Inside Gullible Minds

RAINS Satan Hunter evidence is worthless:

At last the SAFF can reveal the source of the flimsy 'evidence' used to back 26 year allegations about Satanic Ritual Abuse

The Ritual Abuse Information Network Support (RAINS) is an organisation which was set up in 1989 by a radical cell of   therapists, psychologists and social workers who believed fanatically that children in the U.K. were being violently abused in satanic rituals.

The intent of RAINS, which according to Joan Coleman, one of it's founders, in a letter to the Independent on 12th Feb 2000, was to convince their professions, the police and the government that Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) existed and to obtain funds to pursue their campaign to project SRA as the most dangerous risk to children. RAINS claimed to have over 200 members Nearly half of their number were therapists who worked with adult 'victims' , the next largest bloc being social workers.

In reality, as history now testifies, SRA was an invention by fundamentalist Christian activists who originally provided 'victim impostors' to 'prove' that the devil was at work.

ROCHDALE AND ORKNEY SCANDALS

When the scandalous dawn-lifts of children from their innocent families occurred in Rochdale, (more info here) , and Orkney, the true extent of the SRA hysteria was seen by the public. After the government had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers' money in public enquiries it became clear that the Satan Seminars often promoted and held by RAINS or it's members had directly contributed to the SRA scare.

These Satan Seminars were a travesty of accepted norms, breaking the professional objectivity between therapist and patient and sometimes using patients who were still in therapy, as keynote speakers at the seminars in a strikingly similar way to that in which newly converted born-again Christians are put on the stage to tell their story of personal redemption from evil during tent Crusades.

Once Prof. Jean La Fontaine's definitive report on SRA stopped them brainwashing toddlers, (Ed: since that report there has not been a single claim of SRA resulting from cases which involve children - all current quoted allegations come from adults ) the only evidence the Satan Hunters were left with were the fantasies from sick adults.    When the truth was uncovered after Rochdale, RAINS regrouped.   They dropped the controversial term 'Satanic Abuse' and began to talk about generalised 'Ritual Abuse' instead. RAINS membership was by invitation only, admission to seminars was strictly controlled, evidence was censored and distributed mainly between members. Investigative journalists who were critical of SRA claims were 'blacked' and treated as 'enemies'. RAINS acted as though anyone who resisted or questioned their nonsense was a closet satanist and part of the SRA conspiracy.

It basically became a secret society which worked behind the scenes at cultivating those people in authority who were more ready to accept the idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse.

Satanic abuse row erupts

Concern over ritual abuse arose in the early 1990s following controversies in Nottingham, Rochdale and the Orkneys. Jean La Fontaine, an anthropologist, was commissioned by the department of health to investigate alleged cases.

Of 84 cases reviewed in her 1994: report, none was considered satanic and three found to have shown any evidence of ritual. Virginia Bottomley, the then Conservative health secretary, declared that the report had exposed satanic abuse as a myth.

It was yesterday conﬁrmed, however, that Valerie Sinason and Rob Hale, who were leading critics of the report, had subsequently received £22,000 from the health department to document evidence of ritual abuse from the reported experiences of their patients.

Ms Sinason, who is based at the Tavistock clinic in London with Dr Hale, who is also a psychiatrist, said 46 of her patients claimed to have witnessed murder of children or adults during ritual abuse ceremonies that had involved up to 300 people at a time.

Interviewed on BBC radio, Prof La Fontaine accused Ms Sinason of being “out of her depth” and unable to produce any hard evidence for her beliefs.

“It’s depressing to find someone who has a position at leading London hospitals who is so cut off from what research methodology is, and what rational evidence is.”

A health department spokeswoman said Ms Sinason and Dr Hale were expected to submit their report, which had the status of a pilot study, in the spring.

ED: NOTE, THE FULL 'SINASON REPORT' WAS NEVER PUBLISHED EITHER BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OR SINASON HERSELF. THERE IS THEREFORE NO WAY TO CHECK HER ALLEGATIONS OF SATANIC ABUSE BUT THE DOCUMENT BELOW People and Places 1: EXPLAINS THE TYPE OF FLIMSY EVIDENCE USED TO SUPPORT RAINS' CONTENTIONS.

Founder member Valerie Sinason became one of the official spokespersons for all things SRA and the story of how she pressed the Department of Health into financing a report on SRA can be seen here : )

Working for years behind the scenes to promote the idea of child abusing Cults and Satanists RAINS members and associated therapists built up a tranche of 'victims' from the pool of recidivist mentally ill. They spent a long time working on the narrative of SRA and defining their victims' experiences with scant checks to avoid the confabulation of previously 'unremembered' satanic experiences.

One popular method they used was to allow patients to lie down go into reverie and 'reverse remember' their past. (see example here) These 'Recovered Memories' (most of which were half fact, half fiction) were blithely accepted as whole real memories nevertheless.

As the RAINS document below clearly shows there was a shocking cross-contamination of SRA allegations between patients. In fact, SRA hunters did all the wrong things necessary to a proper clinical study. Their demand for confirmation of their belief in SRA seemed more important than testing the fantasies of their patients.

