Can it be that we are returning to the rule of law?

by nogodsnomasters on Tue Oct 23, 2007 at 03:42:40 PM EST

I also attended the Values Voter Summit. I wrote a few comments here: http://schmitzblitz.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/my-weekend-with-the- christianists/

by efs5r on Tue Oct 23, 2007 at 08:52:14 PM EST

I have always thought it revealing that Sun Myung Moon - who claims that he must guide Christianity into position from which they will eventual accept him as the Messiah and toward that end has spent billions promoting hard right theocratic politics in America - is the one who provided 30,000,000 "Christians" their voting booth marching orders from the church pew in 1988.

Keep in mind as you read this 1992 FRONTLINE excerpt below that Robert Grant the president of the American Freedom Coalition, said the 300,000 strong Moon front group was put together to gather the Christian "right" for political power. Also, Moon, who supplied the state and regional directors for the AFC, has called Grant one of his "three musketeers."

But first, in 1991 William Cheshire, who quit the Washington Times over a lack of editorial independence from Moon, described the American Freedom Coalition this way:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9008719207533458404&h l=en

[...] (Moon) is backing the American Freedom Coalition this strange mixture of moonies and fundamentalist Christians, who hope to organize at the grass roots and skew the American political system to the far right.

"far right"? that comes from Cheshire who worked for Jesse Helms. :)

Quoting FRONTLINE in 1992

Narrator: Moon has also consistently promoted a conservative political agenda in the United States. His efforts have not gone unnoticed at the White House. Douglas Wead was a Special Assistant to President Bush responsible for liaison with conservative groups.

Wead: "I'd say right now there are probably two groups among conservative organizations that really have an infrastructure, that have grassroots clout -- Concerned Women of America would and the American Freedom Coalition would."

Narrator: During the 1988 election, the AFC printed and distributed 30 million pieces of political literature, including these glossy voter scorecards.

Wead: "I think the scorecards and some of the independent literature published had an enormous effect. In fact, we had huge notebooks filled with published materials from a wide variety of organizations. The best was probably the AFC's. It was by far the slickest and the finest produced material. And when that doesn't cost you anything, and it is not charged against the campaign and is widely distributed to mailing lists across the country, that has a very important impact." [...]

Narrator: We had hoped to ask Robert Grant about allegations that the AFC is violating federal law; namely, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Just before World War Two, Congress passed the act, concerned that Japanese and German interests in the U.S. were influencing American public opinion. The act states that any organization involved in political activities and controlled or directed by a foreign principal must register with the Justice Department. It must also report on its activities and provide detailed accounts of its foreign sources of funding.

Narrator: Is the American Freedom Coalition a foreign agent? In 1989, Robert Grant wrote in the Washington Post that more than $5 million -- one third of the AFC's money -- came from "business interests of the Unification Church." Church officials say that their money comes from overseas -- primarily from Japan.

Narrator: Media analyst Brent Bozell is a member of the AFC national policy board.

Bozell: "If it were to come out that what the AFC is doing is being done at the direction of Reverend Moon, it would lose its fifty chapters overnight. That allegation has been out there since the day that AFC was formed and it hasn't stuck because nobody has come up with the smoking gun that he's done it."

Narrator: But Moon's influence over the AFC is underscored by this 1988 letter FRONTLINE obtained from a source who once worked within the Moon Organization. AFC President Robert Grant, writing to Reverend Moon, thanks him for investing heavily and "helping to bring the AFC into being." Grant concludes by telling Moon, "Without your leadership, vision and the support of your devoted followers, the AFC would not exist."

The imprint on the theocratic right by their "savior" continues today. One of his main political operatives, Gary Jarmin, the man who rented the room from Sen. John Warner for Moon to be crowned in 2004:
http://www.christianvoiceonline.com/about/gjarmin.php

Gary L. Jarmin has been a key leader and activist in supporting conservative causes and candidates for more than 30 years. He is well known as the author of the Congressional Report Card on key moral/family issues published by Christian Voice which many organizations had adopted and use today. Over 55 million have been distributed throughout the United States.
Mr. Jarmin pioneered the development of grass-roots political organizing techniques in the churches which many organizations emulate today.

Yes, Sun Myung Moon providing the "leadership" and "vision" to conservatism and the "Christian" theocratic right. Most American either think he is no longer around, a no count clown, or they have never heard of him and yet he has had more to do the move right and the theocratization of the nation than anyone.


by Lou on Tue Oct 23, 2007 at 10:31:37 PM EST