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On Arnaud de Borchgrave, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Times and Friend of Gladio Terrorists

Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave (26 October 1926 – 15 February 2015) was a Belgian-American journalist known by ex-Moonies for his role at the Washington Times, but he also held key positions at Newsweek and the United Press International, and was a founding member of Newsmax Media. He was also known for associations with Rev. Moon’s political network, the CIA, and the global far-right. 

From the New York Times obituary, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88:

His father, Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d’Altena, was head of military intelligence for Belgium’s government in exile in Britain during World War II. His mother, Audrey Townshend, was the daughter of a British general. When he was 14, Arnaud, his mother and his sister fled the Nazi invasion by boarding a freighter from La Gironde in southwest France, bound for England.  When it changed course for Hamburg, Germany, as part of a plot by the captain, as he recounted it, he jumped overboard. The three were rescued by a British destroyer, which had been alerted and took them to England. There he attended King’s School, Canterbury, as well as the H.M.S. Worcester Nautical Training College. When he was 15 or 16, he persuaded his grandmother to claim that he was 17 so that he could enlist in the Merchant Navy. He was wounded on D-Day — shot in the leg and knee, by one account — when, trying to fix a jammed ramp, he leapt off a landing craft carrying Canadian troops to Juno Beach. After the war, the United Press news agency in London hired him as a writer, and in 1949 Mr. de Borchgrave succeeded Walter Cronkite as the agency’s bureau chief in Belgium. Two years later he joined Newsweek in Paris, where he helped hire an American Embassy information officer named Ben Bradlee. Mr. Bradlee would succeed Mr. de Borchgrave in Paris and later become editor of The Washington Post, while Mr. Cronkite became the anchor of CBS News. Debonair, perpetually tan and diminutive (he was called “the short count”), Mr. de Borchgrave cut a distinctive figure at Newsweek, where he served as foreign editor, roving senior editor and chief European correspondent. His exploits in corralling heads of state for exclusive interviews and insinuating himself into the front lines of battle were legendary, even if a few of the accounts might not have survived today’s microscopic scrutiny. (Did he parachute into Dien Bien Phu with French troops in 1954 or step off a helicopter?)

▲ Arnaud de Borchgrave speaks at the World Culture and Sports Festival '99 in Seoul Korea, February 1999. De Borchgrave's deep connections to the Public Information Office (PIO) reveal his own Gladio connections. 

In 1950, de Borchgrave joined Newsweek as its Paris bureau chief and would stay with the magazine for thirty years, serving as Senior Editor from 1953 on and starring as its chief international correspondent throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During this period, de Borchgrave played a key role in the genesis of PIO; as Bougerol recalled in an interview, it was de Borchgrave who, in the early 1970s, introduced Bougerol to PIO's future patron, Benoît de Bonvoisin. According to a May 1981 Sûreté report on de Bonvoisin's contacts in Paris, de Borchgrave also allegedly acted as an intermediary between de Bonvoisin and the CIA.

In the late 1970s, de Borchgrave was one of PIO's prized foreign press contacts; when PIO chartered a plane to fly journalists to the Zairean province of Shaba in 1978, the plane had to wait on the tarmac for one late VIP - de Borchgrave. De Borchgrave subsequently filed reports for Newsweek alleging Cuban involvement in the Katangese invasion of Shaba; Moss drew attention to de Borchgrave's Newsweek articles in a piece he wrote for the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review in its Summer 1978 issue (262)*. De Borchgrave and Moss were already longstanding friends; they had met in 1972 when de Borchgrave, in hiding in London after writing an article on Black September for Newsweek, asked to meet a specialist on subversion (263). The meeting would herald the beginning of a long partnership between the two men which would reach its peak in the 1980s.

De Borchgrave would also benefit from close contacts with SDECE chief Alexandre de Marenches, who, when asked where would be an interesting place to spend the Christmas of 1979, advised de Borchgrave to go to Afghanistan. De Borchgrave was one of the few Western journalists on the spot during the Soviet invasion (264). De Borchgrave would be fired by Newsweek in 1980 after he was discovered to have been building files on his colleagues for several years. At the time, he was working with Robert Moss on the first of two notorious disinformation novels, The Spike and Monimbo, both heavily influenced by the veteran CIA Counter-Intelligence chief James Jesus Angleton and filled with plots of Soviet subversion launched with the assistance of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the complicity of left-wing journalists in Europe.

In 1985, de Borchgrave would become editor-in-chief of the Moonies' newspaper, the Washington Times. The Unification Church would be a forum for cooperation between de Borchgrave and Cline: Cline was on the Editorial Board of The World and I, the Moonies' monthly edited by de Borchgrave. De Borchgrave was a former Board member of the Moonies' US Global Strategy Council, chaired by Cline in the late 1980s. Cline and de Borchgrave also shared a platform with William Casey as speakers at a special conference series on intelligence held at the Ashbrook Center, Ohio in 1986, one of Casey's last public appearances before his death in May 1987. At this time, de Borchgrave was working with Moss and John Rees of the John Birch Society in a "risk analysis" company, Mid-Atlantic Research Associates (MARA); the three also edited a monthly private intelligence report called Early Warning (265)*.

Together, de Borchgrave and Robert Moss engaged in disinformation efforts and authored novels influenced by intelligence activities, Monimbó in 1983 and The Spike in 1980. Moss today is now grifting new age circles as a so-called shaman. 

▲ An advertisement for a Robert Moss event In the early 1970s, de Borchgrave played a significant role in introducing key fascist figures to influential institutions, acting as an intermediary between them. He is said to have been the one who introduced Benoît de Bonvoisin to the Public Information Office (PIO) of the Belgian Ministry of Defence for the sake of funding. Bonvoisin became their primary patron. The PIO was publicly exposed as being infiltrated by and working with right-wing private intelligence entities and terroristic anti-communist organizations. Bonvoisin was also said to have been a major funder of, broadly, the far-right, funding countless Gladio operations beyond PIO. 

In the 80s, he was a senior associate at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies.

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SECURITY AND TERRORISM (1981) - chaired by Strom Thurmond

We have another international journalist of extensive experience in journalism and with the subjects on which he has written, including the subject of disinformation and espionage. He, too, is associated presently with the Center for Strategic International Studies at Georgetown University, Mr. Arnaud de Borchgrave.

De Borchgrave was also on the Board of Directors of the US Global Strategy Council, an organization closely associated with CAUSA chaired by former Deputy Director of the CIA Ray Cline, fellow disinformation specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Inside the League” suggests that Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL) was also partially funded by CIA discretionary funds and/or U.S. Embassy Counterpart Funds transmitted through Ray Cline. Moon was a member of APACL during this period. 

In 1985, de Borchgrave became the editor-in-chief of Moon’s Washington Times after pro-Pinochet James Whelan left the Washington Times, denouncing it as being under the command of Moon’s movement. 

From ‘Arnaud de Borchgrave Boards Moon's Ship’ by Louis Wolf and Fred Clarkson in Covert Action Information Bulletin No. 24:

On March 20, 1985 the public was informed that Arnaud de Borchgrave was the new editor-in-chief of Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s newspaper, the Washington Times. Media analysts knew at once that Washington’s already shrill rhetoric would be reaching new heights.

Even before Ronald Reagan took office, de Borchgrave had ready access to the President-elect. On December 16, 1980, they met for a ‘‘very lengthy conversation’’ about disinformation, propaganda, and de Borchgrave’s recommendations for White House media strategy, nationally and internationally. That strategy must have paid off; de Borchgrave told the New York Times, ‘‘The Washington Times is the first thing Ronald Reagan reads each morning. He called me up and told me so.’’ (May 26, 1985.)

At the end of this article, Wolf and Clarkson wrote:

Asked whether the United States engages in disinformation, de Borchgrave said that present and former U.S. officials trying “in a free society . . .  to put the best face possible” on what they are doing or did in government is not disinformation. “That is called the management of the news.”

Related articles and notes below

The World Anti-Communist League: the Internationale of Crime - Thierry Meyssan

On the Ramparts of Freedom - Arnaud de Borchgrave at the God and Freedom Banquet celebrating Reverend Moon's release from Danbury Prison, August 20, 1985

From Bo Hi Pak's Messiah - My Testimony to Rev. Sun Myung Moon Volume II - Pak on de Borchgrave

The Unification Church and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action: the case of the UC - Lobster Magazine

Note: The Center for Strategic and International Studies was founded in 1962, the same year Bo HI Pak began studying part-time the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, after over a decade of intelligence work. From 1961-1964, Pak was working as the Assistant Military Attaché at the Korean Embassy, in constant communication with his bosses and colleagues at the KCIA and the US CIA.  More on Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan

The semipermanent terrorism experts of CSIS have been Ledeen, Laqueur, Kupperman, and Cline, but Yonah Alexander, Claire Sterling, Paul Henze, Arnaud de Borchgrave, and Robert Moss have been occasional participants in CSIS's activities bearing on terrorism. We noted earlier that the spectrum of terrorism opinion may be divided into three categories: (1) establishment moderate; (2) establishment far-right; and (3) critical and dissident. In this spectrum, of the four semipermanent and five transitory experts at CSIS, none fit category (3), only two (Laqueur and possibly Kupperman) fit category (1), and the seven others fall into category (2) right-wing extremist. The CSIS is not a "moderate" organization by this measure, or others noted above.

More on the United States Global Strategy Council from The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan

The council links together individuals connected with the Unification Church and other far-right operations (ASC, CIAS, and IFPA), to CSIS and the omnipresent Yonah Alexander. It has former officials Cline, Kirkpatrick, and Rumsfeld to lend respectability-to its terrorism studies. With this political cast, that South African viewpoints would be put in the frame of Soviet support and insurgent "terrorism" is a foregone conclusion.

More on “The Spike” by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss - DE BORCHGRAVE (The Washington Post) - July 8, 1984

In two bestselling novels, The Spike (1980) and Monimbo (1983), de Borchgrave and coauthor Robert Moss lay out the scenario of this underground war, one battled with such subtlety by the enemy that most of us don't even know it's going on.

The story is one of classic decline and fall: barbarians (the Soviets) from without and decay (a media honeycombed with Marxist dupes) from within. The allegations of this plot have not gone unnoticed by some in the Reagan administration. At a Washington book party for Monimbo last September, administration figures who showed up included presidential counselor Edwin Meese, Attorney General William French Smith, USIA director Charles Wick and FBI director William Webster.

Because he has spent more than three decades as a reporter, The Spike and Monimbo aren't seen only as novels by de Borchgrave fans, but as thinly disguised accounts of what he thinks goes on in the media gulag. And because he spent so many years as a reporter, the vision of the world presented in the novels has many former colleagues scratching their heads about how he came to believe such a proposition.

1979 Assassination of U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs Set Groundwork for America’s Longest War - Covert Action Magazine

Shortly before his death, Anwar Sadat admitted to the world the massive role played by the U.S. in the Afghan rebellion. He revealed. to the consternation of U.S. officials, that Egypt was the conduit for U.S. arms shipments to the rebels, suggesting a scale of paramilitary involvement even greater than had been suspected. U.S. intervention in Afghanistan even reached the Style’ section of the Washington Post in a recent note describing a propaganda film supporting the rebels. The film benefit was sponsored by a shadowy group called Youth for Understanding, which sends American students overseas in highly-controlled and isolated programs. YFU's board includes David Abshire, Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, base for many “retired” intelligence officers. Attending the screening were CIA Director William Casey and disinformation specialist Arnaud de Borchgrave.

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Singlaub Recruits His Own Army in the Philippines

The National Reporter (formerly CounterSpy) Volume 10, Number 3

Since October 1986, retired General John Singlaub has spent much of his time in the Philippines, and has now set up an office in Manila. He claims that he is there only to hunt for treasure left by Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita after World War II, but a growing body of evidence suggests that he may also be involved in advising or assisting in the development of counter-insurgency plans and capabilities and in the development of right-wing, anti-communist organizations.

While stationed in Vietnam from 1966 to 68, Singlaub was one of the on-site commanders of Operation Phoenix, a program responsible for the assassination of some 20,000 Vietnamese civilians. Presently he is chairman of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) and is extensively involved in fund-raising for the contras. Singlaub set up an office at 2298 Pasong Tamo extension, Manila, in offices of the Nippon Star Company. Nippon Star is a subsidiary of Nippon Electric Company which supplies materials for telecommunications projects in Ilocos and Cagayan, the provinces of Ferdinand Marcos and Juan Ponce Enrile respectively. A Restricted Area sign guards the office.

