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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: Tax relief for Churches--ARRRRGHH
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> The reports of satanic crimes are totally unsubstantiated.  The police
> reports simply say that someone, usually a child, reported some Satanic
> crime, and that the police investigated and found no evidence.  This doesn't
> stop some fundamentalist sheriff in the South or Midwest, though, it just
> causes him to think "Them devils sure are tricky".  This is really just a
> media phenomenon, self-sustaining because kids' imaginations feed each
> other.  When none of these cases ever comes to court after a couple of
> years, this hysteria will run its course like its ancestors which it so
> resembles, the witch scares of old.
> -=-
> Tim Maroney, CMU Center for Art and Technology
> Tim.Maroney@k.cs.cmu.edu	uucp: {seismo,decwrl,etc.}!k.cs.cmu.edu!tim
> CompuServe:	74176,1360	My name is Jones.  I'm one of the Jones boys.

Absolutely not true.  Many crimes are totally substantiated.  But maybe I'm
no expert like you, you of course looked through all the police records of
all the cities across the U.S. to draw you conclusions, right?  I've been
thinking of doing just that, but I could'nt get a couples of years off from
work.