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Subject: The Satanic Roots of Rock - Creating the Counterculture
Date: 27 Sep 1992 08:36:43 GMT
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<begin article>

THE SATANIC ROOTS OF ROCK 
by Donald Phau
    

Today, at almost
any "heavy-metal'' rock concert one can
hear the audience being exhorted to
rape and murder in the name of Satan.
Lyrics such as the following are
typical: 

   "We come bursting through your bodies 
   Rape your helpless soul
   Transform you into a creature
   Merciless and cold
   We force you to kill your brother 
   Eat his blood and brain 
   Shredding flesh and sucking bone 
   Till everyone's insane 

   We are pestilent and contaminate
   The world Demonic legions prevail'' 

   Any loving parent today would be
horrified and shocked to learn that
their sons and daughters are eagerly
listening to such evil. Perhaps though,
some may think privately, "If only we
could return to the 'good old days,'
with the music of the Beatles.'' Little
do most people suspect that it was with
those innocent-looking Beatles, that
most of the trouble started. 
   Modern electronic-rock music,
inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and
always has been, a joint enterprise of
British military intelligence and
Satanic cults. On the one side, the
Satanists control the major rock groups
through drugs, sex, threats of
violence, and even murder. On the
otherside, publicity, tours, and recordings
are financed by record companies
connected to British military
intelligence circles. Both sides are
intimately entwined with the biggest
business in the world, the
international drug trade. 
   The so-called "rock stars'' are
pathetic puppets caught in a much
larger scheme. From the moment they
receive their first recording
royalties, the groups are heavily
immersed in drugs. For example,
much-admired "stars'' such as John
Lennon of the Beatles and Keith
Richard of the Rolling Stones, were
heroin addicts. Richard had to obtain
blood transfusions, replacing his
entire heroin-laced blood supply, in
order to get a visa to enter the United
States. 
   The "rock stars'' are also totally
artificial media creations. Their
public image, as well as their music,
is fabricated from behind the scenes by
controllers. For example, when the
Beatles first arrived in the United
States in 1964, they were mobbed at the
airport by hundreds of screaming
teenage girls. The national press
immediately announced that
"Beatlemania'' had besieged the U.S.A.
But the girls had all been transported
from a girl's school in the Bronx, and
paid for their screaming performance by
the Beatles' promoters. 
   The money of the 1960s rock
groups, which in somes cases mounted to
hundreds of millions of dollars, was
also totally under the control of
mob-connected promoters. From 1963 to
1970, the Rolling Stones made over $200
million, yet the group's members were
all nearly bankrupt. None of them had
any idea of where their money went. 
   Between 1963 and 1964 the Beatles
and the Rolling Stones laid siege to
Western European and American culture.
This two-pronged invasion from England
was well-planned and well-timed.
America had just suffered the shock of
the assassination of President John
Kennedy, while in the streets the
mass-based civil rights movement had
just held a Washington, D.C. rally, led
by Martin Luther King, of 500,000
people. The rock counterculture would
be used as a weapon to destroy such
political movements. 
   Later in 1968 and 1969, years
which saw a mass strike of students and
workers in the United States and
Europe, huge, open-air rock concerts
were used to head off the growing
discontent of the population. The rock
concerts were devised as a means for
mass recruitment to the drug-saturated,
free-sex counterculture. For the
millions who came to these concerts,
thousands of tablets of the
hallucinogenic drug, LSD, were made
freely avaliable. These drugs were
secretly placed in drinks such as
Coca-Cola, turning thousands of
unsuspecting victims into raving
psychotics. Many committed suicide. 
   Less than a half century ago, our
young children studied violin and
piano, learning about the great
classical composers such as Bach,
Mozart, and Beethoven. As will be
shown, the same record companies who
today promote Satanic "heavy-metal''
rock have run covert operations to
destroy the musical heritage of these
great classical composers. 
    For the past thirty years, Western
society has been under the gun of a
deliberate plan of cultural warfare,
with the purpose of eliminating
Judeo-Christian civilization as we
know it. These plans must not succeed.
So that the reader can better combat
this evil, we'll go back nearly thirty
years, when those four innocent lads
from Liverpool, England, the Beatles,
were just starting out. 

