-Caveat Lector-
The potential World War III now brewing in the Pacific couldn't be
happening more opportunely for a Bush presidency in 2000.
The Bush "Octopus" has many longtime friends in Asia -- the KCIA, the
Yakuza, and right-wing imperialist industrialists who long for a
nuclear-armed, militarized Japan.
Pentagon paranoia about a newly expansionist Red China --aided and
abetted by Democrat Bill Clinton-- obviously coveting Taiwan and covertly
supporting North Korea, is another serendipitous development.
George Sr made big bucks while "saving the world" in the Persian Gulf
war.
George Jr may have HIS chance --somehow made to order?-- in East Asia
...
from The Consortium, 1997:
The Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Hooking George Bush
by Robert Parry
Last fall, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's latest foray into the
high-priced world of media and politics was in trouble. South
American journalists were writing scathingly about Moon's plan to
open a regional newspaper that the 77-year-old founder of the
Korean-based Unification Church hoped would give him the same
influence in Latin America that the ultra-conservative
Washington Times had in the United States.
As opening day ticked closer for Moon's Tiempos del Mundo,
leading South American newspapers were busy recounting unsavory
chapters of Moon's history, including his links with South
Korea's feared intelligence service and with violent
anti-communist organizations that some commentaries said bordered
on neo-fascist.
Indeed, in the early 1980s, amid widespread human rights
abuses, Moon had used friendships with the military dictators in
Argentina and Uruguay to invest in those two countries. Moon was
such a pal of the Argentine generals that he garnered an honorary
award for siding with Argentina's junta in the Falklands War.
[UPI, Nov. 16, 1984]
More recently, Moon has been buying large tracts of
agricultural lands in Paraguay. La Nacion reported that Moon had
discussed these business ventures with Paraguay's ex-dictator
Alfredo Stroessner. [Nov. 19, 1996]
Moon's disciples fumed about the critical stories and
accused the Argentine news media of trying to sabotage the
newspaper's inaugural gala in Buenos Aires on Nov. 23. "The
local press was trying to undermine the event," complained the
church's internal newsletter, Unification News. [December 1996]
Given the controversy, Argentina's elected president, Carlos
Menem, decided 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.
Agreeing to speak at the newspaper's launch, Bush flew
aboard a private plane, arriving in Buenos Aires on Nov. 22.
Bush stayed at Menem's official residence, the Olivos. But Bush
failed to change the Argentine president's mind.
Still, Moon's followers gushed that Bush had saved the day,
as he stepped before about 900 Moon guests at the Sheraton Hotel.
"Mr. Bush's presence as keynote speaker gave the event invaluable
prestige," wrote the Unification News. "Father [Moon] and Mother
[Mrs. Moon] sat with several of the True Children [Moon's
offspring] just a few feet from the podium."
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.
"Once again, heaven turned a disappointment into a victory,"
the Unification News exulted. "Everyone was delighted to hear
his compliments. We knew he would give an appropriate and 'nice'
speech, but praise in Father's presence was more than we
expected. ... It was vindication. We could just hear a sigh of
relief from Heaven."
Bush's endorsement of The Washington Times' editorial
independence also was not truthful. Almost since it opened in
1982, a string of senior editors and correspondents have
resigned, citing the manipulation of the news by Moon and his
subordinates. The first editor, James Whelan, resigned in 1984,
confessing that he had "blood on his hands" for helping the
church achieve greater legitimacy.
Money Talks
But Bush's boosterism was just what Moon needed in South
America. "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.
After the event, Menem told reporters from La Nacion that
Bush had claimed privately to be only a mercenary who did not
really know Moon. "Bush told me he came and charged money to do
it," Menem said. [Nov. 26, 1996].
But Bush was not telling Menem the whole story. By last
fall, Bush and Moon had been working in political tandem for at
least a decade and a half. The ex-president also had been
moonlighting as a front man for Moon for more than a year.