TAIL WAGS THE DOG

Most of the first-wave of SRA adult 'victims' (those with the most horrendously violent claims) were fundamentalist agent provocateurs who had been on the born-again circuit for years but never mentioned SRA before.

See Doreen Irvine, and Audrey Harper whose story was often publicised under a pseudonym which sort of doubled-up on the number of cases which the public saw. She was anonymised as 'Black Anna' in a salacious double page spread by the Mirror when she claimed that she had seen babies sacrificed. Click on the photo of Harper to hear her tell her story on a USA fundamentalist video called "Devil Worship and The Rise of Satanism". Bear in mind that the Surrey police investigated her claims TWICE and found no case to answer ). Harper was a director of the evangelical Christian group Reachout (see here for more details of the Reachoug Gang of Five and how they spearheaded the SRAM ) and a member of the Protestant Moravian church.

Another star performer was Lauren Stratford who lied out of her back teeth about SRA, wrote a best selling book about it, and then did a bunk when an investigation found out it was all fiction. Stratford (real name Laurel Rose Willson) resurfaced using another name and pretending to be a child victim of the Nazi holocaust! (see here) . Her book Satan's Underground is still being published and sold on Amazon and it is often used and recommended by SRA therapists.

These christian fanatics, who obviously had a prejudiced hidden agenda in smearing Satanists and Witches, might be expected to say anything to get their biblical warnings heard, but on the back of the sensational publicity caused by the claims of these 'victim impostors' truly mentally ill and dysfunctional patients were sucked in who had been circulating in the therapy circuit for some years before.

These were the patients that regular psychiatry could not apparently satisfy. Many of their earlier therapists were probably glad to hand them over to the SRA contingent! These 'incurable' patients, many with years of analysis and treatment already behind them, now, under 'recovered memory therapy' began making SRA claims which had not featured in their original medical history. (see Carol Myers story here) Many patients now believed in memories which had been created by a combination of their confused imaginations and the over-eagerness of therapists; just as small children had earlier been indoctrinated with SRA motifs which they could not possibly have understood but which they fed back to the SRA hunters who had just put them into their minds. Nowhere is this more ably illustrated than in the video recordings of the 'disclosures' of the Rochdale children:

"Six year old Daniel was given a doll which had been dressed up to look like a ghost in Daniel's stories. Daniel had said he played a game of Tig with the Ghost but the social workers suspected this could be code for something more sinister. The social workers asked Daniel to point to where he had been touched by the Ghost. Daniel clearly indicated that he had been touched on the tummy but this was ignored and from that the social workers concluded that ALL the children had been satanically abused. "
Source: When Satan Came to Town

How RAINS Sucked In The Police

RAINS appears to advertise for people it hopes to indoctrinate but censors people who might question their allegations. They keep the press in the dark:

-"The Press and public were excluded from the seminar" ('Satan Abuse Zealots meet to plan new witch-hunt', Mail on Sunday 15 Sept 1996)

but actively advertised their seminar in the closed circulation Police Review . (See image above.)

Catherine Gould, one of the keynote speakers billed to appear as an expert in SRA at the above RAINS conference, is an American Christian activist who invented a now notorious list of symptoms which social workers could supposedly use to indicated whether or not a child had been 'satanically abused'.

The long list of ridiculous 'Satanic Indicators' diagnosed SRA if, for example, children suffered from nightmares, pulled the arms and legs of dolls and farted at the dinner table.

Catherine Gould's List of Satanic Abuse Indicators

The symptoms' which covered just about every naughtiness healthy children get up to, meant that almost every child would be diagnosed as having been Satanically abused! And so they were! It was reminiscent of the injustice of mediaeval witch-trials and shockingly it featured in all the scandalous SRA cases in the U.K. (Broxtowe, Rochdale, Orkney etc). It was officially condemned afterwards and Gould's 'list' has since been widely discredited in the U.S.A.

GAS ATTACK!

In 1992 Catherine Gould, claimed that Satanists were using poison gas against her team. Gould helped start the Los Angeles Ritual Abuse Task Force (a caucus of believers which was the American counterpart to RAINS). Within months the group was complaining that Satanists were pumping poisoned gas into their homes, offices and vehicles! Was it a publicity gimmick or typical SRA hunter paranoia? Apparently 43 victims had reported headaches, dizziness, numbness, loss of memory, and other subjective experiences. But when the premises were checked it was all found to be psychosomatic in the end. This is a prime illustration of the fact that people can unconsciously exhibit their worst fears. Did the Metropolitan police take on those worst fears?

SATANIC THERAPIST THAT WASN'T

Another American Satan Hunter, Pamela Klein, who was involved with RAINS went into partnership with Norma Howes, a founder member of RAINS, to popularise the idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse in the U.K. based on the premiss that she had leading-edge knowledge from the U.S. Klein 'diagnosed' one of the first cases of claimed SRA in October 1988 and went on to lecture at Bramshill Police College:

'She was employed by Bramshill police college to develop courses on child abuse for senior officers, and she lectured to hundreds of social workers, psychiatrists and other child-care professionals in the U.K.....

before it was discovered that

'she has no licence to practice and is 'not a legitimate therapist' according to a judge in her home state of Illinois'

(Source: Independent on Sunday 24 March 1991.)

