I intended on making this comment in the thread for your other post but it won’t show the comment option for some reason.

 

 

Kevin,

 

I think the best way to show the influence of what I would call “the extremist religious influence” on EVERYTHING is to expose Moon’s efforts and his goals. You tried to tell the democrats to listen to this strategy in 2004. There are many on liberal forums who do not understand why this was never done. (I have many theories/reason why it didn’t happen but they are too long for here.)

 

The reasons to do this, however, are many also but here are some. The main one is that Moon has stated that his goal is to do what he calls “the natural subjugation of the American government and population.” He is not kidding and he has spent billions empowering the extreme in our nation. In his mind, without firing a shot, he has molded us right and theocratic. Some laugh, (people have been doing that for years) but Moon knows what he is doing and he HAS done it. There is no other single influence on our nation’s political climate than Moon’s organization – including Reagan. I laugh when I see people thinking they are keeping an eye on Moon. Like if he does something they will know and blow a whistle or something – that part of the equation is too late, he has already done his deed. He could sell the Washington Times tomorrow; it has done its job. Most Americans and certainly evangelicals have no idea Moon funded the likes of Falwell, LaHaye, Viguerie – he even funded Terry Dolan, Rove’s old competitor in the college Republicans who I understand is considered the father of the attack ad. It goes on and on and that is only what we know. Robert Parry discovered the money to Falwell by accident.

 

Here is an excerpt, note that Moon’s operatives are not your run of the mill operatives, they are highly trained, motivated, dedicated and will do anything to bring Moon’s vision to fruition – it is their religion – it is all they do.

 

Quote from:

U.S News and World Report March 27, 1989
Rev. Moon's Rising Political Influence

His empire is spending big money trying to win favor with conservatives.

 

On New Year's Day, 1987, South Korean mystic Sun Myung Moon, who considers himself to be the son of God, told his Unification church followers that he wanted to expand the church's political influence in the United States. His aim, Moon said, was "the natural subjugation of the American government and population." …

 

…the church has established a network of affiliated organizations and connections in almost every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation, the largest of the conservative think tanks and an important source of government personnel during the Reagan administration. …
 

As the Washington Times has become the voice of capital conservatives, the Heritage Foundation has become far more tolerant of church ties. …

 

... "Most people are afraid to address the issue because they don't want to publicize the extent of the church's involvement," says Amy Moritz of the Conservative National Center for Public Policy Research.
 
Because almost all conservative organizations in Washington have some ties to the church, conservatives also fear repercussions if they expose the church's role. That happened when one organization, the Capital Research Center, published a newsletter last November warning of the church's attempt to create a "centralized world theocracy." One of its board members, who was also on the board of the International Security Council, resigned in protest, and conservatives charging that the paper was creating discord on the right, besieged the center with angry calls. "We got a very, very strong reaction -- almost as if we were the enemy -- because we raised the issue," says CRC Chairman Willa Johnson, a former president of the Heritage Foundation.  End quote.

 

 

The nation as a whole needs to understand Moon’s influence over our lives and by seeing his positions and plans I think it will awaken many to the danger in the religious right’s agenda which most don’t see or understand. Beyond the national security issues, exposure would bring into focus how the Republican Party, the conservative movement has been “highjacked,” if you will, not by just the extreme in their party but by a the grand theocrat, Moon.

 

What do you think would happen to the “conservative” agenda if people understood who has molded it and why it has the theocratic vein?

 

This quote from Parry is not a joke, it is Moon’s intentions.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon3.html

 

By the mid-1980s, Moon’s Unification Church had carved out a niche as an acceptable part of the American right. In one speech to his followers, Moon boasted that “without knowing it, even President Reagan is being guided by Father (Moon).”Yet, Moon also made clear that his longer-range goal was the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and America’s democratic form of government. “History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear, and his enemies, the American population and government will bow down to him.” Moon said, speaking of himself in the third person. “That is Father’s tactic, the natural subjugation of the American government and population.” End quote.

 

Please read the links in my comment to your post from yesterday. Read the links in the links. Read the link on why TV won’t cover Moon.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/28025#comment-106186

 

Today, Moon is making inroads with black ministers. He is involved in what is going on in the Middle East. The Moon organization says they have received a thank you note from officials in the Bush administration thanking them for their efforts. He is involved in our nation’s negotiations with North Korea, likely since 1991 – when Moon met Kim Il Sung.

 

None of that will be stopped or even slowed until people know what he is doing.  THEY DON’T KNOW.

 

Yes, there many foundations and groups today who are moving the nation further right and theocratic, but people need to see who was there with his propaganda paper and money when this movement was formed. Moon brags about the influence his paper had on the Reagan administration. Moon didn’t do this because he likes Falwell or Bush, he isn’t on their “side” he is on his side - only his side. He needed the Christian “right” to get what he wanted. They are his witting and unwitting tools.

 

The overwhelming majority of people in this nation, even people who call themselves “political minded” have no idea that Moon owns the Washington Times, and those that do have bought into the idea that the paper allows “independence” to its editors. That has not been true over the years but even if it was it is the extremist’s views – like Pruden – that Moon has totally subsidized and foisted on the nation. Again, what is and has happened to our nation is not the product of the free market of ideas nor any democratic process, Moon has spent billions making it happen.

 

Do you find it odd that when the right bitches and moans about U.S. CITIZEN George Soros giving a what? 25 Million? to “liberal” causes in one election cycle, the right/O’Reily/Rush blast them saying the evil Soros is buying the democratic party and yet in FACT non citizen Sun Myung Moon, with a stated goal to subvert what we hold dear, has funded the new right, the conservative movement with BILLIONS the last 25 years? Do you find it odd that not ONE liberal mentions this when Soros is thrown in their faces? Biblical sized blindness.

 

Look, I can go on, but what do you think would be happening today if the lady who asked Bush about your book yesterday had asked even one of these questions:  “Why has your father traveled three continents honoring Sun Myung Moon’s organization, giving him credibility and helping him manipulate the world as he wants it? Why has your brother Neil helped Moon promote his UN gigging unit, the Universal Peace Federation? Why did the Republican Party use Sun Myung Moon and his organization to promote your Faith Based Initiative which will push our nation further theocratic? Why did the Bush-Cheney inaugural committee take $250,000 – the max allowed by law - from the Moon organization? Why is your administration working with the Moon organization in your negotiations with North Korea, given that Moon has funded NK and helped keep them afloat and given that Moon’s goal is to unite NK and SK and cajole them into being his “sovereign” nation and the center of a world government run by his followers?

 

Why did you and your father send greetings to a get together of Moon’s black minister gigging unit? http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=258

 

Kevin, did you notice no one took your advice to let people know about these ties in 2004? Why do you think that is?

 

I believe if you expose Moon, you expose the agenda which is tearing our nation apart.

Look on the bright side.  Only half of the millenialist crowd are certain He'll be returning in the next 50 years.  The other half are probabilists.