Forum Posts from 1999
Subject #1 - Michael Aquino's response
From: via Outpost of Freedom
Date: 8/5/99
Time: 9:00:53 PM
Comments
To following was received by the Outpost of Freedom (opf@illusions.com) via e-mail on Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:53:07 EST:
THE 1986-7 PRESIDIO "SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE" EVENTS
Following the publication of the "recovered memories of Satanic ritual abuse" book _Michelle Remembers_ in 1980, the United States and other Anglo-American countries went through a decade of "SRA" scares and witch-hunts. After the 1984 McMartin Preschool became internationally publicized in one such scare, day-care facilities generally became targets of "SRA" witch- hunt instigators.
The epidemic extended to U.S. military services as well, including 15 U.S. Army day-care centers and elementary schools by 1987. In late 1986 it was the turn of the Presidio of San Francisco.
On 9/28/86 the _San Francisco Examiner_ began a series of 8 front-page stories sensationalizing the witch-hunts. Approximately a month later one set of Presidio parents claimed that their son might have been anally raped by one of the day-care teachers, Gary Hambright, and the scare was off and running, with scores of children being "abuse-diagnosed" by a "play-therapist" despite not a single published confirmation of actual physical harm to any child. Hambright denied any "abusing" whatever, and all of the other teachers and staff supported him.
As in other witch-hunts it made no difference: Over the next year Hambright was suspended, indicted, charges dropped, reindicted, charges redropped amidst a massive media frenzy. Parents rushed to file over $84 million in claims, as was also routine in such witch-hunts. [The previous year a similar, highly-publicized witch-hunt at West Point had resulted in $110 million claims.]
Left out of the Presidio claims bonanza were Christian chaplain Larry Adams-Thompson and his wife Michele, who had never reported their daughter Kinsey Almond for any physical or psychological symptoms during the entire time she had been under Hambright's supervision at the day-care center (9/1-10/31/86). In their original 1/87 FBI interviews both A-Ts were specific about that date- window, because Almond turned 3 on 9/1/86 and, as confirmed by the Presidio Director of Personnel & Community Affairs, Hambright supervised only children age 3 and older.
Despite Almond's untouched state [on 3/12/87 Presidio doctors examined her and pronounced her a virgin free from any physical signs of abuse], the A-Ts placed her in an intensive 8-month program of "play-therapy". The same "therapist" who pronounced the scores of other children "abused" soon pronounced Almond "abused" as well.
The A-Ts, however, were not content with just accusing Hambright. In 6/87 Michele introduced "SRA" themes and insinuations about me - who had been a topic of curiosity and gossip as a famous Satanist officer throughout my 1981-86 assignment to the Presidio Headquarters - to the "therapist". Then on 8/13/87 the A-Ts saw my wife Lilith and myself at the Presidio post exchange and went running to the witch-hunt investigators alleging that Almond had accused us of kidnapping and raping her while she was under Hambright's supervision. This quickly resulted in an even more sensationalistic international media storm.
The San Francisco Police investigated, verified that Lilith and I had been 3,000 miles away in Washington, D.C. - where I was on duty every single day Almond was at the daycare center 9/1-10/31/86 - and closed the case with no charges accordingly.
In October 1988, however, I appeared as a panelist on a Geraldo Rivera Halloween special. Rivera was trying to aggravate and escalate the "SRA" witchhunt mania, and I was speaking out against it. The broadcast came to the attention of Senator Jesse Helms, who became enraged that a Lt.Colonel in the Army should dare to hold a "Satanic" religion. As Freedom of Information Act filings later revealed, Helms then secretly contacted his close personal friend, Secretary of the Army John Marsh, and insisted that Marsh devise some way to destroy my career.
As my 20-year military record was without blemish [In 1987 I was the sole USAR officer in the nation selected to attend the prestigious National Defense University/ICAF], the only way to act on Helms' demand was to try to revive the chaplain's scheme to threaten Lilith and myself, apparently expecting that with sufficient intimidation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) I would resign and "disappear". [It didn't work.]
