Sorcerers Apprentice Firebombed By Christian Fanatics
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By Chris Bray, Proprietor, S.A.
In the early hours of Saturday 13 August 1989 tooled up
Christian Fundamentalists broke through the security glass
in the front door of our retail shop, cut through the
security bars with bolt cutters and gained entry to the
interior. In a frenzy they attacked the wooden bookshelf on
the left of the shop containing works by Aliester Crowley;
breaking and rending the shelves into pieces. Then they
hacked at a bookshelf on the opposite side of the shop which
contained books on witchcraft. Other books were untouched.
They piled up books on WitchCraft and books by Crowley in
the middle of the shop floor and ignited them. No other
books or bookshelves were disturbed. The Gods were kind. A
local client spotted the fire within a few minutes and
their quick action resulted in the fire brigade being on the
scene minutes thereafter. Although the retail sales shop was
very badly damaged the mail-order survived and there was no
disruption to our service.
For the past two years I have repetitively warned the
political office at No 10 Downing Street, The Home Office,
numerous Members of Parliament and the police as well as
EVERY national newspaper editor that the witchcraft related
child abuse allegations which have been current were PURE
FANTASY and were really a disguised Holy War by Christian
Fundamentalists. I categorically prophesied that unless
government and police took action to deflate the situation
burnings would occur. I have been proved entirely correct.
I pleaded for help from the Home Office and they ignored my
cry for help and said they could do nothing. I pleaded for
help from George Russell the Chairman of the IBA who had the
power to stop the totally spurious Cook Report on Satanism
And Child Abuse from being broadcast which I categorically
stated to him would cause criminal action from
fundamentalists to occur. He not only ignored my request but
refused to answer any of my letters thereafter. I have no
doubt whatsoever that the totally irresponsible trash
tabloid approach and sensational allegations within the Cook
Report were directly responsible for the attack on my
business. The rooms above my premises were once flats, it is
only by the grace of the Gods that a murder was not
committed and unless a lead is taken NOW by government THAT
MURDER WILL OCCUR SOONER OR LATER. I prophecy it.
Even though I have told them clearly what the situation is,
none of these so called 'responsible' people who direct and
sculpt the life of people in this country have given any
serious thought to the problem and they have consistently
ignored my advice and refused to help me. Yet, this
government has spend thousands of pounds protecting Salman
Rushdie from exactly the same situation - Fundamentalism.
This is how it is; and all sincere and honourable people in
this country need to beware greatly the forces which are at
work, so heed my words very carefully.
Fundamentalism will remain powerful for the next ten years
at least. The results of fundamentalism OF ANY KIND can
easily be seen by reference to other countries around the
world where it predominates. That I am not the only person
able to see this problem was revealed when the Archbishop of
Canterbury recently made public statements appealing for
calm and right thinking from Christians and a rebuffal of
the excesses of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism results in
fanatics imposing upon individuals (That Means YOU), with
the threat of loss of life if you do not accede to their
version of how you should live, think, and behave. The
authority for these dictatorial attitudes is usually
contorted from aged holy writings the interpretation of
which is exclusively the responsibility of the
fundamentalist theocracy and "cannot be argued".
Fundamentalism negates all liberal concepts of personal
freedom and uses hysteria and fear to capture the
individuality of people and turn that into mass hypnosis
where millions will act like zombies, unable to exert their
individuality and free will. Fundamentalism goes against
inate human freedoms of belief and contravenes the United
Nations Bill of Human Rights. All those who believed the
ritual child abuse scare were sucked into the fundamentalist
mind mass.
Make no mistake about it, the Christian fundamentalist
campaign in the UK has been fully orchestrated and
organised. It has not happened by accident. I can quote
names, organisations, actions and have evidence to reveal
their campaign strategy over a two year period. Moreover I
have made the Home Office fully aware of this evidence as
things developed but no one has been interested in my
evidence. Realise that Christian fundamentalism has
hi-jacked and is misusing the teachings of an important and
valuable world religion. The vast majority of Christians are
people who wish us well and who themselves decry the current
fundamentalist activity.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
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The fundamentalists will continue by recruiting bigots and
pivoting their campaign by pursuing the usual fanatical
prejudices. Now that they have firebombed us they are likely
to firebomb other occult shops and general bookshops with
occult departments on a monkey see monkey do basis. When
they've finished with the occult they will turn to less
controversial subjects, abortion, wierd sexual appetites,
homosexuals, "foreigners", papists, and anyone else who is a
danger to their theocracy. Inch by Inch they have already
made great progress and the government is allowing them to
do so FULLY COGNISANT of what is happening. They seem to
think that it will all be a seven day wonder but after two
years things have got worse not better because of the
governments calculated blind eye.
