It appears that various groups are very good at large scale con's designed to exploit the simple hopes of the majority that lack the education to resist.
However it isn't all about the *unwashed ignorant masses*. The US Congress was conned into *a coronation* Sun Myung Moon the other day in the new Capitol Convention hall.
The Moonies have piggy-backed their efforts on the extremists of the religious right and have effectively incorporated themselves into the Republican Party.
Politicians filmed bowing to 'Moonie' cult leaderBy Andrew Buncombe in Washington
25 June 2004
Capitol Hill, home to America's lawmakers, is well known as a place where strange things happen. Few have been as strange, however, as the recent "crowning" of the Rev Sun Myung Moon, eccentric head of the "Moonies".
Republicans and Democrats alike are in damage-limitation mode after it was revealed they were guests of the Korean-born businessman at a ceremony during which he declared he was the Messiah. Video footage of the event, in which the politicians can be seen bowing their heads to the 84-year-old, is on the internet.
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UNIFICATION HOME PAGE
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http://www.carm.org/list/moonies.htmSun Myung Moon - Moonies - Cult - Unification Church
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By Harry V. Martin and David Caul
Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995
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