-Caveat Lector- excerpts from http://www.iccom.com/usrwww/jlquan/consldra.doc A CONSOLIDATION OF SRA AND FALSE MEMORY DATA JAMES QUAN November 1996 Portland, Oregon A recent poll showed that 9% of Americans, a sizable minority, aren't even sure the Holocaust ever happened and that 2% feel certain it did not occur (Kagay, 1994). In this light, we can accept that a much larger percentage of people won't believe SRA occurs, regardless of evidence. ...one network does exist to maintain the estimated $3 billion dollar per year child porn market in the U.S. alone (Raschke, 1990). It is therefore of considerable importance to examine the correlation between the consistent claims of photography and consistent claims of ritual abuse and the significant overlap in accounts. The fact that photography is one of the most common elements cited in SRA accounts, aside from corroboration is sufficient cause to delay a broad dismissal of cult networking. A larger system of cults also seems likely from evidence described in the survey by Young, et al (1990). Patient photographs of alleged cult members were shown to other patients from a similar geographic region. Four patients independently identified, by name and cult roles, the individuals in the photographs. Neither group of patients were in contact with the other during their treatment when these independent identifications were made. Although not the central theme of his paper, Summit (1994) describes similar independent corroboration from children for a larger cult network in the Los Angeles area (described later). it is more than sufficient for 93% of the professionals who have personal experience with those making such disclosures to conclude ritual abuse exists. Even though all of this digging was outside of the building, with no attempt to cut through the slab floor of the preschool itself, the officials declared there were no tunnels on the site, hence the tunnels were and still are commonly cited by skeptics as non-existent. 1) Tunnels. Nevertheless, five years later (in 1990) McMartin parents hired an archaeologist, Gary Stickel, Ph.D., to bring some closure to the persistent, consistent reports of tunnels. In contrast to the D.A.'s limited survey, Dr. Stickel and his crew did cut through the concrete slab in several places and found spaces beneath the building that had been filled in with dirt after the investigation opened, verified by an unearthed plastic Walt Disney bag with a copyright mark of 1982. The tunnel floorplan matched that of the children's pre-dig descriptions including the location of tree roots "that brushed your face", a pipe across the tunnel ceiling ("I liked to stop and swing on the pipe"), a slight arch underneath the foundation wall between two classrooms--worn smooth only where the tunnel passed underneath it, the "secret room" approximately the same dimensions described by the children, and four large containers (two enameled iron pots, a crockery jar, and a cast iron cauldron) placed vertically and side by side directly underneath the foundation arch and halfway up the loose fill dirt, and much more. This not only confirms the children's claims of the tunnels, but also lends strong credence to mischief, for if there had been no wrong-doing in these spaces, there would have been no need to fill them in near the time of the investigation. The best representation of findings would come from a first hand account. Dr. Roland Summit personally examined the tunnels and later wrote the article, "The Dark Tunnels of McMartin" (Summit, 1994). The internal consistency present in current reports of SRA is astounding. The following table compares these extensive similarities in two surveys performed by two separate entities--one of child ritual abuse survivors and the other of adult ritual abuse survivors--samples of each of the two surveys were separated geographically Children: Pamela Hudson, MSW, has over 35 years of experience working in mental health, both in-patient and out-patient. She began encountering child ritual abuse cases in the 1980's. In 1988, she conducted a telephone survey of one set of Parents from each of 10 daycare cases and the non-offending parent of two brothers from a coven case--for a total of 12 children representing 11 locations--on the East Coast, Texas, and up and down the West Coast. No parent knew beforehand that she would be calling, and therefore no one had an opportunity to compare responses before her call (Hudson, 1990). She spoke only to the parents, not the children. Please see her book for more detail on the survey and on each case. (Hudson, 1991). The children surveyed attended the following day cares: 1. McMartin Preschool, Manhattan Beach, CA 2. West Point Child Development Center, NJ 3. Parent in a Coven, CA 4. Alabama child in day care, CA 5. Babysitter case, Manhattan Beach, CA 6. East Valley YMCA, El Paso, TX 7. Day care center in Campbell, CA 8. Gallup Christian Day Care, Roseburg, OR 9. St. Cross Episcopal Day Care, Hermosa Beach, CA 10. Presidio Child Development Center, San Francisco, CA 11. Day care center, Fort Bragg, CA Adults: 37 Adults from 5 separate wards in 4 separate hospitals across the country were surveyed over the course of two years of treatment (Young, et al, 1990).... Similarities between child survivors from 11 locations and adult survivors from 4 hospitals across the country. Note the extensive correlations, both within each study -- and between the two studies. There will always be residual populations of articulate deniers in many realms of human suffering (e.g., the Jewish Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, etc.) and often with some connection to those accused of the atrocities. These activists typically dismiss each and every piece of corroboration to maintain their positions at all costs. Such an unbending stance plants seeds of doubt sufficient to neutralize the otherwise appropriate societal rage in all but those most personally involved with the victims. There is certainly a broad range of evidential data for SRA We have seen that there is substantial corroboration for SRA, yet several authorities continue to state that there is "not a shred of evidence," thereby allowing others to cite recovered memories of SRA as indicative of a False Memory Syndrome (FMS). Depending on how it's framed, one might admit that the concept of recovering a series of bizarre abuse memories previously out of consciousness seems unlikely, even far-fetched, especially when soberly denied by the otherwise respectful accused. However, the framing is often oversimplified, describing something both simpler and more ominous than what is clinically encountered. Thus the case-by-case contextual framework is the very core from which this issue must be examined. Although it is important to note that the FMS Foundation Advisory Board includes numerous professionals with respectable credentials in medicine and psychology, few have relevant clinical experience with abuse survivors, sociopathy, offender psychology, or dissociative disorders. Most FMSF Advisors do not understand nor discuss traumatic dissociation, nor much of the clinical phenomenology or the psychodynamics of trauma and abuse victims. They especially don't understand the distinction between normal and traumatic memory processing. Most have neither studied the subject nor become conversant in the scientific and clinical findings regarding traumatic dissociation and traumatic amnesia that have been garnered since the days of Freud, Breuer, Charcot, Janet, and Prince. Although some false memory advocates claim to have read from these authors and remain unconvinced, they offer few arguments to overturn the conclusions arrived upon by these clinicians. Rather, they deny the existence of most if not all Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD), apparently due to the clear trauma-indicative nature of dissociative symptoms. Also imperative to note is that since the inception of the FMSF in 1992, a "syndrome" has yet to be established for false memory. Thus, the term "syndrome" reveals a distinct lack of objectivity and is misleading through the informal media. Some admittedly have a personal interest in establishing a False Memory Syndrome, having joined the board only after learning of a friend or family member accused of abuse. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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