HALL OF SHAME


The Hall of Shame is the place where you nominate intoleratti, bigots, media puppets, sectarian bullies, politicians on the make, Xist expedientaries and other people who have failed to give alternative beliefs a fair deal. Tell us the where and the when and the why. Send your nominations in less than 50 words to Tony Rhodes at:



The Xists' control of society is dependent upon the short attention-span of the populace whose memory is cultivated to last no more than seven days. The Hall of Shame provides valuable perspective to freethinkers who look beyond.


Diane Core of Childwatch

For telling the media the absurd misdirection that 4,000 children a year were sacrificed by satanists in the U.K. and for acting as a paid 'expert' to the Cook Report on Satanic Abuse. For using the sensationalism of the media to promote the Satan Scare. For going to America as guest of a satellite organisation linked to the infamous politico Lyndon La Rouche and publicly challenging the head of a satanic group there to a head-to-head on nationwide TV; for claiming to have a dossier on Occultism which proved her allegations but not producing it when demanded; for making the most outrageous criminal allegations in articles and TV programmes without one jot of proof.

Geoffrey Dickens, deceased, lay-preacher and MP for Saddleworth

For campaigning to make it illegal for Pagan Parents to teach their religion to their sons and daughters. For announcing to the media that babies had been 'sacrificed to the Devil' when they had not; for misusing parliamentary priviledge to slander and victimise innocent people; for not being honest and open about his Christian evangelical links; for lying about convictions which had not occurred on national TV; for consciously heading up a modern-day witchunt the likes of which had not been seen for four hundred years. 'We must outlaw witchcraft in this country. No child is safe..we have to go in with hobnail boots.. I want all cults of this nature outlawed. I want them closed down and made totally illegal...Dickens on record 24 April 1988 - just weeks before the Satan Scare began to roll. .

Kevin Logan, CofE Vicar

For working to suppress New Age and Pagan beliefs. For using the justification of research for his book to infiltrate the occult subculture gaining our trust and then misrepresenting our beliefs in an anti-occult pot-boiler; for being a key member of Reachout; for pandering to the media; for attending satan seminars; for appearing 'exorcising' children on the Cook Report; For vandalising and taking away an Open on Sunday sign at a local supermarket as part of his fundamentalist campaign against sunday trading. For appearing in dozens of articles supporting the idea that there was proof that satanic ritual abuse existed when that proof was inconclusive; for misrepresenting an interview with Chris Bray, for misrepresenting Chris Bray's products and business in such a way that Chris was forced to complain officially to the Archbishop of Canterbury about victimisation. Before he became a Vicar Kevin Logan used to be a journalist.

Maureen Davies & The Reachout Trust

For presenting herself to the police and the social services as an expert on satanic ritual abuse even though she was in reality a dental nurse who had never personally dealt with any cases involving children and had spent years prior to the scare working as a Christian missionary and agitator, provoking and challenging any New Age activity or meeting in her locality, handing out religious tracts and working directly to ban the occult. For not making clear enough that the Reachout Trust, of which she was a director, had nothing to do with child-care but was a wholly Christian evangelical charity which has as its aims the pursuance of the Christian religion as laid down by holy writ. For being a key contributor of the Cook Report team and for handling their help-lines after the program. For attending and lecturing at most of the Satan Seminars; for importing and distributing American fundamentalist nonsense; for purveying sectarian disinformation, misrepresentation, inaccurate and insulting statements about Witchcraft and Paganism and for refusing to lecture at one seminar when she detected that SAFF members were in the audience. For publicly admitting on radio whilst working with the Cook Report that she wanted to close occult shops down; for writing a glowing book review in a Christian Magazine of Andrew Boyd's book on Satanic Abuse and for allowing a Christian fundamentalist group to recycle her lecture notes on Satanic Abuse as proof of the existence of Satanic Ritual Abuse in the U.K..

Audrey Harper, Christian missionary agitator and Key member of Reachout

For appearing in articles and on television as a Satanic Abuse victim when the claims had been investigated years earlier by the Surrey police and found no case to answer. For not making it clear that she was a member of a fundamentalist group and had spent years travelling around the country as a guest speaker lecturing and missionising people to Christianity long before the Satan Scare became news. For appearing in a U.S.A. fundamentalist video about Satanism and giving the impression that satanic ritual abuse was proven in the U.K. For appearing in the Cook Report as a victim but not as a fundamentalist activist and Reachout director; for writing her autobiography, published by a Christian imprint and with a foreward by Geoffrey Dickens stating untruthfully that cases of satanic abuse had been successfuly prosecuted, and appealing to Christian readers to ' fight spiritual fire with fire'

The Cook Report Team, Tabloid TV programme

For sensationalising and trivialising the issue; for twisting the truth and presenting a scare as though fact to the British public, for ignoring and censoring alternative facts in order to run with the ball; for paying to import satanists into the U.K. when they couldn't find any targets here; for smearing an innocent man; for allowing sectarian troublemakers to control and direct the scope of their program; for cooperating with one satanic group with an axe to grind, for engineering a doorstepping situation instead of taking up Mr Bray's offer of a private interview; and a couple of million more things which won't fit into 50 words.

The N.S.P.C.C.

For pursuing the scare of satanic ritual abuse in conjunction with the Cook Report even though the S.A.F.F. provided them with facts to prove the scare highly suspicious. For deflecting SAFF input and assistance. For sending us legal threats to take us to court if we told the truth of how they had rejected the trust we placed in them and jumped on the satanic ritual abuse scare bandwagon, subsequently using the scare for fund-raising. For saying that they never used the term Satanic Abuse when prominent staff did. For refusing to include Christian Priestly Abuse in their pamphlet of risks to children even when presented with evidence of its extent.

The National Childrens' Home

For placing large advertisements in the national press requesting money to deal with cases of Satanic Abuse when they didn't have any and for not making clear that they are an exclusively Christian charity which positively excludes any job applicant who is not a Christian believer.

The editor of Social Work Today (now defunct journal of the Britsh Association of Social Workers)

For repetitively giving mammoth amounts of space for speculative and inciting articles by the coterie of satan hunters in social work, without balance or objective corroboration of their claims. For not responding to SAFF claims of unfairness; for misrepresenting the true beliefs of paganism; for presenting SAFF claims of unfairness to his readers as threats; for dismissing SAFF input, rejecting SAFF papers and dossiers and generally conveying the idea to rank-fand-file social workers that the Satan Scare was an epidemic of child abuse when it was not.

BASW: The British Association of Social Workers

For working to promote the idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse amongst the rank-and-file of social work in inverse ratio to the effort used to repulse and reject SAFF evidence which showed otherwise. For publicly excusing themselves after being caught accepting and using fundamentalist propaganda by telling the press that this was a new area and they were on a steep learning curve therefore had to accept input from all contributors, whilst they were actively refusing input from the SAFF! For using a most deceitful and dishonourable ruse to avoid accepting a genuine SAFF application for affiliate membership of BASW which had been seconded and presented by other BASW members. For refusing to enter into correspondence over the issue. For refusing to even speak to us over the telephone.

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