Britain Lifts Ban on Rev. Sun Myung Moon

[IChing]

LONDON (AP) -- Britain lifted a 10-year-old ban that kept the Rev. Sun Myung Moon from entering the country, saying Friday that the controversial religious leader was unlikely to threaten public order.

The 85-year-old Moon, who calls himself a messiah and is known for conducting mass weddings, was scheduled to speak to followers of his Unification Church in London on Saturday.

Moon was banned from entering Britain in 1995, on the grounds that his presence would not be "conducive to the common good for reasons of public order.">>>snip

In 2004, Moon was the center of a coronation ceremony in Washington, D.C.(senate building), at which he declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings had helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons."'>>>snip

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_MOON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-11-04-06-18-54

[Greeby]

1. Thankfully we're a godless country

So noone will be paying much attention :crazy:

[goforit]

2. A cultist and GHWB bestest friend next to the Bin Ladin family.

Way to go Blair!

[IChing]

3. Swift boat supporters too have defended him.

Carlton Sherwood, who has produced an anti-John Kerry video that will be aired across the United States before the Nov. 2 elections, wrote a book in the 1980s denouncing federal investigators who tried to crack down on Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s illicit financial operations.

In retrospect, Sherwood’s book, Inquisition: The Prosecution and Persecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, appears to have been part of a right-wing counter-offensive aimed at discouraging scrutiny of Moon and his mysterious money flows. The strategy largely succeeded, enabling Moon to continue funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into the U.S. political process, most notably to publish the ultra-conservative Washington Times but also to make payments to prominent politicians, including former President George H.W. Bush.

New evidence also makes clear that Moon resumed his practice of laundering money into the United States after serving a 13-month prison sentence for a 1982 conviction for tax law violations. Former Moon associates, including his ex-daughter-in-law, have disclosed that Moon’s organization smuggled cash across U.S. borders, but those admissions have not led to renewed federal investigations>>>snip
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/101504.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Yeah, but the point is whether he will cause a public order problem

and I suspect the government is right in thinking he won't. He may be nuts, but he's unlikely to cause problems. I mean, the US government is happy for him to hold ceremonies in Congress.

[kevinbgoode]

5. and the owner of The Washington Times

one of the wingnut's favorite dispensers of "truth".

[zbdent]

6. Once he's in Britain, can we bar him from re-entering the US

since his presence would not be "conducive to the common good for reasons of public order."?

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Now there's a guy who is way up near the top of my list

of the 100 people I'd miss least after the Avian Flu got them.