In September 1995, Bush and his wife, Barbara, gave six
speeches in Asia for the Women's Federation for World Peace, a
group led by Moon's wife, Hak Ja Han Moon. In one speech on
Sept. 14 to 50,000 Moon supporters in Tokyo, Bush insisted that
"what really counts is faith, family and friends." Mrs. Moon
followed the ex-president to the podium and announced that "it
has to be Reverend Moon to save the United States, which is in
decline because of the destruction of the family and moral
decay." [Washington Post, Sept. 15, 1995]
In summer 1996, Bush was lending his prestige to Moon again.
Bush addressed the Moon-connected Family Federation for World
Peace in Washington, an event that gained notoriety when comedian
Bill Cosby tried to back out of his contract after learning of
Moon's connection. Bush had no such qualms. [WP, July 30, 1996]
Throughout these public appearances, Bush's office has
refused to divulge how much Moon-affiliated organizations have
paid the ex-president. But estimates of Bush's fee for the
Buenos Aires appearance alone ran between $100,000 and $500,000.
Sources close to the Unification Church have put the total
Bush-Moon package in the millions, with one source telling The
Consortium that Bush stood to make as much as $10 million.
Bush also may have other Argentine business deals in the
works with Moon. On Nov. 16, 1996, La Nacion quoted businessmen
as saying that Bush and Moon were keeping an eye on plans to
privatize the hydroelectric complex of Yacyreta, a joint $12
billion Paraguayan-Argentine project to dam the Parana River.
Foreign Influence
Still, the Bush-Moon alliance is not strictly about money --
and it did not start in Bush's post-presidency.
It dates back at least to the start of the Reagan-Bush era
-- when Moon was a VIP guest at the first Reagan-Bush
inauguration -- and it could extend into the next century as
the ex-president works to shore up conservative support for his
eldest son, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who is expected to run for
the White House in 2000.
Sources close to Bush say the ex-president has worked hard
to pull well-to-do conservatives and their money behind his son's
candidacy. Without doubt, Moon is one of the deepest pockets in
right-wing circles, having financed important conservative
activists from both the Religious Right, such as the Rev. Jerry
Falwell, and Inside-the-Beltway right-wing professionals.
A silent testimony to Moon's clout is the fact that his vast
spending of billions of dollars in secretive Asian money to
influence U.S. politics -- spanning nearly a quarter century --
has gone virtually unmentioned amid the current controversy over
Asian donations to U.S. politicians.
With unintended irony, Moon's Washington Times repeatedly
has featured stories about secret Asian money going to Democrats.
"More than a million dollars of this foreign money is believed to
have been contributed to the Democrats, putting the election up
for auction," charged Times' editor Wesley Pruden in a typical
column. [Oct. 18, 1996]
The blind spot concerning Moon himself is especially curious
since there have been U.S. government allegations dating back to
the 1970s that Moon's organization fronted for the South Korean
CIA and funnelled money to Washington for right-wing Japanese
industrialists. For the past 15 years, The Washington Times has
been the most obvious conduit for this foreign money. The
newspaper and its sister publications -- Insight and The World &
I -- have cost Moon an estimated $1 billion in losses. Yet,
Moon has never accounted for the sources of his money.
Moon's jingle of deep-pocket cash also has caused
conservatives to turn a deaf ear toward Moon's recent
anti-American diatribes. With growing virulence, Moon has
denounced the United States and its democratic principles, often
referring to America as "Satanic." But these statements have gone
virtually unreported, even though the texts of his sermons are
carried on the Internet and their timing has coincided with
Bush's warm endorsements of Moon.
"America has become the kingdom of individualism, and its
people are individualists," Moon preached in Tarrytown, N.Y., on
March 5, 1995. "You must realize that America has become the
kingdom of Satan."
In similar remarks to followers on Aug. 4, 1996, Moon vowed
that the church's eventual dominance over the United States would
be followed by the liquidation of American individualism.
"Americans who continue to maintain their privacy and extreme
individualism are foolish people," Moon declared. "The world
will reject Americans who continue to be so foolish. Once you
have this great power of love, which is big enough to swallow
entire America, there may be some individuals who complain inside
your stomach. However, they will be digested."
During the same sermon, Moon decried assertive American
women. "American women have the tendency to consider women in
the role of subjects," he said. "However, woman's shape is like
that of a receptacle. The concave shape is a receiving shape.
