Re: Vote to Save Your Job -- Vote for Kerry

From: Tiny Human Ferret (ixnayamspay_klaatu_at_earthops.net)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:44:39 -0400

alexy wrote:
> "Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Randy Howard wrote:
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>>>http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20041028-122637-6257r.htm
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>>Ain't the Washington Times run by some ultra-right wing group like the
>>Moonies?
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> It is owned by the Moonies, which I have never before heard described
> as an unltra-right wing group. The certainly don't share any political
> space with the religious right! <g>

Ah, loosely described, "they're all nuts".

The Rev Sun Yung Moon basically thinks he's the second coming and the
foretold messiah. Also, what a lot of people in the States don't
understand, his primary mission is, and has always been, "Reunification
of Korea". That he's rabidly anti-communist is a given, as the
communists hate and attack all religiousity. But he's not even
right-wing by Korean standards, as best I can figure out those standards
(not much[1]). His early ministry was marked by such things as a series
of the worlds-largest mass weddings, not to mention an astonishing
proliferation of Korean church congregations in the USA.

But in that he's rabidly anti-communist, you could call him "ultra
right". However, he doesn't so much lie on the same axis as the left and
right traditionally do, he's more off at an oblique angle that only
looks "left or right" if, politically, you are Mister A Square and
living in Flatland.

Ref:
12. Automated translation from Korean to English is spotty at best. Last
time I tried to read one of the major Korean daily papers, the
translator kept going on and on about "leftward ankle extrusive process,
elbow juncture incompability with pink fluffy dogbite" or something
along that line. 

-- 
The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may
often assume the appearance, and produce the effects,
of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy.
                   --Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"