Enrile told reporters that he met with Singlaub three times in 1986. He refused to answer when asked if he believed that Singlaub was in the Philippines on a treasure hunt. Particular concern was expressed in the Manila press over reports that he was joined in his meetings by former CIA deputy chief Ray Cline and CIA Philippine station chief Norbert Garrett. According to a San Francisco Examiner report, Singlaub has been using Enrile's introduction to meet officers associated with the pro-Enrile Reform of the Armed Forces Movement (RAM). One senior officer said Singlaub was engaged in arms trading and was offering to sell equipment useful in counter-insurgency operations.

A former Western military officer familiar with arms trading in the Philippines said Singlaub tried to sell M-16 automatic rifles and communications equipment on the local black market. Another senior military officer said the Philippine military was developing a right-wing vigilante movement in the countryside. The Manila Chronicle reports that Singlaub has offered financial support to sugar planters on the island of Negros who are mounting an anti-communist drive and that people close to Singlaub have also offered weapons and logistical support to vigilante-type organizations linked to the Marcos loyalists.

Singlaub has met with a number of conservative Philippine politicians including Homobono Adaza, Roilo Golez, and Eva Estrada Kalaw. Ms. Kalaw, a former senator who intends to run again this year, is vice-president of the Philippine Anti-Communist Movement, the Philippine chapter of WACL. One meeting was at a January 26, 1987 dinner party hosted by General Luis Villa-Real, head of the National Intelligence Coordinating Authority and president of the Philippine WACL chapter. Villa-Real has been instrumental in the development of right wing paramilitary groups such as the Alsa Masa (Rising Masses) which has been terrorizing Agdao, Davao City.

▲ John Singlaub and Mike Flynn, 2018 The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post reported on February 15 that Singlaub has recruited at least 37 Americans, Asians and other nationals who served with the U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam to train [Philippine] soldiers in unconventional warfare techniques, according to an official familiar with U.S. and Philippine military affairs who has close contact with intelligence agents monitoring Singlaub's activities. Singlaub denied that he is recruiting mercenaries saying, "I know nothing about any American mercenaries coming to the Philippines. ... It's a fabrication, the idea that I’m involved in any training activity." He suggested that the reports were orchestrated by the KGB.

General Singlaub did admit that he had hired six Americans but said that most of them are not veterans. The Tower Commission report shows that Singlaub’s contra fund-raising activities were coordinated with Oliver North and Richard Secord, both of whom are under investigation for their role in Iran weapons deals. Secord and North were associates of Singlaub in Vietnam. Another possible link between Singlaub and Iran is his relationship with Ramon Moreno, a Filipino military contractor who is currently under investigation by a U.S. grand jury for alleged corruption in awarding Armed Forces of the Philippines military contracts to a California firm which Moreno controls. Moreno, a friend of Singlaub's, owns the building where Singlaub has his office.

Moreno is also a close associate of General Fabian Ver, Philippine military Chief of Staff under Marcos. A December 10 San Francisco Examiner report ties Ver to the Iran arms deals by the fact that Ver provided fake resale certificates to an Israeli arms dealer in an apparent effort to keep Secretary of State Shultz from discovering U.S. weapons were going to Iran. An unidentified Filipino arms dealer reportedly close to Ver received a five percent commission from the Iranian arms sales proceeds for providing the certificates. U.S. Attorney Theodore Greenberg, who is investigating the Moreno case, is seeking these documents.

General Singlaub served as an officer in the OSS during World War II both in Europe and in China. In 1946 he became the chief of the U.S. military liaison mission to Mukden, Manchuria, and in 1949 he became the China Desk officer for the CIA. After helping to establish the Ranger Training Center at Fort Benning, Georgia, he was assigned to South Korea during the Korean War as CIA deputy chief. He remains a close associate of former CIA director William Colby, who headed the Phoenix Program in his role as director of the U.S. CORDS mission in Vietnam. Later Singlaub was commander of the U.N. forces in South Korea. In 1978 he retired from the military after disagreeing with President Carter's decision to reduce the number of U.S. troops there. Related info below

General John Singlaub (former Chairman of World Anti-Communist League, unconventional warfare expert, former commander of U.S. troops in South Korea):

His [Moon’s] organization, from my point of view was more of a political effort, that is to save the world from the ‘evil empire’ than it was to save individuals from the devil.

CAUSA and Moonie Counterinsurgency in the Philippines (International Relations Center / Interhemispheric Resource Center’s 1989 report on the Unification Church):

In the Philippines, CAUSA is helping to set up civilian vigilante groups, elect local rightwing officials, and influence public opinion regarding the U.S. bases negotiations.  The Special Operations Teams (SOTs) of the Philippine Army use a manual prepared by CAUSA Intl for their anticommunist lectures. The SOTs are counterinsurgency squads which use political and psychological methods–including anticommunist propaganda–to win the “hearts and minds” of Filipino peasants. A CAUSA affiliate, the Asian Ecumenical Inter-Faith Council itinerated Father Bismarck Carballo for a speaking tour in the Philippines in August 1986. Carballo was an opposition clergyman in Nicaragua who at one time was evicted by the Sandinista government.  In October, 1986, CAUSA held a National Security Conference in the country that was attended by Ray Cline and John Singlaub, both experts on counterinsurgency strategy and low intensity conflict. 

Excerpt from Moon’s Law: God Is Phasing Out Democracy

In 1975, Moon publicly denounced WACL as “fascist” and purportedly withdrew; however, this was most likely simply an effort to keep a lower profile. The Washington Post, covering the 1978 WACL conference in Washington, reported that the Unification Church was absent and no longer involved.16 However, a Unification Church minister hired buses for CIA-connected Cuban exiles to attend, according to interviews with the Cubans by Jeff Stein, writing in New York magazine.17 It is clear that the Moon organization never really left WACL. Osami Kuboki has been a member of the WACL executive board for many years, and even hosted the 1982 WACL conference in Japan.

Excerpt from Moonies alienate our children and serve the CIA By Larry Henares Jr.:

The Moonies function under different names: the Washington Times newspaper in Foggy Bottom; the Moonies’ political arm, the CAUSA International; and Asian Ecumenical Inter-Faith Council. Among the top leaders of CAUSA International, are Cleon Skousen, a Mormon Church leader, Douglas MacArthur II, and Bo Hi Pak, formerly of the Korean CIA who chairs the organization and admits CIA funding. In August 1986, Ulrich Vokel of Asian Ecumenical Inter-Faith Council, contacted Brother Rafael Donato of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines (AMRSP), asking for an audience for Nicaraguan priest Msgr. Bismark Carballo of the US-backed Contras against the Sandinistas.  The AMRSP refused because Msgr. Carballo’s trip was paid for by CAUSA. CAUSA sponsored a seminar at the National Defense College, and an October 4 conference in Manila Hotel both of which were attended by Minister Johnny Ponce Enrile, and reportedly co-sponsored by La Salle University, in the person of its president Bro. Andrew (now Bulletin president).  Raul S. Manglapus bitterly criticized the tone of the conference, assailed the National Defense College for lending its name to an extreme right-wing organization, and protested the presence of such Marcos supporters as A. James Gregory, and Ray Cline, formerly CIA deputy director. There were other characters sponsored by CAUSA coming in and out of the Philippines: General John Singlaub fired by Carter for his extremist views, then chairman of the World Anti-Communist League, funded by the Moonies; Edgar Chamorro, CIA-supported right wing extremist brought here by CAUSA to have an audience with President Cory. On August 12-14, 1986, CAUSA-sponsored International Security Council met in Manila to draft the “Manila Declaration”’ which asked the USA to be Policeman of Southeast Asia, sought “the retention of military facilities in the Philippines, and the enhancement of an American deterrent capability that will contain the formidable Soviet military threat… “Among the signatories: Carolina G. Hernandez of U.P.; Brig. Gen. Florencio Magsino (Ret.); Santanina T. Rasul; Pablo Tangco of U.S.T.; and Angelesio Tugado, National Defense College.  Raul Manglapus attacked the “Declaration” as a justification of a military take-over.  And in November a rightist military plot was uncovered. On March 8, 1987, in the Dao Room of the Manila Hotel, a three-day conference on Anti-Communism was sponsored again by CAUSA, attended by militarists, religious extremists and rightist politicians, such as Vice President Salvador Laurel, Colonel Koronel, General Abenina, and Brother Andrew from La Salle (now Bulletin president). And five months later on August 28, 1987, a military coup was attempted. Others in CAUSA Conferences were: Monsignor Moises Andrade, Monsignor Ted Bacani who delivered a special message from Jaime Cardinal Sin; Education Minister Lourdes Quisumbing; Colonel Rodolfo Biazon of the Philippine Military Academy; Dr. Gloria M. Santos of the Asian Ecumenical Interfaith Movement; Mr. Rogelio Lizada of the Council of the Laity; Atty Danilo Deen, Integrated Bar (IBP); Princess Tarhata Lucman of Tawi-Tawi; Sonia Zaldivar-Ronda, CLP treasurer.

Related:

Private Groups Step Up Aid to ‘Contras’ (1985)

John Singlaub: 'An Anti-Communist's Anti-Communist'

The WACL and CAUSA’s Role in the Ruthless Violence of US-Philippines Counterinsurgency

On Moon’s Political Network and their Deep Connections to Global Terrorism

Chun Doo-hwan’s Pushed WACL?

Dallas Hosts Anti-Communist League (1985)

On Yamashita’s Gold, Singlaub, and the Events Following Marcos’ Departure

Reverend Moon: Cult leader, CIA asset, and Bush family friend is dead

The Moonies and 'Victims of Communism'

The Dark Shadow Cast by Moon Sun Myung’s Unification Church and Abe Shinzo - Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

In recent days, the U.S. and NATO have been warning of a Russian military buildup near the Ukrainian border, but never mention that one of the largest U.S. Army-led military exercises in decades has begun and will run until June: Defender Europe 2021, with 28,000 troops from 27 countries operating in a dozen countries from the Balkans to the Black Sea. This is where the real danger of war is coming from.

We say no! People in the U.S. don’t want war with Russia to protect the profits of Big Oil and U.S. banks. We don’t want the U.S. proxy regime in Ukraine to kill our sisters and brothers in Donetsk and Lugansk. We don’t want U.S. troops to be sent to fight and die in another needless conflict. We need an end to racist police brutality and anti-Asian violence. We need money for jobs, housing, healthcare and schools, not war.

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"They Are Killing Us: Rage and Trauma in the Wake of the Atlanta Shootings"

A lightly edited post from my Facebook account, 3/19/2021

CW: Anti-Asian racism and violence, racist cartoons, images of racially motivated violence.

"I'm going to put this out there:

If you've known me [Hsu Liang Yu] for any length of time, you'll know that I am extremely vocal about the anti-Asian racism that is present in the US, the racism that has been present in this country since day one.

With the tragic deaths of 8 people, 6 of them Asian women, in Atlanta, perpetrated by a white domestic terrorist (let's call it what it is, folks), I'm going to consolidate all of my feelings on this mess in this post, as best as I can.

This is raw, unfiltered, and unapologetic, straight from the heart.

Anti-Asian sentiments have been in present in America for the better part of 200 years. It has taken many forms, whether it was embodied by municipal, state, or federal legislation, outright violence, stereotyping, enforced ghettoization, portrayals in popular media, or the subtle interactions that Asian people have on a daily basis. The body of evidence is staggering, and if you want me to go on for hours about the Chinese Exclusion Act alone, send me a message and I'll be happy to rant. But the fact of the matter is that Asian Americans live in a country that, historically, does not want us, and has resorted to institutionalized and systemic violence to make that known.

This isn't up for debate.

It's happened, and it continues to happen today. The most horrifying thing is that nowadays, elderly Asian Americans are the ones who are taking the worst of the day-to-day racism and violence in this country, much to the horror of their children and grandchildren.

