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SYSOP'S NOTE: The following file is the complete text of a letter sent by
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Dr. Michael Aquino to CBS after they aired a made-for-TV movie entitled "Do
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You Know the Muffin Man?" This movie was a fictional account of a "typical"
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ritualized child abuse case in a "typical" day-care center, modelled
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closely after the allegations in the McMartin, Bakersfield, and Akron
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scandals. Dr. Aquino's letter thoroughly rebuts these charges.
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No response from CBS had been received as of 12/18/89.
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This letter is reprinted with permission of the author, who asked me to
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point out that documentation for everything he says in here is available on
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request to the address shown. -- J. Brad Hicks, Sysop WeirdBase
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______________________________________________________________________________
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TEMPLE OF SET
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P.O. Box 4507 St. Louis, MO 63108 * MCI-Mail: 278-4041 * Telex: 6502784041
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Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D. High Priest of Set October 25, 1989 CE
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Programming Department CBS Television 51 West 52nd Street New York, NY
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10017
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Dear Sirs:
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Your broadcasting of the television-movie DO YOU KNOW THE MUFFIN MAN? on
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October 22 displayed extremely shocking bias and disregard for the truth.
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To the extent that this film is interpreted by audiences to represent the
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general truth behind the epidemic of day-care "Satanic child abuse"
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witch-hunts which have convulsed this country for the last several years,
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you will be responsible for the encouragement of further injustices of the
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most traumatic kind on innocent people falsely accused of such horrors.
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You may shrug this off by citing the fine-print disclaimer at the end of
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the film that this was a "fictional" drama. Yet the references to real-life
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incidents ("the Presidio, El Paso, and West Point") in the film as though
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they were proven examples of the kind of crime depicted, coupled with the
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TV GUIDE and on-screen announcement that "according to government
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statistics some 39,000 children were sexually abused last year", made it
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clear that the film was to be understood as thinly-fictionalized
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"docu-drama".
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From McMartin onward, the epidemic of day-care "child abuse" scares has
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been characterized by spontaneous and violent attack upon chosen targets
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the moment they are selected. Presumably child sexual abuse is so heinous a
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crime, as witchcraft during the middle ages, that it is unthinkable for
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anyone to be accused of it unless he or she is indeed guilty. Everyone
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wants to go on record as denouncing such individuals vigorously, lest one
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become suspect oneself for not showing sufficient enthusiasm for the hunt.
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On the other hand, no individual or official wants to take responsibility
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for stating that the alleged abuse did not occur.
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Permit me to itemize the more conspicuous fallacies of Muffin Man:
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(1) YOUR TV GUIDE/ON-SCREEN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT "FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH
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ESTIMATES THAT APPROXIMATELY 39,000 CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF SIX ARE
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SEXUALLY ABUSED IN THE UNITED STATES EACH YEAR" IS MISLEADING, IMPLYING AS
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IT DOES THAT "DAY-CARE SATANIC" EVENTS SUCH AS THAT DEPICTED IN THE FILM
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ARE THE PROBLEM.
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What your announcement failed to state is that THE VAST MAJORITY OF SUCH
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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE OCCURS IN THE HOME, NOT IN DAY-CARE CENTERS. According
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to David Finkelhor, Associate Director of the Family Violence Research
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Program, University of New Hampshire, the primary threat of sexual
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molestation comes from MEMBERS OF THE CHILD'S FAMILY, NOT FROM
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PORNOGRAPHERS OR PEDOPHILES WHO ARE STRANGERS. Projection of such crimes
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upon day-care personnel may be a device to cover up incest, or to destroy
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women's options for child-care outside the home, thus forcing them away
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from personal/professional lives of their own and back to the
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fundamentalist model of "a woman's place". In CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: NEW
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THEORY & RESEARCH, Finkelhor writes:
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In many respects the moralists were mistaken about the problem, since
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they portrayed the greatest danger to children as coming from strangers and
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depraved individuals outside the family, not from within the family, where,
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as recently documented, the more serious threat is.
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(2) USE OF ROLAND SUMMIT AS THE SOLE CONSULTANT TO THE FILM.
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Dr. Roland Summit testifies so consistently for any accusation of "child
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abuse" that he has become nationally known as the "prosecution doctor".
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(Cf. Paul & Shirley Eberle, THE POLITICS OF CHILD ABUSE, Lyle Stuart 1986.)
