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Can I get some book recommendations, please and thank you!🫂♥️

It has been so long since anyone's asked me for book recs! I haven't read anything recent, tbh. My job entails a lot of reading, so unless I get a break, I rarely have time to read anything new or anything that isn't theory/nonfiction. But for you, Venus, I will dig through my Goodreads account and give you five in no order <3.

The Interpreter by Suki Kim

"Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system who makes a startling and ominous discovery about her family history that will send her on a chilling quest. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gain--were brutally murdered in an apparent robbery of their store. But the glint of a new lead entices Suzy into the dangerous Korean underworld, and ultimately reveals the mystery of her parents' homicide."

The Tattooed Soldier: a Novel by Hector Tobar

Set in Los Angeles in 1992 on the eve of the infamous riots, and written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, "The Tattooed Soldier" tells the story of two haunted man and the tragic intersection of their lives.

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, "cold as death, mean as a snake," becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney—and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.

Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula and Nel are two young black girls: clever and poor. They grow up together sharing their secrets, dreams and happiness. Then Sula breaks free from their small-town community in the uplands of Ohio to roam the cities of America. When she returns ten years later much has changed. Including Nel, who now has a husband and three children. The friendship between the two women becomes strained and the whole town grows wary as Sula continues in her wayward, vagabond and uncompromising ways.

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape in search of a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, drawn unawares into the powerful political undercurrents of this isolated corner of the world that exact a personal toll as fierce as the tides.

Enjoy ^^

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Sun Myung Moon dies at 92; led controversial Unification Church (as reported in the US)

South Korean immigrated to the U.S. and became the wealthy leader of an unorthodox religious movement that was labeled a cult and featured mass marriage ceremonies.

By Elaine Woo

Los Angeles Times  September 3, 2012

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed Messiah from South Korea who led the Unification Church, one of the most controversial religious movements to sweep America in the 1970s, has died. He was 92.

Moon, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia in August, died Monday at a hospital in Gapyeong, South Korea, church officials announced.

Although greeted as a Korean Billy Graham when he arrived in the United States four decades ago, Moon gradually emerged as a religious figure with quite different beliefs, whose movement was labeled a cult and whose followers were mocked as "Moonies." At the height of his popularity, he claimed 5 million members worldwide, a figure that ex-members and other observers have called inflated. Those numbers are believed to have fallen into the thousands today.

Moon offered an unorthodox message that blended calls for world peace with an unusual interpretation of Christianity, strains of Confucianism and a strident anti-communism. He was famous for presiding over mass marriage ceremonies that highlighted Unification's emphasis on traditional morality.

What also made Moon unusual was a multinational corporate vision that made him a millionaire many times over. He owned vast tracts of land in the U.S. and South America, as well as dozens of enterprises, including a ballet company, a university, a gun manufacturer, a seafood operation and several media organizations, most notably the conservative Washington Times newspaper. He also owned United Press International.

Moon was “the object of more suspicion and enmity than almost any other contemporary religious leader,” Eileen Barker, an authority on the Unification Church and new religions at the London School of Economics, wrote some years ago.

The short, balding immigrant evangelist was not charismatic in the usual sense. He spoke poor English and gave few interviews. His sermons, delivered through interpreters, rambled on for hours and often exhorted followers against using “love organs” in promiscuous behavior or homosexual relationships.

His ideas often seemed bizarre: He believed in numerology, proposed building a highway around the world and for a while embraced a Zimbabwean man as the reincarnation of a son [Heung-jin] who had died in an accident.

He courted the powerful with surprising success, at one time counting among his friends and allies Christian right leader Jerry Falwell, who defended Moon when he was tried and later convicted in the U.S. on charges of tax evasion [and document forgery]; the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, who shared pulpits with him; and former President George H.W. Bush, who appeared at Unification Church-affiliated events in the U.S. and abroad.

In 2004, Moon invited guests to a U.S. Senate office building in Washington, where he had himself crowned "none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent." The ceremony was attended by a dozen members of Congress, several of whom later told reporters they had been misled about the purpose of the event.

His religious journey purportedly began 16 years after his birth on Jan. 2, 1920, in what is now North Korea. According to biographical accounts, Jesus appeared to the young Moon on a Korean mountaintop on Easter Sunday in 1936. From this meeting Moon divined that his job was to complete Jesus' mission of creating heaven on Earth.