The racism present here looks like this:

-Limiting the ability of Chinese people to work, unless it was in laundromats, restaurants, hotels, or drug dens (Chinese Exclusion Act)

-Forced removal of Japanese Americans from their homes and the forfeiture of their businesses and possessions and their subsequent internment during World War II

-The horrific waves of violence targeting Chinatowns in the 19th and 20th century in Hawai'i, San Francisco, Bellingham, and all throughout the American West Coast, resulting in the lynching deaths of men, women, and children

-The Asiatic Exclusion League that sought to expel Asian Americans from the workforce on the west coast through legislation and violence in the 19th and 20th century

-The fetishization of Asian women as play-things for white men

-The 'model minority' stereotype that sees countless young Asian Americans pursue prestigious careers at the expense of their mental and physical health and to the detriment of their families

-The 'model minority' stereotype that denies help to Asian Americans struggling in school or to find work because they're seen as deviants within their own community and by the white majority

-The fracturing of Asian American and Black solidarity by the FBI during the Civil Rights movement

-Targeting elderly Asian Americans as easy targets for racially motivated violence

-Asian Americans unable to feel at home in their native born country due to anti-Asian sentiments or failure to adhere to the 'model minority' stereotype

-Asian American communities closing themselves off from other ethnic groups for fear of violence

-Asian American communities actively ignoring police brutality and racially motivated violence for fear of violent reprisal from the police or right wing groups

-Asian Americans aligning themselves with racist, right wing movements to try and shield themselves and their families from violence

-White women losing their US citizenship for marrying Chinese men (the Cable Act)

-Keeping Asian American communities in large cities limited to Chinatowns, Japantowns, Koreatowns, etc. due to racially motivated housing and economic attitudes

-Asians being consistently used as antagonists against white protagonists, or, as the "magical Asian" that solves problems through unexplained means

-The continued use of anti-Chinese Communist Party rhetoric as a vehicle for anti-Chinese sentiment (which, surprise!, you can criticize the CCP without criticizing Chinese people themselves, assholes)

-Blaming Asians and Asian Americans for Covid-19 and its spread

-The pillaging of China and other Asian countries during the 19th and early 20th centuries by European powers and the United States

-Police saying that the racially motivated murder of 8 innocent people was the result of a white guy having a 'bad day'

The list keeps going.

It's always been here, and while I appreciate some of the lip-service being paid to the issue, I'm saddened that it's taken the senseless deaths of 8 innocent people at the hands of a white supremacist for people to listen to what the Asian American community has been saying for decades.

If you want to fight this out in the comments, go screw yourself. I'm sick of seeing minorities murdered and be subject to systemic, institutional violence and oppression while random white folks swoop in to gaslight me.

They are attacking our elders. Terrorizing our children. Assaulting our parents, our partners, out family and our friends. They are destroying our businesses and our communities. They are tearing apart our families.

They are killing us.

I'm proud of my heritage and my Asian American identity, and I believe that other Asian Americans should be empowered to feel the same way. The second anyone tries to gaslight this issue is the second that person get's ejected from this post."

[southeastasianists]

In the early 21st century, we see that a good part of the world is turning its back on diversity – and this goes beyond Southeast Asia. We see this in Europe, in India, and in the Americas. This trend manifests as a poisonous concoction of intolerance, ethno-nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiments, and populism. Globalization has contributed to this trend, as well as long-running religious enmities. One very good example of this trend is the ongoing Rohingya crisis.

The triumph of democracy following the end of the Cold War was expected by many across the world to usher in a free and golden age, but unfortunately it was not to be. A new genre of ‘democratic’ leaders came to the fore. To them, democracy was about elections, and that meant getting as many votes as you could, through any means. The two currents of democracy and intolerance intermingled and fed on each other, and far-right parties and governments came to power. Diversity is downgraded or denied outright.

The illiberal turn in a number of Southeast Asian countries, while being aimed at maintaining and expanding a party’s grip on state power, has been accompanied by intolerance, discrimination, repression and outright violence against what is essentially pluralism. The ruling National League for Democracy party in Myanmar has only token ethnic minority representation and none of its lawmakers are Muslim. Opposition parties, dissenting media and civil society are facing severe threats from incumbent establishments. Institutions of the dominant religion are taking on a bigger role in politics—sometimes in tandem or in collusion with the state. The primacy of the vote over that of the gun was regained at great cost. But now it means that political leaders are pandering more to interests of race and religion to get votes.

The Dual State

I have been describing the dual state in Myanmar for quite some time. Taking a deeper look, I would further elaborate by calling it ‘twin authoritarianisms’ or ‘authoritarianisms-in-tandem’: the civil as well as the military. It may sound unlikely, given that any authoritarian state is usually a monist entity. This shows that neither of the twin blocs are strong enough to obviate the other. But both sides come down hard on anything else they deem to be standing in their way – the media, minorities, civil society, activists and protesters.

For the Myanmar military that enjoyed near-absolute power for half a century,  authoritarian and illiberal traits come naturally. One local analyst observes that at least the military is more consistent. But for the National League for Democracy, which spent the past three decades clamouring for all the noble virtues, its recent descent to baser sentiments comes as a rude shock to many (this writer excepted). All the institutions regarded as pillars of, and adjuncts to, liberal democracy are now under threat. If someone were to question the party on this, the blame would be glibly passed on to the obstructionist military. Of late it has become my task to gently disabuse people – both within the country and abroad – that this is not as neat as it sounds. The civilian party government has to shoulder part of the responsibility.

I have used the term ‘post-ideology’ to describe present-day Myanmar. In a country where the Left had been such a potent force, it is now difficult to identify a meaningful political party that can be classified as leftist. The Burma Socialist Programme Party in its later years cannot be seen as left anymore, and the Communist Party of Burma collapsed in 1989. In the absence of a sophisticated leftist politics, the way opened up for a swing to the Right. One sees parallels of this in Eastern Europe.

A further outcome is the rise of majoritarianism and the dawn of an electoral democracy. With an antiquated first-past-the-post electoral system, the politicians and generals know very well that if you have the ethnic and religious majority sewn up, you do not have to bother much about either election outcomes or the minorities.

The consequences of all these trends are many. With the collapse of ideology, the 70-year long civil war is now being waged against ethnic minorities. In other words, it has turned into a straight ethnic war. One sees in Rakhine, and for long in Kachin and Shan states, the accompanying disregard for civilian lives and the depths of brutality.

The Bamar government’s and military’s premise is that “a rising Bamar tide will lift all ethnic boats”, but in reality, that isn’t the case.

Now at the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the NLD government is dutifully carrying on what had been done since the one-party state—rolling out the outward trappings of ethnic diversity and ‘unity’ on certain dates like Union Day. But members of the ethnic minorities have come to realize, painfully in recent years, that these gestures are empty and devoid of meaning. Some of these people are starting to point out that the NLD and military are acting in collusion.

First of all, the powers-that-be have to acknowledge that ethnic diversity is as fundamental to Myanmar as is the Irrawaddy River. And just as useful. Influenced by the ethnic rebellions, the central state, and especially the military, sees ethnic identity as a threat. Their solution is assimilation, as China is attempting to do with the Uighurs. There has to be a sea-change in this perspective. But Naypyidaw is not a place known for its intellectualism, nor, should I add, for its leadership.

Myanmar civil society came to the fore a little before the current ethnic unravelling began. With the paucity of state efforts, civil society may turn out to be the only lifeline. But essentially on the all-important issues of pluralism and diversity, the state and society have to see the error of their ways, and change. The task also needs to be taken up by intellectuals—writers, historians, film-makes and the media. The democracy promotion outfits also need to change tack—less emphasis on elections and more on pluralism and what are called ‘emancipative values’.

Pre- and post-2015: both shades of grey

The expectation since 1988 had been that the NLD government would liberalize Myanmar: this has not happened. Progress towards a more liberal Myanmar has been glacial. The generational divide has quite a bit to do with it—the Union Solidarity and Development Party and NLD leadership are from the same generation, and from the Bamar Buddhist majority. Even if objectives like constitutional amendment are achieved, allowing, for instance, winning ethnic parties to form governments in their own states, it will not be a panacea.

Bamar ethnic dominance, transposed to the political sphere, leads to a simplistic motto: “We are a democracy now, and so votes count. The more voters we have, the better. Diversity isn’t important.” The two major parties are essentially Bamar-dominant, with token minority representation. The large number of non-Bamar parties comprising members of single ethnic groups is testimony to the fact that the non-Bamar nationalities prefer to go their own way instead of teaming up with either of the two major parties. So where does that leave us with regard to building a federal system, a multi-ethnic nation, and a pan-ethnic national identity? These goals appear to be far beyond the horizon.

What Aung San Su Kyi and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing have in common is the determination to concentrate power in themselves and to close decision-making. There are strengths and weaknesses to this. It could bring success as well as failure. Myanmar’s present case inclines towards the latter. And fortune isn’t exactly smiling on either of them now. At the same time, both have strong survival and self-perpetuation instincts, and they have the organizational machinery to this end. The NLD for one will use all means at its disposal to win the next elections.

Myanmar’s political leadership is characterized by hierarchy, gerontocracy, and its reactionary nature. Post-2015 this seems to have become even more marked. The two leaders are also in their sunset years, and the best thing they could do now is to acknowledge reality and think about the legacy they shall leave behind.

We are staring at the fact that older generations are failed generations, and I would put the point of demarcation at age 45. (Someone posted a list of current cabinet ministers and their ages and it entirely fits the description of gerontocracy).

As Myanmar moves into the closing years of the NLD’s term of office, the two leaders—ASSK and Min Aung Hlaing—share the unenviable distinction of having together pushed the country further downhill. And more than system decay or state refractoriness, individualistic and personalistic factors—failings, really—have played a big part. There are those who study or push issues like the peace process, civil-military relations, and constitutional reform, but none of these can be treated in isolation without factoring in the leadership debility problem.

Recent developments in the region—particularly in India—merit comparison with Myanmar. Naypyidaw and Delhi have much in common now—the falling back upon authoritarian populism, and religious nationalism to begin with. The corollaries in both countries are a disregard for minorities both ethnic and religious, a mistrust of civil society, and the rolling back of democratic and secular values. And then comes the bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the imposition of union territory status, and rule by centrally-appointed governors. All done sadly, in a rather sleight-of-hand manner.

Both Kashmir and Rakhine are the scenes of political failure. For decades, India used to be a democratic ‘model’ for newly-independent countries taking the path of democracy (or returning to it, in the case of Myanmar). In the ongoing contest with China, India was said to have the edge by being a flourishing democracy. I wonder how people would see it now.

Conclusion

But then I would not be doing justice to my country and to friends if I were not to advance breakthrough approaches of my own.

General elections are due next year. Yes, Myanmar is still an electoral democracy, but this is a stage that an electorate lacking in sophistication has to go through on the way to a mature and stable democracy. Most importantly, the present two-party stranglehold has to be broken. The prevailing party system is in its sunset, and calling for new parties in the same mould is more than obtuse. If you can control one-third of the seats in Parliament, the two-party system can be balanced and countered. Authoritarian tendencies can and must be countered. One important lesson to be gleaned from what the Modi government did on Jammu and Kashmir is the ominous risk of a single political party enjoying a big majority in the legislature.

The youth population in Myanmar is tired, exasperated with the political system, and ready for real change. So are many ethnic parties, and youthful aspirations can become cross-cutting. Land is another unifying issue.

The ethnic nationalities should have learned by now the unhappy consequences of voting for the duo of parties. They can make a start by ensuring that chief ministers are no longer centrally-appointed. India’s model of having a governor and chief minister in each state should be widely discussed.

Setting up a monist, ethno-nationalist, non-inclusive and majoritarian political system may allow you to gain enough votes to propel you to power, but it can never be good for a country beyond the short-term.

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A bird’s eye view of Asia: A continental landscape of minorities in peril

By James M. Dorsey

A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Patreon, Podbean and Castbox.

Many in Asia look at the Middle East with a mixture of expectation of stable energy supplies, hope for economic opportunity and concern about a potential fallout of the region’s multiple violent conflicts that are often cloaked in ethnic, religious and sectarian terms.

Yet, a host of Asian nations led by men and women, who redefine identity as concepts of exclusionary civilization, ethnicity, and religious primacy rather than inclusive pluralism and multiculturalism, risk sowing the seeds of radicalization rooted in the despair of population groups that are increasingly persecuted, disenfranchised and marginalized.

Leaders like China’s Xi Jingping, India’s Narendra Modi, and Myanmar’s Win Myint and Aung San Suu Kyi, alongside nationalist and supremacist religious figures ignore the fact that crisis in the Middle East is rooted in autocratic and authoritarian survival strategies that rely on debilitating manipulation of national identity on the basis of sectarianism, ethnicity and faith-based nationalism.

A bird’s eye view of Asia produces a picture of a continental landscape strewn with minorities on the defensive whose positioning as full-fledged members of society with equal rights and opportunities is either being eroded or severely curtailed.

It also highlights a pattern of responses by governments and regional associations that opt for a focus on pre-emptive security, kicking the can down the road and/or silent acquiescence rather than addressing a wound head-on that can only fester, making cures ever more difficult.

To be sure, multiple Asian states, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India have at various times opened their doors to refugees.

