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10/5/2007
12:13:02 pm EDT
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Breaking The Code Of Silence
Author: Bob Morgan Source: Baldwin County Now (AL)
Title: BREAKING THE CODE OF SILENCE
Nikki Russo's story began in southern California. The most recent chapter in that story is taking place here, in the central Baldwin County area, where she and her husband have settled.
"He's tired," she said of her husband. "He's been very patient. He was born and raised in Alabama and has a hard time understanding how this could happen."
What happened to her, however, came instead from the realm of nightmares, and Nikki Russo is still coping with the memories of the horrors she endured for two years at the hands of a coven of witches.
Today, the 35-year-old copes daily with the memories of a shadowy religion whose doctrines included physical and sexual abuse, drugs, alcohol and self-mutilation. She was 16 at the time. Equally disturbing is the realization the practitioners back then - the witches - were what Nikki calls today "educated beings."
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| Satanic Panic Article Deconstruction ... | Oct 8th. at 11:44:25 am EDT
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spatch3 (Orcutt, California) - Email Me
I liked the deconstruction of this article, but I'd like to see more from someone with the recourses and time to really try to research the "facts" in the article. If we could use just one or two good examples of debunking satanic panic paybe it will finally go away. I believe this article is prime fodder for this endeavor: It sounds to fantastical to be believed. Conspiracies of most everyone in the medical profession and CPS all try to get this one girl away from her parents? She doesn’t talk about anyone else this happened to, so either she left out those other victims or she is the equivalent of Damien in an Omen movie. Those "satanists" really needed her to usher in the end of the world. Oh but wait, they just up and let her go one day because she became too unruly.
Way way way to fantastic to believe!
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| It's A Shame | Oct 6th. at 9:09:19 pm EDT
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Wolf Mage (Angels Camp, California) - Email Me
It is a shame that she had to go through that and unfortunately there are a lot of weirdos out there who will take advantage of the nieve. Equally sad is the fact that the group she encountered is falsely representing the White Brotherhood.
Having studied the topic myself they aren't some sinister group, they are in fact a group of very beneficial and kind beings who have humanities highest intensions in mind.
Like I said earlier it is sad that she had to encounter some bad apples.
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| Don't Just Dismiss It | Oct 6th. at 5:11:43 pm EDT
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Dana Corby (Anderson Island, Washington) - Email Me
It's easy to dismiss such stories as being part of the satanic panic mythology, but this could very well be a true story.
When I was 22 or so, around 1970, I was approached by people calling themselves witches who invited me over to their apartment to meet with them. During our conversation, they said they were part of a group called "The White Brotherhood" and went on about their Secret Masters and all that very Theosophical-sounding stuff. They also gave me an herbal tea that I learned later was mugwort, which lowers psychic defenses, and took me through a guided meditation that scared the pants off me - - I got the powerful impression that they were tryingto make me to have certain psychic experiences that would somehow bind me to them. I got the he!! out of there.
But I must have been meant to be a Witch, after all, as a couple of years later I found my first teacher, a few yers after that was initiated, and have been Wiccan ever since.
Blessed Be
Dana Corby
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| Tit For Tat... | Oct 6th. at 2:45:39 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Cults can take any form and often do, and evil people do exist, I'm sorry to say, But for every lurid shadowy concocted story of "satanic witches" tormenting the unwary, I can offer the more real ones of Fred Phelps, James Jones and David Koresh, the very real self styled xtian religious cults that were both dangerous and even murderous toward both outsiders and their members-- and the scandalous behaviors or more than a few other evangelicals.
All I can say, is that I hope nobody decides to drink the kool-aid at some of their functions- even or especially at gunpoint.
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| ... | Oct 6th. at 10:34:23 am EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
This is beating a dead horse, but this article's a complete hoax.
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| Oh Give Me A Break | Oct 6th. at 1:50:45 am EDT
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Ander s. Drake (hays, Kansas) - Email Me
the 700 club stikes again, this story sounds just like all the other santanic, pagan bashing stories we see coming from the various christian nuts.
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| Possibile Vs Plausible | Oct 6th. at 1:14:34 am EDT
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arinna (Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina) - Email Me
It's possible this girl was victimized exactly the way she says. But I don't find it plausible that an evil occult conspiracy hid inside the medical community, the social services community and the psychiatric community all at the same time and no one ever noticed.
