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The Gothic Milieu: Black Metal, Satanism, and Vampires
Daddy's Little Princess: JonBenét Ramsey & The Air In Colorado
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/gothic.htm
Black Metal, Satanism, and Vampires
by Massimo Introvigne - A slightly different version of this paper was presented at the conference "Rejected and Suppressed Knowledge: The Racist Right and the Cultic Milieu" organized by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, Stockholm, 15-16 February 1997
The New Satanism
In 1996 both Italy and France were shocked by criminal cases related to Satanist groups. In Italy Marco Dimitri, the young leader of the larger Italian Satanist group, the Luciferian Children of Satan (Bambini di Satana Luciferiani), was arrested twice in the same year on charges of rape. In France graves were desecrated in Toulon (and subsequently in other towns in Southern France): four members of a small Satanist band were arrested. Similar incidents took place in Romania, Russia and other countries. The media were taken by surprise, considering that by 1996 the Satanism scares of the 1980s and early 1990s had largely subsided.
Modern Satanism appeared in the 17th century. Satanism should not be confused with witchcraft. While witchcraft is a popular and normally unorganized phenomenon, modern Satanism is the worship of the Devil within the frame of organized movements and elaborate ritual. Modern Satanists -- unlike participants in earlier witchcraft -- are largely members of the middle and upper classes. Similarly, Satanism scares are different from witch hunts. Unlike the latter, the former credit Satanists not only with bloody crimes and relationships with the Devil but, more specifically, with the power to secretly influence -- if not direct -- the life of whole nations and the course of human history. Organized Satanism and Satanism scares manifest themselves in the history of the West in a cyclical way. Groups of Satanists (normally quite small) are detected and their activities are magnified by this modern invention, the press (in later cycles, TV). As a reaction, a Satanism scare arises, where anti-Satanists usually grossly exaggerate both the number and the power of the Satanists, insisting that they are behind contemporary social movements they perceive as disturbing. In a third phase, anti-Satanism is disqualified by its own exaggerations, becomes disreputable and opens the way for new open activities of Satanists, thus for a new cycle.
The first important cycle starts with the activities of a group of Satanists at the court of the French King Louis XIV between 1662- 1679. When the main Satanists are tried for a number of crimes, press and pamphlets guarantee an international notoriety to the case. Between the end of the 17th century and the beginning of 18th century a Satanism scare follows, where anti-Satanists suspect Satanists (actually a few dozens people in the French incident) to conspire in the dark to promote Enlightenment skepticism and anti-Christian culture and politics. Ultimately anti-Satanist literature became so extreme as to be easily discredited. This discrediting paved the way for the occult revival of the years of the French Revolution.
The Revolution, however (and the visibility of occult and magical groups in the same years), prompted another Satanism scare which lasted through the 1850s and was revived in the 1890s. The Revolution, Christian anti-Satanists argued, was so incredible that it could not be a mere political phenomenon, and a whole religious literature attributed it to the conspiracy of secret societies such as the notorious Illuminati or, more directly, to Satanists directed by the Devil in person. Apparently, small groups of Satanists were in fact active in France, Belgium and possibly other countries in the 1850s. Their activities caused the usual anti-Satanist over-reaction.
The Satanism scare (which tried to explain also the surprising success of Spiritualism through Satanic conspiracy theories) had a first scholarly phase where Catholic intellectuals discussed theories on Satanism and Satan's influence. In a second phase -- after the success of Joris Karl Huysmans' novel Là-bas (1891) had familiarized the public with Satanism and Black Masses -- scholars were replaced by journalists. At least two of the latter -- the notorious Léo Taxil (1854-1907) and his co-conspirator Charles Hacks ("Dr. Bataille") -- were clever frauds who, having spread incredible tales about Satanists, later admitted to have exploited the gullibility of certain Catholic conservative readers for a variety of purposes. The game could not go on indefinitely, and Taxil had to admit the fraud in 1897. His confession discredited the Satanism scares for decades and only after sixty years a truly international scare manifested itself again. A large sociological literature exists on the Satanism scares of the 1970s-1990s, an over-reaction to the visibility of contemporary Satanist organizations dating from the foundation of California's Church of Satan in 1966 and a manifestation of larger hostility to "cults".
By the early 1990s, the theory that underground "generational" Satanic cults are widespread and prey on day-care toddlers had been largely debunked by social scientists and law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and Europe. Memories "recovered" in therapy of past "satanic" ritual abuses are increasingly rejected as court evidence in both United States and Europe. Only small pockets of Christian counter-cult activists and fringe therapists still believe in the factual reality of "satanic" ritual abuses recovered during memory therapy.
Although the 1996 incidents have been greeted by these groups with a we-told-you-so attitude, the scenario was in fact quite different. The Satanism discovered by Italian and French law enforcement agencies in 1996 is not the same Satanism exposed in the core books of the anti-Satanist movement in the 1980s. It is also different from "classic" Satanism of organizations like Anton LaVey's Church of Satan or Michael Aquino's Temple of Set. The scenario introduced in the Satanism scares of the 1980s postulated that Satanists are very difficult to recognize. They are lawyers, doctors, corporate executives. In fact, their activities are so clandestine that they could be discovered only in therapy by inducing their victims to recover post-traumatic memories. The 1996 Satanists are, if anything, too evident. Marco Dimitri and his followers dress all in black, wear a plethora of Satanic symbols, and have appeared as spokespersons for Satan in popular Italian TV talk shows. While not as famous as Dimitri, members of the Toulon gang also dressed like a Satanist is supposed to dress.
Classic Satanism was born in California in the 1960s. The Church of Satan was established in San Francisco by Anton Szandor LaVey (1930- 1997) in 1966 as a development of an organization called The Magic Circle that he co-founded in 1960 with Hollywood underground film- maker Kenneth Anger. In 1975 most of the leadership of the Church of Satan left LaVey's organization and followed Michael Aquino into the splinter group Temple of Set. The Church of Satan became mostly a mail-order organization during the 1980s, but experienced a comeback of a sort in the 1990s through new leaders, the publication of the newsletter The Black Flame, and the appearance of some dozens of sister organizations throughout the world. Although LaVey believed that Satan is only the metaphor for a higher (and more selfish) human potential, while Aquino maintains that Satan (or, rather, Set) is a personal being, both are heavily indebted for their worldviews and ceremonies to British magus Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). While Crowley did not believe in the personal existence of Satan and despised Satanists, his rituals have been adapted -- with the appropriate changes -- by almost all modern Satanist groups.
At least before the mid-1980s members of classic Satanist groups were typically middle class urbanites in their forties and fifties. Except for ceremonies, they would wear a jacket and a tie rather than black leather "Satanic" clothings. This is certainly true for European offshoots of classic Satanism such as the two Churches of Satan based in Turin, Italy. Additionally, their leadership needed to be rather cultivated, since the magical works of authors such as Crowley are not easy to grasp and require a solid background in Western esotericism. The situation somewhat changed in the late 1980s, when the Temple of Set and some of the smaller groups inspired by the Church of Satan realized that a sizeable youth subculture potentially interested in Satanism existed and tried, with mixed results, to get in touch with it. The original Californian Church of Satan and the Italian Churches of Satan, however, still largely maintain the original character. By contrast the new Satanist groups -- such as those "discovered" by the police in Italy and France in 1996 -- are typically lead by youths in their 30s, have as members mostly teenagers, and it is extremely rare that their leaders are well- educated in traditional Western occult lore. They are much more interested in music.
The Gothic Milieu from the 1970s to the 1990s
The Gothic milieu (occasionally called the Dark Wave, as a submilieu of the 1970's New Wave) has largely been created by rock music, although fiction, comics, movies, Ã role-playing games and later the Internet also had a relevant influence. Although the term Gothic was created by outsiders, it was quickly accepted by the movement, notwithstanding the fact that the latter largely ignored 18th and 19th century Gothic literature (with the possible exception of Dracula, whose inclusion in the Gothic genre is however disputed by contemporary critics). Gothic music should not be confused with heavy metal. Metal plays on the power of extreme human emotions and feelings. Gothic concentrates on human reactions to particular emotions associated with death, corpses, blood, the macabre, and vampires. Although the Devil is often mentioned, he is not always a key player in the Gothic scene. Besides, Satan is mentioned in many brands of rock music that are not Gothic (and so are vampires, who make frequent guest appearances in heavy metal music).
The origins of Gothic come from many different sources. Gothic themes emerged around 1970 in England and the United States with artists and groups like Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. Although these musicians were not purely Gothic, fans of Alice Cooper were largely responsible for introducing the Gothic outlook, with its black-leather clothing and silver earrings for males, in many European countries. In 1976 David Letts founded The Damned in England, a band that was originally a punk group, but later focused mostly on Gothic. Letts changed his name to David Vanian (from "Transylvanian") and focused on the vampire theme (although Nazi symbols were also occasionally introduced). In the same year, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Ian Curtis (1957-1980) and Terry Mason (later replaced by Stephen Morris) decided to start a band in Manchester. Originally called Warsaw, they changed their name to Joy Division in 1978 in order not to be confused with a pre-existing London punk group, Warsaw Pakt. The name came from the line of huts were young deported women were forced to prostitute themselves to German officers in Nazi concentration camps. Notwithstanding the name, Joy Division denied any Nazi sympathies and in fact appeared at the Manchester Rock Against Racism benefit concert in 1978. Although Joy Division occasionally used Nazi paraphernalia on stage, its portrait of Nazism was, if anything, sad, as evidenced from the following lines of its hit "They Walked In Line":
All dressed in uniforms so fine,
they drank and killed to pass the time.