Similarly, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) disaster management unit has focused on facilitating and streamlining repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

But a leaked report by the unit, AHA Centre, in advance of last June’s ASEAN summit was criticized for evading a discussion on creating an environment in which Rohingya would be willing to return.

The criticism went to the core of the problem: Civilizationalist policies, including cultural genocide, isolating communities from the outside world, and discrimination will at best produce simmering anger, frustration and despair and at worst mass migration, militancy and/or political violence.

A Uyghur member of the Communist Party for 30 years who did not practice his religion, Ainiwa Niyazi, would seem to be the picture-perfect model of a Chinese citizen hailing from the north-western province of Xinjiang.

Yet, Mr Niyazi was targeted in April of last year for re-education, one of at least a million Turkic Muslims interned in detention facilities where they are forced to internalize Xi Jinping thought and repudiate religious norms and practices in what constitutes the most frontal assault on a faith in recent history.

If past efforts, including an attempt to turn Kurds into Turks by banning use of Kurdish as a language that sparked a still ongoing low level insurgency, is anything to go by, China’s ability to achieve a similar goal with greater brutality is questionable.

“Most Uyghur young men my age are psychologically damaged. When I was in elementary school surrounded by other Uyghurs, I was very outgoing and active. Now I feel like I have been broken… Quality of life is now about feeling safe,” said Alim, a young Uyghur, describing to Adam Hunerven, a writer who focuses on the Uyghurs, arrests of his friends and people trekking south to evade the repression in Xinjiang cities.

Travelling in the region in 2014, an era in which China was cracking down on Uyghurs but that predated the institutionalization of the re-education camps, Mr. Hunerven saw that “the trauma people experienced in the rural Uyghur homeland was acute. It followed them into the city, hung over their heads and affected the comportment of their bodies. It made people tentative, looking over their shoulders, keeping their heads down. It made them tremble and cry.”

There is little reason to assume that anything has since changed for the better. On the contrary, not only has the crackdown intensified, fear and uncertainty has spread to those lucky enough to live beyond the borders of China. Increasingly, they risk being targeted by the long arm of the Chinese state that has pressured their host countries to repatriate them.

Born and raised in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, Rahima Akter, one of the few women to get an education among the hundreds of thousands who fled what the United Nations described as ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, saw her dreams and potential as a role model smashed when she was this month expelled from university after recounting her story publicly.

Ms. Akter gained admission to Cox’s Bazar International University (CBIU) on the strength of graduating from a Bangladeshi high school, a feat she could only achieve by sneaking past the camp's checkpoints, hiding her Rohingya identity, speaking only Bengali, dressing like a Bangladeshi, and bribing Bangladeshi public school officials for a placement.

Ms Akter was determined to escape the dire warnings of UNICEF, the United Nations’ children agency, that Rohingya refugee children risked becoming “a lost generation.”

Ms. Akter’s case is not an isolated incident but part of a refugee policy in an environment of mounting anti-refugee sentiment that threatens to deprive Rohingya refugees who refuse to return to Myanmar unless they are guaranteed full citizenship of any prospects.

In a move that is likely to deepen a widespread sense of abandonment and despair, Bangladeshi authorities, citing security reasons, this month ordered the shutting down of mobile services and a halt to the sale of SIM cards in Rohingya refugee camps and restricted Internet access. The measures significantly add to the isolation of a population that is barred from travelling outside the camps.

Not without reason, Bangladeshi foreign minister Abul Kalam Abdul Momen, has blamed the international community for not putting enough pressure on Myanmar to take the Rohingyas back.

The UN “should go to Myanmar, especially to Rakhine state, to create conditions that could help these refugees to go back to their country. The UN is not doing the job that we expect them to do,” Mr. Abdul Momen said.

The harsh measures are unlikely to quell increased violence in the camps and continuous attempts by refugees to flee in search of better pastures.

Suspected Rohingya gunmen last month killed a youth wing official of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League party. Two refugees were killed in a subsequent shootout with police.

The plight of the Uyghurs and the Rohingya repeats itself in countries like India with its stepped up number of mob killings that particularly target Muslims, threatened stripping of citizenship of close to two million people in the state of Assam, and unilateral cancellation of self-rule in Kashmir.

Shiite Muslims bear the brunt of violent sectarian attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Malaysia, Shiites, who are a miniscule minority, face continued religious discrimination.

The Islamic Religious Department in Selangor, Malaysia’s richest state, this week issued a sermon that amounts to a mandatory guideline for sermons in mosques warning against “the spread of Shia deviant teachings in this nation… The Muslim ummah (community of the faithful) must become the eyes and the ears for the religious authorities when stumbling upon activities that are suspicious, disguising under the pretext of Islam,” the sermon said.

Malaysia, one state where discriminatory policies are unlikely to spark turmoil and political violence, may be the exception that confirms the rule.

Ethnic and religious supremacism in major Asian states threatens to create breeding grounds for violence and extremism. The absence of effective attempts to lessen victims’ suffering by ensuring that they can rebuild their lives and safeguard their identities in a safe and secure environment, allows wounds to fester.

Permitting Ms. Akter, the Rohingya university student, to pursue her dream, would have been a low-cost, low risk way of offering Rohingya youth an alternative prospect and at the very least a reason to look for constructive ways of reversing what is a future with little hope.

Bangladeshi efforts to cut off opportunities in the hope that Rohingya will opt for repatriation have so far backfired. And repatriation under circumstances that do not safeguard their rights is little else than kicking the can down the road.

Said human rights advocate Ewelina U. Ochab: “It is easy to turn a blind eye when the atrocities do not happen under our nose. However, we cannot forget that religious persecution anywhere in the world is a security threat to everyone, everywhere.”

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, an adjunct senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture

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Starting off HDO 301

Since starting HDO 301, I’ve started noticing intricacies in everyday relationships, whether they be with friends, family, or professors. It truly is an interesting experience to take this class first semester of my freshman year, a time where one can see a plethora of relationships forming and sometimes falling apart within a matter of days. At the same time these relationships are forming in this environment, people are interacting and defining norms and standards for their relationships. Especially when doing the assignment where we observed relationships in a public setting through the lens of Fiske’s four relationship types, my eyes were opened to these hidden intricacies. Transactions and exchanges are vitally important to pay attention to when trying to understand the inner-workings of relationships; the mere way someone could borrow a spoon from someone or buy a bagel sets subconscious expectations with the other person in the transaction.

One experience I had in my social life at UT this first semester clearly showed me the importance of transactions in everyday relationships. I had been steadily hanging out with one friend from orientation for the first couple weeks of school and the next week, the workload got particularly heavy so we both didn’t see each other much. Unexpectedly, she told me that she was mad at my lack of effort to hang out with her, even when she hadn’t reached out to me either. Her outburst of anger caught me off guard, but we’ve since hung out and she’s not mad at me anymore. Although this turn of events seems trivial and unnecessary to talk about, I think it showed me how important “give and take” is in a relationship and how different people may have different expectations of how you “give and take.” Even though hanging out with another person isn’t necessarily a transaction of goods, time spent with another person is still time, and time is a very valuable resource. This small situation was an interesting experience to have while taking HDO 301 because I noticed how applicable the ideas taught in the class are to everyday life.

I’ve also realized that Human Dimensions of Organizations play into all of my other classes seamlessly. When learning about the Native Americans’ cultural unity and lack of private property and in pre-colonial North America in HIS 315K, I noticed that the relationships among their communities could be defined as communal sharing. When learning about the pleas of Asian-Americans calling for the abolition of discriminatory anti-immigration laws, I observed how the Asian Americans were essentially in a large-scale negotiation with the United States government; in one excerpt of “Appeal” from the Chinese Equal Rights League, they even begin naming trade-offs they’d take in exchange for the laws’ abolitions. When learning about Marx’s Communist Manifesto in UGS 303, I saw how Marx structured communist society in a way that almost perfectly describes communal sharing relationships: “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Human Dimensions of Organizations truly does fit into various disciplines and I’ve found it to be applicable in every single class I’m taking this semester.

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But Moon's relationships with drug-tainted gangsters and corrupt right-wing politicians go back to the early days of his Unification Church in Asia. Moon's Korea-based church made its first important inroads in Japan in the early 1960s after gaining the support of Ryoichi Sasakawa, a leader of the Japanese yakuza crime syndicate who once hailed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as "the perfect fascist." In Japan and Korea, the shadowy yakuza ran lucrative drug smuggling, gambling and prostitution rings.

The Sasakawa connection brought Moon both converts and clout because Sasakawa was a behind-the-scenes leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party. On the international scene, Sasakawa helped found the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, which united the heroin-stained leadership of Nationalist China with rightists from Korea, Japan and elsewhere in Asia. [For details, see Yakuza by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro]

In 1966, the Asian league evolved into the World Anti-Communist League with the inclusion of former Nazis from Europe, overt racialists from the United States and "death squad" operatives from Latin America, along with more traditional conservatives.

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Anti-Communist victory in Japan (1970)

From Taiwan Today, October 01, 1970 Leftists fail in their plot to disrupt conferences of WACL and APACL at Kyoto and a rally of 20,000 freedom fighters in Tokyo

It was September 14, the evening after the closing of Expo 70 at Osaka. Two thousand Japanese gathered at a band stand on a Kyoto hillside and braved an hour-long downpour to launch WACL 70.

That same thunderstorm disrupted Osaka-Tokyo rail traffic for nearly three hours and caused several blackouts in the Osaka-Kyoto area. But the WACL eve gathering listened attentively to moving speeches and sang "Let's Join Our Hands, Friends of the World." Judo wrestlers in white practice suits and black belts stood on guard with arms folded and feet firmly planted.

Six days later, 20,000 equally determined people attended a live-hour WACL World Rally at the Nippon Budokan Hall in a Tokyo park. This Sunday afternoon event culminated 10 months of preparation. Most of the 20,000 arrived, lunch boxes in hand, be­fore 9 a.m. They waited quietly while guards outside checked and double-checked late-comers. Many rally workers had arrived before dawn to watch over every minute detail.

In between the Kyoto and Osaka gatherings were the 4th and 16th annual conferences of WACL and APACL—World Anti-Communist League and Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League—with an attendance of 231 persons from 67 member and 29 observer units around the world. Themes of the meetings were "Mobilizing the Forces of World Freedom" and "Promotion of an Asian-Pacific Regional Security Organ­ization."

△ Pictured: Japanese youth are taking their anti-Com­munist crusade to the people. Their slo­gans include "Communism Is Wrong," Let's Form a United Front for Victory over Com­munism" and "Denounce Red Aggression"

The opening WACL ceremony drew a throng of 2,500 to the US$10 million Kyoto International Conference Hall. Messages from nine presidents and prime ministers were read. Speeches were heard simultaneous­ly in four or five languages through loudspeakers and earphones. Subsequently adopted were 38 resolutions — 27 by WACL and 11 by APACL — denouncing Communist atrocities and expressing concern over the fate of the 1,000 million persons enslaved behind the Iron Curtain. Additionally, the two leagues released communiques totaling 43 paragraphs.

The World Youth Anti-Communist League, es­tablished only last December, also was represented. Sixty youth delegates from 17 nations and organiza­tions held separate sessions and drafted resolutions which reinforced those of the senior leagues.

Many details of the tightly scheduled conferences may have escaped the attention of foreign delegates and observers· But the image of the rain-drenched men and women singing on that Kyoto hillside and the determined faces of those attending the Tokyo rally are memories never to be forgotten.

That the WACL/APACL/WYACL meetings took place in Japan's ancient and present-day capital cities, both known for rampant leftist activities, was in itself significant. A battle was fought out in the midst of the pro-Communist enemy and the victory was decisive: all the plans of the extremists to wreck the anti-Communist conferences came to naught.

Most of the Japanese hosts, largely in their 20s and 30s, did not speak English and those who did spoke brokenly. But veteran anti-Communist leaders from abroad were moved and inspired by the dedica­tion of the Japanese. Although inexperienced in con­ducting international conferences, the young volunteers of Japan's International Federation for Victory over Communism (IFVC) made WACL 70 an event to be remembered longer than the Osaka fair.

Expo distinguished itself as the biggest, most expensive and most successful exposition in history by attracting nearly 65 million persons in six months. WACL 70 acquired superlatives for striking important new blows for man's freedom.

