It was 11.29 a.m. underneath pewter skies in Japan’s southerly city of Nara when Shinzo Abe was handed the microphone. The country’s previous head of state, putting on a navy blue coat and crisp white t-shirt, tipped atop the little, red dias exterior Yamato-Saidaiji train terminal to soft praise. Some 15 meters away stood Tetsuya Yamagami, face mask slung listed below his nostrils, hands on hips, looking indifferent. As Abe started his project speech on behalf of his regional Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) associate, Yamagami wandered away, just to re-emerge secs later on straight behind the entourage. Some 2 mins and 25 secs after Abe had actually grabbed the mic, a gunfire called out, burying the scene in thick white smoke. Abe browsed in complication. Another fired 3 secs later on captured Abe in the neck and upper body. He fell down. Yamagami was dealt with by safety and security and apprehended. A homemade gun was recouped from the road.

The realities of July 8, 2022, are as undeniable as they are surprising. Abe was taken by clinical helicopter to Nara Medical University Hospital, where he was obvious dead. Yamagami, 41 at the time, has actually been billed with his murder and waits for test later on this year. He declares that he was inspired by Abe’s assistance for the questionable Unification Church, which by obtaining over 100 million yen ($670,000) in contributions from his mom drove his household right into insolvency and destitution. “In some ways, this young man is a victim rather than an aggressor,” claims Tark Ji-Il, a teacher and professional on the Unification Church at Busan Presbyterian University.

In the months complying with Abe’s murder, an inner examination exposed that fifty percent of LDP legislators had connections to the church, triggering a variety of resignations from the highest degree of the Japanese federal government. But why did a spiritual interest—cutely referred to as the “Moonies” and best understood for mass wedding celebrations and anticommunist eagerness—trigger such homicidal craze? And exactly how did it delve so deep right into the controling elite of the after that globe’s third-largest economic situation that a cleanup was needed?

The reality of the Unification Church goes much much deeper than one murder and Japan. It is an internet of political and organization passions that stretches over every continent, asserting some 2 million participants (although that number is very contested) and over $1 billion in properties. It possesses the Washington Times paper, the UPI information cable, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, a ballet firm, and True World Foods, the solitary biggest distributor of fresh fish to the American sushi market. It has actually moneyed third-world successful strokes. It courts leading Republicans and Democrats with occasions advertising traditional reasons. U.S. head of states consisting of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump have actually been forthright advocates.

The Unification Church was started in 1954 by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, that taught that Jesus had actually delegated him as the 2nd messiah to total the job of developing God’s kingdom on Earth and producing globe tranquility. Moon’s faith hinges on the idea that Eve was attracted by Satan in the Garden of Eden prior to copulating Adam. Followers might clean this “original sin” family by weding a partner of his deciding on and participating in a collection of routines, consisting of making love in a selection of preordained placements underneath pictures of Moon in a space freely sprayed with salt. 

Such peculiarities, along with a concentrate on a solitary leader with magnificent allegations and a hostile harvesting of cash, have actually fed complaints that the Unification Church is a cult. Moon cast himself as the “perfect Adam,” and Korea the “Adam nation,” which with support from “archangel” country America would certainly aid humankind recover its prelapsarian pureness. Japan, on the other hand, was cast as the “Eve nation,” which is called for to pay for transgressions dedicated throughout the country’s 1910-1945 colonial regulation of the Korean Peninsula. “They believe all the assets of the Japanese have to be returned to Korea,” claims Takashi Yamaguchi, a legal representative that has actually stood for numerous previous church participants in Japan. “That is the way to salvation.”

Today, nevertheless, the church is having a hard time to conserve itself. It’s ended up being a crucible of infighting, disaster, and sociopathic royal residence intrigue worthwhile of the HBO hit Succession. As the church has actually obtained richer, feuding over its properties has actually ended up being a lot more bitter and rancorous. Speaking to TIME, Moon’s youngest boy, Sean, placed the blame for Abe’s murder strongly at the door of his separated mom, Hak Ja Han, that wrested control of Unification Church after Moon’s fatality in 2012. “It’s the hammer of judgment upon an organization that has betrayed the Lord and returning Jesus,” claims Sean, that established his very own gun-toting splinter Sanctuary Church in country Pennsylvania and was tear-gassed amongst the pro-Trump crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. “The idolatrous and heretical direction … brought a curse upon that organization.”

