On Sunday, Nov. 12th 1995, the Women's Federation for World Peace (One of Moon's front groups started and headed by his wife, Hak Ja Han; as a member of the UC I used to fundraise and do public relations for it) held an "International Women's Friendship Conference" in the Boston Marriott Copley Place, featuring Mary Matalin as keynote speaker. This was part of a national campaign that concluded with an event on Wed., Dec. 20th in the New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square, NY (tel. 212 398-1900).
The advertisement reads, "A special day unlike any other - The Sisterhood Ceremony, Key-note Speaker, First-rate Entertainment, - take home memories that will last a lifetime" and lists celebrities such as Ambassador William H. Luers, Ambassador Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt, Charlton Heston, Maureen Reagan, Rita Morene, Frank Sinatra Jr., Coretta Scott King, Jim Lovell, Maureen McGovem, Lynne Cheney, Nancy Wilson and Don McLean (with their pictures) as keynote speakers and performers. Former President George Bush has recently spoken twice at their events and is planning to do so again in the future. Whereas he originally denied knowing that this is part of the "Moonies" (A term used lovingly by "Rev." Moon for members of his Unification Church), he apparently now takes the stand that does not care, 'as long as they're not doing anything bad' ...and as long as they continue to pay him the handsome speakers' fees...!?! -
Associating and getting his picture taken with famous people, especially political leaders, has been Moon's primary strategy to gain social acceptance and political influence. Unfortunately, it works - because people tend to make the logical error of generalization, that is of assuming a person must be good because he is associated with good people, or that he is friendly and trustworthy because he has friendly face and appearance.
Why shouldn't celebrities associate with Moon?
To think that I "fundraised" (made money by selling foil pictures; average $500/day ...for which no taxes were paid although the group was not tax-exempt) now makes me a little upset, considering that the money was used to buy off politicians like George Bush and expand Moon's political and economic empire rather than, as I was led to believe, "to help build the God's kingdom of True Love on earth." But Moon's ideology is the same as Mao Tse-tung's and Stalin's: "First we take over the world and THEN we'll take care of the sufferings of mankind." Look at history. Do you still fall for it?
"In the Medieval Ages, they had to separate from the cities - statesmanship from the religious field - because people were corrupted at that time. But when it comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy to rule the world. So we cannot separate the political field from the religious."
[Master Speaks, May 17, 1973, p.12 The Master Speaks is an internal publication of the Unification Church, containing verbatim translations of numerous speeches by Moon; quoted from:
INVESTIGATION OF KOREAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS; COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; a very revealing document that can be ordered from: The Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 20402; Stock Nr. 052-070-04729-1]
The group will now claim that these speeches Moon gave when he still referred to himself as "Master" rather than "True Father" (as he does today) are inaccurately translated and not accepted by the church. However, as a member I was taught to worship Moon's speeches as God's word, never to question. The reason the church tries to discredit these early speeches (early 1970's) is that they expose the true intentions of Moon which are now more carefully hidden when he gives public speeches, or are edited out before printing. Church members know that Moon's goal is to take over the world. The scary thing is that it seems to work, as it has opened him many doors already, and many credible people continue to support him. Through his clever deception of the public, a deep fog of ignorance causes people to stop asking critical questions about his goals and activities.
SO: Would you want your kids to join this group ...and not see you as their parent any more? Do you want to support an organization (financially or by lending them credibility throuh your association) that is opposed to the very precepts of democracy, family and society?
MOON'S MONEY IS DIRTY - AND WHOEVER TAKES IT MAKES HIMSELF GUILTY OF NOT ONLY CONDONING BUT SUPPORTING MOON'S CAUSE OF TAKING OVER THE WORLD, CONTROLLING PEOPLE AND DESTROYING FAMILIES IN THE PROCESS!
"To achieve this theocracy, Moon has mapped out strategies for gaining control and influence over economic, political, cultural, academic, media and religious institutions. The efforts of the Moon Organization are to be concentrated on key nations.
"If we can manipulate seven nations at least, then we can get hold of the whole world: The United States, England, France, Germany, Soviet Russia, and maybe Korea and Japan. On God's side, Korea, Japan, America, England, France, Germany, and Italy, are the nations I count on in order to gain the whole world."
[Master Speaks, June 9, 1974, p.9]
The report continues (p.315): "Moon's strategy is designed to influence a wide range of institutions.
"We must approach from every angle of life; otherwise, we cannot absorb the whole population of the world. We must besiege them."
[Master Speaks, Jan 30, 1973, p.7]
Moon believes he is the Messiah, the Savior of the World, and this media campaign is part of his strategy to take over the world as the absolute authority in every area.
"Oh, come on! What's wrong with this group? They're not that bad! Don't be intolerant!"
Does he have to start doing the kinds of things Hitler, Jim Jones (French Guayana), David Koresh (Waco) and Soko Asahara (Aum Shinry Kyo nerve gas cult in Japan) did once they got into a position of power for people to become a little less tolerant and a little more critical? Do manipulators like the above named have a right to hide behind the protection of religious freedom? What of those who try to take over the world and impose their religious views under the banner of religious freedom and freedom of speech?
As a member of Moon's Unification Church (i.e. the student branch CARP), I was taught that everyone outside "the family" (the church) is evil and dominated by satan, and that "satan works through the ones you love most!" - your physical family that is. Moon redefines family as HIS family, and his "extended family," his Unification movement. All families outside of this context are evil and do not deserve to exist.
So when church president Baughman in a TV interview claimed that the church does not split up families, in his mind he perhaps justified that he was only referring to Unification families - but to everyone else outside the church it is a clear LIE, since the first thing the group does after recruiting a new member fulltime, is to make sure they distrust and cut contact with their own physical family, especially if they happen to be critical of the group. I personally was not allowed to see my family except for 3 days... in 6 1/2 years, whereas I had never been out of contact for more than a few weeks. And I was only allowed to see them because my father persistently called the top leadership asking how come they were not allowed to see their son when even in Communist prison camps, families of inmates are allowed to see them at least once a year for a few days. As lecturer and staff of the group's workshops I worked with the leaders to plan "strategic interventions" in preventing the new recruit from being "invaded by satan" (that is from being prevented from joining by their own "negative" family .)
After being a member for several years I even had a hard time signing letters to my parents with, "your son," because I didn't feel they were my "true parents" any more, or I their son. I felt Moon and his wife were my parents.