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Garrison Keillor wrote this great article back in 2004 before the presidential “elections”. Garrison is always a great wordsmith, and his observations and insights are as relevant today as they were when he first published the article in 2004. Give it a read.

Excerpt from “We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore”:

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.

By Garrison Keillor

Family’s fury at mystery death

The first Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly’s family knew of his death was when
his battered corpse turned up at Baghdad’s morgue. Attached to the
zipped-up black US body bag was a laconic note.

The US military claimed in the note that Dr Izmerly, a distinguished
chemistry professor arrested after US tanks encircled his villa, had
died of “brainstem compression”.

Dr Izmerly’s sudden death after 10 months in American custody left his
family stunned, not least because three weeks earlier they had visited
him in the US prison at Baghdad airport. His 23-year-old daughter, Rana,
recalled that he had seemed in “good health”.

The family commissioned an independent Iraqi autopsy. Its conclusion was
unambiguous: Dr Izmerly had died because of a “sudden hit to the back of
his head”, Faik Amin Baker, the director of Baghdad hospital’s forensic
department, certified.

The cause of death was blunt trauma. It was uncertain exactly how he
died, but someone had hit him from behind, possibly with a bar or a
pistol, Dr Baker confirmed yesterday.

“He died from a massive blow to the head. We don’t disagree with the
coalition’s report, but it doesn’t explain how he got his injuries in
the first place,” he told the Guardian.

The apparent murder of a “high-value” detainee, held as part of the
search for weapons of mass destruction, is another blow for the Bush
administration, still reeling from the Abu Ghraib jail abuse scandal.

Dr Izmerly was on the coalition’s original “200 list” of suspects from
Saddam Hussein’s regime, and his death happened just two weeks after the
US military began its own secret inquiry into the prison west of
Baghdad. Last Friday the Pentagon admitted it was now investigating
eight more suspected murders.

Several prisoners have been found to have died before or during
interrogation. They include Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, a former
commander of Iraq’s air defences, who died last November during
interrogation at Qaim.

The original US autopsy said he had died of a heart attack. It now
appears he was suffocated during interrogation when a CIA officer put
him in a sleeping bag and sat on him.

Last night the family of Dr Izmerly were in little doubt he had been
murdered in US custody. The reasons for his death were covered up, they
believe.

“This was not natural,” Rana told the Guardian yesterday, in the first
interview given by the family since his death. “The evidence is clear.
It suggests the Americans killed him and then tried to hide what they
had done. I will hate Americans and British people for the rest of my
life. You are democrats. You said you were coming to bring democracy,
and yet you kill my father. By accepting your governments, you accept
what they do here in Iraq.

“You offer no proof that he did something wrong, you refuse him a lawyer
and then you kill him. Why?”

Dr Izmerly does not appear to be among the cases under the review
announced by the US defence department last week.

The death certificate provided by the coalition, which is almost
entirely blank, fails to explain how he got a fracture in his skull, or
the small cut above his left eye. The scientist is merely a number,
1909.

Asked to explain how he had died, a coalition spokesman said last night:
“There are several investigations currently under way into the issue of
detainee abuse. It is inappropriate for us to comment on ongoing
investigations.”

The professor’s 60-year-old widow, Sahera Abdullah, said she had
received no satisfactory explanation of why he had been arrested in the
first place. His study at his villa in the Baghdad suburb of al-Khadra
had burned down during a shootout between US soldiers and Saddam’s
paramilitaries, the Fedayeen, during last year’s war, she said.

Soon afterwards, on April 25, US tanks encircled the house. Marines
kicked in the front door and then ransacked the home, carting off books,
papers, computers and family photographs. Mrs Izmerly said: “They stayed
for a day. I offered them tea and coffee. They seemed surprised.”

The next day Dr Izmerly gave himself up. The family admits that he had
met Saddam the previous year, but says he was part of a group of
academics summoned to meet the president. The family admits that the
price of his going to international scientific conferences was to pass
information to the mukhabarat, the secret police.

The first Red Cross letter arrived last May, but the family was still no
wiser as to where the US was holding him. After six months, they were
allowed to drop off some winter clothes at al-Taji, a US military base
north of Baghdad. There were three telephone calls. But their attempts
to visit him got nowhere.

Finally, Rana and her elder sister, Nuha, 27, and brother, Ashraf, 21,
discovered that their father was being kept at the US base at Baghdad
international airport. On January 11, they managed to see him.

A US officer, known as Mr Jakey, drove them blindfolded on a zigzagging
route through the camp. They were taken to an empty tourist villa. Her
father emerged from a side door. They gave him some sweets. “When I saw
him his health was good. He was normal. He was dressed in the clothes we
sent him earlier,” Rana said. “But he refused to talk about what had
happened to him in custody. I asked the Americans why they had arrested
him. They told me simply, ‘He is a witness’.”

The Red Cross visited him on January 19. On February 17, the
organisation informed the family that he was dead. “I went to the morgue
in the hospital and found him in a black US body bag,” Ashraf said
yesterday. “There was a cut on his head behind his right ear. It was
hard to miss.”

It was discovered that US doctors had made a 20cm incision in his skull,
apparently in an attempt to save his life after the initial blow.

The family presented its autopsy findings to an Iraqi judge. “He told
us, ‘You can’t do anything to the coalition. What happened is history,’”
Ashraf said.

Yesterday, as darkness fell around the scientist’s home, the family
showed some of their father’s belongings returned from the jail - a few
Red Cross letters, a bag of clothes and a framed photo.

But there also was the legacy of emotion - of a kind now common across
Iraq, and swelling into a storm. “I won’t allow myself to rest until I
have got revenge for him,” Rana said.

Atrocities in Iraq: ‘I killed innocent people for our government’

“We forget what war is about, what it does to those who wage it and
those who suffer from it. Those who hate war the most, I have often
found, are veterans who know it.” - Chris Hedges, New York Times
reporter and author of “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”

By Paul Rockwell — Special to The Bee

Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, May 16, 2004 — For nearly 12 years, Staff
Sgt. Jimmy Massey was a hard-core, some say gung-ho, Marine. For three
years he trained fellow Marines in one of the most grueling
indoctrination rituals in military life - Marine boot camp.