Certainly, the fatality of Abe offers an existential difficulty. On Oct. 13, the Japanese federal government asked for a court strip the Unification Church of its standing as a spiritual firm and therefore exceptions from company and real estate tax. An approximated 70% of the church’s around the world financing originates from Japan, where on top of that to pushing contributions, it markets costly “psychic” ginseng tea and marble flower holders that allegedly “appease” genealogical spirits. According to a study performed by Japan’s National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales, there were 34,537 situations reported to bar organizations and customer facilities throughout Japan from 1987 to 2021, amounting to over $850 million in problems. “They basically use Japan as their ATM,” claims Sarah Hightower, a scientist on cults.

With that profits stream currently under risk, the Unification Church has actually moved its emphasis to the U.S., where hostile fundraising techniques are protected by the First Amendment. In October, Hak Ja Han returned to the U.S. for the very first time in 4 years to hold “special workshops” to “understand True Mother’s heart” in Las Vegas. The occasion billed for 17-to-40-year-olds was controlled by the demand to boost economic contributions to supplement dropping profits from Japan. A dripped e-mail acquired by TIME advised American fans to send out $100 buck costs to an address in Schaumburg, Illinois “to let True Mother know how much we appreciate her,” with more guidelines to “do not say cash on the document.”

A different dripped Zoom conference from Sept. 26 held by Rev. Demian Dunkley, head of state of the Unification Church’s U.S. wing, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification International (FFWPUI), described numerous dilemmas the company was dealing with and advised priests to three-way tithing from American participants to compose for the decline from Japan. “Start with the highest donor and work down,” Dunkley claimed. The “main objective” moving forward is “membership growth” and “financial growth,” he claimed. “If a struggling-to-eat family in Nepal, who doesn’t even know if they could feed their children, can give a true love offering to True Mother once a year, then I’m telling you that your American families can do this.”

In the conference Dunkley takes place to confess that “90% of the [Japanese] population agrees with the dissolution” of the church, while pleasant “parliamentarians around the prime minister”—that he calls “our people”—state that “there’s probably no way to escape this.” Given these headwinds in Japan, American priests were to concentrate on recruiting “youth,” Dunkley advised, along with employing “the billionaires and millionaires that Mother told us to meet so we can solve all of these problems quickly.”

For Elgen Strait, that matured in the Unification Church now hosts the Falling Out podcast to assistance recuperating participants, the message is really clear: “Japan is shutting down the money spigot so they are turning to the U.S.” And as what pledges to be a close-fought governmental political election methods in the loss, the Unification Church’s political and economic muscular tissue is up for grabs to whoever ideal offers its schedule.

The Unification Church has actually long opposed meaning. Although component of the tidal wave of brand-new spiritual motions from Hare Krishna and Transcendental Meditation that brushed up the West throughout the 1960s and 1970s, it attracts attention for both its long life and impact. Still, it’s up until now revealed none of the homicidal predispositions of ISIS, the Manson Family, or the People’s Temple of Jim Jones. Many Unification Church participants wander in and out of the activity for years. Any damage it causes is a lot more dangerous.

Born in what is today northwestern North Korea in 1920, Rev. Moon matured in a thatched hut throughout the ruthless Japanese line of work. When he was 10, his household transformed to Christianity, and at age 16 he asserted to have actually been checked out by Jesus Christ. After Allied pressures freed Korea in 1945, he relocated to Soviet-managed Pyongyang, where 3 years later on he was apprehended and invested 5 years in a communist jail camp.

After the Korean War burst out, Moon ran away throughout the boundary and cleared up in the South Korean city of Busan, staying in a one-room shack. He started creating his doctrinal tenet—a mix of Christianity, Confucianism, shamanism, and anti-communist hostility—inscribed on its mud wall surfaces. During the 1950s, Moon’s band of committed acolytes expanded, aiding him discovered a collection of church-affiliated structures and services. In 1960, at the age of 40, Moon wed his 2nd spouse, Hak Ja Han—the child of his chef—that was simply 17 years of ages at the time. In 1963, Moon additionally established the Tongil Group organization empire —Tongli is Korean for “unification”—and swiftly branched out right into arms, farming, ginseng, shipbuilding, aeronautics, tourist, minerals to name a few ventures.

