The Satanic Panic

Hey, how’d we get here? You can largely blame the Satanic Panic of the 80's and '90s, a convergence of class anxieties, sociological shifts, psychological fads, and pop culture trends that produced a society-wide fear of the sexual abuse of children at the hands of an underground network of Satanists masquerading as daycare operators.

As families shifted to dual-income households, young children were increasingly left in daycare or under strangers' supervision. The anxiety of surrendering children to others’ control coincided with the publication of the bestseller Michelle Remembers, in which a psychiatrist coerced allegedly submerged memories of sexual abuse at the hands of Satanists from a Canadian patient. The resulting hysteria was quickly amplified by daytime television specials hosted by Geraldo Rivera, Oprah Winfrey and Sally Jesse Raphael.

The accusations of Satanic ritual abuse at daycare facilities were mostly fictions, with the children’s memories almost always coaxed out during therapy sessions. Hundreds were charged, even as most prosecutions ended without convictions and studies debunked claims of shadowy Satanic networks. The occasional convictions are still being nullified, some after the wrongly accused spent decades in jail. In possibly the most famous case involving supposed ritualistic Satanic violence, the three teens who became known as the 'West Memphis Three' were freed in 2011 after 18 years in prison for allegedly murdering two boys in a Satanic ritual, the culmination of the conflagration of fears that had begun 30 years prior to it.

Ariel Sharon, the Israeli PM, has died. If the “Ariel Sharon Prophecy” of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri is real, then the time clock has started for the second coming of Jesus Christ. Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri was a renowned Mizrahi Haredi rabbi and Kabbalist who was best known for having read and memorized the Bible. His orthodox Jewish followers believed that his teachings were the most profound and that nobody had experienced a greater devotion to reading and studying the Torah than Kaduri, having lived from 108-118 years depending on which date of birth is authentic before his death in 2006.  If the interpretations of the last note from a dying man are to be believed, it indeed means something. Or, is it just another sequel to the Satanic Panic? Now, please cut, paste and watch:
http://youtu.be/k0DTT3u2JZ8
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