Assange Blames Media "Our Number One enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the Number one enemy for everyone. ... It is only when you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now, the question is, who is promoting ignorance? Well, those organizations that try to keep things secret, and those organizations which distort true information to make it false or misrepresentative. In this latter category, it is bad media. It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world would not be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is that we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on. One of the things that I have discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies." Source: Interview on RTV: 2nd May 2011

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Hang The Witch! This is an eye-witness drawing of the public hanging of three women accused of involvement in Paganism in Chelmsford, England, in 1589. Joan Prentis is on the right. The other two innocents are Joan Cony and Joan Upney. Many other people, mostly women, fell victim to the vicious and unyeilding fanatical prejudice which squeezed the life out of poor Joan Prentis as she danced on the end of that rope, watched in her death throes by smug self-righteous people who believed that any action was justified to 'protect' their own world-view.

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MORE CASES OF RITUAL ABUSE THAN YOU CAN COUNT! A story was set in motion that a child had been kidnapped and crucified... a short while later another rumour started concerning a boy, kidnapped as the others had been; crucified, his heart cut from his body and burned. Then a Christian fundamentalist published a document which called the public's attention to the 'wickedness' of these ritual killers. He assured his readers that they were the enemies of decent folk; that these abusers worshipped their own gods secretly and were dirty and unclean. He proclaimed that the reason people often fell into a mysterious illness when members of this cult were around was because they were poisoners and used drugs on their victims. And if anyone had doubted the rumours that it was their custom to kidnap children and sacrifice them more cases were said to have been brought to light in all parts of the country! H ow many more ritual murders did they imagine had remained undiscovered? Hundreds, perhaps thousands. These ritual abusers were immoral, lived only to indulge themselves, raped virgin children and squandered their seed in an attempt to increase their race in an obsessive attempt to overwhelm Christianity. They even Jeered at the Holy rites of the Cross which they hated and constantly worked against. To counteract these ritual abusers this Christian fundamentalist started a one-man campaign to alert officialdom and set out on a tour through the land. In every town he came to he demanded action against the killers and called for the police to root them out.... Who was the Christian Fundamentalist? Alonso de Spina A Franciscan Monk. Who was he persecuting? Not Witches or Satanists but Jews in Spain in 1450. What was the result? The Inquisition published a list of all Jewish rites and activities so that Christian Activists might know what they had to look for in order to unmask Jewish Ritual Child Abuse in their midst. Ultimately this caused the horrific torture and public execution of thousands of innocent Jews - many of whom were burned alive at the stake ' to purify their souls'. (paraphrased from pp116 and pp117 of Jean Plaidy's history of The Spanish Inquisition published 1959).

And They Talk About Ritual Child Abuse! The above woodcut is from Samuel Clarke's Martyrology (1651) which illustrated the vicious and horrific mechanisms the Inquisition used to do it's work. The caption reads 'Pregnant womens' bellies are ripped open and their foetuses crushed under foot.

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Wilfred Wong Spreading Religious Hatred An escapee from the 1990 Satanic Panic tries to start a new one in 2020. Read how the fundies work their magic.	The Failed USA SRA Cases the Fundies don't want you to see. Read of the tragic consequences of believing in stupid people who lie about Satanic Ritual Abuse.  Look how the so-called Justice System failed these victims of the SRA witch-hunt.
SAFF crock two of the latest Conspiracyloon memes on Geoffrey Dickens. The Hutchinson-Brittan contract killing Hit List and MI5 Flat Buggers are apocryphal rumour - we prove it.	Audrey Harper's DANCE WITH THE DEVIL is a  pack of Sectarian Lies, Not proof of anything. SAFF dismantle the Baby Killing fantasies of the wickedest fundie book of the 20th Century.
30 Years Of Religious Persecution That Shames Britain. The Satan Myth Is Back in 2020! New Generation of Jesus Freaks are on the Satanic Abuse Warpath and they think you've forgotten the Lies they put out last time!	The Gospel According to the Three Blind Mice: Geoffrey Dickens' fundie Granddaughter jumps on the SRA Bandwagon with Jon Wedger ' to finish Grandad's work ' slating Paganism.  You won't believe how dim they are.
The Sinason Devil Report. SAFF obtain the Secret Document at last. It was hidden for 24 years but now you can read the SRA document that the Department of Health tried to bury.	Inside Gullible Minds: RAINS Satan Hunter Evidence Worthless. At last the SAFF can reveal the source of the flimsy 'evidence' used to back 26 year allegations about Satanic Ritual Abuse
REACHOUT: Christian Survivor Lobby attempts to rehash FalseSatan Scare evidence which wasted the UK £millions before it was discredited in 1990s. Will stupid MPs fall for it a second time? Yes!	BROXTOWE:  The Very first Test-Case of Satanic Abuse in the U.K. which started the 1990 scare.  The people behind it, their networks and the methods they used to con the British Public into believing a myth.