“He struck me as being quite humble close up,” claims Mike Breen, a previous church participant that created an informal bio of Moon. “You got a feeling of somebody very, very attentive, who really focuses on you for that moment that he’s dealing with you.”

By 1973, Moon had actually brought his goal to the U.S., clearing up in a 18-acre woody estate called East Garden in Tarrytown, New York. There, he established a brand-new area where alcohol and medications were out-of-bounds and sex outdoors marital relationship condemned the sinner to intense damnation. By 1974, the U.S. church was apparently generating $8 million a year, permitting Moon to acquisition the New Yorker Hotel and surrounding Manhattan Center 2 years later on. The art deco structures came to be the church’s base of American procedures and where youngsters of church participants were cared for communally. Strait matured in the New Yorker up until he was 3 years of ages, after his moms and dads were “love bombed” by employers trawling university schools. “So many families lived in that hotel,” he remembers. “It’s where people went out on fundraising and proselytizing missions.”

The church came to be notorious for spiriting boys and females far from their family members to separated camps where they were purportedly “brainwashed,” triggering worried family members to launch “deprogramming” kidnappings and claims to rainfall down on both sides. Moon additionally started backing traditional political reasons. At the elevation of the Watergate rumor, he bought full-page pro-Nixon advertisements in papers throughout the U.S. and held “God Loves Richard Nixon” rallies on Capitol Hill. Moon sent off appealing women supporters to beauty legislators and debrief. One also came to be an assistant to House Speaker Carl Albert.

In 1976, a Congressional examination linked Moon as event to a South Korean knowledge procedure trying to persuade U.S. plan versus the communist North. In 1982, Moon was founded guilty of tax obligation evasion and punished to 18 months behind bars. Moon functioned to cast himself as a saint maltreated for a non-traditional confidence, attracting assistance from a series of civil libertarians and spiritual traditionalists, consisting of Jerry Falwell and Tim LaHaye. In order to improve his impact initiatives, Moon started the Washington Times paper, whose initial problem was released the day prior to his sentence, transforming it right into a must-read amongst traditionalists, consisting of President Ronald Reagan.

Moon’s espousing of spiritual flexibility and anticommunist passion won wide assistance in the febrile Cold War environment of the day. In Latin America, he started the Confederation of the Associations for the Unification of the Societies of the Americas, or CAUSA, which sent out cash money and products to Contra rebels and moneyed the motley band of paramilitaries, drug cartels, and fugitive Nazi battle offender Klaus Barbie—the “Butcher of Lyon”—that coordinated the conservative successful stroke that fell Bolivia’s democratically chosen federal government in 1980.

Even the end of the Cold War didn’t prevent Moon’s amazing political impact. In 1995, previous President George H.W. Bush and his spouse Barbara offered a collection of paid speeches to the Unification Church in South Korea, and a year later on Bush took a trip to Buenos Aires to address the launch of Moon’s brand-new local everyday paper, Tiempos del Mundo. Other remarkable partners consist of previous President Gerald R. Ford, Republican Senator Jack Kemp, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, along with currently disgraced artist Bill Cosby. In 2000, Moon bought a swathe of land in Paraguay nearly the dimension of Delaware; regional police implicate Moon of utilizing it to help with arms and medications contraband. (His church rejects the accusations.)

As the Unification Church’s political connections expanded, so did the brazenness of its publicity. In 2003, the Washington Times ran a double-page spread that asserted all 36 deceased American head of states had actually recognized Moon’s prominence. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, had actually penciled an individual recommendation from past the tomb: “Follow the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Messiah to all people.” The list below year at the very least a loads U.S. legislators went to a fancy event in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, where Moon was “crowned” and stated himself “humanity’s savior, messiah, returning Lord and true parent.” Jesus, Buddha, Hitler, and Stalin had actually been “reborn as new persons” with his trainings, the a number of hundred visitors were informed. Republican Roscoe Bartlett bowed prior to Moon and Hak Jan Han, while Democrat Danny Davis produced a cushion birthing a gold crown for his head. In 2006, President Joe Biden’s bro, James, along with his boy, Hunter, bought a hedge fund started by Moon’s son-in-law, James Park.

But not all was well behind the scenes.