The fundamentalists have hi-jacked the media and are
manipulating most successfully. The Cook Report is a classic
example. The "Devils' work" programme itself was unanimously
condemned as the worst kind of tabloid journalism devoid of
all proof by both low and highbrow newspaper reviewers
alike. There were hundreds of letters of complaint about the
tone and content of the programme itself yet, in order to
further justify their actions, the Cook Report gave an
update which included an interview with a "professional
social counsellor" who was shown manning a video screen
during the "helpline" phone in after the show, This
"professional social counsellor" opined that over 900 calls
had been received relating to satanism and child abuse. Cook
did not reveal that this lady is in fact a Baptist
fundamentalist who runs the Reachout Trust a charitable
organisation set up in 1984 for (and we take the words from
their application for a charitable licence) "The Advancement
of the Christian Religion by Such Means As They Shall
Consider Expedient In Relation to The Accepted and Taught in
The Evangelical Tradition of the Christian Church." Maureen
Davies has been at the forefront of the satanic child abuse
allegations and assisted with the compilation of the Cook
Report and is largely responsible for the tide of
fundamentalism sweeping this country. The REACHOUT TRUST has
strong links with American fundamentalists and helped import
the ritualised child abuse scare from the USA where it ran
during 1986/7. The Reachout Trust distributes Occult
Activity Fact Files from the USA which incite inexperienced
and amateur detection work against occultists by other
fundamentalists. Fundamentalism creates its own
self-fulfilling prophecy.
My business has been targeted and largely victimised by
these fundamentalists in a sustained campaign over 18 months
even though we are totally innocent of all accusations save
the supply of information and books on ALL forms of human
belief, providing those beliefs do not incite a breech of
the laws of the land. A greater injustice has rarely
prevailed. I have been in this business for 15 years. I have
paid taxes and rates and provided jobs for many people over
the years yet apart from the local Leeds police who have
behaved wonderfully, I have received no support whatsoever
from the government or those organisations set up by
government to cope with complaints and unfairness in the
media.
All that was necessary to spike the guns of the
fundamentalists in this campaign was an official
announcement by the Home office and respective police forces
that those people giving anecdotal information which
provided the so called "proof" of the fundamentalists
allegations were themselves fundamentalists with a history
of making such claims which the police had investigated and
found to be lies. (I have proof that this is the case).
But the government did not give such a statement and the
police of several counties also refused to act. When I asked
my MP to invoke the powers of the parliamentary ombudsman to
get the government to do something he refused to become
involved. No one accorded my my due rights or any dignity
whatsoever. I was being sacrificed to the Gods of Expediency
and Prejudice.
I wrote to Linda Agran of "Right to Reply" [C4-TV]. She
didn't reply at all. I wrote to Paddy Stamp of Council of
CIvil Liberties - No reply either. I wrote to national
newspaper editors and gave them the data; but no one even
replied let alone asked for more information. I wrote to
Alan Gilmore, then chairman of the NSPCC, and thanked him
for not jumping on the secular bandwaggon and becoming
involved in the scare during the 18 month old campaign. I
gave him all the background information about the phantom
child abuse allegations. The NSPCC happily acknowledged
these. Then months later, without ANY EVIDENCE at all to
prove his opinions, Dr Gilmour gave an interview to the Cook
Report supporting the fundamentalist fantasies and setting
up a task force to deal with satanic child abuse. I despise
the offhand way these and hundreds of other people whom I
have written have played this hypocritical game. Such people
have dishonoured themselves. When I wrote back to Dr Gilmore
and complained about his statement providing YET MORE
INFORMATION to disprove fundamentalist claims, he tersely
replied that he needed to take professional advice. Pity he
didn't take the advice before adding what might have seemed
like total proof to Cook Report viewers. All I prophesied
has come true. IS IT NECESSARY FOR SOMEONE TO LOOSE THEIR
LIFE TO PROVE IT FURTHER?