After that Klein faded quietly from the U.K. SRA scene.

Alongside this wooing of Britain's police forces by Feminerapists came the Christian activist Maureen Davies, a dental nurse from Rhyll, whose sectarian drivel was accepted at RAINS conferences and many other authorities at the time as fact: So much so that in a workshop for other Christians teaching them how to witness before god, entitled How To Deal With the Occult in Your Area, she wrote:

"Then I started putting letters in the paper and now I have the opportunity to present a situation to Parliament with some MPs at the Home Office and senior police officers."

Ms Davies was referring to her seminar at Bramshill Police College in which she 'taught about black magic rites linked to child abuse and murder'

The ease at which this lady could gain influence within parliamentarians, police, government, charitable, and social worker circles to peddle her socially destructive and totally unproven theories without any qualifications or even direct experience, has GRAVE repercussions for policing and justice in this country. It is also very revealling about the gullibility of those in power. Davies was eventually exposed in a TV documentary 'Week in Week Out' as a troublemaker . See here for SAFFUTUBE clip:

For more information on how RAINS has scoped the attitude of British police in relation to SRA see here:

For more information on RAINS-USA links and supporters see here:

It is clear that the British Police have been on a merry-go-round.

THAMES TORSO

Whilst building up a circus of 'victims' RAINS was also hard at work pressing the authorities in 'strange' cases, reinterpreting their content as SRA. The celebrated one in which the Metropolitan Police were completely stumped was the discovery of the Thames Torso (see here). The direct involvement of RAINS, Sinason and Joan Coleman in the TT case gave the police something to tell the clamouring media and the SRA hysteria began again. The Thames Torso was not a case of SRA as we explained but the Metropolitan police seconded a detective to work with RAINS founder Valerie Sinason on SRA. In short order RAINS even billed him to speak at their next Satan Seminar!

BABY EATING MONSTER

This Met-RAINS collaboration resulted in the policeman and Sinason roping in the Independent on Sunday's social affairs editor to go out on a limb with an expose about them having found a photograph of a Satanist actually eating a baby! It turned out to be a performance-art wind-up for which the Independent had to print a public apology. (see here).

RAINS also liaised with barrister Lee Moore (who herself claimed to have been Satanically abused ) to press the Met into holding private Satan Seminars for the police and these are still ongoing. This did not result in the discovery of any abusing Satanists but it did result in the astonishingly crass St Winebald farce where, based on faulty information supplied by satan hunters, the Met went out on a limb to predict human sacrifice on St Winebald's day and got national headlines for it. The full story of how it was a completely untrue assertion and is contained in this SAFF article here.

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS

The policeman who was partially involved in organising and promoting these Satan Seminars for the Met. (commander Peter Spindler) was the same man who later oversaw the original Operation Yew Tree investigation into 'normal' historical abuse where hysterical claims were made about Jimmy Savile being the UK's 'most prolific abuser' (see here) and which , with the help of the ever-ready NSPCC ("the organisation which never knowingly undersells a statistic") and Valerie Sinason, ( who tagged on spurrious SRA accusations concerning Savile) , eventually morphed into the Paedo-Celebrity hysteria which is currently crucifying old treasures of the entertainment world for nipping bums in the swinging sixties.

KEEP 'EM IN THE DARK

RAINS insisted that they had 'evidence' to prove the existence of SRA but as all their publications are secret and their contributions confidential it is not possible for outsiders to check and challenge their accusations.

Indeed anyone joining RAINS has to sign a 'Confidentiality Bond' and agree to keep their work secret.   This combined with the farcical hypocrisy of 'patient confidentiality' (where the identity of victim imposters who name and accuse others is anonymised both during the police investigation and the trial which may ensue; makes it impossible for outsiders to check out or challenge their allegations).

This lead to the astonishing instance of an anonymous victim who had claimed 25,000.00 from the Criminal Injuries board for giving evidence at a trial where she said she had been raped and then less than two years later giving witness at another trial with different accused claiming that she had been satanically abused. She had not mentioned Satanic Abuse or the second set of perpetrators at the first trial.

Thus independent observers are unable to criticise or properly review the secret evidence - the allegations are simply asserted by RAINS to be a fact and we must take their word for it for to do otherwise would put children at risk, they say. The authorities often DO choose to believe their allegations because of the predisposition (caused by nearly three decades of SRA hysteria) to believe the worst, just in case! Until now that is!   The RAINS document below is the first published account which reveals a list of unvarnished claims and allegations from just one fantasist patient, Helen G, corroborated by her drug-addict friends from a notorious council sink-estate in Havant.

The outpourings of these people, whose word would amount for nothing in normal life without detailed corroboration, are treated as hallowed fact but as can be seen in the document below, it is simply gossip and rumour.

Because it is apparently unreasonable to think that a therapist's administrations might actually cure her patient, these accusations now span seventeen years of therapy!

