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Rezko just won't go away! With friends like Slum Lord, Tony Rezko, and Texas Senator Kirk Watson, Obama must be saying " Who needs enemies?"


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Comment by Christines — February 20, 2008 @ 04:35PM

I'm still trying to figure out why Hillary did all her Wisconsin campaigning on the Monday before the Tuesday election. After this many losses, Hillary is starting to remind me of Willy Coyote, super genius. Hope she doesn't cry again as she, "finds her voice."

Comment by Chris336 — February 21, 2008 @ 01:49AM

While there's a lot of enthusiasm for Barack, I'm afraid he's going to be the George McGovern of the 20th Century. Admired (and in many cases adored) by a huge segment of the party (just like McGovern), but that admiration won't carry him through the general election in November.

Republicans are licking their chops, just waiting to pounce on his inexperience. (Of course, they'll paint him as a far-left liberal just like they'd do any Democrat.)

Barack will be lucky to carry Massachusetts, DC, Rhode Island, and Illinois in November. He'll muster less than 100 electoral votes.

Comment by Darryl Cline — February 21, 2008 @ 11:53AM

Hillary Clinton is such an unabashed hypocrite. She has the gaul to be critical of Obama's use of wording that was as Obama made clear recommended by his friend and supporter... and then in her debate response used the term "lifting" as if he stole it.

What is incredible was that her "heartfelt" ending to the debate was something that was said already by John Edwards.

INCREDIBLE!!!! DOES SHE THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID. WHAT ARROGANCE and UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR.

Comment by Dan — February 22, 2008 @ 02:27AM

CHANGE? OH, GIVE ME A BREAK!!
HITLER WANTED CHANGE TOO!
Obama... what a joke. Jimmy Carter all over again.

Comment by Jill — February 22, 2008 @ 10:17PM

Can anyone give an accounting of Clinton's 35 years of experience? I know that from 1986-1992 she was on the board for Wal-Mart.

Comment by Tim — February 23, 2008 @ 05:45AM

I am really surprised at the people in support of Obama, he has nothing noteworthy, I think all of them need to look for legitimacy in a candidate, if it weren't for the media this would be a totally different race!!!
Welcome to 2008 where the movement is taking place, I don't think he will be as good as Jimmy Carter!!!

Comment by Missy Crawford — February 23, 2008 @ 07:14AM

Hillary Clinton has fought for children, Vets and all Americans. She is a true patriot and loves our country. She has helped expand family and medical leave for our Veterans. Has pushed through the Heroes at Home legislation. She was instrumental in creating the State Children's Health Insurance Program. She has been working hard on getting health care for the brave First Responders who rushed to help people when the towers toppled. She Real change that effects real lives.

A true and blue Democrat. A real patriot who loves her country.

Comment by JSummers — February 23, 2008 @ 04:09PM

People in Texas should educate themselves about Barack Obama:

http://questionbarackobama.blogspot.com

Comment by Stevebac — February 23, 2008 @ 05:59PM

I just checked the "find events" at hillaryclinton.com, and my search in Dallas brought up 2 pages of events!

Everyone needs to come to Hillary Headquarters near Fair Park tomorrow (Sunday, 2/24) evening (6pm--9pm) for her Open House. Her Headquarters is in the Chi building on Fletcher, just off Haskell. Come on down, pick up a yard sign, and make a few phone calls for Hillary!

Comment by jaf — February 24, 2008 @ 12:41AM

I just found out that Mexico was the first country on this hemisphere to have a black president. I also found out that there were pockets of black people in Mexico that settled in Mexico when escaping slavery. If Obama is elected president, he really have to be as fair as possible to all people, after all we have had over 200 years of white men for president.
Felton

Comment by Felton — February 24, 2008 @ 12:55PM

My friends, the winds have drastically shifted, vote Clinton and we'll have no Obama, Clinton will not beat McCain but Obama may beat McCain - think! Stop the momentum. Do true Americans really want Obama to lead our country? Share this with other friends now, or we will regret it!

Comment by bestforus — February 24, 2008 @ 01:48PM

The nomination is over! Barack Obama will be the next president, the next Leader of the World! Barack Obama is our Leader and our Lord, our Lord of Vision and Dreams. The future is a pearl in His hand. Come to Obama. Join us, join Him. He has a vision for a country that is post-American and global: an Obama Nation. The Obama Nation is coming, and no one can stop it. Obama is Love. Obama is Hope. Obama is Light. Obama is Love.

Come to Obama. We will lead your conversion.

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

Comment by Patricia Melton — February 24, 2008 @ 02:53PM

Hillary if you remember ignored Wisconsin also. And look what happened. I believe she is so sure she doesnt have to worry about Texas that she isnt making a big deal out of it. But other states have been shunned by her also...and didnt take kindly to it. And it showed when the vote came in. But Im an Obama fan...so I really am not concerned what Hillary does.

Comment by Linda — February 25, 2008 @ 12:04AM

The centerpiece of Obama's campaign is CHANGE. That goes two ways. Voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas can also effect CHANGE. These three states are in a unique position to make a CHANGE that will slow down Obama's momentum just long enough to give Democrats time to find out more information about Obama. If the voting in these states results in Obama becoming the nominee, the Republicans will be the ones who will find out what Democrat voters should have known before casting their vote.

1. What is behind the Obamas' original decision to keep voters from reading Michelle's college senior thesis by temporarily withdrawing it from all viewing or duplication until the day after the general election? Princeton reported that this restriction is scheduled to be lifted no later than Nov. 5, 2008.

The Obama campaign recently released a copy of the thesis to politico.com who posted it in a Feb. 22 article titled, Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide. The link is: www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html Her thesis gives the results of a study that she did at Princeton, using replies from questionnaires that she sent to black Princeton graduates.

2. Oprah said she is for Obama because he is brilliant. Voters should read an article in the Los Angeles times about some of his oops votes in the Illinois senate. The link is: www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obamavotes24jan24,1,7079399.story

3. Obama lets supporters believe that in 2002 he voted against the Iraq war. He was in the Illinois senate in 2002. When a reporter asked him how he would have voted, he said he didn't know. Why didn't he just say he would have voted no?

4. He spoke out against the IRAN resolution, but he stayed on the campaign trail and dodged the vote. When a reporter asked him why he missed that important vote, he said he apologizes for that.

5. When he was questioned about buying a piece of property next to his house from Tony Rezko's wife, he calmly said that was a bonehead mistake. He also downplayed his association with Rezko. Maybe there's more to his association with Rezko and maybe there's not. However, voters should be able to find out one way or another.

6. With Obama's oops votes in the Illinois senate, his letting people who are supporting him think he voted against the war, his tendency to worry about what his official voting record shows, and his dodging the vote on the Iran resolution are issues that voters should think about.

7. If Obama wins the presidency, he will run for a second term in four years. He missed the Iran resolution vote because he wanted to make sure that his voting record didn't show any vote. That way, his opponents would not be able to use a no vote against him in case that wasn't the right way to vote...and his opponents won't be able to beat on him like he has been beating on Hillary. Obama supporters can only hope that if he is elected president, his decisions will be geared toward what is best for our country and not what is best for getting re-elected in four years.