In 1984, Moon’s 2nd boy, Heung Jin, passed away aged 17 from injuries received from an auto mishap. In 1999, one more boy, Young Jin, eliminated himself by leaping from a 17th-story resort area in Reno. Meanwhile, Moon’s oldest boy and successor obvious, Hyo Jin, was referred to as unpredictable with a fondness for beverage, medications, and arbitrary physical violence. In 1995, his spouse, Nansook Hong, damaged from the household and created a publication condemning Hyo Jin as a cheating philanderer addicted to drug and porn and that consistently defeated her, consisting of when she was 7 months expectant. Hyo Jin passed away of a cardiac arrest in 2008, aged 45. “Full grown adults have been bowing to the Moon children since they were born, so they treated people like toys,” claims Teddy Hose, a recouping church participant whose moms and dads were leading participants of the American Unification Church and matured close-by East Garden. “They were just a very sociopathic family.”

The idolatry of the Moon household stands in plain comparison to the experience of normal participants. While economic threat is most intense in Japan, comparable tales to Yamagami’s poverty-stricken childhood years can be discovered any place the Unification Church has a complying with. It was as a result of her mom’s dedication to Moons in Oslo, Norway, that Lillian Holdhus matured “really, really poor,” she claims.

Moon instructs that every person’s forefathers remain in heck and fans should pay to free each generation. The main internet site for the Unification Church’s South Korean head office, referred to as Cheon Won, also has an “ancestor liberation” calculator with differing rates depending upon nation (the abyss seemingly sticking to a Westphalian perception of statehood and modern GDP metrics). To free all 430 generations of one’s household—concerned and mother’s—needs $12,420 in Norway or the U.S., yet simply $2,280 in Sudan. Tellingly, in Japan, the very same accomplishment needs 6,520,000 yen ($44,800). There are added costs for true blessing forefathers, liberating the spirits of children shed with losing the unborn baby or abortion, and also the opportunity to pre-liberate one’s very own heart prior to fatality. (But just for those whose forefathers have actually all currently been conserved.)

Holdhus’s mom came to be consumed with conserving all her forefathers, sending her youngsters out every night after institution to provide papers in between the ages of 8 to 15 to gain cash money for the household. On Sunday, Holdhus and her brother or sisters were dragged out of bed at 4 a.m. to provide papers prior to prayer. Holdhus never ever saw a dime of the cash—all of it went to the church. “I remember being one of the really slow readers at school,” she claims. “Because I was too tired to do homework after already working.”

Other than hostile fundraising, Unification Church is best understood for prepared mass wedding celebrations. In 1982, 2,075 pairs were joined by Moon at Madison Square Garden, new brides in shoelace and satin dress and bridegrooms dressed in the same cobalt fits. In 2012, when she was simply 17, it was Holdhus’s turn. She was sent out to Cheon Won to participate in what ended up to be the last mass “blessing” performed directly by Moon prior to his fatality. He matched her to a 20-year-old Italian guy that resided in Nuremberg, Germany. It wasn’t precisely like prima facie. “He just gave me such a bad impression straightaway,” claims Holdhus. “I was like, ‘no way am I marrying this person.’”

But when Holdhus attempted to back out, a church authorities revealed her an agreement she had actually authorized claiming she wanted to join the occasion. “She was annoyed at me and I felt very pressured,” claims Holdhus. “So I said that I’d go through with the marriage ceremony.” Today, Holdus is clear concerning what taken place. “I was trafficked,” she claims resolutely. “I couldn’t make decisions for myself legally as an adult.” (Asked concerning accusations of trafficking, Dunkley pins the blame for any kind of forceful techniques on the moms and dads of individuals, urging “the vast majority have an incredible experience.”)

Holdhus returned to Oslo to complete senior high school yet after college graduation was purchased by her mom to join her brand-new partner in Germany. “He was mentally abusive, would call me stupid and slow,” she claims. “He was not supportive or empathetic at all.”

The labor didn’t quit after marital relationship. At her brand-new partner’s bidding process, Holdhus invested 3 months exploring Italy, Slovenia, and Germany in a van with 8 various other young adults, marketing ornaments like introductions cards and wax candle lights door-to-door to generate income for the church. Sometimes they rested within the car, various other times on the flooring of recreation center or, on uncommon celebrations, stuffed right into a solitary area of a hostel. For food, the group leader would certainly purchase economical bread, pork, and cheese from the grocery store to make sandwiches.

