Democratic Underground - Know your BFEE: Forget Rev. Wright! It뭩 Bush and His Cronies Who Owe an Apology for Rev. Moon!

Rev. Jeremiah Wright may have said some controversial things about God and the United States, but Rev. Moon has done things to corrupt the government of the United States. George Herbert Walker Bush, his sons and their cronies need to explain their longtime association and business relationships with Sun Myung Moon. The convicted tax offender is certainly a controversial religious leader, but also linked to the Korean CIA, the North Korean military, the Yakuza, the Fascist Internationale and the Medellin drug cartel. And after their explanation, they should start apologizing.

Here뭩 Neil Bush in lovely Paraguay on behalf of Rev Moon:

A few brave reporters have tracked and told the story, including Robert Parry, Marc Perkel and John Gorenfeld. Many good DUers have played a role in getting the word out, too.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon has done more than say weird things about the United States. He's done things to hurt the country. For examples:

Bush Family in the House of Moon

George H.W. Bush to speak at the Rev. Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times' 25th anniversary celebration in mid-May

By Bill Berkowitz
Thu Apr 19, 2007 at 03:01:31 PM EST

When former President George H.W. Bush takes the stage to deliver the keynote address in honor of the 25th anniversary of the ultra-conservative Washington Times newspaper in mid-May, it will not be the first time he has spoken in support of one of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's enterprises.

And whatever fee Bush will realize from his appearance, it is only one aspect of what author Kevin Philips has termed Moon's "close" relationship with the Bush family.

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"Besides the gift of the support of the Washington Times, Bush and his son have accepted large amounts of money from Moon's church," said Gorenfeld, the author of a forthcoming book about the Rev. Moon and U.S. politics.

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Moon's enterprises extend far beyond the Unification Church, says Steve Hassan, an expert on cults and a licensed mental health counselor who was once a leader in the Moon organization.

"There are a number of business and political fronts; it's a multi-billion-dollar international conglomerate headed by a demagogue who claims that he's the greatest guy in history, who wants to abolish democracy, end or destroy the United Nations and set up a theocracy for his heirs to rule," Hassan told me in a telephone interview.

When the elder Bush takes to the podium next month, it would be surprising if the close relationship between the Bush family and Moon is scrutinized by the mainstream media, since it has been basically ignored or glossed over for decades, Hassan insists.

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Poppy and Bar shaking it with Mrs. Moon and Bo Hi Pak.

Gee. Why don뭪 we see any of this in the newspapers and on the tee-vee? Well, it must be too complicated a story.

What's that? I can almost hear those who say: "Who cares? Why is this bad � a rich friend who 'helps' one out politically or economically, from time to time?"

Well, glad I thought you asked. For starters, Moon's rightwing Washington Times and a myriad of its business associations are used to defame political and media opponents and smear American heroes like John Kerry, a Democrat. They also ignore information regarding corruption of their friends.

So, what the tee-vee and newspapers get filled with is fertilizer from people like David Brooks, the kind of guy Rev Moon would marry to your sister.

Nice, huh? Brooks� bio at The New York Times fails to mention that he once served the Washington Times. An accidental oversight, likely. His PBS bio, however, does mention the connection: 밄rooks began his career as a wire reporter in New York City and joined The Washington Times in 1984 as a writer of editorials and film review.�

Hmmm. Entertainment news. Isn뭪 that how Bill O뭃eilly got his start?

Must be, because they think alike. Here뭩 David B on Kevin Phillip뭩 latest work linking the House of Bush and the Empire of Moon:

The Paranoid Style

By David Brooks
New York Times
May 4, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist

There's always been a strain of paranoia running through American politics. Back in the mid-1960's, when the right felt powerless, the John Birch Society thrived. Today, when the left feels disinherited, liberals seize upon the conspiracy fantasies of Kevin Phillips, whose book "American Theocracy" is in its fifth week on The Times's best-seller list.

Phillips's method is pretty conventional for conspiracists � he takes a single issue or set of data points and constructs an all-explaining story line to show how hidden cabals are controlling America.

