Moon crowned in Senate building (no hoax)

[Domitan]

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html









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http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=131

Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah – with royal robes, a crown, the works? Or that this imperial ceremony took place not in a makeshift basement church or a backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building?

Some of the guest list:

Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated. All of this has quickly been spliced into a promo reel by Moon's movement, which implies to its followers that the U.S. Congress itself has crowned the Washington Times owner.

But Section 9 of the Constitution forbids giving out titles of nobility, setting a certain tone that might have made the Congressional hosts shy about celebrating the coronation on their websites. They included conservatives, the traditional fans of Moon's newspaper: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA.), Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Republican strategy god Charlie Black, whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. But there were also liberal House Democrats like Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) and Davis. Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) later told the Memphis Flyer that he'd been erroneously listed on the program, but had never heard of the event, which was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation.

[bluestateguy]

1. disgraceful

and un-American.

[LittleApple81]

3. Speechless. n/t

[Vickers]

2. Isn't he a convicted felon?

Not that it would stop these guys, but still.

[boobooday]

4. Now I'm freakin'

:wtf:

Does this have anything to do with Bohemian Grove? Is this part of their sick boy's club? I notice there are no female congresspeople there . . . .

This is WHACKED. What has happened to our country?



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Mnemosyne]

5. wish I could say unbelivable

but I can't!

[dusty64]

6. I've heard this before

and can't believe it happened with NO media coverage at all. Unreal!

[salin]

7. disturbing

[sadiesworld]

8. Where in the hell have I been?!

:wow:

[Oilwellian]

There was a thread about this

on DU a few weeks ago. If I find it, I'll post the link. We have a cult running our government. Be scared. Be very scared.

[Octafish]

15. Here 'tis.

Thank you for remembering, Oaf Of Office!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1603870

[seemslikeadream]

18. I knew you'd be on this !!! Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right

Thanks for the DU link I was looking for it
Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Buying the Right

By Robert Parry

The Consortium News

Dark Side of Rev Moon: Hooking George Bush, by Robert Parry

One Mother's Tale: Rev Moon and a College Freshman, by Robert Parry

Dark Side of Rev Moon: Legend and Lies, by Robert Parry

Dark Side of Rev Moon: Generation Next, by Robert Parry

Dark Side of Rev Moon: Drug Allies, by Robert Parry

Dark Side of Rev Moon: Moon's Billions and Washington's Blind Eye, by Robert Parry

Rev Moon and His "Green Card", by Robert Parry

Rev Moon's Dark Shadow, by Robert Parry

On Jan. 28, 1995, a beaming Rev. Jerry Falwell told his Good Time Gospel Hour congregation news that seemed heaven sent. The televangelist hailed two Virginia businessmen as financial saviors of debt-ridden Liberty University, the fundamentalist Christian school that Falwell had made the crown jewel of his Religious Right empire.

"They had to borrow money, hock their houses, hock everything," enthused Falwell. "Thank God for friends like Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas." Falwell's congregation rose as one to applaud. The star of the moment was Daniel Reber, who was standing behind Falwell. Thomas was not present.

Reber and Thomas earned Falwell's public gratitude by excusing the Lynchburg, Va., school of about one-half of its $73 million debt. In the late 1980s, that flood of red ink had forced Falwell to abandon his Moral Majority political organization and nearly drowned Liberty University in bankruptcy.

Reber and Thomas came to Falwell's rescue in the nick of time. Their non-profit Christian Heritage Foundation of Forest, Va., snapped up a big chunk of Liberty's debt for $2.5 million, a fraction of its face value. Thousands of small religious investors who had bought church construction bonds through a Texas company were the big losers. But Falwell shed no tears. He told local reporters that the moment was "the greatest single day of financial advantage" in the school's history.

Left unmentioned in the happy sermon was the identity of the bigger guardian angel who had been protecting Falwell's financial interests -- from a distance and without publicity. That secret benefactor was the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed South Korean messiah who is controversial with many fundamentalist Christians because of his bizarre Biblical interpretations and his brainwashing tactics that have torn thousands of young people from their families. Moon also has grown harshly anti-American in recent years

http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/articles/parry1.htm

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. Bizarre. Totally bizarre. Did I go to sleep in 1999 and I'm...

...having a bad series of nightmares that just don't seem to quit?

[Karenina]

21. It does seem that way

some days. :SIGH: I remember Octafish's thread on this and thinking :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[Mandate My Ass]

10. I want to laugh at this

I want to chalk it up to :tinfoilhat:, but somehow it's scaring the crap outta me.

It surprises me not even a little that Curt Weldon (my rep) was there. He's a bagman for Boeing and neocon's neocon.

[bklyncowgirl]

11. Is this a joke?

If it isn't I wonder how the good Christian folks at home are going to think about their Congress Creatures coronating a rather dubious wannabe Messiah.

[LTR]

12. I just posted about this guy

in a thread about the RW bashing of George Soros. I pointed to the even shadier backgrounds of GOP sugar daddies. Sun Myung Moon was on my list.

He would be a pariah if it weren't for all the money and propaganda he throws at the GOP. He is pure evil.

Here's a good background on him. It exposes this bastard, and all the bastards who coddle him, for what they really are:

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/cult/sun-myung-moon/

[greenman3610]

14. verification

How do we verify this from congressional records?
is there a schedule of who uses what rooms for what purpose?

[LittleApple81]

17. It is true. I don't think the problem is verification. The problem is

that nobody protests because ALL OF THEM ARE ON THE TAKE!!!!

Do you think that there is EVEN ONE OF THE CONGRESSCRITTERS (and I am including all of "ours") THAT IS NOT ON HIS PAYROLL?????

[Stuckinthebush]

13. Religion can be a screwed up thing

In this situation, we are talking about a religious cult. Why would any congressperson attend a ceremony to "crown" a cult member as the messiah? Don't you think their constituents would freak out about that?

[scrotim]

16. Whoa. This is majorly creepy. Maybe they're practicing for W's coronation

later this year after he cancels the general election.

[seemslikeadream]

19. Thanks so much Domitan

I am posting this everywhere I can.

[Shadoobie]

20. Ford/Flyer Article

I thought this was creepy too so I looked up at least one source from the Memphis Flyer:

With Friends Like These ...
Harold Ford gets Moon'd in Washington; Curry Todd gets punk'd in Nashville.

Jackson Baker | 5/19/2004

As if being listed (Politics, April 1st issue) as a signer with prominent neocons on a 2001 letter calling for pre-emptive action against Saddam Hussein weren't controversial enough, 9th District U.S. Rep. Harold Ford of Memphis has been identified in the conservative Washington Times -- owned by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church -- and in other media outlets as the recipient of a "Crown of Peace" award at a Moonie-sponsored event in Washington.

At the same event, held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the Rev. Moon proclaimed himself a messiah and spoke of his role in the posthumous reformation of Hitler and Stalin. (No, we're not making this up!) Only problem: Ford -- one of eight congressmen supposedly honored at the event as an "Ambassador of Peace" -- said categorically he wasn't there, never heard of it, never got any such award, and has never met the Reverend Moon.

Unfortunately, said Ford, public officials' names often get used without their permission.
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Source:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/content.asp?ArticleID=4&ID=5892


~Greg

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