Chaos and armed guards at the Moonie Times. Has anyone done a really intense examination of the Unification Church’s role in the Republican Party? Anything available online? Why does such a lame cult own the Washington Times? Even if no one buys it, the product still winds up on Fox News and the rest of the GOP Wurlitzer. I mean, Moonies? Seriously?
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Please edit your diary. The Moonies are the Unification Church. The Unitarians are something entirely different.
Seconded. I live around the corner from this, it’s quite inspirational really 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newington_Green_Unitarian_Church
The Moonies gave New York State a rough time back when. They owned a lot of property. They have a lot of money and still have influence. The mass weddings and the power over their “followers” was scary. There may be a battle for control over the newspaper. The Reverend Moon is sinister.
Unification Church, not the Unitarians..
Big, BIG difference.
If they were Unitarians, you’d prolly not have issues with their issues.
seconded. you mean the Unification Church, Booman. The Unitarians have nothing to do with the Unification Church.
yeah, my fault. that was a typo.
IIRC, susie madrak has TONS of weird shit about the moonies, kurt weldon, and the GOP.
i think there’s a bush connection too.
Overfishing, perhaps? As the owners of the main suppliers of sushi, the Moonies are deeply involved in the fishing industry internationally. Their “fishers of men” practices have a history that stinks.
oh yeah! that too: was it the NY Times that did a big expose on that?
Looks like the story broke in The Chicago Tribune in 2006.
that’s irritating because I like sushi.
The Moonies hired Bush Sr., the “reputable” one, as a spokesperson, effectively a flak, for their South American paper. This was after Bush had been President. How come a bizarre religious cult has the clout to hire an ex-President? Why would an ex-President agree to this? Looking at this question seriously creates a different picture of political power in the US than is commonly held, and many on the Left have at least heard of these facts, but either disbelieve or disregard them because they do not fit into their general picture of how politics really works. It suggests that there are power players other than those commonly identified.
Sickeningly enough, it’s not only the GOP. US congressman Danny Davis and former Sen. Mark Dayton (now running for MN governor) are among many elected Dems who have participated in Moonie mass weddings and tributes to the damned old head fool. The thing I find oddest of all is that the fundie churches make common cause with the “rev” Moon even though he has declared himself the new messiah. Americans are so fucking dumb, it hurts — kind of a direct correlation with our famed piety.
tracks various crazy rightwing religious wackos: http://www.talk2action.org/
(Him and others, that is.)
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html>
“Has anyone done a really intense examination of the Unification Church’s role in the Republican Party? Anything available online?”
Yes, Robert Parry sure has.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html
Aside from his “Dark Side of Rev. Moon” series, Parry has a new article — not linked to that page — directly addressing your question of what is going on RIGHT NOW with the Moonies:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/111109.html
To avoid confusion — the link just above is a brand-new UPDATE to an article first published by Parry in 1997, and also includes the original article.
This just in:
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/source-moon-son-went-rogue-to-order-wash-times-shak
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