Personally I think it would be more possible that the nurse who seems to be the central figure may have been part of a destructive cult whose members posed as authority figures in those professions to exert pressure on their victims.
Even still the details are missing from this story so it reminds me too much of the Satanic Panic cases Kerr is so good at debunking. Without knowing what kind of fact checking was done by the journalist, there is no way to tell if this is another of those trumped up Michelle Remembers type stories or a case of real abuse.
With allegations such as this, you would think she would be pursuing a case against not just the nurse but also the agencies she claims were involved in allowing this nurse to get away with falsely imprisoning her in a mental facility and then forcibly kidnapping her with the aid of social services. Either she doesn't have a case because it wasn't a vast satanic conspiracy or it was such a vast conspiracy that the entire government is in on the cover up. Which one is more plausible?
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| Don't Bother Commenting On The Article | Oct 5th. at 6:24:41 pm EDT
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Opus the Poet (Garland, Texas) - Email Me - Web
I posted my comment more than 6 hours ago and it still isn't up yet. I wrote that the article was not credible, and smacked of "Satanic Panic" articles from the 1980s in almost every particular. That comment hasn't seen the light of day yet.
Opus
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| Post-PTSD | Oct 5th. at 4:44:27 pm EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
"She was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorder produced by trying to merge back into society. Physically, she has had numerous treatments to repair internal damage from the sexual abuse."
Dealling with the unknowns of PTSD can itself become a source of traumatic anxiety.
Most of what we hear of Deprogramming sounds more like the treatment by that brotherhood.
One witness would be questionable, finding the supply of missing girls would help, and there's no reason why this wouldn't still be going on, if it hasn't been stopped. The panel of Proffessionals described would probably be led by a Psychiatrist, as the Burn-Out Rate of that proffession has tragic results.
That's what Church is supposed to handle, btw. It's alright to attend unto the demented and predatory, so long as the energies can be savored after.
Her mother saw an athletic figure as an eating disorder? That woman worries too easy.
Arawn
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| How About... | Oct 5th. at 2:56:23 pm EDT
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Seshen (San Antonio, Texas) - Email Me - Web
We put our comments not only here, but on the article itself, where many more people will see them? If it's a fraud, this would help tremendously to get the word out to the general populace.
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| Code Words | Oct 5th. at 2:06:32 pm EDT
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Fraoch (Shelby, North Carolina) - Email Me
There's a pattern:
Ritual Abuse
Cult
Witchcraft
Drugs
DEPROGRAMMING...
So, as in the previous article did "Niki" have these memories prior to being "deprogrammed?" Was this nurse part of a cult or was this nurse an abusive person in her life? In her attempts to deal with the trauma of said nurse was Niki persuaded through traumatic means to believe that she was abused by a cult? My guess would be yes. This is a pattern and a serious problem though it doesn't occur THAT often.
Unfortunately, it IS used as a means to populate a religious circle. However, this isn't always the case. The former reason is especially disturbing.
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| This Looks | Oct 5th. at 1:12:52 pm EDT
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Hellas32 (Dacula, Georgia) - Email Me
like a small town paper for one of those insular small towns. I doubt the story is accurate or true, because something this sensational would have been all over MSM.
I've no doubt that there are plenty of abusive cults and crackpots out there calling themselves witches, but this story just seems too boiler plate for "Satanic Panic" type stuff.
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| True Or Not True | Oct 5th. at 12:54:15 pm EDT
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Lady-hearted Mojo (Irving, Texas) - Email Me
I'm not sure what to think about this article. What is the the reputation of this publication? On the one hand it sounds like the kind of nonsense that comes out of of World Nut Daily and follows the same storyline:
Victim comes from a dysfunctional/abusive family, finds the group, engages in deplorable acts, and finally escapes. So part of me wants to write this person off as a crack-pot who just wants attention.
On the otherhand, victims like this usually do continue to be victimized until they get help and learn to put a stop to it. This woman wouldn't be the first person to fall into a cult which usually includes a charimatic or forceful leader. I also firmly believe that there are groups of people out there calling themselves "witches" and engaging in abusive and criminal acts. So the other part of me feels sympathy for this individual and hope that she able to work through her problems.
Maybe someone familiar with the publication can verify if this is yellow journalism or something more respectable.
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