From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
Subject: Who: michael@neuron6.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Rivero)
X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan  3 1993
Date: 25 Jan 93  08:19:18

What: <1993Jan11.162738.25295@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: soc.women,sci.skeptic,alt.sexual.abuse.recovery.d
and: soc.singles,talk.religion.mis
 
>] The cover story on the new issue of _Ms._ magazine is 
>]                  "Believe it!
>]             Cult Ritual Abuse Exists
>]                One Women's Story"
>] Inside is a 6-page first-hand account by "Elizabeth S. Rose" (a
>] pseudonym). The article ends "If we want to stop ritual abuse, the
>] first step is to believe these brutual crimes occur."
 
[CUTS OCCURED HERE]
 
>p5: I worry when even a jadded secular society starts planning
>witch hunts to protect us from the lack of having a decent
>International Communist Conspiracy to wave around as a BugaBoo!
 
[CUT OCCURED HERE]
 
MR> "During the Sam Diego Grand Jury investigation into the CPS,
MR> the head of the FBI's ritual abuse investigative team (yes,
MR> there is a special unit) was called to testify in response
MR> to claims that the more extreme violations of evidenciary
MR> rules and constitutional protections were justified on the
MR> basis that there was a thriving satanic cult in San Diego
MR> that needed to be rooted out.
MR>
MR> The FBI man (I believe his name was Kinney) said that in 10
MR> years of following up thousands and thousands of claims, he
MR> and his investigators had yet to find any physical evidence
MR> at all of such practices other than in the minds of various
MR> writers and others seeking a quick means to publicity."
 
That's Special Agent Kennith Lanning, who is the nation's leading
expert in the field. Our Christian pro-Satanic Conspiracy citizens
say Agent Lanning is one of the leaders of the national Satanic
cult, which explains why he has utterly failed to find any proof
of the wild assertions by the fundamentalist Christian community.
 
I've looked into the claim, and published two articles on the
subject. I've interviewed proponents of the claims, such as a
hypnotherapist in El Toro California, whom would not let me
talk to his "Ritual Satanic Abuse" victims out of the desire to
"protect" them from Satanic cult retrobution, but whom later
got beligerant and verbally abusive when I politely producted
irrefutable evidence that he was lying about one of his claims.
 
One article I wrote got the PETA upset, and their editorialist
wrote to me and asked me why I wanted to "hite the fact" that
Satanists roam neighborhoods at night picking up black cats to
Satanically sacrifice. She professed personal knowledge, from
working "in an animal clinic" (which she refused to identify),
of cats "sacrificed to Satan."
 
The victims of Satanic Cults (tm) refuse to identify their
tormentors. They refuse to name names, dates, times, locations,
witnesses. They refuse to seek out help from law enforcement.
They invariably go to church instead, and tell their stories
to horrified, but wonderfully entertained, audiences. It is also
a growth industry, where millions of dollars change hands.
 
Anyone whom questions the claims of 50,000 children sacrificed
each year by Satanists, Breeder Women, canabalism, etc., is of
course part of the Conspiracy, and a Satanist.
 
One peeve I have is the proponents of the claims use of the phrase
"ritual abuse" to mean religiously motivated, which it DID NOT
mean until the Christian cults applied their hands to the issue.

--- Maximus 2.01wb
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