The Rise and Fall of David Icke, SAFF chart his development from New-Age guru to promoter of Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda. 100% Prophetic Fail	THE TRUTH ABOUT THE JERSEY HAUT GARENNE SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE FIASCO: Another Abject Failure by the Child Scare Industry. We timeline the idiocities so you can see how the scare developed and then failed.
Panorama Exposes Deceits Behind The Westminster VIP paedophile ring Myth: But it takes SAFF insider research to reveal the core agitators. Exclusive! Read the FULL story behind the £Millions wasted by UK police.	THE TRUE BACKGROUND TO 'NICK' AND THE HARVEY PROCTOR ALLEGATIONS. 'Nick', Harvey Proctor, Exaro News and the Truth behind Compulsive Liars in the 'survivor' network. How the British public were sucked into a Munchhausen wonderland.
Cook Report Man dredges up Cleveland Mass-lift Scandal After 27 years, one official inquiry and the damning Shieldfield court case Tim Tate is still telling anyone who listens that the uber-feminists who started the scare were right!	THE DISAPPEARING DICKENS DOSSIERS: Our Unique Dossier Timeline Reveals The Truth About What Went Where and When. With the Prime Minister and Home Secretary   calling for an investigation into Geoffrey Dickens 'lost' Dossier we expose Dickens Dossier Scam.
MASSACRE OF 150 JEWS AT YORK CAUSED BY 12c SATANIC PANIC SAFF exposes the truth about a despicable act of sectarian malice from which the U.K. is still suffering. Clifford's Tower deaths were NOT suicide but a Blood Libel arocity.	DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BLUNDERS - Prof J La Fontaine, who headed up the official government report on SRA breaks her silence to explain how the Satanic Panic was created and why it is still with us.
THE SCARY TRUTH ABOUT THE NEW WORLD ORDER ZIONIST CONSPIRACY MYTH  Neo Nazis and Arab Terrorists  join forces to push The Protocols of The Elders of Zion onto unsavy Conspiracy theorists. Will millions have to die again?	BREIVIK NORWAY KILLINGS KICK-START HOLY WAR: Utoya Massacre Heralds Christianity Vs Islam Conflict based on New World Order Satan Myth
PAGANISM ON TRIAL: Wicca in the dock as State witch-hunting recommences - will you be next?:  Falmouth 'White Witch' case uses historic 'blood libels'   against Paganism to push through claims of 'Ritualised Sex Abuse'	SAVILE-MONSTER!  READ THE REAL BACKGROUND TO THE JIMMY SAVILE ALLEGATIONS SRA trooper Valerie Sinason claims Sir Jimmy Savile was a key member of a Satanic Paedophile ring and the British press sucker-in yet again.
WITCH-CHILD ACTION PLAN GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR MORE FALSE CASES: Government's latest clanger in child protection misses the mark. Satan Hunters regroup and fool Department for Education into more false SRA.	HE'S AT IT AGAIN!  ROGER COOK STILL HOUNDING AN INNOCENT MAN AFTER 20 YEARS Latest Cookie dissimulations require the full story of The Devil's Work to be told. Now you have all the facts to decide for yourself.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND ROCKED BY PRIESTLY ABUSE COVER-UP>:Sussex Clergy Abuse Network Exposed in Dame Butler-Sloss's Official report. Has the spectre of Priestly Abuse hit the CofE?	WITCH-CHILDREN TORTURED TO DEATH BECAUSE STOBART REPORT MISSES THE MARK Black Church Exorcisms Mount as Orthodox Religion Turns a Blind Eye to The Deadly Menace in our midst.
CROWLEY IS REINCARNATION OF JACK THE RIPPER Mark Beynon plays into fundies hands with London's Curse Pot-boiler. Tutankhamen's Curse linked to Crowley Killings in travesty of the truth perpetuates SRA myth - more trouble ahead.	HOW SATAN HUNTERS PUSHED A MENTAL PATIENT TOO FAR Private Eye exposes the strange death of Carol Myers, SRA victim imposter cover up.
EXORCISMS ON THE NHS: Archbishop of York Wants Bell Book And Candle Instead of psychiatry Claims he exorcised young girl.	ANOTHER PAEDOPHILE-PRIEST SCANDAL ROCKS ROME! Belgian Church Collapses, Bishop resigns as Paedophile Priests Found Grooming Kids For Abuse.