The CID first (Jan 89) illegally forced a fulltime active duty board to deny me a new fulltime contract on expiration of my current one in 9/90. Six months later, after a sham "reinvestigation", it issued a report "titling" Lilith and myself for the chaplain's allegations. ["Titling" is a statement by the CID that it thinks a crime occurred.] Nevertheless the report itself contained not a single item of "evidence" other than the A-Ts' allegations that any crime whatever had occurred - and either suppressed or ignored abundant evidence of our innocence and the A-Ts' violations.
[For example, the CID tried to get around our 3,000-miles-away proof of innocence by finding out when we *had* previously been in San Francisco - several months before the 9-10/86 "window" - and then (in 1989) simply revising the allegation to *that* date! When the CID then learned that that this manufactured redate made the A-Ts' alleged location physically impossible, it then (in 1991) proceeded to invent a *new* location, once again on no grounds except its 1991 predicament. Both the manufactured "redating" and "relocating" necessarily made numerous additional elements of the chaplain's original fabrication impossible as well - inconvenient complications that the CID addressed by simply ignoring them.]
What this bizarre exercise in "manufactured evidence" *did* demonstrate was the strength of the political agenda predetermining the CID's "reinvestigation" from the outset. [For instance, the CID's illegal fixing of the fulltime- duty board took place at the *beginning* of its "reinvestigation" - half a year before it was supposedly able to perform the evaluation of that investigation.] Clearly an expose' that we had in fact been the innocent victims of a cold-blooded, calculated scheme to defraud the government - by a *Christian chaplain* - was politically out of the question from the beginning.
My repeated demands that those responsible for the CID action, as well as the chaplain, be court-martialed for false official statements, manufacture of evidence, obstruction of justice, misprision of serious offense, attempted defrauding of the government, and several other UCMJ and federal law violations, were similarly - and equally illegally - suppressed. The CID's response was to say that I was "swearing falsely" to these facts. Nevertheless it could not - and did not - produce even a single example of *any* such "factual falsehood" in the documents I filed and swore to under penalty of perjury. [Nor, of course, was I ever charged with making even a single "false statement".]
By administrative complaint process in 1990 we were able to have the "SRA titling" of Lilith removed. The CID refused to remove mine - although the A-Ts had always alleged we "did the SRA together" - because to do so would have exploded the entire CID operation and opened a trail of serious law violations leading to Helms and Secretary of the Army Marsh.
I next filed suit in federal court in 1990 to have the rest of the CID report exposed and retracted. The U.S. Privacy Act would have forced a comparison of every CID statement in the report with the actual facts (a _de novo_ judicial review). For this reason the CID argued intensely that its reports should be immune from _de novo_ review.
The case was filed as a Motion for Summary Judgment. There was no jury or in-court testimony. We assumed that the CID's legal violations were so flagrant, obvious, and numerous that a simple ruling by the judge would suffice.
To our surprise the judge ruled that all CID reports were indeed exempt from _de novo_ judicial review, and that the CID could conclude whatever it wished from its report *as written*.
We appealed, and the appeals court upheld the district judge's decision to exempt CID reports from the Privacy Act. Again in its decision, the appeals court recited as "facts" excerpts from the very CID document whose falsehoods were the *issue* of the entire lawsuit.
Following the lawsuit I detailed and documented the CID lawyer's extensive lies in briefs & oral argument to the Army Inspector General, Judge Advocate General, and finally the Army Chief of Staff.
None of my facts or documents was disputed or refuted, but neither was any action taken to courtmartial those responsible. This effectively exhausted my options.
The bottom line was that on one hand the politically- driven "black bag job" to intimidate me out of the Army had failed, and indeed could not withstand many other decent and honorable offices and officials in the same Army who, as they learned about the scheme, refused to aid, abet, or tolerate it. [This included every single superior officer in my own chain of command throughout all the years of the initial attack against us and the subsequent investigations.]
On the other hand we came to realize that it was politically out of the question that a Christian chaplain be courtmartialed for crimes committed against a "Satanist" and his wife, or that trails of illegal actions leading to powerful national political figures would be followed. And we also learned that the courts were also not about to force exposure such a widespread and potentially politically-explosive cover-up as this one.
On the expiration of my fulltime active duty contract in 1990, I continued as a parttime active USAR officer for the next four years, assigned to Headquarters US Space Command with an above-Top Secret clearance. I decided to retire in 1994, and at that time received the Meritorious Service Medal from the [new] Secretary of the Army, covering 1984-1994. I remain today in the Army as a Lt.Colonel, USAR-Retired.