“I just remember getting dropped off in this random North Italian village with a little piece of paper with a sentence written on it,” Holdhus remembers. “I don’t know the language and I’m feeling really panicked.”

Each early morning, all the individuals had to mention their objective for the day, which had to be greater than the previous one. And every night, they would certainly have to pass over their yields before the team prior to handing them to the management. “I usually made about 200 euros [$220] a day,” claims Holdhus. “I wasn’t even one of the good earners.” Those that gathered the the very least were reproached before their group. “So there’s real pressure to earn more and more.”

Holdhus’s experience is much from distinct. Children that mature in the American Unification Church, consisting of Strait and Hose, participate in comparable systems—initially referred to as Special Task Force—usually for a year or 2 after senior high school, marketing worthless gewgaws like keychains and windchimes. It’s unsafe job; in 2002, 18-year-old Jin-Joo Byrne was sexually attacked and killed in a Charlotte apartment while marketing costume fashion jewelry for the church. A couple of years later on, Special Task Force was rebranded Generation Peace Academy, yet it proceeds to send off about 200 youngsters every year throughout the U.S. alone to hawk overpriced schedules and 3-D feline images also throughout pandemic lockdowns. The American program is approximated to create over $10 million every year. “They glorify this program so much,” claims Holdhus. “Then I realized it’s just labor trafficking.” (Speaking to TIME, Dunkley once again refuted complaints of trafficking, claiming funds increased are “invested into the program or given back to local communities.”)

The attorney Yamaguchi claims the Unification Church runs these programs since “young people don’t have that much money, so they’re after their labor instead. The harm is that they have been made to waste their most fruitful years.”

After 5 years of weakening psychological health and wellness, consisting of anxiousness problem and agoraphobia, Holdhus abandoned her partner and returned to Oslo, much to the inconvenience of her mom. “She kept saying, ‘you should get back together with him,’” she claims. After a while, nevertheless, her mom yielded. “But every time I was at church, she’s trying to match me with some random older person like I was just a commodity to her.”

Holdhus’s psychological health and wellness proceeded to spiral. “They believe all this crazy stuff like evil spirits are trying to control you,” she claims. “If you drink a sip of alcohol, it’s an invitation for your body to get invaded. I just couldn’t take it anymore.” In the end, the pandemic came to her rescue. Lockdowns offered the reason not to literally participate in worship and the psychological room to begin looking into the company online. “I started asking why they want so much money from the members?” she claims. “My whole childhood I heard nothing but, ‘the Moons needs our money!’”

The Unification Church’s concentrate on contributions has actually escalated as household infighting has actually annihilated its funds. In 1998, Moon greasy Preston, today his earliest making it through boy and a previous Olympic rider, vice-president of FFWPUI. In 2006, he was additionally called head of state of Unification Church International (UCI), a not-for-profit included in Washington D.C. to deal with church properties. Preston’s future as successor showed up secured.

But in 2008 he created a letter to his moms and dads slamming the church’s instructions. In reaction, Moon changed Preston as vice-president of the FFWPUI with Sean. That very same year, Moon’s 3rd child, Tatiana, was designated head of the U.S. Unification Church. Sidelined from the mainstream company, Preston rather started the nonreligious charitable Global Peace Foundation, with a mentioned goal to advertise “an innovative, values-based approach to peacebuilding.” But he stayed chair of the UCI owing to a directly handpicked board of supervisors and in 2011 was filed a claim against by his mom for giving away some $500 countless properties to an unaffiliated Swiss structure. The situation proceeds to roll with America’s courts and was detailed as one of the present “crises” in Rev. Dunkley’s dripped Zoom phone call from Sept. 26. “We have sometimes been soft because it is a family matter,” he claimed, “but no more.”

The power plays intensified complying with Moon’s fatality in 2012. Tatiana was compelled by her mom to surrender after it arised that she’d birthed a kid from an event (critics implicate Hak Ja Han of dripping the rumor herself). The list below year, Hak Ja Han additionally prospered in ousting Sean, that established the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church—much better referred to as the Rod of Iron Ministries—in country Pennsylvania, where he today knocks his mom as the “whore of Babylon.” Preston and Hak Ja Han decreased numerous demands from TIME for meetings. Sean, nevertheless, mored than happy to get on a Zoom phone call. “My father put his crown on me three times, twice in Korea and once in America, just to make it clear who his successor was,” he fumes.