Please take the time to go to the links referred to above.

Comment by M. A. — February 25, 2008 @ 11:29PM

There may be lots of events on the Obama site, but if you read them closely lots are "think of a poem that describes Obama" or "we need people to drive elderly voters". Hillary is doing the same things, they just aren't all posted on an event "free for all" page online. I'm undecided, but lets be fair people.

Comment by cb — February 25, 2008 @ 11:32PM

Obama is NOT Change! He is just another MAN with very little experience (less than Bush). We need a woman as president to make real change and show the world that the US has emerged and it is not business as usual.

Comment by Cindy — February 27, 2008 @ 12:37PM

There are many Clinton events this week and she will be here on March 1st. I encourage everyone to go beyond the media's information - they are doing no justice to any of the candidates. Hillary does seem to get the worst - her base is alive and well. I see proof at sites like hillaryspeaksforme.com.

Comment by RancherMD — February 27, 2008 @ 04:06PM

Dear Editors:

This message were sent out to the bishop and his faithful members.

Can you disseminate this email to other UMC leaders for spritual enlightenment? Over 1000 delegates are going to attend at the UMC General Conference, Forth Worth, Texas. Please help them to clean up this mess. They are going to spend over $4.000,000 for this meeting. If they could clean up this mess. It is really worthy meeting for Christ.

Thank you very much.


March 13, 2008



Bishop William H. Willimon and your faithful members

North Alabama Conference

wwillimon@northalabamaumc.org



Dear Bishop William H. Willimon, et al.



Greetings in our Lord, Jesus Christ.



I have acquainted with your name while reading the Study of Ministry Commission for the General Conference 2008.



I wish to inform you about an unbelievable incident occurred in our church, which is relevant to the subject matter. It is not to injure anyone but for a renewal for our common interest. I hope that someone, somehow, would have chance to study this case and present to the Study Commission at General Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, exposing the tragic event for confession of their “finitude” for a renewal. Really they are in “a mess.”



The Minutes of Conversations and related studies seem to indicate the complex administrative mechanisms of the rituals, but have failed to clearly define how to revive the spirituality of UMC, preventing the declining membership



In the Critical analysis of the ministry studies, Prof Richard P. Heigtzenrater revealed somehow correctly, but ominously,



“Grace” after all, has become meaningless as to shift to “graces” without batting of an editorial eyelash. According to him, the conflicting classification of clergy rankings becomes “tools of power struggles” and, in the fatigue they are “unable to convey any intrinsic [religious] meaning.”



In the sense, the violence in our church seems to be nothing but a reflection of dry spirituality or apathy of the politically obsessed church leadership who lost faith and any sense to the sufferings.



Dr. Michelle Fugate, a Commission member, indicated the weakness of clergy ethics in her study as follows,



“Most who wrote a comment did not see peer review as a growth

opportunity for their ministry....others called for a stronger method

of review for removing ineffective clergy.” (Recom. 7).



But no policy suggested how to stop the vicious recycling of ineffective clergies, avoiding the deadly viruses as in the case.



In your Lent message, you gracefully stated,



“Who but the Church will tell such truth?”



It is absolutely true; all faithful strongly believe “the Church should be able to tell such truth.”



However, in the present case, the leaders who knew the tragic incident sadly

stonewalled to the Rev. Gummer’s graceful advice to honor “The donor’s will,” and unable to tell “the truth” about it (more than a decade old). It appears to be an ominous spiritual apathy of UMC - in a historic major protestant denomination on this land. The leaders seem to have lost their road signs so as to seek the directions from Rev. John Wesley.



In the good contrast, recently the legal authorities revealed the criminal activities of the New York state governor, Eliot Spitzer, within 48 hours he had to resign from the powerful position to honor the secular law as well as the public opinion which revealed its power and authority. But our church leaders failed to follow Justus’s teaching in the case.



It reminded me the words a judge said during our court proceedings,



“The Church is not just a building.”



I have added the transcripts for your review which is part of falsely sworn deposition testimony to charge me and my son as mass murderers by so called church officer under the vicious direction of an ordained clergy and put us on costly, emotional, criminal trial at a full jury. We had to pay the legal fees, while they were using the stolen church money in order to persecute us and loot the trust fund.



According to our experience, Methodist denomination really needs a faithful leadership re-education to be rescued from this tragic “mess” and to establish the faithful human relations with common people within the Church. May God bless you and the General Conference to be timely and “A Faith in Action” for a renewal.



Please study prayerfully the attached messages to help UMC.



1. Message to the Delegates and concerned members (Summary of the scandals)



Letters as reference



2. To the bishop Park, honorable definition of “Donor’s will,” from Rev. Gommer.

3. Letter to the Bishop Jeremiah J. Park

4. Letter to the NY Annual Conference

5. Transcripts (The church financed false murder charges)



I would appreciate your kindly advice.



Sincerely yours in Christ.





Chae S. Sone, Ph. D., Kyung Kim Sone, M.D.

csone@optonline.net

2 Woodbury Court Hicksville, New York 11801


Part 2.
Dear Delegates and UMC members:


Greetings in Jesus Christ.

I know that you are very active on issues of social justice, peace and violence. And I am writing to you because the problems demand the member’s active intervention to correct the mismanagement of the Building Trust Fund of this Church.

Your corrective measures are needed for our common good and common interest, according to the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Disc. 270 4(e))

COUP DETAT OF CHURCH

Recover the looted Building Trust Fund from the looters,
Korean united Methodist Church and institute, 633 west 115h street, new York, NY 20025”

In 1992, the pastor wanted to spend the trust fund ($2,000,000) for other purpose than the pledged. The trustees disagreed. To challenge the trustees, his group falsely accused the Chairman embezzled $60,000 and assaulted in public at a church meeting. The investigation revealed it was false. His group eventually made the destructive purge the elders and Church officers to replace the decision making body with the help of an Elder and English congregation members. This purge appears to be an unconscionable immigrant’s psychic which is yet alive and well.

An active purge participant promoted to BOT chair. But shortly after he resigned because of embezzlement of $70,000, but honored with legal fees and partial pay of the embezzlement. Why it subsidized the embezzler?

KOREAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AND INSTITUTE, REVEREND WON TAE CHA, YOUNG SO KIM, KI DUCK SHIN, KYUNG HEE SHIN, HYUK DAL KWON, DONG JIN KIM
Vs.
CHAE S. SONE AND KYUNG KIM SONE

The six plaintiffs, including a fake M.D., sued us in retaliation to scapegoat the family which tried to protect the Trust Fund when he was the chairman of BOT. They demanded $4,000,000 damages in the stolen name of the Church.

Eventually the judge sanctioned it as frivolous and also fined them for the contempt of court.

At the sanction hearings, the judge said, “The Church is not just a building,” as she found the empty leadership of it.

The judge ordered to recover the damages from those who disgraced the Church that was not a party in it. But the Church unfriendly officers did not do anything about the possible recovery, yet covering it up.

Rather, without any remorse, the ADB chairman laundered the immigrant’s pennies to rewardingly pay even their penalties and attorney fees. However, he lied to the judge that he did not know the source of the fund.