   
Creating the Beatles

   The Beatles first began performing
in the late 1950s in jazz clubs in
England and West Germany. These clubs,
always located in the seediest part of
the cities, served as a marketplace for
prostitution and the circulation of
drugs. Beatle biographer Philip
Norman writes: "Their only regular
engagement was a strip club. The club
owner paid them ten shillings each to
strum their guitars while a stripper
named Janice grimly shed her clothes
before an audience of sailors, guilty
businessmen and habitues with raincoat-
covered laps.'' 
   The Beatles got their first big
break in Germany, in August 1960, when
they obtained a booking at a jazz club
in Hamburg's notorious Reeperbahn
district. Describing the area Norman
writes it had, "red-lit windows
containing whores in every type of
fancy dress, all ages from nymphet to
granny...Everything was free.
Everything was easy. The sex was
easy... Here it came after you.'' 
   Far from the picture of innocence,
the Beatles, even in their first
performances, were always high on a
drug called Preludin, "John (Lennon),
would be foaming at the mouth, he'd
have so many pills inside him...John,
began to go berserk on stage, prancing
and groveling...The fact that the
audience could not understand a word
he said, provoked John into cries of
`Sieg Heil!' and `Fucking Nazis' to
which the audience invariably responded
by laughing and clapping.'' 
   Off the stage, the Beatles were
just as evil. Norman continues, "while
in Hamburg, John, each Sunday would
stand on the balcony, taunting the
churchgoers as they walked to St.
Joseph's. He attached a water-filled
contraceptive to an effigy of Jesus and
hung it out for the churchgoers to see.
Once he urinated on the heads of three
nuns.'' 
   While in Hamburg, in June of 1962
the Beatles received a telegram from
their manager, a homosexual named Brian
Epstein, who was back in England.
"Congratulations,'' Epstein's message
read. "EMI requests a recording
session.'' EMI was one of Europe's
largest record producers, and their
role in promoting the Beatles would be
key in the future. 
   Under the the strict guidance of
EMI's recording director George Martin,
and Brian Epstein, the Beatles were
scrubbed, washed, and their hair styled
into the Beatles cut. EMI's Martin
created the Beatles in his recording
studio. 
   Martin was a trained classical
musician, and had studied the oboe and
piano at the London School of Music.
The Beatles could neither read music nor
play any instrument other than guitar.
For Martin, the Beatles musicianship
was a bad joke. On their first hit
record, "Love Me Do,'' Martin replaced
Ringo on the drums with a studio
musician. Martin said Ringo, "couldn't
do a [drum] roll to save his life.''
From then on, Martin would take the
simple little tunes the Beatles would
come to him with, and turn them into hit
records.               

   
Lockwood and EMI

    EMI, led by aristocrat Sir Joseph
Lockwood, stands for Electrical and
Mechanical Instruments, and is one of
Britain's largest producers of military
electronics. Martin was director of
EMI's subsidiary, Parlophone. By the
mid-sixties EMI, now called Thorn EMI,
created a music divison which had grown
to 74,321 employees and had annual sales of
$3.19 billion. 
    EMI was also a key member of
Britain's military intelligence
establishment. 
   After the war, in 1945, EMI's
European production head Walter Legge
virtually took over control of
classical music recordings, signing up
dozens of starving German classical
musicians and singers to EMI contracts.
Musicians who sought to preserve the
performance tradition of Beethoven and
Brahms, were relegated to obscurity
while "ex-Nazi'' Party members were
promoted. Legge signed and recorded
Nazi member, the late Herbert Von Karajan,
promoting him to superstar status,
while great conductors such as Wilhelm
Furtwangler were ignored. 
   From the beginning, EMI created
the myth of the Beatles' great popularity.
In August of 1963, at their first major
television appearance at the London
Palladium, thousands of their fans
supposedly rioted. The next day every
mass-circulation newspaper in Great
Britain carried a front page picture
and story stating, "Police fought to
hold back 1,000 squealing teenagers.''
Yet, the picture displayed in each
newspaper was cropped so closely that
only three or four of the "squealing
teenagers'' could be seen. The story was
a fraud. According to a photographer on
the scene, "There were no riots. I was
there. We saw eight girls, even less
than eight.'' 
   In February 1964, the Beatles myth
hit the United States, complete with
the orchestrated riots at Kennedy
Airport, previously mentioned. To
launch their first tour, the media
created one of the largest mass
audiences in history. For an
unprecedented two Sundays in a row, on
the <Ed Sullivan Show>, over 75 million
Americans watched the Beatles shake
their heads and sway their bodies in a
ritual which was soon to be replicated by
hundreds of future rock groups. 
   On returning to England, the
Beatles were rewarded by the British
aristocracy they served so well . In
October 1965, the four were inducted
into the Order of Chivalry, and were
personally awarded the accolade of
Member of the British Empire by Queen
Elizabeth at Buckingham palace. 