Wearing the shame of all their crimes
with measured steps they walked in line.
They walked in line.
They carried pictures of their wives,
and number tags to prove their lies.
And made it through the whole machine,
with dirty hearts and hands washed clean.
They walked in line.
Joy Division eluded classification, but its haunted and ghostly atmospheres had a deep influence on later Gothic. On May 18, 1980, just before Joy Division was to leave England for their first U.S. tour, Ian Curtis hung himself in his kitchen. Without its talented singer and lyricist, replaced by Bernard Sumner, the group continued as New Order and remained influential on the alternative (but much less on the Gothic) music scene.
In the years when Joy Division was becoming popular, a more cultivated version of Gothic was introduced in England by singer Suzie Sioux, "Siouxsie". Sioux came from punk, and was inspired by groups like the Sex Pistols. She was also a friend of Genesis P- Orridge, an Aleister Crowley enthusiast and the founder of the Temple of Psychick Youth (TOPY). Orridge's music — the first wave of industrial, or "industrial culture" -- was as far from Gothic as possible, but his contacts with Sioux did much to introduce Crowley in the Gothic milieu. Later, Orridge will become an inspiration for the birth of the "second wave" or industrial music, much closer to the Gothic and, in fact, occasionally labeled "industrial Gothic". This further subgenre will emerge in the late 1980s around the Wax Trax circle in Chicago, will become well-known with the Nine Inch Nails of Trent Reznor and their influential album Pretty Hate Machine (1989), and will eventually triumph with Marylin Manson. In the late 1970s Sioux founded Siouxsie and The Banshees. Robert Smith, the leader of a much more famous band, the Cure, worked with Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1983-1984 following four influential Cure albums.
Largely responsible for defining Gothic as a genre was Bauhaus, whose leader Peter Murphy continued as a popular Gothic musician after the dissolution of the group in 1983. By 1983 -- the year when another early Gothic group, The Misfits, also separated -- Gothic music was experiencing a boom. New groups emerged, including The Sisters of Mercy and later, in 1988, Dark Theater whose leader, Vlad, wears portable fangs and claims to actually drink blood (originally only from his wife, Lynda, who later divorced him and now proclaim herself a "lesbian Goth"). Blood-drinkers are, at any rate, a small distinct subculture within the Gothic milieu, perhaps closer to sado-masochism than to teenage Gothic.
While classic punk was experiencing a crisis, Gothic groups, including the 45 Grave, inherited some of its features and its fans. By 1990 the Gothic scene was truly international, with bands in countries such as Japan, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand, Poland, Italy, in addition to Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. By 1990, the Gothic subculture was well established with specialized magazines, including Propaganda (established in New York by Fred H. Berger and perhaps the most important voice for the Gothic), and Ghastly.
Non-Gothic groups such as the Iron Maiden and Kiss felt compelled to issue at least an album with Gothic themes. But readers of Propaganda and other members of the Gothic subculture typically skipped the most famous groups as being too commercial. They rather regarded themselves as part of an elite subculture, lionized less well-known groups and remained apart from the larger world of rock fans. Being part of the Gothic milieu for many was not a Saturday evening concert affair, but a permanent lifestyle. "True" Goths dress in black every day of the week, wear peculiar jewelry and use their own jargon. Rather macabre allusions and jokes -- whose meaning is often lost to outsiders -- are a trademark feature of their style.
Around 1990 the Gothic milieu, born from music, started to be increasingly defined by its literary preferences as well. Two Gothic role-playing games focusing on vampires -- Ravenloft, that emerged in 1990 from the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons, and Vampire: The Masquerade, introduced by White Wolf in 1991 -- had an important influence on the milieu. Considering the Gothic milieu's love affair with horror literature (including frequent allusions in its music to such classics as Dracula), it is surprising that references to Stephen King are virtually non-existent. King is probably just too popular for a subculture glorying in its minority status. He also insists that his novels do not promote any kind of worldview. By contrast, Anne Rice -- who occasionally does claim that she is introducing a worldview, with increasingly apparent Gnostic and Kabbalistic references -- is immensely popular in the Gothic milieu. Classics of Gothic and horror literature, from "Monk" Lewis to Lovecraft, are largely ignored, with the occasional exception of Dracula.
Gothic events, including the 1989 Theatre of the Vampires held in Long Beach, California, musicians such as Tony Lestat (a main participant in the 1989 event and singer of Wreckage), shows such as Tony Sokol's La Commedia Del Sangue: Dances From A Shallow Grave - The Vampyr Theatre, Gothic bands such as Lestat, and the Italian Theatre des Vampires, fanzines such as Savage Garden (published in English in Milan and now renamed Wistaria) all borrowed their names (and much more) from Anne Rice. Later, in 1992, another New Orleans female horror writer, Poppy Z. Brite, wrote a cult novel for the Gothic milieu, Lost Souls, featuring the encounter of real undead vampires with the Gothic subculture of a small American town.
As of the mid-1990s the very success of the Gothic threatens its existence as a separate genre in rock music. Contemporary rock is eclectic, and it is often difficult to tell what genre a group is all about. Such labels as post-punk, dark metal, doom metal, garage rock and trash are difficult to define and often include Gothic themes. If anything, some of the new labels mean to convey a passion for the outrageous and the extreme, and regard the Gothic bands of the 1980s as moderate. The most extreme subgenre which emerged in the 1980s is black metal, mixing heavy metal and Gothic. Black metal is both musically and culturally less sophisticated than Gothic, but fans may switch from one to another and still remain part of the same Gothic subcultural milieu.
Generally credited with starting black metal is a British band, Venom. Formed in 1978 and originally named Oberon, Venom assumed its name in 1980 and introduced Satanism and the cult of death as a main heavy metal theme. Their song "Black Metal" (1982) defined the subgenre and became an anthem for the movement:
Black is the night, metal we fight
Power amps set to explode.
Energy screams, magic and dreams
Satan records the first note.
We chime the bell, chaos and hell
Metal for maniacs pure.
Fast melting steel, fortune on wheels
Brain Hemorrhage is the Cure (Venom - Welcome to Hell, 1997).
Proclaiming themselves the "Sons of Satan", Venom called to:
Live like an angel, die like a devil,
Got a place in hell reserved for me,
Live like an angel, die like a devil,
Gonna burn in Hell, that's where I'm gonna be"
["Live Like An Angel (Die Like a Devil)," 1981, in Venom- Welcome to Hell 1997].
Another of Venom's most famous -- and both Satanic and vampiric -- hits was "In League With Satan" (1981):
I'm in league with Satan
I was raised in Hell
I walk the streets of Salem
Amongst the living dead
I need no one to tell me
What's wrong or right
I drink the blood of children
Stalk my prey at night (Venom - Welcome to Hell 1997).
Specialists of metal discuss whether after Venom there is a difference between black metal and death metal, the latter being more brutal, more interested in drugs and sex, and more faithful to Venom's original inspiration. One problem is that some of the most famous bands have evolved through the years. Bathory, started in Sweden in 1983, was originally very much influenced by Venom but by 1987, with Under the Sign of the Black Mark, started evolving towards a new style, later called "modern" or "Northern" black metal. In 1990, with Hammerheart, an element of Viking romanticism started playing a key role. The Swiss group Hellhammer between 1982-1984 was one of the bands defining black metal; renamed Celtic Frost in 1984 they quickly evolved out of black metal and continued until 1993 insisting that they were not part at all of the black metal scene. The early albums of the German band Sodom, established in 1983, were black metal, while their later productions could rather be classified as speed metal, a different subgenre. By contrast, Florida bands such as Death (established in 1985), Obituary, Deicide and Morbid Angel (who came to Florida from North Carolina) are usually classified as death (rather than black) metal. Contemporary doom metal may be regarded as a later development of death metal.
Black metal has become popular in segments of the Gothic milieu in a number of countries, including Greece, Brazil, France, Poland, Norway and Sweden. A frequent feature of black metal, particularly in its "modern" or "Northern" form, is extreme hostility to Jesus Christ and Christianity. The anti-Christian theme keeps together different worldviews. Some black metal groups are pagan; others are Satanist. Some are not interested in politics, while others are overtly neo- Nazi or promote a nationalism rooted in pre-Christian Northern Europe. In Norway-- and subsequently in other countries -- the anti- Christian activities of some black metal groups took the illegal form of "esoterrorism", or esoteric terrorism. Two black metal groups -- Emperor and Burzum -- were involved in burning Christian churches, including historical monuments, and in desecrating Christian cemeteries. Emperor one-time member, Bård Eithun, killed a gay man who approached him at night in a Lillehammer street in 1992. Vandalizing graveyards seems to be a popular activity in segments of the black metal milieu in a number of countries, including Italy and France. Varg Vikernes ("Count Grishnackh", or "The Count"), the leader of Burzum -- who somewhat converted from Satanism to "a National Socialist form of racialist Odinism" --, not only was involved in the burning of at least ten churches, but was later sentenced to 21 years of prison after killing in 1993 fellow black metal musician Oystein Aarseth, "Euronymous". Although the press liberally described the homicide as "Satanic" and "ritual" -- and Varg himself claimed that the unfortunate Euronymous was a "false Satanist" and a "communist" --, in fact the main reason for the crime was a quarrel over money and the management of the musical label Deatlik Silence. Varg remains a popular character in the black metal milieu, and continues to write music and articles for the specialized fanzines from jail. In 1997 he published his "sacred text", Vargsmål, and announced that he had discovered a forerunner and (alleged) pioneer racialist Odinist in Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), whose very name is synonymous of collaboration with the Nazis, not only in Norway. From a musical point of view, Mayhem -- Euronymous' band, started in 1984 and coming back in 1994 after Euronymous' death -- remains the most influential model of "modern" Black Metal. In 1990 they recorded Live in Leipzig which included one of their most famous songs, "Carnage":
Witchcraft, blood and Satan
Meet the face of Death
Blood
Fire
Torture
Pain
KILL
(...) Winds of war, winds of hate
Armageddon, tales from Hell
The wage of mayhem, the wage of sin
Come and hear, Lucifer's sings (Mayhem, "Live in Leipzig",1990).