On the Internet an anonymous cyberstalker using the screen name "Curio" (along with various others) appeared a couple of years ago to aggressively promote the "SRA" witch-hunts, and the Presidio one targeting Lilith and myself in particular.
"Curio"'s smear tactics were to publicize the CID's statements in its briefs and orals, and selected excerpts from the court decisions. "Curio" has also repeatedly falsified numerous facts about the chaplain's original attack, as well as concerning "copycat" allegations made by a few "SRA"-bandwagon cranks and $-hopefuls (*all* finally discredited by local law-enforcement jurisdictions as well as [disappointed] CID investigators) once the chaplain's attack on us had become a national media circus.
I see nothing to be gained by endless corrections and refutations of "Curio"'s lies on the Internet. Most people will find it sufficient, I think, that Lilith and I were never charged with anything after two long investigations (SFPD/FBI, CID), that I retained my TS+ clearance, and that I retired honorably in 1994. My Officer Efficiency Reports from the time of the attack on us to my 1994 retirement also continued to give me the highest possible evaluations in all categories.
My military service and present Army-Retired status are public record and can be independently verified by anyone wishing to take the trouble. I do not post personal papers on the Internet, though I have produced them in previous lawsuits against libel and of course shown them personally to credentialed individuals whom I think should see them.
Nor is the 1990 lawsuit in any sense a "skeleton in my closet". A review of my attorney's district & appeals briefs & orals - *not* just distorted extracts of the CID's which "Curio" wants people to see - will glaringly expose what was actually taking place: a court coverup of blatant Senatorial/ SecArmy/CID misconduct - and simultaneous brushing- aside of numerous illegal actions against an Army officer and his wife of a "politically incorrect" religion.
While I may repost this statement periodically as seems necessary, I will not dignify "Curio"'s hate- campaign with responsive dialogue.
Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D. Lt.Colonel, USAR-Ret
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Re: Subject #1 - Michael Aquino's response
From: via Outpost of Freedom
Date: 8/7/99
Time: 12:48:55 PM
I received the following from Mr. Aquino, this morning. In another post, he explained that he has tired of defending himself for 12 years, and might not actively participate in the discussion.
Subject: Most Current Presidio Statement Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 15:09:25 EDT From: Xeper@aol.com To: opf@illusions.com
THE 1986-7 PRESIDIO "SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE" EVENTS
Following the publication of the "recovered memories of Satanic ritual abuse" book _Michelle Remembers_ in 1980, the United States and other Anglo-American countries went through a decade of "SRA" scares and witch-hunts. After the 1984 McMartin Preschool became internationally publicized in one such scare, day-care facilities generally became targets of "SRA" witch- hunt instigators.
The epidemic extended to U.S. military services as well, including 15 U.S. Army day-care centers and elementary schools by 1987. In late 1986 it was the turn of the Presidio of San Francisco.
On 9/28/86 the _San Francisco Examiner_ began a series of 8 front-page stories sensationalizing the witch-hunts. Approximately a month later one set of Presidio parents claimed that their son might have been anally raped by one of the day-care teachers, Gary Hambright, and the scare was off and running, with scores of children being "abuse-diagnosed" by a "play-therapist" despite not a single published confirmation of actual physical harm to any child. Hambright denied any "abusing" whatever, and all of the other teachers and staff supported him.
As in other witch-hunts it made no difference: Over the next year Hambright was suspended, indicted, charges dropped, reindicted, charges redropped amidst a massive media frenzy. Parents rushed to file over $84 million in claims, as was also routine in such witch-hunts. [The previous year a similar, highly-publicized witch-hunt at West Point had resulted in $110 million claims.]
Left out of the Presidio claims bonanza were Christian chaplain Larry Adams-Thompson and his wife Michele, who had never reported their daughter Kinsey Almond for any physical or psychological symptoms during the entire time she had been under Hambright's supervision at the day-care center (9/1-10/31/86). In their original 1/87 FBI interviews both A-Ts were specific about that date- window, because Almond turned 3 on 9/1/86 and, as confirmed by the Presidio Director of Personnel & Community Affairs, Hambright supervised only children age 3 and older.
