From Hartsfield To The Moon
Given the season I thought I'd write this in the spirit of Christmas.
Back in 1994 a star appeared in the east and 2 wisemen came over the hill bearing gifts. Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas of the Christian Heritage Foundation had won a bid to assume about half of fundamentalist Christian, Liberty University's $72 million debt load for a measly $2.5 million... a fraction of its face value. Liberty is Jerry Falwell's Religious Right crown jewel and the debt had gravitated to the University from Falwell's abandoned Moral Majority political organization of the 80's and early 90's.
On Jan 28, 1995 Falwell stood before his Old Time Gospel congregation in Lynchberg, Va (the irony in the name of that town in context of this piece is chilling) and introduced to them the 2 wisemen bearing gifts. “They had to borrow money, hock their houses, hock everything,” said Falwell. “Thank God for friends like Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas.” Falwell’s congregation rose as one to applaud.
Now, here's the point. Not only did Falwell stand before God and his people and LIE, but the debt incurred by the Moral Majority was mostly backed by thousands of small religious investors who had bought church construction bonds through a Texas company. They were the big losers. Yet these are the same people who stood up in unison to applaud the wisemen who had bought the debt at deep, deep discount screwing them, the bond holders!
Falwell didn't tell them who the messiah was. He didn't tell them where the wisemen really got their gifts. The star in the east was none other than Sun Myung Moon. And another thing Falwell didn't tell them was that Moon, through the help of some prominent figures on the American Right who went to great lengths to conceal their financial connections to Moon, was able to launder this 3.5 million by passing it through several hands before it got to the pockets of the wisemen.
3.5M? But palooka, I thought U said 2.5? Thats right, $3.5 million. 2.5 to meet the debt pledge and a another cool million for their trouble.
So who is this guy Sun Myung Moon?
Of all the things I could have written about back in August I was suddenly overwhelmed to post this with a link to Consortium On-line's archive of stories journaling the very dark life and influence of Sun Myung Moon. I had no idea why until today. Most of the stories are authored by Robert Parry who today published on CO a 3 part series titled "GOP'S $3 Billion Propaganda Organ".
When I fly its generally out of Hartsfield. Its not that many years ago when you went to the airport and you couldn't get to your plane without having to beat off the moonies. They worked in pairs and were everywhere and they glomerated onto you like stink on you know what. Didn't matter where you were flying to or from. They were there. Most of us just viewed them as a nuisance... mere pimps for an exotic cult leader. We were right. But we were wrong too. Oh so wrong. Today we know the whoring at the airports was a mere pimple on the ass of one of the most sinsiter characters of modern time.
I'm talking global proportion here. But what is most disturbing is the role Moon played and still plays right here. The Right has alot of 'splainin to do about why they crawled into bed with this scumbag.
Parry wrote...
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 destroying 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.”
Moon mighta thought Reagan "didn't know". But Reagan knew. How could anyone in Reagan's position not know? What Reagan did was take wise advice that serves both good and evil...
TAKE WHAT YOU NEED AND LEAVE THE REST!
And Reagan was in need. His Iran-Contra escapades where in times of heavy scrutiny and it was Moon's minions, primarily at the Washington Times who put the opposition in its place.
The moonies pimping at the airport, the Falwell story. the Reagan story are as pimples on Moon's ass compared to the influence this psycho has had in the rise to power of the Conservative Right. They did as Ronnie mentored... take what you need and leave the rest.
Now even the rest is coming home to roost.
Lyndon Johnson said that his signing of the Civil Rights Act would give the south to the Republicans for the foreseeable future. He was right. But just as the moonies were a pimple on the ass of the airports, Johnson's prognostication is a pimple on the ass of history compared to the disgusting Right Wing in bed with Sun Moon and the role it is playing in today's politics.
The Parry article is long. I don't care if takes you a month to read it. Just READ IT! You will NEVER look at politics, indeed the world we are living in, the same.
What better way to ring in the New Year than to do yourself a great big favor with a clearer understanding of the ugly, naked, oozing, pimply assed TRUTH!!