The earlier "Deathcrush" (1987) was not more reassuring:
Demonic laughter your cremation
Your lungs gasp for air but are filled with blood
A sudden crack as I crushed your skull.
(...) Death, nicely crucified
Death, heads on stakes.
The barbecue has just begun.
Deathcrush - Deathcrush — Deathcrush (Mayhem, "Deathcrush", 1987).
As the fate of Euronymous sadly confirmed, violence in the Norwegian black metal scene was not purely a matter of lyrics. Without burning churches, groups such as Bekhira and Osculum Infame in France, or Marduk in Sweden are not less anti-Christian. A 1995 CD of Marduk (evolving from a 1991 demo) is called Fuck Me Jesus, and its cover shows a young girl masturbating with a crucifix. A look at the catalogue of the French musical distributor Osmose Productions (specialized in black metal) shows bands with names such as Impaled Nazarene (from Finland), Rotting Christ (from Greece), Diabolos Rising (with musicians from Greece and Finland), Fallen Christ (and a number of references to Aleister Crowley). In France some industrial rock bands, including Dissonant Elephants and Non, have jumped onto the anti-Christian bandwagon, although with a different musical style. In 1996 Dissonant Elephants released a CD, Our Eyes Like Daggers, with liberal quotes from the ubiquitous Aleister Crowley and a cover featuring Jesus Christ on the cross with a clown-like red nose. The activities of these groups are among the reasons for the establishment of a Catholic Anti-Defamation League in France in 1997.
On the other hand, it is important to note that black metal is not really representative of the Gothic milieu in general. It is a small segment, a subculture within a subculture. There is a larger number of musical and other groups inspired by Anne Rice, whose worldview is not anti-Christian but rather a brand of gnostic Christianity (as suggested in Rice's novel Memnoch the Devil, 1995). Black metal is also anti-Jewish, with frequent references in its fanzines to the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, while Rice's 1996 novel Servant of the Bones is a tribute to Jewish esoteric culture. Black metal also emphasizes Satanic and pagan symbols and has no colours but black, while the mainstream Gothic subculture, influenced by the glam rock music of Kiss, and by Tom Cruise's movie portrait of Anne Rice's vampire Lestat, increasingly includes elaborate and baroque ways of dressing, quite far away from the old black leather jackets.
The Gothic Milieu as a
Metanetwork and the Emergence of Gothic Movements
The Gothic milieu is loosely organized. Its main organizing agents are magazines such as Propaganda, but more obscure fanzines with limited circulation also have an important influence. It could be described as a network, or -- more accurately -- as a metanetwork, where participants in different networks convene. There is, for instance, a recognizable network of Anne Rice fans, and thousands attend the yearly Gatherings of the Coven organized in New Orleans by The Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat Fan Club (established in 1988) and by the Louisiana writer herself. Most of these fans dress like the vampire Lestat only once a year, and have no contacts with the larger Gothic milieu. Some, however, do adopt a Gothic lifestyle. For them the network of Anne Rice fans is the door to enter the larger metanetwork of the Gothic subculture. Similar comments are in order for the many fans of Gothic role-playing games such as Ravenloft or Vampire: The Masquerade. (There are also darker role-paying games for the black metal milieu, but their following is not very large). Hundreds of thousands of them certainly do not dress in black, and are not even interested in Gothic music. But, again, active involvement in these role-playing communities (and their lively exchange over the Internet) may become a door to access the Gothic metanetwork.
This does not mean that every fan of role-playing games is on his or her way to become a Satanist. This view is promoted by professional anti-Satanists such as Pat Pulling who, after the suicide of her son Bink in 1982, founded BADD (Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons), claiming that role-playing games were literally "stalking our children for Satan." Groups like BADD are part of a larger Evangelical counter-cult (and anti-Satanist) scene and seems to have become less influential in recent years. At any rate, it is when fans of Gothic music also become interested in Anne Rice, and when Ravenloft players start attending Gothic clubs and dressing in black that the metanetwork really takes shape. As mentioned earlier, participation in one of the Gothic networks does not necessarily mean that one takes the next step and becomes a participant in the metanetwork or part of the Gothic milieu.
Further, being part of the Gothic milieu does not mean that one joins a particular movement. Dressing mostly in black, wearing silver jewelry with macabre themes, and focusing musical preferences on Gothic groups not well-known in rock's mainline market are the trademarks of the Gothic milieu. In Stark and Bainbridge terms, many or most participants in the Gothic milieu only participate in audience or client cults, not in cult movements. Occasionally, however, movements emerge, but they only involve a minority of those who participate in the milieu.
It seems appropriate to distinguish between pre-existing movements recruiting in the Gothic milieu, and movements born from the milieu itself. Among the first are some "old" Satanist and neo-pagan groups. As mentioned earlier, some classic Satanist groups have realized that the Gothic milieu may be an interesting ground for recruiting new members. The Temple of Set has designed its Web page in order to attract the Gothic subculture, and on February 1, 1997 Don Webb, High Priest of the Temple of Set, introduced his movement at the Hellhouse of Hollywood, a (now defunct) California bookstore typically catering to Gothic clients. Classic Satanist groups are quite small, and even the addition of a few new members could be significant in order to preserve their very existence. Their success in recruiting in the Gothic milieu is not, however, spectacular.
Most Gothic bands are not particularly interested in Satan or Satanism. Some black metal fringes certainly are, but they typically scorn organizations like the Church of Satan or the Temple of Set as "moderate" or "liberal" Satanism. Uww, the founder of French black metal fanzine Deo Occidi (published in English), contrasts "liberal Satanism" and "fascist Satanism" and embraces the latter. The "liberal Satanism" of classic American movements is regarded as extreme individualism and as a shameless apology for capitalism. Uww also mentions that Anton LaVey is a "moderate Jew". Additionally, classic Satanism is accused of dealing only in words. Black metal prefers actions and events, and clearly admire Scandinavian esoterrorism. It is also against capitalism, liberalism, democracy, and Judaism according to classic European Nazi models. Small Satanist groups catering to the black metal Satanist fringe include the Black Order, the Order of the Nine Angles, the Ordo Sinistra Vivendi (formerly the Order of the Left Hand Path), and the Order of the Jarls of Balder. None of them has more than fifty members and all belong to a network called The Infernal Alliance. Although this wing of Satanism had its most important centers in the U.S. and New Zealand, combining fringes of classic Satanism and black metal, it is now present in European countries such as the United Kingdom and France. Most of these groups are openly Nazi. In the version of the Black Mass of the Order of the Nine Angles, participants affirm their belief that "Adolf Hitler was sent by the Gods to lead us into greatness". In bad but not difficult to understand Latin, they worship Hitler together with Lucifer. The priest gives the cup to the priestess with the words: "Suscipe, Lucifer, munus quod tibi offerimus memoriam recolentes, Adolphus". All reply: "Hail Hitler".
Some neo-pagan groups have also attracted individual members of the Gothic milieu. This is particularly true for continental European and Scandinavian Odinist movements (who have in turn attracted portions of the black metal fringe), while the British and American Wicca is largely remote from the Gothic style. English-speaking neo-paganism and Wicca have matured beyond their early anti-Christian phase, while it is precisely the anti-Christian theme of continental neo-paganism that may occasionally attract black metal fans.
An interesting, if controversial, movement is the Temple of the Vampire based in Lacey, Washington, and not to be confused with the Order of the Vampyres within the Temple of Set. The Temple appears to have been created outside the Gothic milieu but with the specific purpose of attracting members of it. Its founder, Lucas Martel, is a former member of the Church of Satan, and like LaVey's, his is a largely a mail-order organization. It claims to continue an ancient religion called Hekal Tiamat and to keep its sacred book, the Shurpu Kishpu. The Temple is not Satanist; it mostly teaches how to contact the Vampire Gods through a ritual in seven steps. The crucial step is the fourth, where the celebrant offers to the Vampire Gods his or her own life force and the life force he or she has captured from other weaker human beings. Signs such as "ringing in ears" or "unusual pulling sensations at the solar plexus" confirm that the Vampire Gods have accepted the offering. The Temple's worldview is also apocalyptic, since "we are now approaching the Final Harvest", when "the human stock shall be drained in a carnage of energy release unlike anything seen before". The energy released by killed humans would allow the Vampire Gods to descend and rule on Earth with their faithful followers, the initiates. "The humans shall (...) continue to serve as slave and food" when "the Great Undead Gods shall return to their mighty thrones of Power." Given the popularity of the vampire theme, many in the Gothic milieu check out the Temple of the Vampire. Few stay, fearing that the mail-order scheme may simply be a money-making business, or disagreeing with the brutal worldview. After all, in contemporary literature "postmodern" vampires are often depicted as not entirely evil, but caring for humans (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain) or at least psychologically ambiguous (Anne Rice's Lestat).
