The True Facts About St WinebaldThe first thing to bear in mind is that there are NO days in the satanic or pagan calendar when sacrifice is required - it just doesn't happen, is not required in any liturgy and is not included in any books on Satanism or Witchcraft, hence the entire precept of Police claims are counterfeit and based on mediaeval lies by Christian witch-hunters which have been regurjitated by modern Christian witch-hunters.
DECEMBER 18TH: In Chambers' scholarly Book of Days (1864) which is one of the most reliable sources of ancient festivals, December 18th is shown as being sacred to "Saints Rufus and Zozimus, martyrs AD 116 and St Gatian, first bishop of Tours, confessor, about AD 300." After these comes the obscure "St Winebald, abbot, and confessor, AD 760..."
JANUARY 7TH: There's LOTs of festivals and celebrations on January SIXTH of course, being the last day of Epiphany or Three King's Day. All of these celebrations around Christmas are the Church's attempt to monopolise/usurp Saturnalia, which was the original pagan feast celebrated at this time for thousands of years before Jesus. Epiphany originally ran from 25th Dec. to Jan 6th. Saturnalia marked the turning of the year for the Winter Solstice (21st Dec) and originally spanned seven days from December 17th until December 23rd. There is absolutely no record of any human sacrifice occurring or being required at the Roman Saturnalia. The atmosphere for Saturnalia was one of licentiousness and revelry; enjoyment and fun. Most all of the 'enjoyable' bits of Christmas, yule logs, carolling, christmas trees, feasting, mince pies, xmas puds, etc., are derived from the pagan winter festivities. The Northern Pagan Tradition has the Yule Festival which began usually on December 17th and lasted 13 days until December 30th. There is therefore no possibility of December 18th being a day of sacrifice. Thus there is no combination of dates and events which, even in error, equate with what the Met. have accepted. Whichever way you look at it the information given to the MET is WRONG. It is either factually in error or purposefully obfuscated. |
How British Police
Despite the tragic consequences of Social Workers starting false cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) after they
had attended lunatic Satan Seminars in the 1990s, the Metropolitan
Police decided it was alright for them to hold the first in a series of Satan Seminars to teach police how to identify
SRA in December 2005! - We reveal the evidence which shows how the Met was fooled.
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"In February 2000 the Metropolitan Police seconded Acting Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll to investigate Valerie Sinason's claims to have interviewed 76 children and adult victims who, she said, had made allegations of satanic sexual abuse and murder. Although no forensic evidence was found to substantiate her allegations, Driscoll continued to work with her on SRA. In September 2001, on the very weekend the Thames Torso was discovered, Driscoll was billed as a key speaker at a conference at Reading University organised by Sinason and an organisation called Ritual Abuse Information Network and Support (see Eyes passim) run by Dr Joan Coleman, a psychiatrist who claims . to have talked to more than 600 professionals who have worked with survivors of "sadistic ritual abuse" and spoken to more than 200 victims.
In the event Driscoll did not attend the conference and Chris Healy, Head of Portsmouth CID spoke.
One of the other speakers was Kobus Jonker a born-again Christian from the South African police
who ran a unit investigating satanism, satanic cults and "occult related crime" manned by officers
who were all devout Christians. Valerie Sinason had worked with him when she was based at the University of Cape Town.
...... Jonker gave presentations from the police perspective on "ritual abuse"
investigations in South Africa and the UK. Jonker then became a high profile consultant to
the Metropolitan police investigating the case of The Thames Torso."
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The crux of the problem with the flawed SRAM cases during the first wave of SRA panic (1988-1994) was the over-eager misinterpretation of a tranche of supposed satanic events and symbols using indicators which were invented by fundamentalist Christians. This meant almost anyone could become a suspect (and did!) They were caused by exactly the same kind of uninformed beliefs about satanism as are again being foisted onto the Met.
The SAFF have copies of the earlier 'profiles' which were used by social workers in all the big cases. There are two points here
Firstly, the original profiles were created specifically by fundamentalist agitators in the U.S. as a kind of new demonology to disenfranchise esoteric religions and beliefs by providing other fundie activists with symbols and dates which they could use to identify 'Satanic activity' and back up the wild allegations about SRA which were then beginning.
