Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: Watch George H.W. Bush blow birthday candles for Mrs. Moon

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8/07/2006

Watch George H.W. Bush blow birthday candles for Mrs. Moon

...in the '90s, in the French news piece "Moon: La fin de l'Empire," featuring Bob Parry of Consortium News.

The bespectacled man joining them is Col. Bo Hi Pak, a former Korean embassy officer who was for many years the Reverend's right-hand man and Washington Times company president, now in South Korean prison for debt.

Pak's slide from the church's good graces seems to have seems to begun in the mid-eighties, when he was bloodied inritual punishment disbursed by the "Black Heung Jin," an African mystic embraced by other Moon officials as the reincarnation of the Reverend's late son. Wrote former Washington Times opinion editor William Cheshire at the time: "we are dealing with something besides just an exotic cult. The Pak beating smacks strongly of Jonestown. And with Moon lavishing hundreds of millions of dollars a year on newspapers, magazines and political action groups in this country and abroad, such occult and aggressive practices give rise to secular apprehensions. If the 'reincarnation' doesn't rock those conservative shops that have been taking money from Moon, not even fire-breathing dragons would disturb them."

Remember, David Brooks says it's a "bizarre assertion" that Sun Myung Moon "has been close to the Bush family."

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