I don't always comment but I am familiar with your excellent posts on the subject. In fact, a couple of the photos in that post and some excerpts in the comments originated with yours truly. I am sure many folk's eyes glaze over at all the info but Moon is no soundbite. The thing is, the reality-free right and all that goes with it, was molded and nurtured along by Moon's operatives and cash the last 35 years or so. When people scratch their heads and ask what happened to the conservative movement, MOON DID!
Boettcher - absolutely no doubt had he lived, our nation and the world would have been different. NO DOUBT! He would have been the voice of opposition to this theofascist political machine. That said, one person whose opinions I respect a great deal told me that Boettcher had been depressed at the time of his death. I still wonder though.
Moon is trying to hold on until Jan 2013 when his Kingdom will have a relaunch. It is called Cheon Il Guk, which he declared started in 2001 but now he says the official start or "D" day is in 2013. At 91, Moon is sometimes wheel-chaired around now. Btw, the folks in heaven can't wait for his arrival. The Moon org teaches that the Kingdom of Heaven does not start until Moon goes there to take his seat next to God. Moon claims to be God incarnate - that his words are God's. He says there is no need to try to discern any difference between "Heavenly Father" and "True Father." His son says Jesus, Muhammad and all past saints bow before Sun Myung Moon.
On the links I posted. Octafish, if I could only get people to sit their asses down and watch one thing it would be the 1991 panel of former Moon editors. Scoobie Davis transcribed this part of Whelan's talk. (Note the Q&A sound is not so good but it is quite revealing - Warder says he quit the UC because he realized Moon was a racist who saw Korea as the master race and they wanted to take his child to be raised Korean nannies.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9008719207533458404&hl=en <I>"They (the Moonies) are subverting our political system. They're doing it through front organizations--most of them disguised--and through their funding of independent organizations--through the placement of volunteers in the inner sanctums of hard-pressed organizations. In every instance--in every instance--those who attend their conferences, those who accept their money or their volunteers, delude themselves that there is no loss of virtue because the Moonies have not proselytized. That misses the central, crucial point: the Moonies are a political movement in religious clothing. Moon seeks power, not the salvation of souls. To achieve that, he needs religious fanatics as his palace guard and shock troops. But more importantly, he needs secular conscripts--seduced by money, free trips, free services, seemingly endless bounty and booty--in order to give him respectability and, with it, that image of influence which translates as power."</I>
The next thing I would suggest would be the Frontline:
http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml- you can find a transcript of a NBC Nightly News program from 1990 on the Moon org here. The new archives for Kos doesn't include the quote boxes for some reason but you should be able to figure what is a quote and what is not.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/15/172136/-Why-TV-news-will-NOT-cover-Sun-Myung-Moons-influence-on-our-nationGorenfeld's Prospect piece you posted is a must read and from a few years ago..this is a must read also, imo.
http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2001/06/moon-shadow.htmlBut the editor panel, imo, if one hasn't seen it the odds of them having any real understanding as to what the paper is about are not so good. When people say it was started to fight communism, that, imo, is BULLSHIT!
Keep up the good work.