The Iraq war changed Massey. The brutality, the sheer carnage of the
U.S. invasion, touched his conscience and transformed him forever. He
was honorably discharged with full severance last Dec. 31 and is now
back in his hometown, Waynsville, N.C.

When I talked with Massey last week, he expressed his remorse at the
civilian loss of life in incidents in which he himself was involved.

Q: You spent 12 years in the Marines. When were you sent to Iraq?

A: I went to Kuwait around Jan. 17. I was in Iraq from the get-go. And I
was involved in the initial invasion.

Q: What does the public need to know about your experiences as a Marine?

A: The cause of the Iraqi revolt against the American occupation. What
they need to know is we killed a lot of innocent people. I think at
first the Iraqis had the understanding that casualties are a part of
war. But over the course of time, the occupation hurt the Iraqis. And I
didn’t see any humanitarian support.

Q: What experiences turned you against the war and made you leave the
Marines?

A: I was in charge of a platoon that consists of machine gunners and
missile men. Our job was to go into certain areas of the towns and
secure the roadways. There was this one particular incident - and
there’s many more - the one that really pushed me over the edge. It
involved a car with Iraqi civilians. From all the intelligence reports
we were getting, the cars were loaded down with suicide bombs or
material. That’s the rhetoric we received from intelligence. They came
upon our checkpoint. We fired some warning shots. They didn’t slow down.
So we lit them up.

Q: Lit up? You mean you fired machine guns?

A: Right. Every car that we lit up we were expecting ammunition to go
off. But we never heard any. Well, this particular vehicle we didn’t
destroy completely, and one gentleman looked up at me and said: “Why did
you kill my brother? We didn’t do anything wrong.” That hit me like a
ton of bricks.

Q: He spoke English?

A: Oh, yeah.

Q: Baghdad was being bombed. The civilians were trying to get out,
right?

A: Yes. They received pamphlets, propaganda we dropped on them. It said,
“Just throw up your hands, lay down weapons.” That’s what they were
doing, but we were still lighting them up. They weren’t in uniform. We
never found any weapons.

Q: You got to see the bodies and casualties?

A: Yeah, firsthand. I helped throw them in a ditch.

Q: Over what period did all this take place?

A: During the invasion of Baghdad.

‘We lit him up pretty good’
Q: How many times were you involved in checkpoint “light-ups”?

A: Five times. There was [the city of] Rekha. The gentleman was driving
a stolen work utility van. He didn’t stop. With us being trigger happy,
we didn’t really give this guy much of a chance. We lit him up pretty
good. Then we inspected the back of the van. We found nothing. No
explosives.

Q: The reports said the cars were loaded with explosives. In all the
incidents did you find that to be the case?

A: Never. Not once. There were no secondary explosions. As a matter of
fact, we lit up a rally after we heard a stray gunshot.

Q: A demonstration? Where?

A: On the outskirts of Baghdad. Near a military compound. There were
demonstrators at the end of the street. They were young and they had no
weapons. And when we rolled onto the scene, there was already a tank
that was parked on the side of the road. If the Iraqis wanted to do
something, they could have blown up the tank. But they didn’t. They were
only holding a demonstration. Down at the end of the road, we saw some
RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) lined up against the wall. That put us
at ease because we thought: “Wow, if they were going to blow us up, they
would have done it.”

Q: Were the protest signs in English or Arabic?

A: Both.

Q: Who gave the order to wipe the demonstrators out?

A: Higher command. We were told to be on the lookout for the civilians
because a lot of the Fedayeen and the Republican Guards had tossed away
uniforms and put on civilian clothes and were mounting terrorist attacks
on American soldiers. The intelligence reports that were given to us
were basically known by every member of the chain of command. The rank
structure that was implemented in Iraq by the chain of command was
evident to every Marine in Iraq. The order to shoot the demonstrators, I
believe, came from senior government officials, including intelligence
communities within the military and the U.S. government.

Q: What kind of firepower was employed?

A: M-16s, 50-cal. machine guns.

Q: You fired into six or ten kids? Were they all taken out?

A: Oh, yeah. Well, I had a “mercy” on one guy. When we rolled up, he was
hiding behind a concrete pillar. I saw him and raised my weapon up, and
he put up his hands. He ran off. I told everybody, “Don’t shoot.” Half
of his foot was trailing behind him. So he was running with half of his
foot cut off.

Q: After you lit up the demonstration, how long before the next
incident?

A: Probably about one or two hours. This is another thing, too. I am so
glad I am talking with you, because I suppressed all of this.

Q: Well, I appreciate you giving me the information, as hard as it must
be to recall the painful details.

A: That’s all right. It’s kind of therapy for me. Because it’s something
that I had repressed for a long time.

Q: And the incident?

A: There was an incident with one of the cars. We shot an individual
with his hands up. He got out of the car. He was badly shot. We lit him
up. I don’t know who started shooting first. One of the Marines came
running over to where we were and said: “You all just shot a guy with
his hands up.” Man, I forgot about this.

Depleted uranium and cluster bombs
Q: You mention machine guns. What can you tell me about cluster bombs,
or depleted uranium?

A: Depleted uranium. I know what it does. It’s basically like leaving
plutonium rods around. I’m 32 years old. I have 80 percent of my lung
capacity. I ache all the time. I don’t feel like a healthy 32-year-old.

Q: Were you in the vicinity of of depleted uranium?

A: Oh, yeah. It’s everywhere. DU is everywhere on the battlefield. If
you hit a tank, there’s dust.

Q: Did you breath any dust?

A: Yeah.

Q: And if DU is affecting you or our troops, it’s impacting Iraqi
civilians.

A: Oh, yeah. They got a big wasteland problem.

Q: Do Marines have any precautions about dealing with DU?

A: Not that I know of. Well, if a tank gets hit, crews are detained for
a little while to make sure there are no signs or symptoms. American
tanks have depleted uranium on the sides, and the projectiles have DU in
them. If an enemy vehicle gets hit, the area gets contaminated. Dead
rounds are in the ground. The civilian populace is just now starting to
learn about it. Hell, I didn’t even know about DU until two years ago.
You know how I found out about it? I read an article in Rolling Stone
magazine. I just started inquiring about it, and I said “Holy s—!”

