From: anon-1303@twwells.com (Galileo Pan)
Newsgroups: alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
Subject: File 18 is not credible
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:42:18 GMT
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File 18 is a newsletter published by right-wing fundamentalists with
little regard for common sense, let alone facts. It has little
credibility among most police officers. File 18's editors explicitly
counsel police that the only effective way to fight Satanic crime is
through the saving power of Jesus Christ. You can find similar charges
and attitudes in the New Federalist (Lyndon Larouche's paper). Before you
accept the veracity of such material, I strongly recommend reading
"In Pursuit of Satan" by Robert D. Hicks (Promethius Press). Hicks
is a police consultant and former officer who has thoroughly researched
the Satanic cult scare. 

Here are just three things in the article that should raise doubts:

>In some cases you
>have the following:  a.) multiple personalities,  b.)  demons manifesting as
>multiple personalities  (Editor's Note:   Rebecca Brown,  M. D.,  in her new
>book  PREPARE FOR WAR,  Chick Publications,  maintains that every  "multiple
>personality" manifested in a ritualized abuse survivor is, in fact, a demon.
>The  very  purpose for the bizarre rituals,  she says,  is to  implant  such
>entities into the abuse victim.   She cautions therapists and counselors not
>to  overlook this fact or fail to deal with it on an  appropriate  spiritual
>basis.),

I wonder what the APA or the DSM-IIIR say about the validity of using
a "demonic posession" model for MPD. Chick publishes comic book tracts
about the Satanic nature of the Masons and the Catholic Church.

>A.   The E.E.G.   or similar electro-stimuli may be attached to the head  or
>other  nerve  endings  for the purpose of breaking  the  will,   encouraging
>obedience,  layering  personalities,   and insuring silence  through  threat
>enforcement.

I hope everyone here realizes that an EEG (electroencephalograph) is a
monitoring device, not some kind of "electro-stimuli".  It's like calling
a camera "opto-stimuli" and would be about as useful for "breaking the
will.

The description of kidnapping (of "babies-through-adults") as a common
Satanic tactic is an oft-repeated fallacy. This particular article left
the number unstated but implied that it was large. Other Satanic
conspiracy advocates have quoted numbers in the thousands or even millions.
In fact, FBI records indicate only a very small number of stranger 
kidnappings of children each year -- less than 100 -- nowhere near 
enough to represent a massive Satanic kidnap campaign. The vast majority
of children who are kidnapped are abducted by parents in custody disputes.
The claims of ridiculous numbers of child kidnappings has even been 
debunked by Professor Jan Brunvand in his books on urban legends.

Sorry for the rant, but I don't think the dissemination of this kind
of fantasy is helpful. It just scares people and diverts attention from
real issues around incest and abuse to the ravings of religious
conspiracy buffs. What next -- a credulous posting about people who've 
been abducted by UFOs and molested by space aliens?



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