Concerns
Raised by the Vatican by
WAYNE MADSEN
George
W. Bush proclaims himself a born-again
Christian. However, Bush and fellow
self-anointed neo-Christians like House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay, John Ashcroft, and
sports arena Book of Revelations carnival
hawker Franklin Graham appear to wallow in a
"Christian" blood lust cult when it
comes to practicing the teachings of the
founder of Christianity. This cultist form of
Christianity, with its emphasis on death
rather than life, is also worrying the
leaders of mainstream Christian religions,
particularly the Pope.
One only has to check out
Bush's record as Governor of Texas to see his
own preference for death over life. During
his tenure as Governor, Bush presided over a
record setting 152 executions, including the
1998 execution of fellow born-again Christian
Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer who
later led a prison ministry. Forty of Bush's
executions were carried out in 2000, the year
the Bush presidential campaign was
spotlighting their candidate's strong law
enforcement record. The Washington Post's
Richard Cohen reported in October 2000 that
one of the execution chamber's "tie-down
team" members, Fred Allen, had to
prepare so many people for lethal injections
during 2000, he quit his job in disgust.
Bush mocked Tucker's
appeal for clemency. In an interview with
Talk magazine, Bush imitated Tucker's appeal
for him to spare her life - pursing his lips,
squinting his eyes, and in a squeaky voice
saying, "Please don't kill me."
That went too far for former GOP presidential
candidate Gary Bauer, himself an evangelical
Christian. "I think it is nothing short
of unbelievable that the governor of a major
state running for president thought it was
acceptable to mock a woman he decided to put
to death," said Bauer.
A former Texas
Department of Public Safety officer, a devout
Roman Catholic, told this reporter that
evidence to the contrary, Bush was more than
happy to ignore DNA data and documented cases
of prosecutorial misconduct to send innocent
people to the Huntsville, Texas lethal
injection chamber. He said the number of
executed mentally retarded, African
Americans, and those who committed capital
crimes as minors was proof that Bush was
insensitive and a "phony
Christian." When faced with similar
problems in Illinois, Governor George Ryan, a
Republican, commuted the death sentences of
his state's death row inmates and released
others after discovering they were wrongfully
convicted. Yet the Republican Party is
pillorying Ryan and John Ashcroft's Justice
Department continues to investigate the
former Governor for political malfeasance as
if Bush and Ashcroft are without sin in such
matters. Hypocrisy certainly rules in the
Republican Party.
Bush's blood lust has
been extended across the globe. He has given
the CIA authority to assassinate those deemed
a threat to U.S. national interests. Bush has
virtually suspended Executive Orders 11905
(Gerald Ford), 12306 (Jimmy Carter), and
12333 (Ronald Reagan) which prohibit the
assassination of foreign leaders. Bush's
determination to kill Saddam Hussein, his
family, and his top leaders with
precision-guided missiles and tactical
nuclear weapon-like Massive Ordnance Air
Blast (MOAB) bombs is yet another indication
of Bush's disregard for his Republican and
Democratic predecessors. It now appears that
in his zeal to kill Hussein, innocent
civilian patrons of a Baghdad restaurant were
killed by one of Bush's precision Joint
Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs). Like it or
not, Saddam Hussein was recognized by over
100 nations as the leader of Iraq -- a member
state of the United Nations. Hussein, like
North Korea' Kim Jong Il, Syria's Bashir
Assad, and Iran's Mohammed Khatami, are
covered by Executive Order 12333, which the
Bush mouthpieces claim is still in effect.
Bush's "Christian" blood cult sees
no other option than death for those who
become his enemies. This doctrine is found no
place in Christian theology.
Bush has not once
prayed for the innocent civilians who died as
a result of the U.S. attack on Iraq. He
constantly "embeds" himself with
the military at Goebbels-like speech fests
and makes constant references to God when he
refers to America's "victory" in
Iraq, as if God endorses his sordid killing
spree. He makes no mention of the children,
women, and old men killed by America's
"precision-guided" missiles and
bombs and trigger-happy U.S. troops. In fact,
Bush revels in indiscriminate blood letting.
Since he never experienced such killing in
Southeast Asia, when he was AWOL from his
Texas Air National Guard unit, Bush just does
not seem to understand the horror of a parent
watching one's children having their heads
and limbs blown off in a sudden blast of
shrapnel or children witnessing their parents
burning to death with their own body fat
nurturing the flames.
Bush and his
advisers, previously warned that Iraq's
ancient artifacts and collection of
historical documents and books were in danger
of being looted or destroyed, instead, sat
back while the Baghdad and Mosul museums and
Baghdad Library were ransacked and destroyed.