During high school in Korea and at [evening classes at a Technical High School connected to] Waseda College in Tokyo, where he studied electrical engineering, Moon claimed to receive more messages from spiritual figures, including Buddha and Moses. He later said that Buddha told him to seek the unification of world religions "in a common effort to salvage the universe."

After World War II, Moon founded a church and began preaching full-time, often speaking out against communism. His strong political stands caused problems with the North Korean government, which jailed him on charges of bigamy and draft evasion. He was freed in 1950. [In 1955 in Seoul he was jailed on charges of draft evasion.]

In 1954, he founded the Holy Spirit Assn. for the Unification of World Christianity in Seoul. Three years later he published "The Divine Principle," the main text of his church.

Unification theology is complex, but a central tenet is to right the wrongs of Adam and Eve. According to the Divine Principle, Satan seduced Eve, who then had illicit relations with Adam and spawned impure children.

Moon regarded Jesus as the second Adam, but Jesus was crucified before he could marry and bring forth sinless progeny. Thus, according to Moon, mankind's salvation depended on a third savior to appear on Earth and marry a pure woman. Together they would become the "true parents" of mankind and beget pure families to populate the kingdom of God.

The new Christ, Moon prophesied, would be born in Korea.

Moon's beliefs did not go over well with leaders of mainline Christianity. He was turned down when he applied for membership to the major ecumenical organizations, the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.

"His theology was heretical," said David Bromley, a Virginia Commonwealth University sociologist who co-authored "Moonies in America," a major study of the Unification movement during its peak in the 1970s.

Church members addressed Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, as the "True Parents," a title that outraged many of the actual parents of Moon's followers. The Moons moved to the U.S. in 1971 and eventually lived in a 35-room mansion on an estate in Irvington, N.Y.

Moon's first marriage, to Choe Sung-kil, ended in divorce in 1957. He had a son with her and another with Kim Myung-hee, who lived with Moon during the 1950s. In 1960 he married Han, then a young disciple. They had 14 children, of whom 10 survive him. He was believed to have more than 40 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.

Had Moon restricted his recruiting to ethnic Koreans, he might have avoided criticism, Bromley said. But the church began targeting white middle-class youths on or near college campuses, a tactic also pursued by two other sects that attained notoriety in the 1970s, the Children of God and the Hare Krishnas.

An anti-cult movement rose in opposition to the groups and created a market for "deprogrammers" who abducted church members and tried to reverse the brainwashing they believed was fundamental to the cults' influence.

Moon promoted interracial and intercultural marriages and arranged thousands of unions. Couples matched by the church were instructed to refrain from having intercourse for 40 days, partly to ensure that the unions were based on “pure love” rather than carnal desire. In one of the church's most publicized events, Moon blessed 6,500 couples [it was 2,075 couples] in New York's Madison Square Garden in 1988. [It was 1982.]

Followers were expected to live communally under austere conditions, although the church later moved away from group living as members matured and started their own families. Each member also was expected to raise money for the church, often by peddling flowers or other innocuous items at airports and shopping malls.

In 1978 Congress investigated the church as part of a broader probe into Korean influence-buying. A congressional subcommittee concluded that Moon’s organization had violated U.S. tax, immigration, banking and currency laws. In 1982 he was convicted on tax evasion [and document forgery] charges and served 11 months in a federal prison in Danbury, Conn.

That year, he launched the Washington Times, which positioned itself as a conservative alternative to the Washington Post. It won loyal readers in the White House and among conservative strategists but has been a chronic money-loser, surviving on more than $2 billion in subsidies from the church. Circulation fell to about 40,000 daily copies in 2010, when a family feud caused the patriarch to repurchase the paper after having given control of it four years earlier to his eldest son, Preston [Hyun-jin Moon].

Times special correspondent Jung-yoon Choi in Seoul contributed to this report.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sun-myung-moon-20120903,0,619774.story

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The lie that Kim Myung-hee was raped in Japan

Sun Myung Moon found guilty in 1955; started two year jail sentence

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Black Heung Jin Nim – Violence in the Moon church

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Possible Penalties regarding Seungri’s (and cia) case in accord to Korea’s Criminal Act

I decided to write this post because, since I’m a lawyer (who goes towards criminal law in my country), I was curious to read about what the penalties the law gives to crimes attributed to Seungri, JJY and others involved. Of course it can change according to the proof the police actually has. At this period, they are extremely important to consolidate the final decision. So, the indicted’s cooperation is necessary, as well as the KKT conversations, victims testimonies, documents, etc.

