Enemies of America: Bush Family & Sun Myung Moon
by OSWALD LEWINTER
(Editor's Note:The recent coronation of 'Rev.' Sun Myung Moon as
Emperor-Messsiah in Washington's Dirksen Senate Building on March 23,
2004 shows the face of the Shining Dragon and his minions in America)
The most serious Bush-Moon story remains invisible to TV audiences.
To unravel the mystery, look at Moon's history and stated agenda and
explore the Bush family's activities as related to Moon. First, there
is evidence that Moon is openly anti-American and anti-democratic,
with an agenda that includes undermining American democracy and
individualism.
These are only some of the reasons why a deeper investigation into the
Moon-Bush alliance is worthwhile: Frederick Clarkson (Eternal
Hostility, Common Courage Press, 1997) reports that Moon has stated
his goal is the "subjugation of the American government and
population." (Clarkson's source: John Judis, "Rev. Moon's Rising
Political Influence: His Empire Is Spending Big Money To Try To Win
Favor With Conservatives," U.According to the same U. S. News article,
Moon also said, "History will make the position of Rev. Moon clear,"
and that "his enemies, the American people and government will bow
down before him."
Clarkson reports that Moon has also said, "The entire world is our
goal... Absolute obedience to the Father [Moon]-that one thing will
bring certain victory... People here in America have to recognize the
ability and power of Reverend Moon." (Excerpt from New Hope News,
November 25, 1974, Reprinted in Frederick Miller's "Confusion at the
Fronts, Part three," True Light Educational Ministry, 1996.)
On May 1, 1997, Moon told a group of followers that "the country that
represents Satan's harvest is America." (Unification News, June 1997.)
In the 1970s, Moon was investigated by a congressional committee
headed by then-U. S. Representative Donald Fraser (D-MN). Robert
Boettcher was staff director of the Fraser committee.
Boettcher's interviews with former Moonies revealed that Moon was
"appalled" by American individualism and considered moving to Germany
"where people were trained in totalitarianism." (Robert Boettcher,
"Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park and the Korean
Scandal," Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980)
Boettcher further writes that according to former Unification church
members, Moon's program to "instill discipline" included showing "Nazi
films on organizing Hitler Youth."
Moon's anti-American, anti-democratic rantings might seem harmless if
expressed by an individual with no political clout. However, the
wealthy, influential Moon has worked successfully to gain a power base
among conservative Republicans.In an effort to gain political
influence, Moon has worked his tentacles into the news media.
Frederick Clarkson writes that since its founding the newspaper the
Washington Times "has been owned, controlled and bankrolled" by Moon.
Former Washington Times editorial page editor William Cheshire
resigned because of alleged editorial interference from Moon's
officials.
According to Clarkson, Cheshire also said he believes the Washington
Times is operating in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration
Act. Passed in the 1930s, the Foreign Agents Registration Act
"requires entities whose activities are controlled by foreign
governments and corporations to make financial and other forms of
disclosure to the Justice Department."
Clarkson says the Act was originally passed "to expose covert Nazi
funding of German-American newspapers."
George H. W. Bush is one of the most politically powerful defenders of
Moon and the Washington Times. Bush was CIA director when the Fraser
committee investigated Moon, and he is well aware of Moon's stated
agenda and modus operandi.
At the time of the congressional investigation, Bush handled sensitive
matters on U. S. relations with Korea and the political
figures involved.
According to a Reuters report, ("Bush Praises Moon as 'Man of
Vision,'" November 25, 1996) when Moon held a banquet in Buenos Aires
celebrating his new "Spanish-language newspaper for the whole of Latin
America," his guest at the event, George H. W. Bush, praised Moon's
"respect for editorial independence."
Bush's speech "was full of praise" for Moon's Washington Times,
according to Reuters. The report also says Bush described Moon as "the
man with the vision." Reuters said Bush later traveled with Moon to
neighboring Uruguay "to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital,
Montevideo. to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of
his Church of Unification across Latin America."
"I want to salute Reverend Moon who is the founder of the Washington
Times and of the new paper here," Bush said. According to Reuters,
the Washington Post reported that Bush was paid $100,000 for his
Buenos Aires appearance.
Journalist Robert Parry reported in Consortium News ("Dark Side of
Rev. Moon: Buying the Right") that part of Moon's strategy for gaining
political influence is to approach conservative leaders when they need
money. "Moon quietly infuses money and gains the leader's gratitude,"
writes Parry.