So, these largely fictional 'profiles' were photocopied by fundies and distributed en masse to their own networks and anyone outside those networks who was dim enough to listen. They were typed out and reformatted many times by other evangelists (some of whom worked in the Child Scare Industry) and their sectarian origins thereby became so obscured that the lies passed into the social work arena as professional 'research' when they were simply a form of religious hatred. Eventually these false statements ended up being mass distributed in Satan Seminars just like the ones the Met is holding.
Secondly, These 'profiles' always included a 'Satanic Calendar' which was supposed to tell investigators when Satanists would
be sacrificing humans next! Professor Jean La Fontaine discredited such profiles in her definitive 1994 report on
SRA for the government and the police should be ashamed of being taken in again.
The SAFF has collected many examples of these 'Satanic Calendars' over the past 20 years from dozens of different sources. We are satisified that they originated in the work of David Balsiger, an extreme right-wing Christian Fundamentalist in the U.S.A. who runs Writeway Literary Associates a fundamentalist publishing house. In the first edition of Balsiger's 'Satanic Calendar' (see illustration on right) St Winebald's Day is clearly included on January 7th - the wrong date - and this error has been transferred forward upon each copying (see A). This is, to our expert knowledge, the first time that St Winebald's was quoted as a satanic festival. Note that Balsiger provided 'information' to Cult Cops and government agencies so they could track down Satanists and Witches (see B) in effect exactly what is happening in British police forces at this very moment through their weakness in admitting untested evidence from biased sources; and C His first Satanic Calendar was published in 1987 when the U.S. Satanic Ritual Child Abuse scare was just taking off and right at the moment that the British child care industry was becoming infected with the idea through being supplied with 'sanitised' fundamentalist disinformation via Christian fundamentalist activists in the U.K. who had imported the USA stuff and began distributing it amongst social work professionals, therapists and the police without making clear their sectarian aims.
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As for David Balsiger, Warnke's coauthor, he has quite a stake in the current anti-satanist hysteria. Balsiger owns and operates
Writeway Literary Associates of Costa Mesa, California, which publishes his Occult Activity Profile, Witchcraft / Satanism Ritual
Calendar, and Occult-Satanic Homicide Clues. He also publishes and distributes Jack Roper's Analyzing Occult Activity Supplement
and the Occult Investigation Slide Training Series, aimed at the law-enforcement market. Balsiger has also written a number of
"nonfiction" books, including In Search of Noah's Ark, and is closely affiliated with the Christian ultraright. His
Presidential Biblical Scorecard, Candidates Biblical Scorecard, and Family Protection Scorecard all rate political candidates
according to Balsiger's version of "biblical principles" His other activities and associations read like a shopping list for members
of the extreme political right. Source: |
Er.. Do we really want our most powerful police force to be sucking up this dangerous nonsense?
'Look at the 5 pointed pentagram, that was the reverse of spirituality'.
Slandering the Pentagram Symbol also formed a mainstay of the lists of earlier pro-SRAMists during the
1988-1994 hysteria. This leads us
to believe that the same misdirections have been represented to the Met. Readers may be interested to hear
that in the very first media expose of SRA in October 1988 She magazine carried a sensatonal four page spread (The Devil Hides Out) of
anti-occult claims derived directly from the first 'profiles' and included an illustration of an upright pentagram
with a similar explanation as that Lee Moore appears to be using in the Met course.
A pentagram is certainly NOT evidence of 'the reverse of spirituality'. Possession of a piece of jewellery incorporating a pentagram (whether upright or reversed) has absolutely no significance in terms of SRA. The ludicrous suggestion that the sporting of a pentagram pendant indicates that the wearer wants to kill cook and eat babies, would also mean that people who wear a crucifix want to kill others by hammering nails through their hands and feet! Is this modern forensic policing? If the Met course does not make these serious issues clear then innocent people will be victimised. Is this what the MET wants? Remember, the people who originally invented this disinformation are fundamentalist Christians who believe that everyone who does not subscribe to Biblical Writ is Satanic - we are all devil worshippers in their eyes!