In the first part of "American Theocracy," he describes the rise of the "fossil-fuels political alliance." Dwight Eisenhower was "born in oil country" and in 1952 became the first Republican to sweep the Southern oil centers. Nixon too "had an oil-state childhood" and deepened oil's influence.

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And while many informed critics have picked apart Phillips's fantasies, other Americans, at once cynical and na�ve, are willing to believe any whacked-out theory, so long as it focuses hatred on Bush.

It's a funny way to run a theocracy.

SOURCE:

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/opinion/04brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Anyway. What is certain is that Brooks has helped 뱈ainstream� Rev Moon뭩 right-wing publication, interesting theology and fascist political leanings.

The guy's a real artiste. Those are things Brooks never mentions.Instead of learning about what really matters, Brooks is paid to tell us about...

Barry the Bowler is a small thinker.
Empty Pantsuit뭩 got thick ankles.
Kevin Phillips is a conspiracy nut.

Not that he뭗 lie or anything on purpose, but he did leave out a bit of history. In the 80s, Moon labeled allegations of Iran-Contra drugs. Something else that got left out: Rev Moon and his organization moved into Bolivia and helped engineer the Cocaine Coup. Neat, huh?

Here are some more things Rev. Moon has done we don't hear too much about:

Moon/Bush 'Ongoing Crime Enterprise'

By Robert Parry
February 17, 2007
consortiumnews.com

From petty local scams to international money-laundering, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon뭩 political/media/business/religious empire has all the looks of a global 뱋ngoing criminal enterprise,� albeit one with enough powerful friends in Washington to protect it from serious consequences.

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So, while prosecutors mostly look the other way, Moon continues to pour an estimated $100 million a year into his influential Washington Times newspaper and other pro-Republican media outlets. Additional millions have gone to fund right-wing political conferences; to pay speaking fees to world leaders, such as former President George H.W. Bush; and to bail political allies out of financial troubles.

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In the post-World War II years, some Nazi war criminals chose reclusive lives, but others, such as former SS officer Klaus Barbie, sold their intelligence skills to less-sophisticated security services in countries like Bolivia or Paraguay.
Other Nazis on the lam trafficked in narcotics. Often the lines crossed between intelligence operations and criminal conspiracies.

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Cocaine Coup

Cocaine Coup

In 1980, Moon made more friends in South America when a right-wing alliance of Bolivia military officers and drug dealers organized what became known as the Cocaine Coup. WACL associates, such as Alfred Candia, coordinated the arrival of some of the paramilitary operatives who assisted in the violent putsch.

Right-wing Argentine intelligence officers mixed with a contingent of young European neo-fascists collaborating with Nazi war criminal Barbie in carrying out the bloody coup that overthrew the elected left-of-center government.
The victory put into power a right-wing military dictatorship indebted to the drug lords. Bolivia became South America뭩 first narco-state.

One of the first well-wishers arriving in La Paz to congratulate the new government was Moon뭩 top lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak. The Moon organization published a photo of Pak meeting with the new strongman, General Garcia Meza.

After the visit to the mountainous capital, Pak declared, 밒 have erected a throne for Father Moon in the world뭩 highest city.�

According to later Bolivian government and newspaper reports, a Moon representative invested about $4 million in preparations for the coup. Bolivia뭩 WACL representatives also played key roles, and CAUSA, one of Moon뭩 anti-communist organizations, listed as members nearly all the leading Bolivian coup-makers.

Soon, Colonel Luis Arce-Gomez, a coup organizer and the cousin of cocaine kingpin Roberto Suarez, went into partnership with big narco-traffickers, including Trafficante뭩 Cuban-American smugglers. Nazi war criminal Barbie and his young neo-fascist followers found new work protecting Bolivia뭩 major cocaine barons and transporting drugs to the border.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/021707.html

밒 want to salute Reverend Moon,� Bush declared. 밃 lot of my friends in South America don뭪 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 (Moon) interfered with the running of the paper, a paper that in my view brings sanity to Washington, D.C.�

What's an ex-president get paid to salute an ex-convict?

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