And I want to give a comment about some news of Seungri going aboard to gamble. Someone may think “oh, but he did it outside South Korea, so should he be punished by it?”. The reply is yes. The first articles of Korean Criminal Act brings the "limit of applicability of criminal code". At article 2 it’s expressed that the law is applied to “both Korean nationals and ‘aliens’ (foreigners) who commit crimes in Korean territory”. And that’s the normal application concerning criminal acts. But the article 3 also states it’s application directed to Koreans outside their country. So, if a Korean citizen, for example, murders someone in German, he can be punished either in German or in Korea if he goes back there. 

In Seungri’s case it was reported he gambled in Los Angeles. Although people can gamble there, Korean’s law can reach him out of his homeland.

This being said, let’s analyze the legislation:

Prostitution

Since 2004, South Korea has a strict law to prevent prostitution and sex traffic. There you can find definitions regarding the victims, juridsdiction and process rules. 

At the article 18, it’s stated that the convicted shall be punished by imprisonment with prison labor for not more than 10 years or by a fine not exceeding 100 million won. They put some hypotesis to this penalty applicability, including “a person who has taped videos, etc. depicting obscene content, such as sexual intercourse, by a deceptive scheme or by force.”. So far, it’s hard to know if he actively recorded the victims, but the retrived conversations mention he knew what was going on and he provided those services himself.

There’s also two articles who are interesting to be brought here. The first is article 22 which talks about “Aggravated Punishment on Organized Crime Syndicate. It says: 

Any person who has organized an organization or a gang or has joined an organization or a gang for the purpose of committing an offense prescribed in Article 18 or 19 shall be punished according to the examples referred to in Article 4 of the Punishment of Violences, etc. Act.

The article 4 of mentioned legislation is big and brings a lot of definitions (of leaders, principal members and other members). If you are curious click here to read.

The second article is the 26, about reducing or even extempting the punishment. It’s clear that:

When a person who has committed an offense prescribed in this Act makes a report thereon to an investigative agency or surrenders himself/herself to an investigative agency, the relevant punishment may be reduced or exempted.

So, as a lawyer, of course you would advice your client to be open for investigation. You can still be punished, but it can be reduced in accord to the convicted’s cooperation.

Rape

It was clear in JJY’s conversations the presence of rape crimes. Korea Criminal Act has a whole chapter talking about those crimes. There’s two articles I decided to post here.

article 297 (Rape)

A person who, through violence or intimidation, has sexual intercourse with a female, shall be punished by limited imprisonment for not less than three years. 

It means that when a female is conscious (because the law explicitely uses the word women instead of person) during the act the imprisionment period will be of three years minimum (which in theory allows the court to give a high penalty since the law itself doesn’t fixate a maximum).

Article 299 (Quasi-Rape, Quasi-Indecent Act by Compulsion) A person who has sexual intercourse with a female or commits an indecent act on another by taking advantage of the other’s condition of unconsciousness or inability to resist, shall be punished in accordance with the preceding two Articles.

That describes better JJY’s crimes. According to the news, texts and videos, he drugged his victims before performing sexual intercourse or other activities. The penalty is the same.

Acceptance of Bribe

The media revealed a conversation involving  Choi Jong Hoon bribing a police officer to cover up his drunk drive incident back in 2016. For the official who received or accepted to received the penalty includes imprisionment for until five years maximum and suspension of his activities until ten years.

Meanwhile, a person who interferes with the execution of duties by a public official by fraudulent means, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years, or five not exceeding ten million won (article 137).

Distribution of Obscene Pictures

Law needs to prevent any problematic behavior in society and this sort of crime is one of those who always keep changing. The articles 243 and 244 mention distribution and manufacture of pictures. Some people think that this term can be aplied to videos as well. But, in criminal law, some academics defend that law needs to be restrictive to avoide conviction for conducts not present on the text.

In any case, if the court interpret JJY action of distributing the videos, the penalties include imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine not exceeding five million won and imprisonment for not more than one year, a fine not exceeding five million won, detention or a minor fine for manufacture.

CONCLUSION

There’s still a lot of things to be investigated and reveal to the public. Those crimes are disgusting and revolting South Korean’s population, as well as foreign fans and kpop admirers. That’s why it’s so important to observe the consequences those individuals can face if they turn up to be guilty by the court.