   
Up from the Dregs: 
The Rolling Stones

   The credit for the origination of
today's blatantly Satanic "heavy metal
rock,'' goes to the English group, the
Rolling Stones. Their rise to fame was
closely connected with that of the
Beatles. 
   The Stones, as they were
called, were widely characterized as
the counterparts to the Beatles. "The
Stones'' were "mean,'' "dirty'' and
"rebellious,'' whereas the Beatles were
the well-groomed "Fab Four.'' Though
seemingly competitors, they were merely
two sides of the same operation. The
Stones' first hit record was actually
written by the Beatles, and it was
Beatle member George Harrison who set
up the arrangements for their first
recording contract. 
   Following the same game plan as
the Beatles, in the spring of 1963 the
Rolling Stones appeared on one of
England's most popular family
television shows, <Thank Your Lucky
Stars.> Only this time, the
reaction by the middle-aged viewers was
quite different from that to the
Beatles. Hundreds of angry letters were
sent, with a typical letter stating "It
is disgraceful that long-haired louts
such as these should be allowed to
appear on television. Their appearance
was absolutely disgusting.''      
    The program, however, had exactly
the planned effect. Rolling Stones'
manager Andrew Oldham was elated at
the response. He told the group, "We're
going to make you exactly opposite to
those nice, clean, tidy Beatles. And
the more the parents hate you, the more
the kids will love you. Just wait and
see.'' 
   In 1964, the Rolling Stones
appeared on the <Ed Sullivan
Show>, as the Beatles had done
earlier. This time though, the
coast-to-coast audience beheld the
spectacle of the television studio
being ripped to shreds by Stones fans.
Sullivan said on the air afterward, "I
promise you, they will never be back on
our show.'' The publicity, however, was
exactly what was wanted. Within a few
months, the group's records were
selling millions of copies. 
   The plan was now to use both the
Beatles and the Rolling Stones as the
means to transform an entire generation
into heathen followers of the New
Age, followers which could mold into
the future cadre of a Satanic movement
and then deploy into our schools, law
enforcment agencies and political
leadership. 

