The fact that there are no depths to which they will not sink proves that Obama supporters are on a crusade to install a new god not elect a new President. If they don’t care about fair elections now, what happens when Obama decides to make himself President for life?
Obama is poised to steal this election. Are you going to let him?
Observe the power of Hope and Change:
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Here’s a comment that was left on the Youtube page of the video that is typical of the Obama cultists attitude toward the rest of us:
How dumb are Republicans? What sort of idiot with a pace maker confronts someone in the street? Personally I just would have beaten the hell out of the old bloke to teach him a lesson.
So he deserved to be assaulted for standing up against lefty fascism. If Obama wins buy guns, because this will be national policy.
Well, maybe not every “branch” of Wicca but for the most part the bush leagues of occultism are attractive mostly to the damaged and degenerate nowadays. I often blame the entrance of radical “feminists” like Starhawk for turning Wicca into little more than a progressive dominated live action role playing game where people who claim they’re Witches balk at actually practicing Witchcraft, which is more than some teen girls sitting in a park crying together while holding hands, but the truth is Wicca was always a bit of a fraud anyway. Every ten years or so a group of Pagans discover this, publicize their findings and are promptly excommunicated from the Wiccan community.
Wicca today little resembles the the Witchcraft boom which began in the 50s and lasted into the early 80s. Then authors like Leo Martello and Paul Huson offered alternatives to the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca which was largely a hodgepodge of turn of the century occultism built upon ideas Gardner stole from C.G. Leland’s Aradia and Crowley’s understanding of “magick.” Now Wiccans are little more than a pep squad for leftism, using the cover of their supposed religion to push forward DNC talking points. Wicca is less a religion and more an immature extension of college Women Studies programs and it shows in the average Wiccan’s lack of knowledge of both Witchcraft and the world at large.
And thus when confronted with reality, and having no experience in dealing with larger truths the Wiccan attacks the messenger. Non-Wiiccans will be unfamiliar with them but somewhere off on the fringe of early Witchcraft, sneered at by even Gerald Gardner, were Gavin and Yvonne Frost who started the School of Wicca and are the authors of the largely useless The Witch’s Bible.
The Witch’s Bible contains a ritual wherein children are molested.
SMP at The Ultimate Evil and Dodiafae at Pagans Againse Child Abuse both took note of this and wondered why the Frosts are still often honored guests at many pagan gatherings. They were promptly denounced even after rallying much support to their side.
They were not the first people to denounce the pedophilic Frosts and their cult. Magickal Childe owner Herman Slater once printed a newsletter where readers were told to buy the Frosts’ book, read it, then burn it. He denounced them as charlatans and scum. The Frosts promptly cursed him for it, though Herman seemed none the worse for wear when relating the story to Hans Holtzer. What should surprise most people is that then, as now, many of the “leaders” of the pagan community came to the aid of the two degenerates who have for thirty years refused to remove a passage from their book wherein practitioners of Frost-style Wicca are told to use dildos to deflower their own daughters, where children are gang raped and sex between adults and children is encouraged.
To be sure the Frosts may not represent most Wiccans, but the defense of them by those upon whom Wiccans place the mantle of leadership does expose modern Wicca for what it is and how far it strayed from its roots in the occult movement.
I admit to being something of an anachronism in my armchair occultism. I am a researcher into the odd, a lover of the esoteric and no doubt deeply influenced by many viewings of The Devil Rides Out in my childhood. I have never adopted the faddish notion among new agers that morality is subjective, nor do I think all religions and perspectives are equally valid. This puts me on the outs with 99% of Wiccans.
That’s because the free wheeling attitude toward anything and everything in Wicca is based on modern Wicca’s devolution from reconstructionist religion to hippy sex cult. Wicca is no longer about finding truth, but about ensuring abortion on demand, undermining Judeo-Christian morality and destroying Western Civilization from within. It’s a radical book club, a religion that doesn’t do the one the one thing all others do and that’s provide moral guidance and clarity for adherents.
Many Wiccans and pagans, some famous like Issac Bonewits and Oberon Zell, defend the Frosts perhaps because to criticize them means taking a moral stand that is unpopular among the fringe that Wicca is now most often addressing. There are responsibilities to being an adult, grown ups should be expected to not indulge in their every sexual whim. In a religion where older men and women frequently are in contact with teens and young adults this should resonate with them, and for many it does. But for too many it doesn’t.
