Welcome to the SMART Conference 2022. Please note: This presentation may remind survivors of their programming. Please use your support systems as needed. This presentation and the rest of the conference are not intended as therapy or treatment. All accusations are alleged.
The Modern False Memory Syndrome Movement in the United States – Neil Brick
The modern FMS movement borrows most of its history, techniques and research from prior false memory movements. These erroneous theories include memory implantation into survivors’ minds by therapist, pseudoscientific theories about memory and dissociation and the harassment of survivors and therapists and their support groups. The modern FMS movement also differs from prior movements in several ways. The modern FMS movement uses religion and prayer to promote its theories. The modern FMS theories, while they may quote the old false memory movements pseudoscientists of the 1990s, they do not usually use modern scientists in the field to back their organizations’ beliefs.
Neil Brick is a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritual abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritual abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us has been published for over 27 years. https://neilbrick.com
This presentation will compare the false memory movement of the 1990s with today’s false memory movement.
Organizations
Theories of false memory pre-date the 1990s. These theories have been used to attacks the credibility of survivors of rape and child abuse. They have been used to help cover up crimes against children and adults.
Though there were many organizations in the 1990s promoting false memory theories, the best known and probably most influential was the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. The organization existed from 1992 – 2019.
The term False Memory Syndrome was created in 1992 by the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). It has been called “a pseudoscientific syndrome that was developed to defend against claims of child abuse.” The FMSF was created by parents who claimed to be falsely accused of child sexual abuse. The False Memory Syndrome was described as “a widespread social phenomenon where misguided therapists cause patients to invent memories of sexual abuse.” (Dallam, S. (2002). “Crisis or Creation: A systematic examination of false memory claims”. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 9 (3/4): 9–36. doi:10.1300/J070v09n03_02. PMID 17521989 http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/res/dallam/6.html )
One of the major modern proponents of the False Memory Syndrome is the Grey Faction. The Grey Faction is a “campaign” of the Satanic Temple. The Satanic Temple was co-founded by Lucien Greaves formerly known as Doug or Douglas Mesner (all aliases). Doug Mesner has a history of harassing child abuse survivors since 2009.
For almost a decade using several aliases (including Douglas Mesner and Lucien Greaves) he has harassed groups helping child abuse, rape and trauma survivors. He has also harassed groups providing research in support of child abuse, rape and trauma survivors.
In 2013, he and others created a group called the Satanic Temple. One part of this group is called the Grey Faction. The Grey Faction states they “invade” conferences. ( Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet )
Shane Bugbee
“I’ll try to explain why I have such a disdain for The Satanic Temple, a practical joke turned religion and could be cult, and the reasons behind my need to make that disdain public, as there is seldom one reason.”
“Then Doug told me his main motivation for The Satanic Temple was profit, to create a “substantial income”, that was enough for me to want to cease helping in any way, and to question the true intent of this project. While I am all for profit, I want nothing to do with a cult. Because the people The Satanic Temple wants to extract money from are MY people….”
“I recall Doug Mesner telling me the C.I.A. had asked him to write some private reports for them.” ( religion: a master and slave relationship by Shane Bugbee
https://web.archive.org/web/20160405153153/http://www.shanebugbee.com/?p=2161 The article discusses the beginnings of the Satanic Temple and its founders.)
Techniques:
The FMSF and the Grey Faction have used different techniques to promote the false memory syndrome agenda. The FMSF filed various legal briefs in the mid and late 1990s. “In the 1990’s, the FMS Foundation filed numerous amicus curiae briefs in response to a proliferation of lawsuits brought by adult children against their parents and/or others alleging repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse recovered in therapy.” (FMSF website).
At times, they harassed therapists. One example is that of David Calof.
“I have practiced psychotherapy, family therapy, and hypnotherapy for over 25 years without a single board complaint or law suit by a client. For over three years, however, a group of proponents of the false memory syndrome (FMS) hypothesis, including members, officials, and supporters of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Inc., have waged a multi-modal campaign of harassment and defamation directed against me, my clinical clients, my staff, my family, and others connected to me. I have neither treated these harassers or their families, nor had any professional or personal dealings with any of them; I am not related in any way to the disclosures of memories of sexual abuse in these families. Nonetheless, this group disrupts my professional and personal life and threatens to drive me out of business… In this article, I describe practicing psychotherapy under a state of siege and places the campaign against me in the context of a much broader effort in the FMS movement to denigrate, defame, and harass clinicians, lecturers, writers, and researchers identified with the abuse and trauma treatment communities. should also add that this article covers the first four years of what would become an over 10 year campaign of harassment and the most egregious actions actually took place after this article was published.” This harassment against David Calof included physical assault and criminal convictions.
(Calof, D.L. (1998). Notes from a practice under siege: Harassment, defamation, and intimidation in the name of science, Ethics and Behavior, 8(2) pp. 161-187. https://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/notes-from-a-practice-under-siege/ )
Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter – Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998 , pages 115 – 124
Abstract – In 1988 I began a report on the accuracy of expert testimony in child sexual abuse cases utilizing Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield as a case study (Wakefield & Underwager, 1988). In response, Underwager and Wakefield began a campaign of harassment and intimidation, which included multiple lawsuits; an ethics charge; phony (and secretly taped) phone calls; and ad hominem attacks, including one that I was laundering federal grant monies. The harassment and intimidation failed as the author refused demands to retract. In addition, the lawsuits and ethics charges were dismissed.
( Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter – Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998 , pages 115 – 124 https://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/confessions-of-a-whistle-blower-lessons-learned/ )
The Grey Faction has often focused on harassing survivor and professional conferences and therapists via their licensing boards. Doug Mesner’s (Lucien Greaves) conference attacks began in 2009, prior to the founding of the Grey Faction.
Rebuttal to the Report from the SMART 2009 conference:
“Unfortunately a “journalist” came into the conference pseudonymously. This person on a website for radiofreesatan, where he is a DJ and is described as “an unscrupulous journalist.”
This journalist paid to enter the conference with a check. He stopped payment on the check after the conference.
Our conference brochure, which all that register are required to read, states “Members of secret organizations, acting out perpetrators, and/or members of unsympathetic organizations are excluded from the conference. This is for the protection and safety of those in attendance.”
Also, it is clearly announced at the beginning of the conference, “Please note that media people are not allowed in the conference at any time without the written permission of SMART.”
Less than one week after the conference, he placed a vicious article on a major Internet newspaper personally attacking some of the conference attendees, the field of DID and memory. Attacks included disparaging remarks about one’s appearance and voice as well as claiming child abuse survivor accounts at the conference were fictional.”
The harassment and attacks, including name calling and personal insults continued after the conference on the Internet, with aliases believed to belong to Doug Mesner.
The Grey Faction has protested at and harassed people at the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation ISSTD’s conferences. They have called for the “symbolic destruction of ISSTD.” “The Satanic Temple (TST) will conduct a national Destruction Ritual on April 1st, 2019.” (Grey Faction website “Grey faction calls for symbolic destruction of ISSTD.”)
Research:
The FMSF in the 1990’s attempted to give its organization scientific credibility by developing an advisory board from the “scientific and clinical communities.” They also cite journal articles supporting their positions.
Their research assumptions have been heavily critique by researchers in the field of trauma and memory.
“Research on False Memory
There is a great deal of evidence showing the existence of the phenomenon of recovered memory and the fairly high corroboration rates of these memories. The base rates for memory commission errors have been shown to be quite low, at least in professional trauma treatment. The base rates in adult misinformation studies run between zero and 5 percent for adults and between 3 – 5 percent for children. It has been shown that people who recover memories are a lot less suggestible than clinicians have been led to believe by false memory advocates. It has been stated that false memories are rare. One research study showed the unlikelihood of being able to plant a false memory of a traumatic event. Some have stated that the False Memory Syndrome is not a scientific syndrome. (Citations at Child Abuse Wiki – False Memory Syndrome http://childabusewiki.org/index.php/False_Memory_Syndrome )
Elizabeth Loftus, a former FMSF member, has also been critiqued for her ethics and her research.