The sanction was a victory for the true Church, justice and for the family who maintained costly fight. Of course, the sanction brought certain degree of normalcy to the Church.

However, the wise scavengers seized the momentum, strengthening the cell organ - Garbage in, garbage out. Thus, the victory sadly short-lived. She lost again.

STEVE H. PARK vs. CHAE S. SONE

In this case, plaintiff Park, a fake M.B.A., put the defendants on trial at a full jury with the felony charges which falsely accused him and his son attempted mass murders of plaintiff, his family, his lawyer and other Church members. It was another Church’s collective criminal conspiracy.

He demanded $4,000,000 extortion for the lawsuit. Reverend Won Tae Cha, Mrs. Plaintiff, elders and his underlings came to support the falsely created felony case on the trial like the criminal racketeers and Al Qaeda terrorists, a satanic ritual at best. Paradoxically, the Church officers paid his legal fees too from the stolen Church money.

How the Church allowed the torture money to persecute the innocents?

ILLEGAL EX PARTE CONFERENCE

According to the court records, the Church hierarchies - the bishop, superintendent or pastor illegally deceived the Judge at an ex parte conference, confirming the fake criminal charges as if Church related.

However, the bishop Park, or the Superintendent refused to name who were at it when he was repeatedly questioned and disgraced the Episcopal office. Why?

Ignoring or stonewalling to the legitimate ecclesiastical inquiries is unwise, “If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Mt 15:14.) Now they are indeed fallen into a pit, a very dangerous, dark, stinky pit - a meltdown.

RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Another question is still lingering on how the $180,000 building repair contract lost for nothing through the related party transactions. The chair was an employee of the contractor.

In 2004, the new Board chair made a costly recovery of the negligently abandoned high value bank accounts by the trustees. It was a costly recovery for the church from the State’s confiscated properties. But there is no clear records on the abandoned amount and that of recovered.

The pastor Chang said Reverend Cha is his mentor who opened the way for him to come to this Church. His mentoring seems to be still in motion.

The New York State Attorney General advised it could recover the abused fund from them. But the trustees did not do it, stating it would be costly for the Church to do so.

The Church unfriendly officers seemed to have blessed the abusers with attorney fees, cursing the falsely accused. Thus, the looters had the cool lunch again with blessings under a comradeship.

Why the Church paid even the abuse-investigation while demonizing the protector of the Church? Needless to say, so called trustees and officers collaborated with them as if the brain-washed empty headed or puppets - a meltdown morality.

Thus, they dumped the Ten Commandments, ambushed the truth in order to make a cool shelter for the looters. They succeeded in mugging the historic Church.

Didn’t they make UMC an illicit outlaw-Church? (Mt 21:13)

THE LOOTING AGAINST THE DONORS WILL
(Disc. 270.4(e))

If the Church officers are not interested in protecting the Church’s assets. How could they expect any further assistance from the civil authorities whom they so heartlessly contempt?

While in discussion of the looting with the Superintendent in June, the pastor asserted the request for the recovery of the looted fund was Anti-Church and Anti-Church interest.

To honor the trust is anti-Church?

He should have known such assertions had no Christian justice in contrary to the historical iniquities. For they were defamatory and insult to the Christian principles under any circumstances. It does not fit to be a pastoral reasoning as if spitting to the pulpit. Isn’t he praising the looting?

MISSION FUND?

In the midst of this spiritual blunder, The UMC Mission Board donated untimely, unwise gift $50,000 to the beaten building fund appears an incentive to the looting or as an exchange of Judas money bag, scandalously dishonoring the donor’s will. (Matt.26:16-16, 50). “In iconography, the symbolic color of Judas is yellow, the tint of dung”
.
Now, those who supported the litigation with false affidavits in a Taliban way against the innocent are still ominously holding saintly positions in the Church.

Now it appears they could re-enact the violent looting drama of the fund with cool faces without regard to the Church rules and the civil authorities. The pastor rewarded them, placing the innocent in the perilous position again as if a hangman’s noose is on the adversary in order for them to justify the wicked looting. Is the fund open for free cool looting again? Who can prevent the looting again? The return of a Gestapo Church should be prevented by any means.

In addition, his pressuring to re-establish elder system invites a new power structure in this small congregation. There are many elder hungry and power hungry new comers could shield his position. It is questionable if the Church could be successful coolly with such questionable human qualities in this morally troubled season.

For more than a decade, superintendents and ordained clergies coalesced this anti Christ activities for money?

Remember such ambivalence to the justice and truth could absolutely undermine the prestige of the Church hierarchies, the United Methodist Church denomination and the Christian value system. In a sense, the Church leadership seems to be on the way to God is dead.”

STALLED AUDIT

On July 15, 2007, the Church Council decided that the audit of the Building Trust Fund should be done by a CPA, excluding Korean CPA, from the financial transactions of 2000, presumably, according to the Audit Manual of UMC. At that moment, the pastor Chang said he would take care of it with two other members. Almost seven months gone. It appears the audit is stalled. Remember the Bible said, “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” (1Ti 6:10). Also remember what Peter said to Ananias, “You not lied to men but to God.” (Acts 5:1-22).

He was appointed by the Bishop and nothing to be afraid or ashamed of cleaning of the account fraud; The Bible said, “The truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32).

Our Church history, aged 85, is often falsely over-glorified to others in contrary to the dark images as the mother Church of the Koreans in the City. Needless to say, it was deceptive. The negative image in the recent history is well known to the Korean community. It is questionable, at this point of time, any refined rhetoric could convince them otherwise.

Now, it is Biblically clear that they are common liars, embezzlers and, perhaps, the greatest scabs and cancers on the face of Christianity in the twenty first century. The mindless Church sadly becomes a joiner of them, who denied a legal relief for the beaten good Samaritans, the defendants.

It is about the time for the UMC leadership to dissect the Christian injustice and discover the naked truth of the massive moral and religious iniquities of them and to deliver the injured Church from the cancer, insanity, racketeers and scandals. The innocent people suffered enough.

The concerned members should actively pursue the justice without delay as Jesus activists, right here in New York, not only in Darfur or in Guantanamo, for torturers are right here within your Church! For Christian violence is here, at your doorsteps. Do not torture!!

BRUTALLITY OF THE YEAR

This lamenting letter is to sincerely remind you again the Biblical reality demands our moral renewal and repentance under faithful pastoral leadership.

Didn’t Vick’s dog have more human rights than real human beings? Shouldn’t the Church be a place more humane than Vick’s dog house? Is the Gospel melted down in UMC?

The Virginia Tech shooting top rated as the brutal crime of the year 2007, if the Church racketeered in the name of Christ, shouldn’t this criminality is over the top of the Virginia Tech brutality?

There should be a criminal investigation to destroy the network of evil cheaters, false prophets and saintly racketeers in the New York Conference.

We must stop placing our Church on the way to “God is dead,” as once done by Rudolph Kos, Henley Lyons, Tammy & Bakker, Hae Jong Kim and Ted Haggard. We must pray God for our rehabilitation with them from the deadly temptations.

If you, members keep quiet, “The stones will cry out.” (Luke 19:39-40).

Vision reports 200 Methodist Church closings every year. How can they survive if under either the racketeers or fools and puppets? Question is who can renew the fools, false prophets and mobsters?