Cult leaders have historically attempted to
destroy history in order to invent their own.
The Soviets tried to obliterate Russia's
Orthodox traditions, turning a number of
churches into warehouses and animal barns.
Cambodia's Pol Pot tried to wipe out
Buddhism's famed Angkor Wat shrine in an
attempt to stamp out his country's Buddhist
history. In March 2001, while they were
negotiating with the Bush administration on a
natural gas pipeline, Afghanistan's Taliban
blew up two massive 1600-year old Buddhas in
Bamiyan. The Bush administration, itself run
by fanatic religious cultists, barely made a
fuss about the loss of the relics. It would
not be the first time the cultists within the
Bush administration ignored the pillaging of
history's treasures.
The ransacking of
Iraq's historical treasures is explainable
when one considers what the blood cult
Christians really think about Islam. Franklin
Graham, the heir to the empire built up by
his anti-Semitic father, Billy Graham, has
decided being anti-Muslim is far more
financially rewarding than being anti-Jewish.
Billy Graham, history notes from the Nixon
tapes, complained about the Jewish
stranglehold on the media and Jews being
responsible for pornography.
Franklin Graham
continues to enjoy his father's unfettered
and questionable access to the White House.
But in the case of Bush, the younger Graham
has a fanatic adherent. Graham has called
Islam a "very evil and wicked"
religion. He then announces he wants to go to
Iraq. Graham obviously sees an opportunity to
convert Muslims and unrepentant Eastern
Christians, who owe their allegiance to Roman
and Greek prelates, to his perverted form of
blood cult Christianity. Graham says he is
ready to send his Samaritan's Purse
missionaries into Iraq to provide assistance.
Muslims and mainstream Christians are wary
that Graham wants to exchange food, water,
and medicine for the baptism of Iraqis into
his intolerant brand of Christianity. In the
last Gulf War, Graham could not get away with
his chicanery. The Desert Storm Commander,
General Norman Schwarzkopf, stopped dead in
the tracks Graham's plan to send 30,000
Arabic language Bibles to U.S. troops in
Saudi Arabia. Today's Pentagon shows no such
compunction to put a rein on Graham. It
invited him to give a Good Friday sermon at
the Pentagon to the consternation of the
Defense Department's Muslim employees. To
make matters worse, under Bush's "Faith
Based Initiative," Graham's Samaritan's
Purse stands to receive U.S. government funds
for its proselytizing efforts in Iraq,
something that should be an affront to every
American taxpayer.
Bush's
self-proclaimed adherence to Christianity
(during one of the presidential debates he
said Jesus Christ was his favorite
"philosopher") and his constant
reference to a new international structure
bypassing the United Nations system and
long-standing international treaties are
worrying the top leadership of the Roman
Catholic Church. Well-informed sources close
to the Vatican report that Pope John Paul II
is growing increasingly concerned about
Bush's ultimate intentions. The Pope has had
experience with Bush's death fetish. Bush
ignored the Pope's plea to spare the life of
Karla Faye Tucker. To show that he was
similarly ignorant of the world's mainstream
religions, Bush also rejected an appeal to
spare Tucker from the World Council of
Churches - an organization that represents
over 350 of the world's Protestant and
Orthodox Churches. It did not matter that
Bush's own Methodist Church and his parents'
Episcopal Church are members of the World
Council.
Bush's blood lust,
his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs,
and his constant references to "evil
doers," in the eyes of many devout
Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of
the one warned about in the Book of
Revelations - the anti-Christ. People close
to the Pope claim that amid these concerns,
the Pontiff wishes he was younger and in
better health to confront the possibility
that Bush may represent the person
prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has
always believed the world was on the
precipice of the final confrontation between
Good and Evil as foretold in the New
Testament. Before he became Pope, Karol
Cardinal Wojtyla said, "We are now
standing in the face of the greatest
historical confrontation humanity has gone
through. I do not think that wide circles of
the American society or wide circles of the
Christian community realize this fully. We
are now facing the final confrontation
between the Church and the anti-Church, of
the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel." The
Pope, who grew up facing the evils of Hitler
and Stalin, knows evil when he sees it.
Although we can all endlessly argue over the
Pope's effectiveness in curtailing abuses
within his Church, his accomplishments
external to Catholicism are impressive.
According to
journalists close to the Vatican, the Pope
and his closest advisers are also concerned
that the ultimate acts of evil - the
September 11 terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon - were known in
advance by senior Bush administration
officials. By permitting the attacks to take
their course, there is a perception within
the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy that a
coup d'etat was implemented, one that gave
Bush and his leadership near-dictatorial
powers to carry out their agenda.