Don’t treat those actions as something light because it’s not. Know your rights and understand that you are a human being more than a fan, maybe a woman. And you need to be well informed to understand the world around you; a world who is not beautiful. On the contrary. Especially inside music industry it can be darker than people imagine it to be.

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Saturday, September 25, 2021

Biden Assembles the Quad (Foreign Policy) U.S. President Joe Biden is on a mission to project an image of unity and cohesion with three of the world’s largest economies today as he hosts the leaders of Australia, India, and Japan for a meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—the Quad—at the White House. The summit, the first in-person gathering for the group since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, caps a busy few days of Asia-focused diplomacy for the White House following the agreement of the AUKUS defense pact with Australia and the United Kingdom last week. That focus is underlined by additional one-on-one meetings Biden holds today with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The summit is expected to conclude with the announcement of several initiatives designed to deepen relations between the four countries including student exchanges alongside plans to counter China’s domination of key industries like semiconductors and 5G networks. China’s reaction to the meeting has echoed the tone it took with AUKUS. Asked about the Quad summit last week, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian decried “exclusive ‘cliques’ targeting other countries” and said the group was “doomed to fail.”

Expensive garbage cans (Mission Local) San Francisco is years into an extremely expensive process of buying new garbage cans, with July seeing the Board of Supervisors vote to spend $427,500 on 15 prototypes for the three possible models of new trash can, with a per-trashcan price tag of $12,000 to $20,000 each. At the end of the day, San Francisco plans to buy 3,300 of the cans, and while the initial goal was to buy $1,000 cans, it’s looking like they might end up paying $5,000 a can. All told, the city will have to spend $6.6 million to $16.5 million on the misbegotten project, the brainchild of a disgraced former city official facing charges of fraud and lying to a federal agent. What’s wild is there are plenty of off-the-shelf models they could have gone with, from the $3,900 Bigbelly to New York’s $632 can, Los Angeles’ $449.51 can, D.C.’s $987 can or even Portland’s $1,851 can.

Migrant camp shrinks on US border as Haitians removed (AP) Haitian migrants waited to learn their fate at a Texas border encampment whose size was dramatically diminished from the almost 15,000 who gathered there just days ago in an effort to seek humanitarian protection in the U.S. but now face expulsion. The administration recently extended protections for more than 100,000 Haitians already in the U.S.—many of whom left their homeland after its devastating 2010 earthquake—citing security concerns and social unrest in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. But it doesn’t apply to new arrivals. Homeland Security said nearly 2,000 Haitians have been rapidly expelled on flights since Sunday under pandemic powers that deny people the chance to seek asylum. About 3,900 were being processed for possible return to Haiti or placement in U.S. immigration court proceedings. Others have been released in the U.S. with notices to appear in court or report to immigration authorities. Thousands have returned to Mexico. Authorities expect the camp will be empty in about two days, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Sub snub just one symptom of longtime French unease with US (AP) Liberty and Fraternity, yes. Equality, not so much. Born of a revolution fought for liberty, ties between the United States and its oldest ally, France, have long been fraternal, but they’ve also been marked by deep French unease over their equality. French concerns about being the junior partner in the relationship boiled over last week when the U.S., Britain and Australia announced a new security initiative for the Indo-Pacific, aimed at countering a rising China. The AUKUS agreement scuttled a multibillion-dollar submarine deal that France had with Australia, but, more alarmingly for the French, pointedly ignored them, reinforcing a sense of insecurity that has haunted Paris since the end of World War II. France has long bristled at what it sees as Anglo-Saxon arrogance on the global stage and has not been shy about rallying resistance to perceptions of British- and German-speaking dominance in matters ranging from commerce to conflict. Thus the latest affront, AUKUS, resulted in an explosion of ire, with the French loudly protesting and recalling their ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia while shunning the British in an overt manifestation of centuries of rivalry.

German millionaires rush assets to Switzerland ahead of election (Reuters) A potential lurch to the left in Germany’s election on Sunday is scaring millionaires into moving assets into Switzerland, bankers and tax lawyers say. If the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), hard-left Linke and environmentalist Greens come to power, the reintroduction of a wealth tax and a tightening of inheritance tax could be on the political agenda. “For the super-rich, this is red hot,” said a German-based tax lawyer with extensive Swiss operations. “Entrepreneurial families are highly alarmed.” The move shows how many rich people still see Switzerland as an attractive place to park wealth, despite its efforts to abolish its image as a billionaires’ safe haven. No country has more offshore assets than Switzerland and inflows accelerated in 2020, to the benefit of big banks such as UBS, Credit Suisse and Julius Baer. Geopolitical tensions and fears of the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic fallout made Switzerland’s political stability attractive.

