(1) Frederick Clarkson (Eternal Hostility, Common Courage Press, 1997) reports that Moon has stated his goal is the "subjugation of the American government and population." (Clarkson's source: John Judis, "Rev. Moon's Rising Political Influence: His Empire Is Spending Big Money To Try To Win Favor With Conservatives," U. S. News and World Report, March 27, 1989.)
(2) According to the same U. S. News article, Moon also said, "History will make the position of Rev. Moon clear," and that "his enemies, the American people and government will bow down before him."
(3) Clarkson reports that Moon has also said, "The entire world is our goal . . . Absolute obedience to the Father [Moon]-that one thing will bring certain victory . . . People herein America have to recognize the ability and power of Reverend Moon." (Excerpt from New Hope News, November 25, 1974, Reprinted in Frederick Miller's "Confusion at the Fronts, Part three," True Light Educational Ministry, 1996.)
(4) On May 1, 1997, Moon told a group of followers that "the country that represents Satan's harvest is America." (Unification News, June 1997.)
(5) In the 1970s, Moon was investigated by a congressional committee headed by then-U. S. Representative Donald Fraser (D-MN). Robert Boettcher was staff director of the Fraser committee. Boettcher's interviews with former Moonies revealed that Moon was "appalled" by American individualism and considered moving to Germany"where people were trained in totalism." (Robert Boettcher, "Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park and the Korean Scandal," Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980)
(6) Boettcher writes that according to former Unification church members, Moon's program to "instill discipline" included showing "Nazi films on organizing Hitler Youth."
George H. W. Bush is one of the most politically powerful defenders of Moon and the WashingtonTimes.
According to a Reuters report, ("Bush Praises Moon as 'Man of Vision,'" November 25, 1996) when Moon held a banquet in Buenos Aires celebrating his new "Spanish-language newspaper for the whole of Latin America," his guest at the event, George H. W. Bush, praised Moon's "respect for editorial independence."
Bush's speech "was full of praise" for Moon's Washington Times, according to Reuters. The report also says Bush described Moon as "the man with the vision." Reuters said Bush later traveled with Moon to neighboring Uruguay"to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital, Montevideo. to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America."
"I want to salute Reverend Moon who is the founder of the WashingtonTimes and of the new paper here," Bush said. According to Reuters, the Washington Postreported that Bush was paid $100,000 for his Buenos Aires appearance.
Journalist Robert Parry reported in Consortium News ("Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right") that part of Moon's strategy for gaining political influence is to approach conservative leaders when they need money. "Moon quietly infuses money and gains the leader's gratitude," writes Parry.
In order to gain power, Moon has also aligned himself with organizations further to the right than the New Right Republicans, among them the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). The WACL, according to Frederick Clarkson, is "an international alliance of conservative, fascist and Nazi groups, governments and individuals."
The head of the Unification Church in Japan was a member of the WACL board of directors. Clarkson says "the Japanese section of WACL, Shokyo Rengo, was founded in 1968 as an alliance between top Unification Church officials and leaders of the Yakuza (Japanese organized crime), notably Yoshio Kodama."
Clarkson writes that "under the leadership of retired U. S. Army General John K. Singlaub," WACL helped provide money and weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras "particularly after Congress cut off CIA-channeled funding to the Contras in 1984." Moon's front group CAUSA was one of the first groups to give the Contras "humanitarian aid." (Clarkson's source: Jon Lee Anderson and Scott Anderson, "Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis and Latin American Death Squads have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League," Dodd, Mead and Company, 1986.)
Moon's decades of courting influential American leaders in order to gain political power in this country have been fruitful. Reporter Joe Conason said that at a Washington gathering celebrating the George W. Bush inauguration, at a "prayer luncheon" held in the Hyatt hotel ballroom on Capitol Hill on 1/19/01, Moon received an award for his "work in support of traditional family values." The featured speaker was John Ashcroft. (Conason, The New York Observer, February 12, 2001.)Tuesday ( 2/20/01), a C-Span moderator said Rev. Moon plans to promote his abstinence program in schools with the help of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiative program. How might that work? Frederick Clarkson points out that Moon has been trying to get his tentacles into U. S.schools to promote his rightwing views for many years.
The World Medical Health Foundation (WMHF) is Moon Front group. WMHF chief, Dr. William Bergman, once-director of Moon's Unification church, produced a slide program for schools called "The Private Plague: AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases & a Strategy for our Youth at Risk." Bergman's program teaches that these diseases have roots in the "civil rights movement" which allegedly led to "moral relativism." (Clarkson's source: The Private Plague slide program manual, p. 23.)
Will Bush's Faith-Based Initiative program assist Moon in his efforts to teach your children that the civil rights movement led to moral relativism, which then led to sexually transmitted diseases?
Some Republicans have accepted Moon as part of their "family values" movement. For the Religious Right, the family values issue means support for the traditional nuclear family. However, Moon teaches recruits to abandon their biological families and to accept Moon and his wife as their "True Parents" and the UnificationChurch as their "True Family."
Clarkson says Moon has often used George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush as a "warm-up act" at his "family values" rallies. When Bush gave a series of speeches at events sponsored by Moon's wife's organization, the World Federation for World Peace (WFWP), he claimed he did not know Moon was involved. Instead, Bush praised the WFWP for its "great emphasis on family."
Bush also said, "Until I see something about the Women's Federation that troubles me, I will continue to encourage them." (Clarkson's sources: Peter McGill et al, "Ed Schreyer and the Moonies, Maclean's, October 23, 1995; Andrew Pollock, "Bush Host in Japan Tied to Rev. Moon," The New York Times, September 4, 1995.)
Here are a few items that might discourage Bush from supporting Moon's kind of family values. Robert Boettcher's investigation for the Fraser committee revealed that Moon teaches recruits that Satan works through their biological parents, and that they must accept their True Parents, Rev. Moon and his wife, and reject their "flesh" parents.
A central tenet taught to Moon recruits is "Heavenly Deception." Recruits, says Botettcher, are told the "non-Moon world is evil. It must be lied to so it can help Moon take over. Then it can become good under Moon's control." According to Boettcher, "Moon teaches that lying is necessary when one is doing God's work, whether selling flowers in the street or testifying under oath."
Boettcher reports that an aspect of another Moon tenet, the Divine Principle, is the idea that Jesus' love was weak and that he failed as a leader, because he was unable to motivate his disciples to kill for him or to die in his place. Moon claims he is taking up where Jesus left off, and, says Boettcher, Moon "sees Christian churches as furthering Satan's cause by rejecting him [Moon]."
The Moon story is about more than a megalomaniacal tyrant and his isolated followers. It is also about the fact that since George W. Bush took power, Moon benefits from Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives program. Moon also gains prestige and political influence when he is honored by Bush supporters, such as John Ashcroft and others who attended the January 19 "prayer luncheon."
Thanks to the Bush family and their imposed "dynasty," today Moon has more power to undermine American democracy and individualism. He has more power to work to "subjugate the American government and population." He has more power to try to make "his enemies, the American people and government bow down before him."
Thanks to his association with Bush, Moon now has more power to encourage "people here in America recognize the ability and power of Reverend Moon." He has more power to convince people that "the country that represents Satan's harvest is America." He has more power to lure recruits and have them "trained in totalism" and to "instill discipline" by showing his trainers "Nazi films on organizing Hitler Youth."
Moon has been able to infiltrate and gain a power base in the U. S.primarily because of one thing: secrecy. His history includes hiding his real intentions behind front groups and deceptive "advertising," whether hawking for donations, luring unsuspecting recruits or currying favor with politicians.
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Carla Binion
Online Journal
Feb22.2001
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