Father Speaks At Barrytown - Original Document

tlay 24, 1983

FATHER SPEAKS AT BARRYTOWN

(Col. Han - translating)

How many women students are there now at UTS? (directing question to Dr. Ang). (there are about 50). How many of you are blessed? (please raise your hands). When was Father here last: do you remenber? (October - fishinc). This year Father has not been able to come here, he has been so busy: the court case, the Blessings, Korea, Japan - very busy. Some of your faces are strange faces. (laughter). How many times have you seen Father?, (one, two, or three times). In the beginning when we first started the Seminary Father came here a lot, but now that it has settled down he doesn’t visit so much. How many grad- uations have you had so far at UTS? (seven, counting this ~ear).

While you are up here studying, what do you think America is becoming? (miserable, dependent on us). Do you think that the Unification Church is neces- sary for saving America? (Yes). It’s been-a little over 10 years since Father first started his work in America, but in that time he has really “stirred” America up. What do you think about being a “Moonie”? Do you like being called that? (We like it). When you hear Father’s name in America what does it bring to mind? (persecution). There has been much persecution from the media. The fact that Father tried to persuade (former president) Nixon to listen and fought against Senator Donald Fraser became 2 controversial events. People just didn’t understand; even Unification Church staff members didn’t understand. They were puzzled why Father supported Nixon at the risk of such a cost. But Father was trying to save the President of the United States of America. If Father could have “saved” Nixon there never would have been the Vietnam tragedy; even Central America would not have become as it is today.

Reagan is now trying to protect America from a crisis in Central and South America. Now that 10 years have passed our Unification Church staff and others are beginning to clearly understand: “Oh, I see, the world would not be like it is today if Father could have been successful.” During the 4 years of Carter’s presidency Father denounced him many times and people wondered why. Now in his own words Carter has said in Korea that Rev. Hoon is a political enemy. Reagan on the other hand had to be “lifted up.” You didn’t know that did you? So Father actually did well to !!1. to save Nixon and oppose Carter. If they would have listened there would have been no such persecutions as we have gone through: racism, world problems, the spreading of more Communism. The Black and Spanish population now have really been supporting Father. Reagan has been strong, but his position-has to be even stronger in the future.

All throughout South America we are now being supported and welcomed, and they are supporting Reagan under our influence. - foat~1er_ foresaw all the South i American problem beforehand; he creat_ed CAUSA sever.:11 y·c.:1rs back and sent people to El Salvador and Guatamala. Just like_ America failed in Vittnam, the same · kind of thing is taking place and happening in South America. The Congress is on the liberal side now and has been on the same side of the media in all this conflict. So F~ther has worked very hard; he created the Washington Times, the New York Tribune, and Noticias del Mundo to prepare for the conservative trend of America. The Conservative~must depend on our newspapers - without these they … will completely lose their voice •

‘People just couldn’t believe how much the liberal papers are really fooling the public (New York Times, the Washington Post). TI1ey write their articles like they were right out there in the world and like they wanted the new~ events to be - but their reporters were not really there. The 0 have given the people complete deception for many years, and they have reported just like the Communists have wanted to report. ·

But our reporters go out there and they see things firsthand, and then our newspapers report the truth. We have been reporting news “scoops” from reporters already living in the foreign field. Actually these “reporters” are our own missionaries who are seeing the news with their own eyes! (clapping). In reality this kind of reporting takes a lot of money; at the cost of much money we have been accomplishing this new kind of news media. But this is how it is today, what about 10 years ago? In the past there were many serious and terrible events that were never reported by those liberals.

So Father is proving to the public what Rev. Moon has uncovered and is exposing what those liberals and those newspapers were doing. Now wlth the situation in El Salvador people are beginning to see the truth; they can see how Cuba and Russia are moving in and working in Central and South America. TI1e Communists are not afraid of America and the free world; they already knov how to cope with them. But with the Unification Church teaching people the truth and all about Communism, that is the real threat to them. The Communist world is realizing that their real “enemy” is Rev. Moon and they are now focusing their attention on us.

