	id AA08008; Sun, 30 Oct 94 10:14:40 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2 Num. 61


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 2  Num. 61
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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SON OF UNCLE SAM -- ADDENDUM
 
With the purpose of fairness, I now present Dr. Michael Aquino's 
response to portions of the "Son of Uncle Sam" series.
 
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Dear Mr. Redman:
 
I have read your transcript of David Emory's talk through _CN_ 
#II- 59. Since this talk contains considerable false and 
defamatory information concerning the Temple of Set and myself, I 
request that you cease further distribution and promotion of 
those parts of the Emory talk which refer to the Temple of Set or 
myself. I further request that you include this response of mine 
in a future issue of _CN_, so that the record may be set straight.
 
The talk from Emory appears to have been given back in late 1987, 
when the effort to promote the "Satanic crime/molestation" myth 
was still fairly new, when law-enforcement agencies were still 
uncertain as to whether there were any substance to it, and when 
"therapists" were running wild with completely unsubstantiated 
"diagnoses" of "Satanic ritual abuse" in order to line their own 
pockets.
 
Within a few years the myth - instigated by the _Michelle 
Remembers_ book which was itself later exposed as a fraud - was 
completely discredited by all but persons with a financial or 
fundamentalist/religious interest in seeing it promoted. As 
reported by the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent 
Crime in 1992, after an 11-year study:
 
"There are many children in the United States who, starting early 
in their lives, are severely psychologically, physically, and 
sexually traumatized by angry, sadistic parents or other adults. 
Such abuse, however, is not perpetrated only or primarily by 
satanists. The statistical odds are that such abusers are members 
of mainstream religions ... For the last eight years American law 
enforcement has been aggressively investigating the allegations 
of victims of victims of ritual abuse. There is little or no 
evidence for the portion of their allegations that deals with 
large-scale baby- breeding, human sacrifice, and organized 
satanic conspiracies." (_Investigator's Guide to Allegations of 
"Ritual" Child Abuse_, January 1992)
 
In 1987 My wife and I were accused of kidnapping and child rape 
by an Army Christian Chaplain, who had been among the instigators 
of a "day care abuse" scam at the Presidio of San Francisco. The 
subsequent investigations by the San Francisco Police Department 
and the U.S. Army revealed not only that Mrs. Aquino and I had 
been in Washington, D.C. at the time of the alleged incident, but 
that, upon medical examination at the Army's Letterman Hospital, 
the child in question was established to be a virgin "showing no 
evidence of molestation". The chaplain's evident motive for his 
deliberately false accusation was the $3 million fraudulent claim 
against the government that he filed in connection with it.
 
At the end of both SFPD and Army investigations, no charges 
whatever were filed against Mrs. Aquino or myself. On the other 
hand, I twice preferred court-martial charges against the 
chaplain, both of which were illegally suppressed in order to 
avoid embarrassment to the Corps of Chaplains and the Army 
Medical Corps (to which the "therapist" who aggravated the 
Presidio scam belonged).
 
Certainly not a single child at the Presidio was involved in any 
"Satanic abuse" whatever involving myself, my wife, or the Temple 
of Set. According to all publicly-available information to date, 
there is further no evidence that *any* child was abused at the 
Presidio. There was *only* the repeated coaching of the 
"therapist", who as revealed in her own notes refused to accept 
denials from the children and pressured them until they gave 
responses supporting her agenda.
 
The Temple of Set has been incorporated as a legitimate religion 
since 1975, and has never been involved in any criminal activity. 
[And Mrs. Aquino and I have never been involved with any criminal 
activity.] No form of life, human or animal, is harmed at any 
Temple activity. The Temple accepts no members under the age of 
18, and has no activities at which persons under 18 may even be 
present. This is not because there is anything improper at our 
activities, but because from our founding we have believed that 
children should not be indoctrinated into any religion, but 
should receive a secular education in morality and ethics and 
then decide religious questions for themselves when they reach 
responsible adulthood.
 
Sincerely,
Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D.
High Priest
Temple of Set
 
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 Brian Francis Redman    bigxc@prairienet.org    "The Big C"
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