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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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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
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