Please help the Church to be revived and to recover the looted fund. She badly needs your supporting prayers and social action. Every reader’s positive response is a petition for better tomorrows of our souls in UMC. There is a choice for the Jesus people on the issues. If you can clear our honor and save this Church, namely, you are saving the Annual Conference and all UMC. Please help the injustice to be resolved for the Korean Church under the faithful UMC leadership in the name of Christ!!

RERESTORE JUSTICE

The recovery of the abused fund for the Church which is the main goal of the Church rules at least.

1. Investigation should be based upon documentary evidence, rejecting baseless hearsays in this electronic age
2. Demand an audit by CPA (Excluding Korean CPA) from 2000 as decided.

3. Demand the embezzlers return to the Church the abused trust fund for their personal frivolous lawsuits and other expenses a renewal for the Church.

4. Investigate who were at the ex parte criminal conference in a serious violation of the Church rules, secular and moral laws.

5. Impeach or excommunicate the persons involved in this long
term anti Church scandals and racketeering in this cyber age, according to the Church rules.

I urge that your committee or UMC could take an action for justice and peace. Please do not hesitate to contact anyone when you have questions. For this is for a renewal effort for UMC in good faith.

Who can stop them writing an obituary of justice?

I would gracefully welcome any advice

May God bless you all in this New Year!!

Yours in Christ.

Chae S. Sone

See also other attached letters.

Reference:
Book of discipline (1996) secs 2624, 2509, 262 4 e)
2509.

Faith feedback:
The Bishop Jeremiah Pak. Bishop@nyac.com,
Metro N. District Superintend. mnnyac@aol.com,
The pastor Chang. chang.kmci@gmail.com and others
Chae S. Sone. Csone@optonline.net

Part 3.


This message clearly has defined the meaning of “Donor’s will.”



From:Revgommer@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:22 PM
To: Bishop@nyac.com;chang.kmci@gmail.com. csone@optonline.net
Subject: Building Funds Questions – Korean Church

Dear Bishop:

This all sounds as though the leadership of our church has handled a “difficult situation” in a poor way. Are these matters of injustice in the claims of those who cry out about the fraudulent use of building funds and trust funds of the Korean Church in New York? Real leaders not only do things right... but in the critical points of decision making...do the right thing. What is the “right thing” in his matter? It is an embarrassment to the whole community of faith.

Chuck Gummer
Former District Superintendent
Former Wyoming Conference Executive
Wyoming Confeence
Wyoming Conference

Part 4.
2 Woodbury Court
Hicksville, New York 11801
(516) 931-1067
February 28, 2007

Bishop Reverend Jeremiah J. Park
The Office of Bishop
20 Soundview Avenue
White Plains, New York 10606


RE: A request for legal support

Dear Bishop:

Greetings in our Lord, Jesus Christ. As I previously communicated with your office, the former pastor of the church, Won Tae Cha, and seven (7) church members of the Korean United Methodist Church and Institute, Inc., instituted three lawsuits against my wife and/or me.

I strongly feel that the issues in the subject matter are not comforting with any concerned minds. However, the issues should be dealt with care and concern because they are piercing through the moral fabrics of our soul and spirit of the United Methodist Church denomination. It matters with our common interest for all of the church members.

All of the three cases acted against us within two months after Pastor Won Tae Cha was removed from the position of this church by Bishop Ernest S. Lyght. Pastor Cha seemed to have initiated them to take these legal actions. According to information, he told them that he would proceed for the cases even if he had to sell his house. He should not have any grievances against me. The loss of his job was due to the revolt of his purged church officers and due to his misconducts in the ministry which ruined the church.

The show cause order initiated by Steve Park with the support of four false affidavits sworn by at least nine (9) so-called church members was to prevent me to attend church. The order was quickly dismissed by a judge.

The case (Korean United Methodist Church and Institute, Inc., Won Tae Cha, Young So Kim, Ki Duck Shin, Kyung Hee Shin, Hyuk Dal Kwon, Dong Gene Kim v. Chae Sone and Kyung Kim Sone) was sanctioned by Hon. Louis York as frivolous. The judge recognized that these persons falsely used the name of the church in the lawsuit. Furthermore, they were fined for contempt of court for violation of a gag order for the terms of sanctions.

The judge at the sanction hearings stated clearly that the church was not a party in the case. The individual parties were liable for the penalties, but the church had paid the fines for sanctions and the contempt of court with the church’s official checks signed. The church was absolutely wrong to finance the lawsuits against us because we stood against the abuses of the Building Trust Fund in order to protect the church’s interests. The sanctions were the defeat of their malicious actions and a victory for us who tried to protect the church’s well-being. The sanctions certainly awakened our dying small congregation on matters of litigation (They falsely accused us in church that we had initiated this lawsuit, which, as you know, they initiated it against us.)

In the lawsuit, Steve Park v. Chae Sone, Mr. Park charged me, among other things, that I was going to kill him, his family, and other church members. In his fantasy of this multiple murder scheme, he implicated that my son will kill his lawyer and his staff in the office in Manhattan. Perhaps, this murder accusation against my son and me was also involved with Pastor Cha and other co-conspirators, because they had attended in support of Park when I was on trial.

How could an ordained clergy act like this in support of a fabricated criminal case?

Although Mr. Park’s murder charge was classified as a felony, it was to be tried in two courts, civil court and criminal court.

My son and I were on trial at a full jury. The case was first scheduled for trial as a civil suit. Then, it will be scheduled for trial in criminal court.

......

In his oral deposition, Mr. Park named more than ten (10) individuals, including Pastor Won Tae Cha, who had witnessed my threat to kill him and that I assaulted him in church. As the result of the assault, Mr. Park stated in his deposition that he was injured. Consequently, I subpoenaed more than ten (10) church members, including Superintendent Carroll M. Cox, as witnesses to testify these allegations for the trial.

On the day of the third session of the civil trial, Mr. Park withdrew his case unconditionally, because he and his attorney knew that all the murder charges were just false fabrications—none of his so-called witnesses did appear to testify for him because they never witnessed his allegations. In the judge’s chambers, Mr. Park’s attorney, without plaintiff Park was present with me, my son, and other court personals. The attorney falsely stated that the decision to withdraw the lawsuit was supported by the “synod” hierarchies(Annual conference).


The judge stated about UMC’s involvement as follows:

....
.... No. It is the case that you
7. willingly decided to discontinue your action not in
8. small part because there has been discussion
9. between and amongst Mr. Park, the United Methodist
10. Church of the New York area, the synod of the State
11. New York I believe, the Methodist synod of the
12. State of New York but at least the governing synod
13.Of the United Methodist Church of the New York area
14. and the Court. So the discontinuance being offered
15. is being offered without regard for any claims that
16. the defendant may pursue.
....
.. .. Transcripts April 19, 2004. P. 6; 5-23.


According to the transcripts, Mr. Park falsely informed the Honorable Court as if Park’s multiple murder charge against us was real and the United Methodist Church denomination directly supported the case and the withdrawal.

As the bishop you must clarify which church officer and Mr. Park informed so to the Court that the synod acted for the lawsuit. I demand that your office should notify me your findings and to our church as soon as possible.


