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"To my surprise, [Lanning] admits he has never talked to a ritual abuse survivor"...(several weeks later, Lanning revised his story to say that he had spoken with 'several dozen' survivors on an unofficial basis.) (from "Nightmares on Main Street" by Leslie Bennetts, Vanity Fair, June, 1993, pp 42-62, quote from Pg. 62)
Commentary: Aleister Crowley's legacy By Uwe Siemon-Netto 9/10/03 Washington, (UPI) With the $85 million settlement for the victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, a singularly revolting chapter in the Church's 2,000-year history is drawing to a close. It is all the more disgusting as perverted men ordained to represent Christ at the altar took advantage of the secular society's 1960s dementia to act out their fantasies -- chiefly on adolescents. Equally revolting was the clubby mindset of their overseers, who more often than not simply reassigned offending priests rather than handing them over to secular authorities for trial and punishment." http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030910-094143-3996r
Plight of Nigerian 'wizard' boy By Yusuf Muhammad BBC, Kaduna "Nigerians feel under siege. At places of worship, at school, at places of work, and virtually everywhere, they discuss what they describe as the ravages of witchcraft and in recent times, cultism. In the northern Nigerian state of Taraba, for instance, some parents have been threatening to withdraw their children from school. According to them, children attending nursery, primary and even secondary schools, are being initiated into witchcraft and cultism." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3100848.stm
Baran received a fair trial By William W. Simons PITTSFIELD "I HAVE spent my professional life (going on 50 years) as a prosecutor, defense lawyer and Superior Court judge....I was the presiding judge in the Superior Court trial of Bernard Baran that took place in Pittsfield, extending for 10 days in January 1985.Baran was charged with rape and indecent assault and battery on six children while he was a child-care worker in a Pittsfield day care center. He was originally represented by the Public Defender's Office but chose to obtain private counsel, Leonard Conway of Westfield. After his conviction on these cases involving five of the children, an appeal was taken on Baran's behalf by Attorney David O. Burbank of Pittsfield, also an experienced and able trial and appellate counsel. The appeal was decided on March 27, 1986, affirming the convictions. Mr. Burbank sought further appellate review and that application was denied by the Supreme Judicial Court on May 30, 1986....The concern that young victims are prone to suggestibility pales in comparison to the suggestibility of grown and experienced newspapermen. A more serious injury is that distorted claims of injustice that seek freedom for Baran are not without consequences for society and this community, should they succeed." http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101%7E9694%7E1629335,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2003-09-11-poll-results.htm
In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States at this time?
Satisfied Dis- satisfied No opinion
2003 Sep 8-10 40 58 2
USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll results
(approval rating down from 71% in April 2003
1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?
Approve Dis-approve No opinion
2003 Sep 8-10 52 43 5
Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling:
The economy
Approve Dis-approve No opinion
2003 Sep 8-10 45 53 2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1038845,00.html
America's dirty torture secret
Henry Porter Wednesday September 10, 2003
The American press betrays the same pattern, but there is one important and - to me - astonishing absence. Weeks go by without serious newspapers investigating or commenting on human rights abuses by the American government. At home and abroad, hundreds, maybe thousands, of men are being held in camps and prisons by the military, by the CIA and by the justice department, incommunicado, without legal representation or hope of release, there to endure prolonged and terrifying interrogation. Alone, this is enough for the US government to place itself in contravention of the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, which it is obligated to uphold. But that is not all. There is evidence that the US authorities have encouraged the use of torture and may indeed have participated in the torture of those men they believe to hold information on past and future terrorist attacks.
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