Despite Almond's untouched state [on 3/12/87 Presidio doctors examined her and pronounced her a virgin free from any physical signs of abuse], the A-Ts placed her in an intensive 8-month program of "play-therapy". The same "therapist" who pronounced the scores of other children "abused" soon pronounced Almond "abused" as well.
The A-Ts, however, were not content with just accusing Hambright. In 6/87 Michele introduced "SRA" themes and insinuations about me - who had been a topic of curiosity and gossip as a famous Satanist officer throughout my 1981-86 assignment to the Presidio Headquarters - to the "therapist". Then on 8/13/87 the A-Ts saw my wife Lilith and myself at the Presidio post exchange and went running to the witch-hunt investigators alleging that Almond had accused us of kidnapping and raping her while she was under Hambright's supervision. [They then climbed on board the financial bandwagon with a $3 million claim of their own based on their faked story.] This quickly resulted in an even more sensationalistic international media storm.
The San Francisco Police investigated, verified that Lilith and I had been 3,000 miles away in Washington, D.C. - where I was on duty every single day Almond was at the daycare center 9/1-10/31/86 - and closed the case with no charges accordingly.
In October 1988, however, I appeared as a panelist on a Geraldo Rivera Halloween special. Rivera was trying to aggravate and escalate the "SRA" witchhunt mania, and I was speaking out against it. The broadcast came to the attention of Senator Jesse Helms, who became enraged that a Lt.Colonel in the Army should dare to hold a "Satanic" religion. As Freedom of Information Act filings later revealed, Helms then secretly contacted his close personal friend, Secretary of the Army John Marsh, and insisted that Marsh devise some way to destroy my career.
As my 20-year military record was without blemish [In 1987 I was the sole USAR officer in the nation selected to attend the prestigious National Defense University/ICAF], the only way to act on Helms' demand was to try to revive the chaplain's scheme to threaten Lilith and myself, apparently expecting that with sufficient intimidation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) I would resign and "disappear". [It didn't work.]
The CID first (Jan 89) illegally forced a fulltime active duty board to deny me a new fulltime contract on expiration of my current one in 9/90. Six months later, after a sham "reinvestigation", it issued a report "titling" Lilith and myself for the chaplain's allegations. ["Titling" is a statement by the CID that it thinks a crime occurred.] Nevertheless the report itself contained not a single item of "evidence" other than the A-Ts' allegations that any crime whatever had occurred - and either suppressed or ignored abundant evidence of our innocence and the A-Ts' violations.
[For example, the CID tried to get around our 3,000-miles-away proof of innocence by finding out when we *had* previously been in San Francisco - several months before the 9-10/86 "window" - and then (in 1989) simply revising the allegation to *that* date! When the CID then learned that that this manufactured redate made the A-Ts' alleged location physically impossible, it then (in 1991) proceeded to invent a *new* location, once again on no grounds except its 1991 predicament. Both the manufactured "redating" and "relocating" necessarily made numerous additional elements of the chaplain's original fabrication impossible as well - inconvenient complications that the CID addressed by simply ignoring them.]
What this bizarre exercise in "manufactured evidence" *did* demonstrate was the strength of the political agenda predetermining the CID's "reinvestigation" from the outset. [For instance, the CID's illegal fixing of the fulltime- duty board took place at the *beginning* of its "reinvestigation" - half a year before it was supposedly able to perform the evaluation of that investigation.] Clearly an expose' that we had in fact been the innocent victims of a cold-blooded, calculated scheme to defraud the government - by a *Christian chaplain* - was politically out of the question from the beginning.
My repeated demands that those responsible for the CID action, as well as the chaplain, be court-martialed for false official statements, manufacture of evidence, obstruction of justice, misprision of serious offense, attempted $3 million defrauding of the government, and several other UCMJ and federal law violations, were similarly - and equally illegally - suppressed. The CID's response was to say that I was "swearing falsely" to these facts. Nevertheless it could not - and did not - produce even a single example of *any* such "factual falsehood" in the documents I filed and swore to under penalty of perjury. [Nor, of course, was I ever charged with making even a single "false statement".]
