PAN URGENT NEWS RELEASE

SAFF and the PAN have spent months discrediting claims regarding the so-called THAMES TORSO MURDER in which media and police swallowed their second dose of fundamentalist poison.

You may ask- have the authorities and gutter press given up on this SRAM-orientated fiasco and buried the hatchet with all pagans, occultists, and other unorthodox religious minorities? Have they desisted in their new SRAM - like hunt against Voodoo practitioners? Sadly the answer is a decisive NO!

SAFF and PAN discredited the Voodoo/Muti connection to the odious Thames killing this summer yet the media are STILL using old tired fabrications of the truth to increase their readership.

The following article (by Sarah Obanye) is in today's (7-11-02) Daily Mail

 'Femail magazine' (pages 60-61):

VOODOO BRITAIN......THE RITUAL KILLING OF A YOUNG BOY DUMPED IN THE THAMES

HORRIFIED THE NATION. HERE, WITH THE HELP OF AN AFRICAN PRIEST, WE RECREATE

THE CHILD'S LAST TERRIBLE JOURNEY AND ASK...HOW MANY OTHER VICTIMS? 2

"...More bizarrely still, a cluster of seven inscribed candles wrapped in a cloth was found close to

where the dismembered torso was originally spotted. It was the candles that provided the clue that

this was no ordinary murder but, shockingly, a ritualistic voodoo sacrifice. . ."

The so-called 'evidence' which is quoted in this latest article as linking the Torso case

 with occult rituals is the candles and sheet, which the Met themselves held a press

conference to actually repudiate months ago.

The candles and sheet had nothing whatsoever to do with the case.

Please contact SAFF for more details:

31 Kings Ave, Leeds, L66 1QP

Tel: 0113 2451309

ACTION NEEDED NOW!

We urge all pagans/occultists and freethinkers to immediately complain to the

 Daily Mail (Femail section) about this disgusting article.

 Their feedback page is at:

Let them know that the original Satanic Abuse fiasco was proven to be a total lie by SAFF many years ago and that they should know better than to 'again' fall for fiascos like this voodoo myth which was created by well known fundamentalists who subsequently misled the police. Quote the above SAFF link which categorically proves how easy the press tow the fundie line in these matters. Tell them that stories such as this simply create racial and religious tensions and disenfranchise the occultist minority (as well as many black people) in Britain.

Tell the editor that this paper should not make the same mistakes as occurred a decade ago when the press went Witch-Hunt mad during the first round of Satanic Abuse hysteria!

Thirteen years ago the same hype and misdirection, created by fundamentalist Christians and picked up by the media and the police, created the first Satanic Panic which destroyed the lives of 84 children and wasted 20 million pounds worth of taxpayers' money on a five year long wild goose chase of epidemic proportions.

PAN realises that the vast majority of Christians are not fundamentalist or evangelical in make up and we only criticise religious extremists who seek to disenfranchise other faiths whilst bolstering their own. PAN does not in any way condone violence against any persons or property and we must state that we have always worked towards a more tolerant and equal society.