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Ritual Abuse
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| One of the early definitions of ritual abuse came from the Report
of the Ritual Abuse Task Force prepared by the Los Angeles County Commission
for Women in 1989. The report is available on this web site
as a document. Click
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"Ritual abuse is a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents,
and adults consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and
involving the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic.
However, most survivors state that they were ritually abused as part of
satanic worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs
and practices. Ritual abuse rarely consists of a single episode.
It usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time.
"The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing.
The sexual abuse is usually painful, sadistic, and humiliating, intended
as a means of gaining dominance over the victim. The psychological
abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual/indoctrination, which
includes mind control techniques and mind altering drugs, and ritual/intimidation,
which conveys to the victim a profound terror of cult members and of the
evil spirits they believe cult members can command. Both during and
after the abuse, most victims are in a state of terror, mind control, and
dissociation in which disclosure is exceeding difficult."
A lot has happened related to the issue of ritual abuse since the above
definition was written. Most people who were initially alarmed
by reports of ritual abuse such as the above came eventually to disbelieve
them. This eerie shift in responses to the reports resulted from
a combination of:
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Failed investigations.
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Lawsuits against therapists who were helping victims.
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Systematic defamation and/or silencing of some who were attempting to
alert the public.
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Research that questioned the validity of ritual abuse and other abuse
memories.
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Decline in the use of hypnosis and memory recovery therapy.
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Publication of a plethora of articles debunking the idea that such abuse
could be widespread.
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Movies that focused on the injustices caused by believing false memories.
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A shift toward "brief therapy" in the mental health field.
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Refusal of insurance companies to reimburse for treatment of dissociation.
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Media silence on the topic of ritual abuse except in the context of
false memory or references to that era of "hysteria" now long past.
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| So now victims of ritual abuse must not talk about the ritual aspects
of what was done to them for fear of being disbelieved automatically.
Most law enforcement agencies will not seriously investigate ritual abuse
reports. The ease and speed with which a once concerned and caring
public fell into disbelief and diverted their attention to other priorities
is frankly astounding. Nowadays it is simply not "politically
correct" in many circles to believe someone who claims to have been ritually
abused. The disbelief has reached such a crescendo that any
two bit perpetrator can just add a little ritual to his abusiveness and
few people will believe the victim. |
| Along with the general public's naive shift in views about this
kind of abuse comes the realization that the perpetrators were better organized,
better financed, more sophisticated and more powerful than the Los Angeles
County Commission for Women could have realized. They were
not dealing with a few pockets of satanic types here and there who
were perpetrating some strange form of ritual torture on their victims.
Instead, they were touching the nerve of a criminal organization that had
effectively infiltrated American society and fully intended to continue
profiting from drug trafficking, child sex trafficking, child pornography,
and an ingenious form of slavery that might be termed "alter trafficking." |
Is it all that hard to imagine why organized crime might be interested
in hypnosis, torture, dissociation, mind control, and yes, even rituals?
Listen to them --
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Is it false memory you want? Once you know how to use mind control
and torture you can generate a thousand false memories for each accurate
one, thereby getting your enemies falsely accused and discrediting the
therapists who tried to help your victims!
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Is it failed investigations you want? Once you know how, it's
child's play to flood investigators with leads to nowhere.
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Is it research you want? There is a myriad of ways to shape a
study so the results are skewed in the direction of doubt.
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Is it money you want for silence on the subject? There's plenty
to go around. This is a very profitable business.
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| Since 1989, better definitions of ritual abuse have emerged that
fit more closely what has been reported. One of the best definitions
is systematic abuse. It is preplanned abuse with a purpose.
The purposes for the abuse vary depending on what the perpetrators want
to accomplish with the victims. The perpetrators, we now realize,
are systematically programming their victims in the direction of certain
desired outcomes. For example, victims are programmed to be child
predators, sex slaves, prostitutes, criminals, and spies. They may
be programmed to have specific mental disorders or addictions, to reject
religious beliefs, or to exploit religious people while exhibiting high
religiosity. It all depends on what the programmers want. So
if the programmers belong to a Satannic cult the programming may be in
that direction. However, by no stretch of the imagination are satannic
cults the only ones in the programming business. |
| Once programmed, victims are utilized by their programmers for power,
pleasure, and profit. Of the three p's, the most operative term is
profit. So we are back to the concept that organized crime
syndicates know how to profit from their own and other people's children
in ways the rest of humanity dare not even imagine. It is now
well known that criminal activities like child
sex trafficking are rampant in the United States. I believe that
as we fight the organizations involved we will begin to make significant
progress in the effort to stop ritual (systematic) abuse. |
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