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	Steven Hassan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He served as an expert witness to the 1977-1978 congressional inquiry that produced the United States Congressional Report on the Unification Church, and has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline, Dateline, Larry King Live, and The O'Reilly Factor.
		He holds a master's degree in psychology from Cambridge College, Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as a nationally certified counselor (NCC).
		Hassan, who is Jewish by birth, was himself recruited into the Unification Church in the 1970s, at the age of 19, while studying at Queens College, and spent over two years recruiting and indoctrinating new members, as well as fundraising, campaigning, and personally meeting with Sun Myung Moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Hassan (991 words)

	Unification Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States in the 1970s Unificationists gained a reputation for high-pressure recruitment, and critics charged that they separated vulnerable college students from their families via alleged brainwashing or mind control.
		The Church is known to have been involved with weapon and munitions manufacturing in Korea since the 1960s, as documented in a 1978 United States Congressional Report on the Unification Church.
		Defenders of the church dismiss this argument, on the grounds that the Unification movement is properly divided into distinct organizations, each of which should be judged by the laws relating to its type.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unification_Church (6013 words)

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		The United States Army is not as portable as the Corps but Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker announced a reorganization of the Army's units into 48 brigade groups with an on power projection.
		Under the United States Constitution the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.
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	Criminal Tax Manual 40.00 -- ILLEGAL TAX PROTESTERS
		The protester then contends that his or her income is the church's income and, therefore, not taxable to the minister, even though the protester uses the funds to pay personal and other expenses just as he or she did before taking the sham vow of poverty.
		United States, 498 U.S. Cheek claimed that he did not file tax returns because he believed that: (1) he was not a taxpayer within the tax laws, (2) wages are not income, (3) the Sixteenth Amendment did not authorize the taxation of individuals, and (4) the Sixteenth Amendment was unenforceable.
		United States, 424 U.S. Sullivan is frequently cited for the proposition that a taxpayer may not use the Fifth Amendment to justify the failure to file any return at all.
	www.usdoj.gov /tax/readingroom/2001ctm/40ctax.htm (14583 words)

	The Constitution of the United States of America
		Attendance reports were kept and reported to the school authorities in the same way as for other classes, and pupils not attending the religious instruction classes were required to continue their regular studies.
		The churches reported to the schools the names of children released from the public schools who did not report for religious instruction; children not released remained in the classrooms for regular studies.
		Thus, churches as well as museums, hospitals, libraries, charitable organizations, professional associations, and the like, all non-profit, and all having a beneficial and stabilizing influence in community life, were to be encouraged by being treated specially in the tax laws.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/amdt1.html (11633 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Unification Church under siege in Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		According to Unification Church's leaders in Brazil, such as Neudir Ferabolli, a lawyer for the organization whose own bank records were among those seized, the blitz on the church's holdings represents religious persecution by authorities and individuals, who do not understand the group's philosophy or its purpose in Brazil.
		Church missionaries have since complained of harassment, such as difficulty with obtaining phone lines in some areas, and "negative" press reports involving alleged drug trafficking, as well as other accusations the group has denied.
		The Unification church's teachings "stirred up a lot of investigations and a lot of questions and prejudice," Schanker told WND, adding that the group was subjected to a lot of probing by congressional committees and other federal agencies.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27611 (3156 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The Cult Controversy
		In the Washington area, the Unification Church's investment is an important cog in a global machine that Moon uses to boost his credibility, spread his spiritual doctrine and win political influence, according to current and former church members.
		Church members say the publication has never come close to turning a profit, but the paper has become an established voice of conservative America, winning readers in the White House and praise for its professionalism and scoops on national and local stories.
		Church officials have for years denied any direct control of the myriad businesses, saying its members run the companies and contribute to the church.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/main.htm (3506 words)

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		The United States is often the harbinger of the modernization and change that inevitably sweep up other nations and societies in an increasingly interdependent, interconnected world.
		The continuing task of the United States will be to ensure that its values of freedom, democracy and opportunity -- the legacy of a rich and turbulent history -- are protected and flourish as the nation, and the world, approach the doorway of a new century.
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	Unification Church :: Moonstruck
		Brown, the outspoken Baptist minister and political gadfly, was even chosen by the event's Unification Church organizers to present the charismatic Moon (referred to by his followers as "True Father") and his wife (referred to as "True Mother") with a trophy commemorating the couple's worldwide speaking tour.
		According to a prominent Unification Church official, dozens of ministers across the country associated with the group have heeded Moon's call to take down the cross from their churches and replace it with the crown, the symbol adopted by Moon as the self-professed Peace King.
		The Rev. Michael Jenkins, the Unification Church president, who did not respond to an interview request for this article, wrote last year that Moon views Twin Peaks as "the breasts of a mother" and the bay as representing "the mother's womb," from which the charismatic Moon expects a "new birth of believers" to emerge.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /13857 (4406 words)

	IRC \| RightWeb \| Group Watch: Unification Church
		The Unification Church has been widely criticized as a cult, and its subsidiaries frequently disguise their links to the church, at least for new members.
		Although there were UC missionaries in the United States since 1959 and church front groups operating by the early 1960s, Moon himself did not come to the U.S. until 1971.
		According to a 1978 congressional report (the so-called "Fraser report"), these activities were part of the UC's efforts to gain influence in the U.S. government.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /groupwatch/ucm.php (10315 words)

	Insanity, George Bush, & the Unification Church - @forums
		The House of Representatives report on the activities of the Korean CIA in the United States found evidence that the Moon organization had violated a number of Federal and state laws.
		In 1982 she told the Washington Post, "I joined the church full well knowing it is something not yet understood by society." In the 1990s, she claimed to have broken ties with Moon and to have become an Episcopalian.
		Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is spending millions of dollars a year on a broad range of cultural and political programs, including academic conferences, foreign trips for journalists and conservative lobbying activities, that are designed to improve the church's image with the American public and promote an ideological "world war" against communism.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=236880 (6331 words)

	THE MOONIES
		Isamu Yamamoto states in his book The Puppet Master, It becomes immediately apparent to you that you are not to be left alone and that all 'spiritual children' have someone of their opposite sex from the family assigned to them.
		The investigator for the report commented, "We determined that their primary interest, at least in the U.S. at that time, was not religious at all, but was political, it was an attempt to gain power, influence and authority." But after the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan all investigations were halted.
		Another girl stated that she cried for five days during her deprogramming, that what hurt most was her final realization that Moon and her Moonie friends were not perfect people, but instead they were shrewd and calculating.
	www.sonic.net /sentinel/1earth4.html (7218 words)

	Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - UFOs, Unification Church, United Pentecostal Church, Etc.
		The report will be used by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as a basis for possible punitive actions against countries deemed the most serious violators of religious freedom rights that are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
		It should also be pointed out that the American government actively supports extremist movements such as the Church of Scientology, and is trying to get countries like France and Germany to accept the cult as the ''religion'' it claims to be.
		Organized under a 1998 law that arose partly out of rising congressional unease about alleged persecution of Christians abroad, it is headed by a rabbi and a law school dean and includes people of the Christian, Muslim and Baha'i faiths.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /u00.html (1891 words)

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		United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
	www.glink.net /more_u.html (121 words)

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