   
Enter Satan
 
   In his book, <The Ultimate
Evil,> investigator-author Maury
Terry writes that between 1966 and
1967, the Satanic cult, the Process
Church, "sought to recruit the Rolling
Stones and the Beatles.'' During this
period, Terry reports that a photo of
Rolling Stones leader Mick Jagger's
longtime girlfriend, Marianne
Faithfull, appeared in an issue of
<The Process Magazine>. The
picture shows her supine, as if dead,
clutching a rose. Terry's book goes on
to implicate the Process Church cult in
the Charles Manson and Son of Sam
multiple murders. It was the former
lawyer for the Process Church, John
Markham, who recently ran the frameup
trial against Lyndon LaRouche. 
   A key link between the Rolling
Stones and the Process Church is
Kenneth Anger, a follower of the
"founding father'' of modern Satanism,
Aleister Crowley. Anger, born in 1930,
and a child Hollywood movie star,
became a devoted disciple of Crowley.
   Crowley was  born in 1875 and was
called the "Great Beast.'' He was known
to practice ritual child sacrifice
regularly, in his role as Satan's high
priest or "Magus.'' Crowley died in 1947
due to complications of his huge heroin
addiction. Before dying, he succeeded
in establishing Satanic covens in many
U.S. cities including Hollywood. Anger,
like Crowley, is a Magus, and appears to
be the heir to Crowley. 
   Anger was seventeen years old when
Crowley died. In that same year, 1947,
Anger was already producing and
directing films which, even by today's
standards, reek of pure evil. 
   During 1966-1967, when the
Process Church is reported to be
recruiting in London, Anger was also on
the scene. Author Tony Sanchez
describes that Rolling Stones' Mick
Jagger and Keith Richard, and their
girlfriends Marianne Faithfull and
Anita Pallenburg, "listened spellbound
as Anger turned them on to Crowley's
powers and ideas.'' 
   While in England, Anger worked on
a film dedicated to Aleister Crowley,
called <Lucifer Rising>. The
film brought together the Process
Church, the Manson Family cult, and the
Rolling Stones. The music for the film
was composed by Mick Jagger. Process
Church follower Marianne Faithfull
went all the way to Egypt to
participate in the film's depiction of
a Black Mass. The part of Lucifer was
played by a guitarist of a California
rock group, Bobby Beausoleil.
Beausoleil was a member of the Manson
Family, and Anger's homosexual lover. 
   A few months after filming under
Anger's direction in England,
Beausoleil returned to California to
commit the first of the Manson Family's
series of gruesome murders. Beausoleil
was later arrested and is now serving a
life sentence in prison along with
Manson. Having lost his star performer,
Anger then asked Mick Jagger to play
Lucifer. He finally settled upon Anton
La Vey, author of <The Satanic Bible> and
head of the First Church of Satan, to
play the part. The film was released in
1969 with the title <Invocation To
My Demon Brother.> 
   In London, Anger had succeeded in
recruiting to Satanism the girlfriend
of one of the Rolling Stones, Anita
Pallenberg. Pallenberg had met the
Rolling Stones in 1965. She immediately
began sexual relations with three out
of the five members of the group. 
   Anger, commenting on Anita, said,
"I believe that Anita is, for want of a
better word, a witch...The occult unit
within the Stones was Keith and
Anita...and Brian. You see, Brian was a
witch too.'' 
   One of the group's friends, Tony
Sanchez, writes of Pallenberg in his
book, <Up and Down with the Rolling
Stones>, "She was obsessed with
black magic and began to carry a string
of garlic with her everywhere--even to
bed--to ward off vampires. She also had
a strange mysterious old shaker for
holy water which she used for some of
her rituals. Her ceremonies became
increasingly secret, and she warned me
never to interrupt her when she was
working on a spell.'' 
   He continues, "In her bedroom she
kept a huge, ornate carved chest, which
she guarded so jealously  that I
assumed it was her drug stash. The
house was empty one day, and I decided
to take a peep inside. The drawers were
filled with scraps of bone, wrinkled
skin and fur from some strange
animals.'' 
   In 1980, the seventeen-year-old
caretaker of Keith Richard's New
England estate was found shot to death
in Anita Pallenberg's bed. The death,
ruled a suicide, was with Pallenberg's
gun. Richard's house was located near
the East Coast headquarters of the
Process Church. According to an article
in the English newspaper
<Midnite>, a Connecticut
police officer, Michael Passaro, who
had responed to the "suicide'' reported
"strange singing'' from the woods a
quarter mile from the Richard's
mansion. 
   The newpaper continues, "There
have been several bizarre satanic
rituals in the area over the past five
years. A local reporter attributed the
outbreak of occultism to 'rich people
taking Acid.'|'' 
   In 1967, reflecting their ongoing
association with Anger and the Process
Church, the Rolling Stones released
their first rock album openly
celebrating the Devil, titled, "Their
Satanic Majesties Request.'' A few
months earlier, the Beatles had
released their first album dedicated to
the promotion of psychedelic drugs,
"Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band.'' The album contained a fantasized
version of an LSD trip, called "Lucy in
the Sky with Diamonds,'' or L.S.D. for
short. It became a top seller.
   Clearly, the Beatles' album was
dedicated to Satanist Aleister Crowley.
It was released 20 years, nearly to the
day, after Crowley's death in 1947, and
its title song began with the lyrics,
"It was twenty years ago today...'' The
album's cover featured a picture of
Crowley. 
   One month after the album's
release, the Beatles shocked the world
by announcing, publicly, that they were
regularly taking LSD. Beatle member
Paul McCartney, in an interview with
<Life> magazine said, "LSD opened my
eyes. We only use one-tenth of our
brain.'' They also publicly called for
the legalization of marijuana. 
   The cat was now out of the bag,
but the protests were few and minor. In
England, the BBC banned "A Day in the
Life,'' and in the U.S.A., Maryland
Governor Spiro T.Agnew, who would later
be watergated, launched a campaign to
ban "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.'' 