△ Pictured: September 27 issue of the Kokusai Shokyo Shinbun, the organ of Ja­pan's International Federation for Victory Over Communism, Head­ line: "Win a Triumph in the 1970s"  IFVC—"Kokusai Shokyo Rengo" in Japanese—has more than 50,000 members and some 3,000 full­ time volunteer fighters against Communism. In a na­tionwide fund-raising campaign that began last April, the volunteers held 83 lectures and 651 study meet­ings, displayed 1,200,000 posters, handed out 4,600,000 copies of leaflets and collected 150 million yen (about US$422,000) in addition to the signatures of 2 million persons pledging active support to the anti­-Communist movement. The money included proceeds from the sale of junk collected in door-to-door calls. To cut expenses, the young people often slept in the open. There was a constant threat from the leftists. Clashes were frequent.

Assurance that the WACL meeting in September could be successful came on May 11 when the WACL/ APACL Japan Chapter and IFVC brought together 6,000 volunteers at a National Rally for the Promotion of 4th WACL Conference. Hundreds of baskets of flowers and messages of felicitation were sent to that gathering at Tokyo's Fumonkan, the newly com­pleted largest music hall in Asia. Masajiro Kawajima, vice president of Japan's Liberal-Democratic Party, was there to read a congratulatory message from Eisaku Sato, head of the majority party and prime minister.

The magnitude of the Japanese feat is emphasized by the fact that most IFVC members had never heard of WACL or APACL before the conferences held in Bangkok late last year decided to hold the 1970 meetings in Japan. The Japanese were not present when APACL held its first conference at Chinhae, Korea, in June of 1954. Japan's military history and postwar leftist tendencies led some APACL founders to wonder whether the Japanese presence would contribute to effectiveness of an Asian anti-Communist alliance. The league charter adopted two years later at the 2nd APACL Conference stipulated that general membership meetings be held annually in major Asian countries. But Japan did not join APACL until the 6th conference in Taipei in 1960. The only APACL meeting held in Japan in subsequent years was the 8th in 1962.

Japanese leaders who hosted the 1962 meeting subsequently gave their attention to such other quasi-governmental organizations as the Asian Parliamen­tarians' Union and the Sino-Japanese and South Korea­ Japan Cooperation Committees. Emerging at the cabinet level was the Asian and Pacific Council-ASPAC. These were excellent organizations but left the more than 50 Japanese anti-Communist groups without ties to the world anti-Communist movement. Even when WACL was born in 1967 as an outgrowth of APACL the majority of Japan's 100 million population remained uninformed about anti-Communist progress in the world at large. The Japanese press was busy reporting leftist student riots which compelled 140 universities to shut down for weeks or months.

In the three years after 1967, changes favorable to the anti-Communist cause took place in Japan. Contributing factors were the progressive disunity of the Japanese Communists and Socialists and the mounting public opposition to the militant behavior of leftists.

The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) is also known as the Yoyogi sect because of the name of the Tokyo district where its headquarters is located. JCP's ideological shifts, apparently undertaken to attract followers, resulted in a rift with Moscow in March of 1964 and with Peiping exactly two years later. At its 11th National Congress in July of this year, JCP adopted a seemingly mild platform repudiating both revolu­tion by violence and the dictatorship of the proletariat and at the same time supporting freedom and parliamen­tary democracy. This was merely a gesture in the quest for members. The JCP, which is the second largest Communist party in the free world (next to that of Italy) with 300,000 members, would resort to violence as quickly as any other Communist party if conditions warranted.

The Japan Socialist Party (JSP) is a grotesque collection of left-wing Marxist-Leninists and right-wing democratic socialists. As the main leadership is composed of leftists, the party is essentially Communist. Evidence seems to indicate that JSP has been more loyal to Communist doctrine than the Yoyogi Reds.

Other Japanese Communists are loosely classified as the anti-Yoyogi sect. This category includes the Zengakuren (Federation of University Student Organizations) which has been mainly responsible for Japan's campus turmoil. There are anarchists and radical liberals, too, but the majority of anti-Yoyogis are ex­treme Marxist-Leninists who openly advocate violence. JSP supported this unpopular group as an anti-JCP tactic in the 1970 elections and lost a number of parliamentary seats.

Considering that Japan that has been constantly exposed to leftist rallies and violence in recent years, the emergence of the International Federation for Victory over Communism was not without difficulty. IFVC founders decided that mere opposition to the Communists would not be enough. They chose the word "victory" instead of "anti" because they hoped their organization would be more powerful than other anti­-Communist groups. They are aware that to oppose Communists is not enough; the ideology must be defeated and eradicated.

IFVC's counterattack against Communism is uniquely religious. The federation emphasizes that military, political and economic cooperation among free nations is necessary but suggests that the joining of hearts is more crucial. Books written for IFVC followers speak of unity among men who love freedom, truth, beauty and goodness, of inspiring anti-Com­munist warriors to die for their "holy purpose" and of ways to reform the Communists.

"Communism Is Wrong" is the major slogan. Almost every IFVC lecture opens with this statement. In sharp contrast to the arrogant hippie-type Com­munist and Socialist campaigners the Japanese are accustomed to, the IFVC workers are clean, neat and full of evangelistic fervor. Dedicated preachers they truly are. Until the day of final victory over Communism, smoking and drinking will be taboo for IFVC members. The personal sacrifice, they say, is more than compensated for in the rewards of working for the happiness and well-being of mankind.

This devotion to an ideal comes easily to the Japanese, who renounced feudalism and militarism only recently and who do not yet wholly understand individual liberty and similar Western values. Japanese are still reared in an atmosphere of obedience.

The politico-religious dedication to victory over Communism was introduced to Japan by Koreans about a decade ago and perfected by the Society for the Study of Anti-Communist Theories sponsored by the Christian Unification Church of Japan. When IFVC was established in the spring of 1968 following a number of seminars and conferences, Osami Kuboki, the head of the church, became federation president.

Kuboki, now 39, is the son of a Japanese bank clerk and was born in northeastern China. He was a seventh-grader in Peiping when World War II ended. Returning to Japan in the spring of 1946, Kuboki was appalled by the coolness of people's hearts. As he continued his schooling, he came to see that peace and happiness could be brought about only through the perfection of human nature. Following graduation from Tokyo's Keio University, Kuboki formulated his theory of unification through value, belief, love and spiritual power.

He went to Bangkok in 1969 as a member of the Japanese delegation to the 3rd WACL Conference. Already a determined anti-Communist, he was convinced that his religious ideals could not be realized without the destruction of Communism. He proposed that Japan host the 4th WACL Conference so that the masses of his countrymen, ignorant of the serious­ness of Communist threats, could be awakened to join in the free world struggle against tyranny and aggres­sion.

The Japan Chapter of WACL and APACL is the international department of the Free Asia Association established in 1955 by Dr. Tetsuzo Watanabe anti other distinguished party and civic leaders. This chapter publishes a monthly periodical and has worked for the outlawing of the Communist party in Japan. But the strength of the chapter was not sufficient to sponsor anti-Communist meetings of worldwide scope.

As it turned out, IFVC's contribution was so large that Kuboki was chosen chairman of the WACL/APACL Councils and presided over the league conferences in Kyoto. He also was chairman of the WACL World Rally Executive Committee.

President of the committee was Ryoichi Sasakawa, who heads national foundations and associations promoting shipbuilding, maritime science, civil aviation, veterans' welfare, Japan's traditional arts and the karate skills of self-defense. Sasakawa is said to be over 70 years old but does not look it. He is a karate expert with the highest rank of 10th dan. Spectators cheered his demonstration at the Kyoto dinner party he gave for WACL/APACL delegates. He then intro­duced some 30 members of his Federation of All-Japan Karate-do Organizations. Their half-hour dem­onstration of body-building methods, karate chops and self-defense skills was an eye-opener for foreign guests. Piles of thick roof tiles were broken one after another with different parts of body—fist, forearm, elbow, foot and head. Sasakawa said his federation has 3 million karate wrestlers ready to oppose the Communists.

Assisting Sasakawa's executive committee was the WACL World Rally Promotion Committee headed by Nobusuke Kishi, former prime minister of Japan and still active as a member of the House of Representatives. Under Kishi were 18 advisers and 77 com­mittee members, all of them nationally known figures from political, industrial, business, educational, cultural and other fields. A list of their names and those of other promoters filled a 93-page book. Listed as promoters and co-sponsors of the WACL World Rally were 101 organizations, half of them in the religious field.

As the rally opened, the master of ceremonies presented messages received from 30 overseas sources and more than 400 Japanese organizations and individuals. None of the 20,000 participants that packed Budokan Hall was there for selfish reasons. Each had paid his own transportation and other expenses.

Sasakawa addressed the gathering, then remained on his feet for nearly five hours as one speaker after another went to the rostrum.

No fewer than half a million words in verbal or printed form were presented to the participants in the week-long WACL 70. The following excerpts total less than 1,000 words but give some idea of what WACL 70 was all about:

—Prime Minister John Gorton of Australia (message): "Australia and Japan have a common in­terest in countering Communist expansion."

—President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China (message): "Courage and dedicated service will be needed as we move along the road toward victory. I am confident that millions of men of goodwill will be marching with WACL."

—Prime Minister George Papadopoulos of Greece (message): "Today more than ever peoples need to struggle and undertake serious efforts in order that mankind may achieve progress and prosperity in peace."

—President Park Chung Hee of the Republic of Korea (message): "We know through our bitter ex­periences that their (Communists') peace offensive aims only at slackening and ultimately disintegrating the free world. Let us pledge anew to make victory ours."

—President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philip­pines (message): "I am convinced that free peoples everywhere can successfully vanquish Communism only through the full exercise of democratic alternatives and through the improvement of economic and social con­ditions."

—Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn of Thailand (message): "Where naked lies and deceit fail to produce results, it (the international Communist move­ment) normally recourses to threat and the use of force to subdue resistance."

—Vice President Spiro T. Agnew of the United States (message): "Your theme, 'Mobilizing the Forces of World Freedom,' is indeed very timely and appropriate today and will continue to be of great significance for years to come."

—President Nguyen Van Thieu of the Republic of Vietnam (message): "The Japan Chapter (of WACL and APACL) has successfully implemented a moral rearmament of the Japanese youths to counter Communist influences."

—Prime Minister Eisaku Sato of Japan in his capacity as president of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Japan (message): "The most important problem in the 1970s is to assure eternal peace of the world and to establish a truly wealthy human society."

—Secretary-General Jesus Vargas of the South­east Asia Treaty Organization (message): "It is well that the anti-Communist movement is global in scope and unwavering in character. This is consonant with the well-recognized dictum that the Communist threat of peace and freedom anywhere in the world imperils peace and freedom everywhere else."

—WACL Council Chairman Osami Kuboki of Japan (speech): "My country has often been criticized as being 'an economic animal.' But the Japanese youths have now been awakened from their long winter sleep to welcome the spring and to put forth their young green leaves of national-scale anti-Communist activities. "

—WACL Honorary President Ku Cheng-kang of China (speech): "The United States must not speak or act in any way to dampen the fighting spirit of its friends and benefit the enemies. Threatened by Com­munist aggressors, Asians must help each other, hit back together and establish a strong unity of deterrent forces."

—Okinori Kaya, former finance minister of Japan (speech): "Liberalism and capitalism are not without faults, but it is not right to choose Communism just because of these faults. Japan is like a virgin who does not know the danger of Communism. This can make the nation an easy prey."

—WACL Secretary-General Jose Ma. Hernandez (report): "International Communism is a world body. It requires another world body to fight it. WACL is that body."

—Dr. Whang Sung Soo of Korea (report): "The Communists have shown that they are wolves in the disguise of sheep. Our activities must now advance from mere protection of freedom to positive expansion of freedom."

—Mme. Suzanne Labin of France (report): "In the time of Hitler and Stalin, the freedom or slavery of mankind was decided in Europe. Today it is decided in Asia. Because freedom is indivisible: should it die in Saigon or in Tokyo, it will die in Paris and Washington."

—Stefan J. Possony of the American Council for World Freedom (report): "The United States is the main bastion of global freedom. The principal defense responsibility of the United States is with the U.S. itself."

—Miss Juanita Castro, younger sister of Fidel Castro, who has been living in Miami since defecting from Cuba in 1964 (speech): "The Communists are traitors to their homelands. The Communists arc fanatic followers of an ideology that rejects and proscribes every noble human feeling. The Communists want to enslave mankind by imposing Marxism-Lenin­ism, a system that is nothing more than a totalitarian dictatorship that sustains itself in power by means of military force, terror, repression and mass murder."

—Dr. Pham Huy Quat, former prime minister of Vietnam (speech): "The free world must take advantage of the Moscow-Peiping conflict and take positive steps against Communist aggressors in spite of A­merica's withdrawal policy."

