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To: alt.satanism From: xeper@aol.com (Dr. Michael A. Aquino) Subject: FAQ: ..."Lupo" [SL] Date: 03 Dec 2002 19:00:14 GMT FAQ: ..."LUPO" [SL] ON ALT.SATANISM - by Michael A. Aquino as of 12/1/2002 [The following FAQ is provided to alt.satanism, and to persons who may ask me about [SL], as a response to and explanation concerning [SL]'s continuing vulgarity and distortions. Years ago I gave up attempts at polite, corrective dialogue with him on the newsgroup, so further attempts at provocation and distortion by him or anyone else will continue to be ignored. I will simply repost this FAQ as seems necessary from time to time.] * * * * * From 1993 to 1995 [SL] was an [uncomplaining] Setian I* in the Temple of Set, and also very active on the alt. satanism newsgroup, including authoring its FAQ. When I first read [SL]'s FAQ, I saw that it contained advertisement and contact information for several "Satanist" persons and groups of a fraudulent, dubious, or even dangerous nature, for example: (1) The post-1975 "Church of Satan" ... without alerting readers that it was neither a church nor did it believe in Satan, but was - as Anton LaVey ultimately swore under oath in his bankruptcy filing - a personal business for his private profit in direct violation of the requirements of its original California corporate articles. (2) The "Order of Nine Angles" aka David Myatt aka Stephen Brown aka Christos Beest ... without alerting readers that the "ONA" advocated literal "Satanic" human sacrifice and published ritual texts containing it. (3) The "Ordo Templi Baphe-metis" aka James Martin ... without alerting readers that Martin is a self-stated pedophile and, as he put it, "user of controlled substances - one of our subsidiary organizations, the Cultus Cucurbitus, investigates the magickal uses of psychoactive drugs." (4) Kerry Bolton aka _The Watcher_ aka _The Heretic_ aka "Order of the Left-Hand Path" ... without alerting readers that Bolton advocated neo-Nazi racial violence [and also advertised Martin without any alerts]. None of this important alerting information was included in the respective descriptions/contacts in [SL]'s FAQ. I advised [SL] that, particularly since alt.satanism could be read by uninformed individuals of any age, advertising such persons/groups was unacceptably irresponsible from a Setian. [SL] decided that this was an intolerable affront to his civil rights, resigned from the Temple of Set, and continued to publish the FAQ without change - except that, at my insistence, he removed the Temple of Set from it. That took the Temple of Set off the hook for the FAQ, but it still disturbed me that any number of unsuspecting people could blunder into exploitation or personal danger because of [SL]'s FAQ - for which he used only his "Lupo" pseudonym. I therefore suggested on the newsgroup that, if he insisted on publishing such a document, readers of it at least deserved the courtesy of knowing who the author was and how to locate him in the case they came to grief by trusting his advertisements. In this I indeed used his true name and mentioned the university whose ISP he had been using for much of his Internet activity. [Note: See postscript below.] I was not interested in seeing any harm come to [SL], but I *did* think that if he felt himself *personally* accountable for what he was doing, it might inspire him to take greater concern for his readership. That infuriated [SL] even more than my "violation of his civil rights". Evidently he felt that if people got hurt because of his FAQ, that was just their tough luck - and certainly nothing that should find and hold *him* responsible as the FAQ's author. Thus began his multi-year campaign of vulgarity against myself and my wife in particular, and the Temple of Set generally. At the time [SL]'s FAQ appeared, Satanism generally had just been through a decade-long gauntlet of "crime" and "sexual abuse" allegations from scam-profiteers and the Fundamentalist Right in the USA and elsewhere. In my opinion [SL]'s FAQ was - especially because of its viewability by persons of any age completely unfamiliar with Satanism - extremely dangerous to the legitimate religion. It's all too easy for habitual haunters of this newsgroup - who are presumably adults having some familiarity with the Satanic subculture - to ignore such possibilities. In good conscience I didn't feel that I could, and all the more so at that point in time, when the "Satanic Panic" was only just receding. I don't mind Internet anonymity among courteous, responsible people who don't use it maliciously; I have dialogued with many "pseudopeople" here. But good-natured verbal tennis games are one thing, and doing something which could seriously endanger people - to say nothing of harming this religion's already-severely- shaken reputation - is quite another. In that sense I think that Internet anonymity should be regarded as a courtesy which should be earned, not a "right" regardless of any harm you intend or do, whether through carelessness or deliberation. As a "sidebar": I am of course aware that expecting good manners and a sense of responsibility on alt. satanism might strike some as screamingly funny _a la_ Don Quixote. Usenet, and the Internet generally, is awash in raving lunatics of all imaginable - and some unimaginable! - flavors. Be that as it may, I have taken the dignity of this religion seriously and personally since I accepted its Priesthood in 1970, and I mean to keep on doing so as best I can. Michael A. Aquino * * * * * * * Postscript: As to the exposure of [SL]'s identity as author of his FAQ, may I quote from a post by "Raven" on 3/24/99: "Excuse me, has the alt.satanism newsgroup FAQ suddenly become classified material? It credits '[SL] (Lupo the Butcher)' in postings from at least as far back as February 1996, down to this month (March 1999), and I'd be surprised to learn that he's been so credited without his consent: "8 Feb 1996: http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=138486623.8 "3 Mar 1999: http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=450885117.9 ... "He's made no secret of his name, and here it was relevant to observe that the post signed 'IX Corp.' was from the same person about whom Kevin Filan and I were disputing whether he had indeed been IX Corp.'s treasurer, as signed in public at http://www.corpcreations.com/raves.htm (again using his real name)."
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