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He now has a distinguished record of participating in several celebrated
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"child abuse industry" scandals in which scores of innocent people were
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randomly accused, put through nightmarish ordeals, and professionally
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ruined.
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Why did you not also consult some of the many distinguished physicians
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who expose and deplore the "child abuse industry", such as Dr. Lee Coleman,
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Director of the Center for the Study of Psychiatric Testimony in Berkeley,
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California? Were you afraid that you might discover "inconvenient" facts
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which invalidate the pre-determined theme of the film?
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(3) SCARRING IN RECTUM AS EVIDENCE OF CHILD-RAPE.
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This was presented in the film as "conclusive proof" that one of the
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children had been raped. In the case of at least one real-life witch-hunt -
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that at the Presidio of San Francisco - it was also used in the case of the
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child whose parents originally instigated the scare. Later on the physician
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who originally diagnosed the child's rectum as injured retracted that
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diagnosis on a television news documentary. By that time, of course, the
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witch-hunt was in full swing and no one paid attention to this inconvenient
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development.
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Dr. John McCann, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the
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University of California, San Francisco, has produced a study that reveals
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far more normal variations in the vaginal and rectal areas of children than
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most physicians are aware of. He and his assistants examined the vaginal
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and rectal areas of some 250 prepubertal children with no history of sexual
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molestation and found that "private parts - particularly girls' genitals -
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can be as variable from person to person as noses or breasts". Responsible
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physicians are accordingly becoming more cautious about diagnosing "rape"
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from such variations. See the article in MS magazine, March 1989.
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(4) PARENTS' AND INTERROGATORS' REFUSAL TO ACCEPT DENIALS OF ATTACK BY
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CHILDREN.
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As your film showed, this is a staple of "day-care child abuse"
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witch-hunts. Once their minds are made up, zealots simply keep working the
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children over, again and again, for months or years if necessary, until the
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children are ready to say anything expected of them. Moreover any
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statement at all from such children which can be "interpreted" by parents
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or "therapists" into sexual context is construed as "evidence". MUFFIN MAN
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presented this as a perfectly normal and acceptable practice.
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As the MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL noted on January 20, 1988 as part of
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its 6-part series on the "child-abuse" epidemic:
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Investigators in El Paso sometimes refused to accept denials,
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retractions, or silence from children. They attributed those actions to
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stress-related "avoidance" behavior or to the "child sexual abuse
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accommodation syndrome", a controversial doctrine that says abuse victims
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inevitably recant allegations.
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The COMMERCIAL APPEAL further observed that:
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Luiz Natalicio, an El Paso psychologist who evaluated tapes of
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interviews in the abuse case there, compares the questioning techniques to
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those used by Communist Chinese forces on American soldiers captured during
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the Korean War. Like the POWs, children in the El Paso case were isolated
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in unfamiliar and usually barren surroundings. They believed their release
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from questioning, and satisfying such needs as drinking water and going to
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the bathroom, depended upon whether they provided information, Natalicio
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said. "If we can do it with adults, you can imagine how effective it can be
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with children, who are dependent on us totally for their conception of
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reality," said Natalicio, a former University of Texas professor who taught
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courses on the psychological aspects of interrogation.
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(5) TRANSPORT OF CHILDREN FROM DAY-CARE CENTERS TO REMOTE SITES FOR
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MOLESTING.
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This invention was created by accusers to explain away the inconvenient
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fact that day-care centers are generally open places with lots of
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observation and access, parents and children coming and going, and no
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opportunities for molesting, much less elaborate "Satanic rituals".
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Merely proposing such an idiotic "explanation" does not validate it, no
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matter how often it is tried. Not one "witch-hunt" has validated this
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absurd allegation. So why did your movie present it as an "accepted"
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practice?
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(6) INTEREST OF SATANISTS IN CHILD-MOLESTING, PARTICULARLY AT DAY-CARE
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CENTERS.
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This must rank with the survival of Elvis Presley as one of the most
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asinine myths of the 1980s. It is in COMPLETE CONTRADICTION to the
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official, published doctrines of the Satanic religion, as contained in
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Anton LaVey's SATANIC BIBLE of the old Church of Satan (1966-1975) and in
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the CRYSTAL TABLET of the contemporary Temple of Set (1975-present):
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Under no circumstances would a Satanist sacrifice any animal or baby.