Thus information from the dysfunctional mind of' Helen G' whose life, like that of her friends, has turned out to be a scrabble of incompetence, dishonour and incapability, has blamed it all on satanists and accused some of the most influential politicians and policemen in the U.K. without one jot of real evidence or fact.

The shocking thing is that this miasma of imagination has been completely and uncritically accepted by RAINS and passed on as thought FACT to people within their circle.

HUMAN SACRIFICE HERE, HUMAN SACRIFICE THERE. WE SEE THAT HUMAN SACRIFICE EVERYWHERE

You will note from the document below that stunning allegations of human sacrifice at stately homes attended by 'the highest in the land' are accepted and recorded without any attempt to confirm or qualify the details. The allegations are passed on to others who receive this list as though a proven fact.

There is no mention whether Joan Coleman, who appears to have been the author of this list, actually bothered to tell the police about these 'murders' and what the results of their enquiries, if any, were. Remember that Joan and Valerie were in close touch with officials in the Met. Did they pass on this information? If not why not? If they did then what did the police investigations result in? Certainly no prosecutions as far as we are aware.

WHO FINGERED TARBUCK AND WHY?

Was it lunatic accusations of this kind which prepared the ground for the suspicion against and subsequent arrest of Jimmy Tarbuck under Operation Yew Tree in May 2013? Did an undercurrent of tittle-tattle amass in the Satan-hunter subculture to almost destroy a nationally known celebrity and was only stopped by the fact that Tarbuck could completely exonerate himself? Tarbuck is mentioned in this RAINS document below as 'having been seen' during 2008 at the location where human sacrifices took place! Did the police question him about this incident we wonder? After the police investigated him, Jimmy Tarbuck was exonerated and released without charge in March 2014. It is therefore clear that when checked the allegations of Helen G are not upheld in his case which strongly suggests that all her other allegations could also be fantasy.

DEVIL CULTS SLAY 100

More than 100 children have been murdered in satanist sex rituals shocked MPs heard ysterday...at a conference at the House of Commons ...organised by three MPs...who are demanding setting up of police teams backed by psychiatrists to crack the evil cults. .....

..Dr Joan Coleman said:

"We know murder is common, as is physical and sexual abuse of the children. They are mutilated, made pregnant and their babies used in sacrifies. They are tortured and killed and the bodies disposed of. "

ED: THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE INSTANCE IN TWO DECADES WORTH OF ALLEGATIONS AND NUMEROUS INVESTIGATIONS WHERE EVEN ONE SATANIC MURDER HAS BEEN DISCOVERED.

Sometimes the SRA contingent make a mistake and actually give dates which are then caught out by the procession of time. In September 1994 Maureen Davies, doyenne of Satan Hunters, told the Guardian that:

There's one Group, the Order of the Werewolf which hopes to eradicate everybody except their group by the year 2000'

(Source: In search of Satan, Guardian Weekend 10 September 1994 )

Davies must have felt confident getting column inches for allegations predicted six years afterwards, but fourteen years later her allegations can be seen to be absolute bunkum. The dramatic sounding 'Order of the Werewolf' has never been found and appears to be nothing more than the figment of some fanatic's imagination.

You will see that many famous names are included in RAINS' pernicious document. These good people are grossly defamed without any apparent attempt to qualify the statements. These very serious accusations are written for other SRA believers. Do they push agents of influence into believing the accusations?

'Helen G' wrongly accused Tarbuck; she might have wrongly accused everyone else! Yet polemically it would be difficult for RAINS to challenge ANY of Helen G's accusations for fear of undermining the 'evidence' of their star-victim in relation to Satanic Ritual Abuse generally. They seem content to repeat ALL her fantasies as though real.

We know, for instance of French and Spanish pro-SRA websites which also promote the dangerous New World Order Myth so popular amongst anti-papist, anti-semitic and subliminally Neo-Nazi people, who have used this RAINS information to promote their own twised world-view. Their followers will presumably also now be spreading the poison.

The untrue meanderings of a dysfunctional patient appears to have become Global FACT to convince followers of the extreme right that Satanic Jews are responsible for killing Christian babies! The very same accusations the Papacy made against Jews for hundreds of years and the Nazis repeated just 70 years ago.

IT'S A LOAD OF OLD TOSH!

Now before you begin to read the document that follows, we want to make it abundantly clear to every single person who reads this webpage that the RAINS document is utterly defamatory in almost every nuance and statement. It's a pack of untruths.

This poses a problem. We had to decide whether or not to publish those evil defamations against innocent people. We thought long and hard. We concluded that rather than allowing these lies to fester in an undercurrent of tittle-tattle to circulate amongst troublemakers in the SRA fold, on the net and elsewhere, ( which might eventually amass sufficient impetus to cause these innocent people trouble ) , that we should reproduce the document here and let those who have been secretly defamed know about it.

By doing this they will have the opportunity to challenge, repudiate and correct the allegations publicly and maybe get their lawyers to do something about it legally as well. Either way, as in the case of Lord McAlpine (defamed below in this RAINS document in 2007) who eventually had to sue everyone in sight in November 2012 after the BBC tried to 'out' him on the say so of unreliable 'victims' 'in therapy' who, when shove came to push, capitulated and admitted they couldn't actually identify him at all!