Evergrande’s missed payment (Foreign Policy) Chinese property giant Evergrande appeared to miss a deadline to pay interest on part of its mammoth debt on Thursday, prompting fears that the company could soon default, causing ripple effects across the global financial system. Writing in Wednesday’s China Brief, FP’s James Palmer outlined the tricky politics at play for Chinese authorities. “The company appears to be doomed,” Palmer writes. “The question that remains is how much of the Chinese economy it will take down with it, and whether its fate is a symptom of much bigger problems.”

Korean War peace treaty “premature” (Foreign Policy) North Korea has again rejected a call for a formal end to the Korean war, which ended with an armistice agreement in 1953. South Korean President Moon Jae-in made the overture in his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, but on Friday, North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Ri Thae Son said any talk of a peace treaty would be premature so long as “the U.S. hostile policy is not shifted.” North Korea has so far ignored U.S. negotiation efforts, although Moon speculated that the country “is still weighing options while keeping the door open for talks,” citing the relatively low-level provocations Pyongyang has tried since Biden became president.

Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return (AP) One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers. “Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi told The Associated Press, speaking in Kabul. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.” Since the Taliban overran Kabul on Aug. 15 and seized control of the country, Afghans and the world have been watching to see whether they will re-create their harsh rule of the late 1990s. Turabi’s comments pointed to how the group’s leaders remain entrenched in a deeply conservative, hard-line worldview, even if they are embracing technological changes, like video and mobile phones.

Putting a Disturbingly Low Price On Life (BBC, Guardian, National Army Museum, The Conversation) There has been renewed focus on civilian deaths in Afghanistan following the U.S. military’s admission that an August 29 drone strike, intended for ISIS-K fighters, instead killed 10 civilians, including seven children. According to data collected by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), a London-based charity conducting research and advocacy on the incidence and impact of global armed violence, UK forces are linked to the deaths of nearly 300 Afghan civilians. Through a series of Freedom of Information requests, AOVA was able to obtain Ministry of Defense compensation logs revealing a total of £688,000 was paid out by the UK military for incidents involving 289 deaths, among them 86 children, between 2006 and 2014. The average amount paid was £2,380.      One of the most serious incidents listed in the logs is the award of £4,233.60 to a family following the deaths of four children, who were mistakenly shot and killed in December 2009. Some payments were less than a few hundred pounds. In February 2008, one family received £104.17 for a confirmed fatality and property damage in Helmand province. The author of the research said reading the files was difficult: “The banality of the language means hundreds of tragic deaths, including dozens of children, read more like an inventory.” AOAV estimates 20,390 civilians were killed or injured by international and Afghan forces during the two-decade-long conflict. This is just one-third of the number killed by the Taliban and other insurgents. 453 British soldiers died in combat operations between 2001 and October 2014. During the entire 20-year engagement from 2001 to 2021, 2,455 U.S. service members lost their lives, including the 13 killed by ISIS-K in the Kabul airport attack August 26, 2021; 20,740 American military personnel were injured.

Hezbollah flexes its muscles in Lebanon and provides free Iranian fuel (Washington Post) Lebanon’s new government got off to an inauspicious start this week. As parliamentarians gathered to approve the cabinet lineup, the electricity went out—a common occurrence these days—and the chamber was plunged into darkness. To the rescue came Hezbollah, the militant Shiite movement designated by the United States as a terrorist organization that is also a political party here. Lawmaker Ibrahim Musawi swiftly procured two generators from the organization’s offices. Eventually, the electricity came back on and the generators were no longer needed. But the episode provided a fresh opportunity for Hezbollah to remind the Lebanese who wields real power in their steadily collapsing country. Days earlier, Hezbollah had flaunted its clout by trucking Iranian diesel fuel into Lebanon to help alleviate chronic fuel shortages that have left people without public electricity sometimes for up to 24 hours a day. The amount of fuel imported—just 33,000 tons—was meager compared with Lebanon’s vast needs and was only enough to last the generator-dependent country for a few days. But Hezbollah has milked the opportunity to portray itself as a savior, making the fuel available free to hospitals, charitable institutions, emergency services, municipalities and other institutions that have had services crippled by the lack of electricity.