Finally, a number of movements have really and entirely originated from portions of the Gothic milieu. While some of these movements are pagan and anti-Christian but not technically Satanist -- including The Sacred Order of Emerald in France -- most claim to be Satanist. One of them, however, the French Confrérie spirituelle sataniste les Croisades de la Nouvelle Babylone, declares to promote the "unification" of "Satanists, Luciferians, pagans and neo-pagans." The larger Satanist group emerging from the Gothic milieu has been, before its disruption by the Italian police in 1996, Marco Dimitri's Luciferian Children of Satan (Bambini di Satana Luciferiani - BSL). BSL grew in the 1980s from Dimitri's precocious interest in Aleister Crowley and classic Satanism. But it proclaimed that classic Satanism was a thing of the past, and that a new, bolder Satanism was required. The history of BSL is a paradoxical tribute to the power of the media. BSL was originally a small, local group. It was only when, from 1989, it was targeted by the Catholic milieu of Bologna (Dimitri's city and home to the largest Italian Catholic counter-cult group, GRIS) and later by secular anti-cultists that BSL attracted the interest of the national press. This lead to Dimitri's participation in some of the most popular Italian TV talk shows as a spokesperson for Satan.
While classic Satanists in Italy have wisely avoided the media (and criticized Dimitri for not following their example), Dimitri was only too eager to oblige talk shows host desperately in need of someone "from the other side" to animate prime time shows on Satanism which would be boring if limited to anti-cultists and theologians. The "success" of some talk show appearances as astonishing. True, Dimitri was generally ridiculed by hosts and fellow guests alike. But -- among millions of viewers -- he never failed to attract a dozen or more teenagers who later contacted him at his not-too- confidential Bologna address. The Italian black metal milieu somewhat adopted Dimitri as a fellow traveler, despite reservations by some. By 1996 BSL had grown to some 200 members over North and Central Italy. In 1992 Dimitri was arrested for obscenity, but this was not a serious matter. Much more serious is the prosecution started against him and fellow members in 1996, citing rape of a female follower unwilling to fully comply with her sexual duties as priestess and the participation of children in rituals. On 20 June 1997 a jury of the court of Bologna found all defendants in the Children of Satan case not guilty of rape and child abuse. The leader, Marco Dimitri, was however found guilty of a minor tax offense. The prosecutor, herself an active participant in Bologna's anti-cult milieu, appealed the decision, but lost again in 2000. It is certainly true that the BSL book Vangelo Infernale (Infernal Gospel) -- intended for private circulation only -- at least symbolically suggests that sexual abuse and pedophilia may be part of an acceptable Satanic lifestyle. Vangelo Infernale is not a particularly memorable esoteric text, and it is unlikely that it may have attracted much interest. Ultimately, there were the anti-Satanist campaigns of secular anti-cult and Catholic counter-cult movements that introduced the BSL to the media and made them more well-known than they originally were.
On the other hand, the burning of churches in Norway, and the profanation of cemeteries in Southern France, confirm that, although small, some movements arising from the Gothic milieu, particularly from some of its black metal fringes, are indeed dangerous and may be involved in criminal activities. Law enforcement agencies are to be commended if they keep a watch on these movements, particularly those combining Satanism and neo-Nazism. Undue media emphasis on their activities could, on the other hand, backfire and induce copycat remakes of their most spectacular deeds. It would surely be unfair to blame the activities of a small group of movements, including a few hundreds members throughout the world, to all neo-pagan or occult organizations, whose activities are normally carried out within the limits of laws. It would be even more unfair to regard the most extreme Nazi or Satanic fringe of black metal as representative of the entire Gothic milieu (and indeed of the entire black metal subgenre, where many groups are neither Nazi nor Satanist). Although unconventional in its way of dressing and lifestyle -- designed, as with previous movements, to shock adults and express teenagers' independence -- the Gothic milieu is not normally engaged in criminal activities, nor primarily interested in Satan or Adolf Hitler. The evolution of horror literature may also exert a positive influence on the Gothic milieu. The heroes of this literature, in its postmodern versions, are no longer monsters who, like the Judeo-Christian Satan, are totally evil, but psychologically complicated characters -- epitomized by Anne Rice's Lestat -- caught in the middle of eternal dilemmas about good and evil. One such character is Angel, the only vampire portrayed sympathetically in the Gothic fad of the late 1990s for teenagers, the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which, of course, also has a significant non-Gothic — and non-teenager -- following). The other role model in the series are vampire slayers such as Buffy, or techno-pagans good girls such as Buffy's best friend, Willow, who combines witchcraft and high computer literacy in order to battle evil vampires and other preternatural creatures. Following the evolution of its preferred fiction, the Gothic milieu -- no longer dressed only in black -- may simply become, as other previous countercultural movements, a collective rite of passage introducing teenagers to meaningful questions about life and death.
Reproduced gratefully from: CESNUR CENTER FOR STUDIES ON NEW RELIGIONS
http://www.konformist.com/jonbenet.htm
JonBenét Ramsey & The Air In Colorado
"Evil on this scale is impossible to comprehend. To know who murdered JonBenét Ramsey is to know what world we live in, where we are." James R. Gaines, former managing editor, Time Magazine, January 20, 1997 issue
December 25, 1996 seems, in retrospect, a perfect day for a ritual occult slaying. Among the scholars who believe that Jesus was a real figure, the year of his birth is most commonly believed as being in 4 B.C., making the date the 2,000th Xmas celebration since his coming. And indeed there were celebrations on 4 B.C.: the holiday is older than the Christian myth. To quote Acharya S.:
Many of the world's crucified godmen have their traditional birthday on December 25th. This is because the ancients recognized that (from an earthcentric perspective) the sun makes an annual descent southward until December 21st or 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again. During this time, the ancients declared that "God's sun" had "died" for three days and was "born again" on December 25th. The ancients realized quite abundantly that they needed the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its direction. Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the "sun of God's" birthday on December 25th.
What we have in Yuletide, then, is a resurrection myth celebration, a day of recognizing a moment of a new age. We still see this myth in an updated form in the modern "Baby New Year" mythology, who comes on January 1, which was day seven of the Feast of Fools - and now curiously of Kwanzaa, the African-American holiday.
(Incidentally, among the religious cults which celebrated such a holy day was the Mithra sun god cult that Roman Emperor Constantine was part of. Along with holding December 25th sacred, Sunday - the day of the sun - was their holy day of the week. Coincidentally, at around the time of Constantine's reign, the Christian cult leaders made December 25th the celebration of Jesus' birthday and Sunday their Sabbath. Although this was considered an act of blasphemy by other Judaic cults, Constantine issued the Edict of Milan soon after, officially granting tolerance of Christianity in the Roman Empire.)
And so, the morning after this metaphorically significant day, a phone call was placed in Boulder, Colorado at 5:52 A.M. The receiver of the call was a 911 dispatcher for the Boulder Police Department. The sender of the call was an ex-beauty queen named Patsy Ramsey. The message? "Send help. Send help."
Help was indeed sent. As Officer Richard French arrived less than seven minutes later, Patsy was in hysterics. She showed Officer French a three page handwritten note. As she wept, her husband John appeared cool and collected, although he appeared to pace quite a bit.
The note began simply enough: "Mr. Ramsey," it stated. "Listen carefully! We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We respect your business but not the country that it serves. At this time we have your daughter in our possession."
Written in block letters with a black felt-tip pen, the note had some major oddities. The author knew of John's business activities and a recent huge bonus he had received. The amount demanded for ransom was $118,000, the identical amount to his bonus. The money, the note said, was to be in $100,000 in $100 bills and the rest in $20 bills, placed in "an adequate size attaché case" (the note had an accent mark on the e for attaché, just as there is on the second e of JonBenét.) The note had details of Mr. Ramsey's career in the Navy, describing a year he spent in the Philippines at Subic Bay, called in the note the SBTC, as though the writer referred to the place often by those initials. It also had phrases such as "The delivery will be exhausting," "Any deviation of my instructions will result in the immediate execution of your daughter," and "we are familiar with law enforcement countermeasures and tactics," the kind of jargon popular in military memos. Finally, the note referred to him as "John" 3 times in the last paragraph, but only as Mr. Ramsey in the formal opening. Based on this evidence, it was clear that the writer of the note was a sophisticated person with a military background and intimate knowledge of John Ramsey's life.
Seven hours later, JonBenét, their lovely six-year-old daughter and a regular child-beauty pageant champion, was found, dead. Her body was sprawled on the cement floor of a windowless little room in the basement. Dressed in a white knit shirt and long underwear, there was duct tape over her mouth and a garrote made from a white cord around her throat. Another cord was around her right wrist. The body was covered with a white blanket, and her red pageant nightgown was laid beside her. She had a red-ink drawing of a heart on her left palm.
John Ramsey had found the body himself, after his wife had said, "I want you to search this house. From top to bottom." He immediately bolted to the basement, stopping at a small broken window on the north side of the house, which caused Fleet White, Mr. Ramsey's best friend, to notice the anomaly. Of course, only a midget or child could fit through the window, not likely candidates as big time kidnappers. There were a lot of rooms and corridors in the basement, but John went directly to the one where JonBenét was found.
He immediately yanked the tape from her mouth and carried her upstairs, laying her on the upstairs living room floor. As a Vanity Fair source reports, "What was interesting was when Ramsey brought the body upstairs he never cried. But when he laid her down, he started to moan, while peering around to see who was looking at him." Patsy then collapsed on top of JonBenét and began praying to Jesus. The net affect of their actions was to hinder the investigation by messing up the crime scene.