By administrative complaint process in 1990 we were able to have the "SRA titling" of Lilith removed. The CID refused to remove mine - although the A-Ts had always alleged we "did the SRA together" - because to do so would have exploded the entire CID operation and opened a trail of serious law violations leading to Helms and Secretary of the Army Marsh.
I next filed suit in federal court in 1990 to have the rest of the CID report exposed and retracted. The U.S. Privacy Act would have forced a comparison of every CID statement in the report with the actual facts (a _de novo_ judicial review). For this reason the CID argued intensely that its reports should be immune from _de novo_ review.
The case was filed as a Motion for Summary Judgment. There was no jury or in-court testimony. We assumed that the CID's legal violations were so flagrant, obvious, and numerous that a simple ruling by the judge would suffice.
To our surprise the judge ruled that all CID reports were indeed exempt from _de novo_ judicial review, and that the CID could conclude whatever it wished from its report *as written*.
We appealed, and the appeals court upheld the district judge's decision to exempt CID reports from the Privacy Act. Again in its decision, the appeals court recited as "facts" excerpts from the very CID document whose falsehoods were the *issue* of the entire lawsuit.
Following the lawsuit I detailed and documented the CID lawyer's extensive lies in briefs & oral argument to the Army Inspector General, Judge Advocate General, and finally the Army Chief of Staff.
None of my facts or documents was disputed or refuted, but neither was any action taken to courtmartial those responsible. This effectively exhausted my options.
The bottom line was that on one hand the politically- driven "black bag job" to intimidate me out of the Army had failed, and indeed could not withstand many other decent and honorable offices and officials in the same Army who, as they learned about the scheme, refused to aid, abet, or tolerate it. [This included every single superior officer in my own chain of command throughout all the years of the initial attack against us and the subsequent investigations.]
On the other hand we came to realize that it was politically out of the question that a Christian chaplain be courtmartialed for crimes committed against a "Satanist" and his wife, or that trails of illegal actions leading to powerful national political figures would be followed. And we also learned that the courts were also not about to force exposure such a widespread and potentially politically-explosive cover-up as this one.
On the expiration of my fulltime active duty contract in 1990, I continued as a parttime active USAR officer for the next four years, assigned to Headquarters US Space Command with an above-Top Secret clearance. I decided to retire in 1994, and at that time received the Meritorious Service Medal from the [new] Secretary of the Army, covering 1984-1994. I remain today in the Army as a Lt.Colonel, USAR-Retired.
Most people will find it sufficient, I think, that Lilith and I were never charged with anything after two long investigations (SFPD/FBI, CID), that I retained my TS+ clearance, and that I retired honorably in 1994. My Officer Efficiency Reports from the time of the attack on us to my 1994 retirement also continued to give me the highest possible evaluations in all categories.
My military service and present Army-Retired status are public record and can be independently verified by anyone wishing to take the trouble.
Nor is the 1990 lawsuit in any sense a "skeleton in my closet". A review of my attorney's district & appeals briefs & orals will glaringly expose what was actually taking place: a court coverup of blatant Senatorial/SecArmy/CID misconduct - and simultaneous brushing-aside of numerous illegal actions against an Army officer and his wife of a "politically incorrect" religion.
Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D. Lt.Colonel, USAR-Ret.
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Subject #2 - An investigator's response
From: via Outpost of Freedom
Date: 8/5/99
Time: 9:05:14 PM
The following was received by the Outpost of Freedom via e-mail (opf@illusions.com) on Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:41:09 -0800:
Hello. My name is [omitted at writer's request] and I discovered your web site when searching for one of my relatives on the internet. I was the Chief of Juvenile Investigations back in 1981 at the Presidio of San Francisco, and was the person who first brought light to this case. Since the Aquino/Presidio Day Care Center incident, I have been forced to live with the thought of the unpunished victimization of those 60 plus children who suffered permanent damage for the sake of Satanism. Whenever I come across another source of information regarding it, I am forced to relive the frustrations of those memories. In no way can it possibly compare with the nightmares of the victims, now adults, have to endure.
