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4/26/2004

Dirksen Senate Building Boast

In this video, a spokesman for Sun Myung Moon's church in Japan talks about Danny Davis and other Congressmen paying tribute to Sun Myung Moon in a Mar. 23 "coronation ceremony." Imagine how impressed the followers over there must be. (There's a lower-bandwidth link here)

"After then, Congressman Danny Davis. Very moving speech. On that foundation, the coronation ceremony was started."

After this, some stuff about "sexual organs," and Moon's visit to a "Worldwide Helicopter Expo" in Las Vegas. He wants to buy the "#1 helicopter company in the world," the spokesman says.

And here are more photos from the event. Is your Congressman present? Isn't that Curt Weldon?

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Watch it here in the best quality yet.

Theme Song
Hail The Rev. Moon

 

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"John Gorenfeld: The first man on the Moon"
-- Ana Marie Cox ("Wonkette," Time.com Washington editor)

"Thanks to the superb reporting of John Gorenfeld on Salon.com and his indispensable Web page, Moon's shenanigans are routinely scrutinized. Maybe some of Gorenfeld's discernment will rub off on preachers and politicians."
-- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist

"The scene summoned the moment in Robert Graves's "I, Claudius" when Emperor Caligula declares himself a god in the Roman Senate; a fawning solon instantly offers a prayer."
-- New York Times editorial on the Crown of Peace scandal

"I am happy that our work is being challenged and improved in consistency, openness and coordination, by the accountability your spotlight demands. I am not talking about simply removing stuff from websites..."
-- Moon spokesman the Rev. Phil Schanker

"Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation." -- Moon in 1987

"A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy."
-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)

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