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Moonie coronation
« on: 2004-06-22 08:16:56 » |
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Hail to the Moon king
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/
The deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office building -- crown, robes, the works -- is no longer one of Washington's best-kept secrets.
You probably imagine your congressman hard at work in the Capitol debating legislation, making laws -- you know, governing. But your newspaper probably didn't tell you that one night in March, members of Congress hosted a crowning ritual for an ex-convict and multibillionaire who dressed up in maroon robes and declared himself the Second Coming.
On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin -- the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him "none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."
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The crowning ritual indeed began as a somewhat normal awards ceremony. Ribbons that looked like Olympic gold medals were given to Rep. Bartlett and others. But then it took an odd turn. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., whose office maintained he did not attend the event until I provided photographs of him there -- spoke beside a photograph of himself pinning an American flag on Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy, back when President Bush was praising him for abandoning WMD programs and before he was suspected of trying to kill the leader of Saudi Arabia.
Then, after Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., gave a speech praising one of Moon's Ambassadors for Peace, the civil rights veteran Rev. Walter Fauntroy, an unnamed Lubovitch rabbi took the stage declaring: "I have never seen this miracle where Jews, Christians and Muslims come together for peace!" Then Moon's cleric Chung Kwak took the mic. Before his days as the commander of the UPI wire service, Kwak, Moon said in a 1997 speech, was authorized to whomp on Unification Church members who slacked off. "Particularly those who are sleeping and hiding, Reverend Kwak's baseball bat will fall upon you at any time," Moon said. Now Kwak was standing in a Senate office building declaring Moon the king of the "second and third Israel."
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In a 1994 speech, he asked: "Do you like the smell of your husband's semen? Answer to Father. Does it smell good or bad? You may not like the smell of your wife's stool, but do you smell your own? Why don't you smell your own but you smell your wife's? Because you are not totally one."
But if Moon pulled off his greatest trick on Mar. 23, fooling some unsuspecting congressmen into attending his coronation, it's not as if his stunt was new -- for more than 25 years, Moon has sought to surround himself with powerful people to gain credibility and legitimacy, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. If the congressmen had simply run "Ambassadors for Peace" through the Google search engine, they would have discovered the group was tied to Moon and his grand plans for the future of Christianity -- plans to "reconcile" religions by tearing the Christian cross off church walls and persuading Jews to sign apologies for giving Jesus over to the Romans.
Weldon, for one, had a long time to do that Google search. As far back as June 19, 2003, he's listed in a speech by Rep. Danny K. Davis on the floor of the House of Representatives honoring Moon: "Many of my colleagues will join me and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon), co-chair, in giving tribute to some of the outstanding Americans from our districts," said Davis. "We are grateful to the founders of Ambassadors for Peace, the Reverend and Mrs. Sun Myung [Moon], for promoting the vision of world peace, and we commend them for their work."
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Re: virus: Moonie coronation
« Reply #1 on: 2004-06-22 09:28:33 » |
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At 06:16 AM 22/06/04 -0600, you wrote:
>Hail to the Moon king
>http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/
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>The deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office
>building -- crown, robes, the works -- is no longer one of Washington's
>best-kept secrets.
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The only positive aspect to this is that there are *so many* nuts trying to
influence things that they cancel each other out to some degree.
Keith Henson
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Re:Moonie coronation
« Reply #2 on: 2004-06-22 12:55:59 » |
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[rhinoceros 1]
Hail to the Moon king
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/
The deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office building -- crown, robes, the works -- is no longer one of Washington's best-kept secrets
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[hkhenson]
The only positive aspect to this is that there are *so many* nuts trying to influence things that they cancel each other out to some degree.
[rhinoceros 2]
One problem is that the way these memeplexes cancel each other is by diminishing rationality as a memetic selector -- they promote a memetic landscape where "anything goes."
Looking closer, we also notice that few nutty influences who can afford to sink a few billion dollars into the "memetic selection" environment (e.g. by owning Washington Times, beckoning embarassed senators who try to hide the fact etc) can be a challenge to the traditional rational view of the "democracy" memeplex.
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Re: virus: Re:Moonie coronation
« Reply #4 on: 2004-06-22 13:52:56 » |
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It's always been clear to me that the extremely wealthy and powerful are at a memetic selection disadvantage in our society. Possibly even a genetic disadvantage as well. (Inbred, low repro rates, etc.)
The care with which an average person must attend to memetic input is reinforced by the negative impact of bad decisions. We literally can't afford to be drastically wrong as often.
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From: "rhinoceros" <rhinoceros@freemail.gr>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:56:00
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Subject: virus: Re:Moonie coronation
[rhinoceros 1]
Hail to the Moon king
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/
The deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office building -- crown, robes, the works -- is no longer one of Washington's best-kept secrets
<snip>
[hkhenson]
The only positive aspect to this is that there are *so many* nuts trying to influence things that they cancel each other out to some degree.
[rhinoceros 2]
One problem is that the way these memeplexes cancel each other is by diminishing rationality as a memetic selector -- they promote a memetic landscape where "anything goes."
Looking closer, we also notice that few nutty influences who can afford to sink a few billion dollars into the "memetic selection" environment (e.g. by owning Washington Times, beckoning embarassed senators who try to hide the fact etc) can be a challenge to the traditional rational view of the "democracy" memeplex.
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First, read Bruce Sterling's "Distraction", and then read http://electionmethods.org.
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