However, Mr. Park’s attorney was also the attorney for the case, Korean United Methodist Church and Institute, Inc., et al. v. Chae Sone and Kyung Kim Sone. The judges were misinformed as if both lawsuits were related.
......
The attorney also gave the impression that he was the attorney for the church and the “synod” which was not true. The attorney was never retained by the church, any other religious institution, but by Young So Kim and Steve Park, according to the attorney at the sanctions hearings before the Referee Sue Ann Hoahng. But he was paid from our church’s stolen funds that Mr. Park had control at that time.

......
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A few days after his unconditional withdrawal, Steve Park published a letter that denied his unconditional withdrawal and described it as his act of “forgiveness” of my “transgressions” against him and the church. He openly distributed this letter in the church. The denial virtually criminalized us again. For the letter constitutes a republication of defamation which triggers a new statute of limitations. We may face many lawsuits from him again, because he could endlessly use the church’s financial resources, such as the Building Trust Fund, to pursue further lawsuits against me. With help, he can easily get a free hand to the church’s resources for his use.

The three lawsuits I mentioned against my son, my wife, my son and me were mostly financed from the church’s resources—the Building Trust Fund. The financing is contrary to the church’s rules and state and federal laws. Moreover, our church’s failure to deny the funding of these lawsuits is the lack of moral courage and the phenomena of anarchy of the church.

Perhaps, your office was not familiar with details of any of the three cases because the litigation began prior to your assignment to the office of the bishop. But, now you are informed well enough to understand the issues about the litigations within the time frame during your tenure. With great expectations, I often sent letters to your office on the legal matters. So far, your office has failed to effectively intervene to correct their wrongs against us and the church.

Needless to say, the superintendent, Noel N. Chin, is well informed about the legal problems we unjustly faced for many years in disaster. However, he did not take any corrective measure to date. Furthermore, during the sanction hearings, the judge ruled that the church should seek legal redress to recover damages. The situation is well described by the judge who noticed during the hearings that the church was an innocent party that does not have any leader. She stated:
“The church is not just a building…”
Also, the New York State Attorney General advised the trustees to sue them for damages. But, nobody seems to care about these encouraging words from the civil authorities.

I wish to mention to you again that all the legal problems against us was initiated by them in retaliation against us because of the fact that, when I was the chairman of the Board of Trustees, the trustees opposed the Pastor Won Tae Cha’s proposition to spend the Building Trust Fund for operating budget of the church. The trustees followed the advice of the Bishop Forest C. Stith and the church rules not to spend the money in violation of the donors’ will. The action of the trustees was correct then and now still be so today.

Anyway, the pastor spent a significant portion of the Building Trust Fund during his ministry and he absolutely did not have any regrets about the church or anyone else at the time.

Our family has greatly suffered from the painful lawsuits for many years, because we tried to protect the Building Trust Fund in accordance to the church rules and state and federal laws. How these troubles happen to us who tried to protect the church’s interests? What did we do wrong for the church? Where is justice? As the bishop, you must answer these moral and religious questions.

In order to prevent Steve Park from reinstituting his lawsuit against me,
...

...

The case involved the honor of our family. We must clear our names as criminals, which the church financially supported the cases as you are well informed now. Moreover, it crucially matters with the moral standing of the United Methodist Church denomination. Therefore,....The church hierarchies should understand that these despicable legal scandals are not less notorious than the Catholic sex scandals.

When the sanctioned case was instituted against us, the church’s insurance company should have defended us since we wanted to protect the Building Trust Fund of the church. We did not get a proper legal defense from the church although was entitled.

The church practically fought against her moral position.
.......
...........

May God bless you for His services.

Sincerely yours in Christ,


Chae S. Sone


P.S. Please try to get the legal papers for your study from the other parties.

*** Later it was learned that the superintendent did not reply to the inquiries from the Bishop.

Book of Discipline

Following are the 2004 versions of Book of discipline (1996) secs 2624, 2509, 262 4 e)
2509. Instituting and Defending Civil Action
Because of the nature of The United Methodist Church ( 139), no individual or affiliated church body or unit, nor any official thereof, may commence or participate in any suit or proceeding in the name of or on behalf of The United Methodist Church, excepting, however, the following:

1. Any person or church unit served with legal process in the name of The United Methodist Church may appear for the purpose of presenting to the court the nonjural nature of The United Methodist Church and to raise issues of lack of jurisdiction of the court, lack of capacity of such individual or unit to be served with process, and related constitutional issues in defense of denominational interests.

2. Any denominational unit authorized to hold title to property and to enforce trusts for the benefit of the denomination may bring suit in its own name to protect denominational interests.

SS 2702. Chargeable Offenses...

SS 262 4 e) Contribution designated for specific causes and objects shall be promptly forwarded according to the intent of the donor and shall not be used for any other purposes Book of Discipline



Part 5.
Annual conference on bishop Jeremiah park 2

2 Woodbury Court
Hicksville, New York 11801
(516) 931-1067
May 20, 2007


Pastors and members
The New York State Annual Conference
Of the United Methodist Church:


RE: The Church is not just a building

Dear Clergies and concerned members

Greetings in our Lord, Jesus Christ.

When the newly appointed Rev. Won Tae Cha wanted to spend the Building Trust Fund for operating budget of the church. The Board of Trustees opposed his proposal as it was contrary to the church rules and the trust law, according to the advice of the Bishop Forest C. Stith. I was the chairman of the Board at the time.

He disagreed with the trustees’ decision. In retaliation, he purged all the elders and stewards and church officers in order to restructure the church administration. Good many members left the church in anger and humiliation. The elders were voted out on November 11, 1998 but the tally was revealed on March 7, 1999 at a meeting.

Since then he tried to create his own faction in the church. One day I was falsely accused by one of his underlings that I embezzled $60,000 of the Building Trust Fund. It was a tactic to destroy our family in order to loot the trust fund.

At a church meeting, Rev. Cha and his group forcefully passed a resolution to investigate the embezzlement without allowing me to explain about the embezzlement. As soon as they illegally adopted the resolution, they treated me like a criminal. Some woman shouted at me with obscenities. His group assaulted me in the front of the people and physically pushed me out of the church as a criminal. However, their investigations did find the allegations were false.


I demanded their apology but they ignored it. But their hate campaign increased.
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To protect the honor of our family and our children, I sued the offenders. The case was settled.


AD HOC TRUSTEE MEETING
AND ASSAULT CHOIR CONDUCTOR

On December 14 1999, about 5 months prior to his removal, the pastor convened so-called Hoc Board of Trustee Meeting of a mixed group of ten and past a resolution that the Board of Trustees unanimously re-approved precious decision to pay all the legal fees for the lawsuits against Choir director Jun Sung Lee and me. This decision was fraudulent because the Ad Hoc Meeting was not a trustees’ and they did not have power to do so.
Furthermore, their resolution was “re-approval of a prior decision.”

This meant that they premeditated the crime of attempted murders charges against us many months in advance because the re-approval was in 1999 and their legal actions against us began in August 2000.

Mr. Soo Young Oh responded to my inquiry that he was not at the meeting although his name listed a signer on it. The authenticity of the Minutes is questionable. ...