Q: Cluster bombs are also controversial. U.N. commissions have called
for a ban. Were you acquainted with cluster bombs?

A: I had one of my Marines in my battalion who lost his leg from an
ICBM.

Q: What’s an ICBM?

A: A multi-purpose cluster bomb.

Q: What happened?

A: He stepped on it. We didn’t get to training about clusters until
about a month before I left.

Q: What kind of training?

A: They told us what they looked like, and not to step on them.

Q: Were you in any areas where they were dropped?

A: Oh, yeah. They were everywhere.

Q: Dropped from the air?

A: From the air as well as artillery.

Q: Are they dropped far away from cities, or inside the cities?

A: They are used everywhere. Now if you talked to a Marine artillery
officer, he would give you the runaround, the politically correct
answer. But for an average grunt, they’re everywhere.

Q: Including inside the towns and cities?

A: Yes, if you were going into a city, you knew there were going to be
ICBMs.

Q: Cluster bombs are anti-personnel weapons. They are not precise. They
don’t injure buildings, or hurt tanks. Only people and living things.
There are a lot of undetonated duds and they go off after the battles
are over.

A: Once the round leaves the tube, the cluster bomb has a mind of its
own. There’s always human error. I’m going to tell you: The armed forces
are in a tight spot over there. It’s starting to leak out about the
civilian casualties that are taking place. The Iraqis know. I keep
hearing reports from my Marine buddies inside that there were
200-something civilians killed in Fallujah. The military is scrambling
right now to keep the raps on that. My understanding is Fallujah is just
littered with civilian bodies.

Embedded reporters
Q: How are the embedded reporters responding?

A: I had embedded reporters in my unit, not my platoon. One we had was a
South African reporter. He was scared s—less. We had an incident where
one of them wanted to go home.

Q: Why?

A: It was when we started going into Baghdad. When he started seeing the
civilian casualties, he started wigging out a little bit. It didn’t
start until we got on the outskirts of Baghdad and started taking
civilian casualties.

Q: I would like to go back to the first incident, when the survivor
asked why did you kill his brother. Was that the incident that pushed
you over the edge, as you put it?

A: Oh, yeah. Later on I found out that was a typical day. I talked with
my commanding officer after the incident. He came up to me and says:
“Are you OK?” I said: “No, today is not a good day. We killed a bunch of
civilians.” He goes: “No, today was a good day.” And when he said that,
I said “Oh, my goodness, what the hell am I into?”

Q: Your feelings changed during the invasion. What was your state of
mind before the invasion?

A: I was like every other troop. My president told me they got weapons
of mass destruction, that Saddam threatened the free world, that he had
all this might and could reach us anywhere. I just bought into the whole
thing.

Q: What changed you?

A: The civilian casualties taking place. That was what made the
difference. That was when I changed.

Q: Did the revelations that the government fabricated the evidence for
war affect the troops?

A: Yes. I killed innocent people for our government. For what? What did
I do? Where is the good coming out of it? I feel like I’ve had a hand in
some sort of evil lie at the hands of our government. I just feel
embarrassed, ashamed about it.

Showdown with superiors

Q: I understand that all the incidents - killing civilians at
checkpoints, itchy fingers at the rally - weigh on you. What happened
with your commanding officers? How did you deal with them?

A: There was an incident. It was right after the fall of Baghdad, when
we went back down south. On the outskirts of Karbala, we had a morning
meeting on the battle plan. I was not in a good mindset. All these
things were going through my head - about what we were doing over there.
About some of the things my troops were asking. I was holding it all
inside. My lieutenant and I got into a conversation. The conversation
was striking me wrong. And I lashed out. I looked at him and told him:
“You know, I honestly feel that what we’re doing is wrong over here.
We’re committing genocide.”

He asked me something and I said that with the killing of civilians and
the depleted uranium we’re leaving over here, we’re not going to have to
worry about terrorists. He didn’t like that. He got up and stormed off.
And I knew right then and there that my career was over. I was talking
to my commanding officer.

Q: What happened then?

A: After I talked to the top commander, I was kind of scurried away. I
was basically put on house arrest. I didn’t talk to other troops. I
didn’t want to hurt them. I didn’t want to jeopardize them.

I want to help people. I felt strongly about it. I had to say something.
When I was sent back to stateside, I went in front of the sergeant
major. He’s in charge of 3,500-plus Marines. “Sir,” I told him, “I don’t
want your money. I don’t want your benefits. What you did was wrong.”

It was just a personal conviction with me. I’ve had an impeccable
career. I chose to get out. And you know who I blame? I blame the
president of the U.S. It’s not the grunt. I blame the president because
he said they had weapons of mass destruction. It was a lie.

The Unholy Alliance - Christianity & The NWO Part II
EXCLUSIVE TO RENSE.COM
By Eric Jewell

Part 1 of this article, “The Unholy Alliance: Christianity & The NWO”
dealt generally with the relationship between this nations’ leading
evangelicals, Rev Sun Myung Moon, and the U.S. Intelligence community as
strange bedfellows. This short follow up will attempt to go deeper into
the makeup of these organizations, and how they work together. Every
attempt to document the claims, statements and facts herein have been
made so as not to unjustly accuse or impugn the integrity of those
mentioned. But in the end, if such an unholy alliance exists, there are
manifold truths which likely will never surface to the light of day for
exposure and examination. We will deal with what can be verified be
reasonable sources.

Amazingly, most of these organizations are almost entirely made up of
the same individuals. Trinity Broadcasting Network, Christian
Broadcasting and most leading evangelicals/pastors in this unique
electronic limelight are also directly associated with these groups, or
have been in the past. The vast majority of these men have spent decades
making forays into political groups of this nature.

The question is, what are they doing? Where would these ‘Moon money men’
lead the flock they say God has charged them with as shepherds? Is it
untoward to ask such questions, to scrutinize their political
involvement with Moon? We think not. In fact, we feel it is imperative.