Back in 1994 a star appeared in the east and 2 wisemen came over the hill bearing gifts. Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas of the Christian Heritage Foundation had won a bid to assume about half of fundamentalist Christian, Liberty University's $72 million debt load for a measly $2.5 million... a fraction of its face value. Liberty is Jerry Falwell's Religious Right crown jewel and the debt had gravitated to the University from Falwell's abandoned Moral Majority political organization of the 80's and early 90's.
On Jan 28, 1995 Falwell stood before his Old Time Gospel congregation in Lynchberg, Va (the irony in the name of that town in context of this piece is chilling) and introduced to them the 2 wisemen bearing gifts. “They had to borrow money, hock their houses, hock everything,” said Falwell. “Thank God for friends like Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas.” Falwell’s congregation rose as one to applaud.
Now, here's the point. Not only did Falwell stand before God and his people and LIE, but the debt incurred by the Moral Majority was mostly backed by thousands of small religious investors who had bought church construction bonds through a Texas company. They were the big losers. Yet these are the same people who stood up in unison to applaud the wisemen who had bought the debt at deep, deep discount screwing them, the bond holders!
Falwell didn't tell them who the messiah was. He didn't tell them where the wisemen really got their gifts. The star in the east was none other than Sun Myung Moon. And another thing Falwell didn't tell them was that Moon, through the help of some prominent figures on the American Right who went to great lengths to conceal their financial connections to Moon, was able to launder this 3.5 million by passing it through several hands before it got to the pockets of the wisemen.
3.5M? But palooka, I thought U said 2.5? Thats right, $3.5 million. 2.5 to meet the debt pledge and a another cool million for their trouble.
So who is this guy Sun Myung Moon?
Of all the things I could have written about back in August I was suddenly overwhelmed to post this with a link to Consortium On-line's archive of stories journaling the very dark life and influence of Sun Myung Moon. I had no idea why until today. Most of the stories are authored by Robert Parry who today published on CO a 3 part series titled "GOP'S $3 Billion Propaganda Organ".
When I fly its generally out of Hartsfield. Its not that many years ago when you went to the airport and you couldn't get to your plane without having to beat off the moonies. They worked in pairs and were everywhere and they glomerated onto you like stink on you know what. Didn't matter where you were flying to or from. They were there. Most of us just viewed them as a nuisance... mere pimps for an exotic cult leader. We were right. But we were wrong too. Oh so wrong. Today we know the whoring at the airports was a mere pimple on the ass of one of the most sinsiter characters of modern time.
I'm talking global proportion here. But what is most disturbing is the role Moon played and still plays right here. The Right has alot of 'splainin to do about why they crawled into bed with this scumbag.
Parry wrote...
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 destroying 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.”
Moon mighta thought Reagan "didn't know". But Reagan knew. How could anyone in Reagan's position not know? What Reagan did was take wise advice that serves both good and evil...
TAKE WHAT YOU NEED AND LEAVE THE REST!
And Reagan was in need. His Iran-Contra escapades where in times of heavy scrutiny and it was Moon's minions, primarily at the Washington Times who put the opposition in its place.
The moonies pimping at the airport, the Falwell story. the Reagan story are as pimples on Moon's ass compared to the influence this psycho has had in the rise to power of the Conservative Right. They did as Ronnie mentored... take what you need and leave the rest.
Now even the rest is coming home to roost.
Lyndon Johnson said that his signing of the Civil Rights Act would give the south to the Republicans for the foreseeable future. He was right. But just as the moonies were a pimple on the ass of the airports, Johnson's prognostication is a pimple on the ass of history compared to the disgusting Right Wing in bed with Sun Moon and the role it is playing in today's politics.
The Parry article is long. I don't care if takes you a month to read it. Just READ IT! You will NEVER look at politics, indeed the world we are living in, the same.
What better way to ring in the New Year than to do yourself a great big favor with a clearer understanding of the ugly, naked, oozing, pimply assed TRUTH!!
posted by Palooka's Revenge at 12/27/2006 09:38:00 PM
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