COMMENT: Sun Myung Moon has finally expired, 92 years too late. Head of what is gen­er­ally viewed as a “cult,” Moon actu­ally headed a pow­er­ful, inter­na­tional fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion with strong ties to the GOP, the Bush fam­ily, ele­ments of the CIA.

The Moon orga­ni­za­tion appears to be an exten­sion of the Japan­ese patri­otic and ultra-nationalist societies–the vehi­cles for the elim­i­na­tion by assas­si­na­tion of oppo­nents of Japan­ese fas­cism, impe­ri­al­ism and mil­i­tarism. The soci­eties thus became the pri­mary vehi­cle for the ele­va­tion of fas­cism in Japan.

The recently rebroad­cast FTR #291 sets forth some of the most impor­tant con­sid­er­a­tions con­cern­ing the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church. Listeners/Readers are emphat­i­cally encour­aged to exam­ine this show and the descrip­tion for it at some length.  

(FTR #428 also con­tains dis­cus­sion of the Japan­ese patri­otic soci­eties, as does AFA #7.)

“Sun Myung Moon Dies at 92; Led Con­tro­ver­sial Uni­fi­ca­tion Church” by Elaine Woo; Los Ange­les Times; 9/3/2012.

EXCERPT: The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed Mes­siah from South Korea who led the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church, one of the most con­tro­ver­sial reli­gious move­ments to sweep Amer­ica in the 1970s, has died. He was 92.

Moon, who had been hos­pi­tal­ized with pneu­mo­nia in August, died Mon­day at a hos­pi­tal in Gapyeong, South Korea, church offi­cials announced.
Although greeted as a Korean Billy Gra­ham when he arrived in the United States four decades ago, Moon grad­u­ally emerged as a reli­gious fig­ure with quite dif­fer­ent beliefs, whose move­ment was labeled a cult and whose fol­low­ers were mocked as “Moonies.” At the height of his pop­u­lar­ity, he claimed 5 mil­lion mem­bers world­wide, a fig­ure that ex-members and other observers have called inflated. Those num­bers are believed to have fallen into the thou­sands today.

Moon offered an unortho­dox mes­sage that blended calls for world peace with an unusual inter­pre­ta­tion of Chris­tian­ity, strains of Con­fu­cian­ism and a stri­dent anti-communism. He was famous for pre­sid­ing over mass mar­riage cer­e­monies that high­lighted Unification’s empha­sis on tra­di­tional morality.

What also made Moon unusual was a multi­na­tional cor­po­rate vision that made him a mil­lion­aire many times over. He owned vast tracts of land in the U.S. and South Amer­ica, as well as dozens of enter­prises, includ­ing a bal­let com­pany, a uni­ver­sity, a gun man­u­fac­turer, a seafood oper­a­tion and sev­eral media orga­ni­za­tions, most notably the con­ser­v­a­tive Wash­ing­ton Times news­pa­per. He also owned United Press International. . . .