Until cretin like the Frosts are able to be criticized for promoting child exploitation, without the critics being subjected to Squeaky Fromm like rantings by Wiccans who think bad mouthing the frosts is a “betraya,l” Wicca will remain a pretension not a religion. Wicca will stay the Manson flavored cult of people who have no sexual boundaries and can’t be trusted with children in the minds of the public, and that’s how it should be. Wiccans judged the Catholic Church and the FLDS harshly when their abuses, covered up for years in many cases, came to light and they should be ready to be judged just as harshly when more and more non-pagans get wind of this outrage.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about “Juggalos” using the recent case of two teens who have been accused of attempting to kidnap a 5-year-old as a jumping off point. Having a degree in Comparative Religion I I did what I always do when I come across some interesting social phenomenon and over research the subject. I also received comments from several Juggalos which kept me interested and focused on the subject. I have become convinced through my research that the Utah authorities are quietly re-enacting the poor police work and bad intelligence gathering that characterized the Satanic Panic of the 1990s.
I know that this will put me at odds with many crime bloggers, some of whom aren’t big fans of Juggalos which I understand, but it is my belief that the police in Utah are making the same mistakes police made in the 90s which not only sent many innocent people to jail like in the McMartin Pre-school case but forever tainted other cases in the minds of the public, ala The West Memphis Three.
The mistake I’m alluding to may seem minor to some but I put forward that it is critical to understanding why it’s entirely possible that the two teens accused may be innocent of kidnapping (though not of drug possession) and the exaggerated police and the public perception of the danger presented by I.C.P. fans is largely due to them being fed false information. From the September 8th report:
West Valley police captain Tom McLachlan said this group calls themselves ICP.
“We consider them a gang,†said McLachlan. “Members of the group have been in trouble with the law, they run together and we treat them like a gang.â€
Look, you don’t need a doctorate to know Juggalos are no more a gang than Goths, Emo kids and Wiccans are. But all those groups have been listed as gangs by various police departments. Why?
It’s because Police departments rely on “experts” whose credentials they have no interest in verifying and worse they allow those same experts to vomit forth their inane contentions to the public. Supposed expert Dale Griffis forever polluted the West Memphis Three case with his complete and utter lack of knowledge of the occult. There is no part of his testimony in that case that is factually accurate and in fact his 1980s era cult handbook (widely circulated to law enforcement) reads suspiciously like a Dennis Wheatley novel edited by Montague Summers. No wonder then his most recent work is an Alex Jonesian rehash of the debunked and discredited C.I.A. Mind Control Sex Slave theory.
In other words Dale Griffins, like Ted Gunderson before him, was a crank who was able to insinuate himself into and corrupt police investigations. The two were (and still are) part of an “occult expert” industry that makes money telling people their worst fears are true. America has largely turned their backs on such people, who have begun re-packaging themselves as gang experts.
It is “gang experts” that perpetuate the subculture as gang myth because it’s sensational, it’s easy and it sells. It’s a sleazy and dishonest business and one that’s easily disproved. A few days of ethnographic research will show you exactly what the Juggalo subculture is: a blend of stoner and splatterpunk culture united around a small group of bands which appeals to White working class youth who feel disenfranchised from both mainstream society and the “underground” movements.
But why does that matter? Because without that context it becomes too easy to create a second Satanic Panic. The video report on the incident shows something very interesting if you watch it. The children, all of whom were unsupervised by adults, admitted being scared by the clown makeup of two teens but no adult saw the two menacing the children at all. It’s easy to paint the incident as sinister but take away the “Juggalos are a gang” theory and pretend for a moment it was just a clown coming home from work:
Parents living at the apartment complex at 4040 South in West Valley City claimed two teens in clown makeup terrified their children.
“My eight year old daughter came flying into the house completely terrified told us there were a couple of guys in clown masks outside grabbing kids and threatening them,†said Hank Surowiec who lives in the complex.
One of those kids was four-year-old Mauricio Gonzalez.
“My daughter came running to the house saying they were trying to take him,” said Claudia Gonzales.
She said her husband found Mauricio with the two teens and brought him to safety.
Meanwhile, word spread quickly about two men wearing a clown mask threatening children.
The Lee’s tried to calm a couple of kids down.
“They were very scared,†said Tahira Lee. “They came inside. They couldn’t explain themselves or what was going on. They were stuttering. That’s how I knew something was wrong.”
