After I got over my shock at the new baggage handling prices mentioned in my previous post, I have managed to recover enough composure to comment on an amazing piece of irony that teaches us much about the state of the world today.
Well, today is Sunday 20th April 2008. Now, I wonder how many of you can guess which well-known historical figure was born on 20th April? Come on, have a guess...
Winston Churchill? No.
Mahatma Ghandi? Noooo.
Elvis Presley? Nope!
Surely not Napoleon Bonaparte? Close, but no.
Let me tell you who was born the son of a customs official on 20th April 1889, who went on to be pretty big in right-of-centre politics.
The answer is: Adolf Hitler. Yes, Adolf Hitler was born today, 20th April. Now let me assure you that I am not going to write anything nice about Hitler - I may be Prof Madder but I am not Prof Right-wing Fascist Nazi!
No, I am going to share with you one of life's little ironies. Today, 20th April 2008 also happened to be the day that a certain event was held in Kuching. And, this event was called the Ambassadors for Peace Seminar, organised by a Korean organisation called the Universal Peace Federation.
Anyway, the really interesting thing about the seminar for me was the ironic fact that nobody, absolutely nobody realised that this seminar, promoting world peace and understanding, was held on the anniversary of someone who definitely did not contribute anything to world peace whatsoever. In fact, quite the opposite.
It just goes to show what happens when people don't read widely enough... Or was Satan standing there somewhere in the wings and laughing cruelly to himself?
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Satan was not standing in the wings.
May not be as ironic as you think. The Universal Peace Federation is Sun Myung Moon's end time poltical organization designed to con the world and bring it under Moon's organization's influence. One of their main objectives is to theocratize the United Nations. Their call is for "One family under God."
This is what Nansook Hong, Moon's daughter in law who lived with the Moon family for 15 years, said about this while discussing Moon's tax conviction in her book "In the Shadow of the Moons."
There was no question inside the church that the Reverend Moon used his religious tax exemption as a tool for financial gain in the business world. …
No matter what the lawyers said in court, no one internally disputed that the Reverend Moon commingled church and business funds. No one had any problem with it. How often had I heard church advisers discuss funneling church funds into his business enterprises and political causes because his religious, business, and political goals are the same: world dominance for the Unification Church. It was U.S. tax laws that were wrong, not Sun Myung Moon. Man's law was secondary to the Messiah's mission.
The Reverend Moon's philosophy sounded benign enough: "The world is fast becoming one global village. The survival and prosperity of all are dependent on a spirit of cooperation. The human race must recognize itself as one family of man." What his civil libertarian allies outside the Unification Church failed to realize was that Sun Myung Moon, and only Sun Myung Moon, was the head of that family.
google "japan spiritual sales moon" and see one way Moon uses to fund his plot.
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