WHAT I AM GOING TO DO NOW
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Although I have been in the Occult Business for 15 years we
only opened our large shop on a main thoroughfare 4 years
ago. Previous to this we used to run a by appointment system
for callers at our warehouse. I opened our large retail
premises knowing full well that we would create some
controversy from fundamentalists but perceived that the
public in general should be given as many opportunities as
possible to investigate and perceive alternative forms of
belief. I have always held the view that only when people
are fully informed can they find their own way to their
unique spiritual atonement and subsequently become a
thinking and responsible member of our society. We have
always existed to provide that wide scope; we do not
concentrate on any one aspect of belief and include ALL
philosophies and comparative religions INCLUDING
CHRISTIANITY. Unfortunately the British are not ready for
such things. Maybe they never were and never will be, an d
this fact has dire repercussions for the future quality of
our people.
I cannot risk further attacks on my property and business
and will not endanger the people who have loyally worked for
me for many years by striving for a principle of freedom
which the rest of the populace and our government itself
seem unprepared to support. NOT ONE PERSON other than close
associates and clients has been prepared to condemn the
fundamentalist actions. Accordingly I have closed my retail
store to passers by and the curious and will continue to
supply only my established clients and new enquirers who
will have to prove their integrity before we accept them as
customers. We have NEVER supplied to people under the age of
18 and this rule will remain.
The people whom I have written to and from whom I pleaded
for help are too many to be listed. They know who they are
and they know that their choice was not one of great cosmic
importance. They only had to chose to do the right thing but
failed in that because of inate prejudices. I blame the ALL
for the arson attack which could have so easily caused
someones death and very nearly destroyed my livelihood. But
I most especially condemn Roger Cook and Tim Tate of the
Cook Report because there is no doubt in my mind that this
attack, coming as it did three weeks after their broadcast,
was incited by that broadcast. I am of course suing Central
Television the makers of the Cook Report for libel during
the programme.
There is much posed opining in politics and the press about
the suppression of freedom of speech and belief in other
countries and how well off we are in the UK. Yet there is no
difference between restrictions of freedom in China which
honestly curtail and suppress free though and expression,
and the incidious and pernicious response by the
establishment in this country which causes the same
suppression by expediency and default. What has happened to
me can happen to ANYONE in this country and the despicable
way in which my rights have been travested is a sign to
everyone who has eyes, here and abroad, that our country and
those who run it are more deeply corrupted than could
otehrwise be believed. This corruption has nothing to do
with cash or greed but simply when they are, under testing
conditions, given the choice of doing the right thing or
hiding behind some device of officialdom, they have proved
themselves unable to do anything humanitarian in favour of a
person or a principle. Rather they have chosen the path of a
settled career. I don't know if they can be blamed for this
type of response but I do accuse them of dishonesty in
pretending to do or be otherwise.
I confidently expect that rather than admit that they were
totally and utterly wrong in their actions and conclusions
that they will instead demand greater proof from me that it
was fundamentalists who firebombed my business than they did
from those who lied about the ritual linked child abuse
allegations in the first place.
I confidently expect that, before too long, the
fundamentalists will accuse me of setting fire to my own
shop for political reasons. Knowing their strategy they
will, in order to circumvent any sympathy for me, disinform
their own ranks and the media that I have in some way cursed
them for their actions. In order to circumvent such strategy
I declare openly that my beliefs, wisdom, and knowledge are
totally unshakable by the cowardly wimps who would
perpetrate such crimes. Each time they attack me they simply
give me greatness and strengthen me while revealing their
own weakness. I have no need to curse such people; they are
already incarcerated within their zombie like existence and
will suffer the karma of their deeds in their own time. My
attackers have destroyed forever their claim to purity and
holiness and eventually they will realise this. There is no
need to curse such people for they curse themselves well
enough and Chronos will reveal the TRUTH to all in due
course.
CLAIMS ABOUT CHILD ABUSE LINKED TO WITCHCRAFT CAN NOW BE
SEEN TO BE A LIE USED BY CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS TO
DISGUISE A HOLY WAR AGAINST ALTERNATIVE BELIEFS.
So Mote It Be
Chris Bray, Leeds, United Kingdom, 15 August 1989
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