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO THE SATANISTS ARE HUH? We compare the torture techniques of 16c witch-finders with the antics of Modern Satan Hunters and find surprising similarities.	.  HOW MET POLICE FELL FOR THE ST WINEBALD BUNKUM Scotland Yard Recommence Satan Seminars - We reveal the facts which the Met Police couldn't Spot!
BREIVIK NORWAY KILLINGS KICK-START HOLY WAR: Utoya Massacre Heralds Christianity Vs Islam Conflict based on New World Order Satan Myth	CLING-FILM KILLER NOT SATANIC ABUSE:Ineta Dzinguviene smothers her newborn because of Puerperal Psychosis?
POSSESSED STABBER CASE: Aawwh, stop muckin' about! Lorraine Mbulawa Trial Creates The Devils Defence.	ASIAN SEX GANGS: 16,000 victims? Margaret Jervis and Chris Saltrese challenge the latest statistics from the Child Scare Industry advising caution.
KIDWELLY SRA CASE SHOCKER: Fundies Gloat Over Occult-related Child Abuse but we reveal the true background surrounding Colin Batley and his supposed Crowley cult.	THAMES TORSO CASE EXPOSED AS ANOTHER SATAN MYTH: Was 'Adam' killed by Satanists - or was he killed in a Christian exorcism ceremony?
NATIONAL LOTTERY GIVE GRANTS FOR SATANIC ABUSE: RANS and RAINS in the largesse, as Camelot award hundreds of thousands of pounds to Satan Hunters on the warpath.	MEDICAL MONOPOLY ATTACK ON ALERNATIVE HEALING EXPOSED! David Southern and John Freedom Unravel the Dirty Tricks that the Medical Mafia use to Deny You Your Healing Rights.
THE WICCA DAGGER MURDER: Angela Sanford Used Wicca as a front but Fundies say it was Human Sacrifice!	A RITUAL FABRICATION: Was Caroline Marchant's suicide a result of recovered memory therapy?  Her 'case' remains in all the pro-SRA literature but it was all fiction. See it exposed here.
THE PAGAN CREDO: Key Document Truthfully explains what Witches Do.Authored by Stewart & Jannet Farrar, Chris Bray and others.	BOOK REVIEW - FROM WITCHCRAFT TO CHRIST: John Freedom closely examines the book which helped fuel a national panic and finds the claims distinctly lacking.
CARD-CARRYING SATANIST ABUSES 5 YEAR OLD Is this the first real case of Satanic Ritual Child Abuse? We reveal the facts the fundies want to hide	PRAYER-COPS ON THE BEAT: Government Fund Prayer Patrol Vigilantes: We reveal the fundamentalist links.
40,000 PRIESTS IN WORLD-WIDE PAEDOPHILE NETWORK:    Ryan and Murphy reports expose Vatican Cover-Up which confirms the SAFF Black Museum. Shocking cases of priestly abuse.	HUSSEY THE HOAXER: Daniel and his Church of Occult Science - How He Hacks-off The Fundies and got thousands marching in the street!
BIBLE BASHER DEFENCE SYSTEM: Being pestered by missionaries? Then Let Frater ABSALHEVADA give you the antidote to spiritual terrorism.	SECRET SATAN SEMINAR LINES MENTALLY-ILL UP FOR EXORCISM   Fundies con therapists into believing patients are possessed. Schizophrenics watch out!
GRAVEDIGGER CASE: Pervert Uses Occult Motifs To Abuse Young Girls	BLACK MAGIC HIGH PRIEST JAILED FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING BOYS Have The Satan Hunters really unearthed their first genuine case of Satanic Ritual Abuse with the McFadden File?
CALL TO ACTION! TELL THEM WHAT YOU WANT! Government's Freedoms and Rights Initiative may help protect YOUR rights but only if you are quick.	NEW RISKS ALL PARENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT: Recent British 'Nuremberg Laws' give the State power to kidnap your kids and force through their adoption without a hearing - and parents can be imprisoned just for trying to get them back!
	CHURCH OF ENGLAND BEGIN ATTACK ON PAGANISM: Anglicans Join with Fundies to Lie and Cheat about The Old Religion
LATEST HEALTH PROFESSIONS REGHULATIONS ARE CREATING A FASCIST NHS	PRIVATE EYE EXPOSES FIFTH COLUMN OF SATAN HUNTERS IN THAMES TORSO CASE
BISHOP OF BOLTON GOES GA-GA OVER HALLOWEEN Sneaky Christians pretend to be nice but organise country-wide attack on the pagan faith.	WHEN SATAN CAME TO TOWN: The Truth Behind The Rochdale SRA case.  The children speak for themselves to reveal an SS cover-up.  Videos prove it.