Aquino claims that the rituals described in the Satanic Bible, written by his friend and colleague Anton LeVey, were merely polemic. I say he is insulting our intelligence. The acts performed during satanic rituals, described in their very own literature, are deliberately "outrageous to the point of being unfathomable" to further confuse the mainstream. The crimes committed during these rituals are not prosecutable because of that fact. Finding a "jury of their peers" in the attempts to bring them to justice is impossible. They have infiltrated all of the law enforcement and criminal justice agencies with their church members, which makes it even more impossible to bring their crimes to justice. I recently found out that the very Provost Marshal who ordered me to "cease and desist" any further investigation concerning the alleged child molestations at the Presidio Day Care Center, actually was a member of Aquino's church. This man was actually the "Chief of Police" of the Presidio of San Francisco and he was in a position to negatively affect the future lives of the over 60 children victimized. Absolutely unbelievable!
After my 7 years in military law enforcement, I left the military (under very delicate circumstances because of the Presidio case) and I served 9 more years in civilian law enforcement. During my tenure as a Deputy Sheriff, I was approached by Geraldo Rivera to assist him in gathering information regarding the Presidio nightmare for his two-hour special on Satanic Cults in 1987. I did so, in hopes of getting something done for the kids involved. I was pleased to hear that Senator Jesse Helms was watching. However, even a Senator of the United States of America lacked the power to bring down this criminal conspiracy against children. Every one of the cases documented on the Geraldo Special ended with no convictions. Incredible. The dismissals or acquittals were due to one technicality or another, and also, due to the unbelievable motives for the molestations.
I am not saying that all Satanists are criminals. I am merely stating that the criminal element of Satanists who employ the rituals detailed in the Satanic Bible for higher standing with Satan can and will literally get away with anything they do. They will continue to do so regardless of what they are accused of doing because we, as a society, are too naive to believe the behavior they employ and refuse to accept the ramifications of belonging to a society that accepts this behavior as a motive for their actions.
Having this information regarding Aquino and the ritualistic child abuse cases here is very good for society. Although it may seem to be an extreme way of exhibiting this type of behavior by stating it in such detail, it requires that type of candidness and explicitness to be truly effective. One should know, however, what the motive of the Satanist criminal is when they so arbitrarily take away the innocence of our children. In Satanism, the believers worship themselves as the "almighty being". They make sacrifices to Satan as the ultimate martyr in their belief system. The purer the sacrifice, the greater the benefit to their personal life here on earth. Keep in mind, in Satanism, everything good is bad and vice versa. It is the ultimate mirror of our Judo-Christian beliefs.
The Satanic Bible describes the altar of worship as a naked woman with her legs spread to the congregation as their focus of worship. The Satanic Priest ritualizes the Catholic mass in an "opposite manner". He takes the host representing the Body of Christ, mockingly holding up to the heavens and inserts it into the vagina of the woman on the altar before throwing it to the floor and stomping on it until it disintegrates. They then drink actual blood to mock the Catholic ritual of water and wine. However, their ultimate sacrifice is to take a pure, virginal child and sacrifice the child to Satan. Again, the younger the child the more power it brings to the actor sacrificing it. Ultimately, the ritual would involve having the Satanist violating the virgin sacrifice and killing it upon ejaculation for the utmost power it would provide them from Satan. Unfortunately, in this modern day and time, it is very difficult to actually kill a sacrificial child then to act out the ultimate intention of killing the sacrifice, unless of course they use an animal or animal organ in the ritual (which is why our society has heard of several mysterious animal killings where all the blood and certain organs are removed surgically). Some feel it is symbolic enough to use a virgin child in the ritual, without actually killing them. This is why the children are targets of these cultists. What more perfect a place can Aquino be in than the military. What other organization has the actual mechanism in place to cover-up better than the military? Where else could Aquino have such unlimited access to the children then through the Army's day care centers? Did you read how Gunderson was the person who set the standard that "all Army child care centers should follow"? Irony or carefully planned strategy? That's up to anyone who would care to speculate. But for an organization who wanted an unlimited supply of children from a source that would cover-up or hide any impropriety from the public, what better environment to have such a sinister cult?
One note about LTC Michael A. Aquino. In 1984, when I was a Deputy Sheriff, I enlisted in the US Army Reserve. The local recruiter came to the Sheriff's Department and I was sworn in as a reservist by my then partner, a US Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel. I still have not received any orders from the US Army as to when and where to report for duty. LTC Aquino was then stationed at the US Army Reserve Command in Missouri. Coincidence? You decide. When is the last time you have ever heard of someone enlisting in the Armed Forces and not receiving orders? It never fails to amaze me what magnificent reach these people have into all walks of life.