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There are sound and logical reasons why Satanists would not perform such
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sacrifices. Mankind is the godhead to the Satanist. The purest form of
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existence reposes in the bodies of animals and human children who have not
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grown old enough to deny themselves their natural desires. They can
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perceive things that the average human being can never hope to. Therefore
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the Satanist holds these beings in a sacred regard, knowing that he can
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learn much from these natural magicians of the world. The Satanist is aware
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of conventional religions' universal custom of killing their gods. The
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Satanist, however, does not hate himself nor his gods, and has no desire to
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destroy himself or anything for which he stands. It is for this reason that
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he would never willfully harm an animal or child. The Satanist would not
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intentionally hurt others by violating their sexual rights. If you attempt
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to impose your sexual desires upon others who do not welcome your advances,
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you are infringing upon their sexual freedom. Therefore Satanism does not
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advocate rape, child molesting, sexual defilement of animals, or any other
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form of sexual activity which entails the participation of those who are
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unwilling or whose innocence or naivete would allow them to be intimidated
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or misguided into doing something against their wishes. - SATANIC BIBLE
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Children should not be allowed to attend any Black Magical ritual.
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They will not understand it, may be frightened by it, and may wrongly
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represent it to others. Pets may be present only if they may be depended
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upon to enhance, not to disrupt the atmosphere. Under no circumstances is
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any life-form ever sacrificed or injured in a Black Magical ritual of the
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Temple of Set. Violation of this rule will result in the offender's
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immediate expulsion and referral to law-enforcement or animal protection
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authorities. - CRYSTAL TABLET OF SET
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The senior Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI in charge of "Satanic
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abuse" investigations is Kenneth Lanning, FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia.
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As the MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL reported on January 18, 1988:
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Lanning said he was perplexed by the growth of such stories with no
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evidence to support them. "Some people believe there is large-scale
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abduction of children," Lanning said, "that individuals are going around
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snatching little children, keeping them captive, transporting them to other
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locations where they're being murdered in Satanic rituals. Is that
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possible? I guess it's possible. Is it probable? I don't see any evidence
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of it."
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While Lanning has patiently repeated this authoritative statement any
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number of times since then, it seems that anti-Satanism fanatics are
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determined not to hear it. I understand that some of them, furious over
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this "inconvenience", have simply labeled Lanning a Satanist himself (which
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he is not) and continued their campaigns. This is in keeping with medieval
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practice, in which anyone daring to defend an accused witch was simply
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accused in turn.
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The theme of "sexual abuse of children" has been loosely used as
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hate-propaganda by Christianity for centuries against any other religion it
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wished to slander. Along with "child sacrifice", it was a theme used
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aggressively against the Jews up to World War II, after which time Nazi
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violence against that religion made it unfashionable for Christians to
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openly attack it. The Satanic religion, on the other hand, appears still to
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be considered an appropriate target for such slander.
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The effect of such hate-propaganda, of course, is to create a social
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atmosphere in which Satanists must fear any association with children
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whatever, whether their own or someone else's. While Christians may
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indoctrinate their children with Christian ideology - including at the many
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day-care centers run by Christian churches - any hint that Satanists might
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even be DISCUSSING their religion with their children, much less teaching
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it to them, is guaranteed to provoke social and, to the extent it can be
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effected, official persecution.
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As it happens, neither the old Church of Satan nor the current Temple of
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Set ever operated any programs for minors, nor accepted them as members.
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Nevertheless it is outrageous that Christians should expect us to accept a
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social climate in which ONLY they, not anyone else, can discuss religion
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with children.
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Also as it happens, the religion with a PROVEN RECORD of child sexual
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abuse by its officials is CHRISTIANITY, not Satanism. I am talking not
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about mere allegations, but about PROSECUTIONS and CONVICTIONS - and also
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about official policies to cover up such crimes when they have occurred. To
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take just the Catholic Church as an example: In the December 30/31, 1988
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SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, court records and sworn testimony in civil and
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criminal cases involving 35 priests in dioceses across the U.S. over the
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past five years - most since 1985 - show that in one or more cases Catholic
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Church officials have:
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* Ignored parental complaints that a child has been molested. * Failed
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to inform authorities, even though most states have laws requiring that
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such complaints be passed along to police or child welfare agencies. *
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Transferred the offending priest to another parish or other church-owned
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facility, such as a hospital or school, without warning parents in the new
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location of the trouble in the old parish, and often without even requiring
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the priest to stay away from children. * Refused to help priests who have
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asked for psychological help. * Attempted to discredit parents who
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complained, even when parish officials knew of earlier complaints against
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the priest in question. * Fought, usually with success, to make sure that
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the files in civil lawsuits against the church are sealed and that
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settlements remain secret even after the payment of millions of dollars in
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claims * Failed to seek out probable victims and declined to turn over
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files containing information about accusations of other molestations to
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attorneys suing the church.