   
Creating the Counterculture

   The year 1967 marked a significant
escalation in open cultural warfare
against the youth of the United States.
The year saw the beginning of mass,
open-air rock concerts. In the two
years which followed, over 4 million
young people attended a series of
nearly a dozen of these "festivals,''
becoming the victims of planned,
wide-scale drug experimentation. Mind
destroying hallucinogenic drugs such as
PCP, STP, and the Beatles-promoted LSD,
were freely distributed at these
concerts. These millions of attendees
would afterward return to their homes
to become the messengers and promoters
of the new drug culture, or what came
to be called the "New Age.'' 
   The first rock festival, "The
First Annual Monterey International Pop
Festival,'' was attended by over 100,000
youngsters. The real purpose of
Monterey Pop was the widespread
distrubution of a new type of drugs,
classified as psychedelics or
hallucinogens, such as LSD. At Monterey, thousands
of younger teen-agers were introduced
to the new hallucinogenic drugs. 
   The first experimentation with LSD
was begun in the early sixties, in the
Haight-Ashbury section of San
Francisco. The project was run by a
joint CIA-British intelligence task
force under the code-name MK-Ultra.
Part of the project called for the free
distribution of 5,000 tablets of LSD
through a commune known as Ken Kesey's
Merry Pranksters. LSD's after-effects
were then closely studied. 
   Kesey, a so-called "poet'' and
convicted drug felon, became famous for
driving around California in a painted-
up bus with his commune, the Merry
Pranksters, distributing LSD-laced Kool
Aid to the unsuspecting. 
    The effect of LSD is to make the
victim psychotic, along with the
inability to discern reality from
drug-induced hallucinations. For many,
this psychosis  (also called a "bad
trip") could and did lead to suicide.
When an individual is given LSD without
his knowledge, the psychosis-producing
capabilities of the drug are amplified,
and usually leave the victim with
permanent brain damage. 
   The organizer of the Monterey
festival was John Phillips, a member of
the rock group the Mommas and the Papas.
Phillips, as we shall see, was a drug
pusher and closely tied in with the
network of Satanists around Charles
Manson and director Roman Polanski. 
    Phillips appointed a board of
directors to promote and finance the
concert. The members of the board
brought together a network of British
intelligence operatives and Satanists.
The board of directors included Andrew
Oldham (the Rolling Stones manager),
the Stones leader Mick Jagger, Beatle
Paul McCartney and Phillips' friend,
record producer Terry Melcher, the
son of Doris Day. 
   The concert, including the staging
and the huge innovative outdoor
amplification, was run by Phillips. It
was the first time that an American
audience was exposed to such openly
demonic British groups as The Who, and
Jimi Hendrix. At the conclusion of
their act, The Who, in a drug-crazed
frenzy, destroyed all their guitars,
amplifiers, and drums. Hendrix
simulated masturbation with his guitar,
on stage, while performing at
ear-splitting volume levels. 
    There was massive, open use of
drugs. Author Robert Santelli, in his
book, <Aquarius Rising,> writes
"LSD was in abundance at Monterey. Tabs
of `Monterey Purple' were literally
given to anyone wishing to experiment a
little.'' The police made no arrests,
setting another precedent for future
outdoor concerts. 
   There was a larger scheme in
operation. The scheme was tied into
MK-Ultra and it involved using
Satanists around Phillips, along with
agents such as Ken Kesey and Timothy
Leary. The plan was to turn nearby San
Francisco into a Satanist gaming
preserve, mass recruiting and
perverting young run-away teenagers.
   Phillips had earlier written the
music to a song called "San Francisco''
which sold over 5 million copies. The
song called for youth throughout the
country to come to San Francisco "with
flowers in their hair.'' The song was a
rallying cry to tens of thousands who
came flooding into San Francisco in the
summer of 1968 to join the new "hippie''
movement, misnamed the Summer of Love.
Some who came became the prey for the
likes of Charles Manson, who recruited
his cult-"family" exclusively from
runaway youth. 

   
Manson and the Rock Stars

   Charles Manson has been portrayed
as a lone psychotic who had hypnotic
power over his "Family". In reality,
Manson was well-known to a whole
network of Hollywood actors, actresses,
promoters, partners and rock stars, and
was providing sex and drugs to many of
them. 
   In his autobiography, <Papa
John,> Phillips tells of an
invitation he received to join Terry
Melcher and Beach Boy member Dennis
Wilson, at Wilson's mansion. Wilson
said, "This guy Charlie's here with all
these great-looking chicks. He plays
guitar and he's a real wild guy. He has
all these chicks hanging out like
servants. You can come over and just
screw any of them you want. It's a
great party.'' 
   Manson's entire "Family'' moved
into the Beach Boys' mansion for nearly
a year. The Beach Boys, who have
performed at the White House, are the
top recording group of EMI's
subsidiary, Capitol Records. 
   On Sunday, August 10, 1969, Manson
sent four members of his cult for their
last visit to Melcher's house. This
time Melcher wasn't there, but the
actress Sharon Tate, wife of movie
director Roman Polanski, and three
others, were. When the group left, Tate
and the others had been savagely
mutilated and murdered. As for
Phillips, in June 1980, he was arrested
for running a large-scale drug
wholesaling operation. 

