Posted on 09/18/2009 5:15:31 AM PDT by mattstat
Satan is eating your babies! Well, not Satan himself. The Beautiful Red Master is obviously too busy for such detail, so the work has been farmed out to his willing minions, who as we know, by the very definition of the word, are a dedicated bunch. Why dedicated? Lucifer is the wisest of the angels, and he starts minion training early; most recruiting efforts are focused on nursery schools, girl scout packs and the like.
Don’t laugh. A not dissimilar version of this story was widely believed in the States back in the 1990s. A very large—a disturbingly large—proportion of people convinced themselves that Satanic rituals were being conducted right under their noses, by their quiet neighbors, by the seemingly diligent people who ran preschools, by even themselves!, though they couldn’t remember partaking. Bodies, and lots of them, were not just being eaten, but they were being sacrificed by nude covens and the bones buried under full moons. Sheriffs were dispatched, indictments were issued, sentences were passed. People actually went to jail! The Satanic Panic, it was later dubbed.
It was brought about by the highly dubious medical theory of recovered memories. Advocates (they never called themselves anything less)...
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People are still in jail for it down in Florida. Janet Reno, who put them there in her own such prosecutions before she was AG fought hard politically to keep them there long after she was "retired." Even if not guilty of anything they had been properly tried and convicted.
I remember it hitting hard here in NC with a showy trial of daycare Owners and workers. The media couldn’t wait to feed the frenzy each day with wilder and wilder tales that the child psychiatrists, social workers and other insane clown insisted were true.
I think a couple folks went to jail here too and it took years before they were let out becuase the accusations were just plain wrong.
Their lives, however, were ruined.
Over stupidity.
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