When Father visits or goes to any one place too often - it is not good. (security). He never tells when he is going to the World Mission Center in New York City, he just suddenly appears and then comes back on the spur of the moment. It is the same with here at Barrytown. The situation is becoming very serious. Father has been receiving friendly advice from even Japanese Intelli- gence to watch out carefully for his path. So Father never tells when he comes here - you will know when Father arrives. (laughter). But you must be aware that anyone could come into trrS in disguise. So if Father acts strange to you some- times, it is only for security.

The days are gone nov that Family members could just call up and ask where Father is. If you were to ask now, they will just deny everything and even security staff members don’t always know. Only after Father gets going do they know where he’s going.

To~ay the Communist world knows the limits and what the free world can or can’t do - iJ: has already been “tested.” Intellectuals have agreed that America is perishing, and to explain why this is true is very simple; just look at American young people. Are young peopre in this country serious or do they care about this nation? Or their famili~s? (No)._ There is so much immorality _and drug abuse - any fool can conclude that under those conditions Amerjca will ‘perish. Look at the Communist side, the Hrst generation worked . very hard but later even they deceived and told lies. - So the second generation Communists know what their parents did - so those children will no longer be devoted to Communism. So the younger genera~ion in Communist countries no longer believes in Communism, per se.

Until now Communists have appointed themselves as leaders of the world, but now the younger generation doesn’t agree. The free world is supposed to be …· . .. ,• “”2 .

the le a dets, but American young people are not interested in the world; they are only interested in themselves, So actually, the “test” is already over and finished. When you look around is there any hope in American colleges and uni- versities, in science or any centers of learning, are there any people Jhere that will lead the world? We find there are none. This is a sad description of the reality of the world today.

What about Moonies? We have already tested that we can win over Communism, and we can win over the free world, that we have a way that works! (clapping). Here we are gathering in the Moonies out of this land of America, and this is the only group in the entire world that can win over evil. While you are here educating yourselves the world is saying that Rev, fuon is “bad.” But the world sees you, how hard you are working and sacr1ficing and they wish you were not the Moonies. (laughter). They wish Rev. Moon and the Unification Church will be “knocked down,” but we just keep increasing. They have really been watching you: the 2000 couples married at Madison Square Garden, even more weddings in Korea, businesses, fundraising. We have been growing and grow- ing; who else can say to two young people that “you” and “you” will be ma tched . and you agree, fantastic! (laughter). White pe<:?ple come here and marry Blac~ Black people come here and marry White - and _most people would run away - but Moonies are so grateful. And most couples can’t even speak the same language, even to say “hello” to each other. (laugh).

But we can explain: there is something more precious (true love) between them. Some members say, “I’ve been in the movement 7 to 10 years and all I’ve had is suffering.” How long has Father been suffering before you? Do you think that Father’s “dumb”? Father knows that this is the only and best way - if there were another better place or a better way, Father would have gone that way before you. When a federal lawsuit comes along most people would run away - Father didn’t have to return but he did so because he knows he has to do something “historical.” Hany lives will pass away, but history always remains. Father is determined to leave a great history behind, You too rnust feel: “I will give up sleeping, sex, individual possessions to establish myself in history - even though it’s hard to sacrifice and to detach from these things.

Your following generation will look at you and say that you were really “holy,” especially if you gave up drugs and dating to work for God. Look at what you have done - after you finally got matched then you can’t even hold your spouse for another J years! What kind of life is that? (laughter). But these things will remain in history - they will say how “wonderful” you are, and the conclusion becomes very simple: the world depends on us.

Have you thought that you are the ones that will save America? (Yes). Have you thought how you would die? (No answer). Are you willing_to determine your goal and die for it? If you haven’t decided now - you had better. You are no longer “free.” If Korea calls Father, he has to gp, if Japan said, “Father, we .need you,” Father would have to e,o. It is the s ame with you - p<’ op le need -~~ now! So you must clearly make up your mind .:. can you do that? (Yes:) If yo•• h ;wc made up your mind, are you in a straight line1 In other words, is your decision a clear direction for you? You are UTS students, studying all year, but do you have vacations? (Father <huckled) Vacations! What’s that? (laughter). You always thought that vacations meant lying in the sun and swimming, didn’t you? But no lonP-er. ~ow y.ou ·have fundraisin~ vacations.