We have already shown that some evangelicals have unabashedly admitted
Moon sponsorship, such as Jerry Falwell. It seems that most though try
to sweep this dirt under the rug. Is their ultimate goal to lead the
religious right blindly and willingly into the NWO, something openly
hailed by preachers and president’s alike?

Billy Graham
In 1992, broadcast across the US on Graham’s radio program “Embrace
America 2000,” after Bush Sr. gave his now infamous New World Order
Speech, the Rev. Billy Graham said that we should “embrace” this “New
World Order”.

In Erwin Wilsons book, “The Assimilation of Evangelist Billy Graham into
the Roman Catholic Church” the renowned Bob Jones who wrote the forward
said, ” “Some of us who grieved over Graham’s first downward steps
toward compromise with apostasy and biblical unbelief knew that he was
pursuing a direction from which there would be no turning back. While we
grieved over him and prayed for him, we had to warn men against his
ministry as we had warned Billy against his direction.”

Protestant Church Life Magazine quoted Graham in its Sept. 29, 1956
issue, ‘Referring to the Billy Graham New York Crusade scheduled for
May, 1957, Dr. Graham said: “We’re coming to New York not to clean it
up, but to get people to dedicate themselves to God and to send them on
to their own churches — Catholic, Protestant or Jewish.” This has
remained the practice of Graham to this day. The Charlotte Observer
reported on a press release of the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association, where Billy Graham lashes out at Southern Baptists who
desire to evangelize Jews for Christ. Graham makes it clear that he
firmly opposes “proselytizing” the Jews; Billy Graham’s unbiblical
teaching is that, if you are a Jew, you are already part of the Body of
Christ, even if you reject Jesus. All Jews, Graham states “are engrafted
into the Christian Church.” And yet, many of Graham’s past statements
have proved to be antisemitic, as recently embarrassing Nixon White
house tapes have revealed.

In 1982, Billy Graham was awarded the Templeton Prize for “progress in
religion”, a cash reward of roughly 1 Million dollars. Graham in turn
endorsed Sir John Marks Templeton’s books in “Christianity Today”
magazine. Templeton is a universalist (1), just like Moon,
preaching/teaching the unity and unification of all world religions.
Other recipients of the Templeton award have been Charles Colson (1993)
and Bill Bright (1996), founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Templeton’s New Age unification principles and teachings were introduced
dramatically into the Christian mainstream by Robert Schuller in 1986,
who continues to endorse the man and his doctrines. For decades Graham
has offered a confusing doctrinal stance. Billy Graham said, “I found
that my beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Catholics.
We only differ on some matters of later church tradition. I find that my
beliefs are essentially the same as those of orthodox Roman Catholics”
(Jan 1978, McCall’s Magazine).

In the book “Billy Graham, A Parable of American Righteousness” by
Marshal Frady, we see a very different picture of Graham. Frady has
spent much time interviewing Graham, and those close to him. He
documents that Graham at a New York Crusade refused to allow street
people into the crusade because they were dirty, a loathsome violation
of every Christian creed toward the poor, to whom the Gospel Jesus made
declaration. This is tantamount to the Galatians incident in scripture
when Peter, fearing the reproach of certain Judaisers of wealth and
status, withdrew himself from associating with gentiles, and the Apostle
Paul had to oppose him to his face publicly, “for he was to be blamed”
(Galatians 2:11, The New Testament). With the release of the Nixon tapes
we see a very shaky, strangely unchristian past for Graham.

He is also quoted as saying, “Pope John Paul II has emerged as the
greatest religious leader of the modern world and one of the greatest
moral…leaders of this century.” (The Saturday Evening Post, Feb,
1980.) Though Graham is stating a fact, how does it reflect on his
ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ from a Protestant position? More
examples of a homogenization of the message and messengers for the sake
of public appeal. “Pope John Paul II, often called “The Marian Pope,”
has stirred countless millions of Europeans to have faith in strange,
supernatural Marian apparitions which directly challenge the Word of
God, the Supremacy and Divinity of Jesus Christ and the Scriptural means
of salvation (”Messages From Heaven,” Eterna Productions,
http://video.labargemedia.com/html/index.htm )”

In “The Deadly Deception”, by Jim Shaw, an ex-33rd degree mason (Masons
are believed by many to be associated with the Illuminati, and to be the
driving force behind the NWO) p. 104-105, Shaw relates how Graham was
present at his ceremony initiating him into the 33rd degree. Only
freemasons are allowed to attend these ceremonies. Huffington house
refused to publish this book until after Grahams’ name was removed, and
in place a simple reference to “a well known evangelist” was
supplemented. Robert Schuller (Crystal Cathedral/Self-help pulpit guru),
Norman Vincent Peale (Positive Thinking apostle), and Oral Roberts
(Godfather of the “seed-faith” doctrines in contemporary
fundamentalist-charismatic Christianity) are all admittedly 33rd degree
Masons. The rites of the Masonic order, the writings of Albert Pike and
the requisites for Masonic initiates are distinctly and undeniably
counter to Christian doctrine and faith.

He is a supporter of the National Council of Churches and the World
Council of Churches, where a belief in Jesus Christ is a nonessential.
He has been quoted in an interview with Robert Schuller that there are
‘many paths to God’ and he ‘respects them all.’ Of course, as was
mentioned in the previous article, he participated in prayer offered up
to the god of Mohammhed (Allah). At that gathering were many Jews,
Muslims, Christians and many other faiths gathered together praying to
the god of Islam as the God of Abraham — a distinct moment of
“unification”.

Is Billy Graham working toward the goal of a New World Order? Is it
merely a matter of decades of compromise with the world, or something
more strategic? I wrote to the Billy Graham Evangelical Ministries, to
ask what moved him to participate in a prayer to the god of Mohammhed,
and to date have received no answer.

