Reply #138: Frontiers of Freedom and Lynn Francis Bouchey

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Bouchey is a long-time Moon operative, and it turns out he's also involved with Frontiers of Freedom.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservatives_target_the_Rainforest_Action_Network

On the 11 June {2001}, Wallop updated the attack from earlier in the year. In the National Review he attacked the "Enemy": "Combining illegal and legal, violent and non-violent tactics, these so-called "green" revolutionaries employ Lenin's tactical code: Conceal one's true objectives, and mobilize "useful idiots." Led by the likes of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Rainforest Action Network this cult of the latter-day Left crusades against every consumer, marketer, or developer of natural resource-based products. No producer or consumer is immune. They target people who drink milk, use electricity, live in a home built of wood or consume paper products made of wood, drive a car, take Viagra, or enjoy seedless watermelon."

In fact Wallop, and his co-author, L. Francis Bouchey, also from the Frontiers of Freedom Institute, used the old Wise Use analogy that environmentalists were all watermelons, green on the outside, but red inside. Under the headline "From Red to Green?" they noted that within recent history there was "The lineage from red to green to eco-radicalism and violence."

Bouchey, who started off in Young Americans for Freedom back in the 60's, was working for Moon's Unification Church by 1980. In the 80's, he was associated with such Moon-related groups as CAUSA and the American Freedom Coalition. He was also the leader of the Council for Inter-American Security, another group with extensive ties to Moon that had a great deal of input into Reagan's Latin American policy and his support for the Contras.

I'd been wondering what Bouchey had been doing with himself since the 80's, but I can't say I'm exactly happy to see him show up here. :eyes:

The real question, of course, is whether there's any connection between GOPUSA and Frontiers of Freedom aside from their having Kerri Houston in common.