We are worried that people mentioned in this document may have been the unknowing victims of prejudice and police attention over the years and have been kept in the dark about the origins of the accusations so are unable to clear them. To emphasis this point we are making this offer:

Anyone named in the RAINS document here, famous or ordinary, are invited to contact us (email address at foot of page) and repudiate the statements. We will gladly publish their repudiation to counteract this nonsense and prove that RAINS is predisposed to accept and distribute unchecked allegations of a very serious nature.

Maybe then this witch-hunt (for that is what it is) might come to an end before any more innocent people have their lives destroyed by fanatical believers in SRA.

Tony Rhodes and John Freedom July 2014

NOTES: The RAINS document 'People and Places 1:' below is reproduced in the same format as it was printed and distributed. The document is probably a collaboration but much of it is apparently from the pen of Joan Coleman, one of the founders of RAINS. We have inserted clarification edits so :
[Ed: this is untrue because..... ] everything else is exactly as it appears in the original printed document save for the addresses of people HG has named, for obvious reasons these had to be changed but if any interested parties require the full unexpurgated document we can provide the original on application.

Patient Confidentiality.

Note well that we have not publicised or revealed any details of patient Helen G's medical situation or treatment.

RAINS' People and Places 1: list is not a medical document in the sense that it reveals someon's private medical notes - it is instead a diary of accusations made by Helen G and a number of other contacts and patients whom Joan Coleman and her RAINS buddies were using as 'informants' about an SRA 'cult' in which they variously claimed they were all peripherally involved. Helen G is the pseudonym chosen and used by RAINS. We have no idea who Helen G is and we have not therefore breached any patient confidentiality laws by publishing this document.

How Do-Gooders Perpetrate Evil, Demonise an Innocent Man and may help start another Holy War

The victimisation of Mr Chris Bray, of the Sorcerer's Apprentice Bookshop in Leeds is a unique example of religious persecution. It has lead to believers in SRA trying to destroy his good name in a modern day witch-hunt spanning a quarter of a century! His story is useful because it illustrates precisely the way RAINS portrays unsubstantiated rumour and gossip as 'evidence' and it is a real life story showing the repercussions which may occur to those who are glibly named in the RAINS 'secret' document below

Firstly let us make clear that Chris is not a Satanist;' but that didn't stop RAINS supporters accusing him of SRA in 1989!

They worked with Roger Cook, who broadcast his now discredited The Devil's Work programme which told the nation that their kids were at risk from a world-wide Satanic conspiracy to abuse kids. Twenty Six years later none of the 20 cases covered in that programme has ever been confirmed in court.

It is from that despicable programme, that the ENTIRE history of SRA flows. You can see the astonishing story of how a clique of sectarians joined with feminist social engineers and salacious media hacks to conspire against Mr Bray in what must be the worst ever example of collective bullying ever. ( See here).

After Cook broadcast his false allegations to the nation Mr Bray's bookshop was firebombed by fanatics.

An interior shot of the Sorcerer's Apprentice after the firebombing

Being an honest and sincere person, Chris rebuilt his business and continued to exert his legal right to distribute information on ALL religions and spiritual beliefs so that others could make their personal philosophical choice - and, lest you think that he is in some way anti-Christian, note that his range of books includes literature on mystical Christianity which he says is very valid.

Basically the Satan Hunters made the biggest mistake they could in targetting him and cannot now put it right. Ever since then Chris Bray has been a thorn in the flesh of the Satan Hunters. Because he is entirely innocent of the accusations made against him he knows that Satan Hunters are purveying falsehoods. Consider this carefully. Chris was accused of being a key organiser of SRA in the U.K. but he knew he wasn't and that what these people were saying was therefore fiction. They had to be either mislead, mad, or manipulating the truth for their own pecuniary advantage. He was in the best position of anyone to see the truth on this issue.

It has become clear over the decades that his insistence on the TRUTH completely undermines the ability of the fanatics to push their ideas onto others. So his existence as a wronged party disables them from getting 100% ACCEPTANCE of the idea of SRA. You cannot float a lie and get funding to specialise in a problem if the majority of people don't believe there is one.

Of course when the true story came out Cook was forced to publish an apology to Mr Bray on prime-time TV and in adverts in TV magazines, an example of which is shown alongside as proof, because recently Roger Cook has astonishingly been telling people that this never happened!

Now the die was cast. Until then, Chris had been in business peacefully and lawfully for over 14 successful years and had 70,000 customers world-wide who used his mail-order business. He was now forced either to pack in his career and allow the biggest lie in modern history to stand, or take on the might of fundamentalism and the power of the Child Scare Industry combined to get at the Truth.

He chose Truth and began to look into the other sensational claims made by RAINs and their supporters. He found so many inconsistences, errors and falsehoods about other people, times and places, that he realised he couldn't put things right all by himself. He invited a group of knowledgeable people to set up the SAFF which, manned by dedicated volunteers, has now grown into one of the most crucial organisations to protect the interests of free-thinkers in the world.

