peduto@pyuxv.UUCP (S A Peduto) (07/13/84)
CARP, which, I think stands for Collegiate Association for the Reasearch of Principles, is definately a Moonie front. I also was at Columbia Univeristy during the Moonie controversy. The Dean of Columbia College removed the Unification Church because they were a body totally controlled by a non-CU entity. CARP claimed to be entirely student run and was admitted to the Earl Hall Center, which is a University wide body of religious/political groups, some of which are local chapters of national organizations. CARP had a nasty habit of tearing down the posters of student groups whose beliefs offended theirs. The Moonies believe that Moon is the Second Messiah. Moon claims that Christ was crucified because He never married, and therefore His mission failed; thus Moon is married and he arranges marriages for his followers. Recently, the federal courts found that Moon had engaged in masive income tax fraud -- all that money the Moonies get from panhandling on the streets went into Moon's pockets, not into his Church. The brother of a friend of mine was once taken by the Moonies to a camp of theirs outside San Francisco; the boy's parents had to literally get a court order and a passle of sheriff's deputies before they could see their son again; it took weeks to get the boy deprogrammed. These people are dangerous. As for getting someone's home phone number and address, and that of their parents, it's tedious to do, but a group of dedicated researchers could get that information in a few days. Local phone companies do have phone address services, where, for a fee, they will tell you the name and address that belongs to a certain phone number. This goes even for unlisted phone numbers. If one knew the general area where someone lived, a search through every phone book for the region would produce the name and number. YOu then call the service and get the address. ALternately, of course, there could be dedicates Moonies working as local operators, and getting the information that way. The point here is that people should realize that their phone number, name, and address are public information.