Message #4433 - Magicknet 
   Date : 11-Oct-90 08:59
   From : Lewis Cypher
     To : All
Subject : La Outlaws Animal Sacrifice
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From United Press:
Los Angeles:
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     The City Councel voted this week to outlaw animal sacrifice, making Los
Angeles the first city in the nation to ban ritualistic slaughter under any
circumstances.
    The council voted 10 to 1 to enact the ordinance, making such killings
punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of $1,000.
    Dissenting was Councilman Robert Farrell, who has argued that such a law
would restrict religious freedom. He said in many immigrant communities,
animal sacrifice is "an expression of people's faith," particularly by those
who practice Santeria, a form of Caribbean voodoo mixing Catholic and African
rituals.
    As many as 300 animal sacrifices have occured in Los Angeles during the
past year. Most involved dogs and cats, many of which were stolen pets that
are often returned to their owners' lawns after being beheaded or
disemboweled.
    The city's department of Animal Regulation recieves hundreds of
complaints each year about animal sacrifices, but department officials
believe hundreds more go unreported.    A large number of killings have been
linked to satanic cult practices in addition to the Santarea groups.
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Comment:
e     The LA City councel, reacting to profiteering so called 'experts' on
the occult who do not know their ass from a deep hole in the ground, have now
institutionalized a myth that animal mutilation and killing is a necessary
part of Satanism. 
    Because of the reverance for individual consciousness that true Satanists
hold, such sacrifices have never been, and are not currently, part of Satanic
activity. Such hysteria campaines which have the effect of getting such laws
passed, are an obvious thrust by Christian Fundi groups to build antisatanist
myths, to ultimately to begin persecuting minority religions such as
Satanism,Santarea,and Wicca..
    It is especially frightening when you consider that the sum total of all
these killings in LA could have been done by one person or small group of
people. Remember the Maine!
Please also note that the ordinance is not directed at vandals who kidnap and
murder people's pets, but is religiously orientated. Many so called satanic
cults are just teenagers bent on sick thrills. This ordinance is the kind of
thing we must all appose by education and votes. It could happen to your
community now that the precident is set.


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