Jailbreak shines light on mass incarceration of Palestinians (AP) The cinematic escape of six prisoners who tunneled out of an Israeli penitentiary earlier this month shone a light on Israel’s mass incarceration of Palestinians, one of the many bitter fruits of the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have passed through a military justice system designed for what Israel still portrays as a temporary occupation, but that is now well into its sixth decade and critics say is firmly cemented. Nearly every Palestinian has a loved one who has been locked up in that system at some point, and imprisonment is widely seen as one of the most painful aspects of life under Israeli rule. The saga of the six, who were eventually recaptured, also underscored the irreconcilable views Israelis and Palestinians hold about the prisoners and, more broadly, what constitutes legitimate resistance to occupation. Israel classifies nearly every act of opposition to its military rule as a criminal offense, while many Palestinians see those acts as resistance and those engaged in them as heroes.

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Diverse Cops Make the Difference in Policing Hate

Sergeant Peter Shields leads the SFPD's Hate Crimes Unit. Photo: Jenny Manrique

Hate crimes are on the rise nationwide, including here in San Francisco, where the city’s diversity also happens to be a hallmark of the San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) Hate Crimes Unit.

It’s one of just a handful of such units across the country, and officials say its diversity is a key part of its mission. 

“I can speak Spanish, I am half Japanese and I'm gay. So this is what I can give you,” said Sergeant Peter Shields at a recent community forum on hate crimes. Shields has led the hate crimes unit for the SFPD since 2012. Created in 1990, the unit today has a team of six full-time investigators. “We have people that speak Spanish, Chinese and Korean. We have men and women, gay and straight,” said Shields. “At community meetings all of our paperwork is translated into Arabic, Tagalog, Chinese … We try to be as inclusive as the community is.” Jeannine Bell is with the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and has written extensively on hate crimes and law enforcement. “Having detectives of different backgrounds [and] foreign language interpreters … are key elements” in effective policing of hate crimes, said Bell, who spent months embedded with a hate crimes unit in the 90’s. Reports of hate crimes have spiked across the country, including in major urban areas like Los Angeles and San Francisco, where in 2016 there were 39 hate crimes reported to the police, up from 32 a year earlier, according to data provided by SFPD. Between January and May of this year, there were 18 reported hate crimes in the city. Gay men continue to be among the most targeted in the city, at 30 percent of all reported attacks, followed by Asian Americans (10 percent), African Americans (8 percent) and Latinos (5 percent). But despite the uptick in hate crimes, relatively few police departments around the country maintain hate crimes units. According to the Department of Justice, there were close to 15,400 police departments across the country in 2013, the earliest such data is available. Just 10 percent of those employing 100 officers or more, have personnel assigned full-time to hate crimes units. In departments with less than 100 officers, that number drops to 5 percent. Bell says the dearth in resources committed to investigating hate crimes is one factor in why fewer than half are ever reported. A recent survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that from 2011-2015 more than half of all violent hate crimes nationwide went unreported to police. “There should be a strong commitment to truly investigating every case,” Bell stressed, noting “if you don't have many boots on the ground,” it can be hard to investigate incidents, reported or otherwise. Proving hate Proving a hate crime is an arduous task. Prosecutors must be able to work with victims and witnesses that may be reluctant to come forward. They must also demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that a suspect was motivated by existing prejudices or biases. Finding the evidence falls on investigators like Shields. “It is extremely difficult,” he acknowledged, noting the process can involve anything from interviews with victims and witnesses, to combing through video footage and even social media posts. “The percentage of cases that are prosecuted or convicted is very low,” he said. Shields recalls two such cases, one involving a transgender woman who was violently attacked and denied help by onlookers when they saw that she was transgender. The other involved a young boy whose family beat him up and kicked him out of the house because he is gay. Shields said that even with video footage of both attacks courts failed to prosecute them as hate crimes. “Helping victims is emotionally difficult because they've been attacked for who they are. They can’t or shouldn’t have to change that,” he said, adding, “We try to get therapy for the victims we work with.” One case that did manage to win a conviction involved an attack outside a gay nightclub in San Francisco’s South of Market district in 2016. Pearly Martin, 30, was sentenced in June of this year to nine years for pulling a knife on five people outside the club. During trial prosecutors noted she was heard yelling homophobic slurs during the attack, though the public defender alleged that as someone who identifies as bisexual, Martin herself is a member of the LGBT community and that her language was not an indicator of hate. While the judge dismissed that argument, Shields said it is an example of just how difficult it can be to win a conviction when the defense can use “technicalities to deny that words are racist or full of hatred.” He also noted that several of the victims were undocumented, a fact left out of a lot of reporting on the case at the time. For Shield’s unit, that meant the added challenge of convincing the victims to come forward. “We helped them to overcome their fears and go to every court date and interview. It took about a year to go to trial.” Barriers to building trust SFPD has come under fire in recent years for a series of officer involved shootings where the victims were people of color. Add to this a prevailing political atmosphere that has many communities feeling vulnerable and the result is a widening trust gap with police. Wilma Gandoy, Consul for Protection and Legal Affairs at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco, says in this current climate Mexicans and other Latinos – and especially the undocumented – “don’t feel comfortable speaking to authorities.” But Gandoy notes her office maintains regular contact with the SFPD and says there is a standing agreement between the two to work with victims of hate crimes regardless of their immigration status. She also points out that San Francisco is a sanctuary city, meaning local law enforcement will not share information on undocumented victims with federal immigration officials. Staff at the Mexican consulate in San Francisco – as well as in San Jose, Sacramento and Fresno – also received training from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on how to work with victims of hate crimes. Similar trainings were provided to the SFPD. “While the authorities investigate incidents,” explained Gandoy, “we continue offering services to victims, from therapy to help with documents … buying medicine and food, housing or even payment of funeral services.” Training officers to recognize hate ADL trainings involve an intensive 4-hour workshop during which officers learn about the California Penal Code’s statutes on hate crimes, some of the most robust in the country. According to Nancy Appel, associate director for the ADL’s San Francisco office, a lot of the training focuses on providing “negative examples” of what does not constitute a hate crime. “We talk about the differences between hate words protected by the First Amendment, hate incidents and hate crimes, bias indicators and hate symbols,” she said. “We teach officers to identify whether there is any extremism element involved in a reported crime.” For departments with no specialized units, Appel recommends that at least one investigator receive the training, which she says will help departments better “engage in prevention and not just response.” She notes, “The more officers hear about low-level hate incidents, the better they will be at knowing where to spend resources.”

