September 2008

 

 

Yes folks. believe it or not, the media are once again drumming up Satanic Panic in the UK!  Several British newspapers recently ran sensationalistic stories with headlines such as :

 

 

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Here are just two examples……..

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1056029/Satan-worshippers-kill-eat-Russian-teenagers-stabbing-666-times.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1691088.ece

 

Such irresponsible media reporting should sound alarm bells in the ears of ‘all’ responsible parents and not just those linked to PAGAN AND OCCULTIST MINORITIES.

 

This is exactly the sort of paranoia that created the last round of SRAM when many innocent families were wrecked and children taken into the care of over-zealous social workers, acting on biased evangelical misinformation about occultism.

 

Are the newspapers in question seeking to bring in more dawn raids on families who follow unorthodox religious practices? Do we really need to see more cases like Rochdale; Orkney; Notts etc which cost the tax-payers many thousands of pounds chasing so-called ‘satanic abusers’, which were later discovered to exist only in the minds of devout fundamentalist activists?

 

PAN is saddened to find that papers like the Sun have apparently fallen for this hysteria AGAIN!

 

Readers may recall the sensationalist heading in 1989 - ' SATANISTS ATE MY BABY' which turned out to be a complete distortion of facts by a desperate woman possibly in need of psychiatric help. Many other anti-occultist headlines appeared in the media and as usual it was left to groups like SAFF and PAN to dig out the facts and discredit such shameful dross.

 

SAFF did more than most to break the socially destructive Satanic Ritual Child Abuse Myth that they had tracked since its inception in the 1970s.

 

The ideas contained in the Myth are a melding of images and concepts promoted in controversial and disturbing films such as the Exorcist, The Devil Rides Out, Rosemary's Baby etc, which the media have continually re-cycled in various forms ever since.

 

These motifs combined with the cultural alienation of people in our society today caused by the Information Technology Revolution, which demands a high level of social compliance has created anxieties that have also played into the hands of the Child Scare Industry that massages these fears reprehensibly.

 

The media (Music, News, Internet), with their stranglehold over the imagination of young people, are now indoctrinating the next generation with the very same biases against anyone who in unorthodox. Some sections of the more irresponsible British media now appear to be selling us all a fictitious satanic worldview, which they invented (to of course sell yet more papers and appease their well-healed fundamentalist supporters) during the 1970s.

 

How stupid do the press think we are?

 

The mere fact that children could be involved in such heinous crimes is bad enough but the hysterical and ludicrous 'satanic gloss' put upon them in these irresponsible reports is wholly disgraceful.

 

Who for instance was doing the counting when they stabbed each of their victims allegedly ‘666 times’?

 

How pray did they go about if they miscounted?

 

Who can ever corroborate this ridiculous claim if the perpetrators are supposed to have eaten their victims?

 

By what token, if any, could a small band of allegedly low - intelligence/depressive teenagers ever be classed as being genuine Satanists, i.e. individuals wishing to follow an unorthodox religious path for personal enlightenment?

 

Were any genuine occultists (no, ‘not’ King Kevin) consulted in the creation of these reports or did the papers simply rely on flawed evidence gleaned from previously discredited stories of satanic abuse?

 

Such irrational and unbalanced reporting ‘should’ have been dismissed out of hand, or are we to just forget the many children snatched from their innocent families in dawn raids by the Orkney Social Services; frightened children condemned to live in children's homes for a decade before the machinery of the state finally admitted there was no case to answer. A flawed case which had been drummed up by idiot social workers /religious fanatics who believed passionately in this kind of easily disproved rubbish.?

 

Thanks to unbalanced propaganda from fundamentalists and the ongoing press desire to create paper-selling panic the masses are continually injected with the imagined probability of 'satanic' outrages over long periods of time.

 

Eventually the populace become so indoctrinated with such dross that they cannot differentiate between fact and fiction and that is just how the establishment likes it. Is this good enough - is this the way a modern society, that pays lip - service to human rights, should be acting today?

 

Will the police, social workers, politicians, children's charities and the public once again fall for the next round of SRAM just because a bunch of ‘couldn’t - care -less’ media sources pump out fiction as fact?

 

Such reports today, in light of what happened during the last round of SRAM, are extremely worrying signs that the establishment has learnt absolutely NOTHING from the harsh lessons of Orkney, Rochdale and the rest.

 

The opportunistic media may think its all some great laugh but its not. As with the Church, their persistent obsession with Satan is one of the most socially disruptive aspects in contemporary society; the misery it has created for many innocent families is well documented by SAFF, PAN and other sources.

 

The following links, concerning the Jersey hysteria of 2007 and the fact that claims of a child's skull being found in reality turned out to be a ‘coconut‘, illustrates the irresponsible reporting of the media only too well. An initial finding of a fragment of what was believed to be a child's skull was widely publicised in the media, but forensic tests subsequently determined that it was not bone.

 

Other alleged remains have been stated by police to most likely originate from the year 1650. Such an official statement hardly verifies any hysterical claims of satanic abuse from the loose lips of smug fundamentalists and their trained puppets, who frequently fire up the UK media with the usual anti-occultist ‘shock horror’ nonsense.

 

 

 

Genuine child abuse is of course an outrageous thing, yet when the press, acting on flawed/biased information, invent something else entirely the matter just gets clouded.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021722/Jersey-police-failed-reveal-tested-skull-coconut.html

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3428019.ece?Submitted=true

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/16/child-protection-babyp-catherine-bennett

 

 

Press editors; you have certain responsibilities to the families of the UK - are you seeking to repeat recent history as we have stated above?

 

 

We certainly do not need 'another' SRAM.

 

 

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