An analysis of the mall study shows that beyond the external misrepresentations, internal scientific methodological errors cast doubt on the validity of the claims that have been attributed to the mall study within scholarly and legal arenas. The minimal involvement or, in some cases, negative impact of collegial consultation, academic supervision, and peer review throughout the evolution of the mall study are reviewed.” (Crook, L. (1999) “Lost in a Shopping Mall”—a Breach of Professional Ethics Ethics & Behavior, (9, 1) P. 39-50 ” http://users.owt.com/crook/memory/ )
Elizabeth Loftus “Loftus is aware that those who study traumatic memory have for several years, based on a great deal of research and clinical experience, used the construct of dissociation to account for the majority of recovered memories. However, she continues to focus on and attack “repression” and “repressed memories,” which has the effect of confusing and misleading many people.” ( Hopper, J. formerly at http://www.jimhopper.com/memory/#el )
“Does the trauma specified in the lost-in-the-mall experiment seem comparable to the trauma forming the basis of false memory syndrome? Loftus (1993) described the implanted traumatic event in the shopping-mall experiment as follows: “Chris was convinced by his older brother Jim, that he had been lost in a shopping mall when he was five years old” (p. 532). Does this seem, for example, a reasonable analogy for a five-year-old girl being repeatedly raped by her father?….Is it possible that the findings are an artifact of this particular design, for example, that the older family member claims to have been present when the event occurred and to have witnessed it, a claim the therapist can never make? To date, replications and extensions of this study have tended to use a similar methodology; that is, either the older family member makes the suggestions in his or her role as the experimenter’s confederate, or the experimenter presents the suggestion as being the report of an older family member, thus creating a surrogate confederate.”
(Pope, K. (1996) Memory, Abuse, and Science: Questioning Claims About the False Memory Syndrome Epidemic American Psychologist 51: 957. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.51.9.957 http://www.kspope.com/memory/memory.php )
“Hoult v. Hoult involved allegations by an adult woman, Jennifer Hoult, who claimed that her father, former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) professor David Hoult, had repeatedly sexually abused and raped her during her childhood. Hoult alleged she recovered her memory of the abuse when she was an adult. After hearing six days of testimony during the 1993 trial, the jury unanimously found David liable for abusing his daughter. Their decision was upheld in every appeal David pursued.” Hoult, J. (2005)”Remembering Dangerously” & Hoult v. Hoult: The Myth of Repressed Memory that Elizabeth Loftus Created
by Jennifer Hoult, Esq. https://www.rememberingdangerously.com/ )
The Grey Faction appears to have no new scientific evidence to back its FMS claims. It appears to primarily draw from older research or simply repeat statements similar to those of the 1990s movement.
Their pseudoscientific statements have been rebutted in various studies. Similar to the FMS movement of the 1990s, the Grey Faction appears to ignore the majority of research in the field.
(Satanic Temple – Grey Faction Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience: Denial that memories can be repressed.
Pseudoscience: Denial that DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is caused by trauma.
https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/satanic-temple-grey-faction-pseudoscience/ )
Beliefs about memory:
Both the FMSF movements of the 1990s and the last ten years have questioned or outright denied the existence of traumatic memory or dissociative amnesia.
FMSF website:
“ Pope et al. found no evidence for repression. Indeed, for more than sixty years, researchers have been seeking scientific evidence that people repress traumatic memories. To date, they have found none.”
Grey Faction Website:
“The notion that traumatic events can be repressed and later recovered is the most pernicious bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and psychiatry. It has provided the theoretical basis for ‘recovered memory therapy’ — the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy era.” Prof. Richard McNally” “ the scourge of repressed memory pseudoscience in mental health care”
These extremist positions about memory ignore almost all of the data around memory. Numerous case studies, legal cases and scientific studies have conclusively proven that traumatic memory can be forgotten and later recovered.
““Dissociative amnesia (DA) is one of three dissociative disorders listed under DSM-V. The disorder involves the temporary loss of recall memory caused by disassociation, which may last for a period of seconds or years. The interruption in memory may be voluntary or involuntary and is most often a result of psychological trauma. DA involves episodic autobiographical memory loss inconsistent with normal forgetfulness. Episodic autobiographical information is associated with contextual information, such as what happened in the minutes leading up to a traumatic event. The individual may, however, remember semantic autobiographical information such as the date, time and weather conditions of the accident. Dissociative amnesia often arises from traumatic childhood events.”
“Recovered memories have been defined as the phenomenon of partially or fully losing parts of memories of traumatic events, and then later recovering part or all of the memories into conscious awareness. They have also been defined as the recollections of memories that are believed to have been unavailable for a certain period of time. There is very strong scientific evidence that recovered memories exist. This has been shown in many scientific studies. The content of recovered memories have fairly high corroboration rates.” (Child Abuse Wiki – Recovered Memory http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Recovered_Memories )
Pseudoscientific theories:
Another pseudoscientific theory promoted by false memory movements includes the false belief the suffers of dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder) symptoms are not caused by trauma or that their symptoms are iatrogenic (caused by a therapist or doctor).
“Many therapists feel that the popularity of Dissociative Identity Disorder represents a kind of social contagion.” FMSF website.
“I have seen a number of people who were diagnosed with DID, or where the patients themselves felt that they had DID, so it depends on what you mean by the question. In other words, there are certainly people that I’ve seen that were quite convinced that they did have different personalities that had amnesia for one another. But, even though it was “real” in the sense that the patients believed that they had it, I’m not convinced that it was real in the sense that it was a naturally occurring phenomenon, as opposed to something that had occurred through the power of suggestion.” Pope quote at the Grey Faction website.
These statements ignore much of the factual peer reviewed research on dissociative identity disorder (DID). There is no supported scientific evidence that DID and its symptoms can be created iatrogenically or through suggestion.
“The causes of dissociative identity disorder are theoretically linked with the interaction of overwhelming stress, traumatic antecedents,insufficient childhood nurturing, and an innate ability to dissociate memories or experiences from consciousness. Prolonged child abuse is frequently a factor, with a very high percentage of patients reporting documented abuse often confirmed by objective evidence. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders states that patients with DID often report having a history of severe physical and sexual abuse. The reports of patients suffering from DID are “often confirmed by objective evidence,” and the DSM notes that the abusers in those situations may be inclined to “deny or distort” these acts. Research has consistently shown that DID is characterized by reports of extensive childhood trauma, usually child abuse.”
Citations:
American Psychiatric Association (2000-06).Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV TR (Text Revision). Arlington, VA, USA: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.. DOI:10.1176/appi.books.9780890423349. ISBN 978-0890420249.
Dissociative Identity Disorder, doctor’s reference. Merck.com
Pearson, M.L. (1997). Childhood trauma, adult trauma, and dissociation (PDF). Dissociation 10 (1): 58–62
Kluft, RP (2003). Current Issues in Dissociative Identity Disorder (PDF). Bridging Eastern and Western Psychiatry 1 (1): 71–87.
Putnam FW, Guroff JJ, Silberman EK, Barban L, Post RM (June 1986). “The clinical phenomenology of multiple personality disorder: review of 100 recent cases”. J Clin Psychiatry 47 (6): 285–93. PMID 3711025.
Ross CA, Miller SD, Bjornson L, Reagor P, Fraser GA, Anderson G (March 1991). “Abuse histories in 102 cases of multiple personality disorder”. Can J Psychiatry 36 (2): 97–101. PMID 2044042.”The patients reported high rates of childhood trauma: 90.2% had been sexually abused, 82.4% physically abused, and 95.1% subjected to one or both forms of child abuse….Multiple personality disorder appears to be a response to chronic trauma originating during a vulnerable period in childhood.”