Kingpins In The Unholy Alliance
Evangelists & Politicians

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder, leader & self-proclaimed ‘Messiah’ to the
Unification Church & the world. Tim LaHaye, evangelist & Christian
author of best-selling series “Left Behind.”Beverly LaHaye, wife of Tim
LaHaye, author and spokesperson for several Moon funded “Christian”
orgsPaul Crouch, Founder and Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network,
one of the largest tele-evangelical corporations Bill Bright, Founder
and head of the international evangelical association, ‘Campus Crusades
for Christ’ Robert Schuller, Pastor and Tele-evangelist from the famous
‘Crystal Cathedral’ in Southern California. Rev. Billy Graham,
recognized world-wide as one of the most influential evangelical
preachers; author and syndicated religious columnist Pat Robertson,
Television Evangelist, Founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network &
700 Club anchor; founder of Operation Blessing; one time presidential
candidate Rev. James Kennedy, founder & pastor of Coral Ridge
Ministries, outspoken television evangelist Rev. James Robison, TV
evangelist; Life Outreach International Ministries; associated with many
Moon organizations Ralph Reed, former director of the Christian
Coalition and member of the conservative think-tank “Heritage
Foundation”

Gary Bauer, Conservative politician and Executive Director of the
Christian Coalition; unsuccessful Presidential candidate. Dr. James
Dobson, Pediatrician, author and publisher, head of Focus On The Family,
a Christ-centric organization and magazine Phyllis Schlafly, Christian
political activist who says a woman’s place is in the home… even
though she’s not Jay Sekulow, Christian political activist and attorney
involved in family values issues from abortion to parents rights

Tim LaHaye

Tim LaHaye’s relationship with Moon goes back at least 17 years. In 1985
as was reported earlier, LaHaye was addressing several hundred
evangelical Christians, the flock he claims to guard and feed, and did
he exhort that they draw closer to his God? No, unless his god is the
Reverend Sun Myung Moon. He exhorted that they go willingly to jail with
the Rev. Moon in demonstration to his imprisonment over tax fraud. (The
spin on the story has been that LaHaye and others were supporting Rev.
Moon’s “religious freedom”)

While in prison, Moon continued to spout out to the world that he is the
anointed messiah, and also at that time, he pronounced a day when he
claims he opened heaven. LaHaye visited him and apologized for the
actions of the U.S. Government which imprisoned him. Also visiting Moon
in prison was the president of one of the groups chaired by LaHaye This
was the AFC (American Freedom Coalition) president, Don Sills.(Truth is
my Sword’ Vol 2, by Bo Hi Pak, ‘The Watchman Expositor’)

LaHaye is also the founder of the ACTV (American Coalition for
Traditional Values). Bo Hi Pak, Moons #1 man, formerly Korean CIA and
the operative that was liaison to American CIA, gave a very sizable
donation to help steady the new organization, after which, LaHaye agreed
to sit as a member of the board of directors for the Rev. Moon sponsored
“Christian Voice” group.(Americans United For Separation of Church and
State/Feb 2002)

The highly influential “Left Behind” author was also
associated in a group called the Council for
Religious Freedom, but when it was made public that
this was another Moon front, LaHaye apparently
resigned from the group, though his name was not at
the time stricken from their membership roster.
Though LaHaye resigned, others after him signed on,
continuing to bolster its credibility. These include
Paul Crouch of the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Among the other bizarre goings on within the
Moon/Conservative alliance, a young, black
Zimbabwean claiming that he is the reincarnation of
Moons dead son has also spoken at functions of the
American Freedom Coalition. (CRI Journal-CRJ0092A).
Moon himself has revealed that this claim of
reincarnation is true.
The LaHayes were also involved in a meeting
sponsored by Moon in 1996, through the Family
Federation for World Peace as well as the Women’s
Federation for World Peace (two Moon sponsored
organizations), a 3 day seminar in Washington D.C.,
from July 31-August 2, along with several other
highly visible evangelicals. Beverly LaHaye received
between $80-150,000 for speaking at the event. (2)
In 1999, Tim LaHaye and co-author Jerry Jenkins
wrote (3) that the Catholic church was very likely
the Great Harlot sitting on the beast in Revelation
17 and 18, their reason being that they believe the
Catholic church may attempt to unify the worlds
religions, though they wrote differently in their
“Left Behind” book series. LaHaye and his family are
involved directly with groups sponsored by and in
some cases founded upon money from a false messiah
whose objective is publicly stated, and loudly at
that, for the unification of world religions. So
where exactly does LaHaye stand if in doctrine he
warns of unification brought about by Rome, and yet
associates with the Unification Church?
Rev. Moon states in his address, ‘Life on Earth and
in the Spirit World’ :
“This is why God created so many different
religions: to be training grounds to make a path for
every people, culture, custom, and tradition.
Religions polish people to be qualified to enter the
region of the original homeland. Because of
humankind’s many different cultural backgrounds, God
sought and set the standard of comparison and has
been leading the way toward one unified religious
world.” (4)

This is rather peculiar in light of the apparent
diversity of world religions in doctrine, practice
and teachings, each with their own sense of
exclusivity of one another, sometimes to the very
inspiration of holy war.
According to ‘Group Watch,’ a cult watchdog
organization, Don Sills is another evangelical
leader who stated that he would recruit members from
a group directly associated with Rev. Moon, CAUSA,
to become members of his AFC (American Freedom
Coalition) organization. In March of 1988, Sills
appeared on Trinity Broadcasting Networks flagship
program “Praise the Lord” warning people away from
listening to ‘cult watch groups’, being concerned
for the division and fear they may bring. Of course
these anti-cult groups tell us that since Moon
claims Jesus will worship at Moons feet, and
inflicts mind control techniques over his followers,
his religion is a cult that should by all means be
avoided and certainly watched. Paul Crouch is
another who seems to shy away from the overall
doctrine espoused on his “Christian” television
network, and appears to work for religious
unification.