On one Sunday morning, his group assaulted the choir conductor, pulling his jacket down in the church because he did not take side with him. He employed a brutal and high handed tactics to oust him. Without going to court, they eliminated him very cheaply and conveniently in a not so a saintly mob action.

Eventually, in June 2000, the pastor was removed by the Bishop Ernest Lyght as he was so destructive to the congregation.

His removal, however, did not bend his power because his power base was well established before his departure. The Bishop assigned Rev. Robert Parker to over see a charge conference.


BISHOP’S AGENTS AND ILLEGAL ELECTION

In order to help the church, the Bishop Lyght sent Rev. Robert Parker and the Superintdent for the charge conference.

Before the voting for the election of church officers, Rev. Parker said that he could not find the membership registration and let everyone at the meeting vote for the election. Evidently Rev. Cha neglected to keep the membership record in order.

One elder was as usual going to videotape the meetings. The pastor and Rev. Parker prohibited the video tapping because he did not want to show the illegal election to others, which was fatal blow to the integrity of our church administration. Consequently the election consolidated and empowered the pastor’s group.

It was shocking for an old timer to observe the practice of illegal election by the bishop’s agents, the Superintend and the ordained pastor.

I wanted to understand the moral climate of the UMC church leaders. I sent out my personal questionnaires to about 60 UMC bishops on the illegal election. About 10 percents of them graciously responded, expressing the illegalities.



OPEN LETTER CAMPAIN TO CHALLENG
THE BISHOP

When the Bishop appointed a female pastor to the church, his group strongly opposed to it. They challenged the Bishop sending out the protesting open letters twice to 495 Churches in the District. It might have disgraced or undermined the Bishop’s authority.


It is necessary to find out which political characters and their motivation was involved and who was the ghost writer of the letters. Although he had no any connection with the church after the Bishop’s action, he continued his disgraceful action against the church and our family in order to make us a scapegoat to cover up their misconduct and moral failures in ministry. Most of all it was his challenge to the authority of the Bishop Ernest S. Lyght who had removed him.

Then, they brought Rev. Sung Soo Hahn to the church from Wisconsin to replace the female pastor who left voluntarily. Rev. Hahn acted as their spokesperson and ardently supported their causes in lawsuits.

Often he ridiculed helpless my wife and me in public in support of them. It is questionable why he stated during his preaching that he would not mind even if there remain only 20 in the congregation. He tried to serve their causes. According to information...


MENTOR AND DINNER PARTY

Rev. Chul Woo Chang’s appointment followed the departure of Rev. Hahn. Many expected he would restore law and order in the church.

It is questionable about which direction our church is headed. Rev. Chang said during his inauguration service,

“Rev. Won Tae Cha is my mentor who opened the
way for me to come to this historic church.”

Therefore, many believe that Rev. Chang is administering the church according to the advice of his mentor, Rev. Cha. His mentor’s influence seems have a great impact upon his pattern of official assignments that favored his followers.

Rev. Chang held a lavish dinner party for Rev. Cha in New Jersey after he was removed from his ministry by the bishop Lyght who is black. It could have presented wrong impression as if a protest party against the bishop’s action, according to information. It impressed as an unwise protest dinner.

The truth of the matter was that actually the purged church officers revolted against his misconducts which ruined the church. The bishop did his duty in order to save the church according to the advice of the church members who hired an attorney to do so.
He created his own downfall. Such a dinner party could provoke unnecessary ethnic disharmony.


HAND SIGNAL

On November 11, 2006, Sunday, there was a meeting to discuss on drafting new rules how to establish church offices such as elders, Stewarts, etc. In the past the existing rules was eliminated by Rev. Cha and his underlings in order to control the church administration and the Trust Fund. Thus, Mr. Cha destroyed the church.

I had the floor and wanted to emphasize the necessity to have good church rules and to follow the church rules, correcting past wrong doings.

The presiding officer, Mrs. Sung H. Rhim unexpectedly took away the microphone from me as soon as I opened my mouth. She tried to stop my speech. It was violation of free speech rules.

At the moment I noticed Mrs. Chul Woo Chang at the side door of the chapel making hand signals to the direction of Mrs. Rim and to me, “not to speak.” I sensed that the pastor already predetermined not to allow me to speak at church meetings.

Mr. Pyung Kyum Kim was with Mrs. Chang at the door. I told him, “Tell the minister’s wife it was not nice when she tried to stop my speech at the meeting.” There were at least four (4) persons noticed what the minister’s wife doing at the door.

During the coffee hour, I told Rev. Chang that it was not nice to stop me presenting my opinion at the meeting.” He said, “It is not necessary to bring out old issues.” I answered, “Man always talks about the past issues that is the way to improve our way of life.”
He didn’t seem to know that the Bible has the old stories.


A WAKEUP CALL TO CHURCH MEMBERS

I have written to the Bishop Park and others for many times about the problems, including the chief of the Bishops who seemed to have ignored as a classless complaint.

However, I did not receive any constructive response from them to the serious questions. Nobody seems to care about the church’ morality or principles of Christianity.

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It is why I am sending this message to you all for information of the United Methodist Church denomination. Somehow your leadership should be able to awaken others to seriously consider the graveness of the issues for the church’s integrity during the Mew York State Annual Conference, 2007.

You and concerned members could have a forum on the matter.

I strongly feel that the issues in the subject matter should be dealt with care and concern because they are piercing through the moral fabrics of our soul and spirit of the United Methodist Church denomination.

For it matters with our common interest for all of the church members.

As a clergy or as a member, you could help MUC to be born again in spirit. Otherwise, all the mission works, domestic or foreign, would be meaningless.


WHY CHURCH PAID FOR THREE FRAUDULENT LAWSUITS?

All of the three lawsuits against us initiated by the pastor and his group within two months after the pastor were removed from the position of this church by Bishop Ernest S. Lyght. At the time pastor had no connection with the church anymore. Yet the church financed his lawsuits.

According to information, he told other members that he would proceed for the cases even if he had to sell his house.

However, He should not have any grievances against me or my wife. The loss of his job was due to the revolt by his purged church officers and his misconducts in the ministry which ruined the church. Looting the Building Trust Fund was financially beneficial for his ministry. However, they made deceptive propaganda to mislead others as if we sued them.


FALSE AFFIDAVITS TO DRIVE HIM OUT
OF THE CHURCH

..

WHY CHURCH PAID SANCTION AND PENALTIES?
SIX MEMBERS ABUSEED CHURCH'S NAME AND CHURCH MONEY

The second case, Korean United Methodist Church and Institute, Inc., Rev. Won Tae Cha, Young So Kim, Ki Duck Shin, Kyung Hee Shin, Hyuk Dal Kwon, Dong Gene Kim v. Chae Sone and Kyung Kim Sone. (Index # 118338/00. New York State Supreme Court, New York County). They demanded four million dollars as damages and punitive damages from us.
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However, those who submitted false affidavits or did false testimony at the court against our causes seem to have been rewarded as if the sanctions served their just causes in contrary to the facts. The circumstances seem to confirm Rev. Paul Chang’s public statement,

“Rev. Won Tae Cha is my mentor.”