But by that time the scare of Satanic Ritual Abuse had grown into enormous dimensions with hundreds of greedy therapists, psychiatrists, female activists, social workers, sectarian policemen, fundamentalist agitators, hacks and media comentators jumping onto the bandwagon to make a career for themselves.

The falsity was SO big it was impossible for the people who originally promoted it to retract the untruths they had told about Mr Bray, even though he is completely innocent. So they let them stand and never apologised. They just continued to act as though SRA existed and let others think the evil things said about him were true!

Worse. To counter the discoveries which Mr Bray began unearthing which directly challenged their stories they inferred he had no sympathy for children and adults who had been abused. A stupid point of view considering that it was Chris Bray who financed the first proper statistical analysis of Priestly Abuse in the U.K. and published the results for all to see here. Over the years he has probably saved thousands of children from abuse by doing this.

CAN'T LEAVE HIM ALONE

A History of Satanic Abuse by Joan Coleman

In 1998 Joan Coleman wrote a history of Satanic Ritual Abuse (see pic alongside) which was a 'round-up' of what had happened in the 10 years since the Cook Report.

In it she AGAIN defamed Mr Bray by inferring that his intention in repudiating RAINS evidence is not to clear his name but to cover the tracks of Satanic Abusers! Coleman wrote:

Those involved in abuse of any kind need to convince the world it is not true in order to continue practising these activities with impunity.

... and then she makes a list of names of people who she presumably thinks are involved in doing just that! She includes in this list academics, lawyers, psychiatrists, journalists and others who have at any time disagreed with what Coleman believes about SRA. She unfairly associates these honourable and completely innocent people with defending paedophile activities; or criticises them for having a liberal attitude to sex.

In this list she despicably includes Mr Bray's name:

"Christopher Bray, (who runs a shop and large mail order business selling occult paraphernalia - The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Leeds)"

Now, dear reader, you have to keep reminding yourself here that Chris Bray has done nothing wrong, has proved himself innocent of all accusations, has made his opposition to all forms of child abuse absolutely clear and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest otherwise. Yet RAINS just can't let go.

Satan Hunters have spent 26 years trying to discredit Chris Bray and have failed BECAUSE HE IS ENTIRELY INNOCENT. Yet Coleman continues to include him in this list ; not because she has any evidence you understand, but because she doesn't believe him!

Such is the twisted waffle of those who want to sell you the idea of Satanic Ritual Abuse. You will see more in the 'secret' document below. These are dangerous fantasies gained from repetitive questioning of mentally unstable women who often have an axe to grind. Many of whom may be Christians and prejudiced or sincere believers in the NWO myth (see later). No one can really tell whether they are simply flights of fancy with no basis in fact because the allegations are never corroborated, they are just called out. These nonsensical statements are filtered and represented to the public in a convincing form - but you will find examples of the original tittle-tattle when you read Coleman's 'secret document' below and you will be astounded at its rumour-mongering .

RAINS ROPES IN THE FUNDIES TO DO THE DIRTY WORK AGAIN

Now you may think that after 26 years of persecuting Chris Bray and failing that the Satan Hunters would avoid him but they can't because as long as just one person resists their fantasies about SRA their position is insecure. It is the same with religious fundamentalists which the language of RAINS closely resembles. So in July 2014 ( almost to the day the 25th anniversary of when the fundies burned down his bookstore ) Chris Bray was attacked again by RAINS supporters on the Russia TV website.

Tony Gosling's pack of Lies about Chris Bray

The ill-informed hack Tony Gosling, who wrote this barrel of dross (alongside) works out of Bristol community Radio, hosting a programme which often relies on internet rumour and conspiracy for its content. It is no coincidence that Roger Cook lives just outside Bristol and that the radio station earlier broadcast libelous statements from Cook about Chris Bray in an interview for the Drivetime series, then refused to retract them when Chris asked. This is what Gosling wrote in his RT article above.

"Sinason has not been the only one to talk of satanic ritual abuse in connection with Savile. Britain's most popular TV journalist ever, Roger Cook, also exposed what he believed was a satanic ritual abuse ring in Savile's home town of Leeds, Yorkshire. During the airing of an edition called the 'The Devil's Work'' (Cook Report' series), witnesses told Cook that a certain 'Sorcerer's Apprentice shop', run by one Chris Bray, was connected to a ritual abuse ring in the city."

This is an absolute fabrication but incontrovertibly illustrates the evil little way that SRA hunters create spurrious links by association.

The justification for this poisonous and dangerous allegation is, apparently, that the Sorcerer's Apprentice Bookshop is located in Leeds where, years before, Savile grew up!   The fact that Chris Bray and Savile never met nor communicated is irrelevant to Gosling even though there are over three quarters of a million people living there. Can you imagine writing something like that without checking out the accusation first? There's a reason why Gosling didn't (see later). For the record here's the real background.

(1) There is no anecdotal evidence from a 'victim' who spoke to the Cook Report.   If there was it would have featured in the programme, not been kept for 25 years until it can now be conveniently used to confirm some imagined link between Savile and Satanism.

(2) Cook did not feature any SRA ring in Leeds in his programme. The idiot Gosling has obviously never viewed it.