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Catholic Father Thomas Doyle, a Washington, D.C. priest and canon lawyer
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who has looked into the issue of pedophiliac priests, told the MERCURY
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NEWS he knows of about 200 Catholic priests who have molested children in
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the past 4-5 years. He said that as many as 3,000 priests could be
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pedophiles.
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F. Ray Mouton, a lawyer working with Doyle, added:
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I have consulted with dioceses and Catholic religious orders from
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every part of this country, and it is my impression that there is not one
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single, solitary bishop or vicar in this country who has not dealt with the
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problem of a pedophiliac priest under his supervision. Conservatively I
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would estimate that in the last several years, hundreds of priests and
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other clerics have been discovered as pedophiles, leaving a trail of
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thousands of Catholic child victims.
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The SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS provided the following examples [among
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others]:
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* In 1987 priest Roger Trott, Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania
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pleaded guilty to one count of corrupting a minor, a 13-year-old altar boy,
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in a plea arrangement providing for no jail time. Afterward the district
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attorney discovered that Trott may have molested as many as 15 boys. A year
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before, the diocese reportedly paid $375,000 to two families on behalf of
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children alleged to have been molested by another priest, Father Dennis
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Dellamalva, who was never charged. Neither the families who sued nor the
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diocese would discuss the settlement. * In 1987 priest Richard Galdon,
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Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced to 25 years in prison
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after pleading guilty to one count of first-degree aggravated assault and
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two counts of second degree aggravated assault against three boys. Galdon,
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57, admitted engaging in oral and anal sex with boys for 17 years. DA
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investigator George McGrath said that he talked to 18 boys at a school who
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said they were molested by Galdon. * In 1985 priest Carmelo Baltazar,
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Diocese of Boise, Idaho was sentenced to 7 years in prison for luring two
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teenage boys to his house, fondling them, and giving them liquor, drugs,
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and pornography. He had been kicked out of the U.S. Navy (where he had been
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a chaplain) as well as transferred from three previous dioceses for similar
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conduct. An attorney who sued the diocese said that Baltazar's previous job
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was at a hospital in Napa, where he fondled a boy on a dialysis machine.
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Despite being told about this, a Catholic hospital in Boise hired him and
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then took no action after an Episcopalian minister reported to the bishop
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that Baltazar had fondled a boy in double leg traction. * In 1987 priest
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John Salazar, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, was sentenced to 6 years in
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prison for engaging in oral copulation with two altar boys. He had been
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left in his position despite one mother's report that her son had been
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molested in 1985. * In 1985 priest Alvin Campbell, Diocese of Springfield,
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Illinois was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to
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sexually abusing 7 boys. Campbell later admitted that he had molested boys
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for more than 20 years. * In 1987 priest Walter Weerts, Diocese of
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Springfield, Illinois was sentenced to 6 years in prison for performing
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oral sex on three teenage boys. The diocese paid $2.5 million, one source
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told the MERCURY NEWS, to three families who sued when a pattern of
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transferring him from parish to parish was uncovered. The diocese refused
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to discuss the case. * In 1986 priest Ronald Fontenot, Diocese of Spokane,
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Washington was sentenced to 1 year in jail and 2 years in a treatment
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program after teen-age boys complained that he had engaged in oral
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copulation with one and fondled four others. * In 1986 priest Andrew
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Christian, Diocese of Orange, California received 5 years' probation on
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condition he go to a treatment facility after being found guilty of 26
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counts of child molestation. The church never told authorities of abuse
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reported 3 years earlier, when it sent Christian to counseling and did not
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remove him from supervising boys. When the counseling stopped, molestings
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began. * In 1986 priest William O'Connell, Diocese of Providence, Rhode
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Island was sentenced to 1 year in prison and 2 years in a treatment center
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after pleading no contest to 26 counts of sexually abusing 12 boys. * In
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1985 priest Paul Leech, Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island was sentenced
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to 3 years in prison for molesting 3 boys. * In 1986 priest Timothy Slevin,
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Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. was sentenced to 3-12 years after pleading
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guilty to four counts of sodomizing a boy at Sacred Heart Catholic School.