Despite the lack of the crime scene, one thing is immediately apparent: the "kidnapping" story is thoroughly implausible. Kidnappers don't make a habit of killing their ransoms, and if they do, they certainly don't leave the booty behind. Even if JonBenét was murdered in an accident, they would've dragged her corpse along and continued their extortion ploy. Furthermore, there was no sign of a forced entry, no footprints in the melting snow around the house, and, though the Ramsey's would later insist they didn't set their alarm system at night, there was no way for the "kidnappers" to know that.
Further facts began to be revealed: a "practice" ransom note was discovered, on the same legal paper as the final note. A practice note would not be carried to the premises, so that means both notes were written there, meaning that the "kidnapping" tale was a last- minute created fantasy, likely to cover up an "accidental" slaying.
As Vanity Fair reported, the autopsy revealed more, with phrases like "chronic inflammation" and "epithelial erosion" among the highlights of the redacted report. Dr. Richard Krugman, a child abuse specialist, noted a vaginal abrasion which "is a sign of trauma, [but] it's not a sign of sexual abuse necessarily." Dr. Robert Kirschner of the University of Chicago's pathology department went even further, pointing out that her vaginal opening was twice the normal size for six-year-olds. He stated, "The genital injuries indicate penetration, but probably not by a penis, and are evidence of molestation that night as well as previous molestation."
There was also blood and urine stains on JonBenét's underpants, a cleaned-up crime scene and body, and evidence that the child had been "re-dressed" after the murders, with the cords around her neck and wrist loose as though it was staged.
Right now, it may be a good time to stand back and state what is rather apparent: either the Ramsey's were the killers or assistants in the murder, or they have been the victims of some rather hi-tech silent midgets with no footprints.
Dr. Cyril Wecht, the forensic pathologist better known for his criticism of the JFK autopsy, has no doubt about molestation or who the guilty party is. "This to me is evidence of sexual abuse," he said in a newspaper interview. "I think any forensic gynecologist and forensic pathologist would agree with that." He would also state, point blank, "If she had been taken to a hospital emergency room, and doctors had seen the genital evidence, her father would have been arrested."
Of course, whenever someone has pointed any finger of guilt in this case, the "legitimate" arm of the korporate media has long condemned it as a "rush to judgement", as though the Cliff Notes evidence just detailed isn't compelling enough. Instead, the korporate press has long bent over backwards in this case. Newsweek would report early on that Ramseys' experts concluded neither John nor Patty wrote the notes, as though the Ramsey experts were not biased. (In fact, an investigator of the ransom note testing states, "Out of the 74 names submitted for testing, Patsy's handwriting was the only one that set off alarm bells," and handwriting analyst Sheila Lowe has found the note and Mr. Ramsey's known writing "very similar".) Newsweek's cover story report on the subject in January 1997 not once suggested that the Ramseys were involved (though such beliefs were already circulating), and took the whole case as a "mystery" and presenting the kidnapping tale as plausible. If any blame was placed on the parents, it involved their usage of JonBenét in beauty pageants, a predictably pious condemnation while they tried to find some sort of "meaning" behind the Boulder slaying, thus allowing them to discuss the subject while avoiding the facts. If only there was such "fairness" in the reporting of Timothy McVeigh or the alleged Unabomber.
Compare this also to the treatment of Louise Woodward, the British au pair who was tried (and found guilty) on murder charges of nine-month old Matthew Eappen. The official story is that Woodward must be the guilty party, as she was with Matthew when he died, but the evidence was indicative that the killing injury could have happened days before the death. Presumably, if Woodward is the only one who could have caused the injury, that would mean that Matthew's parents were incredibly cold and remote to their own child. Despite these facts, the state wasted little time declaring the 19 year-old girl a killer rather than investigating the Eappens (who, incidentally, were fairly wealthy), and the pundits predictably followed suit. Shrill right- wing ideologue and Dick Riordan suckup Jill Stewart (writing for the allegedly progressive L. A. New Times) declared Woodward a baby murderer before the trial had been finished, and Ellen Goodman stated as fact that Woodward "is still a killer who acted in anger as well as frustration." With all this hysteria surrounding the Au Pair Trial, you can't help but wonder if maybe it was an attempt to distract us from the more blatant and disturbing facts swirling from Boulder.
Eventually, though, even much of the mainstream press has cracked in the JonBenét tale, as the previously mentioned October 1997 Vanity Fair article seems little doubt whom the author finds the guilty party. And naturally, in their attempts to atone for their dishonest coverage, the reports always predictably bring up the specter of O. J. Simpson. But in fact, besides involving murder, sex, and wealthy men, the Simpson and Ramsey cases widely differ. There has been no demonization of John Ramsey as an icon of evil, no usage of his name as a code word to incite anger in masses. There has been no Dominick Dunne to feign their moral outrage about the incredible injustice to civilization involved in the JonBenét death.
Within 24 hours of the Brentwood slayings, there was an onrush of media declaration that Simpson was guilty. Even now, the Ramsey's are given the benefit of the doubt in their search for "the real killers." In the middle of October, the Associated Press began reporting as legitimate the possibility of another "suspect" in the Boulder case, a 54 year-old man who lived six blocks away. The reason for suspecting him? 32 years before, he was convicted of misdemeanor indecent exposure (mooning someone would qualify as that), a conviction that earned him the label of "a child abuser" in the AP report. Meanwhile, serial killer Glen Rogers was working within blocks of the Nicole Brown Simpson's condo at the time of the slayings, and has been known to brag about his involvement in the murders, providing such juicy details as the color underwear she wore (according to Rogers, it was yellow.) The LAPD hasn't investigated it, insisting that Rogers has an airtight alibi.
Perhaps there is a better case to link to the JonBenét case: the sad story of Susan Smith and her two children. At first, Mrs. Smith proclaimed she was a victim of a vicious carjacking who kidnapped her two children, and described in gory detail a suspect that was little more than a crude caricature of a 70's black jive-talkin' sitcom character. The story sounded utterly outlandish, and yet, soon afterward, there was a frenzy to find the suspect, with the usual civil rights violations of minorities. Eventually, Susan broke, and confessed to murdering her children herself, and it soon was revealed that she was a victim of molestation by her father, a born-again fundamentalist "Christian". Susan Smith was given life in prison, although if her non-existent monstrous black carjacker had ever been captured, he certainly would've been given the death sentence and demonized as a far worse icon of evil than Susan ever was for slaying her own children. Susan's father, despite admitting to his crimes, was mysteriously never charged for his own activities.
The JonBenét Ramsey (and Susan Smith) case reveals a pattern of trivialization of child molestation evidence. This is not some modern phenomenon concocted in the 20th century, but rather, a secret that has a dark, ugly history. Freud came face to face with it, when he abandoned his own seduction theory (his belief that most of the psychological problems his upper-class female patients had were due to molestation by their fathers) when it was viciously attacked, due mainly to the nasty implications of it. But even today, it is at the center of many stories that often grab headlines. Most of the focus in Woody Allen and Mia Farrow's divorce case has been on his romance with Soon-yi Previn, Mia's adopted step-daughter. The korporate media is more often than not silent of the more disturbing charge, that he molested Dylan, their adopted seven-year-old daughter. Whenever such charges are briefly mentioned in korporate pieces, it is quickly added that "the charges are unsubstantiated." What they fail to mention is that Connecticut state authorities, based on the testimony of Dylan and others, have stated that they do believe Woody did molest her, but decided not prosecute anyway, under the excuse of "wanting to spare the children further suffering." Woody's film career has continued without pause. Then there is the case of the Menendez brothers, who, after admitting to murdering their parents, painfully revealed that they were ruthlessly abused and molested by them over the years, and the twin emotions of fear and revenge drove their slayings. Rather than investigating the Menendez claims, they too were viciously demonized for trying to escape the murder charges and accused of making up their abuse. (Leading the charge, unsurprisingly, was our good friend from Vanity Fair Dominick Dunne.) And of course, there is the wild tale of Wacko Jacko, which, even though the accusations against him are widely believed to be true, are merely passed off with a laugh among other smirking monologue jokes on Jay Leno. The King of Pop was last seen fondling "his" baby on the cover of Life magazine, and the accompanying story forgot to mention the serious charges against him.
(Curiously, the one case where child molestation has been magnified rather than minimized in the mass media is the charges against David Koresh, charges which somehow are to justify the mass murder that followed in Waco.)
And so, perhaps JonBenét's death has been relegated to the tabloids for any real investigation because it is so tawdry and so doomed to wallow in sensationalism due to the dirty laundry it uncovers. Perhaps. But perhaps the dirty laundry goes much deeper, and it is these darker truths which are intentionally being submerged in the Ramsey case.
"There is a killer on the loose! I don't know who it is, I don't know if it's a he or a she, but if I were a resident of Boulder, I would tell my friends to keep... to keep your babies close to you. There's someone out there."
Patsy Ramsey on CNN
In all the trees that have been slaughtered covering the JonBenét story, precious little has been written about John Ramsey's business dealings, besides that he's rather successful. If it is mentioned, it usually is inserted as an afterthought, briefly brought up and then almost immediately discarded as unimportant. If Mr. Ramsey is considered to be a murder suspect, however, what he is and what he is involved in should remain central to the investigation.
Who is John Ramsey? A former Navy officer, he moved to Atlanta in the early seventies. John combined his knowledge of electronics engineering and marketing to form a computer firm, Advanced Products Group. The firm would merge with two other firms in 1988 to form Access Graphics, and he and Patsy moved to the new headquarters in Colorado. The company would later have a major change of fortune: it was bought up by Lockheed Martin, and soon became a company with one billion dollars a year in sales.