The Tangled Web Revealed…
The Council for National Policy
We touched on this council in Part 1, but now we
shall take a closer look at it and its members. This
group was founded by Tim LaHaye in 1981. Again we
have shown definite ties between this “Christian”
organization and the Rev. Moons openly anti-Christ
organizations. This will be addressed later more
fully, but this group is also associated heavily
with the controversial and cultic Church of
Scientology, the John Birch Society (known for its
espionage work), and the intelligence community.
(Note: we attempted to get JBS board member lists
but the Society returned a response that it was
their policy not to reveal names of its board
members).
It was stated by Congressman Woody Jenkins
(Newsweek,1981) “I predict that one day before the
end of this century the Council [for National
Policy] will be so influential that no President,
regardless of party or philosophy, will be able to
ignore us or our concerns or shut us out of the
highest levels of government.” In October, 1999
George W. Bush addressed the CNP. His campaign
refused to release the full text of his remarks. Why
the secrecy??
Beverly LaHaye, as was previously noted, is the wife
of Tim LaHaye. She also was and still may be part of
the CNP, and also founder of Concerned Women for
America. She joined forces with Citizens Council on
Human Rights, a group affiliated with Scientology,
and Gary Bauer’s Family Research Council, which has
benefited as well from Rev. Moon organizations and
money. This all under the umbrella of social change
and “Christian family values” in America. Mrs.
LaHaye and Bauer appeared and spoke together in a
1995 rally against psychiatric practices on
children. The question is, regardless of a good
cause, is it necessary for these evangelical leaders
to join forces with Moon, Scientology and the
Intelligence community? It doesn’t take a rocket
scientist to recognize that many groups use
charitable giving/participation, patriotic
associations and demonstrations of community or
national good will to obfuscate their true
objectives and agenda, or to conceal and deflect
attention from their
wrong-doing.
LaHayes group, the Council for National Policy, is
just one example of evangelical organizations being
filled with Intelligence officers, Moon
representatives and Scientology members. To name all
the members who were and are involved in the
intelligence community and cults would take too long
here, but here are just a few; (5)
* Howard Ahmanson Jr. (CNP Board of Governors)
Contributed to the Council of Foreign Relations
according to their 1990-1993 reports
* Thomas R. Anderson (CNP Board of Governors) Also
sits on the board of the Moon front Family Research
Council.
* Rep John Ashbrook (CNP Board of Governors) Also a
member of Moons front group “Christian Voice”.
* Richard Bott (CNP Board of Governors) Former
writer for the Moon owned Washington times.
* Jeffrey Coors (CNP Board of Governors) Coors
brewing Co.
* Joseph Coors (CNP Board of Governors) President
Adolph Coors Company
* Arnaul D’Borchgrave (CNP Member) Editor in chief
of the Moon owned Washington times, member of the
Council of Foreign Relations(CFR).
* George Gilder (CNP Board of Governors) Program
director for Rockerfeller funded Manhattan
Institute, friend of David Rockerfeller, and a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations(CFR).
* Ron Godwin (CNP Member) Former Vice President of
Falwells Moral Majority, Sr Vice President of the
Moon owned Washington times
* Allan Gottleib (CNP Member) Board Member of Moons
front group, the American Freedom Coalition. In 1983
the Moon group CAUSA, founded by Bo Hi Pak, former
Korean CIA and liaison to the American CIA, and
Moons right hand man, granted Gottleib an all
expense paid trip to Jamaica for a CAUSA conference
* J. Peter Grace (CNP Member) Council of Foreign
Relations, Knights of Malta, and worked with the CIA
to remove classified info concerning former Nazi
scientists so that they could immigrate into the
U.S., supposedly so they could carry on their work
(including mind control projects) here in the good
ole U.S.of A.
* Lt. General Daniel Graham (CNP Board of Governors)
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Deputy
Director CIA, Military advisor to President Reagan,
publicly endorses the Moon owned Washington Times.
Also a member of the Moon org, World Anti-Communist
League, and board of Directors for Moons CAUSA.
Member of the American Freedom Coalition. Vice
Chairman for the U.S. Council for World Freedom,
which also is closely related to Moons CAUSA. Member
too of the Council of 56, Religious Roundtable.
* Robert Grant (CNP Directory) Founder of “Christian
Voice”, and the American Freedom Coalition, both are
Moon sponsored orgs. Graduate of the fuller
Theological Seminary, and member of the Religious
Roundtable. Bo Hi Pak has praised the union between
these Christian organizations and Moonie orgs saying
“…it shows what a great since of humor God has.”
Grants “Christian Voice” claims to be the nations
largest Christian lobby, and according to the
Philadelphia Inquirer, merged with Moon in 1987.
* Sen. Jesse helms (CNP Board of Governors) also of
the Religious Roundtable, endorser of the Moon owned
Washington times, and a member of the Council for
Foreign Relations(CFR).
* Max Hugel (CNP Member) Former special assistant
CIA Deputy Director for Administration, and Deputy
Director for Operations
* Jack Kemp (CNP Member) Co Director of Empower
American, whose board is dominated by the Council of
Foreign Relations(CFR).
* Alan Keyes (CNP Member) Former Ambassador to the
United Nations. He was also part of Reagans National
Security Team which was dominated by high level
Council of Foreign Relations men(CFR).
* Edwin Meese (CNP Executive Committee, CNP
President) Former Attorney General, former Chief of
Staff
Notice that many mentioned, (as well as many not
mentioned) are members of the CFR (Council for
Foreign Relations). This is a group espousing the
New World Order and have actively and openly worked
toward it for decades. Not surprisingly, the man who
popularized the phrase “New World Order,” George
Bush Sr, was also at one time head of the CFR.
A reminder that some of the evangelical members of
the CNP have included:
Beverly and Lee LaHaye, also associated with Moons
CWA group. Gary Bauer, Bill Bright, James Dobson
(Focus On The Family), Bob Dugan, Ron Godwin, Robert
Grant, Rebecca Hagelin, Bob Jones the 3rd (Bob Jones
University), Alan Keyes (Outspoken
ultra-conservative black talk show host and author),
Dr. D. James Kennedy (noted television evangelist
and Pastor), Peter Marshall, Sam Moore of Thomas
Nelson Publishing, Pat Robertson (founder of the
Christian Broadcasting Network and former
Presidential aspirant), Rev. Duane Motley, Ralph
Reed, Oliver North (formerly with the National
Security Council), Phyllis Schlafly (ultra-right
columnist and pundit), Rev. Jim Woodall, John
Ankerberg (internationally recognized Christian
television personality), Rev. E.V. Hill, James
Robison, Pat Boone, Larry Burkett, Reed Larson, and
many others.(5)
So now we must ask ourselves why are these people
associated together under the front of “Christian”
organizations? Is it merely coincidence? To assume
such is to be remarkably naive and woefully remiss
in learning the lessons of past history. By
comparing the members of the CNP and cross
referencing them with any large Christian or Moon
organization, and many of the politically right-wing
PAC (Political Action Committee) organizations, you
will find essentially that these organizations are
made up of the same people.
Is this a ruse, to draw evangelical believers and
right wing patriots into the NWO? It certainly seems
to be. Moon states his goal is to unify the worlds
religions thereby unifying the world. Bo Hi Pak
states; “We want to awaken the world. We want to
turn the tide [so] that this totalitarian, godless
system must go….It is a total war. Basically a war
of ideas.” (6)
These organizations work together tightly, and
nearly every major evangelical name that can be
named is involved with these apostate organizations,
fleecing their sheep in order to help fund these
groups; A large number of these “great men of God”
can be found living in palatial homes, driving
exorbitantly expensive automobiles and owning
personal jets and relishing accolades as great
teachers of the faith. These men seem more like the
Pharisees of Jesus’ day, who denied Him as well, yet
40 years later came to their destruction following a
false messiah. They speak at each others functions,
support one another monetarily, and cause many to
believe that they do it in the name of God and in
harmony with God’s will (many claiming direct divine
revelation, inspiration and in some cases
unquestionable supernatural authority). The Bible
they themselves espouse refers to them as hirelings.