   
The Age of Aquarius
 
   The largest concert after Monterey
Pop, the "Woodstock Music and Art
Fair,'' would be what <Time>
magazine celebrated as an
"Aquarian Festival'' and  "history's
largest happening.'' The term "Aquarian''
was carefully chosen. The Aquarian age
signified that the "Age of Pisces,''
which is the age of Christ, had come to
an end. 
   At Woodstock, a small town in
upstate New York, nearly half a
million youth gathered to be drugged
and brainwashed on a farm. The victims
were isolated, immersed in filth,
pumped with psychedelic drugs, and kept
awake continously for three straight
days, and all with the full complicity
of the FBI and government officials.
Security for the concert was provided
by a hippie commune trained in the mass
distribution of LSD. 
   Once again, it would be the
networks of British military
intelligence which would be the
initiators. Woodstock was the brain
child of Artie Kornfeld, the director
of EMI's Capitol Record's, Contemporary
Projects Division. The original funding
was provided by the heir of a large
Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical
company, John Roberts, and two other
partners. It was another pharmaceutical
company, the Swiss-based Sandoz
Laboratories, which had first
synthesized LSD. Roberts would later be
accused of using his company for the
mass drugging of the attendees. 
   Little adequate preparations were
made for the nearly half a million
people who came. Joel Rosenman, one of
the three partners, writes, as the
concert neared, "Food and water were
clearly going to be in short supply,
sanitary facilities overtaxed, tempers
short, drugs overabundant. Worst of
all, there was no way for anyone who
wanted to, to leave.'' Sitting in your
own excrement was actually part of the
plan, as John Roberts jokingly wrote,
"We're going to hand out bananas at the
gate to bind our patrons.'' 
   A hippie commune called the Hog
Farm, had a special role at Woodstock.
The Hog Farm was led by a man nicknamed
Wavy Graver, who was a former member of
Ken Kesey's MK-Ultra operation, the
Merry Pranksters. Communes like the Hog
Farm were commonly found in the remote
parts of California and served as the
breeding grounds for Satanic cults, as
well as terrorist groups. Members of
these communes continually interchanged
with other communes and were the
recruiting grounds for the Process
Church and Manson. Hog Farm member
Diane Lake was a member of Charles
Manson's Family, at the time of the
massacre of Sharon Tate and her guests. 
   On August 14, one day before the
scheduled opening, the entire festival
security force, comprised of 350
off-duty New York City cops, pulled
out. A spokesman for the New York
police claimed that no official
arrangement was ever made with the
city, a claim the promoters vehemently
denied. In an August 15, 1969 <New
York Times> article, the head of
Woodstock's security said, "Now I don't
have any security at all. I've been
struck. We're having the biggest
collection of kids there's ever been in
this country without any police
protection.'' Not surprisingly, the Hog
Farm was put in charge of security. 
   Woodstock funder and director John
Roberts, openly admitted that he was
well aware of the Hog Farm's connection
to drug distribution. He writes, "their
fee was simply transportation to and
from the festival... a peace-keeping
force that looked, talked, and smelled
like the crowd would be both highly
credible and highly effective... and
the most important, they were wise in
the ways of drugs, knowing good acid
from bad, good trips from bummers, good
medicine from poison, etc.'' 
      The Hog Farm at the time was
living in New Mexico's mountains.
Roberts chartered a Boeing 727, at a
cost of $17,000, and flew 100 of them
to New York. 
   To clear the final path for the
planned drugging of  half a million
youngsters, the district attorney for
the area agreed privately that there
would be no arrests or prosecutions for
violations of drug laws.  John Roberts
writes, "The District
Attorney...recognized early on that
many of our customers would be using
illegal drugs, but also recognized that
such use would be the least of our
problems over the course of the
weekend. He acted, therefore, with
compassion and good grace throughout.''
Roberts also writes that he was meeting
continuously with the FBI up to and
including one day before the start of
the concert, and had their full
cooperation. 

   
The Experiment Begins 

   Two days before the scheduled
start of the concert, 50,000 kids had
already arrived in Woodstock. Drugs
immediately began to circulate. Many
people brought their babies and, as
Roberts says, even they were drugged.
Roberts writes that at a nearby lake,
"the tots swam naked, smoked grass, and
got into the music.'' 
   A poll conducted at the festival
by the <New York Times> showed
that 99 percent of those attending were
using marijuana. Local sheriff
deputies, totally overwhelmed, reported
that no arrests were being made for
drug use. The <New York Times>
of August 17 quoted one deputy,'' If we
did (make arrests), there isn't enough
space in Sullivan or the next three
counties to put them in.'' 
   The use of marijuana was not the
worst. Following the design of the
original MK-Ultra project, the mass
distribution of LSD came next, much of
it in LSD-laced Coca Cola, as Kesey's
Pranksters had done five years earlier.
Roberts jokingly relates the following,
"a particularly abrasive cop ....had
been handed an LSD-spiked Coke while
directing traffic. Long after all
automobiles in the area had congealed
to a standstill, the hardhat was still
out on the road waving them on. Finally
they led him away.'' 
   For the next three days, the
nearly half a million young people that
arrived were subjected to continual
drugs and rock music. Because of
torrential rains, they were forced to
wallow in knee-deep mud. There were no
shelters, and no way to get out. Cars
were parked over eight miles away.
Rosenman writes that the key to the
"Woodstock experiment'' was "keeping our
performers performing around the
clock...to keep the kids transfixed...'' 
   Within the first 24 hours, over 300
kids reported to medical authorities,
violently ill. The diagnosis: they were
having "bad'' LSD trips. Thousands more
would follow. On August 17, the
<New York Times> reported:
"Tonight, a festival announcer warned
from the stage, that 'badly
manufactured acid' (a term for LSD) was
being circulated. He said: 'You aren't
taking poison acid. The acid's not
poison. It's just badly manufactured
acid. You are not going to die.... So
if you think you've taken poison, you
haven't. But if you're worried, just
take half a tablet.'|'' 
    The advice, to nearly  500,000
people, "just take half a tablet'' was
given by none other than MK-Ultra agent
Wavy Gravy. 
   With a growing medical emergency
on hand, a call went out to New York
City for emergency medical personnel.
Over 50 doctors and nurses were flown
in. By the end of Woodstock, a total of
5,000 medical cases were reported. 