Originally published here

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Messiah Moon on the Run

▲ World Anti-Communist League Rally at the Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan in September 1970. It was sponsored by the IFVC (International Federation for Victory over Communism). The Freedom Leadership Foundation is the American affiliate of the IFVC.

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Moon fled from Korea to America in December 1971. There were fears for his life in Korea. In 1978 he fled to London to escape Donald Fraser’s investigation. Years later, when he was not succeeding in America, he moved many assets, and Japanese members, to South America.

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Allen Tate Wood:

September 1970 – Japan “Mr. Kuboki [President of the UC in Japan] and I got along nicely, speaking as well as we could through an interpreter, usually Miss [Young-Oon] Kim, who had arrived for the [WACL] conference [in Tokyo]… Kuboki told me that President Park [of South Korea] was one of the sponsors of the conference. He also told me that Moon was in some fear of the Park regime and that there was even talk that he was marked for assassination, for religious oppression was the order of the day in the new South Korea. One of the aims of the conference, said Kuboki, was to reassure Park that his aims and Moon’s coincided.

I could hardly doubt that Moon’s strategy had succeeded perfectly. His political aims were perfectly enmeshed in his religious goals…” From his book, Moonstruck, page 112 In the 1970s there were growing problems for Moon in South Korea. Various Unification Church leaders were arrested for tax evasion at Il-Hwa, etc. and at least one was jailed [Nansook Hong’s father]. (ref Prof. Sontag’s book Sun Myung Moon) Moon fled from Korea to America.

On December 11, 1971 Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han arrived in Los Angeles from Korea but were refused entry, and had to fly on to Toronto. The reason seems to have been that Moon was suspected of being a communist. (Perhaps due to his 1944 arrest in Seoul by the Japanese authorities who discovered Moon had been active with communists in Tokyo in 1941-1943. Moon had other communist friends up until 1950 when he fled to South Korea.)

Evidence that Moonies Jump-Started the North Korean Nuclear Program that Now Threatens the US

▲ Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han in Toronto. Also in the group were Won-bok Choi, Young-whi Kim and Mr Ishii (head of UC business in Japan)

December 12-18   Moon and Hak Ja Han in Toronto, Canada (while visa sorted)

Franco Famularo (Canadian National Leader): “In 1971, True Parents journeyed to the United States to begin their ministry there, but U.S. officials initially denied Father entry. Suddenly the Canadian family, which had fewer than a dozen members at the time, learned that True Parents would be arriving in Toronto [on December 12]. Although Father would explain the spiritual significance of visiting Canada, the practical purpose was to obtain a visa for entry into the United States.