—Ryoichi Sasakawa, president of the WACL World Rally Executive Committee (speech): "Com­munism is a kind of germ and Communists are germ-­carriers. We should cure the patients of their disease. I understand a group of radical leftists have sneaked into this hall. To them I gladly offer my therapy. If the patients won't listen, my treatment can be rough."

—Senator Strom Thurmond of the United States (speech): "Japan is presently spending only less than one per cent of its gross national product on self­-defense. But Japan's economic development cannot continue unless its free neighbors share in the development, support it and in turn are supported in the defense of the common interest."

As the communique of the 4th WACL Conference pointed out, searching examination of the many phases of the world situation had produced the following unanimous observations:

1. Confrontation is by no means ended. Com­munist forces, unless they are wiped out completely, will never give up their insidious attempts to enslave the whole of mankind.

2. Peace is what all peoples long for. But freedom is just as important a goal. WACL must con­tinue to oppose peace through appeasement at the cost of freedom, for peace gained through compromise and capitulation cannot endure.

3. Free nations must recognize the futility of non-alignment, be under no delusion that national unification may be attained through negotiations and desist from flirtations with the Communists.

As further elaboration of the main conference theme, important resolutions of the WACL Conference specifically called for:

1. Unification of the masses of all countries in joint efforts for the victory of freedom.

2. Rising of young people as a main force against Communist enslavement and for participation in the fight to protect freedom.

3. Smashing of all Communist attempts at infiltration and subversion.

4. Victorious resolution of the crisis in Southeast Asia, preserving the freedom and independence of the Republic of Vietnam and of Laos and Cambodia, and rejection of any suggestion of coalition governments in that area.

5. Appeal to the United States to implement fully the constructive side of its new Asian policy.

6. Promotion of peace in the Middle East and a heightened vigilance against Communist Chinese at­tempts to incite new wars in that area.

7. Support for the efforts of the Latin American nations against Communism and Castroism.

8. Whole-hearted participation of the African nations in the fight for freedom and against Commu­nist tyranny.

9. Encouragement of freedom movements among the enslaved peoples of Eastern Europe, their struggles for national independence and self-determination, and revolutions by the peoples enslaved in the Soviet Russian empire. (Included are such liberation movements as those in the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkes­tan, Armenia, North Caucasia, Byelorussia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Rumania and Croatia.)

10. Call for support of the Republic of China's political offensive against the Chinese Communists, and concrete measures to liberate the oppressed masses on the Chinese mainland, as well as implacable opposition to U.N., admission of the Peiping regime.

11. Call for support of the Republic of Korea's unification program for Korea, and liberation of the enslaved people of North Korea in accordance with U.N. resolutions. "

12. Establishment of regional security organiza­tions to prevent further Communist aggression.

13. Mobilization of freedom forces and the est­ablishment of a global anti-Communist united front.

Other important business of WACL included:

—Amendment of the league charter to give life-long tenure to the honorary presidency of WACL, a post held by Dr., Ku Cheng-kang of China since the league's 1968 conference in Saigon.

—Amendment of the charter to facilitate expansion of the WACL Executive Board from 9 to 13 members so as to include representatives of youths, enslaved peoples and new regions. To be represented on the board for the next three years are the Republics of China and, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, WYACL and Captive Nations of Europe.

—Decision to hold the 5th WACL Conference in Manila, in July of 1971.

As subsequently decided, the 17th conference of APACL will take place in Manila immediately after the WACL meeting. This will be in keeping with the solidarity and ideological conformity of the two international anti-Communist organizations.

The APACL Conference in Kyoto wrote these passages into its communique:

"As an important regional body and component of WACL, this Asian league solemnly resolved to accept unreservedly all the resolutions adopted at the 4th WACL Conference and endeavor unremittingly for their first-priority execution and fulfillment....

"Further developments in this region will strikingly influence the rest of the world. Evidence today points to an impending major change for the whole of Asia, and the emergence of a new situation favorable to the free world or the worsening of the present, critical condition depends fully on the free nations' efforts toward a system of collective defense against Communism.

"For these reasons, the APACL Conference de­cided to call upon free Asian government leaders to work for the immediate convocation of an Asian Secu­rity Conference so that all the nations in the region can join forces for the strenuous task of defending their own freedom and security and for the early establish­ment of an Asian and Pacific Regional Security Organ­ization. The conference earnestly hopes that the Asian and Pacific Council can actively promote this plan, expand its own scope of operation and persuade all the concerned nations to join the formation of free Asian defense.... "

The need of a regional security organization for Asia and the Pacific has been recognized for years. When APACL met in Saigon in 1968, appeals were made for such a defense arrangement. This was repeated in Bangkok last December and again at Kyoto.

No one aware of the danger of Communism would doubt the wisdom of the APACL calls. But an im­mediate realization of the plan presents difficulties. For example, most people believe that APSO, as the proposed Asian and Pacific security organization might be called, could not be effective without Japan's par­ticipation. There is some opposition to this idea for fear that the Japanese may return to the militarism of the Pacific War days.

This fear may be overcome. The large majority of Japanese feel that their nation will never again invade or attempt to dominate other countries. There arc also capitulationist Japanese who want peace at any price, optimists who think Japan can stay aloof from Communist aggressions in neighboring countries and leftists who want the communization of Japan. For Japan to take part in a military alliance like ASPO, the nation's constitution would have to be amended. This is possible but not easy.

Security arrangements in the Asian and Pacific region presently include ANZUS, a 1951 pact involving Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Additionally the United States has individual treaties with the Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Philippines and other countries.

Nations normally considered as possible members of APSO and pertinent data—(A) population in millions, (B) present internal Communist threat and (C) present threat of Communist conquest-are as follows:

Country                        A                   B                  C Cambodia                       7                 yes                yes Rep. of China                14                  no             slight Indonesia                    115                 yes                 no Japan                          105              slight                 no Rep. of Korea                31                  no              slight Laos                               3                 yes                 yes Malaysia                        11                 yes                   no Philippines                     36                 yes                   no Singapore                       2              slight                   no Thailand                        34              slight                  yes Rep. of Vietnam             17                  yes                 yes United States               205              slight                   no Australia                        12               slight                  no New Zealand                    3                   no                  no Population of the 14 nations totals nearly 600 million, including 375 million in Asian countries and 220 in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The overall productivity is much larger than that of Communist Asia and the capacity for the scientific use of resources, of communication and organization is in­finitely greater.

However, in the words of Douglas Darby, an Australian and a member of the Parliament of New South Wales since 1945, the Asian APSO nations have not yet recognized that they all face the same problem and should have a joint purpose.

Writing in the September issue of Asian Outlook, a publication of the WACL/APACL China Chapter, Darby warned: "With so much to lose and so much to gain, they (the Asian APSO nations) must con­centrate upon a practical approach and mutual under­standing. Nevertheless, a premature attempt may well result in failure. Those still suspicious of their neighbors need the healing forces of time and mutual res­pect."

Despite the obstacles that still must be surmount­ed, free Asians can be optimistic about a united anti­-Communist vista for the region. This hope was en­hanced in Japan during WACL 70 and is being strengthened further throughout the world.

Part of the new energy is coming from the music boxes that the anti-Communist leaders took home as gifts from their Japanese hosts. The tune is that of WACL. Records of the song in both Japanese and English have been made available so that others may learn and sing together. Owners of the music boxes will cherish memories of a significant week in Japan. The seedlings they and their new Japanese friends planted together will grow as their song—"Let's Join Our Hands, Friends of the World"—spreads far and wide.

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Ford Greene interviewed following the death of Sun Myung Moon – his tactics similar to those of Hitler

Interviewed by Peter B. Collins in 2012

Ford Greene, an expert on religious cults including Scientology and the Unification Church, returns to talk about the death of Rev. Moon. Greene, once a Moonie himself, talks about the impact of Rev. Moon’s death. We touch on my podcast with Archbishop Stallings in early September, and the spin he put on the cult behaviors of Moon and his followers. Greene has deprogrammed many Moonies, and sued the church on behalf of former members. His own sister remains a member of the church. We talk about the CIA connections of Moon and his underlings, Moon’s role in right wing politics in the US, including his operation of the Washington Times....

Peter: Ford, one of the things that I hope we will learn about, some time in the future, is the connection between Moon, the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and the US CIA. Because when he first came to a political awareness in the United States, or to political participation, he kind of parachuted in at the very last minute of the Nixon impeachment process and argued in favor of the embattled president. He then went on to start the Washington Times which has been a reliable megaphone for the most extreme of right-wing and Republican politics in this country. And because of Colonel Bo Hi Pak, who was an officer in the KCIA, I have long suspected that there is much more there than what is on the surface. Your comment on that?

Ford: Well, the Moon organization was well in position prior to its campaign to ‘forgive, love and unite’ behind Richard Nixon. I think it was in 1974, or maybe it was later. It was a long time ago.

Peter: I think it was actually early ’75. I actually covered the whole Watergate episode in great detail. I had an all-night talk show in Chicago. I always praise Richard Nixon because he gave me the wherewith-all to become number one in the ratings. One day I was called into the office and the suits said, “Peter, what the hell are you doing?” And I said, ‘Oh we’re talking about Nixon every night,’ and they pulled out this binder and said, “Well, you are number one in the ratings and we don’t understand that.” (laughs) So I always have a little bit of a soft spot for Nixon because of that.

Ford: Yeah, yeah, because he gave you a good launching pad. Certainly the involvement of the Moon organization helps that. It is interesting when you go back and look at the historic underpinnings of the Moon organization. Among the persons present included a guy named Ryoichi Sasagawa who was the brain behind the kamikaze [suicide] pilots in Japan [that flew in WWII] and then Sasagawa went on to hold a position in the yakuza, in organized crime in Japan. Another yakuza guy who was also at the core of the beginning of the Unification Church was named Yoshio Kodama. And so the blending of the Moon organization and the yakuza was then expanded globally, first by means of what was called the Asian People’s Anti-Communist League, which then bloomed into the World Anti-Communist League. In the context of WACL, of the World Anti-Communist League, there were a lot of fascists from all the world that were ostensibly united by a hatred of communism, but whose objective really was to develop as much power as possible on an ad-hoc basis. One of the ways that it really came to the fore was in terms of taking positions [aiding] the Contras in the 1980s in Central America. Moon was involved intimately in that, intimately in providing funding, and in raising money and in supporting Oliver North and the leader in that was a US general named John Singlaub.

Peter: Excuse me, there was no implication on the Iran part of the Iran-Contra [affair] with Rev. Moon

Ford: No

Peter: Because that was just a weapons deal that was used to fund Contra operations

Peter: The weapons part, but then there was also, remember, the cocaine part. So there were a lot of moving pieces all of which were aimed at subverting the Boland Amendment which prohibited the US participation in all of that. It is just interesting to see how the Moon organization developed from having links with the Korean Central Intelligence Agency to organized crime in Japan to far right fascist organizations and then all of that gets rolled up and used to support far right fascism in the United States via the Washington Times and via other mechanisms that the Moonies employed to do that.

Ford: Moon’s writings very, very clearly state that the separation between church and state is what Satan likes the most. That the objective in starting the Washington Times and in influencing American politicians was to take over and control American democracy, because America was the strongest country and the one that provided, by means of the liberties protected via the First Amendment, the most access for the Unification Church. So really again it is like with anybody who’s a big bullshitter you look when the words don’t match the deeds you’ll look at the deeds and follow the actions and do your interpretations from there. And one of the things that is very interesting about Moon is, like Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put the world on notice what his plans were early on before he did it, Moon did the same thing in Master Speaks. He detailed out how it was he was going to go about, to whatever extent he could accomplish, influencing, if not taking over, various American institutions and then went right ahead and did exactly what he said he was going to do. … Just to go back for one moment with Stallings talking about the meaning of the word messiah, it is sort of “Oh, Gee, I guess we are all messiahs.” (laughter) And personally that is the point that I prefer. But when you’re in an organization that places all power, all influence, all spiritual authority in the person of one living human being, and then specifically remove any sort of authority from other people, that kind of objectification is what helps set up what Robert Jay Lifton characterized as an atrocity producing situation where you’ve got complete objectification on one side and you are you’ve got the total exercise of power on the other side. More often than not what happens in that context is the expression of sadism that’s inherent in just about every human being. And so the use and utility of the term messiah assumes much broader meaning than the watered-down version that it sounds like Stallings tried to promote.

LINK:

Ford Greene, Attorney and Moonie De-Programmer, on the Death of Rev. Moon; Gary Chew Reviews ‘The Master’ ...

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Where does the Psychology of the Adversary come from?

