By: Richard Smith
Re: R Daily Xtian Persecutio

 Hello All!

 Well, religious zealotry and bigotry have hit the Pagan
 community here locally again.  One of the members of our
 group was the unhappy recipient of a home search by police,
 etc., the other night.  They were, obstensibly, looking for
 stuff to put her husband (a Mormon, I should point out, that
 apparently believes in the old fashioned Xtian ethic: beat
 the shit out of your wife every chance you get) away on.

 He, apparently, had been telling them that his wife (a
 Wiccan) was involved with demonic things (LOL), because when
 they came in they looked exclusively at her Craft materials,
 more or less. The confiscated some hot sauce in a jar in the
 fridge because it might be human blood.  The opened her
 personal luggage because she might have some human heads in
 there. And so on and so on.  The confiscated some of her
 working tools (athames . . . just two short daggers as it
 turns out . . . which are only illegal according to
 California Penal Code 12020 if they are concealed on
 someone's person) and herbs/incense materials (that
 dastardly sage, saltpeter, etc.) without leaving receipts
 (which is illegal), and so on, all while she was at work.

 They did tell him that she was evil, and that he needed to
 stay away from her.  They also told him that there were a
 lot of Satanic Cults out there, and that Satanism is
 epidemic in this country.  Apparently, they've never read
 the Lanning Report.

 So, he calls her, she calls me, I call a Pagan-friendly
 attorney.  She calls the officers back with the Penal Code
 citation, etc.  Much hemming and hawwing.  The athames are
 still illegal, no matter what the Penal Code says.  Then
 they want names and addresses of people she worships with.
 She, being a good wiccan priestess, refuses to tell them.
 Then they just want MY name and number.  Buffoons.  Again,
 she refuses.  And again, she mentions that the athames
 (which had been packed away when they came in) was not
 illegal.  Since her husband is on probation (don't ask, just
 let me state here: sex crimes and child abuse), they have
 the right to search HIS stuff and confiscate HIS weapons.
 That much is true.  But they are not allowed to go into her
 things.  Still, the athames, etc., cannot be on the premises
 . . . to this she agrees.  She then says that if they'll
 return them to her, or to me, that we will keep them at my
 house so that he cannot be tempted to run amok with two itty
 bitty daggers in Sacramento.

 Then, according to them, if I come down and pick them up
 from the officers, they'll arrest me as soon as I leave the
 building.

 Let me just say that my curiousity, and badger, is piqued,
 so to speak.  If you folks don't hear from me for a bit, it
 may be because I'm cooling my heels downtown.

 Granted, it was a BIG mistake for our friend to marry this
 jerk.  She herself is slowly realizing this.  But she had
 problems before she even met him.  As a matter of fact, she
 met him in a mental institution where she'd checked herself
 into for a couple of weeks to try to come to terms with some
 things.  It was a sudden thing, as when we first met her,
 she was self-assured and confidant and showed no signs of
 mental instability.  During their brief marriage (less than
 two years at this point) he's refused to let her worship as
 she wishes, has single-handedly put her in debt to the tune
 of $50,000 (she had to declare bankrupcy just a short while
 ago), has stolen from her on a regular basis, including
 stealing and selling her things, as well as leave her
 beaten, bloody, and cowwed much of the time.  Her weight has
 increased 50%, and she never seems to look anywhere but the
 floor.  It was the Mormon in him that made him do this,
 according to him.  She recently decided that she needed to
 divorce him, and we were helping her facilitate that to the
 best of our ability.  He, of course, is less than pleased.

 So, just another day in the land dominated by the followers
 of a savage God.  Stay tuned for updates.  And send me a
 file in a cake if I go to the Big House, okay?    Or a
 chocolate pie to share with the guards.  

... Deuteronomy 13:1-5:           Kill those who speak of other religions.