For example, when conservative direct mail entrepreneur Richard
Viguerie was having financial trouble in the late 1980s, "Moon
directed more business his way and had a corporation run by Moon's
lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak, buy one of Viguerie's properties for $10
million," according to Parry. (Orange County Register, Dec. 21, 1987;
Washington Post, Oct. 15, 1989.)
Viguerie, who helped raise money for the New Right in the 1970s and
1980s, survived financially thanks to Moon. Parry writes that when
Oliver North ran for the Senate in Virginia in 1994, "his principal
direct-mail contractor was Viguerie's company, according to Federal
Election Commission records."
Moderate Republicans have complained about the Republican-Moon
alliance. For example, according to Parry, in 1983, Representative Jim
Leach of Iowa said the Unification Church has "infiltrated
the New Right and the party it [the New Right] wants to control, the
Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well."
Leach, then-chairman of the GOP's moderate Ripon Society, said the New
Right had entered "an alliance of expediency" with Moon's church.
Parry reports that Leach "released a study which alleged that the
College Republican National Committee 'solicited and received'
money from Moon's Unification Church in 1981." In order to gain power,
Moon has also aligned himself with organizations further to the right
than the New Right Republicans, among them the World Anti-Communist
League (WACL).
The WACL, according to Frederick Clarkson, is "an international
alliance of conservative, fascist and Nazi groups, governments and
individuals." The head of the Unification Church in Japan was a member
of the WACL board of directors.
Clarkson says "the Japanese section of WACL, Shokyo Rengo, was founded
in 1968 as an alliance between top Unification Church officials and
leaders of the Yakuza (Japanese organized crime), notably Yoshio
Kodama."
Clarkson writes that "under the leadership of retired U. S. Army
General John K. Singlaub," WACL helped provide money and weapons to
the Nicaraguan Contras "particularly after Congress cut off
CIA-channeled funding to the Contras in 1984." Moon's front group
CAUSA was one of the first groups to give the Contras "humanitarian
aid."
(Clarkson's source: Jon Lee Anderson and Scott Anderson, "Inside the
League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis and Latin
American Death Squads have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist
League," Dodd, Mead and Company, 1986.)
Clarkson says that in a November 15, 1979, press statement, former
WACL youth leader Allen Tate Wood said that before the scandal
investigated by the Fraser committee broke, Moon ordered him to "win
the power centers" of the U. S. for him, starting with academia. In
the press statement, Wood also said Moon told him "part of our
strategy in the U. S. must be to make friends in the FBI, the CIA and
police forces, the military and business community... as a means of
entering the political arena, influencing foreign policy, and
ultimately establishing absolute dominion over the American people."
Representative Donald Fraser said that when members of Moon's
organization objected to his political aims, "They were told it was
Master's expressed desire to begin political work in the United
States. Thereafter a member's objection to political activities was
considered infidelity to Master and was like being disobedient to
God." (Fraser Report, p. 320)
Fraser committee staff director Robert Boettcher writes about Moon's
history. In his early climb to power, says Boettcher, Moon wanted
to have loyal cultists inside the Korean government, where "they could
sway powerful persons and become influential themselves."
Moon wanted his followers to portray the Unification Church as a
"useful political tool for the government" while hiding Moon's power
goals. Moon's early followers included army officers close to Kim Jong
Pil, the founding director of the Korean CIA.
Kim Jong Pil knew that Moon had ambitions to build influence in Korea
and in other countries. He gave Moon slack, because he decided Moon
might be of use to the Korean government.
One early Moon follower, Bo Hi Pak, was assigned to the Embassy in
Washington in 1961. Boettcher says Pak's home on North Utah Street in
Arlington, Virginia, was a Moonie recruiting center. Pak established
the Unification Church in Virginia in 1963. Pak cultivated the
friendship of an airline pilot, Robert Roland, and his wife, but did
not tell them of his association with Moon.
Boettcher learned that when Roland asked about Pak's duties as
assistant military attache, Pak said he "was responsible for liaison
between South Koreans and American intelligence agencies, which often
required his visiting the super-secret National Security Agency (NSA)
located at Fort Meade, Maryland."
Roland said that after dinner one evening, Pak revealed "step by step
how the destiny of mankind was in the hands of a Korean named Moon."
When Roland asked what his aim was in Washington, Pak said, "I must
lay a firm foundation for Master by making influential political and
social contacts." In 1964, Bo Hi Pak came up with an idea to create a
Moon American-based foundation.