“When I left, I looked back on the last four years and realized I had been serving Hitler.”

[atlasgaveup]

Don't you know communism has killed millions?!"

DEATHS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM:

Native American Genocide, 1500s-1900s (direct killings and death from plagues; North, Central, and South Americas combined): 100 MILLION [x]

Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500s-1900s (princessbuggie helped with this one): 4 MILLION [x]

September Massacres, France, 1792: 1,200 [x]

Famines in British India, 1837-1900: at least 165 MILLION [x]

Potato Famine/Great Irish Famine, 1845-1852 (an anon helped with this one): 1 MILLION [x]

Cholera Outbreak, Industrial London, 1849: 15,000 [x]

United States Civil War, 1861-1865: at least 600,000 [x]

Building First Transcontinental Railroad, United States, 1863-1869 (princessbuggie helped with this one): at least 1,200 [x]

Belgian Occupation of the Congo, 1886-1908: 10 MILLION [x]

Spanish-American War, 1898: 17,135 [x]

United States 20th Century Coal Mining Industry: 100,000 [x]

Courriéres Mine Disaster, France, 1906: 1,549 [x]

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 (vivianvivisection helped with this one): 146 [x]

World War I, 1914-1918: 16 MILLION [x]

Building the Hoover Damn, United States, 1922-1936: 112 [x]

Shanghai Massacre of 1927: at least 5,000 presumed dead [x]

United States Intervention in Latin America, 1929-1987 (progressivefem helped with this one): 6 MILLION [x]

The White Terror, Spain, 1936-1975: at least 100,000 [x]

World War II, 1939-1945: at least 60 MILLION [x]

Benxihu Colliery Explosion, China, 1942: 1,549 [x]

Burma Railway, Thailand-Burma, 1943-1947: 106,000 [x]

Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945: at least 245,000 [x]

Bodo League Massacre, Korea, 1950: at least 100,000 [x]

Vietnam War, 1955-1975: 2.3 MILLION [x] [x]

Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996 (an anon helped with this one): 200,000 [x]

US Intervention in the Congo, 1964: 1,000 [x]

Indonesian Anti-Communist Purge, 1965-1966: at least 500,000 [x]

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1965-2013: 21,500 [x], 1,000 more Palestinians have been killed in 2014.

Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988: at least 315,000 [x]

Bhopal Disaster, Madhya Pradesh, 1984: 16,000+ [x]

United States Railroad Workers Killed on the Job, 1993-2002 (princessbuggie helped with this one): 1,221 [x]

Rwandan Genocide, 1994: 1 MILLION [x]

United States Deaths Attributed to Cigarette Smoking, 2000-2004: ~1.7 MILLION [x]

War in Afghanistan, 2001-present: 57,457 [x]

Darfur Genocide, 2003-present: 10,000 [x]

Iraq War, 2003-2011: 55,034 [x]

Mexican Drug War, 2006-present: at least 100,000 [x]

United States Workers Killed on the Job in 2012, as reported by OSHA: 4,628 [x]

Hunger (un-feuilly-de-papier helped with this one): 21,000 per day [x], 16,000 of them children [x], 3,000 of them children specifically in India [x].

Worldwide Occupational Deaths: 6,000 per day [x]

Poor shelter, polluted water, inadequate sanitation, often from homelessness (sideeffectsincludenausea helped with this one): 50,000 per day [x]

Occupational Asbestos Exposure: 107,000 per year [x]

International Sex Trafficking: 30,000 per year [x]

“Communist Death Toll,” according to The Black Book of Communism: 94 million

Capitalism Death Toll: 369 million (369,790,731), according only to the statistics I could get sources for. This number doesn’t even scratch the surface.

But, guess what? Tomorrow, we know for sure that capitalism will kill at least 77,000 more people.

You know what? No. Fuck this. I’m sick of clueless young Westeners undermining the deaths under communism to further their argument. My parents lived trough this shit. My grandparents lost half their families during Mao’s reign, were sent to labour camps and beaten and worked half to death and I’m sick people like you ignoring their lives in favour of some cheap argument to prop up communism.

You can argue against capitalism and I won’t say a word against it - but if your argument is based on the idea that communism is somehow the “lesser evil”, thereby completely disregarding the government-sanctioned genocide, famine, violence and oppression that actual people suffered, then you can take several fucking seats - especially if you’ve never experienced that violence, never lost family members to that violence and never seen first-hand what it drives people to.

Because you’re using statistics from over 500 years and across the globe (60 countries going by your stats) to compare to the death toll of what occurred over 50 years and in 11 countries.

95 million is an extremely all-inclusive number and it’s been debated about the historical accuracies and how broadly covers. Even so, a majority of that number is spread out to a few countries in under fifty years.

Now obviously, more than eleven countries have been communist states - but going by the ‘95 million’ statistic, most of the these numbers are split between China under Mao, USSR under Stalin and Cambodia under Khmer Rouge. The rest are rough estimates from about 262 000 to 1.1 million which were under North Korea, East Germany, Romania, Hungary, North Vietnam, Ethiopia.

Communism may have killed less, but the death toll is far more saturated. To break this down a bit. Coming second to none is China:

an estimate of 42 million died in China during the three-year famine of 1958-1961. Historians dispute over the actual number; 15 million is official government numbers but unofficial estimates vary between 23 mil. (Peng) to 46 mil. (Chen), but the closest and most recent estimate is about 45 million by Dikötter, who included deaths from suicide, militia executions and violence.

sidenote: according Yang Jisheng, who estimated 30 million dead from famine, another estimated 40 million ‘failed to be born’, making about 70 million in population loss.

This happened during 3 years. in one country.

and oh yeah, there was also another 92,000 Tibetans killed under Communist Government from Mao to current and another estimated 1.2 million died during the Cultural Revolution from labour camps, prisons, murders and executions (‘61-‘69).

Now, lets look at Russia, coming second place.

not including war casualty, 20-30 million died under Stalin from 1924-1953. Again, numbers vary - some estimates go as high 60 million.

Of those, 1.2 million were from the Great Purge of ‘36-39 (including invasion of Mongolia and purge of XinJiang because guess what, communism doesn’t magically erase a white dude’s sense of imperialism).

Then there were from gulags, deportation and ethnic cleansing (of Jews, Slavs, Romani, Poles, among others).

The rest were deaths from from famine from ‘26-‘38. If we add deaths that occurred during deportations, POW died under care, and death in other Soviet countries during Stalin’s rule, then the average number gets closer to 30 mil.

Not to forget:

2.2 million were killed in Cambodia during Khmer Rouge’s rule, 1975-1979. Half were from famine/disease, half were executions.

Red Terror in Ethiopia: 30,000-500,000 (‘77-‘78)

Collectivisation in Romania: 60,000 to 190,000 (‘47-‘64)

North Vietnam land reform: ca 172,000 (some estimates btw 200,000 to 500,000) (‘53-‘56)

North Korea has no an ‘official’ number, but calculated deaths from 1948-87 were about 1 million. 240,000 to 420,000 people died as a result of the 1990s famine.

The death toll during Mao’s Famine during the Great Leap Forward would be an estimated 52,000 per day, going by 40 million death-toll estimates - and that from one country alone.

During Stalin’s Great Purge, executions were calculated to be 1000 per day.

And you want to compare this to a world-wide conglomerate?

And before you put words in my mouth, I’m not saying a damn thing in defense of capitalism.

You can denounce capitalism all you want, but you need take several steps back and reconsider if you’re going to do so on the backs of people who actually suffered through an oppressive, abusive, totalitarian regime by devaluing their suffering and using it as an example of how communism is the “"lesser evil”“ - especially if you have never lived through it, lost family members or felt the fear of such a regime.

Don’t attribute the death toll to Stalinism or Maoism or say it was ‘wrong form’ of communism. You do not get to cherry pick your flavour of totalitarianism so that it suits your social stance. You do not get to undermine, appropriate and white-wash the human atrocities and genocides committed in the name of communism so that you can cover up the ugly underbelly of how these regimes will work, has worked and is currently working.

These are not statistics for you to brush under the mat so that communism can seem ‘less evil’. People who deported, sent to labour camps, starved to death, sold out by the colleagues, murdered by their students are not collateral fucking damage for make-believe, Westernised idealistic communism.

(and another side-note: the Anti-communism cleansing in Indonesia had fuck-all to do with capitalism and everything to do with anti-Chinese sentiments. These were all tied in with the historical socio-politics at the time, such as the foreign policy of CCCP, the relationship and influence of the Chinese government under Zhou Enlai , and the state of Indonesia’s militarisation under Sukarno that was helped by China. To use their complicated and brutal political and social history that literally nothing to do with Western capitalism and everything to do with East Asian international relations to back your argument is really fucking imperialist.)

I would’ve got an aneurysm trying to elaborate on everything wrong with OP’s post and how it’s stuffed with smug Western imperialism and US-centrism. (So now, all the deaths in Europe and Asia in WW2 were just about ‘capitalism’? Not, I dunno, some ideas of German and Japanese ethnic and racial superiority? Unless you want to tell me racial and ethnic tensions that long-predated capitalism somehow were caused by capitalism? Fuck that bullshit.)

And slavery as a system has been present in human societies long before capitalism was even a twinkle in anyone’s eye. It can exist in a non-capitalist society. And let’s just say there were plenty of forced labour camps and gulags in Communist regimes. I mean, if I recall correctly, didn’t the ostensibly “”Capitalist”” World War 2 in Europe begin when Nazi Germany AND the Soviet Union invaded Poland? Maybe because imperialism isn’t tied strictly to a capitalist society though the two can reinforce each other. Or no empires would have existed before the modern era.

TBH I’ve no more patience for people who love glossing over the complexities of the violence suffered by our families just to fit their agenda, especially when these people are trying to appear Oh So Progressive but it’s just Western imperialism on steroids.

My reply to anyone that wants to argue the point that communism is better, is to tell them to pack their bags, denounce their citizenship from the country they despise and ask for asylum in the country of their choice that is currently under communist control. North Korea would be happy to show the wealth of their people. Venezuela would be happy to keep you safe from crime and show the wealth of their people. Name your destination, as long as it’s the communist dictatorship you want. I’ll buy the one way ticket.

there are only two groups of people who desire Communism:

1. Those who never lived under it, and

2. Those who lived under it and had power over others.

That should tell you something, but you’re a fucking idiot.

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But they fought communism...

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China’s dangerous Taiwan temptation

New Post has been published on http://khalilhumam.com/chinas-dangerous-taiwan-temptation/

