Curt Weldon a Moonie Cultist

[Gold Metal Flake]

From the excellent Swing State Project:

http://www.swingstateproject.com/2006/04/pa07_curt_weldo.php#trackbacks

"Weldon spoke at the coronation of Sun Myung Moon "as humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent", on March 23, 2004. His office originally vehemently denied his attendance, then when he was revealed to be a co-chair organizer of the event claimed that he had intended to attend but could not because of a scheduling conflict; then when a photo surfaced of him speaking at the event while standing next to a lifesize photo of him pinning a Unification Church medal on Moammar Al Qadhafi, stated that he had left immediately after the speech and had no knowledge of what else went on."

More (and the pix!) at link.

[salvorhardin]

1. And John Conyers attended a LaRouche PAC meeting

How can we expect our elected officials to represent us when they court lunatics like Moon and LaRouche?

http://www.larouchepac.com/pages/otherartic_files/2005/050323_detroit_mtg.htm

[blm]

3. Hearing out LaRouche supporters and carrying water for RevMoon are not

even in the same league, let alone the same ballpark.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. I agree... it's Libertarians vs Messiah wannabes...

I'll go with the *gag* libertarians...

[salvorhardin]

7. LaRouche is not a Libertarian n/t

[salvorhardin]

5. I humbly disagree

I see Moon and LaRouche as being two sides of the same coin. Bigoted far right conspiracist cultists who will glom onto any opportunity to legitimatize theirselves. Moon has only been more successful at working himself into the public sphere while LaRouche prefers to work with neonazis and holocaust deniers (such as his alliance with Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby). Yes, I know Liberty Lobby is now defunct but Carto's network of hate is as strong as ever. As is LaRouche who continues to make inroads via the far left.

Former staffers at both the Liberty Lobby and the Lyndon LaRouche group claim both outfits have cooperated closely on several projects. In the March 2, 1981 issue of its newspaper Spotlight, Liberty Lobby cynically defended the relationship with LaRouche's original electoral arm, the U.S. Labor Party (USLP):

"It is mystifying why so many anti-communists and 'conservatives' oppose the USLP. No group has done so much to confuse, disorient, and disunify the Left as they have....the USLP should be encouraged, as should all similar breakaway groups from the Left, for this is the only way that the Left can be weakened and broken."

Spotlight later distanced itself and Liberty Lobby from the LaRouchites over the issue of their questionable and illegal fundraising activities but the groups share many similarities. They both see the world as controlled by secret elites involving a disproportionate array of banking families with Jewish-sounding names. Both claim Israeli intelligence and British intelligence polluted the CIA and U.S. foreign policy. Both depend heavily on the intellectual ideas of Spengler as outlined in Decline of the West. Both promote producerism and divide capitalist control into industrialists (productive) and financiers (parasitic).

http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/liblobby.html

See much more here: http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/Rwooz.html

[blm]

6. Moon is a big part of the Bush Empire - LaRouche is independent.

Moon has power that LaRouche couldn't even dream about.

[blondeatlast]

9. Indeed they are not. Thank you. nt

[blondeatlast]

8. Weldon's appearance was at a FRIGGING CORONATION!

Of a self-described "new Messiah," ferchrissakes (no pun intended, but still...).

I mean, I despise LaRouche, but sheesh...

Have you read about that wacko affair? If you haven't, I suggest you get a copy of this book:

"Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print"
by David Wallis

http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=1560255811

LaRouche meeting=dinner.

Weldon's appearance was for a CORONATION--in the USA. Of the "Messiah."

Is that so hard to understand?

[salvorhardin]

10. Yes, I've read about it

And posted about it on DU many times in the past. The coronation was actually as "King of Peace". Moon's organization then later embellished on it in their usual nutso manner. Although there were a dozen Congresspersons there, Weldons participation was the most egregious. I'm not defending Moon but neither will I excuse Conyers.
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/index.html

[Flirtus]

2. That's got to be the most adjective defying story today

There's a quote in a linked story where Sestak sez:

Congressman Weldon's remarks to the Hill magazine in a story published this morning regarding my daughter Alex's treatment are inappropriate. To imply, that I should have sent my daughter to a hospital in Delaware or Pennsylvania for political purposes is beyond the pale.

Sestak gets it. I wish I could vote for him.