Say what you will about Donald Trump, he is a full spectrum insanity kind of a guy. All of the crazies find their way to his doorstep sooner or later. Remember the Moonies? Now they’re on the Trump crazy train. Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon, the son of the late Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, which owns both the Washington Times and a gun-manufacturing business, recently purchased a nearly $1 million property in Texas as a training ground for “patriots” to prepare for war with the “Deep State.”
The sect calls itself “Rod of Iron” which is from a passage in Revelations about Jesus destroying his enemies with a rod of iron. So much for lions and lambs. And of course the sect loves Trump and his friends are their friends, how could it be otherwise? Right Wing Watch:
The purchase of the compound and its state purpose bring to mind the 1993 siege of a fringe religious compound in Waco, Texas, that ended in a fire that killed scores of people. Moon himself invoked that incident in an Instagram video posted Thursday. Moon wore a crown made of bullets and a vest declaring himself part of the “Black Robed Regiment” while repeating false right-wing claims that David Chipman, Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, had posed for a photo in the ruins of that compound, which he called an example of federal tyranny.
“America is existentially at crisis right now,” Moon said on the video. “We have left God. We’ve become part of this licentious, decrepit, degraded moral culture. We have strayed from God’s principles. … That will bring a country to destruction, and God will allow it to be judged, just like he did with the Israelites.”
As Right Wing Watch noted last fall, Trump adviser Steve Bannon addressed a festival organized by Rod of Iron where he warned that “the left” would try to steal Pennsylvania and the presidency from former President Donald Trump by using mail-in ballots. Vice reported that Christian nationalist Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, positioning himself for a run for governor, was “recently billed as a special guest” at another Rod of Iron event.
You see all the common threads here, Bibles, bullets, beans, Biden lost, let’s hole up in the commune. Texas has always been a unique place unto itself, but its wingnut credentials are really escalating nowadays.
From its beginning, the church wholeheartedly embraced former President Donald Trump and incorporated Trumpian culture war and conspiracies into its rhetoric. Moon told VICE News in late 2019 that he believed God was working through Trump to rid the world of “political satanism” (for example, the “deep state” and “the swamp”) and restore Eden. Through his gun-centric, MAGA-friendly outlook, Moon has been able to establish some fringe political alliances. […]
“The internationalist Marxist globalists are trying to start a civil war here, so that they can bring in the U.N. troops and Chi-Com Chinese military to come in and destroy and kill all gun owners, Christians, and any opposition, i.e., Trump supporters,” Moon said matter-of-factly in a recent sermon. “We are in the death of America right now, and that’s why, of course, God is allowing for our expansion.”
On January 3, his church sent out a notice to members. “Some federal agents operate as a criminal cartel and are in the process of stealing this presidential election,” the notice read. “We need to prepare and train for the fight.”
“It’s obviously better if we can use our rights to freedom of speech, assembly, to seek redress of grievances,” it continued. “Otherwise we will have to fight physically, with many dying.”
Three days later, when Trump fans gathered in Washington, D.C., Moon posted a video to Instagram from outside the Capitol, amid the insurrectionist mob, running from clouds of tear gas with his wife and brother.
These people are scary. While Moon may not be on the same scale as Jim Jones, still and all, who needs another Waco or Ruby Ridge? And this has the feel of that.
Take a look and listen and see if this guy seems harmless to you.
This pro-Trump leader of a religious sect that worships with assault rifles has bought some property in Texas where his "patriots" can hunker down and prepare for war with the Deep State. Yes, he's wearing a crown made from ammunition. https://t.co/KhJht0MbXd pic.twitter.com/ILt7pSAZzH
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 28, 2021
It’s not like we haven’t seen crazy cults implode before. We just have never seen one so closely aligned with a political party or elected representatives before.
And while we’re talking about crazy cults and implosion, anybody heard from Lin Wood lately? He decided not to attend the Dallas QAnon conference and that’s odd in and of itself.
I have a hard time with the idea that anyone is going to bring in UN troops so the PRC can take over. We’re China’s big customer (and they have a lot of money invested in keeping it that way): they wouldn’t want to ruin their economy.
I think Lin Woods is still hiding from process servers. As for this new nut job, what rock do these folks crawl out from under??? How many more of them will it take to undermine this country? We’re being besieged by crazies.
WHOOT Way to hedge your bets Zuck He should be dead long before that from Daddy’s #SwissCheeseBrain #PicksDisease SEE WIKI on Picks and on #TAU Protein the mutation that causes it.. just reported in 2015.