Boon S, Draijer N (March 1993). Multiple personality disorder in The Netherlands: a clinical investigation of 71 patients. Am J Psychiatry 150 (3): 489–94. PMID 8434668.”A history of childhood physical and/or sexual abuse was reported by 94.4% of the subjects, and 80.6% met criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder….Patients with multiple personality disorder have a stable set of core symptoms throughout North America as well as in Europe.”
(Child Abuse Wiki – Dissociative Identity Disorder http://childabusewiki.org/index.php/Dissociative_Identity_Disorder)
Harassment of survivors:
Though the FMSF discusses retractors and survivor conferences and organizations, it appears their major focus was attacking therapists and promoting pseudoscientific theories in the media.
The Grey Faction has spent much of their efforts harassing and attacking various survivor and professional conferences. These are well documented at the https://ritualabuse.us/ and https://survivorship.org/ websites. At times, those working with the Grey Faction have infiltrated conferences, video taped people at conferences without their permission and put these videos on the Internet.
Theoretical and Organizational Connections to pedophilia and abuse
The FMSF was co-founded in part by Dr. Ralph Underwager.
“Ms. Wakefield and Dr. Underwager are the publishers of the journal, “Issues in Child Abuse Accusations.” They co-edited the volumes: “Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse” and “The Real World of Child Interrogations.” They have written numerous articles on the interrogation of children, the role of the psychologist in assessing child abuse cases, the evaluation of child witnesses, and the manipulation of the child abuse system. They regularly appear as expert witnesses and give training sessions to jurists, psychologists, and laymen.” (http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Underwager2.html )
PAIDIKA INTERVIEW: HOLLIDA WAKEFIELD AND RALPH UNDERWAGER Part I
Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they” want is to find the best way to love. . . . Paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness they can say, “I believe this is in fact part of God’s will.” –Dr. Ralph Underwager in this interview with Paidika,
a European pro-pedophile publication.
False Memory Syndrome – Paidika Interview
“It would be nice if someone could get some kind of big research grant to do a longitudinal study of, let’s say, a hundred twelve-year old boys with loving paedophiles. Whoever was doing the study would have to follow them at five yearintervals for twenty years.” (H. Wakefield, cited in Geraci, 1993, p. 12) (http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Underwager2.html )
“Part II Underwager/Wakefield Interview
THE AMERICAN SITUATION
PAIDIKA: You are speaking mostly about paedophiles in the U. S. What tack should they take given the societal attitudes? What solutions do you envision for their lives?
RALPH UNDERWAGER: The solution that I’m suggesting is that paedophiles become much more positive. They should directly attack the concept, the image, the picture of the paedophile as an evil, wicked, and reprehensible exploiter of children.”
(Part II Underwager/Wakefield Interview
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Underwager3.html )
Paul and Shirley Eberle’s The Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool trial
“In addition, some of authors of false memory books also turned out to be pedophile advocates. For example, one of the most widely cited books claiming that cult abuse reports were mass hysteria is Paul and Shirley Eberle’s The Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool trial.(6) Taken quite seriously by reviewers and widely quoted In later magazine articles as authoritative, the book makes such claims as that the over 100 McMartin children who reported they had been abused by a cult were all “brainwashed” and the mothers were all “hysterical” and that it was meaningless that physicians found three-quarters of the children bore physical evidence that corroborated their stories. What reviewers didn’t mention was that the Eberles had been called “the most prolific publishers of child pornography in the United States” by Sgt. Toby Tyler, a San Bernadino deputy sheriff who is a nationally recognized expert on child pornography.(7) Their kiddie porn material that I have seen and the articles they have published such as “I Was a Sexpot at Five” and “Little Lolitas” Included illustrations of children involved in sodomy and oral copulation and featured pornographic photos of the Eberles.”
( deMause, Lloyd, “Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children” The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 [4] http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/why-cults-terrorize-and-kill-children-lloyd-demause-the-journal-of-psychohistory/ )
For more information on the Eberle’s, see ( McMartin Preschool Case – What Really Happened and the Coverup https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin-preschool-case-what-really-happened-and-the-coverup/
and Paul and Shirley Eberle: A Strange Pair of Experts http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Eberle.html )
The GreyFaction has a reported connection to a registered sex offender.
August 13, 2014
Doug Mesner aka Lucien Greaves, Truth About The Satanic Monument
Hello Adam —
….We are prepared to turn in our monument proposal and I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind being our member to establish our standing in OK? What this means is that we would submit our proposal as the Satanic Temple, on your behalf as a resident of OKC. Where this could possibly be problematic for you is that we need to put a legitimate address for you on the paperwork. Is this something you’d be willing to do? Let us know — we’ll get you out a membership card and certificate ASAP>
Thank you — Lucien
https://web.archive.org/web/20170412090559/https://churchofahriman.net/2014/08/13/doug-mesner-aka-lucien-greaves-truth-about-the-satanic-monument/
Adam Brian Daniels Registered Sex Offender
(https://web.archive.org/web/20201218070118/https://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/OK36B842376CD8A134E9B7863468FE2BF5/Adam-Brian-Daniels.html )
Offense or Statute
Offense/Statute:
Sexual Battery Of Person Over 16
Date Convicted:
08 April 2009
Scars, Marks, and Tattoos
Tattoo – Full Body Satanic designs all over body
Local Satanists speak out in support of Satanic monument at State Capitol
We’ve all heard about the Satanic Temple out of New York that is working to get a monument to Satan erected at the Oklahoma State Capitol next to the one of the Ten Commandments.
Now, a local Satanist couple is coming out in support of the project.
In fact, Kelsey Daniels’ name is on the application to the State Capitol Preservation Commission.
She and her husband, Adam, spoke to us at their Satanic Church in the back of their metro home.
https://kfor.com/news/local-satanists-support-satanic-monument-at-state-capitol/
The false memory movements connection to religion
The majority of the false memory groups in the 1990s did not have a published connection to religion. A few promoted religious freedom and claimed to be anti-cult.
The Grey Faction is part of the Satanic Temple.
Parallels have been shown between the Grey Faction and hate groups.
“Modern Harassment of Severe Abuse Survivors
Since 2009, I and others suffering have suffered hatred, hostility and harassment at first by Douglas Misicko (aka Doug Mesner, aka Lucien Greaves) and those working with him and then after 2014 by the group he co-founded, The Satanic Temple and its subgroup The Grey Faction.
I believe the Grey Faction may possibly qualify as a hate group due to its targeting sufferers of dissociative disorders sufferers and their helpers. At times, the inflammatory language used by the group has been meant to “intended to demean and brutalize” with “the use of cruel and derogatory language.” ( Possible Hate Groups – How Do They Effect Survivors and Their Resources https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2019-conference/possible-hate-groups-how-do-they-effect-survivors-and-their-resources/ )
Connections to Fascism and Antisemitism
FMSF members had reported connections to the CIA.
Article from 1998 : Messing With Our Minds (5/98) May 27, 2005 HUSAYN AL-KURDI
“Ironically, it turns out that the Foundation itself has extensive connections to another group that has indulged in extensive experimentation on human beings – the Central Intelligence Agency. Although better known for overseas operations that serve the interests of corporate and financial elites – euphemistically described as protecting “national security” – the Agency also has a sordid history of domestic mind control experimentation. Its interest in this field runs parallel with elite concern about how to control the thinking of US citizens. The fear among policymakers that we might take control of our own destinies is almost as deep as their terror that, without US intervention, people in other parts of the world might go their own way.