Whereas, the convex shape symbolizes giving. Since man contains
the seed of life, he should plant it in the deepest place.
"Does woman contain the seed of life? Absolutely not. Then
if you desire to receive the seed of life, you have to become an
absolute object. In order to qualify as an absolute object, you
need to demonstrate absolute faith, love and obedience to your
subject. Absolute obedience means that you have to negate
yourself 100 percent."
Evil Hamburgers
These pronouncements contrast with Moon's lavish praise of
the United States disseminated for public consumption during his
early forays to Washington. On Sept. 18, 1976, at a flag-draped
rally at the Washington Monument, Moon declared that "the United
States of America, transcending race and nationality, is already
a model of the unified world." He called America "the chosen
nation of God" and added that "I not only respect America, but
truly love this nation."
Yet, even as Moon has soured on America, his recruiters
continue to use that flag-draped scene of the Washington Monument
to lure new followers. The patriotic image struck powerfully
with John Stacey when the college freshman watched a video of
that speech while undergoing Unification Church recruitment in
1992.
"American flags were everywhere," recalled Stacey, a thin
young man from central New Jersey. "The first video they showed
me was Reverend Moon praising America and praising Christianity."
In 1992, Stacey considered himself a patriotic American and a
faithful Christian. He soon joined the Unification Church.
Stacey became a Pacific Northwest leader in Moon's
Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles [CARP].
"They liked to hang me up because I'm young and I'm American,"
Stacey told me. "It's a good image for the church. They try to
create the all-American look, where I think they're usurping
American values, that they're anti-American."
At a 1995 leadership conference at a church compound in
Anchorage, Alaska, Stacey met face-to-face with Moon who was
sitting on a throne-like chair while a group of American
followers, many middle-aged converts from the 1970s, sat at his
feet like children.
"Reverend Moon looked at me straight in the eye and said,
'America is Satanic. America is so Satanic that even hamburgers
should be considered evil, because they come from America',"
recalled Stacey. "Hamburgers! My father was a butcher, so that
bothered me. I started feeling that I was betraying my country."
Moon's criticism of Jesus also unsettled Stacey. "In the
church, it's very anti-Jesus," Stacey said. "Jesus failed
miserably. He died a lonely death. Reverend Moon is the hero
that comes and saves pathetic Jesus. Reverend Moon is better than
God. ... That's why I left the Moonies. Because it started to
feel like idolatry. He's promoting idolatry."
One-World Theocracy
Despite growing disaffection among many longtime followers
and other problems, Moon's empire still prospers financially,
backed by vast sources of mysterious wealth. "It's a
multi-billion-dollar international conglomerate," noted Steve
Hassan, a former church leader who has written a book about
religious cults, entitled "Combatting Cult Mind Control."
At his Internet site, Hassan has a 31-page list of organizations
connected to the Unification Church, many secretively.
"Here's a man [Moon] who says he wants to take over the
world, where all religions will be abolished except
Unificationism, all languages will be abolished except Korean,
all governments will be abolished except his one-world
theocracy," Hassan said in an interview. "Yet he's wined and
dined very powerful people and convinced them that he's benign."
Hassan argued that perhaps the greatest danger of the
Unification Church is that it will outlive Moon, since the
organization has grown so immense and powerful that other leaders
will step forward to lead it. "There are groups out there that
want to use this organization," Hassan said.
A couple of years ago, Moon shifted his personal base of
operation to a luxurious estate in Uruguay. The church has been
investing tens of millions of dollars in that nation since the
early 1980s when Moon was close to the military government. In a
sermon on Jan. 2, 1996, Moon was unusually blunt about how he
expected the church's wealth to buy influence among the powerful
in South America, just as it did in Washington.
"Father has been practicing the philosophy of 'fishing'
here," Moon said, through an interpreter who spoke of Moon in the
third person. "He [Moon] gave the bait to Uruguay and then the
bigger fish of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay kept their mouths
open, waiting for a bigger bait silently. The bigger the fish,
the bigger the mouth. Therefore, Father is able to hook
them more easily."