Lockheed Martin is the "new and improved" version of Lockheed after buying up Martin Marietta, combining two of what were among the nation's (and world's) biggest defense contractors. Lockheed in the 70's, as described by Jonathan Vankin in The Big Book of Scandal, was a "a company that sold billions of dollars in weapons every year, while covertly functioning as one of the world's largest organized crime syndicates." As Tom Jones (chair of smaller rival Northrop Corp, not the Las Vegas lounge singer) admitted, "Sure, we bribed people. We were just following Lockheed's business model." Lockheed chairman Dan Haughton replied, "We prefer to call them 'kickbacks'."
Among the fine agents (or, in Lockheed's code, "locust") for Lockheed was their Middle Eastern representative, Syrian arms merchant and CIA asset Adnan Khashoggi, chum of Ollie North, major player in the Iran- Contra scandal, and cousin of Dodi Fayed, soon-to-be husband of Lady Diana before their little "car accident". Officially, Khashoggi earned $106 million in Lockheed "commissions" for his work, though knowing the arms business, that may be an understatement.
Lockheed's locust for Japan was Yoshio Kodama, a right-wing nationalist with strong ties to the Yakuza. Rather than being tried for war-crimes, the CIA got him off - and back into the corridor's of power.
Allegedly, Khashoggi funneled $1 million of his funds into Trickie Dick's re-election campaign. (As for Lockheed, officially, they were the only major corporation not shaken down for cash by Nixon's CREEP committee.) On September 1, 1972, Nixon met in private with Japan's Prime Minister, Kakuei Tanaka. Three days later, Japan began buying $1 billion in anti-submarine planes, and soon after All-Nippon Airways ordered $400 million in Lockheed Tristar Passenger Jets. Kodama began receiving crates of yen.
In the mid-70's, a congressional committee led by Frank Church began investigating Lockheed's shady practices. When the committee subpoenaed Lockheed Treasurer Robert Waters, he "committed suicide". Kodama, meanwhile, suffered a stroke, and while bedridden, ultra- nationalist Mitsuyasu Maeno commandeered a plane and crashed kamikaze style in his home. Maeno's motivation was alleged outrage that his hero had shamed the nation. (No word if Maeno was clutching Catcher in the Rye.)
Despite even admittance of criminal activity, Lockheed walked. And walked profitably, winning the Stealth Fighter contract, the most expensive plane at the time, in the 80's. And yet, despite evading any punishment for their blatant crimes, we are supposed to chalk this up as history, that Lockheed, shamed by their illegal activities, stopped them all by their lonesome selves.
Uh huh. Sure.
Bribery has a not-too-distant cousin, blackmail. And where you see one, you almost always see the other. As Number Two would say to the Prisoner, "By hook or by crook." Carrots work great, but sometimes sticks work even better.
The "carrot and stick" strategy was used in Operation Gladio, a successful attempt by the CIA to control politics in Italy, an operation that soon covered all European nations. Supposedly fearing governmental takeovers by communists or socialists, the CIA began backing and controlling candidates that it deemed preferable, fascists who often were Nazi collaborators and drug-dealers. The CIA pumped funds in campaigns for their personal picks, and financed propaganda units posing as objective news reporters. (Among the "journalists" involved in this scheme include Walter Pincus, writer of the Washington Post's Gary Webb hit piece, and future Ms. Magazine editor Gloria Steinem.) Using the bait of sex and drugs, they would lure politicians in compromising positions as well, having them in their pocket for life or be destroyed by scandal.
Just how low did Gladio blackmail go? A recent sex scandal in Belgium gives a clue. In the summer of '96, Belgian police arrested Marc Dutroux, who was accused of kidnapping young girls, sexually abusing them, and killing them. Two teenage girls were found chained and starving in his basement, and there were dead bodies on his property. All quite Silence of the Lambs stuff, but it soon was revealed that the police had long suspected Dutroux was a pedophile killer. They had let him be. Dutroux, meanwhile, a working stiff on welfare, became wealthy.
Though Belgian officials have done their best to hinder the investigation, the reason Dutroux got away with it for so long was that he and his friends were using the girls for sex parties involving the elite in business, military, and politics. A judge who attempted to get to the bottom of the matter was soon dismissed by his superiors in the Ministry of Justice.
To think that Dutroux masterminded this blackmail operation all by his lone nut self would be utterly absurd. To suggest that it was a modern manifestation of Gladio at work would be quite logical. In any case, even Time Magazine, in one of the rare mentions they've had on this apparently unimportant scandal, described shadowy links from this operation to mobsters, and mentioned the usage of "underground tunnels."
Ah, yes, underground tunnels. The same kind of tunnels described by the kids at McMartin preschool, who also claimed they were the victims of Satanic ritual abuse, claims which were utterly mocked in the mass media. In fact, they still are mocked in the mass media - despite the evidence to the contrary, including wide-spread sexually transmitted diseases among the kids. People Magazine is not particularly noted for its investigative journalism, yet had a reporter "investigate" the McMartin pre-school story. After interviewing Dr. E. Gary Stickel, the UCLA archaeologist commissioned to excavate the McMartin site, the reporter wrote back to headquarters that no tunnels had been uncovered. When Dr. Stickel heard this, he was surprised, as he told the reporter the exact opposite, which his 185 page Report of the Archaeological Excavation of the McMartin Preschool Site duly notes. "I told her the children said there were tunnels and we found tunnels. It was as simple as that." After alerting People of the apparent failure to communicate, People began researching his evidence - and then the story was bumped. People, incidentally, is owned by the Time Warner, the people that bring us both Time and Life magazine.
Why the cover-up in McMartin? As reported by Alex Constantine and Ted Gunderson, among others, McMartin was a front for CIA brainwashing of children. (The elder McMartin, who was involved in the building of the preschool in 1966 - when the tunnels were built as well - worked for noted CIA front Hughes Aircraft.) It is hardly a solitary case: the usage of children in brainwashing experiments (often using Satanism and pedophilia) is a well documented phenomenon.
Among the other noted cases besides McMartin:
* Franklin, Nebraska. A well-connected black right-wing businessman named Larry King - not the talk show host - sang the national anthem at the GOP convention in 1984 and 1988. He also headed the crooked Franklin Credit Union, which was closed after it was uncovered King had swindled $39 million. Investigation soon found the predictable links to CIA-Mafia cocaine money laundering... and then began uncovering that King was the head of a Satanic pedophilia ring, which led to high powered politicians in our nation's capital. Soon after, the investigation was sandbagged. A documentary uncovering the scandal, Conspiracy of Silence, was set to appear on The Discovery Channel on May 3, 1994, but was pulled from the air the last minute, despite having been cleared by channel lawyers. They have shelved it ever since.
* The Presidio Army Base in San Francisco. A huge sexual abuse scandal first broke out in the early eighties at the Orwellian named Presidio Child Development Center. At the center of the day care center scandal was Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino, head of the Satanic Cult Temple of Set. He was also an army intelligence expert in psychological warfare with a top secret clearance. Despite the children giving a bulls-eye description of Aquino's bedroom, Aquino was never charged with any crime, and the children's abuse was dismissed as another hysteria.
* The Finders. Though not as well-known, the Finders is nonetheless an astounding case. Six seriously abused children were found in Tallahassee, Florida with two members of the cult. A raid of a Finders' warehouse in Washington, D.C. found loads of graphic child pornography. Investigators checked with the State Department on a passport that was found, and were told to "terminate further investigation".
They soon discovered that the Finders was a CIA front that supposedly had "gone bad", and that the leader of the cult, Marion David Petite, had a wife who was a "former" CIA agent and a son who worked for Air America. The case against the Finders was quickly dropped.
Perhaps the most shocking claims are made by Cathy O'Brien, who writes about her own alleged Satanic abuse as a CIA sex slave from early childhood in her book Trance Formation In Amerika. Her husband, a "former" CIA agent named Mark Phillips, rescued her and has since supposedly helped her recover her memories. There are many who believe he is little help to her. Many of her memories and claims have been provably false, and yet there are many claims that have been repeated elsewhere by others independently. Among her more interesting (and many state more verified) report are that George Bush molested her and her daughter while strung out on heroin (curiously, Mr. Bush was a regular at many of Larry King's parties in Franklin), and that she was gang-banged by the Bennett Brothers, William (finger-wagging Book of Virtues writer and former commander of our phony drug war) and Robert (current White House counsel to Bill Klinton in his tame by comparison Peckergate scandals involving Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky.) Cathy O'Brien claims she was drawn into this web of horror at early childhood, recruited because of her fresh good looks and her family connections in the occult underworld. The name of the program she was involved in is claimed to be called Monarch.
In retrospect, the Monarch operation may go even deeper than anyone has alleged. Scratch the surface of many juicy tabloid tales, and they seem to flow from the same CIA-Mafia-Satanic well that no korporate journalist dares to drink from. The richer victims in the Manson slayings were reputed (by sources of Ultimate Evil author Maury Terry) to have been involved in trafficking kiddie porn as well as LSD. Michael Jackson has strong ties to the Mafia, which is said to be behind his infatuation with Italians. The Menendez parents also have been linked to Mafia, which may explain the not-so-irrational fear of their sons. (Oddly, Mr. Moral Outrage Dominick Dunne, who has apparently patterned himself after Truman Capote and comes from a wealthy Eastern establishment family, never found time or interest to cover the Jacko case or the McMartin Trial, and apparently is entirely uninterested in the Ramsey affair. One of his daughters was murdered by her boyfriend, who then received a stunningly light sentence, and one of his sons was "kidnapped" during the Simpson trial which required him to temporarily leave the trial, a story that never has been fully explained.)