CHURCH PAID FOR FALSE MURDER CHARGES

The church paid legal fees for Mr. Park’s attempted murder charges against the innocent family.

The third lawsuit was Steve Park v. Chae Sone. (Index #05850/05. New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County), Mr. Park falsely charged me, among other things, that I assaulted and injured him in the church and that I was going to kill him, his family, and other church members with the help of my son. In his fantasy of this multiple murder scheme, he testified under oath that my son went into his lawyer’s office in Manhattan and threatened to kill his lawyer and his staff in the office. Hon. Carter classified the case to be a felony.

Steve Park demanded a damage of four million dollars and punitive damages from me.

The jury selected for the case and scheduled for two trials separately at a civil and a criminal court.

The trial for the civil case was on March 31, April 5. and 19 of 2005. During the trial, Mr. Park boldly testified in the court that this lawsuit was a church-related matter. But that was absolutely false.

Perhaps, this murder accusation against my son and me was also involved with Pastor Cha and other co-conspirators because they come to court in support of Park’s murder charge against us during the trial at a jury.

How could an ordained clergy act like this in support of fabricated, false criminal charges against a church member? Is it a UMC way?


REV. CHA’S SUPPORT FOR MURDER CHARGES

In his oral deposition, Mr. Park named more than ten (10) individuals, including Pastor Won Tae Cha, who had witnessed my threat to kill him, others and assaulted him in the church.

Consequently, I subpoenaed more than ten (10) church members, as witnesses to testify these criminal allegations for the trial. Superintendent Carroll M. Cox was also subpoenaed because she was familiar with certain events in the church.
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WHOSE WAS WHO IN EX PARTE COMMUNICATION (Bishop, Superintendent, Pastor or who else?)
Now the church leaders should investigate the FACTS of statement of Hon. F. Dana Winslow which indicated that the high ranking church officers were directly involved in the lawsuit.

The judge stated about UMC’s involvement as follows:

5. THE COURT; Mr. Povman, let me help you out on
6. That issue. No. It is the case that you
7. willingly decided to discontinue your action not in
8. small part because there has been discussion
9. between and amongst Mr. Park, the United Methodist
10. Church of the New York area, the synod of the State
11. New York I believe, the Methodist synod of the
12. State of New York but at least the governing synod
13. Of the United Methodist Church of the New York area
13. and the Court. So the discontinuance being offered
14. is being offered without regard for any claims that
15. the defendant may pursue.
....
....
Transcripts April 19, 2005. P. 6; 5-23.


According to the transcripts, Mr. Park and his attorney falsely informed the Honorable Court as if Park’s multiple murder charge against us was real and the officers of the United Methodist Church denomination directly involved in the case and the withdrawal planning seemingly through an Ex Prate communication prior to the day of the withdrawal conference.

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As a responsible clergy for the united Methodist Church Annual conference should be able to tell fairly to us and members who was at Ex parte conference? – The Bishop, the Superintendent or any clergy?


However, a few days after his unconditional withdrawal, Mr. Steve Park published a letter that denied his unconditional withdrawal. He openly distributed this letter to others in the church. Ironically Rev. Sung Soo Hahn helped him to do so.

The denial virtually criminalized us again. He might reinstitute the case against us as he can easily get free money from the trustees as his elements are still in the church offices.

The financing for lawsuits against us is contrary to the church’s rules and the spirit of tax exemption law. In secular terms, it is morally wrong even without mentioning a religious value.


ANYBODY HOME?

Moreover, our church’s failure to deny the funding of these lawsuits is the lack of moral courage and the phenomena of anarchy of the church leadership. Hon. Hoahng did not see any functional leadership and brilliantly well described the situation and stated,

“The church is not just a building…”

Following the sanctions hearing, the judge said that the church could take legal action to recover the abused money from them. Also, the New York State Attorney General advised the trustees to legal action to recover the abused fund.

But, nobody seems to care about the abused money as if they do not have clean hands either.

I wish to mention to you again that all the legal problems against us were initiated by them in greed for money. We must remember, Jesus drove out the money changers of the temple and said,

“My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations”?
But you made it ‘a den of robbers.’” Mk 11; 15-17


A Samaritan was beaten by thieves and left him half dead on the roadway. “A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.” Lk 10; 30-37.

But a common man, Samaritan saved the beaten.

Now the church is like the beaten traveler on the Jericho road, the priest or the Levite did not render a helping hand to him but a Samaritan. Our church needs a Good Samaritan’s help.

It was retaliation against us because of the fact that, when I was the chairman of the Board of Trustees, the trustees opposed the Pastor Won Tae Cha’s proposition to spend the Building Trust Fund for operating budget of the church. The trustees followed the advice of the Bishop Forest C. Stith and the church rules not to spend the money in violation of the donors’ will. The action of the trustees was correct then and now still be so today.

Our family has greatly suffered from the painful lawsuits for many years, because we tried to protect the Building Trust Fund in accordance to the church rules and laws. How these troubles happen to us who tried to protect the church’s interests? What did we do wrong for the church? Where is justice?


IS IT A VIRGINIA TECH CHO SYNDROME?

According to information, the Virginia Tech shooter Sung Hui Cho premeditated the shooting to killed fellow students. He said he was doing it for “Jesus Christ.” And he killed himself too in order to accomplish his wishes. It was a climax of the expression of an immigrant’s hatred to the adversaries in the adopted society.

Likewise, Mr. Park and his group in these cases viciously premeditated their attempted murder charges against us far in advance to actual filings. Their mindset was like an idiosyncratic immigrant’s hateful sentiment to revenge that adopted society as Mr. Cho did.

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Mr. Park falsely testified under oath that his lawsuit was to accomplish his moral duty as follows. He testified that his lawsuits were a just action as follows:

‘”.............................................. I feel very
threatened, personally threatened, and I’m just
going to do this and it’s just the commencement [lawsuit].”

Transcripts of his oral deposition, July 17, 2001, P.194; 22-24.

Can you imagine if the church paid for their legal fees?

The UMC clergies should be able to answer to these moral and religious questions.

Therefore, the church hierarchies should understand that these despicable legal scandals are not less notorious than the Catholic sex scandals.

We must restore the Christian image of this historic church for Koreans in the light of United Methodist Church teachings and the Wesleyan tradition.

CONCLUSIONS

1. Investigate if a third entity is acting as if representing UMC denomination
2. Are the evil elements infiltrated into the Bishop’s office?
3. Who represented in Ex Parte communication and said the murder charges was church related?
4. Who was behind the malicious and ugly lawsuits?
5. Why the church is not to recover the abused trust fund for personal lawsuits?
6. Audit the status of the church accounting books including all the funds
7. IMUS lost his job as he broadcasted slanderously in public. Then how could a church support such malicious people who charged the innocent family as murderers and paid for them with the money donated to build the church?

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Chae S. Sone
2 Woodbury Court
Hicksville, NY 11801



Part 6.


Park profanities of deposition doc 3-2


TRANSCRIPTS OF TESTIMONEYTO KILL PARK


Excerpts of small portion from the transcripts of Park’s sworn testimony to charge us as attempted mass murderers during deposition, 8/17/2001, These are absolutely false testimonies which consist of lies and obscenities. I once met Steve Park in 1984 when he came to my home in Hicksville to give us an estimate of home improvement project.