It should come as no surprise, then, that long-time CIA and “intelligence complex” operatives turn up on the FMSF Advisory Board. Perhaps the most public member has been Dr. Louis Joylon “Jolly” West, a legendary figure in CIA mind control circles operating out of UCLA. Another is Dr. Martin Orne, an authority on torture who currently works at the University of Pennsylvania’s Experimental Psychiatry Lab. While studying the effects of over 16 biochemical warfare agents until the early 1970s, Orne considered the effectiveness of choking, blistering, and vomiting agents, toxins, poison gas, and various incapacitating chemicals. During the same period, he also worked with the Cornell University-based Human Ecology Fund, sharing his findings with Dr. Even Cameron, who was then based at the McGill University Allen Institute in Montreal. At Human Ecology, electroshock, lobotomies, drugs, incapacitants, hypnosis, sleep deprivation, and radio control of the brain were all specialties of the house.
Still another false memory luminary is Margaret Singer, professor emeritus in psychology at the University of California-Berkeley. Long in the research loop of the “military-industrial-intelligence complex,” Singer’s involvement dates back to her experiments on returning Korean War veterans. Scrutinizing the behavior patterns of what were described as “collaborators,” “non-collaborators,” and “active resisters,” she noted that the “collaborators showed more typical and humanly responsive reactions” than the other groups, whose members “tended to be more apathetic and emotionally barren and withdrawn.”
“Inducing memory loss has long been a CIA obsession. The initial objectives included closing the minds of agents – in case they were captured – and making sure enemies who were interrogated wouldn’t remember they’d been questioned. While receiving CIA funds as part of the notorious MK-ULTRA project, West, an expert in brainwashing, learned how to manipulate memories in various subjects – inducing everything from total amnesia to obsessive-compulsive fixations.
West’s most notorious experiment, conducted while at the University of Oklahoma, involved killing an elephant with LSD and tranquilizers. But he also ran a secret CIA mind control lab and “treated” Jack Ruby after his murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Subsequently, he attempted to launch a Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence in California, hoping to incorporate treatments such as chemical castration, psychosurgery, and the use of experimental drugs. But the Center was derailed once its methods became public.”
( Messing With Our Minds (5/98) May 27, 2005 HUSAYN AL-KURDI
https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/special-reports-archives/messing-with-our-minds-598/ )
The Satanic Temple’s cofounder Douglas Mesner/Lucien Greaves has had connections to antisemitic statements, fascist philosophies and the alt right.
“In the intervening months, the decision to sue Twitter has grown into part of a controversy that’s engulfed the organization and recently led one of the Temple’s major chapters, the Satanic Temple Los Angeles, to leave the group entirely. The breaking point, according to a statement issued by the former TST Los Angeles, is the attorney representing Greaves: Marc Randazza, a First Amendment lawyer who currently represents a major neo-Nazi publisher, several key alt-right figures, and Alex Jones.” ( The Satanic Temple Is Engulfed in a Civil War Over a Decision to Hire an Attorney With a Stable of Alt-Right Clients – Anna Merlan
https://jezebel.com/the-satanic-temple-is-engulfed-in-a-civil-war-over-a-de-1828130997 )
Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple) Alleged Anti-Semitic Statements:
““Like, I think it’s okay to hate Jews if you hate them because they’re Jewish and they wear a stupid fuckin’ frisbie on their head [correct term: yarmulke or kippah] and walk around [and] think their God’s chosen people, but it’s not okay to hate somebody [‘born of Jewish blood’] just because their parents were stupid fuckin’ Jews and wore stupid frisbies on their head and thought the Jews were God’s chosen people […] Not everybody of Jewish blood is okay with me, it depends on if they follow the Jewish, uh… […] Satanic Jews are fine,” (Adam, “Doug Mesner [Lucien Greaves/Douglas Misicko] Satanic Temple Anti-Semitic Rant” (transcribed).”
(Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple) Alleged Anti-Semitic Statements
https://www.videosprout.com/video?id=98aafea9-df67-416d-998d-46348a626005&fbclid=IwAR3uIHF8pl3sgLGCSsdJKyE9QJK3JpfH4j2H8DLhd1yYHuc_pPLFdPHIMtE )
The Frontman: Douglas Misicko, better known as Lucien Greaves and Doug Mesner
https://danielkbuntovnik.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/the-frontman-douglas-misicko-better-known-as-lucien-greaves-and-doug-mesner/
“Tom Metzger, a former “Grand Dragon” of the California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and founder of a neo-Nazi group called White Aryan Resistance.”
“In the Might is Right podcast, Misicko engages Metzger in a lengthy discussion in which Misicko questions Metzger about “Jewish bloodlines” and the racial policies of Nazi Germany (Bugbee and Mesner, “Might is Right Special” https://archive.org/details/MightIsRightSpecial
“[note: the interview, which lasts 36 minutes, starts at about 19:27:30 and ends at 20:03:50]). At one point during the recorded conversation with Metzger, Misicko states, “I think there should be eugenics policy, population control policy. Something that ensures quality reproduction.” Although Misicko qualifies his pro-eugenics statement with the caveat that his ideal eugenics system would be based on IQ testing or “intelligence laws” (as opposed to being based strictly on racial grounds), it is known that IQ testing is culturally biased and that race is a cultural construct. Thus when Metzger objects that “[although] there are gray areas […] if you judge the black race by its whole, you must come up with the idea that they’re definitely an inferior race,” Misicko tries to win Metzger over to his position by implying that eugenics would still decimate the Afro-diasporic population even if it was based on IQ testing instead of race when he argues, “But that being the case [i.e., the case being that posited by Metzger—that “the black race by its whole (is) definitely an (intellectually) inferior race”], you still wouldn’t have to enact racial laws, you’d just have to enact intelligence laws, and if that [black intellectual inferiority] was being the case, then that good segment of the population would have to drop off.”
Here it is clear that what Misicko euphemistically posits as “that good segment of the population” is an intellectually “inferior” segment of the population whose “race” is disproportionately Black. What is essential to comprehend about this segment of the interview is that Misicko is attempting to sell de jure “IQ-based” eugenics to Metzger as de facto Black genocide. Metzger responds to Misicko’s idea by saying, “Well, we’ll leave you the project of raising the IQ of the black race to about 140 and I’ll be standing by when you’re successful,” prompting laughter from Misicko and his co-interviewers, Amy and Shane Bugbee. Shortly after that, Amy Bugbee (the wife of Shane Bugbee) chimes in to assert her belief that white people are not “necessarily the same species as blacks or Asians, you know, or any number of different races.” Tellingly, the Confederate battle flag was prominently displayed at the studio where Misicko recorded with the Bugbees (see: 5.2), who also strangely claimed that they held their wedding ceremony “in South Carolina because it is legal to fly the Confederate flag there” (Sula). The interview ends with Misicko promising to send Metzger a “personalize[d] copy” of Might is Right.”
Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest, is a book by pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard. First published in 1890, it heavily advocates egoist anarchism, amorality, consequentialism and psychological hedonism. In Might Is Right, Redbeard rejects conventional ideas of human and natural rights and argues that only strength or physical might can establish moral right….
There are also controversial parts of the book that deal with race and male–female relations, claiming that the woman and the family as a whole are the property of the man and proclaiming the innate superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race. The book also contains many strong anti-Semitic statements…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_Is_Right
NEW website and NEW edition of MIGHT IS RIGHT! ….it’s the absolute definitive edition of MIGHT IS RIGHT and will not be topped in my lifetime or even the newborn of todays lifetime… this limited edition OF 23 is signed and numbered by me, the publisher….an additional afterword from Ex-White Supremacist who was a White Supremacist when he wrote the afterword, George Eric Hawthorn, who now goes by the name George Burdi… also included is the editors note from the 1996 printing of Might I Right I put out, Katja Lane (Mrs. David Lane) and to add insult to it all, original artwork/illustrations by Doug Mesner a.k.a. Lucien Greaves of The Satanic Temple shame… a separate book plate from an older edition signed by the illustrator, Doug Mesner a.k.a. Lucien Greaves when he was still just a minion of mine. https://web.archive.org/web/20190801231408/http://www.shanebugbee.com/?p=2593
Other sources on Lucien Greaves and the Satanic Temple:
On the Psychological Projection of Antisemitism by Satanists https://danielkbuntovnik.wordpress.com/
The Frontman: Douglas Misicko, better known as Lucien Greaves and Doug Mesner https://danielkbuntovnik.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/the-frontman-douglas-misicko-better-known-as-lucien-greaves-and-doug-mesner/
Difficulties with Credibility and FMS Motivations
With connections between pro-pedophilia philosophies, sex offenders and organizations consisting of those accused of child abuse, the false memory groups credibility decreases greatly.