Haven’t we all been scared of clowns? And sans clown makeup (and pot) wouldn’t you expect two teens who found a 4-year-old playing with some kids just a few years younger, who then ran off leaving the toddler, to attempt to take the kid to find their parents? My point isn’t that I think it’s impossible that these two were kidnappers, just that it’s probable they were doing what you and I would want them to do if they saw a kid that young alone. If not for the clown paint the kids wouldn’t have been scared, and if not for the Utah authorities’ poisonous attitudes about Juggalos it might be likely that the police would be arresting the people who left their 8-year-old in charge of a 4-year-old.
To be sure, Utah Juggalos are their own worst enemy, second only to whatever worm tongued “expert” who is sucking money from an oblivious tax payer teat in exchange for him or her pulling facts from thin air. The kidnapping charges come on the heels of a gruesome ax attack on a 17-year-old where the perpetrators were identified by the “Hatchetman” medallion one dropped during the attack. But Utah authorities are repeating the same mistakes so many made in the 90s by elevating the Juggalo in their mind from somewhat goofy (to we old codgers) subculture to violent gang. That gang enforcement officers are spending time on Juggalos, when MS-13 and Eme are gaining footholds in Utah, should show everyone that Utah’s priorities are skewed.
This case, like the West Memphis Three, will forever be the subject of conspiracy theorizing even if the two are guilty because Utah police will continue to display a level of ignorance unacceptable to most people. That is the legacy of the “experts” that parasitically attach themselves to each new urban myth. Until law enforcement begins demanding a real level of expertise from its experts there is no case that will not be tainted by suspicion, and that’s how it should be. The flawed logic that has police listing Juggalos as a gang would earn an “F” in a freshman college class, but it’s unfortunately unquestioningly accepted as gospel in the news media and court rooms. That should scare us more than pot smokers in clown paint.
(Credit: Underground Juggalo)
I’ll go out on a limb and say a little of both. The hardcore fan of rap group/pro-wrestlers/D-list comic convention guests Insane Clown Posse straddles the line between gang member and cultist in a new and exciting way. New and exciting if you’re some guy with a degree in Religion blogging about them from the comfort of home that is, but if you live by any these face painting pot smokers you might feel a little different about this potential threat to you and your children:
Two teens with their faces painted like clowns were arrested by West Valley City police last weekend for allegedly trying to kidnap a 5-year-old boy – the second time in recent weeks that members of the so-called Juggalos gang have crossed paths with law enforcement.
On July 29, two suspected Juggalos attacked a Kearns teen outside his home with a knife and a four-bladed replica of a medieval battle ax topped with a spiked ball.
The victim suffered life-threatening injuries, including an 8-inch gash to his neck, and required more than 300 stitches to close his wounds.
The two alleged attackers waived their right this week to a preliminary hearing in 3rd District Court.
Cody Jesse Augustine, of West Jordan, and Scott Tyler Stapley, of Murray, both 21, are each charged with one count of first-degree felony attempted murder. Arraignment is set for Oct. 3 before Judge Judith Atherton.
The attempted child kidnapping occurred Saturday evening near 4000 South and 1500 West, where two teens with faces painted like clowns – half smiling, half frowning – tried pulling a 5-year-old boy to a car. Police said one teen threatened to kill the boy.
The pair finally let go of the victim, who ran to his apartment, where his father called police, according to Capt. Tom McLachlan with West Valley City police.
The two suspects an 18-year-old and a 15-year-old – were found in the area with paint still on their faces.Police said they acknowledged involvement in the incident, but offered no explanation. The 18-year-old was booked into Salt Lake County Jail on suspicion of an attempted kidnapping, a potential felony, and marijuana possession, a misdemeanor.
I thought pot smokers were mellow. Apparently not if they’re Juggalos. I don’t doubt though that the two kids had no explanation as to what they were going to do with the kid, I’m sure if you get high enough and are the type of person who paints themselves up like an evil clown grabbing kids to scare them is second nature.
The Juggalos apparently have their own religion based on the lyrics of a six album concept arc by the band. No, I’m not joking. They even have an online petition up to have their “faith” recognized which has close to 4000 signatures.
There’s been a movement among police to classify Juggalos as a gang, which seems too similar to the whole “goth gang” nonsense so-called police experts spread about. But unlike goths Juggalos do glorify violent behavior so while they’re no MS-13, they’re dangerous enough in their own right to be taken seriously.
h/t Trench