   
Altamont: the Making
Of a Snuff Film
 
   The last major rock "festival'' of
the 1960s was held at Altamont
racetrack, outside San Francisco. The
featured performers were the Rolling
Stones, who now reigned supreme in the
rock world, since the Beatles had
broken up. The suggestion for the
concert came from MK-Ultra agent Ken
Kesey. 
   This time, the audience was
whipped into a frenzy, in open praise
of the Devil. The result was a literal
Satanic orgy. At its conclusion, four
people were dead and dozens beaten and
injured.  Mick Jagger, the lead singer
of the Rolling Stones, played the part
of Lucifer. The performance marked the
beginning of the "heavy-metal'' concerts
of today. 
   Over 400,000 people attended the
Altamont concert with far less
preparation than even Woodstock. Food,
and even water, were nearly
unavailable. But plenty of drugs were
to be found. Like Woodstock, the
concert would become the vehicle for
the mass experimentation of drugs,
especially LSD. Author Tony Sanchez
describes the scene as people gathered
at Altamont: 
   "By midmorning there were more
than a quarter of a million people
milling around, and things were
becoming chaotic. There was a lot of
bad acid (LSD-DP) around, and people
were freaking out all over the place.
Everybody was getting stoned out of his
skull to pass the long hours before the
music was to start--Mexican grass,
cheap California wine, amphetamines ... 
      "By midday virtually everyone
was tripping...A man was almost killed
as he tried to fly from a speedway
bridge--another acid case. On the other
side of the site a young guy screamed
for help as he fell into the deep
waters of a drainage canal. The
stoned-out freaks looked on bemused as
he sank beneath the surface. No one
seemed sure if he had been real or an
hallucination. It didn't matter anymore
anyway, he was dead. Elsewhere doctors
were kept busy delivering babies to
girls giving hysterical premature
birth.'' 
   The descent into Hell would
continue. The Rolling Stones had hired,
for a reported $500 worth of free beer,
the motorcycle gang Hell's Angels to
act as security guards for the concert.
Their real payment, however, was in
drug sales. The Hell's Angels, an
outlaw gang made up of robbers, rapists
and murderers, were the known
controllers and sellers of drugs on the
entire West Coast. 
   When the festival did open, the
crowd of nearly  half a million people
waited for more than one and a half
hours for the Stones to appear. It was
only when nightfall arrived, allowing
for the use of special lighting
effects, that the group finally came on
stage. Mick Jagger, the lead singer, was
dressed in a satin cape, which glowed
red under the lights. Jagger was
imitating Lucifer. 
   Author Sanchez next describes what
he calls a preplanned "Satanic ritual.''
As the group began playing, "strangely
several of the kids were stripping off
their clothes and crawling to the stage
as if it were a high altar, there to
offer themselves as victims for the
boots and cues of the Angels. The more
they were beaten and bloodied, the more
they were impelled, as if by some
supernatural force, to offer themselves
as human sacrifices to these agents of
Satan.'' 
   Standing in the crowd in front of
the stage, with his girlfriend, was a
black man by the name of Meredith
Hunter. Hunter would soon be singled
out for human sacrifice. 
   The Stones had just released a new
song entitled, "Sympathy for the
Devil.'' It had quickly become the
number one record in the country. The
song begins with Mick Jagger
introducing himself as Lucifer. As soon
as he began to sing it at Altamont, the
entire audience rose up and began
dancing in a wild frenzy. 
   Sanchez descibes what happened
next, "A great six foot four grizzly
bear of a Hell's Angel had stalked
across to Meredith (Hunter) to pull his
hair hard in an effort to provoke a
fight ...A fight broke out, five more
Angels came crashing to the aid of
their buddy, while Meredith tried to
run off through the packed crowd. An
Angel caught him by the arm and brought
down a sheath knife hard in the black
man's back. The knife failed to
penetrate deeply, but Meredith knew
then that he was fighting for his life.
He ripped a gun out of his pocket and
pointed it straight at the Angel's
chest... And then the Angels were upon
him like a pack of wolves. One tore the
gun from his hand, another stabbed him
in the face and still another stabbed
him repeatedly, insanely, in the back
until his knees buckled. 
   "When the Angels finished with
Hunter, several people tried to come to
his aid, but an Angel stood guard over
the motionless body. `Don't touch him,'
he said menacingly. `He's going to die
anyway, so just let him die.'|'' 
   It was never proven that Meredith
actually had a gun. Later, arrests were
made. No one was ever indicted because
no one person would step forward as a
witness out of fear of retaliation by
the Angels. 
   Throughout the bloody killing the
Rolling Stones continued to play
"Sympathy for the Devil.'' The entire
group watched from the stage as
Meredith Hunter was killed right before
them. In addition, incredibly, the
entire murder was professionally filmed
by a film crew hired to film the
concert. Shortly thereafter the film
was released throughout the country
with the title of a Rolling Stone's
song, "Gimme Shelter.'' 
   Was the murder preplanned by
Satanists? In his book, <The
Ultimate Evil,> author Maury Terry
tells how Satanic cults circulate among
themselves films of their human
sacrifices. These films are called
"snuff films.'' Terry relates that one
of the seven Son of Sam murders in New
York City was actually filmed from a
nearby parked van. The film was then
purchased by a rich Satanist. 
   "Gimme Shelter,'' which was a
box-office hit, can still be purchased
or rented today for only a few dollars,
at your local video store. 

