Proposed Sale of The Washington Times Merits Greater Scrutiny

[Joanne98]

The Washington Post has recently reported that Moon is personally trying to buy The Washington Times back from Unification Church International (UCI), after having turned it over to his son, Hyun-jin Moon in 2006. Sun Myung Moon, through his loyal agent Doug Joo, has made an agreement to purchase the paper in a deal expected to be finalized within a month.

The self ordained "reverend" Moon is now ninety years old, and has in recent years been turning direct control over his organization to his children. However, schismatic infighting appears to be taking place between the elder Moon's sons over who were given control of pieces of their father's vast empire. Hyun-jin has reportedly distanced himself and the Virginia-based Unification Church International (UCI), along with its finances, from the Moon's South Korean headquarters. Moon's Unification Movement is reportedly one of the largest private property owner in the world.

Moon's youngest son, Hyung-jin, was appointed temporal leader and International President of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (which has many entities, including the Unification Church, and dubbed in the seventies "the Moonies"). Eldest son Hyun-jin manages international operations for UCI. UCI is the parent company under which many of the Moon organization's projects and business ventures operate. A third son, Kook-jin, oversees the organization's South Korean and Japanese activities, through their Tongil Foundation.
The Moon organization owns United Press International, as well as the conservative Washington Times. Its founding editorial page editor, William Cheshire, resigned his position in 1987, charging that Unification Church executives controlled the Times' editorial policy. Moon himself said in a 1991 speech, "Literally nine hundred million to one billion dollars has been spent to activate and run the Washington Times." It has been estimated that at least another billion has been spent on the Times since then. One has to ask, why spend this kind of money on an unprofitable newspaper, if not for political influence?

Korean billionaire Sun Myung Moon has stated, "When it comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy to rule the world. So, we cannot separate the political field from the religious." (MASTER SPEAKS 5/17/73- from The Truth about Sun Myung Moon.

As crazy as this sounds, he has indeed amassed a huge fortune and powerful political influence. I should know, because I was involved as an American leader in this cult in the mid-seventies. I was deprogrammed after falling asleep at the wheel of Moonie fundraising van and was deprogrammed by my family's team of former members. I have been following the Moon organization and counseling victims of this and other groups for over thirty years.


http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/9/16/112538/615

[secondwind]

1. Very interesting, thanks for posting!

[marmar]

2. What a collection of kooks and freaks

nt

[xfundy]

3. And, guess which political party Moon supports?

Oh, come on, you know who! And they've been using Moon's brainwashing techniques to great effect.