. After you graduate from the Seminary the mainstream of your missions will be to become church leaders, but you might say “no, I want to go to the newspaper, etc.” What do you think about Father’s direction? (Great!) Gray? (No). Great! How do you like that kind of clear direction, clear goals, an<l clear ac~ivity? Hov do you feel about that? (Good). Once you graduate from UTS you will become ministers, do you know what that means? (Servants).

So the Connnunist vorld has already “tested” the democratic world, but the Unification Church hasn’t tested their ability yet - the world waits to see. Are you just going to make new societies like Communism and like the free world? (No, better). Absolutely better! Absolutely united - wherever you go! Someone may be watching over you to see if you do O.K., then wouldn’t,you want to perform better? What if that Someone is God? If He is the One watching over you, can you hide from God? (No!) Can your mind be deceived? If you do wrong you know that it is a sin. Then God would see you as unrighteous .. So when you act you must be straight forw~rd, not wobbling. So action is your best way, don’t de- ceive yourself -when you believe it’s right, do it - when you believe that it’s wrong, don’t do it.

Do you want Father to trust in you? (Yes). Then Father can leave America and you can take over? A good teacher can leave things behind to his pupils, if he teaches well. In Brazil we have an IOWC that’s so effective and growing• so successful that other Brazilians are alarmed. They think we’ re going to “swallow” all of Brazil! (laughter). If Rev. Moon goes to that country, they would not oppose him, would they? They are anti-American, and if Father said one word against America, they would agree. But Father will say “no” you must not go against America; there Moonies are working so hard to save America.

So you must take the position as UTS graduates that Father could leave America in your hands, you must have that kind of attitude. So you have to think the bold way - do you think that Father can have hope in you? (Yes!) If you really are determined and want to resolve the problems, there are 4 ways you must be strong:

1) Thought or ideology - You must have a fixed goal; Unificationism will support you. You can see what power ah ideology is - look at Communism, two-thirds of the population of the world is influenced by wrong thought. But if you have the right thought, then you can influence the world 100%. 2) Technology - to take responsibility for the world. 3) Economic power. 4) Media power.

Among these four, the last three are mueh stronger in America than in Russia. Ilut in thought and ideology at this time Russia is much stronger. But clearly the Unification thought is the best of all others-; Comm1mism will fail, and the free world will fail. Success is now in _!:echno~&I· That is _why Father has combined West Germany, and Korea, and Japan (fal’lilies~, because of- technolo gy. Japan is high in electronic technology. \le have only a few more years to “close the gap” and then the Unification movement will have to reach the apex of tech- nology. Father will someday organize and put in one headquarters the “brains” of the world. The ICUS and PWPA will play crucial roles in supplying this manpower. (already 50 nations).

. Father is placing even more effort in the area of technology; he will be building everything up, 11 terally and physically. As for the Thi rd World, it has to “come up” to supply the ra.., materials. Now Russia and America have been focusing Ob these countries where the resources are sought. We already see struggles brewing in Africa and South America. This shows that Russia and America are confronting each other to have control over these raw materials.

Through CAUSA Father has already been working. Americans in South Amer- ica have already come to see that America can do nothing in South America, except the Moonies. Only the Moonies can educate these people against Communism. Also these colonial countries have already had bad experiences of others coming to their countries, but ..,hen they saw Moonies they said, “Th:lis is it, they are the only genuine ones!” They say they “love Rev. Moon,” and they will no longer accept foreign missionaries and Russian advisors. But they see that there is no racial discrimination in Moonies. All the earlier countries went in and brought things 01Jt; they took everything back to their own nations. But Rev. Hoon gives to them, and says, “You can have this to keep, develop, and then you give to God and to the world.”