FUNDIES TAKE OVER TV. : Now your lifestyle will never be understood because it will never be seen.	WITCH-CHILD PROGRAMME FAILS to Pinpoint the Cause of Deaths Thru Exorcism
IT'S OFFICIAL! ORTHODOX RELIGION IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH Latest Research Proves That Orthodox Religion creates as many problems as it cures.
ROGER COOK'S VICTIM GETS HIS OWN BACK: . Tables Turn for Master TV Doorstepper.	ROGER COOK IS QUIZMASTER FOR A DAY:. Taped Crusader comes out of hiding
NEWCASTLE NURSERY CRIMES FIASCO AVOIDABLE   S.A.F.F. warnings come true. Read how the 1988 McMartin U.S. pre-school witch-hunt scenario came to pass in the U.K. in 2002 .	THE ROAD TO SHIELDFIELD: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE SCARE: Maggie Jervis exposes how feminist activists in the Child Scare Industry joined with fundamentalists to deprive parents of their children.
FEMINIST JOURNALIST BEATRIX CAMPBELL DEMONISES S.A.F.F.	SATANIC HORSE RIPPINGS REPRISE THE SAM SCARE:. Animal Sacrifice Lies Return for Second Helping.
COURT PULP TIM TATE'S BOOK CHILDREN FOR THE DEVIL The Man Who Helped Start The TV Stampeded on Satanic Ritual Abuse Gets It Wrong.	LORD ALTON ALLOWS 'THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS'. TO BE USED TO PROMOTE SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE
31 CASES OF SATANIC ABUSE THAT WEREN'T	THE EXORCIST RIDES AGAIN: BBC Religious Affairs Responsible for Deaths of Children in Exorcisms?
	THAMES TORSO CASE: . Definitely NOT a Voodoo Killing.
DEVIL HUNTER SEMINARS RIDE AGAIN . Thirteen failed years of the Satanic Abuse Lie and the Witch Hunters have the gall to set up yet another key Satanic Abuse Seminar in Reading.	MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE OUIJABOARDIST . - A Salutory Lesson In Terror
READING BETWEEN THE LINES: Songs The Satan Hunters Sing.	I WAS HOAXED ABOUT SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE Admits The Independent's Health Editor
DEVIL REPORT JUNKED Department of Health backs down after wasting 22,000.00 of British Taxpayers money.	KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! What does the recently enacted British Human Rights Act mean to you?
HALLOWEEN HORRORS!: Fundies Launch Cat-Killer Gambit	CAT KILLS SATANISTS AT HALLOWEEN: An antidote to the usual Halloween clap-trap.
THE OCCULT CENSUS The World's First Census of Occultists and Their Beliefs and activities.	FIRST SATANIC VICTIM IMPOSTOR DISCREDITED Lauren Stratford Is Now Discovered pretending to be a Holocaust Survivor!
PAGAN CHILD CARE CHARTER: Kids and paganism - what happens within	THE TRUTH THEY DARE NOT PRINT : 'Satanic' Boy Killer murders after being exorcised by priests at Westminster Abbey
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION: Straw's Religious Discrimination Project Misses Target.	CENSORSHIP ON THE NET: How The Fundies Seek to Censor The Net
	THE BLACK MUSEUM OF PRIESTLY CHILD ABUSE The Historic Document Which Turned The Tide and Exposed Thousands of Abusing Clergy.
THE BLACK MUSEUM II: Sadistic Statistics The Second Historic Document Which Confirmed Clergy as a Threat To Children.	ANOTHER FIREBOMBING OF AN OCCULT BOOKSHOP! Mediaeval Religious Prejudice is alive and well in the 21st Century. See how  the good Burghers of Lincoln hounded out  a  Pagan  couple.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BLUNDERS - Prof J La Fontaine, who headed up the official government report on SRA breaks her silence to explain how the Satanic Panic was created and why it is still with us.	WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID: The official response to SAFF complaints of them wasting taxpayers money on funding specious investigations into SRA.
HOW TO CONTACT US Contribute Information or Access our Research Services	THE NATURE OF MEN AND WOMEN : Feminist lobby misses the point
THE CHILD SCARE INDUSTRY: Moral Blackmail and how it works
SINASON'S SATAN REPORT AND THE BOGUS DEVIL VIDEO MAN: We expose fundie input.	BEYOND BELIEF! Fundie Agitator Fools Channel 4 TV into Duping the British Public.  Christian extremist fools parliamentarians into believing that he has prima facie evidence of Satanic Ritual Abuse, but admits he knew it was only a TOPY performance art video at the start
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Inside Gullible Minds : RAINS Satan Hunter evidence worthless: At last the SAFF can reveal the source of the flimsy 'evidence' used to back 26 year allegations about Satanic Ritual Abuse

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