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Slevin told police he sexually abused 6 other boys aged 10-16.
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In contrast to this shameful record, there has never been a SINGLE
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charge against or conviction of ANY Satanist for child sexual abuse,
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anywhere, any time. The reason is quite simple: WE DON'T DO IT. Ours is a
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religion in which sex is NOT treated as a religious fetish, nor restricted
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between consenting adults. It is regarded simply as one more bodily
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function with pleasurable and romantic aspects.
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(7) PORTRAYAL OF SATANISTS KILLING RABBITS AND FAMILY PETS.
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Animal sacrifice is strictly forbidden by this nation's Satanic
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churches, per the above quotes from the Satanic Bible and the Crystal
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Tablet.
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(8) THE FILM'S DISMISSAL OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PRESCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
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SUDDENLY USING COMPLEX SEXUAL WORDS LIKE "VAGINA".
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In fact this is one of the MOST conspicuous indices that the child in
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question has been coached by zealots. As such it is an important indicator
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impeaching the testimony of such children and should not be minimized.
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(9) AN OLDER CHILD INSISTING ON THE WITNESS STAND THAT HE HAD "PASSED A
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POLYGRAPH" CONCERNING HIS ALLEGATIONS.
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While the film showed the defense lawyer objecting and the objection
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sustained, this scene was clearly added to "substantiate" the older child's
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statements. The reason that polygraph results are not allowed in court, of
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course, is that they are NOT reliable. There are many reasons why they may
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give false readings. The history of their use in child-abuse witch-hunts is
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that they are ignored by prosecutors if they support the accused person's
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innocence and are treated as "proof overwhelming all other evidence" if the
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accused is judged to have flunked.
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As Washington columnist James Kilpatrick recently reported in his
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column:
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A witness for the American Medical Association testified that the
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results of such examinations are "only somewhat better than chance".
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Another estimated that polygraph machines wrongfully hang a label of "liar"
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on at least 400,000 honest persons every year. A Senate report described
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the problems. A standard polygraph records changes in blood pressure,
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respiration patterns, and sweat. By analyzing a chart of these changes, the
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operator reaches conclusions on the honesty of the person being examined.
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The physiological data may be quite accurate, "but there is no evidence
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that these recorded changes are unique to deception". Such factors as
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"anger, fear, anxiety, surprise, shame, embarrassment, and resentment can
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cause identical changes".
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(10) PORTRAYAL OF A "SATANIC CEREMONY" IN A DAY-CARE CENTER, WITH VIOLENCE
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ATTEMPTED TO PREVENT POLICE FROM SEEING IT.
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No Satanic religious ceremony has EVER been held in a day-care facility,
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nor have implements or persons involved in such a ceremony EVER been found
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in the way your film implied. No law-enforcement official curious about any
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activity of the Church of Satan or Temple of Set has EVER been resisted
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with violence.
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To further highlight the film's ignorance of authentic Satanism, a
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ritual knife was referred to as an "athame", and the "Satanists" were shown
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in red robes. An athame is a device used by the Wicca pagan religion, not
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by Satanists. And Satanists do not wear red robes for rituals. [Perhaps you
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confused us with Catholic cardinals?]
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Even more preposterous was the film's use of "Satanic names" such as
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Isis, Medea, Triton, and Pegasus. Obviously you - or Roland Summit, or
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whoever else your "expert" on Satanism happened to be - knows as little
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about mythology as about athames. In Egyptian mythology Isis is the wife of
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Osiris, OPPONENT of the "Satanic" god Set. Medea is a figure from Greek
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mythology having nothing to do with Satanic symbolism. Triton is a fish,
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and Pegasus is a horse. Genuine magical names are chosen carefully, with
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precise attention to the mythology in question. Or perhaps you intended
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your "conspiracy of Satanists" to include a frogman and a jockey?
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(11) ACTOR JOHN SHEA'S CITING OF "THE PRESIDIO, WEST POINT, AND EL PASO" AS
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PROVEN INCIDENTS OF SUCH ABUSE AS PORTRAYED IN THE FILM.