The Pope worked
tirelessly to convince leaders of nations on
the UN Security Council to oppose Bush's war
resolution on Iraq. Vatican sources claim
they had not seen the Pope more animated and
determined since he fell ill to Parkinson's
Disease. In the end, the Pope did convince
the leaders of Mexico, Chile, Cameroon, and
Guinea to oppose the U.S. resolution. If one
were to believe in the Book of Revelations,
as the Pope fervently does, he can seek
solace in scoring a symbolic victory against
the Bush administration. Whether Bush
represents a dangerous right-wing ideologue
who couples his political fanaticism with a
neo-Christian blood cult (as I believe) or he
is either the anti-Christ or heralds one, the
Pope should know he has fought the good
battle and has gained the respect and
admiration of many non-Catholics around the
world.
Wayne Madsen is a
Washington, DC-based investigative journalist
and columnist. He wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth.
Madsen can be reached
at: WMadsen777@aol.com
In five pages of scrawl the suspect, Luke
Woodham, also talks of being unloved.
``I am the epitome of all Evil! I have no
mercy for humanity for they created me, they
tortured me until I snapped and became what I
am today,'' he wrote in the papers used as
court evidence this week.
Woodham, 16, advised: ``Hate the accursed
god of Christianity. Hate him for making you!
Hate him for flinging you into a monstrous
life you did not ask for nor deserve! Fill
your heart, mind, and soul with hatred; until
it's all you know . . . hate until you can't
anymore.''
Prosecutors allege he was a member of a
devil-worshiping group and was instructed by
the group leader to kill his former
girlfriend and others at Pearl High School on
Oct. 1.
Rumors of a satanic cult had circulated in
Pearl, a town of 22,000, since Boyette and
five other teens were arrested on conspiracy
charges Oct. 7.
Woodham is in jail on three counts of
murder, accusing of stabbing his mother
before going to school, then firing on a
group of students, killing two, including his
ex-girlfriend Christina Menefee.
- Dad had knife
right through him!
Rocky Mountain
News - Fri Aug 15 1997
Lakewood - A man with
kitchen knives sticking out of his chest
and his back managed to call 911 to
report that his 14-yearold son had just
attacked him.
"My son just
stabbed me," Clifford Eugene Ridle
told a dispatcher. "He just ran
off". Riddle, 46, was in critical
condition clinging to life Thrursday at
St Anthony Hospital Central. His son
David and the boys 15-yearold girlfriend
- followers of the occult known as
"gothics" - were arrested about
an hour after the attack Wednesday night.
The teenagers are being held at a
juvenile facility on suspicion of
attempted first-degree murder.
Authorities said they may be charged as
adults!
"They seemed to be
reasonably pleased with themselves over
doing this", Agt Les Williams said
Thursday. "These two were
scary!".
(Comment.
NB. Behaviour such as this is atypical of
persons who have dabbled in devil
worsahip - satanism, but this fact is
deliberately kept from the mass of the
public but the socalled authorities! Only
a fool would not believe that there is a
conspiracy by the highest ranking police
authorities and the big news
corporations!)
The
teens told him they planned to go to
California he said. He said the boys
bedroom had satanic symbols carved
everywhere and that it appears he is a
devotee of Marilyn Manson, whose music
has occult overtones.
Williams
desc ribed the "gothics" as a
loose knit hate group. They dont like
minorities; some of their graffiti is
indicative of that, he said "This is
not a nic e group." Members dress in
black , dye their hair, wear pancake
makeup and black lipstick" he said.
The
ambush occured at 7.20 pm when Riddle
arrived at his West Kentucky Drive home
from work, police said. According to a
copy of the 911 call police released
Thursday, Clifford Riddle told police
what happened.
"It
was dark when I got home, I just walked
in the door", he said. He urged
paramedics to respond quickly. He said
his wounds were gurgling. "Hurry, Im
not going to last much longer,"
Riddle said.
Dispatchers
told him to try to stop the bleeding and
urged him to stay calm.They also told him
not to remove the knife. He didnt realise
at the time he had also been stabbed in
the back, police said. " That tape
was incredible due to the severityof the
injuries and the ammount of blood he
lost," said Lakewood police
spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough. Neighbors
said they saw a boy and girl running from
the Riddle home. Arie Kroon said he then
saw Clifford Riddle kneeling on the
pavement. "I cant believe that guy
is still alive - he had a butcher knife
right through him," Kroon said.
"He was ver y calm and
relaxed."
Police
said that when they arrested the teens a
few blocks from the Riddle home, David
Riddle was bleeding from cuts. Police
said he was injured while fleeing through
the window of his bedroom.
