George Bush & the Unification Church

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http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen01142003.html

Just as the Bush administration reintroduced to regular use the terms "segregation," "civil rights," and "ban on abortions," the terms "demilitarized zone," "Panmunjom," and "38th parallel" would also re-enter the American political lexicon.

Bush, a self-described "born again Christian" who has maintained close links to Moon, hired David Frum as one of his speechwriters. Frum apparently came up with the term "axis of evil" for Bush's 2002 State of the Union address but it seems likely that Bush, heavily influenced by the propagandists of the rabidly anti-Pyongyang Washington Times, decided North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il was Satan reincarnate.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/09/24/moon/index_np.html

Bad Moon on the rise
Overcoming his church's bizarre reputation and his own criminal record, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon has cemented ties with the Bush administration -- and gained government funding for his closest disciples.

Editor's Note: The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's "coronation" in a Senate office building, the subject of a Salon story this week, has now captured the attention of Washington lawmakers and the media. In September 2003, writer John Gorenfeld illustrated Moon's close ties to the Bush administration -- and to George H.W. Bush, who has spoken to Moonie-run causes abroad, and once said he shares values with Moon's group, including "strengthening the family." Salon has reposted this piece for the convenience of our readers.

Last summer, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services gave a $475,280 grant to fund Free Teens USA, an after-school celibacy club in urban New Jersey. Free Teens USA, like other Moon civic organizations, claims it has no ties to the Unification Church. But according to documents obtained by Salon under the Freedom of Information Act, the director and chief finance officer of the Free Teens USA club, as well as others listed on the group's board of directors, are former or present high-ranking Unification Church officials who omitted those leadership roles from their applications for the federal grant.

And Moon has also made impressive headway into the current Bush White House. Other administration officials have attended Moon events, including then-incoming Attorney General John Ashcroft, who attended Moon's Inaugural Prayer Luncheon for Unity and Renewal, just before George W. Bush took office. And perhaps more important, other former and current members of his Unification faithful have ascended to high levels of the Bush administration.

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1. Does Moon receive faith based charity funds from BushCo?

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2. I wouldn't be surprized if he had a few...

"faith-based" summer homes.

[whistle]

4. That is a good question....

...in fact are federal faith based initiative funding records available to the public, and if these are where can we access these?

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3. When did Moon gain legitimacy?

Growing up, I heard about Moonies. They were considered a cult and Reverend Moon a cult leader with about as much legitimacy as Jim Jones.

In my adulthood, I worked with a woman who was a member of the Unification church (married a total stranger in a stadium ceremony and everything). She is divorced and has left the cult now.

I don't understand why the so-called Christian fundamentalists aren't up in arms about the close ties between the chimpministration and this cult.

[jcldragon]

6. I saw Moon in person

in Boston at a large meeting in the mid-1970s. I was just there to check him out. He has a black aura.

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5. More Info

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/image.htm

The church also is using its vast financial resources to foster a budding alliance with the New Right and conservative political leaders. In May, a church political group called the Freedom Leadership Foundation paid for four Republican Senate staff members -- including aides to Sens. Steve Symms (R-Idaho), Robert W. Kasten Jr. (R-Wis.) and William L. Armstrong (R-Colo.) -- to fly to Central America where they met with government leaders and U.S. Embassy officials in Honduras and Guatemala and joined the official U.S. observer delegation to the Salvadoran election.

http://www.gorenfeld.net/moon/
http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/m/moonies/front_groups.htm#businesses%20US

http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1998/feb9/8t2082.html
Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals

by John W. Kennedy

Affiliates of Sun Myung Moon, controversial leader of the Unification Church, have a history of supporting and courting conservative evangelicals. Now, according to published reports, financial support has been filtered to Liberty University from Moon-related enterprises. But Liberty founder Jerry Fallwell told Christianity Today that the source of the funds does not influence his ministry.

"If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries," Falwell says, "be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check."

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7. and more info

http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5684&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=cs_&JServSessionIdr012=yc991l9p91.app1b

With Help From Congressional Republicans And The Bush 'Faith-Based' Initiative, Controversial Korean Evangelist Sun Myung Moon Is Trying To Expand His Religious-Political Empire

By Rob Boston

At first glance, the invitation many clergy and community leaders around the country received last April to attend conferences on "Faith-Based Initiatives For Family and Community Renewal" might have looked like it came from the Republican congressional leadership and the Bush administration.

http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml
The Resurrection Of Reverend Moon

This is a transcript of a January 21, 1992 broadcast, "Frontline: The Ressurection Of Reverend Moon." Eric Nadler, reporter. Written and produced by Rory O'Connor. Copyright (c)1991 WGBH Educational Foundation. Used with permission.

Rory O'Connor is CEO of Globalvision New Media, producers of MediaChannel.
For information on purchasing this program contact Rory O'Connor at [e-mail].

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8. even more

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif163.html
Moon Speech Raises Old Ghosts as the Times Turns 20

Washington Post/May 23, 2002
By Frank Ahrens

At Tuesday night's celebration of the Washington Times' 20th anniversary, its founder, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, gripped a podium at the Washington Hilton and delivered an impassioned, hour-long evangelical sermon in Korean saying he established the newspaper "in response to heaven's direction."

During the sermon, he set the course for the Times' next 10 years: "The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God." Later, he added: "The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world."

