If you love to hate Ken Starr, you'll love to read this book and gain a clearer understanding of excessive powers of these federal prosecutors.


Absorbing and sobering   October 18, 2002
 4 out of 22 found this review helpful

A shocking example of how easily prejudice can run roughshod over fairness and basic decency. This account of a contemporary witchhunt reads like a novel. Its clear that Moon's real sin was being Asian, grabbing the loyalty of a lot of middle class white kids, preaching interpretations different from conventional Christianity and being a little too fired up about God, anti-communism and chastity for people's taste. This vividly chronicles how Moon was railroaded into jail. A little too detailed in parts, but good reading.


A Mel Brooks production...   May 31, 2006
 4 out of 9 found this review helpful

I first met Moon's disciples in Hyde Park in London early in 1974. they walked around with their glossy smiles, pushing literature that said, "Watergate: Forgive, Forget, Unite." I pointed out to them that I'm an American, but wondered, "Why are you pushing such literature in the UK? Sorry, maybe you didn't know this, but Nixon [Watergate] is American, not British." They continued with their zombie smiles and removed the microphone boom from my mouth, from which they were, I guess, hoping for something to make them feel good.

That evening I wrote to my older brother and suggested he might want to start a movement called, simply, "Hang Moon."

No, neither he nor I were part of the vast, racist conspiracy to persecute the po' po', Korean (CIA-funded) evangelist--errrrr, Savior.

That someone could write this sort of nonsense is one of the less desirable aspects of a free press. In a free society--certainly one freer than the one the new Savior represents--one could be prosecuted for this kind of balderdash.

Well, I must admit, I've read few volumes from the publisher of this laughable screed. I know now that, not only will I NEVER read anything from then again, but I'll discourage anyone from doing so.


Reality   January 22, 2006
 3 out of 6 found this review helpful

I'm a part of the church depicted here, and unlike the sarcastic review made by another "member", I'm here to represent the truth. Members of the Unification Church were not kidnapped, brainwashed, or anything of the like. The members are encouraged to visit their family and live normal lives. I have plenty of friends--church and non-church--, keep in touch with my grandmother, maintain a 5.0 GPA, I don't take drugs, I don't lie or cheat or steal. And my family is not a hermit group with no minds of our own. I'm sick of the way people see us this way.
No other religion has been persecuted as much as mine, except for early Christianity. Now look at the religion that dominates--pretty close parallels to Rev. Moon's church, huh?
This book has, gratefully, expressed the truth behind America's legal system and the unfair trials of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. I'm glad to see a person who isn't afraid to write the truth and reality.