Clifford
Riddlke and his son had recently moved
into the home. The boys mother still
lives in Aurora. Court records indicate
the couple began divorce proceedings in
February.
Neighbors
said David Riddle was supposed to be sent
to a juvenile detention facility this
week. They did not reveal why but said he
did not want to go. David Riddle
frequently wore military style camouflage
fatigues, they said.
Ryan
Guerra, 20, said David Riddle had dyed
hair and dark nails and frquently
admitted following the occult.
"He
spoke about being into the gothic. He
said, "Its evil," Guerra
recalled. He said "They have a more
evil outlook on life."
A 13
yearold boy who asked that his name not
be used said David Riddle had told him he
planned to attack his father, but the
friend didsnt believe he would go
througfh with it.
"He
was confused. He was confused about
everything," the friend said.
"His life wasnt going that
perfectly." Davids room revealed a
dark world, he said. "His whole room
was like that, it was like death
itself." he said.
......................................................................................
The two
accounts above are more common than the
police would like us to believe! Things
like this have been happening since the
1970s but have been increasing in
frequency in recent years!
A
perfect example is the Sean Seller
murders - murdered his mother and father,
and several other people - later he
boasted of the murders to a friend!
Sean Sellers: Lavey's
Influence
http://www.anunseenworld.com/lavey.html
Who was Sean
Sellers?
The
above links are on Christian"
websites, still trying to cover up the
fact that many christian groups, cults,
churches and "prayer groups"
are simply fronts for devil worship!
This
is typical of someone who is possessed as
a result of their dabbling in devil
worship - satanism!
I have
no doubt its happening in Ireland - I personally
suspect a recent murder in Kilkenny
resulted in the killers involvement in
devil worship!
Witches
, "the devil told me to kill",
demon possession and Evangelical Christian
cults (Charismatic and Pentecostal Born Again
Christian sects)
BEHIND THE YATES KILLINGS: STERN
RELIGION, PATRIARCHIAL TEACHINGS AND A
RANTING STREET EVANGELIST
from AMERICAN ATHEISTS NEW, Wednesday,
March 13, 2002
BEHIND THE YATES
KILLINGS: STERN RELIGION, PATRIARCHIAL
TEACHINGS AND A RANTING STREET EVANGELIST
Andrea Yates, the 37-year-old housewife
who admitted to drowning her five children,
was convicted of murder yesterday after just
three hours of deliberation by a Texas jury.
The case and trial received national
coverage. Last year, Yates called 911 to
inform police that she had lured the
youngsters into the bathroom and drowned them
in the tub. Defense attorneys claimed that
extreme postpartum depression rendered her
incapable of rational thought, and that Yates
was clinically insane at the time of the
killings. They pointed to a long history of
mental problems, including confinement in
institutions, suicide attempts and a history
of prescribed anti-depressive drug
treatments.
Yates' precipitous slide into mental
illness become the subject of reports on
television and print media, including a
feature story in Time Magazine. A book,
"Breaking Point" by Texan author
Suzy Spencer, delved into the Yates' family
life.
One disturbing thread in the Yates saga
involves the role of religious belief, and
the family's ties to a controversial
fire-and-brimstone street preacher named
Michael Peter Woroniecki. Some accounts
suggest that Woroniecki's extreme Christian
fundamentalism may have contributed to Andrea
Yates' psychological problems, which included
a fixation with demonic possession and the
view that human existence was continually
"under the curse of sin and death."
Both Andrea Yates and her husband, Rusty,
had a close and lengthy relationship with
pastor Woroniecki and his wife, Rachel. Rusty
first met the evangelist in the 1980s while a
student at Auburn University. Woroniecki was
touring the country in a trailer, preaching
at college campuses and distributing
literature reflecting his brand of cranky Old
Testament religion.
According to the Grand Rapids Press
newspaper, Rusty Yates described Woroniecki
as "a quiet and simple preacher"
who had broken with orthodox Protestantism
and challenged "fat cat preachers"
about their watered-down beliefs. Woroniecki
and his wife then became "spiritual
advisers" to the Yateses, who despite
their marginal lifestyle often sent money to
help the traveling preacher with expenses.
Woroniecki preached a stern and
patriarchal doctrine. In letters and taped
messages to the family, he claimed "all
women are descendants of Eve and Eve was a
witch. The women, particularly women who
worked outside the home, are wicked."
According to Spencer, one of those letters
was sent to Andrea Yates in the spring of
1999, just a few months before her first
suicide attempt.
"The Woroniecki's letters are
hammering her about her salvation,"
Spencer said.