Hak Ja Han’s loan consolidation of power produced a schism that abused relationships, marital relationships, and family members. While most fans stuck with Hak Ja Han’s mainstream Unification Church, some complied with Preston and others signed up with Sean, that allied with one more bro, Justin, the creator of a tiny arms firm called Kahr Arms. The important invitee at Kahr Arms’ Tommy Gun Warehouse display room opening in 2016 was Eric Trump, while Justin made use of the occasion to inform guests, “I hope we can all agree Hilliary Clintion should never be president of the United States” to rowdy praise.

Guns play a specifying duty in Rod of Iron Ministries, which raises the Second Amendment to magnificent okay. Followers young and old clutch weapons—usually the AR-15—throughout solutions, while Sean has actually taken to putting on a crown of bullets. He explains that his dad had actually purchased arms making in Korea considering that the 1960s. Still, Sean’s empurpled lectures knocking public institutions for indoctrinating youngsters with “the homosexual political agenda” made a Hate Watch classification by the Southern Poverty Law Center. To Sean, the largest adversary to flexibility is the state, and he continues to be strongly persuaded the 2020 political election was taken from Trump. “Over history, the most tyrannical force that committed the greatest genocides upon the earth are actually centralized, totalitarian governments.”

Now, Sean’s startup is matching its renowned progenitor for political impact. It holds routine Freedom Festivals that are loaded with conservative audio speakers varying from traditional Republicans to social networks conspiracy theory stars. At the most recent occasion on Oct. 7-8, which included a cubicle without a doubt ideal militant team the Proud Boys, Sean rapped on phase concerning placing pedophiles in “the wood chipper.” The occasion additionally included a ritualistic burning of a pansexual Pride flag and a speech by previous Trump authorities Seb Gorka. Previous years have actually included previous Trump advisor Steve Bannon, ex-spouse–NRA speaker Dana Loesch, and Pennsylvania state legislator Doug Mastriano. Rod of Iron just recently bought a 30-acre substance near Waco, Texas, and a 130-acre “training center” on a hill in eastern Tennessee, which Sean claims will certainly be their future head office. On Jan. 26, Sean published a video clip on X of himself and Justin schmoozing with Donald Trump Jr. and previous Republican governmental election prospect Vivek Ramaswamy at an event in Trump Tower.

Today, the mainstream Unification Church and its splinters complete for recommendation from the American right. Dunkley’s dripped Zoom phone call additionally exposed an increase of political impact procedures in “America centering on the work of the Washington Times.” On Aug. 12, 2022, previous CIA supervisor and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and previous Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich dealt with a Unification Church-front Universal Peace Federation (UPF) occasion in Seoul to mark the 10th wedding anniversary of Moon’s fatality. Trump, on the other hand, sent out a video clip message that explained Moon as a “true inspiration” and Hak Ja Han as a “amazing and wonderful woman.” According to economic documents, Trump obtained around $2.5 million to make that and 2 various other video clip looks in between 2021 and 2022, while previous Vice President Mike Pence was paid $550,000 for talking at a UPF occasion. In May, Trump sent out one more video clip message to a UPF occasion.

Strait claims the Unification Church management spins such recommendation “as proof of the divinity of mission” to push even more contributions from its participants. The impact is round: the a lot more contributions the church can get, the a lot more it can invest in drawing in high account patronage, which it after that leverages to draw in even more contributions. 

It’s a playbook obtained directly from Japan, where the Unification Church’s establishment-shielded fundraising has actually currently been linked in Abe’s murder in a country with little criminal offense and couple of weapons. Now the Moons are looking for comparable political cover, treasures, and—most significantly—hires in the nation with the globe’s greatest weapon possession plus over 20 times the per head murder price of Japan. “What happens in 20 years when these kids realize that people in places of power helped screw up their lives?” asks Strait. “Is there going to be another explosion of rage aimed at even bigger targets?” 

Tragedy has actually tracked the Moons any place they have actually gone. Few can be stunned if it follows their brand-new American experience, as well.