As part of his business strategy, Moon explained that he
would dot the continent with small airstrips and construct bases
for submarines which could evade Coast Guard patrols. His
airfield project would allow tourists to visit "hidden,
untouched, small places" throughout South America, he said.
"Therefore, they need small airplanes and small landing
strips in the remote countryside. ... In the near future, we
will have many small airports throughout the world." Moon wanted
the submarines because "there are so many restrictions due to
national boundaries worldwide. If you have a submarine, you
don't have to be bound in that way."
Moon also recognized the importance of media in protecting
his curious operations, which sound like an invitation to drug
traffickers. He boasted to his followers that with his vast
array of political and media assets, he will dominate the new
Information Age. "That is why Father has been combining and
organizing scholars from all over the world, and also newspaper
organizations -- in order to make propaganda," Moon said.
Central to that success in South America is Tiempos del Mundo.
Iran-Contra Cover-up
Moon pursued a similar strategy in the United States. In
the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan hailed The Washington Times as his
favorite newspaper and Moon's editors rewarded the Reagan-Bush
administration with unwavering loyalty.
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 [contra] 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. [April 11, 1986]
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. [Aug. 13, 1986]
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 [the contras], federal law enforcement
officials said." [Jan. 21, 1987]
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.
When former CIA clandestine services chief Clair George was
on trial for false statements, The Washington Times published a
front-page story with the two-column headline, "GOP Questions
Walsh Spending." [Aug. 4, 1992] That morning, George's CIA
supporters held the headline up so the jury could see the
anti-Walsh allegations. Throughout the Iran-contra scandal, the
paper played a crucial role in protecting the cover-up. [For
details, see Walsh's new book, "Firewall."]
Time and again, Moon's Washington Times went to bat for
George Bush.
When Bush lagged behind Michael Dukakis in the early days of
the 1988 presidential race, the Times falsely implied that
Dukakis had undergone psychiatric care. The story drew national
attention and raised early doubts about Dukakis's fitness for the
White House.
In 1992, the newspaper promoted Bush's re-election by
running stories about Bill Clinton's collegiate trip to Moscow,
suggesting that the Rhodes scholar was a spy for the KGB. Four
years later, with the Republicans hoping to oust Clinton, The
Times reversed field with a contradictory banner story: "Was Bill
Clinton a junior spy for the CIA?" [June 24, 1996]
In 2000, Moon's newspaper could give similar boosts to the
expected presidential candidacy of Gov. George W. Bush. After
all, his father has shown that he knows how to reward his allies
no matter how unsavory.
For Moon's part, the self-proclaimed Korean messiah has
succeeded in hooking many big fish in Washington -- "the bigger
the fish, the bigger the mouth" -- but none bigger than former
President George Bush. ~
Copyright (c) 1997
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DEVELOPERS vs ENVIRONMENTALISTS
"Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the
Korean Scandal" by Robert Boettcher, ex-CIA investigator, is an
in depth look at Sun Myung Moon, his goals, his beliefs...
According to Mr. Boettchers' investigations Moon has through
his followers become a hidden power in the American scene ...
According to IRS records Sun Myung Moon has contributed more
than a million dollars to "the wise use movement," the head of
which is Ron Arnold, a journalist ... Because Mr. Arnold has
portrayed himself to the corporate powers as their savior he has
been able to gain their endorsement and support.
The 'wise use' movement has sponsored seminars to teach law
enforcement officers "how to deal with environmentalists, hate
groups, gangs, etc" -- lumping them all together in a messy heap
of humanity -- with the spoken intention of "eliminating them"
using law enforcement officers and vigilante type movements...
The sad thing is that some of the groups that have been
targeted are being pitted by the 'wise use' movement against
other groups ... unknowingly.
People who contribute to environmental causes or property
rights agendas are often unwittingly contributing to Arnold's
organizations [hence, to Sun Myung Moon's power]...
A public investigation should be undertaken at once to
determine the true scope of the "powers that be" in this country
and where they are leading us ...
If you have experienced harrassment or intimidation for your
[environmental] opinions, you should get in touch with the
Western States Center -- (503) 228-8859 -- address: PO Box 40305,
Portland, Oregon 97240
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