   
Behind "Heavy-Metal'' Rock 

   The same year as Altamont, 1969,
marked the beginning of the evil career
of Ozzie Osbourne. Osbourne formed the
band Black Sabbath. The group modelled
itself on the Rolling Stones. The next
fifteen years would witness a
procession of young drugged-out rock
performers, like Osbourne, each
competing for the "big money'' and the
recording contracts that came with it.
The key criteria of those who would
"make it'' was their ability to portray
decadence and evil. These were the
"heavy-metal'' groups. 
   In  1985, <New
Solidarity> newspaper, which has
since been forcibly shut down by the
federal government, conducted an
interview with Hezekiah Ben Aaron, then
the third-ranking member of the Church
of Satan. Ben Aaron is now a devout
Christian. In the interview, Aaron
revealed that it was his Church that
started such "heavy-metal'' rock groups
as Black Sabbath, The Blue Oyster Cult,
The Who, Ozzy Osbourne, and many
others. The Church of Satan was then
led by its high priest, Anton LaVey.
Many report, however, that LaVey, a
former circus lion tamer, was just a
front man for the real high priest,
Kenneth Anger, the man who earlier
recruited the Rolling Stones to the
occult. 
   The following is an excerpt from
that interview: "I was working for the
Church...the Church had other people
who were middlemen for other companies.
There were middlemen for Apple [set
up by the Beatles], Warner Brothers,
and other record companies. Someone
would come to me and say, `I have a
tape recording, and I'd like for you to
check it out. I'd like to see if
you would be interested in sponsoring a
Rock group.' I'd say `All right, I'll
check it out.' A few days later Ben
Aaron would call back and set up
another meeting. He continues, `I'd
hand you $100,000, and you wouldn't
sign anything. What you wouldn't know
is that a mirror on the back of the
wall is a one-way mirror and we're tape
recording and photographing, or video
taping everything that goes on. The
payback, if you fail to make the group
work, is really bad. Sometimes it's up
to 60% on the dollar.'' 
    Aaron's interview continued: "we
send you to a store, we provide you
with uniforms and we provide you with
amplifiers. It's all paid through the
money we gave you. We set you up with a
road tour. We set you up with
engagements. We book you.'' 
   Aaron then explained that if the
group did not make it he was given
orders to collect the money or make
other "arrangements.'' These "other
arrangements,'' perhaps, are the key to
the dozens of reported rock star
"suicides.'' The underworld drug mafia
has ample means to eliminate
non-payers. Some readers may remember
the following statement Beatle John
Lennon made to the international press
back in 1966: 
   "Christianity will go. It will go.
It will vanish and shrink. I needn't
argue about that. I'm right and I will
be proved right. We are more popular
than Jesus now.'' 
    Hopefully, he will be proven to be
wrong.

<end article>

-Steve