It appears their pseudoscientific philosophies and harassment of those that disagree with them are possible ways to philosophically protect those that abuse children.
One of the FMSF Founders:
“In reply to a TV documentary about FMS, William Freyd, (Pamela Freyd’s (one of the founders of the FMSF) step brother and sister-in-law) wrote “The False Memory Syndrome Foundation is a fraud designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape. There is no such thing as a False Memory Syndrome.” “In addition, Peter Freyd’s own mother (who is also Pamela’s step-mother) and his only sibling, a brother, were also estranged from Pamela and Peter. It should be noted that these family members support Jennifer’s side of the story.” ( Child Abuse Wiki – False MemorySyndrome http://childabusewiki.org/index.php/False_Memory_Syndrome )
“The foundation’s leaders, Pamela and Peter Freyd, were motivated because their adult daughter privately accused Peter of sexually abusing her as a child. They were put in touch with other parents claiming to be falsely accused by Dr. Harold Lief (Calof, 1993a), who was later revealed to be Pamela’s personal psychiatrist (J. Freyd, 1993). Families were also referred by Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield, a husband and wife team who are prominent advocates for people accused of molesting children. A frequent defense expert witness, Underwager’s philosophy concerning the prosecution of child sexual abuse has been summed up by the statement that it is “more desirable that a thousand children in abuse situations are not discovered than for one innocent person to be convicted wrongly” (Kraft, 1985, p. 1).
Underwager and Wakefield were also instrumental in helping the Freyds organize the foundation (P. Freyd, May 21, 1992; Underwager & Wakefield, 1994). The original toll-free number for the FMSF rang at Underwager’s private Institute for Psychological Therapies, and Underwager and Wakefield developed the initial questionnaire used to survey families who contacted the FMSF (P. Freyd, May 21, 1992).”
“Jennifer Freyd (1993) also revealed that her father was a chronic alcoholic throughout her childhood,4 and had himself been sexually abused as a boy by an older man, a fact he seemed to take pride in (according to Jennifer, he frequently described himself as having been a “kept” boy). She also noted that her abuse memories were consistent with never forgotten memories of her family’s pattern of sexualized and intrusive behavior (p. 13); memories which Peter and Pam have for the most part confirmed (Fried, 1994; Hechler, 1996). Jennifer Freyd (1993) also noted that her only sibling, a sister, was already estranged from her parents at the time of the allegations. In addition, Peter Freyd’s own mother (who is also Pamela’s step-mother) and his only sibling, a brother, were also estranged from Pamela and Peter. It should be noted that these family members support Jennifer’s side of the story.” (Crisis or Creation? A Systematic Examination of “False Memory Syndrome” by Stephanie J. Dallam Leadership Council http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/res/dallam/6.html )
Control of the Media
Media Manipulation by False Memory Proponents
U-Turn on Memory Lane by Mike Stanton – Columbia Journalism Review – July/August 1997
The FMSF builds much of its case against recovered memory by attacking a generally discredited Freudian concept of repression that proponents of recovered memory don’t buy, either. In so doing, the foundation ignores the fifty-year-old literature on traumatic, or psychogenic amnesia, which is an accepted diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association. In his 1996 book “Searching for Memory,” the Harvard psychologist and brain researcher Daniel L. Schachter — who believes that both true and false memories exist — says there is no conclusive scientific evidence that false memories can be created….The foundation and its backers “remind me of a high school debate team,” says the Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel, an authority on traumatic amnesia. “They go to the library, surgically extract the information convenient to them and throw out the rest.”….Many therapists, like their patients, hesitate to speak out. Recently, though, they have begun to make a more concerted effort to mobilize a response.
One of the most outspoken critics of the false-memory movement is a Seattle therapist, David Calof, editor until last year of Treating Abuse Today, a newsletter for therapists. He has identified what he calls the movement’s political agenda — lobbying for more restrictive laws governing therapy and promoting the harassment of therapists through lawsuits and even picketing of their offices and homes. Calof himself has been the target of picketing so fierce that he has been in and out of Seattle courtrooms over the last two years, obtaining restraining orders. He was spending so much time and money fighting the FMSF supporters’ campaign against him, he says, that he was forced to stop publishing the newsletter last year. He recently donated the publication to a victims’ rights group in Pennsylvania, which has resurrected it as Trauma. The new publisher says that views part of its mission as reporting on FMSF, since the mainstream media don’t.
Among journalists, perhaps the most relentless critic of the foundation is Michele Landsberg, a Toronto Star columnist. In 1993, she says, an Ontario couple, claiming to have been falsely accused, contacted her and asked her to write about their case. Unconvinced, she declined, and eventually started writing instead about the foundation. She attacked its scientific claims and criticized the sensational media coverage. She described how a foundation scientific adviser, Harold Merskey, had testified that a woman accusing a doctor of sexual abuse in a civil case might in fact have been suffering from false memory syndrome. But the accused doctor himself had previously confessed to criminal charges of abusing her.
Landsberg also challenged the credentials of other foundation advisers. She noted that one founding adviser, Ralph Underwager, was forced to resign from the foundation’s board after he and his wife, Hollida Wakefield, who remains an adviser, gave an interview to a Dutch pedophilia magazine in which he was quoted as describing pedophilia as”an acceptable expression of God’s will for love.” Landsberg also wrote that another adviser, James Randi, a magician known as “The Amazing Randi,” had been involved in a lawsuit in which his opponent introduced a tape of sexually explicit telephone conversations Randi had with teenage boys. (Randi has claimed at various times, she said, that the tape was a hoax and that the police asked him to make it.) “Why haven’t reporters investigated the False Memory Syndrome Foundation?” she asks. “It’s legitimate to examine their backgrounds –here are people who really do have powerful motivation to deny the truth.” http://web.archive.org/web/20071216011151/http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/97/4/memory.asp
The media has often ignored the data on false memory and ritual abuse, promoting pseudoscientific research and false data on court cases, memory and dissociative identity disorder.
This is beginning to change, but much work still needs to be done by our researchers and organizations to education others about our work.
Misinformation Campaigns Against Survivors – Neil Brick
Child and ritual abuse survivors and their advocates have been
attacked by misinformation campaigns the last several years. These
campaigns use various harassment and propaganda techniques to distort
the research and silence the efforts of those who are working to help
trauma survivors and rape victims. These techniques will be compared to
past and present public campaigns that have distorted information and
used unethical tactics to manipulate public opinion. Propaganda and
suggestion techniques used will be discussed and analyzed.
Neil Brick is a survivor of ritual abuse and mind
control. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse,
trauma and ritual abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritual abuse
newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us has been published for over 25 years. http://neilbrick.com
Today we will be comparing three different negative social movements.
All three movements had different goals and different levels of popular
support in their times. Comparisons of their techniques will be made.
For the purposes of this lecture, the term social movement will be
defined as a group of people sharing common goals to effect social
change.
1) Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945
2) Modern American Right Wing Political Movement – 2016 – 2020
3) The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases) – 2000 – 2020
Origins:
1) Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945: Some
believe that the origins of Nazism include the historical belief in a
unified Germany. A unified Germany developed in the mid 19th century. It
was considered authoritarian and undemocratic. Nazism was also
influenced by ethnic nationalism. (Volkisch groups) Some German
nationalists were strong anti-semites.
https://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/the-origins-of-nazism/
2) Modern American Right Wing Political Movement:
The Republican party conservative and pro-business philosophies of the
20th century led to present day right wing political movement.