For your own research, it is recommend to those of
you who can, do a simple Internet search using the
following keywords;

LaHaye, Rev.Moon, CIA
Falwell, Moon, Liberty University
Paul Crouch, Rev. Moon,
Hal Lindsey, Rev. Moon
Councel of 56 Religious Roundtable
Concerned Women of America, Rev Moon, Beverly LaHaye

Coalition for Religious Freedom, Moon, LaHaye
CAUSA, Falwell, Moon
Billy Graham, Mohammhed, Washington, Transcript
American Freedom Coalition, Moon, Crouch, LaHaye, 6
Million
Council for National Policy, members

References/Notes:
–
(1) Sir John Marks Templeton, “Discovering The Laws
of Life”, published by Continuum/1994,
320 pages, 0-8264-0861-3
(2) The Calvary Contender Newsletter, October, 2001.
Dave Hunt, The Berean Call, Sept.,1996
(3) LaHaye/Jenkins, ‘Are We Living In The End
Times?,’
1999, Tyndale House Pub; ISBN: 0842336443
(4) Chung Hwan Kwak, International President, Family
Federation for World Peace and Unification
International, March, 1998
(5) Database of Council for National Policy
http://www.ifas.org/cnp/
Notes: At the leadership levels in both the national
office and state chapters, the American Freedom
Coalition is closely tied to the Rev. Sun Myung
Moon’s Unification Church. The Washington Post
(March 30, 1988) has even described the AFC as a
“Moon sponsored lobbying group. “(34) The links
between the two entities are so extensive that they
will be discussed here in the Background section as
well as in Private Connections. - from “Group Watch”
on the CNP

http://www.publiceye.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-05.htm

(6) Vol 2, ‘My Sword is Truth,’ by Bo Hi Pak

Additional Material Of Interest:

Christianity Today, Week of August 6
CT Classic: With Their Leader in Prison, Moonies
Pursue Legitimacy
Tim LaHaye and other Christians are helping the
Unification Church battle the perceived threat of
government intrusion.
By Beth Spring | posted 8/8/01
(This article originally appeared in the September
7, 1984, issue of Christianity Today.)
Full acceptance into the mainstream of American
religious life is a cherished goal of Sun Myung
Moon’s Unification Church. Ironically, Moon’s recent
imprisonment for tax evasion appears to be bringing
that dream a step closer to reality.
“Religious freedom” rallies around the country are
drawing thousands of unsuspecting Christians into
emotionally charged meetings that portray Moon as a
persecuted man of God. No ties with the Unification
Church are mentioned in promotional mailings. The
sponsors are identified as a coalition of Christian
leaders including author Tim LaHaye; Robert Grant,
of Christian Voice; and Joseph Lowery, of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Greg Dixon
and Everett Sileven, leaders of a coalition of
independent, fundamentalist churches, are involved
as well.
The sponsors view Moon as a persecuted ally in an
escalating battle against secular humanism and
government intrusion into church ministries. “One
person’s religious freedom equates to everyone’s
religious freedom,” LaHaye says. “If one person’s
freedom is robbed, then potentially anyone’s
religious freedom can be robbed.” Whether Moon is a
victim of persecution or a felon is a matter of
considerable debate. There is little doubt, however,
that the entire affair is a public relations bonanza
for his church.
Darrel Malcom, senior pastor of Webber Street Church
of Christ in Urbana, Illinois, accepted an offer for
an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to attend
the massive “Pageant for Religious Freedom” on July
25. He learned of the event from two Unification
Church members in Urbana. Their involvement gave him
pause, but he says he accepted their invitation
because he respects LaHaye. LaHaye is cochairman of
the Coalition on Religious Freedom, the group that
sponsored the event. Malcom says he enjoyed the
lavish production, but returned home feeling “a
little bit used.”
“I felt there was a hidden agenda of trying to buy
legitimacy [for Moon] within the Christian
community. I’m not ready to grant that.”
When Malcom returned home, Unification Church
members asked him to consider sponsoring a local
rally in support of Moon. “They wanted to meet and
discuss getting Christians together,” he says. “I
said I do not consider their group Christian.”
A narrator introduced actors portraying heroes of
American religious history. At the end, a
melodramatic enactment of Moon’s trial and
sentencing drew a chorus of boos and hisses for his
prosecutor and sustained cheers for Moon.
Following the performance, LaHaye spoke to the
audience. “If we have the same percentage of
religious freedom attacks in the next 15 years as we
have had in the past 15 years, we’ll no longer have
religious freedom in America,” he said. LaHaye did
not mention Moon by name.
The evening’s dramatic climax came when Moon’s
daughter, In Jin Moon, choked back tears as she
spoke of her father. “I have almost never seen my
father sleep. He is always up working and praying. I
have never seen anyone so dedicated to America’s
dream and to God.” She read a statement prepared by
Moon for the gathering. It referred to America as
God’s final hope, “his precious jewel which he
prepared for the final battle against atheistic
communism in the last days.”
Moon’s statement emphasized the need for churches to
unite-a central theme of Unification teaching. “Here
in prison God can use me to awaken America more
powerfully than ever before. America’s religious
communities must be united to preserve religious
freedom.”
Chris Nauser, a 36-year-old Moonie from Switzerland,
viewed the rally as “just one part of the whole
development of an awakening” that will sweep the
world. He shares the belief of most of Moon’s
followers that Moon himself is the Messiah. The
Unification Church teaches that Jesus Christ failed
in his redemptive mission and, before his death,
lied about his coming resurrection. Moonies teach
that mankind is in need of physical redemption,
which will come by the marriage of an ideal man and
woman. The man is to be from Korea-Moon himself.

