Posted on 06/14/2009 1:29:36 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Two of Queens' largest parks are hotbeds for animal sacrifices, according to park rangers and advocates.
Longtime Parks Department ranger Joe Puleo told The Post that killing animals for ritualistic reasons in the city is widespread, but that Forest Park and Highland Park are the most common locations.
Perpetrators of the outlawed act are rarely busted because they perform their bloody rituals in the dead of night, and the two parks no longer have 24-hour patrols due to budget cuts.
"They are never caught, because they are careful, and they never do it during the day. They do it at night when no one is around," Puleo said.
Park-goers have told him that the reasons for the sacrifices run the gamut from devil worship to voodoo to offerings for good luck.
One dog found out the hard way about the odd rituals taking place in the city in 2006 when it bit into a cow tongue stuffed with pins in Central Park. The pin-pricked meat was reportedly a "hoodoo" spell to discourage a witness from testifying in court.
The most recent reports of animal corpses in Forest Park were called in to the city's 311 hot line on April 18 by assistant principal Peter Caccioppoli, who spotted a dead rooster and a black goat's head and torso while walking his dog.
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America didn’t get to be so great by sacrificing goat heads,etc.
Well DUHHH! Devil worshipers, wiccans and Vampire wannabe's just don't like waking up themselves or their favorite demons at high noon. Midnights with full moons are when their imaginations think their demons are at their height of power.
Our nation is becoming a hell-hole. This is not what the founders planned.
(plus they probably know there aren’t any park patrols at night)
This is what happens when the meaning of the word "religion" is expanded to include anything and everything rather than the Christianity intended by the founding fathers.
This is what happens when the meaning of the word “religion” is expanded to include anything and everything rather than the Christianity intended by the founding fathers.
What about the Jews? Should they have freedom to practice their religion?
You have to hand it to Al Gore. He keeps managing to get his name in the headlines.
Yes. We were a Christian nation - different sects, but intended to be a Christian nation, governed by Christians, or at least those who respected the Christian religion because of its foundational support of our states and the federal government.
All religions are protected as long as humans and animals are not harmed.
Ever hear the term “Judeo-Christian?”
I’d like to hang out there at night with some night vision goggles and a paintball gun for a little fun, but then I’d probably be in far more trouble with the law. So, on second thought I’d like to experience that vicariously. Someone, please do this on my behalf. Make a movie about it, or make another episode for “The Equalizer.”
In NYS? Oh, yeah. Heck, you need a permit for a wrist-braced sling shot in this state.
Celebrate diversity.
I celebrate their diversity because I am a snob who hates the boring old America. sarcasm intended
June 11, 1993
The U.S. Supreme Court found in favor of the Santería Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye and against the City of Hialeah, Florida.
ï Four Ordinances enacted by the City were found to suppress the Church’s religious freedom.
ï The Ordinances were unconstitutional because they were in contradiction to the First Amendment.
http://online.sfsu.edu/~biella/santeria/dec1.html
Nah, just the NY State Demmacrat Committee Meeting.
This is what happens when we decide that all “religious” points of view are equivalent. They are not.
This is nothing new for Forest Park. Awhile back they found a dead Black Bear that had been cut open and some of the organs were missing.
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