Woroniecki's street ministry has included
not only informal appearances at college
campuses where he berates students about sex
and the devil, but stints at events like the
Mardi Gras, the Rose Bowl and even the
Olympic games. He sets up his microphone and
begins a religious rant, frequently
exchanging verbal barbs with onlookers.
According to his brother, Woroniecki also
travels to Mexico and has visions of
establishing a ministry throughout Center
America.
Michael Woroniecki was raised a Roman
Catholic and spent his teenage years playing
sports. He became a fullback for Central
Michigan University. While hospitalized for
an injury, he began reading a Bible given to
him by his mother. "Once back on the
field, Woroniecki wore a gold cross on his
maroon CMU helmet," noted the Press.
"By 1980, Woroniecki had morphed into
one of Grand Rapid's most notorious street
preachers," and began using a bullhorn
on street corners to denounce sinners. Public
events like concerts or even gatherings at
local churches became a favorite venue.
He was arrested at least five time (sic)
for a variety of offenses, including
disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace.
In October, 1981, Woroniecki allegedly
accosted a women who was attempting to
purchase tickets for a circus, and told her
"she was a sinner who was going to
hell." Charges were filed, and as part
of a plea bargain, Woroniecki agreed to leave
Grand Rapids in exchange for no prosecution.
He moved to Florida where he began touring
the country with his wife and six children in
a 17-foot travel trailer.
Despite his peripatetic lifestyle and
self-imposed exile to the fringes of American
religious culture, Woroniecki still somehow
managed to make ends meet, and even take his
family on international trips. In 1992, for
instance, he preached outside the Olympic
Stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Three years
later he was in Morocco where a confrontation
with Muslims ignited a small riot. The van he
and his family were touring in was
vandalized, and the Woronieckis were jailed,
questioned and later released. Woroniecki is
also known to have made trips to Russia,
Greece and Belgium. In 1996 he was back in
the United States where he preached to
visitors at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. And
in October, 2000, Woroniecki returned to
Michigan where he and his daughter
"sprinted across the field in Spartan
Stadium during a Saturday football game in
Lansing. Both were carrying pro-Christian
banners."
The greatest publicity for the loquacious
street preacher, though, would come from his
close ties to the Yates case.
Andrea Yates was obsessed with religion
and the power of Satan. Following her arrest,
for instance, she told doctors that the
deaths of her five children were punishment,
and that only execution would free her from
the clutches of the devil. She also wanted
her head shaved so she could see the number
666 on her skull, the alleged "Mark of
the Beast."
At home, the Yates family lived a
lifestyle saturated with stern, patriarchal
religion -- most of it conforming to the
teachings of Michael Woroniecki and his wife.
In one letter, Rachel Woroniecki wrote,
"Life is so short. It is so very cruel.
It is so lonely and empty. You must accept
the reality that this life is under the curse
of sin and death."
Noted Spencer in her book "Breaking
Point, "They (the Woronieckis)
constantly equate loneliness, depression,
anything negative in your life is separation
from God and alignment with Satan."
Indeed, Yates later discussed a trip to
Florida during the summer of 1998 when she
and her husband met the Woronieckis and
discussed the purchase of a motor home. It
was, according to Andrea, the first epiphany
that "the devil had gotten into
her," Spencer said.
There were also the peculiar views of
Rusty Yates, who saw his wife's mental
illness as an indication that her resistance
to evil had been lowered. And, too, there was
the non-stop sequence of pregnancies and
births. Birth control was not part of the
agenda at the Yates household. The youngsters
were home-schooled according to Woroniecki's
teachings, placing more stress and
responsibility on their mother.
Randy Yates had also absorbed the
patriarchal teachings of Michael Woroniecki
which held that women should occupy a
subservient position in the home. This and
other elements of Christian fundamentalism
were encouraged through a regimen of family
Bible study three nights a week, presumably
since Rusty had not found a church compatible
with his beliefs. According to the
Apologetics Research web site, Andrea was
"moved by the repent-or-burn zeal"
of Woroniecki's teachings. "The role of
woman is derived .. from the sin of
Eve," wrote the itinerant preacher.
There was also the belief that bad
"seed" leads to generational
contamination - that sinful parents will
spawn sinful and evil children.
Trial Revelations
Woroniecki's role as a "spiritual
leader" and friend of the Yates family
emerged at the close of the trial. Defense
attorney George Parnham admitted into
evidence a copy of Woroniecki's newsletter,
"The Perilous Times." One section
included a poem excoriating the disobedient
children of a "Modern Mother
Worldly."