China’s dangerous Taiwan temptation

By Robert Kagan When the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and the United States and the League of Nations began peppering them with public notes and statements calling on them to desist, humorist Will Rogers observed that, “every time they get another note they take another town.” “We had better quit writing notes,” he suggested, or soon they “will have all China.” Six years later, the Japanese did try to take all of China, and more. A major reason was that Japanese leaders believed, and the Manchurian crisis offered the first clear evidence, that the United States was ultimately not prepared to back up its denunciations with force. Today, we hurl condemnations and warnings at China for extinguishing freedom in Hong Kong, brutally oppressing the Uighur Muslim minority and making aggressive military moves along the Indian border, in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. We ban Chinese companies, engage in tariff wars and excoriate the Chinese for their role in spreading the novel coronavirus. Our political parties compete to outdo each other in anti-Chinese rhetoric and policy proposals. And so far, our words and sanctions have been cost-free. But if this confrontation were to move to the next level, would we be ready, materially and psychologically? We may soon find out. There has never been any mystery about what Chinese President Xi Jinping wants, because it is what Beijing has wanted for decades: to make the Chinese nation whole again, to subdue opposition in Xinjiang and Tibet, to control the South China Sea and certain strategically located islands in the East China Sea, to regain Hong Kong, taken by the British in the 1840s, and to “reunite” Taiwan with the mainland under the Chinese Communist Party’s rule. These are fixed goals, much as it was Japan’s fixed goal in the 1930s to expand control of the Asian mainland. The only questions have been about means and timing. For most of the past few decades, Beijing’s approach has been relatively patient and peaceful. Wary of tangling with the United States militarily, and fearful of being politically and economically isolated in a hostile world, as China was for a time after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the Chinese have hoped to accomplish their objectives largely by using their growing economic clout. Until recently, they were fairly successful. In the 1990s, the powerful lure of the vast Chinese market was enough to overcome Western discomfort with Beijing’s domestic oppression. American corporations essentially dictated U.S. policy during the Clinton years, leading first to the granting of most-favored-nation status and admission to the World Trade Organization, then to the transfer of Hong Kong on the terms demanded by Beijing. That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing. But for China, the subjugation of Hong Kong may be the last great fruit of the peaceful, economic approach. The liberal capitalist world has become steadily less enthralled by the money to be made in China and more concerned about Chinese economic competition, both fair and unfair, and nervous about China’s mastery of the new information technologies and the acquisitive expansionism of its Belt and Road project. Since the late Obama years, the American mood has shifted from welcoming to fearing China’s economic success. That has raised important questions for Xi and his colleagues. If the peaceful, economic route to their goals is closing, is it time to shift to more forceful means? Is it time to start making use of the military capacity they have spent more than two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars building? Taiwan is likely to be the place where these questions are answered. For more than two decades, Beijing governments have tried to cajole and coerce the Taiwanese through a combination of economic inducements and diplomacy, and the ever-present threat of force. For much of this time, the Chinese appeared to believe they were making progress, especially during the years 2008-2016, when Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou made gestures toward unification. Meanwhile, Beijing moved cautiously in Hong Kong, knowing that harsh suppression of its freedoms could frighten many Taiwanese into the arms of pro-independence advocates. And indeed, the crackdown on Hong Kong protesters last year probably played a role in the overwhelming reelection victory in January 2020 of the more independence-minded party of President Tsai Ing-wen. That Xi has now decided to end the Hong Kong charade once and for all has ominous implications for Taiwan. China can launch devastating missile strikes against Taiwan in the first 24 hours of a conflict, leaving Taipei a choice between surrendering and holding out to see whether the Americans will arrive in time to prevent total annihilation. If China can achieve unification, the political and strategic shift in Asia would be world-altering — especially given the Trump administration’s recent strengthening of ties with Taiwan. A U.S. failure to prevent Taiwan’s military defeat and absorption would send shock waves throughout the region and beyond. Japan, Korea and other regional players would likely rethink their relationship with the United States. And a China in possession of Taiwan would be poised to dominate East Asia and the western Pacific as never before, scrambling the entire global strategic equation. This would be a historic accomplishment for Xi, but there are also huge risks. Trying to take Taiwan and failing would be catastrophic, both to Xi personally and possibly to the regime itself. As with Japan in the 1930s, much will depend on how the Chinese read the Americans right now — what they think President Trump is likely to do, what policies they think a Biden administration is likely to pursue. Is the Trump administration ready to respond to a Chinese attack or threatened attack on Taiwan? Would a Biden administration be? Are the American people? Are we prepared to go beyond statements and sanctions if the Chinese call our bluff? American policies in the two decades before World War II were shaped by what in retrospect looks like a stunning naïveté about other nations’ willingness to resort to force. One wonders if we are any less naive today.

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Reverend Moon: Cult leader, CIA asset and Bush family friend

Bob Fitrakis

September 4, 2012

The death of Reverend Sun Myung Moon hopefully ends one of the strangest chapters in U.S. security industrial complex history. The self-proclaimed "Messiah" who owned dozens of businesses including Kahr Arms, and who once claimed to have presided over Jesus' wedding posthumously in order to get the Christian savior into heaven, was ultimately a front in the United States for friends in the CIA like George Herbert Walker Bush.

Moon founded the Washington Times newspaper in 1982 and the Washington Post went out of its way to avoid any mention of the "the dark side of the Moon" upon his death Monday, September 3, 2012 at age 92. When George W. Bush faltered in New Hampshire in early 2000, it was Moon's shadowy cultish right-wing network that came to its rescue in South Carolina. Moon's forces helped turn a certain primary defeat into a double-digit victory by spreading Moonies, his zombie-like followers, throughout the state. As the Washington Post reported, "An array of conservative groups have come to reinforce Bush's message with phone banks, radio ads, and mailings of their own."

Meanwhile, Moon's Washington Times ran the headline "Bush scoffs at assertion he moved too far right." The bizarre, almost unbelievable political alliance between the Bush family and Rev. Moon is one of the dirty little secrets of CIA involvement in U.S. domestic politics.

To understand the historical significance of Rev. Moon and his Moonies, one must start with Ryoichi Sasakawa, identified in a 1992 Frontline investigative report as the key money source behind Moon's far-flung world religious/business empire. Sasakawa bragged to Time magazine that he was "the world's richest fascist."

In the 1930s, Sasakawa was one of Japan's leading fascists. He organized a private army of 1500 men equipped with 20 war planes. His followers were Japan's version of Mussolini's Black Shirts. Sasakawa was a key figure in leading Japan into World War II and was an "uncondemned Class-A war criminal." Following WW II, he was captured and imprisoned for war crimes. According to U.S. documents, Sasakawa was suddenly freed with another accused war criminal, Yoshio Kodama, a prominent figure in Japan's organized crime syndicate, the Yakuza. They were freed in 1948, one year after the National Security Act established the CIA as the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In January 1995, Japan's KYODO News Service uncovered documents establishing that Kodama's release coincided with an agreement he had made with U.S. military intelligence two months earlier to serve as an informant. Declassified documents link Kodama's release to the CIA.

During WW II, Kodama activities, according to the U.S. Army counterintelligence records consisted of "systematically looting China of its raw materials" and dealing in heroin, guns, tungsten, gold, industrial diamonds and radium. Both Sasakawa's and Kodama's CIA ties are a reoccurring theme in their relationship with Rev. Moon.

In 1997, Congressman Donald Fraser launched an investigation into Moon's cult. The 444-page Congressional report alleged Moonie involvement with bribery, bank fraud, illegal kickbacks, and arms sales. The report revealed that Moon's 20,000-member Unification Church was a creation of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). The Moonies were working with KCIA Director Kim Chong Phil as a political instrument to influence U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. CIA was the agency primarily responsible for founding the KCIA after WW II. The Moon organization has denied any link with the U.S. intelligence agencies or the Korean government.

Moon, who is Korean, and his two fascist Japanese buddies Kodama and Sasakawa, worked together in the early 1960s to form the Asian People's Anti-Communist League with the aid of KCIA agents. The League allegedly used Japanese organized crime money and financial support from Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. The League concentrated its efforts on uniting fascist and right-wing militarists into an anti-Communist force throughout Asia.

In 1964, League funds established Moon's Freedom Center in the United States. Kodama served as a chief advisor to the Moon's subsidiary Win Over Communism, an organization that served as a conduit to protect Moon's South Korean financial investments. Sasakawa acted as Win Over Communism's Chair.

In 1966, the League merged with another fascist organization, the Anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations. The merger begat the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). Later, in the 1980s, the retired U.S. Major General John Singlaub emerged from the shadows of the League to become caught up in the Iran-Contra scandal. As Chairman of the WACL, Singlaub enlisted soldiers of fortune and other paramilitary groups to support the Contra cause in Nicaragua against the Sandinistas.

Moon's Freedom Center served as the headquarters for the League in the U.S. During the Iran-Contra hearings, the League was described as a "multi-national network of Nazi war criminals, Latin American death squad leaders, North American racists, and anti-Semites and fascist politicians from every continent."

Working with the KCIA, Moon made his first trip to the U.S. in 1965 and shockingly obtained an audience with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Both "Ike" and former President Harry S. Truman lent their names to letterhead of the Moon-created Korean Cultural Freedom Foundation. In 1969, Moon and Sasakawa jointly formed the Freedom Leadership Foundation, a pro-Vietnam War organization that lobbied the U.S. government.

In the 1970s, Moon earned notoriety in the so-called Koreagate scandal. Female followers of the Unification Church were accused of entertaining and horizontally lobbying U.S. Congressmen while keeping confidential files on those they "lobbied" at a Washington Hilton Hotel suite rented by the Moonies. The U.S. Senate held hearings concerning Moon's "programmatic bribery of U.S. officials, journalists, and others as part of an operation by the KCIA to influence the course of U.S. foreign policy." The Fraser report documented that Moon was "paid by the KCIA to stage demonstrations at the United Nations and run pro-South Korean propaganda campaigns." The Congressional investigator for the Fraser report said, "We determine that their (Moonies') primary interest, at least in the U.S. at that time, was not religion at all but was political, it was an attempt to gain power, influence and authority."

After Ronald Reagan's presidential victory in 1980, Moon's political influence increased dramatically. Vice President George Bush, former CIA director, invited Moon as his guest to the Reagan inauguration. Bush and Moon shared unsavory links to South American underworld figures. In 1980, according to the investigative magazine I.F., the Moon organization collaborated with a right-wing military coup in Bolivia that established the region's first narco-state.

Moon's credentials soared in conservative circles. In 1982, with the inception of the propaganda tabloid the Washington Times. Vice President Bush immediately saw the value of forging an alliance with the politically powerful Moon organization, an alliance that Moon claims made Bush president. One former-Moonie website claims that during the 1988 Bush-Dukakis battle, Rev. Moon threatened his followers that they would be moved out of the United States if the evil Dukakis won.

Moon himself lacked clean hands. Moon was convicted of income tax evasion in 1982 and spent a year in a U.S. jail. Also in 1982, the Moon organization based at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio helped elect John Kasich, now Ohio's governor, to the U.S. Congress in 12th district. During the Gulf War, the Moonie-sponsored American Freedom Coalition organized "support the troops" rallies throughout the country.

The Frontline documentary identified the Washington Times as the most costly piece in Moon's propaganda arsenal, with losses estimated as high as $800 million. Still, the documentary asserts that his old friend Sasakawa's virtual monopoly over the Japanese speedboat gambling industry allowed money to continuously flow into U.S. coffers.

The Bush-Moonie connection caused considerable controversy in September 1995 when the former President announced he would be spending nearly a week in Japan on behalf of a Moonie front organization, the Women's Federation for World Peace, founded and led by Moon's wife.

Bush downplayed accusations of Moonie brain-washing and coercion. The New York Times noted that Bush's presence "is seen by some as lending the group [Moonies] legitimacy."

Long-time Moonie member S.P. Simmonds wrote an editorial for the Portland Press Herald noting that Bushes "didn't need the reported million dollars paid by Moon and were well aware of the Church's history." Other news sources placed the figure for the former President's presence at $10 million. Bush shared the podium with Moon's wife and addressed a crowd of 50,000 in the Tokyo dome. Bush told the faithful "Reverend and Mrs. Moon are engaged in the most important activities in the world today."

The following year, Moon bankrolled a series of "family values" conferences from Oakland to Washington D.C. The San Francisco Chronicle reported, "In Washington, Moon opened his checkbook to such Republican Party mainstays as former President Gerald Ford and George Bush, GOP presidential candidate Jack Kemp, and Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed."

Purdue University Professor of Sociology Anson Shupe, a long-time Moon-watcher, said, "The man accused of being the biggest brainwasher in America has moved into mainstream Republican Americana."

Moon proclaimed at his family values conferences that he was only one who knew "all the secrets of God." One of them, according to the Chronicle was that "the husband is the owner of his wife's sex organs and vice versa."

"President Ford, President Bush, who attended the inaugural World Convention of the Family Federation for World Peace" and all you distinguished guests are famous, but there's something that you do know now," the Chronicle quoted Moon as saying. "Is there anyone here who dislikes sexual organs? . . . Until now you may not have thought it virtuous to value the sexual organs, but from now, you must value them."

In November 1996, Bush the Elder arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, amid controversy over a newly-created Spanish language Moon weekly newspaper called Tiempos del Mundo. Bush smoothed things over as the principle speaker at the paper's inaugural dinner on November 23rd.

The former president then traveled with Moon to neighboring Uruguay to help him open a Montevideo seminary to train 4200 young Japanese women to spread the word of the Unification Church across Latin America. The young Japanese seminarians were later accused of laundering $80 million through a Uruguayan bank, according to the St. Petersburg Times. The Times also reported that when Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University faced bankruptcy, Moon bailed it out with millions of dollars of loans and grants.

In 1997 the New York Times wrote that Moon "has been reaching out to conservative Christians in this country in the last few years by emphasizing shared goals like support for sexual abstinence outside of marriage and opposition to homosexuality." Moon also appealed to Second Amendment advocates. In March 1999, the Washington Post reported that the cult leader owned the lucrative Kahr Arms company through Saeilo Inc.

It's the shadowy network around the Moonies and the CIA that helped propel both George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush into the presidency. Recently the "Messiah's" newspaper has spent most of its time attacking President Obama.

Besides the Washington Times, the Unification Church had business holdings including the United Press International (UPI). Moon was often shown in the mainstream media presiding over mass marriages of his followers. More importantly was his marriage of convenience to the CIA and the Bush family. His corruption of American politics lives on.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1209/S00029/reverend-moon-cult-leader-cia-asset-and-bush-family-friend.htm