonel was an attaché to the Korean embassy. Max Hugel and Col. Bo Hi Pak's son using Unification money were pursuing forming a conglomerate of all the independent broadcasting facilities in the whole Washington D.C. region. As of 1990, closing on a deal to purchase a majority stake in Potomac Television communications, the largest independent broadcast news service in Washington, the company's operations were combined with two video news firms already owned by Park and Hugel. Park and Hugel then controlled all but one independent broadcasting facility, including the satellite and the independent broadcasting facility in the National Press Building, and supplying as many as 200 television stations around the nation, including CNN, with raw footage or finished film reports on newsworthy events or interviews with prominent officials in Washington."

[George_S]

70. MOON SHOT.

It seems the Moonies are bit annoyed with John Gorenfeld, me, and a few others who successfully pressured the mainstream media to finally report on Reverend Sun Myung Moon's bizarre messianic cult coronation on Capitol Hill ... and all the Congressional excuses that followed. In their press release, a Moon WatchMoon spokesman complained that, in "contrast to the efforts and integrity of much of the mainstream media, the momentum for this 'story' was provided by independent 'journalists' and 'blog' writers who have made no effort to contact the event organizers for a balanced presentation of both sides of the story."

Posted by Ron Gunzburger - 06.29.04 | COMMENTS

Anyone here know Ron Gunzburger? Maybe he would want to pick this ball up again not that it is heavier. The comments are worth a look.

http://www.politics1.com/blog-0604a.htm

[Bozos for Bush]

67. BINGO! We have a winner!

Finally, a direct link between Jarmin and Bush. It's clear from the article that Jarmin has influence with W. Most excellent, starroute!

I still have more catching up to do, then I'll try to summarize.

John

[starroute]

64. Jarmin role in the crowning of Reverend Moon in Congress

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10166-2004Jul23.html

Although the Senate Rules and Administration Committee would not reveal which senator sponsored Moon's use of a room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Warner's office acknowledged its role Tuesday to The Washington Post and released a March 11 letter to the senator from a group called Christian Voice requesting a room.

But Warner's office said Thursday that it had found two earlier letters requesting space for the same event. The Jan. 7 and Feb. 17 letters, both under the letterhead of the Washington Times Foundation, were signed by the foundation's government liaison, Gary L. Jarmin, who is also president of Christian Voice. Moon's organization owns the Washington Times.

The January letter requested a Dirksen room for Feb. 4, and the February letter rescheduled the event after ricin, a toxin, was discovered in the mailroom of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) on Feb. 2. Both letters billed the event as the foundation's annual awards banquet to honor individuals for "exemplary service in conflict resolution and/or promoting interfaith tolerance and cooperation both here in the U.S. and in the Middle East" between Israelis and Palestinians.


http://www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-89039

In a March 11 letter, Christian Voice of Alexandria asked Warner to reserve room G-11 in Dirksen "for a reception Christian Voice plans to host in honor of the 'Ambassadors for Peace' award recipients." The letter, which the senator's office provided to The Post yesterday, was addressed "Dear John" and signed by group president Gary L. Jarmin.

"Nothing in the letter suggests any participation by Rev. Moon or his organization," Ullyot said. "Senator Warner's staff approved the event, since Mr. Jarmin is a constituent known to the Virginia delegation." Jarmin first made the request by phone, Ullyot said, and was asked to put it in writing

. . . .

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." A 1990 Los Angeles Times article said the Rev. Robert Grant -- listed on Jarmin's letter to Warner as chairman of Christian Voice -- founded the American Freedom Coalition, a group "dedicated to repairing Moon's tattered persona in the United States."


It's interesting that the American Freedom Coalition was founded as part of the attempt to rehabilitation Moon's reputation c. 1990 -- just about the same time as Carlton Sherwood's book with the same purpose.

[starroute]

65. Moon's Middle East Peace Initiative

http://peacerally.info/MEPI/foundationleadership.html

Yet another list with respectable-looking names up front and Moonie organizers (including Gary Jarmin) at the bottom.

If Moon's getting involved in the Middle East, I'm officially scared. :scared:

[Bozos for Bush]

66. So more and more dirt about Gary Jarmin

The guy is definitely a dirtbag, but can we link him directly to Bush?

Just got home, so I have a lot of catching up to do :)

[Supersedeas]

57. Division in 'Merica....follow the money

[Chelsea Patriot]

60. Another Day.....Another Kick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

America needs to know about this!

[starroute]

71. Found an excellent history of the Religious Right

http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue15/features/evangelism.php

This is really first rate. It tells how the Religious Right came together in the 1970's, names many of the major players and organizations, sketches how they made the leap to political influence and connections in the 1980's, and concludes with a lucid explanation of how the Religious Right and the Neocons (who differ on so much else) were able to join forces over Bush's Middle East policies.