"What becomes of the children of such
a Jezebel?" asked the poem. Houston
psychiatrist Lucy Puryear testified that this
type of literature is "what her (Yates')
delusions are built around."
Another incident underscored Woroniecki's
authoritarian and misogynistic religious
beliefs. During a 1994 rant at Brigham Young
University, for instance, he described women
as "contemporary witches."
"Go and be a 20th century career
woman and forget about your families,"
he told an informal gathering of curious
Mormon students. A pamphlet distributed by
Rachel Woroniecki to onlookers proclaimed,
"As man was created to dominate, God
reveals was woman was created to be his
helpmeet (sic)."
On the stand, Randy Yates repeated that
sentiment, telling the court "Man is the
breadwinner and woman is the homemaker. It's
the way it's been for years."
He also detailed his family's close
relationship with Michael Woroniecki, noting
that the preacher believed that by the time a
child reached the age of 14 or 15, it may be
too late to undo the damage of the secular
world. Attorney Parnham pressed for Yates to
explain.
"I think what he's (Woroniecki)
saying, it might keep them from following the
Lord long-term. The vast majority of people
are going to hell..."
A Growing Fringe:
Demonic Possession, Exorcism
Jurors decided that Andrea Yates was
"sane" and knew right from wrong
when she systematically enticed her children
into the bathroom and methodically murdered
them. The trial produced overwhelming
evidence, however, that there were time
throughout her life when she was caught up in
the web of mental illness, enthralled by
delusions about her own sinfulness and lack
of self-worth, and the immanence of demonic
control. These ideas are quietly shunned by
many mainstream Christian denominations, but
they inform a growing subculture of American
religions who see the world as a stage of
"spiritual warfare" between God and
Satan. Most might reject the low-rent tactics
of an crude, loutish preacher like
Woroniecki, but many of his teachings
concerning a subservient status of women,
emphasis on suffering and guilt, and the
notion of demonic possession resonate in a
thriving and growing subculture.
Since the late 1970s, for instance, there
have been periodic waves of "Satanic
panic" involving fears of
devil-worshipping cults, or the belief that
Satan exists as a real force in human
affairs. The recent popularity of the Harry
Potter juvenile book series, for instance,
was accompanied by concerns that the novels
enticed children into Satanism and the
occult. The 1973 hit movie "The
Exorcist" has remained popular fare on
television and VHS. That contributed to the
pop-culture fascination with "Satan's
Underground," the subject of numerous --
and questionable -- books, documentaries and
media specials through the 1980s by
self-styled experts who warned of a
proliferation of cabals of powerful devil
worshippers. Not surprisingly, there has been
a steady proliferation of claims involving
demonic possession. From 1989 to 1995, over
300 possible exorcism cases were examined by
the Roman Catholic Church in the New York
City.
Pentecostals, Charismatic Protestants and
others have joined the exorcism road show,
and the ritual now incorporates
emotionally-charged "prayer
meetings" and "healing"
gatherings.
Michael Cuneo, author of the new book
"American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in
the Land of Plenty" observes that the
fascination with demonic possession and
exorcism has recently moved closer to the
cultural mainstream.
"I have seen several hundred
impeccably groomed, middle-class Americans
writhing and shrieking and groaning (some
simulating masturbation) while attempting to
free themselves from demons of sexual
perversity ... I have watched an avuncular
physician exorcise spirits of guilt and
self-hatred from one of his patients..."
And what about the resurgence of harsh,
Old Testament style Christianity?
As enrollment in mainstream denominations
declines or stagnates, it is the energetic
fundamentalist, Charismatic and Pentecostal
churches that are finding a new, wider and
credulous audience. Christian
Reconstructionists advocate the creation of a
"Bible-based society" founded on
Old Testament law. Such a regime would ban
abortion, punish a wide range of trivial
offenses (such as disobedience to one's
parents or the practicing of
"witchcraft") with death, and
eviscerate the First Amendment separation of
church and state. On a less politically
explicit level, books and videos dealing with
themes such as the Apocalypse, demonic
possession and "spiritual warfare"
are enjoying new-found popularity not only
within religious groups but with the wider
culture as well.
Andrea Yates may not have been technically
"insane" under the law when she
murdered her five children, but she was
certainly disturbed, mad, and wracked with
religious delusions. Not everyone who follows
fringe evangelists like Michael Woroniecki,
or might agree with many of his Old Testament
teachings would commit such a ghastly act, of
course. But the line separating authoritarian
religious conviction and mental illness may
be more tenuous than courts, or American
society, might wish to admit.
