AlterNet: Neil Bush Meets the Messiah

AlterNet: Neil Bush Meets the Messiah: "'Those who stray from the heavenly way,' the owner of the flagship Republican newspaper the Washington Times admonished an audience in Taipei on Friday, 'will be punished.'

This 'heavenly way,' the Rev. Sun Myung Moon explained, demands a 51-mile underwater highway spanning Alaska and Russia. Sitting in the front row: Neil Bush, the brother of the president of the United States.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean giant of the religious right who owns the Washington Times, is on a 100-city speaking tour to promote his $200 billion 'Peace King Tunnel' dream. As he describes it, the tunnel would be both a monument to his magnificence, and a totem to his prophecy of a unified Planet Earth. In this vision, the United Nations would be reinvented as an instrument of God's plan, and democracy and sexual freedom would crumble in the face of this faith-based glory.

The name Peace King Tunnel would allude to the title of authority to which Moon, 86, lays claim, and to which U.S. congressmen paid respect on Capitol Hill in last year's controversial 'Crown of Peace' coronation ritual."