According to Boettcher, Pak wanted the foundation to hide its
identifcation with the Unification Church, while encouraging Americans
to contribute money. "Unknowingly they would be serving Moon," says
Boettcher, "but in the long run [according to Pak's plan] they would
be rewarded by Moon's establishing the Kingdom of Heaven on earth."
The foundation conceived by Pak was given the name the Korean Cultural
and Freedom Foundation (KCFF). The KCFF hid its affiliation with Moon,
as planned. The money the foundation raised helped increase Moon's
power in America. Bo Hi Pak, through a friend,
persuaded retired Admiral Arleigh Burke to become president of the
KCFF. In order to create the illusion of respectability for the KCFF,
Pak included Burke's name on the foundation's letterhead. The KCFF
letterhead included other impressive names, such as former Presidents
Truman and Eisenhower as honorary presidents; and as "directors and
advisers": Richard Nixon, George Meany, Pearl Mesta, Senator Hugh
Scott, Senator Homer Capehart, General Matthew Ridgway, and
Congressman Clement Zablocki.
Burke resigned his KCFF position in 1965, after Robert Roland sent him
information about Moon's relationship with Pak. Burke also distrusted
Pak's stories about where the KCFF's money was going, but Pak
continued to use Burke's name in lobbying for the foundation. Moon
founded a front group, the Little Angels, in 1962.
The Little Angels were a troupe of young girls who opened political
doors by traveling as ambassadors of good will for Moon, performing
traditional Korean songs and dances. Moon seized every chance to be
photographed with influential people. In 1965, Bo Hi Pak arranged
for him to meet Dwight D. Eisenhower at a Gettysburg photo-op.
Boettcher says Moon commented that the meeting with Eisenhower opened
doors "to further recognition by national and international leaders."
Moon brought the Little Angels along to "charm the Eisenhowers."
On other occasions, the girls' troupe also performed for Queen
Elizabeth, and at a United Nations performance attended by New York
Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
Moon's decades of courting influential American leaders in order to
gain political power in this country have been fruitful.
Reporter Joe Conason said that at a Washington gathering celebrating
the George W. Bush inauguration, at a "prayer luncheon" held in the
Hyatt hotel ballroom on Capitol Hill on 1/19/01, Moon received an
award for his "work in support of traditional family values."
The featured speaker was John Ashcroft. (Conason, New York Observer,
February 12, 2001.) Tuesday (2/20/01), a C-Span moderator said Rev.
Moon plans to promote his abstinence program in schools with the help
of George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiative program. How might that
work?
Frederick Clarkson points out that Moon has been trying to get his
tentacles into U. S. schools to promote his rightwing views for many
years. The World Medical Health Foundation (WMHF) is Moon Front group.
WMHF chief, Dr. William Bergman, once-director of Moon's
Unification church, produced a slide program for schools called "The
Private Plague: AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases; a Strategy for
our Youth at Risk." Bergman's program teaches that these diseases have
roots in the "civil rights movement" which allegedly led to "moral
relativism." (Clarkson's source: The Private Plague slide program
manual, p. 23.)
Bush's Faith-Based Initiative program has assisted Moon in his efforts
to teach your children that the civil rights movement led to moral
relativism, which then led to sexually transmitted diseases? Some
Republicans have accepted Moon as part oftheir "family values"
movement.
For the Religious Right, the family values issue means support for the
traditional nuclear family. However, Moon teaches recruits to abandon
their biological families and to accept Moon and his wife as their
"True Parents" and the Unification Church as their "True Family."
Clarkson writes that a 1994 congressional resolution sponsored by Rep.
Dan Burton (R-IN), Senator Trent Lott (R-MI), and Senator Orrin Hatch
(R-UT) supporting Parents Day turned out to be a Moon initiated effort
"in which the 'True Parents; behind the resolution were quietly
celebrated," a fact possibly hidden from the congressmen. (Clarkson's
source: Lisa Gray, "Honor Thy Parents," Washington City Paper,
September, 1995; and Robert Boston, "Unholy Matrimony," Church and
State, October, 1996.)
Moon claims, says Clarkson, that he and his wife "are the True Parents
of all humanity... we are the Savior, the Lord of the Second Advent,
the Messiah." (Sun Myung Moon, "Leaders Building World Peace,"
Unification News, September, 1992.)
Clarkson says Moon has often used George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush
as a "warm-up act" at his "family values" rallies. When Bush gave a
series of speeches at events sponsored by Moon's wife's organization,
the World Federation for World Peace (WFWP), he claimed he did not
know Moon was involved.
Instead, Bush praised the WFWP for its "great emphasis on family."