But of course, the korporate media has conveniently ignored the possibilities in these cases, often going out of the way to denounce the more blatantly disturbing ones. There is, for the example, the Remembering Satan story, which Lawrence Wright wrote in 1993 for the New Yorker. Despite a confession from a Washington state county sherriff and Republican Party leader, Paul Ingram, of being involved in Satanic ritual abuse of his daughter and others, Wright presented the theory of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (a "foundation" loaded with CIA agents) that the stories were imagined fantasies of guilt, supposedly brought on by his being a deeply fundamentalist Christian. Certainly it couldn't be that his "Christianity" was a cover for the same things done by high-ranking Republicans in Franklin. (Interestingly, Susan Smith's father also was a high- ranking GOP man and a self-proclaimed "born-again Christian", perhaps explaining why he was never charged for his admitted crimes - and which suggests there's even more to that case.)
In the end, all these tales prove one thing: that the place to find the truth is in Hollywood fantasy. After all, wasn't it Raymond Shaw's mother in The Manchurian Candidate who, kissing his lips passionately, reveals herself to be not just his kontrol agent but secret lover? In the master Jack Nicholson vehicle Chinatown, wasn't the big plot twist that the big and powerful running Los Angeles were involved in molesting their own kids? (The director of the movie, Roman Polanski, was incidentally also the director of Rosemary's Baby and the father of Manson victim Sharon Tate's never-born child.) Wasn't the movie Angel Heart about the lords of Louisiana being dedicated to multi-generational Satanism? And, when it was finally uncovered who killed Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks, didn't it turn out to be her father, who appeared to be "possessed" by demons, thus indicating that in his bizarre tale of strange happenings, David Lynch was really exposing the bleak machinations behind black magick occultism hidden in Middle Amerika?
All of which leads us full circle back to Colorado and Jon-Benét. The Ramseys certainly fit the same bill. Which is perhaps why one investigator of this stuff put it to me, "Cathy O'Brien is a Jon- Benét Ramsey that lived."
To label John Ramsey and Access Graphics as a stick in CIA stick and carrot affairs may seem a outrageous allegation. And perhaps it would be irresponsible journalism. Almost as irresponsible as noting that Mr. Ramsey, a well-connected military fellow, resided in Atlanta when a string of over 30 child murders happened in the black community between 1979 and 1981. There are urban legends that the FBI and CIA were actually behind them, that the young bodies were used for some bizarre experiments. (It is interesting to note that the Center for Disease Control has it's headquarters in Atlanta, and that these murders struck in the early days of the AIDS epidemic which has targeted blacks and homosexuals. Preceding the epidemic, homosexuals were recruited into "experimental hepatitis-B vaccination programs" run by the CDC in ads specifically targeting them.) Other tales say it was members of white upper crust families getting their rocks off. The Feds would later pin the blame on Wayne Williams, a black male, over dubious fiber evidence that they proclaimed proved he was the lone madman killer. Even by official claims, however, he was only behind up to 23 of the slayings, leaving over a half-dozen officially unsolved, but beings these were minority children, it was swept away with the "Case Closed" pronouncement.
I suppose it would also be irresponsible to note that Patsy Ramsey was born and raised in Parkersburg, West Virginia, a city better known for the Federal Bureau of Public Debt Building, a project located there at the heavy insistence of West Virginia's longtime Senator (and longtime Appropriations Chairman) Robert Byrd. Byrd, it should be noted, is fingered by Cathy O'Brien as one of her main oppressors. He has also been alleged (by an article in a fundamentalist Christian magazine) to be one of the main people behind the formation of Michael Aquino's Temple of Set. Do two rumors equal a truth? No, but in any case, Senator Byrd is a "former" member of the KKK.
Adding to the irresponsibility, it turns out Patsy Ramsey's father, Don Paugh, was an engineer for Union Carbide, the fine folks who brought us korporate murder in Bhopal and whose former mining camp in Guyana provided the spot for Jim Jones little Utopian community. Early on, Don was asked to help out John Ramsey's then struggling business, and became vice president in charge of operations. According to Jeff Merrick, a former John Ramsey associate, "The word is that John was going broke and Don bailed him out financially." How he did that on his middle-class income is questionable. The Paughs may have instead used their impressive connections via the Miss America Pageant circuit, which both Patsy and her younger sister Pam had been contestants in after both being crowned Miss West Virginia. Due to her programmed, controlled manner, famed-sportswriter and 1977 Miss America judge Frank Deford wrote in his notes that Patsy was "a little automoton." JonBenét was particularly noticed for her ability to freeze all motion and hold a pose, an incredible feat considering she was only six years old.
Yes, all this is irresponsible perhaps, but very illuminating. And perhaps as illuminating as an alleged claim in the Star that a large amount of kiddie porn had been downloaded on Access Graphics computers. The article also noted that AG did a lot of work in Amsterdam's red light district. Of course, in the tale of JonBenét, the tabloids have been the lone korporate media sources to proclaim shamelessly that the Ramseys are indeed the culprits. However, this report in particular is a blockbuster, as it hints at JonBenét being only part of a pattern. While the Star seemed to point the finger solely at Mr. Ramsey, the fact remains Access Graphics is part of Lockheed Martin, and thus any child pornography on their computers indicates a major scandal.
As pointed out in Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient! An Insider's Look At Supermarket Tabloids, by Jim Hogshire, a study by Deborah Gruenfeld revealed that headlines tend to influence people's beliefs to a degree which makes the articles nearly worthless in value. Further, tabloids only trail marginally behind mainstream journalism in terms of believability (which, considering the equally disgusting level of deceit in both, is quite understandable.) Thus, the best way to influence public opinion is not through well-reasoned and well-written articles, but by having headlines with sensational - and thus attention-getting - claims shoved in the face of the most number of people. Like, say, at the checkout counter of a supermarket.
The founder of the model for supermarket tabloid publishing was a man named Generoso Pope. In 1951, as Mr. Pope would readily admit in his own "Who's Who" Biography, he worked for the CIA in their psychological warfare division. In 1952, he bought the Hearst-owned New York Enquirer (he changed the name to The National Enquirer) and started his media empire, supposedly independent of his lone one year stint (or so he claims) in league with Langely. Pope financed the purchase via a loan for twenty grand from mobster Frank Costello, who also happened to be godfather of Pope's children. According to Pope, the loan was at "zero interest." Thus, the beginnings of tabloid journalism have the predictable intelligence/Mafia fingerprints all over the place.
In retrospect, it all makes sense. At the time, the CIA plot known as Operation MOCKINGBIRD was in full effect, an attempt to put it's bloody tentacles over the entire korporate media apparatus, an attempt that has clearly succeeded. But as any expert of Machiavellian plots will tell you, to truly kontrol something, you also must kontrol the alternatives. It should then be no surprise that suddenly the supermarket tabloid popped up, to give the masses a false option of "choice". By being an option that is so easily discredited, it somehow manages to reinforce the "legitimacy" and "integrity" of mainstream korporate journalism. The tabloid also serves for middle America as another kontrol mechanism, the pages filled with a reactionary ideology that is disgustingly racist and sexist, which explains why tabloids regularly have been propaganda mills for the ruling klass. And finally, the tabloids are the perfect place to throw a legitimate story that the elites desire to discredit.
Which leads us back to the front page report by the Star linking Access Graphics to kiddie porn. So far, neither John Ramsey or Lockheed Martin have sued. In fact, they have not even bothered to comment. Which is odd, considering the disturbing claims that the Star made. So the question is why have they not commented, and why did the Star publish it in the first place. I'll let you make up your own minds of the meaning of it, but if anyone has a better explanation than that it was released by the Star to discredit the report, I'd like to hear it.
"DZIT DIT GAII" Bizarre phrase with Masonic designs inlaid in the floor of the Denver International Airport.
In any case, the usual suspects have all lined up in the predictable ways.
How big is Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, the law firm representing the Ramseys? As Denver Post columnist Chuck Green put it, "Take a look at their offices here in Denver. Then take a walk over to the Governor's Mansion a few blocks away and tell me which is bigger, and I'll tell you which one is more powerful." Among the firm's clients are Gary Hart, Governor Roy Romer, former Governor Richard Lamm, and, curiously, Hunter S. Thompson. Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney, is a political ally of the firm, which may explain why rather than investigating the Ramseys, the D.A.'s office has often seemed more like collaborating with them, sharing evidence with the legal team of the unindicted and uncharged Ramseys. Thanks to arrangements made by their lawyers, the Ramseys were provided with copies of their original statements and police reports if they would agree to talk with the police. The Hunter office has taken as plausible the "lone nut intruder" theory first promoted by the Ramseys, who have pointed the finger of suspicion at any person close to them that seemed to doubt their silly tale. By April 1997, the Boulder police decided they could no longer trust the D.A.'s office, and decided to stop sharing information. Soon after, their computer system was hacked into.
There was fluid found on and near JonBenét's body. Rather than be checked immediately for DNA, it was held, and then later sent to Cellmark Laboratories, the wonderful lab whose supposed impeccable DNA testing "proved" that O. J. Simpson was the real killer. There is no disputing that biological material had been recovered from the JonBenét crime scene, yet soon it was reported that no semen had been found at the crime scene. You would think that by now, those fabulous sleuths at Cellmark would've uncovered something, semen or not, but so far it has been nil. Cellmark, of course, is located in Maryland, right near the Pentagon and the heart of the Military Industrial Komplex.