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PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO: This 1986-87 scandal was simply one more
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scam in the "McMartin copycat" series. Neither prosecutions nor convictions
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of anyone resulted. A Baptist minister by the name of Gary Hambright was
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initially targeted in that witch-hunt; later on an Army chaplain decided to
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attack my wife and myself as well. All charges against Hambright were
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ultimately thrown out by the court or withdrawn by the prosecution, and
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thus he is entitled to the presumption of his innocence. More than that,
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the U.S. Federal Public Defenders in his case state that the evidence quite
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clearly exonerates him of any such crimes. Ask them yourself: Ms. Nanci
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Clarence & Mr. Jeff Hansen, Federal Building, San Francisco - (415)
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556-7712. No charges were ever brought against me or Mrs. Aquino, because
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the evidence conclusively proves not only that we could not have committed
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crimes as alleged, but also that they never occurred at all. On the other
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hand, I preferred court-martial charges against that Army chaplain,
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Lawrence Adams-Thompson, for making knowingly false and malicious
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accusations against us. I am still at this time insisting that the U.S.
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Army Criminal Investigation Division follow through with investigation of
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these charges which I preferred, and of Adams-Thompson's attempt to defraud
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the U.S. Government of several million dollars in fraudulent monetary
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claims based on his fake allegations. [Following the West Point pattern as
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noted below, parents in the Presidio witch-hunt filed over $66 million in
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claims against the government in an attempt to make a little money from
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what they had put their children through.]
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WEST POINT: This July 1984 scandal began after a girl came home
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bleeding in the vaginal area. In the usual pattern allegations then
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||
mushroomed to include several children, animal sacrifice, pornography, and
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||
"rituals involving people wearing bloody, Dracula-type masks". Ultimately
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||
950 people were interviewed including hundreds of children aged 2-6. No
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||
charges were ever brought against anyone because of lack of evidence.
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||
Nevertheless a Captain Grote refused a promotion to Major and proceeded to
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||
accuse Army officials of covering up "the presence of ritualized/Satanic
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||
child abuse at West Point". [There were no Satanists at West Point at the
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||
time.] Perhaps as disappointing to the accusers under the circumstances was
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||
the fact that 8 families had filed claims against the government totalling
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||
$110 million, easy wealth which was unlikely to be realized if the scam
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||
would not be officially endorsed.
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EL PASO: In June 1985 this McMartin-copycat got under way after parents
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||
questioned their 3-1/2-year-old daughter about a word she had used. Two
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||
YMCA female teachers were eventually accused as the feeding-frenzy grew.
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||
Nine children talked about monsters, being kissed and fondled, and "having
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||
pennies put in their pee-pees". This case was prosecuted, and both women
|
||
were found guilty. One conviction was later overturned, and [as of the most
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||
recent account I read] the other is on appeal. Again it is interesting to
|
||
consider the role that monetary claims played in this affair. Insurers for
|
||
the YMCA reached a $600,000-plus settlement with parents after an appellate
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||
court overturned the conviction of one of the two female workers accused.
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||
Parents had originally sued for more than $24 million.
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||
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||
If there is any "pattern" to be demonstrated by these cases, it would
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||
seem to be one of parental greed rather than of "Satanic child molesting".
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The United States has now been through several years of such disgraceful
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witch-hunts, which films such as MUFFIN MAN purport to excuse and justify.
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To the extent that audiences accept its theme, you have acted to stimulate
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and encourage further outrages of this sort. This is genuine child abuse,
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||
as it is always the children, along with the targeted adults, who are the
|
||
sufferers from these orgies of greed and hatred.
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||
|
||
It is ironic that, at the same time these ferocious witch-hunts are
|
||
being promoted, the country is bewailing its lack of adequate child
|
||
day-care services. Under these circumstances only a lunatic would have
|
||
anything to do with operating or working in a day-care service, no matter
|
||
WHAT salaries are offered. Nor does one have to be male to be targeted;
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||
such witch-hunts have victimized young and old, male and female alike.
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||
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||
If this is the situation you sought to endorse by your broadcast of
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MUFFIN MAN, then I expect you are quite pleased with yourselves. If after
|
||
considering the facts cited in this letter you have second thoughts about
|
||
what you did, then perhaps CBS should make a statement to that effect and
|
||
remove this disgraceful film from further circulation. It belongs in a
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trash-bin along with Nazi Germany's THE ETERNAL JEW and similar
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||
hate-propaganda filth.
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||
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||
Sincerely,
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||
|
||
(signed) Michael A. Aquino
|
||
"conspiracy of Satanists" to include a frogman and a jockey?
|
||
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