It might seem strange that Rev. Sun Myung Moon, head of the “Moonies” (Unification Church) and self-proclaimed “messiah”, has managed to get high up into the Republican leadership. However, ownership of the Washington Times, UPI, Insight magazine, and several other publications has basically given the creepy guy a big leg up.
Moon’s influence is such that on March 23rd, he actually got a coronation ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, attended by a bunch of members of Congress. You can watch video of the whole thing here: gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/i … ssiah.html
Considering that Moon has declared the United States “Satan’s Harvest” and was saying that American women were descended from a “line of whores” at the time, you might think that it would preclude his hiring George H.W. Bush to go on a speaking tour, but I guess several million dollars goes a lot further than we might think. consortiumnews.com/2000/101100a.html
You might think Moon would get in trouble when Jane’s Defense Weekly reported this week that the nuclear missile technology peddled to North Korea potentially poses a grave security risk to the United States. How long will the Bush Administration continue to look the other way?
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So the recipe for success for an avowed enemy of the United States (and convicted felon) apparently is that if you pay millions to George H.W. Bush and run a very conservative newspaper with right-wing pundits at your beck and call, then the George W. Bush administration lets it slide when you arrange for nuke technology to go to an avowed enemy of the United States. Looks like the buck just stops nowhere with these Republiconmen…