Father’s visa situation was resolved on December 17. The following day, he and his party departed for Washington D.C.

In 1976, Father said the following to an American audience: “… vividly remembered my arrival in America on December 18, 1971…. I did not have a visa to enter America from Korea, so I came to Canada instead. Our members in America were very persistent in asking the State Department, “Why won’t you issue a visa to Father?” Ironically, officials kept telling them that I was a communist, so I was undesirable in this country.” (True Peace October 2014 page 24)

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April 1978 – from a newspaper report by Diana Patt, Washington, DC: Unification Church tried to keep Mr Nixon in power during the Watergate crisis Mr Fefferman claimed he did not know why Mr Salonen, head of the Freedom Leadership Foundation as well as of the Unification Church in America, had said the Watergate Project could help improve the standing of the Unification Church with the South Korean Government.    But a speech by Mr. Salonen, which appeared in New Hope News, a Unification Church publication, read as follows: “When Father came to the United States his primary purpose was to do things to make him influential in Korea. The Day of Hope tour and specially the rallies in support of President Nixon were far more significant due to the impact they had in Korea than their impact here… If it was important in Korea and if it helped to bring the government and our church close together then it was more important than anything else.”

In 1978 Moon flew to London under a false name to avoid a Donald Fraser US Government Investigation subpoena

Robert Boettcher: “Bo Hi Pak, as ever the quintessential Moonie, intended to serve as a shield for Moon. Fraser’s volumes of interviews, KCFF files, financial records, and intelligence reports were highly damaging to Moon’s image. But he must not allow Fraser to drag Master into the hearing room as he had been. If necessary, he would be the sacrificial animal at Fraser’s pagan rite. That would be his ultimate act of service to God and Moon. Pak would lay down his very life to avoid having Master degraded by public interrogation.

With so much evidence pointing to Moon, however, Fraser reluctantly concluded he should be questioned. After the ordeal with Bo Hi Pak, he dreaded the prospect of going through something worse with Moon. Moonie intransigence had caused the investigation to spend much more time on the Moon organization than planned. Other important matters were not getting the attention they deserved.

Moon’s lawyer, Charles Stillman, turned down Fraser’s request that Moon be questioned informally by the staff. Stillman then made a counteroffer. Moon would consider a request to meet informally with Fraser and the other Congressmen on the condition they come to his estate on the Hudson, and that they conduct the meeting “in a manner befitting the dignity of a spiritual leader.” Fraser was not at all interested in making a pilgrimage to Belvedere for an audience with the new Messiah. The subcommittee had already issued a subpoena for Moon, and Fraser was prepared to use it. He informed Stillman that Moon had two weeks to agree to answer questions voluntarily. If he still refused, Fraser intended to serve the subpoena. Moon would then be required to appear as a witness at a hearing scheduled for June 13.

Two days before the two weeks were up, on May 13, 1978, Moon flew to London on the Concorde using a false name. Like Tongsun Park two years before, he skipped the country when things got hot.

Bo Hi Pak was furious over Fraser’s suggestion that Moon’s exit had anything to do with the subpoena deadline. The Reverend Moon had long planned to carry his personal missionary work to Europe, Pak insisted. The reason for going at that time was to officiate at a mass marriage of 180 church couples in England. As for the subpoena, Master would fight it in the courts when he returned. Moon might consider accepting the subpoena under one condition: that Fraser also subpoena Pope Paul, Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and the heads of the Baptists, Jews, Methodists, and others. Moon never returned for the announced battle. He remained abroad, in England and Korea, until November 1978, one week after Fraser’s investigation ended.

Fraser was not the only one closing in on the Moonies. The Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation had been barred from soliciting contributions in New York after 1976. The State Social Welfare Board had discovered that less than 7 percent of the funds collected by KCFF for the Children’s Relief Fund could have been used for that purpose.”

From Gifts of Deceit by Robert Boettcher, pages 320-321

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The Mysterious Death of Robert Boettcher in 1984

Donald M. Fraser’s house was attacked by an arsonist just after his investigation into the Unification Church. It was only saved by good fortune.

The house of Mr Justice Comyn was destroyed by arsonists just after the UC lost a massive libel case in London…..

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_investigation_of_the_Unification_Church

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

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