Republicans often opposed progressive economic social programs, like the
New Deal (Roosevelt), though at times moderates and conservative in the
party clashed and fought for power. Far right social positions and
anti-immigrant policies were endorsed by Donald Trump, who was elected
in 2016 as president.
3) Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves – considers themselves to be “a clean break from LaVeyan Satanism.” “From the beginning, The Satanic Temple offered a stark contrast to the Church of Satan’s anti-altruistic philosophy of self interest.” The Satanic Temple endorses several political and social causes. https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/what-is-the-difference-between-the-satanic-temple-and-the-church-of-satan
Misinformation and Propaganda:
Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945:
In 1924, Adolf Hitler wrote that propaganda’s
“task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it
favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic
fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.”
Nazi propaganda was distributed through a wide variety of media and
social channels. Jewish people in particular were the targets of Nazi
propaganda and negative social policies which led to the Holocaust and
murder of millions of Jewish people as well as others.
Film portrayed a large role in the development of pro-Nazi and
anti-Semitism in Germany. Film and propaganda were used to cover up the
atrocities and murders in the concentration camps.
Like many countries, propaganda was used to encourage public support of war.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda
Modern American Right Wing Political Movement – 2016 – 2020:
Fox News has been considered the right wing’s “Ministry of Truth.”
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-donald-trumps-ministry-truth-cia-analyst-1378208
From Orwell’s 1984: “The government puts into manufacturing its own
version of reality, from rewriting history to producing propaganda to
trying to remove as many words as possible from the English language to
reduce people’s ability to think. Its main role is to help control the
population through misinformation, outright lies and lack of information
so that the state can maintain total power over the people.”
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/book-1984-what-was-main-role-ministry-truth-720
At times, the modern American right wing has been compared to Nazi
Germany and other previous fascist movements. The American Alt-Right at
times quotes Hitler and promotes racist and anti-Semitic philosophies. https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/trump-and-fascism/
The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases) – 2000 – 2020
The Grey Faction uses a wide variety of propaganda techniques to misrepresent the pro-survivor movement.
“….Collective or cultural gaslighting, pushing society at large to
question the sanity of its members who perceive politics
counter-hegemonically and question the falsified historiographies of the
ruling class. A linchpin of this societal gaslighting is formed by
mechanisms which trigger the attribution of the “conspiracist ideation”
label to certain discourses and by efforts to cause certain discourses
to become dominated by or associated with faulty conspiracist ideational
reasoning.”
“….the allegation that someone is a “conspiracy theorist” is almost
always a figurative way to charge them with faulty reasoning or, at the
very least, to imply skepticism of their claims.”
“we have seen that Misicko often ridicules his opponents as
believers in conspiracy theories related to “MK Ultra,” comparing them
to believers in “UFO’s” and “Past Life Regression”
Cultural Gaslighting; or, “Falsified History Syndrome”
Propaganda and Mind Control:
Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945:
“The Nazi propaganda machine exploited ordinary Germans by encouraging them to be co-producers of a false reality….
Joseph Goebbels, the appointed minister of propaganda of Nazi
Germany, once said: “There are two ways to make a revolution. You can
blast your enemy with machine guns until he acknowledges the superiority
of those holding the machine guns. That is one way. Or you can
transform the nation through a revolution of the spirit ….”
Propaganda was the operational method of the Third Reich, the idea
that projected the ideology. Hitler’s chief architect, Albert Speer,
told the Nuremberg Tribunal “that what distinguished the Third Reich
from all previous dictatorships was its use of all the means of
communication to sustain itself and to deprive its objects of the power
of independent thought.”5 Hitler was a magician of illusion.”….
Repetition
The essence of the Nazi propaganda method was repetition. Goebbels
argued that the skill of British propagandists during the Great War
resided in the fact that they used just a few powerful slogans and kept
repeating them.”
Enemies
“Hitler understood, as few others had ever done, the need for the serial
creation of enemies. He was a political entrepreneur possessed of the
truly devastating insight that all recent enemies could eventually merge
into the one super-enemy, the Jews.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/how-nazi-propaganda-encouraged-the-masses-to-co-produce-a-false-reality.html
Modern American Right Wing Political Movement – 2016 – 2020:
Fox News is Donald Trump’s ‘De Facto Ministry of Truth,’ Ex-CIA Analyst Says
“With Fox News covering his back with the Republican base, he has a
fighting chance, because he has something no other president in American
history has ever had at his disposal—a servile propaganda operation,”
Taylor said.
Trump has made his appreciation of Fox News well known. The
president regularly compliments the conservative network while bashing
competitors including CNN and MSNBC.”
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-donald-trumps-ministry-truth-cia-analyst-1378208
The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases) – 2000 – 2020
Name Calling
“The organization S.M.A.R.T is run by this little shit named Neil Brick,
he’s actually when I first saw him, he’s this staggering little moron
with this greasy combover and thick glasses, and he’s very short and
very frail …” The Grey Faction repeatedly uses the term “quacks” to
describe trauma practitioners.
https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2019-conference/possible-hate-groups-how-do-they-effect-survivors-and-their-resources/
Exaggeration
“The crude sales booth at the far end of the conference room marketing a
more advanced species of tin-foil hat does nothing to allay the
suspicion that this is to be a congregation of raving delusional
paranoiacs.”
The use of one event or occurrence to purposefully mischaracterize the
work of an organization and movement. The Grey Faction does this
frequently, looking for licensing complaints against therapists and
taking quotes out of context to mischaracterize and malign trauma
professionals.
Enemies
Ritual abuse survivors and their helpers
Propaganda Film
“Mental Health Counselor Paranoid Presentation”
https:// youtu.be/btQaGxTp_m8
This video was taken and published without my permission at a Survivorship conference.
This video incredibly has scary music played in the background and
mislabels my statements asking people not to use cult hand signals
during the conference as “paranoid.”
This video purposefully mischaracterizes my work, including their attacks on my professional license, all of which failed.
False Analogy
“In the technique of false analogy, two things are compared that may or
may not really be similar are presented as being similar. In most false
analogies, there isn’t enough evidence available to support the
comparison.
Mesner compares ritual abuse survivors to alien abductees. In this false
comparison, he lists what he considers certain parallels between the
two. Yet, this does not prove that either are the same. One can take any
item or concept and then list hundreds of qualities and then take
another item and do the same thing. Then one could make a short list of
the similar qualities on these lists. This does not make either item
similar, nor does it prove that ritual abuse memories are not real.”
http://neilbrick.com/articles/douglas-misicko-alias-douglas-mesner/
Bullying:
Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945:
Auschwitz Exhibition
@auschwitzxhibit
Before their killing nazis tried to dehumanize Jewish men and women in
multiple ways. In these pictures, SS men forcing a Jew to bathe in a
large basin in the street and German soldiers and local people watch a
local man spray Jews with water before their murder at Kovno (1941)
https://twitter.com/auschwitzxhibit/status/1229561176968908801
Modern American Right Wing Political Movement – 2016 – 2020:
Trump’s Nicknames and the Psychology of Bullying By Ronald Pies, M.D.