Since then I never had any contact with him. If he met my son, it should have occurred more than a quarter century ago at the Sunday day school.
I met with him once about one hour in 1984 at my residence when he came to my place to give an estimate for a home improvement. Since then we had no social contact with him in the church or outside of the church. Won Tae Cha brought him into the church in order to create his own power base.

His deposition testimony is absolutely false and malicious. He made us criminals, accusing that we threatened to kill Park, his family and other church members. He described me as ugly criminal with obscenities. By reading these excerpts one could be able to judge how much these church people are corrupted.

Rev. Won Tae Cha used like these characters in order to keep his position and to control the trust fund for his own benefit.

It is unthinkable how a Christian minister supports like this obscene court cases. The church hierarchies should look into his activities how he deals the church affairs with others. A Christian minister should be respectable and should have self-respect in honorable way.


PARK’S FALSE AFFIDAVIT ON MY MURDER PLAN

Park falsely sworn the affidavit that my son and I were going to kill him. Paragraph 4 of his affidavit;

“ 5. In the year 2000, the defendant Sone, without cause or provocation,
approximately midyear, at the behest of the defendant, he sent his son,
XXXXX, who threatened to kill me and other church members.”
P. 90; 10-13. Paragraph 5 of Park’s affidavit.



STEVE PARK CRIMINALIZED MY SON THREATENED
TO KILL HIS LAWYER

Park lied that his lawyer informed him that my son was going to kill his lawyer and his staff in his office. It was absolutely false. He tried to ruin my son.

Page 148; 9-21

10 Chae Sone’s son, walked into my defense
11 lawyer’s office using profanities, like, you know
12 fuck you and these were the words that were
13 relayed to me, you asshole, I’m going to kill you,
14 everybody in sight, kill you and everybody in
15 sight and he chuckled when he called me, he said
16 there’s a little lunatic running around here, he
17 claims to being his son, and that’s how I got this
18 name,

PARK DID NOT KNOW HIS LAWYER’S NAME??
2 Q Do you remember the specific names of
Who is that attorney?
7 A I don’t have that name in my memory right now.
8 I would be happy to forward that name.
9 To you.

STEVE PARK’S TESTIMONEY IN PROFANITIES

Page 76; 13-16.

His language indicates a corrupt sub-culture of so called Christians today,
a shame. You can see what kind church is ours?

13 Q I would like you to tell me exactly
14 What you say Chae Sone said to you.

15 A “He said fuck you and asshole on a
16 routine basis , that’s basically what he said, day
17 In and day out. ..”


Page 78; 11-21

11. Q Do you recall what the first thing he
12. Said to you was?
13. A “Yes. Curses.”
14. Q Tell me exactly. This is?
15 A “F you and F you, you know, asshole, you
16 know, you better watch out your step,”
17 Q That was the first thing he said to
18 you?
19 A “Yes. Constant. Constant. It’s
20 Always regurgitation of same, same type of
21 Remarks, on and on and on.”

Page 86; 8-17

8 Q I want to know exactly what you say
9 that Dr. Sone said to you approximately six months
10 ago in connection with killing your family What
11 did he say? What were his words?

12 A “He said watch out, you asshole,
13 Specifically said you asshole, you watch out, if
14 You don’t watch your step; I’m going to kill you.
15 That’s very specific. I can’t get much more
16 Specific than that. I just walked away. I just
17 Walked away.”


SONE’S THREAT TO KILL PARK AND HIS FAMILY

p. 65; 3-10

5 Q Did you ever report it to the police?
6 A No I did not.
7 Why is that?
8 A Because I tried to do it peacefully.
9 Q Dr. Sone threatened to kill you. Do you
10 Realize that’s a criminal offense?
18 Q Why didn’t you call the police about a threat to you and your family?
23 A “Once again I knew the man. I wanted to resolve it amicably. So I did not want to get either the police or the legal system.”


P. 61; 5-7

5 A “I’m going to kill your whole family.”
6 Q That’s what Dr. Sone said to you?
7. A “Yes.”

P. 62; 9-17, 21-23.

9 Q You’re claiming that Dr. Sone
10 threatened to kill you and your whole family?
11 A “Yes.”
12 Q When did he threaten to do that?
13 A “He did it on several occasions. I do
14 remember several occasions very specifically. I
15 think it was like 1998. I don’t know the dates
16 I don’t keep diary of these things.”
17 Q those are serious threats, right?
......
21. “MR. POVMAN 1998 and you said
22. there were other times?”
23. “Yes.”

(Mr. Povman lied too)


P. 63;9-25

9 A “It has not stopped.
9. This is now the year 2001. It is still
10. continuing.”
11. Q When did he first threaten to kill
12. You and your family?
13. A “I mentioned that to you. I think that
8. was like sometime in 1998.”
9. Q Sometime in 1998?
10. A “Yes.”
11. Q Was that the first time that he ever
12. yelled you at you or acted outrageously?


WITNESSES

P.87; 21-25

I subpoenaed over 10 persons including them for the trial. Park withdrew his case because he was going to lose.

P.87;21-25

The witnesses heard the threats and profanities according to Mr. Park; ”Y. S. Kim; K. D. Shin; W. T. Cha; Y. H. Lee; Y. J. Kim; D. J. Chun; Paul Choi; Y. J. Kwon; I. C. Lee. “


SONE SMACKED MY SHOULDER WITH HIS SHOULDER

• “4. On or about January, 2000, the defendant, without cause or
• provocation struck deponent of the shoulder while in the Korean
• United Methodist Church and Institute, the causing an injury to my
• Shoulder." Paragraph 4 of Park’s affidavit.


p.97;18-20, 23-24, 98; 2-11.

18 “...I was
19 walking down, he just, just with his shoulder,
20 just smacked me. I was very very startled...
...
23. Q So you ‘re testifying that he hit you
24. With his shoulder on your shoulder?
...
2 A “Yes.”
3 Q which shoulder did he hit into?
4 A “This side.”
5 Q your left shoulder?
6 A “So it’s my left shoulder.”
7 Q Which shoulder did he use to hit you?
8 A “I do not know.”
9 Q You don’t know?
10 A “I don’t know. I wasn’t looking at
11 Him.”


D. J. CHUN AND Y. J. KIM SAW IT

p.101;10

9. A D. J. Chun was right behind me and
10. another individual, that was Kim Y. J. We usually
11. hang around together in church, so that’s...”

P. 102;11-15

11. Q Did either Mr. Chun or Mr. Kim
14. Indicated that they had seen the incident?
15. A “ Oh, they said what the hell is this guy
16. doing is literally their expression.”

P.104; 18-24.

18 Q What did Mr. Chun say as far as what
21 he saw?
22 A “I can’t believe that guy did that.
23 That’s it. We didn’t curse We didn’t do
24 Anything...”


LIST OF EXHIBITS

1. Letter from Bishop, 1/22,2003
2. 2. Park’s fake MBA
3. 3. Park’s affidavit

Comment by chae s. sone — March 15, 2008 @ 09:24PM