America's Resistance Movement: The Anti-Satanist Underground by Carol White ATLANTA, Oct.

America's Resistance Movement: The Anti-Satanist Underground
by Carol White

ATLANTA, Oct. 7 (EIRNS)--Over 100 Christian leaders gathered this Friday and
Saturday to arm themselves for the fight against the Satanic underground in
America. The speakers were impressive, but there was an added level of
intensity because of the hostile presence in the audience of FBI agent Jeffrey
Holmes.

   Holmes appears to be part of the same network as FBI cult-spokesman Kenneth
Lanning, who is on record stating that Christians have killed more people than
have Satanists. Holmes bragged that he had taken down the license plate
numbers of all those in attendance at the conference, and in private
conversation he admitted to believing that the conference presentations were a
hoax.

                         - Protecting Child Abusers? -

   His presence at the meeting was primarily governed by the FBI deployment
against one of the speakers, Fay Yager. She has been running safe houses for
mothers and fathers who are attempting to protect their children from abuse by
spouses.

   In the cases with which she deals, these parents have not only been unable
to get protection for their children from the courts, but the courts have
actively intervened on behalf of the abusing parent. The usual scenario is
that the complaining parent is given primary custody of the child or children,
but the abuser is allowed unsupervised visitation.

   Obviously such a situation is intolerable, because regular abuse can then
continue unchecked. Some parents have been driven to take desparate measures,
including fleeing from their family and friends to go underground. Mrs. Yager
told of one case where a mother died because, in order to protect her
anonymity, she refused needed medical care.

   In every one of the 400 cases with which Mrs. Yager is now involved, the
FBI has refused to gather evidence to substantiate claims of abuse, and the
growing number of instances of ritual satanic abuse involving criminal
networks. Instead, the Bureau has deployed its full resources to track down
these hapless parents.

                             - The Washburn Case -

   On Sept. 10, for example, the FBI conducted a dawn raid using helicopters
from which over a dozen heavily armed agents swooped down to apprehend Donna
Washburn and her four children, ages five to ten. She had been staying in a
cottage at a South Carolina resort since May 1988.

   According to Mrs. Washburn, the children's father had not only sexually
molested them but forced them to participate in Satanic rituals. The Washburns
are from Macon, Georgia, and had implicated prominent local citizens,
including police officers and a local judge, in this organized ring.

   Before applying to Fay Yager, Mrs. Washburn had tried to get help from the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The officer assigned to the case was
identified by the children as one of their abusers.

   As is typical in these ritual abuse cases, the response to her attempts to
seek protection was for the court to assign custody to her husband, Derrell
Washburn.

   An FBI spokesman claimed that the unusual tactics were justified, because
intelligence indicated that the Washburns' hosts were ``survivalist types''
who could be expected to resist police intrusion. No such thing happened, but
the children were brutally seized and taken away from their mother.

   Agent Holmes has been involved in seizing children who have been safe-
housed by Mrs. Yager, and he now appears to be deployed not only to intimidate
her and her associates, but any individuals who want to actively oppose
Satanists. Perhaps the fact that this was a meeting of Christians, held in a
church, was further incitement to the FBI.

                                - The Meeting -

   The seminar was sponsored by the LaVerne Campbell Ministries, Inc. and the
Georgia Task Force on Teenagers and Satanism headed by Annette Tatum.

   Besides Fay Yager, featured speakers included Lauren Stratford, Dr. Sondra
O'Neale, and Sheriff Riley Taylor. Ted Gunderson, who had been expected to
attend, was unfortunately unable to come because of a back injury which he had
suffered.

   LaVerne Campbell is a uniquely dedicated clergyman, who has ministered to
young victims of the counterculture since the 1960s, when he was located in
California. He told of one incident in which his grandchild was abused by a
child-care worker.

   The child reported to her grandmother that she had ``tinkled'' and
``poohed'' on her mother. She also showed a cut on her forehead from which
blood had been drawn for ceremonial purposes. It turned out that the child had
actually been led to urinate and defecate on a photograph of her mother, and
on a picture of Jesus.

   An expert on ritual abuse whom the Campbells consulted, concluded that the
ceremony had been intended to dedicate the little girl as a future bride of
Satan.

   At the conference, Reverend Campbell circulated a monthly newsletter which
he publishes, in which he reported a recent occurrence, in which a drug-
addicted young man to whom he offered shelter, held him hostage and stole his
car and other belongings. The point of his account was to underscore that he
well understood the commitment demanded of himself and his readers who were
determined to persevere in the fight against Satanic evil.

   He wrote of the experience: ``While held hostage, I just couldn't believe
that it was happening to me! This frightening and frustrating experience left
me wondering what my reaction would be when the next person requested help. I
don't know.... However, I did come to a dramatic and firm awareness of the
importance of `things.' I am more than ever committed to what is of {real}
value -- not `things,' but {children} whose `years of wonder' have been
stolen."

   This hard-headed realism combined with compassion characterized the
conference, in the face of reports so terrible that even to listen to them was
painful. For example, there were several reports at the conference about
children who drugged and even poisoned sheltering parents (and a psychiatrist)
at the behest of their Satanic controllers.

   A video was shown of one child who cried bitterly about the crimes which he
had been forced to commit by his father and the coven to which his father
belonged. Yet this same child introduced poison into the food of his mother
and the therapist who was treating him, and both now have suffered serious and
perhaps fatal liver damage.

   One of the most bitter aspects of the FBI intervention in these cases--even
where the children are held in protective custody, upon being seized from the
parent who has hidden them, rather than being immediately released to the
sexually offending parent--is that their fear that Satan is omnipotent is
reinforced by the barbarism of their capture.

   More next week.