“During and after the presidential campaign, Trump bestowed offensive
nicknames on several of his opponents. There was, famously, “Crooked
Hillary”, but there was also “Little Marco”, “Crazy Bernie” and “Lyin
Ted” for Marco Rubio, Bernie Sanders, and Ted Cruz, respectively. Trump
also repeatedly referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas,” a
jibe at her assertion of Native American heritage. More recently, Trump
has given Sen. Chuck Schumer a series of nicknames, including “Head
Clown,” “Fake Tears” and “Cryin’ Chuck.”
https://psychcentral.com/blog/trumps-nicknames-and-the-psychology-of-bullying/
The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases) – 2000 – 2020
Mesner: “The conference is so self-evidently full of bullshit that
exposing it may seem no more productive than pulling the false beard
from a shopping mall Santa Claus. But, absurd as the premise of the
S.M.A.R.T. conference is, and deranged as the speaker’s tales clearly
are…”
https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/harassment-by-false-memory-proponents/
Hate Speech and Hate Groups (including antisemitism):
“A hate group is a social group that advocates and practices hatred,
hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, nation,
religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other
designated sector of society. According to the United States Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a hate group’s “primary purpose is to
promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a
race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national
origin which differs from that of the members of the organization.”
https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2019-conference/possible-hate-groups-how-do-they-effect-survivors-and-their-resources/
Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945:
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the most notorious and
widely distributed antisemitic publication of modern times. Its lies
about Jews, which have been repeatedly discredited, continue to
circulate today, especially on the Internet. The individuals and groups
who have used the Protocols are all linked by a common purpose: to
spread hatred of Jews.
The Protocols is entirely a work of fiction, intentionally written
to blame Jews for a variety of ills. Those who distribute it claim that
it documents a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world. The conspiracy
and its alleged leaders, the so-called Elders of Zion, never existed.”
“Beginning in 1920, auto magnate Henry Ford’s newspaper, The
Dearborn Independent, published a series of articles based in part on
the Protocols. The International Jew, the book that included this
series, was translated into at least 16 languages. Both Adolf Hitler and
Joseph Goebbels, later head of the propaganda ministry, praised Ford
and The International Jew.”
“Nazi Party ideologue Alfred Rosenberg introduced Hitler to the
Protocols during the early 1920s, as Hitler was developing his
worldview. Hitler referred to the Protocols in some of his early
political speeches, and, throughout his career, he exploited the myth
that “Jewish-Bolshevists” were conspiring to control the world.
During the 1920s and 1930s, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
played an important part in the Nazis’ propaganda arsenal. The Nazi
party published at least 23 editions of the Protocols between 1919 and
1939. Following the Nazis’ seizure of power in 1933, some schools used
the Protocols to indoctrinate students.”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion
Modern American Right Wing Political Movement – 2016 – 2020:
“We won. America belongs to white men.” – Richard Spencer
Another clip recorded by Winkler — and a live stream of the entire event
posted online by the school’s student newspaper, The Battalion — shows
that Spencer went on to praise Donald Trump as “an alt-right hero” for
reminding white Americans of what, he said, “makes the white race truly
unique and truly wonderful.”
Richard Spencer praises Donald Trump as an alt-right hero
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/07/america-belongs-white-men-alt-right-founder-says/
Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html
But now his tone changed as he began to tell the audience of more than
200 people, mostly young men, what they had been waiting to hear. He
railed against Jews and, with a smile, quoted Nazi propaganda in the
original German. America, he said, belonged to white people, whom he
called the “children of the sun,” a race of conquerors and creators who
had been marginalized but now, in the era of President-elect Donald J.
Trump, were “awakening to their own identity.”
Fascism spread in 1930s America. It could spread again today.
“At the time, Jews served the same role for U.S. fascists that
immigrants, Muslims and other minorities serve today: a vague but
malicious threat they believed to be undermining America’s greatness.
Surveys of U.S. public opinion from the 1930s are a startling reminder
of just how widespread these attitudes became. As late as July 1942, a
Gallup poll showed that 1 in 6 Americans thought Hitler was “doing the
right thing” to the Jews. A 1940 poll found that nearly a fifth of
Americans saw Jews as a national “menace” — more than any other group,
including Germans. Almost a third anticipated “a widespread campaign
against the Jews” — a campaign that 12 percent of Americans were willing
to support.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-trump-fascism-nazis-hitler-0170816-story.html
Trump and Fascism
This
page is a data dump of articles about Donald Trump, those working with
Trump and historical articles about fascism. Fascism uses different
types of mind control to control people. Donald Trump has been accused
of using propaganda and mind control techniques to win the election, to
control people’s opinions of him and to control their opinions of other
topics. This page contains excerpts from articles related to this topic. https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/trump-and-fascism/
The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases) – 2000 – 2020
Examples:
Where the Witch-Hunters are: Satanic Panic & Mental Health Malpractice
By Douglas Mesner and Sarah Ponto Rivera
“But where is Randy “L’il Knob” Noblitt today, now that social
conditions aren’t nearly so amenable to the tin-foil hat Torquemada
whose doctoral thesis was on The Celestial Concomitants of Human
Behavior, more colloquially known as Astrology?”
(“Deeper Dive” Grey Faction Website)
Report from the S.M.A.R.T. Ritual Abuse/Mind-Control Conference 2009, Part 1
by doug — August 25, 2009
On the weekend of August 15-16, journalist Douglas Mesner (process.org)
attended a conference for alleged victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse and
Mind-Control in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This is the first of his
2-part report:
“The crude sales booth at the far end of the conference room marketing a
more advanced species of tin-foil hat does nothing to allay the
suspicion that this is to be a congregation of raving delusional
paranoiacs.”
Doug Mesner’s connection to the book “Might is Right”
“First published in 1890, it heavily advocates egoist anarchism,
amorality, consequentialism and psychological hedonism. In Might Is
Right, Redbeard rejects conventional ideas of human and natural rights
and argues that only strength or physical might can establish moral
right….
There are also controversial parts of the book that deal with race and
male–female relations, claiming that the woman and the family as a whole
are the property of the man and proclaiming the innate superiority of
the Anglo-Saxon race. The book also contains many strong anti-Semitic
statements.”
“The author and Doug at a book signing for Might Is Right, 2004….
Lucien Greaves of the Satanic Temple first showed up at my door over a
decade ago. He wanted a copy of a book I had republished called Might Is
Right. It was a 100-year-old tome, long forgotten by most, with the
exception of Anton LaVey,… The release of this new version of Might Is
Right became a phenomenon within the underground, and that is what
brought the future leader of the Satanic Temple to my door. Only his
name wasn’t Lucien Greaves at the time, it was Doug Mesner. (This isn’t
the first time Doug has been connected with the Temple, though it is the
first time he has publicly admitted his involvement.) When he first
came to my home, Doug brought a stack of his drawings and writings with
him. It was amazing stuff, and much to my surprise he left it with me.
Not long after our first meeting, and after reviewing his sketchbooks at
length, I reprinted a limited edition version of Might Is Right and
asked Doug to illustrate the chapter headings for it. His work on the
book was truly excellent.”
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4w7adn/unmasking-lucien-greaves-aka-doug-mesner-leader-of-the-satanic-temple
http://childabusedata.blogspot.com/2019/07/might-is-right-lucien-greaves-satanic.html
Anti-Semitism connected to Doug Mesner:
“Like, I think it’s okay to hate Jews if you hate them because they’re
Jewish and they wear a stupid fuckin’ frisbie on their head [correct
term: yarmulke or kippah] and walk around [and] think their God’s chosen
people, but it’s not okay to hate somebody [‘born of Jewish blood’]
just because their parents were stupid fuckin’ Jews and wore stupid
frisbies on their head and thought the Jews were God’s chosen people […]
Not everybody of Jewish blood is okay with me, it depends on if they
follow the Jewish, uh… […] Satanic Jews are fine,” (Adam, “Doug Mesner
[Lucien Greaves/Douglas Misicko] Satanic Temple Anti-Semitic Rant”
(transcribed).”