For further information:
http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/devil1.htm
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Autopsies Show
that Headless Kids in Brownsville Were First
Smothered
Lubbock,
TX, Avalanche-Journal ^ | 03-16-03 | AP
Posted on 03/16/2003
1:36:37 PM PST by Theodore R.
Headless kids smothered first Associated
Press
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — Autopsies show
that three South Texas children were
smothered, then stabbed several times before
their heads were severed.
The children's parents, 23-year-old Angela
Camacho and her 22-year-old common-law
husband John Allen Rubio, have confessed to
killing the three together, Brownsville
Police Chief Carlos Garcia said.
Camacho and Rubio are charged with capital
murder and are being held without bail in
single cells on suicide watch in Cameron
County Jail, Sheriff Conrado Cantu told The
Brownsville Herald in Saturday's editions.
Justice of the Peace Tony Torres announced
autopsy results Friday. The bodies of
2-month-old Mary Jane Rubio, 1-year-old John
Esthefan Rubio and 3-year-old Julisa Angela
Quezada were taken to Guerra Funeral Home.
Public viewing was to begin at noon
Saturday. Funeral services will begin at 2
p.m. Sunday in the funeral home's Chapel of
the Holy Spirit.
On Friday, family members cried softly in
a private viewing at the tiny caskets. Pink
and blue flowers and animals were piled in
front of the funeral home.
Dr. Marguerite DeWitt, who completed the
children's autopsies Thursday at Valley
Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, told
Torres that the children died of asphyxiation
and that the decapitated bodies had several
stab wounds.
Police officers identified three knives
Tuesday that possibly were used in the
slayings.
The children's father, according to a
relative, had recently reported hearing
family members' voices coming from the youths
and that the devil had been speaking to him.
Investigators scouring the family's
dilapidated apartment Tuesday night told
Torres that the children's mother held their
bodies while Rubio severed their heads.
Law officers found the little girls'
bodies Tuesday bundled in trash bags, and the
boy's headless and washed body lying naked at
the foot of their bed after an acquaintance
summoned police.
Officers said Rubio fathered the two
youngest children while Camacho was mother of
all three. Rubio, a former Porter High School
student, and Camacho, a Mexican national,
were transferred from Brownsville Municipal
Jail to county jail facilities early Friday.
The sheriff said Mexican Consulate
authorities called Friday morning to contact
Camacho, who is from Matamoros. But she
refused to speak with them. Meanwhile,
court-appointed attorney Bruce Tharpe met
Friday morning with Camacho and Rubio.
Tharpe on Friday afternoon filed motions
to reconsider the couple's no-bond status and
to conduct an examining trial.
County Court-at-law Judge Janet Leal said
Friday that she signed two separate search
warrants this week — one to search the
property and another to sift through the
defendants' bloody clothes and belongings.
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Jury Acquits Texas Mother
Who Killed Sons
TYLER, Texas - A
woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in
the heads of her sons was acquitted of all
charges by reason of insanity Saturday after
a jury determined she did not know right from
wrong during the killings.
A jury found
that Deanna Laney was legally insane May 9
when she killed her two older sons, ages 6
and 8, in the front yard and left the
youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib. Laney,
39, would have received an automatic life
sentence had she been convicted of capital
murder.
Laney broke
into tears as the verdict was read. Her
husband, Keith Laney, sat solemnly with his
head down. A few jurors cried and struggled
to maintain their composure.
State law
allows Laney to be committed to a maximum
security state hospital. Medical evaluations
will dictate when she will be released. She
will remain at the Smith County Jail until a
hearing regarding her transfer.
Defense
attorney Tonda Curry said the verdict doesn't
mean Laney escaped punishment.
"Now and
for the rest of her life, the punishment and
torment that's going on in her own head is
more significant and more damaging to her
than anything the criminal justice system
could have done, other than death,"
Curry said.
All five
mental health experts consulted in the case,
including two for the prosecution and one for
the judge, concluded that a severe mental
illness caused Laney to have psychotic
delusions that rendered her incapable of
knowing right from wrong during the killings
— the standard in Texas for insanity.
Smith County
District Attorney Matt Bingham said had no
regrets about taking the case to trial.
"This is
a case that the citizens of this county
needed to make the decision on," he
said.
Jurors
deliberated about seven hours before reaching
their verdict in the deaths of 8-year-old
Joshua and 6-year-old Luke, and the beating
of Aaron. The baby was found bleeding in his
crib while the other two were found with
their skulls smashed in the front yard.
Defense
attorneys argued that insanity was the only
reason why a deeply religious mother who
homeschooled her children would kill two of
them and maim another without so much as a
tear.
"There
was no crying," Curry said. "She
was insane. There is no other answer."