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=fatherland+korea+site%3Atparents.org

http://www.unification.net/1987/870125.html

I SHALL FOLLOW
WITH GRATITUDE AND
OBEDIENCE

January 25, 1987
Belvedere
Translator - Sang Kil Han

The words "I shall follow with gratitude and obedience" are good words, aren't they? What kind of people are we? What kind of work do we do? You say that we are religious people; what do religious people do? Well, the answer is rather simple: religious people are those who are heading for heaven. That is one definition of religious people. Therefore, those of us here are heading for heaven.

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9. Moon Quotes

http://www.csj.org/infoserv_press/press_moon_97nov/pressucmoonq.htm
Democracy My dream is to organize a Christian political party including the Protestant denominations, Catholic and all the religious sects. Then, the communist power will be helpless before ours....But when it comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy to rue the world. So, we cannot separate the political field from the religious. Democracy was born because people ruled the world, like the Pope does. ...The separation between religion and politics is what Satan likes most.

From MS-366, 9/17/73, Third Directors' Conference, Master Speaks.

Lies If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

Page 11, Leader's Speech, Rowlane Farmhouse, March, 16th 1972

Law Americans know that I have brought many young people from all over the world. I have read that the immigration officials say I'm violating immigration laws. Americans don't realize that God has declared war against the satanic power, and that it is not I who have called the youth from all over the world to the United States to fight, but God. I am the commander and you are the volunteer army summoned by God. If the American people don't realize this an persecute and obstruct you, they will be faced with perdition.

From MS-456, 2/16/75, Tarrytown,, New York February 16, 1975, Master Speaks, Speech On True Parents' Birthday.

[jcldragon]

10. More Moon quotes

http://www.tparents.org/UNews/Unws0209/SM020913.htm

Sun Myung Moon
September 13, 2002

I realized that we must have one philosophy or thought. No religious leaders can do this. Don’t focus on your position with your denomination. Focus on going through the spirit world to get to God. If you don’t know God’s will you may be crying out in the future.

Some of you may have come just to see Rev. Moon to see what he looks like. All countries are afraid of me. Why. Because I have the truth, this is why everybody is scared. You have to break down the denominationalism. You must break down Godism. You must listen to me. Bishop Stallings and Bishop Johnson do you put the black Jesus in your church and the white Jesus in your church. Are you ready to absolutely die for your faith.

http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon93/UM930128.htm

The issue in America today is should homosexuals and lesbians be allowed in the armed forces. The graduates should come in and fight for God here. If the army allows bad sexual behavior it will decline. How can you make love when the enemy attacks.

[jcldragon]

11. From the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/widow.htm

Widow Pays Church to End
Husband's 'Suffering in Hell'

By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 4, 1996; Page A30

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/religion.htm
Study: Shedding New Light
On the Moon Children

By Marjorie Hyer
Washington Post Religion Editor
Sunday, April 8, 1979; Page D05

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/wtimes.htm
The Nation's Capital Gets
A New Daily Newspaper

By Elisabeth Bumiller
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, May 17, 1982; Page C01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/lovebmb.htm
Publisher's Parents Defuse
Moon Church 'Love Bomb'

By Christopher Dickey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 20, 1978; Page B01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/profit.htm
Moon's Japanese Profits
Bolster Efforts in U.S.

By John Burgess and Michael Isikoff
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 16, 1984; Page A01

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12. Moon owns United Press International (UPI)

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

A New Weapon In An Ideology War

In May 2000, the media arm of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church bought itself electronic fingers. News World Communications, Moon's media company, purchased United Press International (UPI), a once venerable news wire service. UPI, which provided news for media worldwide, could offer a legitimizing platform for Moon's dogma — if the new owners can revive the decrepit agency.

MediaChannel affiliates report on the sorry state of UPI (which once had 200 bureaus worldwide) and investigate Moon's growing empire. A virulently anticommunist, self-proclaimed messiah, Reverend Moon is also a prosperous businessman who can subsidize publications around the world. From The Washington Times to newspapers in Japan, Egypt and Latin America, Moon has made skillful media manipulation a key strategy in winning adherents to his vision of god and politics. As top Moon executive Bo Hi Pak declared in a 1991 documentary, "That is what the Third World War is all about — the war of ideology."

~snip~

[jcldragon]

13. Plot thickens

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


The Bush-Kim-Moon Triangle of Money
At odds over North Korea, George W. Bush and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung have one thing in common: behind the scenes, both have benefited from Rev. Sun Myung Moon's largesse. March 10, 2001

Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary-designate Donald Rumsfeld criticizes President Clinton for not blocking North Korea's missile program, but Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a Bush family benefactor -- allegedly was giving the communist leaders hard currency they needed. By Robert Parry. January 3, 2001.

Rev. Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
New documents reveal that U.S. intelligence tracked secret payments from Rev. Sun Myung Moon to North Korean leaders, a development that could embarrass the Bush family. By Robert Parry. October 11, 2000

~snip~

[jcldragon]

14. Moon in the Capitol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Myung_Moon

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon (In official transliteration Mun Seon-Myeong ; ???; ???, born January 6, 1920) is the founder of the Unification Church (established on May 1, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea). With his wife Hak Ja Han, he is co-leader of the Unification Movement.

Rev. Moon's followers see him as a new Messiah, the second coming of Christ, commissioned by a Jesus Christ to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. In the face of such extravagant claims, Moon met with enormous opposition, but has become a VIP among national-level Washington, D.C. politicians, who have crowned him the "King of Peace" in ceremonies on Capitol Hill.

~snip~

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15. John Kerry

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

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."

[proud patriot]

16. I really think this is a key to undoing bush evangelical support

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