Soon after hiring their law firm, the Ramseys hired Patrick Korten to be their spokesman, a job Korten held for the Department of Justice under Ed Meese. Korten's firm, Rowan & Blewitt, is a PR firm that boasts of being specialist in "crisis management", a nice term for "spin doctors," which Mr. Korten had a lot of practice during the corrupt reign of Meese in the DOJ. During the Meese years, there was the scandal behind the bilking of Inslaw over its Inslaw software, which ultimately led to the death of journalist Danny Casolaro. Curiously, Casolaro was in Martinsburg, Virginia for a planned interview with members of the staff of good old Senator Byrd on the night of August 9, 1991. Casolaro had mentioned to others that one chapter of his planned expose on government corruption would be about Byrd, and he believed the secrets that would crack the Inslaw case resided with Byrd staff members. What happened in that meeting, or if it indeed happened, is an open question, for the night of August 9 was the last time he was seen alive. He was found dead in his hotel room the next day, officially labeled a suicide though clearly not. Incidentally, August 9-10, 1991 coincided with the 22nd anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca slayings (22 being the year cycles in a the Crowley-inspired Thelemic Calender to match the number of trumps in a Tarot deck.)
And so, the creepy occult fingerprints appear once again. Perhaps it is but a coincidence that the lone Ramsey press conference, which some have compared to a Ramsey infomercial, was on May 1, coinciding with the occult holiday of May Day or Beltain. Or maybe other events swirling in the air of Colorado can provide some clues.
In nearby Denver, the DIA (Denver International Airport) opened in February 1995, 16 months later than planned and way over budget. It was a scandal all by itself, a mystery where all the money disappeared, labeled as government "bungling" and "incompetence". But to some, there is a far greater scandal hidden in the answer as to where the money actually went.
The airport is loaded with secret society symbology. The capstone for the DIA is a Masonic symbol, located at the part of the terminal called The Great Hall, which is the Masonic name for their meeting hall. On the Masonic Capstone is inscribed "NEW WORLD AIRPORT COMMISSION", a group that, strangely, is not officially known to exist. There are many murals at the airport with apocalyptic themes. Some believe these murals represent a blueprint for the plans of the elites. One of the murals depicts 3 caskets containing dead women, each representing groups the elites may label expendable. One is an African or African-American woman, the other is Jewish, and the third is a Native American. In the same mural is shown the destruction of city and forest, a little girl holding a Mayan Tablet that predicts destruction of Civilization. Another mural depicts a green giant "Darth Vader" like figure wearing a gas mask destroying a city. In this mural women can be seen carrying dead babies. Another mural depicts a boy collecting weapons from all the other children of the world. The boy has a huge iron fist and is pounding all the weapons into plowshares on an anvil. The boy appears to be German.
Perhaps you can dismiss this as mere artistic license, a public arts program gone amuck, a Piss Christ or Karen Finley smearing herself in chocolate. However, artists who made the DIA pieces first claimed in an interview that guidelines WERE provided for their work. Their story later changed on this issue.
Disturbing art is but the beginning of explaining the budgetary black hole of DIA. A man named Phil Schneider claimed during the last year of construction that the underground airport system was being connected to a deep underground base. The base is at least 8 levels deep, with a 4.5 square mile underground city and an 88.5 square mile base underneath the airport. Alex Christopher, Author of Pandora's Box and Pandora's Box II - an expose of the British instigation through Washington D.C. over the last 200 years - adds, "It is very unusual that they would allot a 50 square-mile area on the surface at which to locate an airport in the middle of nowhere unless they really planned to use it for something very unusual later. There is a 10-mile, 4-line highway out to this airport, and there is nothing out there in between the airport and Denver. Not even a service station, at least in September 1995."
So why is an author of anti-British smears talking about the DIA? It turns out that, according to Christopher, the Queen of England has been buying up a lot of property in Colorado under a pseudonym. Along with the Crown, the CIA has a naturally great interest in the area. Rodney Stitch, author of Defrauding America, claims to have a copy of a tape of a CIA agent paying off the mayor of Denver to get the airport built, to the tune of $1.5 million. Nazis have an interest in the area as well, as much of the DIA's symbology refers cryptically to the Black Sun, some sort of Nazi secret occult worship. (Colorado had long been a strong center for the neo-Nazi movement, most notably through the June 1984 assassination of radio talk-show host Alan Berg.)
If the Brits, Nazis, and the CIA plotting together over an airport with a huge underground base is too weird for you, then the tales of Lizard Aliens being involved may be too much to swallow. And yet, that is what some informants of the DIA precisely state. Some allege that evil Reptilians and Alien Greys are the true masters of the underground bases (they are also reputedly the true masters of the Pentagon, but that's another story) and are using human slave labor in these deep underground bases, much of this slave labor being children. Supposedly, when the children reach the point that they are unable to work any more, they are slaughtered on the spot and consumed as snacks by the alien lords. (Apparently, the aliens like human children for their veal-like taste.)
Perhaps this explains why, according to some studies, over 200,000 children each year just "disappear". With the alien connection to all this, it should be no surprise that the previously named Phil Schneider also worked and reported on other government underground facilities, such as Area 51 and in Dulce, New Mexico. Schneider has since "committed suicide," supposedly hanging himself.
Are the tales of aliens true or fantasy? That is open to debate. There are some who believe that reports of alien beings involved in black budget operations is a deliberate leak, an attempted smokescreen to discredit any legitimate research in the nefarious work of the Secret Government. There are others who insist that they are the truth. In either case, the only place where alien sightings are reported in the korporate media is in the tabloids, which means it is either being marginalized, being used as propaganda, or (perhaps) both.
Aliens or no, there are some claims that seem to have some validity. On November 15, 1997, a man performing maintenance on a plane at DIA saw there were over 120 children on the flight. When he questioned a woman that was on the flight with the children, she replied, "Social Services, now get out of here" as she flashed a badge. Checking the flight plan records, he discovered the plane was headed for Paris, the same destination as TWA 800.
What is the whole purpose of all this Rocky Mountain weirdness? As the New World inscription at the DIA indicates, the rumor is that the Colorado area is where the establishment of the Western sector of the New World Order will be in the United States. Denver is of a high altitude and ideal for underground buildings. Curiously, according to these same sources, Atlanta is supposed to be the control center for the Eastern Sector, home of the 1996 Olympics (which required a lot of building and construction) and previous stomping grounds of John Ramsey himself.
Is all this rumor just hysterical rambling? Or is there some (if not complete) truth to it all? Is it just a coincidence, or an ominous warning, that the trials of the Oklahoma City Bombing - which many view as a Reichstag-like government-staged act of terrorism to promote a more totalitarian government all to help "protect" us - were held in Denver? Is there something more to the A-10 that flew to Colorado and disappeared somewhere around the area of Vail and Eagle and Aspen, Colorado? Is there more to the "fireballs" that first began being reported January 11, 1998, a mysterious object that lit up the night sky up and down, then startled witnesses with a deafening explosion? (The official explanation is meteors caused by the ultimate konspiracy komet Hale Bopp, but the explanation doesn't seem to explain why the meteors all seem to focus on the Denver area.)
Maybe this is too much dot-connecting for some. After all, there should be some sort of bizarre, astronomically unlikely event with huge hidden occult/Masonic messages to signify that, yes, indeed, the New World Order is here, and Denver is where it is being run at. A clue that would repeatedly use important occult numbers such as 3 (for trinity), 7 (for perfection), and 13 (for bad luck.)
On January 25, 1998, the Denver Broncos won Super Bowl XXXII (which precedes number XXXIII or 33, the highest degree of Freemasonry, and 32 itself is the freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale.) The Broncos victory over 3-time winning Green Bay Packers ended a streak of 13 consecutive years where the AFC representative had lost. The Broncos won by 7 points, scoring 31 (13 backwards.) Their quarterback, the lucky number 7 John Elway, had previously endured 3 humiliating defeats in the Super Bowl during his first 7 seasons, then managed to be shut out from the big game for 7 straight seasons. In his 15th season (or the 3rd set of 7's) he hit paydirt. The game's Most Valuable Player, Terrell Davis, scored 3 touchdowns to pave the way to victory.
Of course, the numbers 3, 7, and 13 pop up quite regularly in football, due to the structure of the scoring system (a system that has important occult meaning, much like the Fahrenheit scale.) And indeed, that may explain most of these coincidences. But let's face it: is there anything, short of Susan Lucci winning a daytime Emmy, as unlikely as the Denver Broncos actually winning a Super Bowl?
I may add that January 25, 1998 is exactly 13 months after the death of JonBenét Ramsey.
All that is needed to start the new era is a ritual sacrifice. And one must wonder if, whether the killer or killers were aware of it, that is precisely what JonBenét's slaying really was: a butchering of innocence to start a new covenant.
So, the question must be asked: is JonBenét Ramsey's death, far from being a pointlessly tawdry tale, one of the most significant event in the history of mankind? Is it part of some nefarious plot, the work of occult-worshipping Freemasons, joining forces with the British Monarchy, Nazis and the CIA, hell-bent on leading us to a destructive New World Order? Is it even possible that the Ramsey's are actually patsies, framed in many people's minds for a crime they didn't commit? Can it be that the hi-tech silent midgets with no footprints I openly mocked before are, in fact, evil Alien Greys, and that JonBenét's death is an alien abduction gone haywire?
Unlikely? Yes. Absurd? Definitely. Outrageously silly? Certainly.
But at least it has an even remote sense of plausibility. Which is more than can be said for the tales that the Ramseys and their mouthpieces have spun.
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