On the Psychological Projection of Antisemitism by Satanists https://danielkbuntovnik.wordpress.com/
Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple) Alleged Anti-Semitic Statements
https://www.videosprout.com/video?id=98aafea9-df67-416d-998d-46348a626005&fbclid=IwAR3uIHF8pl3sgLGCSsdJKyE9QJK3JpfH4j2H8DLhd1yYHuc_pPLFdPHIMtE
(audio excerpt)
Harassment:
Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945:
“Through hundreds of legal measures, the Nazi-led German government
gradually excluded Jews from public life, the professions, and public
education. The goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize Jews and to
create a climate of hostility and indifference toward their plight. On
Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—Jewish businesses and synagogues
were destroyed in the first act of state-sponsored violence against the
Jewish community. Many Jews who had the means tried to leave Germany
but encountered countless bureaucratic hurdles.”
“The goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize Jews and encourage Germans
to see Jews as dangerous outsiders in their midst. After 1935, everyday
antisemitism was a regular part of carnival parades and floats. Public
displays of antisemitism reinforced a climate of hostility toward Jews
in Germany, or at the least, indifference to their treatment.”
https://www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide/chapter-3/from-citizens-to-outcasts-1933-1938
Modern American Right Wing Political Movement – 2016 – 2020:
Neo-Nazi website founder owes $14 million to woman he urged readers to harass, judge says
Tanya Gersh said she and her family received threatening and horrifying
messages for months after Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin encouraged
a “troll storm.”
HELENA, Mont. — A judge on Thursday ordered the publisher of a neo-Nazi
website to pay a Jewish real estate agent $14 million for inciting his
readers to harass her family with hundreds of threatening and
anti-Semitic messages and calls.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen entered Tanya Gersh a default
judgment in her civil lawsuit after The Daily Stormer founder Andrew
Anglin refused to appear for a scheduled deposition in the case.
He ordered Anglin to pay Gersh over $4 million in compensatory damages,
$10 million in punitive damages and told him to permanently remove all
posts, comments and images about Gersh, her husband and son.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/neo-nazi-website-founder-owes-14-million-woman-he-urged-n1040671
The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases) – 2000 – 2020
Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet:
For over a decade Douglas Misicko using several aliases (including
Douglas Mesner and Lucien Greaves) has harassed groups helping child
abuse, rape and trauma survivors. He has also harassed groups providing
research in support of child abuse, rape and trauma survivors.
In 2013, he and others created a group called the Satanic Temple. One
part of this group is called the Grey Faction. The Grey Faction states
they “invade” conferences. These conferences are provided to help and
educate child abuse, rape and trauma survivors and their helpers.
Their representatives that invade these conferences misrepresent their
reasons for attending these conferences. They film people at these
conferences without permission and publish these films without the
permission of those filmed. The Grey Faction repeatedly misrepresents
the research and statements of the people at these conferences. It uses
repeated ad hominem attacks against child abuse and trauma researchers
without rebutting their research or stories.
https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/
The website muckrock.com has been used by the Grey Faction to
investigate and then attack clinicians working with cult survivors.
Pseudoscience:
Nazism – The Third Reich 1920 – 1945:
“From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse”
German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the
nation’s “health.” Enlisting the help of physicians and medically
trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis
developed racial health policies that began with the mass sterilization
of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation
of European Jewry. With the patina of legitimacy provided by “racial”
science experts, the Nazi regime carried out a program of approximately
400,000 forced sterilizations and over 275,000 euthanasia deaths that
found its most radical manifestation in the death of millions of
“racial” enemies in the Holocaust.
This campaign was based in part on ideas about public health and
genetic “fitness” that had grown out of the inclination of many late
nineteenth century scientists and intellectuals to apply the Darwinian
concepts of evolution to the problems of human society. These ideas
became known as eugenics and found a receptive audience in countries as
varied as Brazil, France, Great Britain, and the United States. But in
Germany, in the traumatic aftermath of World War I and the subsequent
economic upheavals of the twenties, eugenic ideas found a more virulent
expression when combined with the Nazi worldview that espoused both
German racial superiority and militaristic ultranationalism.”
https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/nazi-racial-science
Modern American Right Wing Political Movement – 2016 – 2020:
What does Trump actually believe on climate change?
US President Donald Trump’s position on climate change has been in the
spotlight again, after he criticised “prophets of doom” at the World
Economic Forum in Davos.
At the event, which had sustainability as its main theme, and
activist Greta Thunberg as its star guest, Mr Trump dismissed
“alarmists” who wanted to “control every aspect of our lives” – while
also expressing the US’s support for an initiative to plant one trillion
trees.
If you judge the president based on his words alone, his views on climate change appear contradictory – and confusing.
He has called climate change “mythical”, “nonexistent”, or “an
expensive hoax” – but also subsequently described it as a “serious
subject” that is “very important to me”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51213003
The Satanic Temple – Grey Faction and Doug Mesner/Lucien Greaves (both aliases) – 2000 – 2020
Calling science psuedoscience:
1) Denial that memories can be repressed.“The notion that traumatic events can be repressed and later recovered is the most pernicious bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and psychiatry. It has provided the theoretical basis for ‘recovered memory therapy’ — the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy era.” Prof. Richard McNally” “ the scourge of repressed memory pseudoscience in mental health care” https://greyfaction.org/
https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/dissociative-amnesia-dsm–5-300.12-(f44.0)
“Dissociative amnesia (DA) is one of three dissociative disorders listed
under DSM-V. The disorder involves the temporary loss of recall memory
caused by disassociation, which may last for a period of seconds or
years. The interruption in memory may be voluntary or involuntary and is
most often a result of psychological trauma. DA involves episodic
autobiographical memory loss inconsistent with normal forgetfulness.
Episodic autobiographical information is associated with contextual
information, such as what happened in the minutes leading up to a
traumatic event. The individual may, however, remember semantic
autobiographical information such as the date, time and weather
conditions of the accident. Dissociative amnesia often arises from
traumatic childhood events.”
2) Denial that DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is caused by trauma.
Pope Interview
You’ve treated some thousand-odd patients, many of whom experienced extreme trauma, from what I understand –
Yes.
And you didn’t see evidence of DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder,
otherwise known as Multiple Personality Disorder) in any of them?
I have seen a number of people who were diagnosed with DID, or where the
patients themselves felt that they had DID, so it depends on what you
mean by the question. In other words, there are certainly people that
I’ve seen that were quite convinced that they did have different
personalities that had amnesia for one another. But, even though it was
“real” in the sense that the patients believed that they had it, I’m not
convinced that it was real in the sense that it was a naturally
occurring phenomenon, as opposed to something that had occurred through
the power of suggestion.
https://greyfaction.org/resources/grey-faction-reports/pope-interview/
“Dissociative identity disorder. Formerly known as multiple
personality disorder, this disorder is characterized by alternating
between multiple identities. A person may feel like one or more voices
are trying to take control in their head. Often these identities may
have unique names, characteristics, mannerisms and voices. People with
DID will experience gaps in memory of every day events, personal
information and trauma…
Causes
Dissociative disorders usually develop as a way of dealing with trauma.
Dissociative disorders most often form in children exposed to long-term
physical, sexual or emotional abuse. Natural disasters and combat can
also cause dissociative disorders.”
https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-conditions/dissociative-disorders
Conclusions
It could be stated that each of the three negative social movements
above served a purpose (at least in part) to help the rich get richer.
Nazism was used to stop communism. The American Conservative
Movement has been used to shift wealth from the poor and middle classes
to the upper classes. The Grey Faction has been used to discredit those
fighting cult abuse. Cults at times are used for sex trafficking, drug
smuggling and other high profit activities.
All three negative social movements have used nefarious techniques
to manipulate and control opinion and stifle accurate social debate
through harassment and misrepresentation of facts. The Grey Faction has
attacked theories regarding different forms of social suggestion, such
as post hypnotic suggestion and the existence of certain cults and mind
control techniques controlling different aspects of society.
Knowledge is power. It appears these groups share techniques causing
harm to those around them. By exposing these techniques, we can develop
healthy social movements meant to help and not hurt others.
Information is also at: https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/misinformation-campaigns-against-survivors-neil-brick/
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