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A short quiz (from the Christian Science Monitor) to see where you stand politically

EVIDENCE OF THE CLASS WAR

• –”An equitable [even] distribution of the country’s wealth would greatly harm 10% of the population, leave another 10% relatively unaffected, and overwhelmingly benefit the remaining 80%” (from data gathered by Patrick Colm Hogan in The Culture of Conformity)
• –”The Labor Department ‘reports that…56,000 Americans’–well over twice the number killed in street homicides–’die every year on the job or from occupational diseases such as black lung, brown lung, asbestos and various occupationally induced cancers’ [and yet] ‘corporate violence that results in worker deaths rarely provokes criminal prosecutions…. Since the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1970, 250,000 workers have died on the job…but only four people have done time for OSHA violations’” (from Patrick Colm Hogan, The Culture of Conformism)
• –”Maximum prison sentence in months for causing the death of a U.S. worker by willfully violating federal safety regulations: 6″ (from Harpers Index, January 2004)
• –”Maximum prison sentence in months for harassing a wild burro on federal lands: 12″ (from Harpers Index, January 2004)
• –Although the poorest 50% of Americans pay a smaller percentage of their income taxes than do the richest 50%, as the Wallstreet Journal recently pointed out: “When both payroll and income taxes are considered, households with income below $50,000 per year have seen their aggregate federal tax burden increase between 1979 and 1999. Upper income households experienced a tax decrease. The top 1% of wealth holders now own nearly 40% of private wealth in this country, while the bottom 95% own about the same amount. Yet the top 1% pays less than 20% of the aggregate federal tax burden, when all taxes are considered.” (Deborah Grier, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)
• –”The richest one-quarter of 1 percent of Americans make 80 percent of the individual campaign contributions, thereby purchasing the allegiance of politicians who, when in office, pass laws that work to the benefit of the wealthy few.” (Patrick Colm Hogan in The Culture of Conformity, 7)
• –”Percentage of Americans living below the poverty level who voted in the 2000 presidential election: 38″ (from Harpers Index, January 2004)
• –”Percentage of Americans living at twice the poverty level who voted: 68″ (from Harpers Index, January 2004)
• –”In the U.S., the lowest income quintile has lost 16 percent of its after-tax income in the seventeen years through 1994, while income of the top fifth rose 25 percent and that of the top one percent soared 72 percent….Fourteen percent of the population lives below the poverty line, up from 12 percent in 1979.” (NCLC Energy & Utility Update, v.16 no.2, Mar-Apr 1998, p. 3-7)
• –”According to the UNDP, the top 20% of the world’s population benefits from 82.7% of the total world income. The bottom 20% subsists on 1.4%. (Harvard economist David Korten, LAPIS vol. 3, 1996)
• –The world now has roughly 500 billionaires, and their combined wealth equals more than the annual incomes of the 3 billion poorest people (roughly half of the world’s population) combined. (See David Korten, LAPIS vol. 3, 1996, or The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy, page 19)
• –”Globalization has led to fierce competition among companies in nearly every aspect of their business-except executive pay. American companies are paying CEOs better than anywhere else in the world–and not 10 percent or 20 percent more, but 1,000 percent more and then some. According to Towers Perrin’s 1999 Worldwide Total Remuneration report, German CEOs make 13 times what the average manufacturing employee makes. In Japan, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio is just 11-to-1.”
• –”In 1980 the American CEO to Worker pay ratio was 42 to 1. In 1999 the American CEO to Worker pay ratio was 475 to 1″ (Business Week)
• –”Number of companies that controlled over half of all U.S. media outlets in 1983: 50″ (Harpers Index, March 2000)
• –”Number that controlled over half of all U.S. media outlets last year: 6″ (Harpers Index, March 2000)
• –”Ratio of Americans earning less than $22,600 to those earning more than $246,000: 40/1 (Harper’s Index, 1996)
• –”Chance that a college student expects to be a millionaire by the age of 40: 1 in 2″ (Harpers Index, May 2000)
• –The top 5% of all stock-owning households in the US own 94.5% of all stock held by individuals. (Doug Henwood, Wall Street)
• –”The I.R.S. audited 1.36 percent of all tax returns filed by people making less than $25,000 last year, compared with 1.15 percent of returns filed by those making $100,000 or more. Since 1988, audit rates for the poor have increased by a third, from 1.03 percent, while falling 90 percent for the wealthiest Americans, from 11.4 percent.” (New York Times, April 16, 2000)
• –”Estimated U.S. taxes that multinational corporations legally avoided this year by using foreign accounts: $10,100,000,000″ (Harper’s Index, 1997)
• –”Fee that an anonymous family has paid Texas A&M University to clone their pet collie mix, Missy: $2,300,000″ (Harper’s Index, 1998)
• –”Virtually every step forward in our history has been a liberal initiative taken over conservative opposition: civil rights; Social Security; Medicare; rural electrification; the establishment of a minimum wage; collective bargaining; the Pure Food and Drug Act; federal aid to education, including land grant colleges; guaranteed bank deposits; the Federal Reserve; the Securities and Exchange Commission; the Food and Drug Administration; the National Park Service; the National School Lunch Program; the Voting Rights Act; and the graduated income tax.” (George McGovern, “The Case for Liberalism: a Defense of the Future against the Past,” Harpers December 2002)