Bush also said, "Until I see something about the Women's Federation
that troubles me, I will continue to encourage them." (Clarkson's
sources: Peter McGill et al, "Ed Schreyer and the Moonies, Maclean's,
October 23, 1995; Andrew Pollock, "Bush Host in Japan Tied to Rev.
Moon," The New York Times, September 4, 1995.)
Here are a few items that might discourage Bush from supporting Moon's
kind of family values. Robert Boettcher's investigation for the Fraser
committee revealed that Moon teaches recruits that Satan works through
their biological parents, and that they must accept their True
Parents, Rev. Moon and his wife, and reject their "flesh" parents.
A central tenet taught to Moon recruits is "Heavenly Deception."
Recruits, says Botettcher, are told the "non-Moon world is evil. It
must be lied to so it can help Moon take over. Then it can become good
under Moon's control."
According to Boettcher, "Moon teaches that lying is necessary when one
is doing God's work, whether selling flowers in the street or
testifying under oath."
Boettcher reports that an aspect of another Moon tenet, the Divine
Principle, is the idea that Jesus' love was weak and that he failed as
a leader, because he was unable to motivate his disciples to kill for
him or to die in his place.
Moon claims he is taking up where Jesus left off, and, says Boettcher,
Moon "sees Christian churches as furthering Satan's cause by rejecting
him [Moon]."
The Fraser Report of October 31,1978, revealed that Moon had been
involved in lawbreaking in addition to expressing anti-American
sentiments and using questionable recruiting and indoctrination
practices. Boettcher writes that Fraser found Moon violated laws on
"banking, immigration, taxes, currency control, charity fraud, arms
export control, and foreign agents registration."
However, according to Boettcher, Moon thinks his religious beliefs
entitle him to break the law. Frederick Clarkson points out that the
Washington Post has reported that Moon has been the subject of over
300 lawsuits in Japan, ranging from former Moonies claiming "they were
brainwashed into slave-like devotion," to members saying they were
"duped into paying exorbitant prices for vases, prayer beads or other
religious objects." (Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan,
"Once-Generous Japanese Become Disenchanted with Moon's Church," the
Washington Post, August 4, 1996.)
Newspapers have done a reasonably good job investigating Moon's dark
side, but television news has blacked out the story. Because most
Americans get their news from television, most people do not know the
nature of Moon's political work in the U. S. or the extent of his
involvement with the Bush family. On the rare occasion Moon is
mentioned on television news programs, the focus is on
superficialities, such as Moon's mass weddings.
Fox Network's Paula Zahn once interviewed a Moon supporter who said
the mass weddings were not coerced. At the interview's end, Zahn
thanked the Moon apologist for "setting the record straight." The Moon
story is about more than a megalomaniacal tyrant and his isolated
followers. It is also about the fact that since George W. Bush took
power, Moon benefits from Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives program. Moon
also gains prestige and political influence when he is honored by Bush
supporters, such as John Ashcroft and others who attended the January
19 "prayer luncheon."
Thanks to the Bush family and their imposed "dynasty," today Moon has
more power to undermine American democracy and individualism. He has
more power to work to "subjugate the American government and
population." He has more power to try to make "his enemies, the
American people and government bow down before him."
Thanks to his association with Bush, Moon now has more power to
encourage "people here in America recognize the ability and power of
Reverend Moon." He has more power to convince people that "the country
that represents Satan's harvest is America." He has more power to lure
recruits and have them "trained in totalism" and to "instill
discipline" by showing his trainers "Nazi films on
organizing Hitler Youth."
Moon has been able to infiltrate and gain a power base in the U. S.
primarily because of one thing: secrecy. His history includes hiding
his real intentions behind front groups and deceptive "advertising,"
whether hawking for donations, luring unsuspecting recruits or
currying favor with politicians.
The story of Moon and his support by the Bush family would be common
knowledge among all Americans if the TV news media would simply report
the facts.
If everyone reading this article would write and call TV networks,
newspapers and members of Congress today, asking for a probe into Moon
and his influence on the Bush family and certain Republican Party
members, maybe collectively we would touch a national nerve.
Surely not every TV journalist and member of Congress is too cowardly
to touch this story, especially since it is of note that President
George W. Bush has appointed the following Moonies to his
administration: Josette Shiner, Deputy Asst. Secretary of Commerce for
U.S. Trade Negotiations. David Caprara,Director of the Americorps at
VISTA.
"Rev." Moon has contributed 25 million dollars to the Bush reelection
campaign
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick with possibilities:truth isin't"
Mark Twain
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