Short documentary on Rev. Moon
ill lich says: "Quick and incisive documentary on the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the breadth and depth of his influence in Washington. I'm sure most people don't know just how influential and rich he is. (I sure didn't)."
LinkIn 2004, journalist John Gorenfeld scooped the Washington press corps when he exposed a scandalous party on Capitol Hill, in which members of Congress watched as Moon held a ritual coronation for himself as the "King of Peace." Wearing a majestic cape and coronet, the publisher declared himself the Messiah. The New York Times editors compared the event, sponsored by a U.S. senator, to an act of the Roman emperor Caligula.
That, as you might imagine, was just the tip of the iceberg.
Bad Moon Rising takes you into the underbelly of the Religious Right. Which is surprisingly, scandalously entwined with Moon and his business empire--an untold chapter in American political history.
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politicians, whores.
You apologize to the whores right now!
I know a hell of a lot more whores I respect than politicians...
Good heavens. A megalomaniac obsessed with 'sex organs' is crowned king in D.C. Could this be any more embarrassing? But Mrs. Moon has a very Queen-Elizabeth hand wave. I guess I could worship her.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
Always heard about him- mass weddings and all that, but was never sure what he was up to or about. Yeesh.
Well, I guess Anonymous & /b/tards have a new target once they take down Scientology.
Please! I am not insulting sex trade workers. Rather, on behalf of politicians everywhere, I wish to take back the "whore" to whom rightly owns it. Rather like that "stoop-simian" debacle in that "Retail Salespersons 2" art film.
Nobody's going to take Moon down. He owns the Washington Times, for cryin' out loud! Back in the 80's in Indiana, all the rednecks were askeered of Moonies -- but you never hear that any more. Nobody talks about Sun Myung Moon nowadays, because he's got lots of money, and it all votes Republican. Thus he must be our kind of folks.
This guy makes Hubbard look like a hack.
One other iceberg tip in the Moonie Loonie pantheon: He owns most of the Atlantic fishing fleet, where his disciples work for...well, nothing. Better still, they *own* sushi -- I couldn't make this up.
"The Moon followers' seafood operation is driven by a commercial powerhouse, known as True World Group. It builds fleets of boats, runs dozens of distribution centers and, each day, supplies most of the nation's estimated 9,000 sushi restaurants."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0604sushi-1-story,0,3736876.story
I feel for the poor kids raised in this mess. Sigh. Not much hope for them considering who's got Moon's back.
#10: As in most oppressive social situations (East Coast suburbs?), the smartest still get out, even with the Moonies. A brilliant friend of mine escaped, it helped that he was both gay and confident-- so he had a direct, cogent reason... but yeah, telling your parents you're rejecting everything you've been raised as is quite a large battle.
The Bushes and the Moon man are very, very close to each other. Rev. Moon gives the Bushes money and generous press coverage. He also condemns America and its democracy and prays for our destruction. He also got some Congressmen to hold a semi-secret ceremony in the House, Crowning him KING!!!! And the press didn't cover this until after we bloggers tore into the story. Even today, the mainstream press plays 'hands off' with the Moonie mess.
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I Was a Teenage Moonie.
Yep, they recruited me almost right out of high school in the late 1970s. I stayed with them for about a year, until I got sick with pneumonia from trudging around in the rain for 14 hours a day selling candy and flowers. Getting sick allowed me to slow down and think. I came to my senses and "escaped" (actually I got on a Greyhound Bus with some of my candy-selling money and went home).
My sense of it then was that anybody with some sense would eventually realize it was a crock and head back to real life.
I first head of this hilarious little cult though a SciFi novel. I was laughing my butt off, thinking "thank god nothing like that could happen in the real world."
...I was knocked off my feet when I was told it was a satirical story, based on a real crack-pot.
And here I thought it was the Jews who controlled everything. Is Rev. Moon a secret Jew? I'm being tongue-in-cheek and ironic.
Extreme freakiness to be crowned king in the Capitol Hill people high up in Government had to be aware of this. Freaky :-(
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Republicans are not conservatives so much as they are shills for business.
Religion is a business. Ask Scientology.
Here in Houston, we have a former sports stadium that is now a major church, and 18,000 people flood it every Sunday.
Their religion is little more than Ayn Rand-style "you deserve what you have, think positive and you'll get more."
Was Rand a rightist? She always struck me as being more socially liberal than, say, G.W.B.
After seeing the coronation video linked off of some liberal blog back in the 04 elections I started telling people about moon. No one believed me that some wack job could gain that much power in america.
reminds me of this how to be a cult leader video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNSe5XYp6E
Almost ALL Sushi you eat comes from the Moon organization.
He owns the Washington Times, an extreme right wing newspaper.
He also owns (owned?) a town in the Northwest US.
How does he remain so unknown?
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Remember the Jeff Gannon scandal a few years ago? When it turned out that the GW Bush white house gave daily press passes to a male gay prostitute who worked for a fake right-wing news website as a fake journalist?
Not long after that, I saw a story suggesting that Reagan and GHW Bush administrations -- Poppy Bush, not baby Bush -- may have had embarrassing links to an underaged gay prostitution ring in DC. The Washington Times ran a front-page story about it in 29 June 1989, but didn't really follow up on it. Some bloggers, as I recall, suggested that maybe this was Rev Moon blackmailing his way into respectability.
Washington Bullets
(The Clash)
Oh! Mama, Mama look there!
Your children are playing in that street again
Don't you know what happened down there?
A youth of fourteen got shot down there
The Kokane guns of Jamdown Town
The killing clowns, the blood money men
Are shooting those Washington bullets again
As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende, and the days before,
Before the army came
Please remember Victor Jara,
In the Santiago Stadium,
Es verdad - those Washington Bullets again
And in the Bay of Pigs in 1961,
Havana fought the playboy in the Cuban sun,
For Castro is a colour,
Is a redder than red,
Those Washington bullets want Castro dead
For Castro is the colour...
...That will earn you a spray of lead
For the very first time ever,
When they had a revolution in Nicaragua,
There was no interference from America
Human rights in America
Well the people fought the leader,
And up he flew...
With no Washington bullets what else could he do?
'N' if you can find a Afghan rebel
That the Moscow bullets missed
Ask him what he thinks of voting Communist...
...Ask the Dalai Lama in the hills of Tibet,
How many monks did the Chinese get?
In a war-torn swamp stop any mercenary,
'N' check the British bullets in his armoury
Que?
Sandinista!