Although it doesn't spell it out directly, I get the impression that the major reason Bush *had* to invade Iraq (even more than the oil) was that it was the only issue that could hold together the two main factions of his supporters.

The only thing it doesn't touch is Moon's role in all of this, the extent to which he has been able to co-opt the Religious Right, and the way in which he now seems to be moving into Middle Eastern affairs as well.

One question about Moon I would love to have answered is whether he's simply been piggybacking on the pre-existing agenda of the Religious Right in order to increase his influence, or whether he's managed to turn the Religious Right into a mouthpiece for his own agenda. That could make a lot of difference as to how we attempt to counter him.

[George_S]

72. Have you read the Harper's article, starroute?

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

Long, but very good. If we add this to the efforts to turn Cambodia Christian and the bloodbath backlash there, we might understand the double invasion better.

[Bozos for Bush]

74. Please link to new, updated thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1108892#

Thanks!

John

[Carolab]

75. Sinclair--Enron--Moonie connection

Carleton Sherwood is connected to Sinclair (Stolen Honor) and he is connected to Jarmin (Moonies). Sinclair is an investor in Jadoo Technologies along with Contango. Contango is made up of former Enron employees. Jadoo Technologies got a SOCOM contract.

Therefore, the Smith brothers of Sinclair, Jarmin and the Moonies, and former Enron employees (now Contango) are somehow ALL tied together in defense deals.

READ THIS:

We have a situation where Sinclair Broadcasting had made it clear they intended to run a very negative film documentary about John Kerry, titled Stolen Honor. Now, that could be partisanship, or maybe there is a "highly-motivated party" here in Sinclair as to why they are taking such actions. They have come before this nation without clean hands and I will show you why that is so.

Dig deep folks and always–follow the money.

"FOLSOM, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ﾗJadoo Power Systems, Inc (Jadoo), a leading provider of portable power products, was awarded a contract to develop power systems for the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM). The program's goal is to reduce the weight of energy storage carried in the field by the Special Forces . . ."

While the award of a government contract is not always newsworthy, a closer look reveals this:

"Jadoo Power Systems, Inc. (Jadoo) is a market-focused company that has developed next-generation portable energy storage and power generation products. Jadoo is a privately-held company with individual and organizational investors."

The two investors listed are:

1. Sinclair Ventures: a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. and

2. Contango Capital Management: formed to bring capital to innovative entrepreneurs who are working hard to answer the energy challenges facing our world today and in the near future.

We know who Sinclair is (Stolen Honor), but check out where some Enron and Harvard Business School people now work: Contango Capital Partners—look at John Berger's "resume"

John Berger
Managing Partner
Contango Capital Partners


Mr. Berger is a founding partner of the General Partner and its Managing Partner. Mr. Berger has over eight years of experience in the energy industry, during which he managed energy trading books for Enron Corporation and initiated development of the new Enron Premium Power Division. As a Manager, he made the previously unprofitable southeast short term trading operation for the Enron East Power Trading Division profitable by approximately $30 million over a two year period. Under his management, the southeast short term trading operation successfully administered the largest long-term customer deal in the industry, and increased the average daily volume in the southeast trading hub by ten times the former volume. Mr. Berger also managed the Enron Hourly Trading Desk, and operated a utility system in the southeastern United States. At Enron Energy Services he led and developed Enron's corporate strategy for new energy technologies and energy reliability financial products. In addition, Mr. Berger spearheaded development, investment, and partnership opportunities in fuel cell technologies.

Hmm, what a catchy name for a venture capital fund, "Con-tango."

That Berger division of Enron is the exact one that was plundering the State of California. Both Enron and El Paso executives have pleaded guilty to criminal charges and Mr. Berger gets to go out and do more deals. Criminal charges are also pending against Dynegy in California too.

Guess what, Enron, Dynegy, and El Paso are all involved in Pakistan and the Caspian Basin and would all benefit from the forced removal of the Taliban and Bridas Corporation.

Of course, he worked under Thomas White, vice chairman of that Enron division that was promoted by Bush to Secretary of the Army during the period of time that BUSH & Co were planning and practicing the assault on Afghanistan and BRIDAS CORPORATION and take over that Afghanistan pipeline.

Criminal charges were pending, and now confirmed with an Enron executive pleading guilty in California and an El Paso executive, too.
What an easy way to co-opt someone into doing evil. Criminal charges- that up and vanish against all but an unlucky fall guy

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/102004Schw...

[George_S]

76. Kick, dead link though. Is it too late to edit it?

[George_S]

77. Fixed link

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/102004Schwarz/102004schwarz.html