Satanic Panic

[Desertphile]

Randi's commentary mentioned "Satanic Panic" and the McMartin circus. About 20 months ago I put the definitive report regarding "Occult Crime" on the 'net in several places. I received the report in 1990 (seven copies) from the California DoJ as a "thank you" for the time I spent researching for the report. The Special Report was printed and distributed before the end of the McMartin trial.

http://elmerfudd.us/cw/report/index.htm

As for the McMartin circus, I interviewed one of the victims, and I still receive email from him regarding his on-going law suits against some of the adult perpetrators (who had been California and Federal public officials back then). The state of California has been delaying his law suits for nearly twenty years, and they apparently plan on continuing the delay so that he will die before the cases go to trial.

[Ian Osborne]

There's an excellent commentry on the issue here (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/mcmartin.html)...

[valis]

Remember back in the 1980's when mental hospitals found if they could get you to commit your kid they could, ca ching!, cash in on your healty insurance?

Daytime TV was filled with ads "are your children using drugs, unruly, what have you? They may have a mental problem, call us tolll free." The ads kept getting more and more inventive as far as what constituted a need to call the private psych hospital.

Towards the end of this era I remember there was one hospital here in FL that ran ads saying "Is your child practicing Satanism" complete with kid in black t-shirt, pentagram and other scary imagrey. Apperantly Satanism was considered a mental health issue.

And people wonder why insurance companys stopped paying for mental health services.

[luchog]

[QUOTE=valis;1293433]Remember back in the 1980's when mental hospitals found if they could get you to commit your kid they could, ca ching!, cash in on your healty insurance?[\QUOTE]
I don't want to think about the number of friends I've had whose parents commited them to mental hospitals or forced them to attend "therapy" simply because they were punks/goths/freaks and not the good little preppy jocks their parents wanted them to be.

[c4ts]

"Satanic Panic"

Sounds like the name of an 80's band.

[Ladewig]

"Satanic Panic"

Sounds like the name of an 80's band.

No, you're thinking of "Satanic Mechanic."

[Moon-Spinner]

Let’s not forget the ever popular “False Memory Syndrome”, where psychiatrists would convince young adults that their parents abused them as children (and they can’t remember it because they blotted it out). This was all the rage for a few years, and destroyed many families.

[kleinjahr]

Anyone ever see "But I'm a Cheerleader". Apropos. No?

[Bone_Vulture]

Remember back in the 1980's when mental hospitals found if they could get you to commit your kid they could, ca ching!, cash in on your healty insurance?

I take it you've also heard the song "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies? :D

[SixSixSix]

By the light of the night, it will all seem alright. :)

[Checkmite]

Randi's commentary mentioned "Satanic Panic" and the McMartin circus. About 20 months ago I put the definitive report regarding "Occult Crime" on the 'net in several places. I received the report in 1990 (seven copies) from the California DoJ as a "thank you" for the time I spent researching for the report. The Special Report was printed and distributed before the end of the McMartin trial.

http://elmerfudd.us/cw/report/index.htm

As for the McMartin circus, I interviewed one of the victims, and I still receive email from him regarding his on-going law suits against some of the adult perpetrators (who had been California and Federal public officials back then). The state of California has been delaying his law suits for nearly twenty years, and they apparently plan on continuing the delay so that he will die before the cases go to trial.

If I recall correctly, the names of "perpetrators" revealed during the trial include Michael Jordan and other popular sports players, and some of the victims describe being flown to Mexico, where some of the abuse also allegedly took place. They were flown back before it was time for the parents to pick them up.

[jj]

By the light of the night, it will all seem alright. :)

But, what about the floor show?


On a serious note, we lived one county over from the fiasco in NJ. In that case, they dug up the place looking for "tunnels" and "gates", and such.

The person responsible for that was transferred to our county to be part of DYS. Thanks, guys.

Then we moved out here, where people still think there are cow mutilators and secret satanist societies on the east side of the cascades. Yikes.

[SixSixSix]

Well, you need material like that in order to make Illuminati: New World Order. That's reason enough to keep a small population of nutters around, methinks. :)

[valis]

I take it you've also heard the song "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies? :D


Well if they had just given the kid the damn Pepsi.......

[Morrison's Lament]

That's 'cause he was on drugs! Normal people don't act that way!

[psy kick]

Has there never been an instance of a satanic crime?

[Morrison's Lament]

psy kick: I imagine Satanists commit crimes all the time, just like everyone else. Satanically motivated ritual sexual abuse of children (SRA is the popularly coined term), however, is not documented anywhere that I know of.

--- G.

[valis]

psy kick: I imagine Satanists commit crimes all the time, just like everyone else. Satanically motivated ritual sexual abuse of children (SRA is the popularly coined term), however, is not documented anywhere that I know of.

--- G.

Although he was never convicted. If you read in detail the episode with M. Aquino (sp?) at the Presidio I would say it comes pretty close.

[Morrison's Lament]

Not only never convicted, he was never even charged with a crime, as far as I can tell, but I've just started reading about this case.

Interestingly, here's his side of the story:

http://www.konformist.com/2001/aquino.htm

--- G.

p.s. oh, and considering the thousands of documented cases of Catholic priest abusers I'd say it's a pretty good testament to Satanists/Satanism that not one of them have ever been proven to have done the same thing ;)

[sophia8]

A useful book on the subject of the Satanic Panic is 'Witch Hunts: Out of The Broom Closet' by Kerr Cuhulain. He's a Wiccan police officer who has researched the subject in depth.

[valis]

This got me thinking. You know what i always thought a lot of the Satanic Panic really was? Porno for Christians.

If you read these terrifying tales of ritual abuse they sound like a lot of someones dark phantasies with some obligatory Jesus Saves at the end to make it safe.

Wonder how many people have used this stuff the same way others use regular porn?

[psy kick]

All of it was made up? I'm not decided either way. I wouldn't put it past them.