So today it is resources that will determine the survival of industry. South America has become a base for others securing these resources. Also, finance is another central channel that is imperative to have, especially through banks. Father predicts that the most po..,er in an economy in the future will not be industry, not ra.., materials, but distribution. Those ..,ho sell - Father has been training Unification Church people in this through fundraising. (clapping). If you can sell small things. then you can sell large things! A good example is in our Japanese Family ..,here all the members fundraise: if they are selling handkerchiefs that month, then all the handkerchiefs will disappear from all of the department stores (they sellthem all). So the only thing you have to worry about is how to sell items. You let others produce the items, and if you can sell then you have the victory. If you start selling one thing, then in a short time you could quickly sell everything. (clapping).

If Father told everyone in the movement, for instance, to sell “one brand of Japanese cars,” and this direction went to South America, Korea, Europe, Japan and America, then the results of the sales volume would go beyond any physical law. The Unification movement could do that; it has that economic power! So did Father make these economic foundations while the world was welcoming him? No - while the world was persecuting Father he did this.

So the world is becoming very aware that Unification ideology is strong. As for technology in the future they will have to ask Unification movement about that. In the future people with business will have to join the Unification Church as a member in order to survive. (laughter). If there is an American ·aircraft company we will just have to buy it out! These ideas are very fearful to America. There are open-stock companies where you just have to 0”10 Sl% to have control. The PWPA; ha·s advisors to all the top-level lertders. of the world; if they _wanted to boycott someone· of Communist countries, what _could they do?

The free world is..already seeing the truthful efficiency in our media. They already see that Rev. noon has the ideas of a “genius.” Right now American reporters are being organized and being invited to Central American countries. First CAUSA will give them basic orientation courses and brief them about what the KGB aria tne Coll’lllunists are doing in these 6 countries. So the Communists don’t know where to hide!

Last year we sent hordes of reporters to Rnssia and the leaders there couldn’t refuse; (?ublic opinion) they had to issue visas. This year we will send even more - then we vill ask more questions, and reveal more truth. This is why you have to have these 4 things: ideology (~hought), technology, e~onomics, and media. These things that Father has been speaking about aren’t just “ideal- istic talk,” we are right at the threshold of this reality: In the next couple of years Father will push you over this threshold! And we will do it! (clapping).

Up until now they have labeled Father as they pleased, but just looking at Father from the “outside” they can’t see him in a simple way. In order to understand him they must see Rev. Moon’s thought in many different ~reas. When Father was in Germany, why did the Germans make such a big noise about him? Father didn’t have any “weapons” nor was he going to “do anything.” But still they were scared; they couldn’t predict what Father would do because they don’t know him. But we know Father and we wait to thrust ourselves into these goals. Unification is our goal - making the world into one. You can see the blueprint of the future; you have to conquer every area of activity, you are about to be future leaders. Unification thought, economics, technology, media, all these areas you must know. The more you know about these things, the higher leaders you will be.

A bad symptom today in America in the economy is over-specialization. But Moonies are different, they can work in 5 different directions at one time. You can set your own priorities, but you have to be able to do everything. Because of this “specialization syndrome” in America, when your central figures tell members what to do, they always complain: “Just give me one thing at a time.” But if you learn to accomplish one: the ideology, second: technology, third: economics, and fourth: media, in that priority then you are O.K. (It’s just like the way you wash your face, first you wash your eyes, your nose, and then your mouth.) As you train yourself to do many things, you will grow as you do it. Then if your leader tells you to do “5 different things” at once, you won’t say “How?” You will say, ‘’When do you want it finished?” (laughter). You have to give up that American trait of only doing one thing at a time.

The rest of the world is already complex and developing in industry, but in America no one can beat their specialization. The only trouble is they produce too much, and they have no time to package (wrap) it. But the Unification Church could come along, package it (wrap it) and put it into warehouses and sell it! (clapping). The Unification Church is marching on! Amen! (Amen!)

Haven’t you had enough - are you getting tired of listening? (No!) If you eat any more “spiritual food” you will get a stomach ache. (laugh). But you know what to do now. There are many_ things that have to be_ done, but “how” you do it is your duty, it is your 5% portion of responsibility. ~o doubt some of you have classes now, don’t you? Your professors will say that Rev. Hoon is taking their students away. Father will take a tour around the grounds, and he will plan the next carp fishing, O.K.? (clapping). . (Three i “monsei’s” for True Parents)

(unofficial notes taken by Shiiley Stadelhofer)