Psychiatrists
testified that Laney believed she was
divinely chosen by God — just as Mary
was chosen to bear Christ — to kill her
children as a test of faith and then serve as
a witness after the world ended. In a
videotape played at her trial, Laney said she
saw her youngest son play with a spear, hold
a rock and squeeze a frog, and took them all
as signs from God that she should kill her
children.
In closing
arguments earlier Saturday, prosecutors
portrayed the killings last Mother's Day
weekend as deceptively planned and coldly
executed.
"It was
graphic, it was horrific and it was
brutal," Bingham told the jury.
Bingham
pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted
Joshua's killing: "He got strike after
strike after strike on his head to the point
that his brains were coming out of his head
like liquid."
Prosecutors
said that even if Laney believed she was
doing right by God, she had to have known she
was doing wrong by state law. Her first call,
they pointed out, was to 911 to summon
authorities.
The 911 tape
was among the evidence jurors reviewed during
deliberations. Jurors also had asked for
psychiatric testimony to resolve a
disagreement over why Deanna Laney stopped
beating Aaron, then 14 months old, but they
reached a verdict before receiving the
transcript.
Psychiatrists
testified that Laney couldn't finish killing
the baby, and that she told God, "You're
just going to have to do the rest."
Prosecutors said that action indicated Laney
knew right from wrong and that if she chose
to disobey God's orders by not killing Aaron,
she could have disobeyed his orders to kill
the other two.
Bingham said
Aaron, who lives with his father, suffered
permanent injuries in the attack.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20040403/ap_on_re_us/children_slain
Jury Weighs Case of
Mom Who Killed 2 Sons
By LISA FALKENBERG,
Associated Press Writer
TYLER, Texas - A
jury on Saturday began deliberating whether a
homemaker was insane when she used rocks to
bludgeon two of her sons to death and
severely injure a third after receiving what
she claimed were orders from God.
Deanna Laney,
sitting several feet away from a poster-sized
portrait of her three children, wept
uncontrollably as prosecutors portrayed the
killings last Mother's Day weekend as
deceptively planned and coldly executed.
"It was
graphic, it was horrific and it was
brutal," prosecutor Matt Bingham told
the jury during closing arguments earlier
Saturday.
Laney, 39, has
pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to
murder in the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and
6-year-old Luke, and serious injury to a
child for the beating of Aaron, now 2.
Bingham
pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted
Joshua's killing: "He got strike after
strike after strike on his head to the point
that his brains were coming out of his head
like liquid."
Defense
attorney Tonda Curry began her argument by
asking the jury why a deeply religious woman
known as a loving, devoted mother who
homeschooled her children would kill two of
her children and maim another without so much
as a tear.
"There
was no crying," Curry said. "She
was insane. There is no other answer."
She recalled a
tape of Laney calling 911 after midnight on
May 10, calmly reporting the murders and
directing authorities to her home.
"Do you
remember that voice?" Curry asked the
jurors, who sat solemn faced, some appearing
pensive. "Have you ever heard a voice
like that, so empty of emotion?"
About three
hours into deliberations, the jury asked
Judge Cynthia Kent for the 911 tape, the
transcript of that call and the testimony of
Laney's husband, Keith. The judge agreed to
give jurors only the tape, saying the
transcript had not been admitted as evidence
and that jurors could review Keith Laney's
testimony only if they cite a specific
disagreement over it.
Curry stressed
that five psychiatric experts, including one
hired by the judge and two by the
prosecution, concluded that a severe mental
illness caused psychotic delusions and made
Laney incapable of knowing right from wrong
during the killings — the standard in
Texas for insanity.
"We have
five consistent medical opinions that say
she's insane and none to the contrary,"
Curry said.
If Laney is
found innocent by reason of insanity, she
would be committed to a hospital for
treatment. Medical evaluations would dictate
when she would be released.
If convicted
of capital murder, she would be sentenced to
life in prison, with the possibility of
parole in 40 years. If convicted of serious
injury to a child, a first-degree felony, the
sentence could range from five years to 99
years or life.
Laney, who
home-schooled her children in the tiny town
of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of
Dallas, was convinced she was divinely chosen
by God to kill her children last Mother's Day
weekend, psychiatrists testified.
5/4/04
Rumsfeld Rules Out
Islamic Regime In Iraq
The fascist Born Again
CIA Bush regime disregard the wishes
of the Iraqi nation and dictate who
will govern by placing their puppet
chosen Iraqi stooge leaders in their
socalled free government of Iraq.
3-4-04
- Photo of the Monument
to the missing people of Ireland!
"Disappeared off the face of the
earth!"
Judge Curtin