While doing the research for Geraldo Rivera, I found one of Aquino's former assistant pastors in San Francisco. He was working as the Chief of Security for a MAJOR telecommunications company with access to every name, address, telephone and social security number of everyone living in the Western United States! He claimed he wasn't involved in the church anymore, but imagine if he were to change his mind and rejoin them? Any wonder why Pearl Broadnax disappeared and went into hiding after the news of the story broke based on her being assaulted at the Day Care Center? Completely understandable.
Keep up the flow of information. I feel it is helpful and needed. For the sake of the children. Thank you for providing something that should have been done years ago to expose these fugitives from justice to the scrutiny of the public.
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Re: Subject #2 - An investigator's response
From: Steven S Silvers
Date: 8/9/99
Time: 9:15:08 AM
Dear Sir:
I believe that anyone who has not the courage to publish their name in association with dialogue intended for public consumption has their credibility called into question.
That being said, I will say that first of all you are, in all probability, not associated with the Presidio Case (or any others) but are in all likelihood someone with a grudge against Michael Aquino for whatever reason(s).
I will say that I have known Michael Aquino and his wife Lilith for eleven years now after having joined the Temple of Set back in 1988. The whole "Satanic Ritual Abuse" scam was in full swing and that they went through many terrible years because of it.
The fact that Senator Helms and other Christian crackpots behaved so reprehensibly in their attempted framing of the Aquino's while at the same time attempting to personally profit from it is certainly in keeping with that particular religions sordid history.
While Michael Aquino is certainly able to communicate for himself, I will say that I have never, in 11 years, seen either him or his wife behave or act in anyway that could be remotely construed as harmful to any living thing.
This is much more than I can say for the leadership of the "Christian Highschool/Church" wherein I was repeatedly molested by the school supervisor in the early/mid 1980's.
I can extend the same reference to the Temple of Set, which has had a spotless history and further of which I am an initiate of the Priesthood.
I am further heading toward law school, and strive to keep the truth posted wherever falsehood and bullshit lay.
This "investigator's response" is neck deep in both.
Steven S Silvers
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Re: Subject #2 - An investigator's response
From: Outpost of Freedom
Date: 8/9/99
Time: 7:53:14 PM
The message I received when I requested permission to post the 'investigator's response, was as follows:
Sure Gary, go ahead and use it. But please keep my full name off of it, you never know what this guy might do if he knows I'm still lurking in the shadows. I also don't want him knowing my email address, because he could find me easily.
Thanks, (name withheld)
Now, you have used the generalization that the absence of a name indicates that the information must be invalid. You suggest that you have known Mr. Aquino for eleven years. Is it possible that Mr. Aquino, since thew Presidio incident, has been very careful? If you wish to dispute what the investigator has said, then dispute, with specificity. He has pointed out what he perceives as facts, and then you may refute those facts, with facts or other supportive arguments.
As far as myself though brief, I think I made it clear in the introductory pages. When I was in California, I was surprised, during the course of my investigation, to find Mr. Aquino's name associated, so frequently, with childcare. Not quite the military lifestyle, but not 'guilt', by any means, of itself.
My purpose for setting up this discussion is to air what is known. I had offered, from the beginning, the opportunity for Mr. Aquino to present his case. He has done so, and he has updated that information. He has also indicated that he does not have the time to respond to every comment. Does that make him any less honest than the investigator? Some might allege that he has no case because he refuses to present himself. I'll not judge him guilty for that omission.
This said, I sincerely, hope that this forum does bring answers to questions that have aired for over a decade.
Take care,
Gary Hunt, Outpost of Freedom
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Michael Aquino, his friends, and on-going threats
From: Karen Curio Jones
Date: 8/10/99
Time: 2:22:03 PM
Since posting most of the internal documents to Mr. Aquino's case to the internet in 1997, his group, Temple of Set and those who run interference for the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, have threatened me with harassing lawsuits, tried to censor my web pages about 4 times during the past 6 months, purposely misidentified me several times, clearly endangering other people by doing so, and threatened me. For the latest updates, see:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7736/aq.html Michael Aquino and Temple of Set Harassment
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