(3) Mr Bray is not a Satanist.

(4) There is no SRA ring in Leeds and never has been.

Gosling's allegations are an attempt to convince readers that Valerie Sinason (a founder member of RAINS who has made many madcap accusations since 1989) has been right all along about SRA and therefore it does exist.    This procedure is strikingly similar to one which occurred in the early part of the hysteria when a fundamentalist Christian called Andrew Boyd, with Sinason's help, dutifuly produced a Dispatches documentary which claimed to 'prove' the existence of SRA . It turned out to be a complete hoax - see here.

Of course the true background behind Tony Gosling's intent might make things a little clearer: In May 2013 Gosling interviewed Sinason at length about her manic SRA allegations about Savile being a Satanist on Bristol Community Radio. The SAFF reproduced the interview in a critical review here:

Our analysis made both her and him look stupid so it may have angered him but what Gosling fails to make clear in his article is that he is a died-in-the-wool Christian fundamentalist who believes in the rabid Bilderberger myth which blames the Jews for killing Jesus. You can look at the extremist language and the unproven fancies he writes about on his own private website:

Gosling is a fundamentalist Christian who believes in the rabid Bilderberger myth which blames the Jews for all the trouble in the modern world.

Gosling Writes:

"I have looked at many spiritual beliefs but nothing has spoken to me on as high a level as Jesus' teachings and actions. The sermon on the mount (Matthew 5-7) shows that no-one has ever understood the importance of love, nor exactly what it means, more than the Messiah long-promised by God.

Many problems have been caused by some of the Jewish people's refusal to acknowledge Jesus as the Messiah. Many Jews, for example, live in old Testament Torah Times - believeing they are still 'God's chosen people'. It seems clear to me that God cut off the Jewish heirarchy from his favour after they pleaded successfully for the unjust death of his only son. The Israeli state's brutal and racist treatment of the Palestinian people makes it clear to me that Israel is no longer interested in the will of God."

FUNDIE-THERAPIST AXIS
CAUGHT IN THE ACT!

Gosling's strong belief in the existence of SRA and his willingness to make despicable accusations at the drop of a hat now take on a new perspective do they not? Same old Same old.! If you look on his website you will find that he speaks at Christianised workshops. Did Sinason know about Gosling's hellfire and brimstone when she gave him an interview?

The cadre of Satan Hunters who were given the prototype Satan Myth by evangelical Christians in 1989, took it from them; and ran with the ball. They cut out the biblical nonsense and hyped the fantasies of individual fundies who claimed to have been 'victims'. They pushed evangelical activists into giving interviews to the press to convince outsiders. They created the fear of the greatest threat to children the world has ever known with the aid of Christian activists. RAINS is doing it again with Gosling's help. But it was and is all bunkum.

Jean La Fontaine's government report, The Nature and Extent of Satanic Ritual Abuse

Jean La Fontaine's government report, The Nature and Extent of Satanic Ritual Abuse

When Prof. Jean La Fontaine looked at the facts and inspected all the cases for her 1994 official government report on SRA it pronounced that the whole thing was a figment of the imagination of Christian activists. (see news report here) RAINS has ever since tried to belittle this amazing research (Coleman does it again in the 'secret' document below). RAINS said they had evidence from adult patients not child cases (you can read the 'evidence' in Coleman's secret document below and see what you think ) but RAINS have never commented to our knowledge on the way that SRA believers worked with fundamentalists who were later discredited.

Now, 20 years after the publication of La Fontaine's definitive report they are again roping in fundie reporters like Gosling to push the untruths a second time on the back of the Savilemonster allegations. As before, with Andrew Boyd and his Devil Video, the fact that Gosling is a christian agent-provocateur ready to print any old tosh against people who hold beliefs he doesn't agree with, is kept under wraps. His personal agenda is not mentioned. He is first and foremost acting as god's emissary in fighting the devil wherever he is found - not writing a balanced article on whether or not SRA exists.

New World Order Christian Nazism?

For two decades the SAFF has warned politicians and journalists in this country of the dangers of the New World Order Myth which has gained credence on the internet. It is no exaggeration to say that prior to the 1930s the NWO myth gave justification for the Nazi death camps and the killing of millions of Jews in WWII.

In recent times clued-in Islamic minds have seen the fault-lines and teach the NWO to the next generation as a double-think designed to manipulate the West into weakening itself. Islamic agents of influence have injected the NWO idea into forums peopled by crass minds who promote the idea of a Zionist-satanic conspiracy. The official Hamas website is 'befriending' Christians and driving a wedge between them and the Jews here: After all, as Gosling points out, The Jews killed Jesus didn't they? What could be more satanic than that? Stupid people like Gosling just fall for it all if it confirms their sectarian prejudices.

This meld of minds has resulted in another set of strange bedfellows. Not only did we have the sight of leftist intellectuals joining right wing Christian fundamentalists to further SRA but we also see common ground between the extreme political right and Islamists; both of whom hate the Jews.

