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Satanic panic

2014-10-09 19:33:54.606926+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Satanic panic: how British agents stoked supernatural fears in Troubles.

“It was quite clear that the church, both the Roman Catholic church and the Protestant church, even for the paramilitaries, held a fair degree of influence,” Wallace said. “So we were looking for something that would be regarded with abhorrence really by the two communities, and at the same time would be something that paramilitaries couldn’t justify, and also would be in many ways seen as a reason why some of the outrages were taking place.

Something something opiate of the masses...

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