She magazine will eternally hang their heads in shame for this completely untrue and unfair portrayal of the world's oldest religion.
Suffice to say that this mainstream magazine jettisoned every scrap of pretence towards professional journalism in order to run with the
howling pack
and contributed indirectly to destroying the lives of 86 children and their innocent parents. This is how complete lies concerning
the real beliefs of witches, pagans and Satanists came to be published as 'proof' that they supposedly sacrificed, cooked and ate
babies! (see here for an example of the knock-on effects). However in order to explain just
how far off the mark the Met's understanding of these symbols could be we will point out the indiscriminate use by She of lies given to
them by Satan Hunters as observed in the blue panel above alongside the symbols. First note the illustration alongside showing a page
from one of the fundamentalists' DIY Satanic investigation kits circa 1987. You will notice that the She article published in October 1988
takes its lead from this sectarian disinformation put out by Christian agent provocateurs for the simple reason that, like the Met police
twenty years later, they didn't bother to ask occultists and instead trusted in Christian falsehoods designed to push the authorities
into victimising and presecuting all pagans and witches.
The outcome of course, if the MET use these ideas, will be further tragedies like Orkney, Rochdale et al, because there are THOUSANDS of Neo-Pagans in London and all of them will have an upright or reversed pentagram symbol in some form somewhere in their homes!
In the Met. seminar's manual is the statement that:
' one would ask why psychologists, psychiatrists, police officers and lawyers up and down the country and abroad are receiving similar accounts from people that have never met each other? 'This rhetoric was first used publicly over twenty years ago by Tim Tate, the producer of the discredited 1989 Cook Report ; The Devil's Work. After that programme, which was the first to make allegations about brood mares, cannibalism, etc., whenever Tate was asked for evidence of the allegations he would use that argument.
The John Hammond Show 18 July 1989- TATE:Of course this is simply empty rhetoric. Every case and claim made in that Cook Report failed in the course of time. The SAFF disproved each allegation made in the programme and Professor La Fontaine's government report confirmed our evidence. Despite millions of fundies hunting down examples from all over the globe there never has been any cases which suggest the type of thing Tate and Moore were indicating. But the appeal works in the minds of those who are predisposed to the idea.
"... The one thing I would like to say very briefly is that if you have children round the world saying this goes on extremely bizarre phenomenon, extremely bizarre abuse of children of Two or Three you either have an international conspiracy of toddlers which is extremely unlikely or some rather more intelligent adult organisation doing it."BBC WORLD SERVICE INTERVIEW , OUTLOOK programme 1.5 GMT 19 September 1989 TATE: "Yes. And the details do appear to be very similar across the world. I think the best way of summing it up is the way it was put to me. If children all over the world are giving you identical details of bizarre abuse either you have an international conspiracy of toddlers, which seems unlikely or you have something rather more organised on an adult basis.
History shows that the only psychologists, psychiatrists, police officers and lawyers who are 'hearing' these tales are the small clique who listen to people who have adopted recovered memory therapy and have been pushing this myth for the past two decades. The vast majority of professionals are not hearing any such thing.
According to Angus Crawford's comments Spindler's unit was set up following the terrible mistakes which resulted in the death of Victoria Climbe it is astonishing that we have reached the point at which Spindler may be considering Satanists as suspects because in the welter of self-righteous indignation following the death of Climbe the British press quite forgot to report that the Relatives who sadistically and repetitively tortured her to death were actually fundamentalist Christians who victimised the child because they believed she was possessed by the devil. See here:
It is clear from the above that the research of the SAFF has caused great doubts about the veracity and usefulness of the information being presented to the Met.
St Winebald's day has passed every year since 1987 , when Balsiger first listed it, without any human sacrifices or any other cult crime occurring.
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Of course there is no call for human sacrifice on either date in the Pagan or Satanic liturgy, historically or
otherwise but it is interesting to note that today, seven years after those first Met Satan Seminars were held
Cornish police are insisting (see Metro article alongside) that
a horse was sacrificed by Satanists on St Winebald's Day January 7th!