Poster portraying the jew as a stereotypical devil / satan figure

On 16 October 1991 Lady Birdwood was found guilty at the Old Bailey of distributing propaganda leaflets which claimed that Jews 'ritually sacrificed' Christian children.

The comparison of this allegation in relation to the then ongoing hysteria surrounding completely unfounded allegations of Satanic Ritual Abuse by Christian fundamentalists was lost on our tunnel-vision media who continued to print uncorroborated allegations of Satanic Abuse as though fact whilst agreeing among themselves that it would be immoral to give Birdwood 's theories space.

Within a month another batch of similar leaflets were distributed within Cambridge and Oxford Colleges which:

'resurrected medieval claims of Jewish ritual murder of Christian children.'

The recent shifting of public opinion away from Israel and towards the Palestinians has been caused largely by the 're-education' of the masses with the fiction of the New World Order myth which has been powered by and underpinned by the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth.

People who have suckered into the NWO idea should realise their minds have been contaminated. They should read David Aaronovitch's VOODOO HISTORIES which contains the authenticated false origins of the Protocols of The Elders of Zion and chases down the deaths these teachings have caused in unexpected places over the last century.

Throughout history the Jews have been repetitively accused of sacrificing Christian babies at Passover. We warned our society YEARS ago that the SRAM was simply a rehash of those mediaeval sectarian blood libels made by the type of literal-minded christians whose intellectual descendants are still willing to blame Jews today; but our political leaders are so stupid, and our population so ignorant that even those who trot out the usual platitudes about ridding the world of fascism are queuing up to pursue this evil path laid out for them by dim people who do their worst disguised as children's rights campaigners and other things. Gosling is a classic example of it. On one page of his website he accuses Jews of killing Jesus and on another he complains about the problem of Neo-Nazis!

Now just to make sure you, dear reader, understand our position in all this. We are not Satanists and we are not pushing the Israeli cause. There are many things that Israel does which we find repulsive and only a dimwit could not see the valid case the Palestinians have for getting back a homeland. We are simply pointing out historicTruths and evil gambits which keep the human race in its sinful state.

Many times the people who perpetrate and promote these ideas are so deluded that they do not fully realise the dangers of their actions, nor its terrible repercussions. Tony Gosling probably thinks he is acting as an agent of god and doing god's work by slandering Chris Bray. Victimising an innocent man in Leeds is just fair-game perhaps? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Creating a climate which can cause the deaths of those they are supposed to be saving is unthinkable to them, yet that is what they are, inevitably, doing and in the process damning their own souls.

Inside Gullible Minds

RAINS Satan Hunter evidence is worthless:

At last the SAFF can reveal the source of the flimsy 'evidence' used to back 26 year allegations about Satanic Ritual Abuse

Satanic abuse row erupts

TAIL WAGS THE DOG

How RAINS Sucked In The Police

THAMES TORSO

BABY EATING MONSTER

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS

KEEP 'EM IN THE DARK

HUMAN SACRIFICE HERE, HUMAN SACRIFICE THERE. WE SEE THAT HUMAN SACRIFICE EVERYWHERE

WHO FINGERED TARBUCK AND WHY?

DEVIL CULTS SLAY 100

IT'S A LOAD OF OLD TOSH!

Patient Confidentiality.

How Do-Gooders Perpetrate Evil, Demonise an Innocent Man and may help start another Holy War

CAN'T LEAVE HIM ALONE

RAINS ROPES IN THE FUNDIES TO DO THE DIRTY WORK AGAIN

Gosling is a fundamentalist Christian who believes in the rabid Bilderberger myth which blames the Jews for all the trouble in the modern world.

FUNDIE-THERAPIST AXIS
CAUGHT IN THE ACT!

New World Order Christian Nazism?

PEOPLE AND PLACES 1

1. Relevant to case of Helen G

PEOPLE

Inside Gullible Minds

RAINS Satan Hunter evidence is worthless:

At last the SAFF can reveal the source of the flimsy 'evidence' used to back 26 year allegations about Satanic Ritual Abuse

Satanic abuse row erupts

TAIL WAGS THE DOG

How RAINS Sucked In The Police

THAMES TORSO

BABY EATING MONSTER

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS

KEEP 'EM IN THE DARK

HUMAN SACRIFICE HERE, HUMAN SACRIFICE THERE. WE SEE THAT HUMAN SACRIFICE EVERYWHERE

WHO FINGERED TARBUCK AND WHY?

DEVIL CULTS SLAY 100

IT'S A LOAD OF OLD TOSH!

Patient Confidentiality.

How Do-Gooders Perpetrate Evil, Demonise an Innocent Man and may help start another Holy War

CAN'T LEAVE HIM ALONE

RAINS ROPES IN THE FUNDIES TO DO THE DIRTY WORK AGAIN

Gosling is a fundamentalist Christian who believes in the rabid Bilderberger myth which blames the Jews for all the trouble in the modern world.

FUNDIE-THERAPIST AXIS CAUGHT IN THE ACT!

New World Order Christian Nazism?

PEOPLE AND PLACES 1

1. Relevant to case of Helen G

PEOPLE

FUNDIE-THERAPIST AXIS
CAUGHT IN THE ACT!