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Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon

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I met Mr. & Mrs. God in the sixties. I was just a lowly, dirty hippie, smoking dope and wasting my life, when members of Mooms family pulled me off of the streets of Berkeley and gave me the opportunity to travel around the country, sleeping on the floor of dirty vans and working 20 hours a day for no wages selling flowers and trinkets to help build the celestial media & real-estate kingdom for Father.

They showed me that the love of my earthly family was a deception and thankfully I never had to see them again. For a while I got tearful letters from my mother who pretended to love me and worry about me, but I was assured that it was a pack of lies and that my mom & dad were actually working for Satan.

I was also relieved of all of the horrible pressures of dating as I met my wife at our wedding at Madison Square Garden. She doesn't speak English, but I think she kind of likes me. We are helping to populate the world with true children of Moon's love.

I was never more proud than when members of Congress crowned Father king of the universe at a Senate office building. Soon thanks to the truth reported by Father's Washington Times and our members of Congress, we'll be able to overturn the devil's work on the separation of church and state and we'll all be the beneficieries of Fathers wise theocratic rule.

Thank you for a great book Carlton, great is your reward in heaven.

I've read this book more than once and still find items that shock and amaze. Sherwood states from the beginning that his intention was to uncover "dirt" about the Unification Church (having already won awards for such investigations of the Catholic Church), but was discouraged because he could not find any. But instead he found tons of "dirt" when he looked at the way the US gov't railroaded Rev. Moon into prison through a fake tax evasion case. On every page, Sherwood details the innumerable and audacious deceits of the Justice Dept. in their attempt to imprison this religious leader.
Honestly, it has to be read to be believed....and even then, it is hard to believe the lengths that the gov't went to (and the taxpayer money it wasted) just to put Rev. Moon in prison.

And to those who want to throw out their ignorant, intolerant and bigoted comments without having even read this book. I sympathize with you. I'm sure that the vocabulary that Sherwood uses was just too much for your third-grade education to handle.

If you still wonder whether the trial of Rev. Moon was fair, think about these facts:

Rev.Moon failed to pay $3,000 in taxes and was put in jail.
Geitner failed to pay $34,000 in taxes and was made the Treasury Secretary.
Daschle failed to pay $128,000 in taxes and was nominated to be the Secretary of the Department of Health.

Are we talking about the same country?

I'm a part of the church depicted here, and unlike the sarcastic review made by another "member", I'm here to represent the truth. Members of the Unification Church were not kidnapped, brainwashed, or anything of the like. The members are encouraged to visit their family and live normal lives. I have plenty of friends--church and non-church--, keep in touch with my grandmother, maintain a 5.0 GPA, I don't take drugs, I don't lie or cheat or steal. And my family is not a hermit group with no minds of our own. I'm sick of the way people see us this way.
No other religion has been persecuted as much as mine, except for early Christianity. Now look at the religion that dominates--pretty close parallels to Rev. Moon's church, huh?
This book has, gratefully, expressed the truth behind America's legal system and the unfair trials of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. I'm glad to see a person who isn't afraid to write the truth and reality.

I first met Moon's disciples in Hyde Park in London early in 1974. they walked around with their glossy smiles, pushing literature that said, "Watergate: Forgive, Forget, Unite." I pointed out to them that I'm an American, but wondered, "Why are you pushing such literature in the UK? Sorry, maybe you didn't know this, but Nixon [Watergate] is American, not British." They continued with their zombie smiles and removed the microphone boom from my mouth, from which they were, I guess, hoping for something to make them feel good.

That evening I wrote to my older brother and suggested he might want to start a movement called, simply, "Hang Moon."

No, neither he nor I were part of the vast, racist conspiracy to persecute the po' po', Korean (CIA-funded) evangelist--errrrr, Savior.

That someone could write this sort of nonsense is one of the less desirable aspects of a free press. In a free society--certainly one freer than the one the new Savior represents--one could be prosecuted for this kind of balderdash.

Well, I must admit, I've read few volumes from the publisher of this laughable screed. I know now that, not only will I NEVER read anything from then again, but I'll discourage anyone from doing so.

If you want to read the in-depth racist and religious biases of prosecutors in the US, read this book. Their oppression of Rev. Moon was appauling. Although I do not subscribe to Rev. Moon's teachings, I was disturbed by the Gestapo tactics of the federal prosecutors of this book.

If you love to hate Ken Starr, you'll love to read this book and gain a clearer understanding of excessive powers of these federal prosecutors.

A shocking example of how easily prejudice can run roughshod over fairness and basic decency. This account of a contemporary witchhunt reads like a novel. Its clear that Moon's real sin was being Asian, grabbing the loyalty of a lot of middle class white kids, preaching interpretations different from conventional Christianity and being a little too fired up about God, anti-communism and chastity for people's taste. This vividly chronicles how Moon was railroaded into jail. A little too detailed in parts, but good reading.