Months before his killing spree, David Berkowitz, also known as the Son of Sam, went outside his Bronx building in Yonkers, where he ran into his neighbor Michael Carr who invited Berkowitz to a nearby park. An alleged meeting place for a Satanic cult called the Children, a suspected offshoot of the Process Church of the Final Judgment.
David began attending meetings with other Process members in the woods who later confessed to the investigative author, Terry Maury, who said, “Before long, he was cutting prints in his finger and pledging to Lucifer.”
Shortly after meeting his new group of so-called friends, on Christmas Eve 1975, Berkowitz said the demons in his head commanded that they find a female victim. So he drove around the city for hours that night until he located a lone woman leaving a grocery store. “She has to be sacrificed,” they told him.
Plunging his hunting knife into her back once, he was shocked at her reaction. “I stabbed her, and she didn’t do anything,” he said. “She just turned looking at me and began to scream, and he ran away.”
Prowling for his next victim, he saw fifteen-year-old Michelle Forman. Approaching her from behind, hiding his large hunting knife, he began stabbing her in the head and in other locations on her body. Seriously wounded, the tough 15-year-old fought back, scaring Berkowitz, who took off running. She was able to make it to a nearby apartment, where she got help.
Berkowitz’s demons were pacified for the time being. He called it a night and went out for a burger and some fries.
After the attacks, he returned to his life as a security guard living in a tiny Bronx apartment owned by Jack and Nann Cassara. Cassara’s German shepherd would howl, causing the other neighborhood dogs to howl back. In Berkowitz’s mind, demons lived within the dogs ordering him to go hunting for the blood of pretty young women.
Berkowitz was driven to the edge: “I’d come home to Coligni avenue like at six-thirty in the morning. It would begin then, the howling. On my days, off, I heard it all night, too. It made me scream. I used to scream out begging for the noise to stop. It never did.
“The demons never stopped. I couldn’t sleep. I had no strength to fight. I could barely drive. Coming home from work one night, I almost killed myself in the car. I needed to sleep….The demons wouldn’t give me any peace.”
During his murder spree, Berkowitz was compelled to write to the New York Post, “I am still here like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.”
The letter was initially withheld from the public, but some of its contents were revealed to the press, and the name “Son of Sam” quickly replaced the old name.
In the letter, he states that he loves to drink blood, he is on a different wavelength than everybody else – programmed too kill. He says, I am the “Monster”—” Beelzebub”—the “Chubby Behemouth.” I love to hunt. Prowling the streets looking for fair game—tasty meat.
The letter sent chills across the country. A real-life demon was on the loose.
It is interesting that Berkowitz had chosen to call himself by the name Beelzebub.
In Christianity, Beelzebub is known as a high-ranking demon in Hell’s hierarchy. 17th-century exorcist Sebastien Michaelis, in his Admirable History (1612), placed Beelzebub among the three most prominent fallen angels, the other two being Lucifer and Leviathan. In 1667, John Milton featured Beelzebub as the second-ranking of the many fallen angels in his epic poem Paradise Lost. Milton wrote of Beelzebub, “than whom, Satan except, none higher sat.” More recently, the demon Beelzebub has been accused of causing demon possession during the Salem witch trials, and then we here have Berkowitz invoking Beelzebub.
In the end, using a .44 Special caliber Bulldog revolver, he murdered six people in cold blood and wounded seven others by July 1977 before he would be arrested by police. There is more to the story about his crimes and victims, but I suggest reading the many books detailing those facts. My focus is on the mental, spiritual, and Satanic cult aspects of this case.
A few weeks after his arrest, Berkowitz wrote a letter to the New York Post dated September 19, 1977, Berkowitz alluded to his original claim of demonic possession. He said, “It was a mysterious force working against me and that he was under the control of a demon named “Harvey” who inhabited his neighbor’s dog and implored him to kill people. He also made the claim that there may be more criminal accomplices saying, “There are other Sons out there, God help the world.” Berkowitz had previously used terms like “I’m on a different wavelength” and “I was programmed to kill” to identify this peculiar force or spirit realm that he was allegedly tapping into.
This mysterious force is a common theme amongst killers.
In his prison diaries, David tells a tale of madness and demons who spoke through dogs. He reported that a dog talked to him, channeling a 6,000-year-old man named Sam whom he sometimes identified with John Carr, a neighbor and a dog owner. Sam Carr was the father of John and Michael Carr, who lived across the street from Berkowitz. “He told me [to kill] through his dog, as he usually does,” David wrote.
He worried that his condition would worsen. “I may, one day, evolve into a humanoid or demon in a more complete state,” he said.
Soon after David’s arrest in a bizarre chain of events, both John and Michael Carr would die, one an unsolved murder, the other, suicide.
Later in 1993, a computer scientist for IBM turned author, Maury Terry interviewed Berkowitz in prison for Inside Edition and his book The Ultimate Evil.
He became obsessed with the crimes until his death. He said the Carr brothers were Berkowitz’s accomplices and were responsible for some of the murders. Berkowitz told Terry he only committed three of the six shootings and was present during all the crimes. Also, various police sketches show men who do not look anything like Berkowits, but they appear to match John Carr like the one below.
Terry linked the Son of Sam murders to other ritual crimes committed around the U.S., arguing that it was a Satanic Culture thriving in the country. Even the Queens, NY district attorney at the time of the murders believed Berkowitz didn’t act alone.
In the book, Terry also claims that he has witnesses placing Berkowitz and Michael Carr at Process Church meetings during the 1970s. Berkowitz confessed to Terry in prison that they were Soldiers of Satan and made pacts with each other. However, in the end, his fellow Satanic comrades, who he now calls “scumbags,” abandoned him to rot in prison as they always do. David said to Terry about his murder spree.
“We made a pact, maybe with the devil, but also with each other … We were going to go all the way with this thing. We’re soldiers of Satan now. I was just too far in, too loyal, too much playing the role of the soldier and trying to please people (in the cult), Berkowits claimed.”
“I was expecting to go to hell,” That didn’t put him off. “I’ll be with my friends,” he thought. But then, after his arrest, he learned that their friendship only went so far. “They completely abandoned me,” he said.
“The killings were another sacrifice to our gods, a bunch of scumbags that they were.” Later, he explained, “We made a pact, maybe with the devil, but also with each other … We were going to go all the way with this thing. We’re soldiers of Satan now. I was just too far in, too loyal, too much playing the role of the soldier and trying to please people.”
In prison, David Berkowitz would spill the beans about his accomplices and involvement with the Process Church of Final Judgement.
Terry had written about their connection to the Process Church;
“By 1997, we had accumulated much new data about the British cult’s activities in the United States and its immersion in the .44 shootings. It is not possible to explore the depths of that investigation here, but I will list a few highlights. For example, an admitted former Process member named Linda Harrison came forward to say she saw Michael Carr at a 1970s Process meeting in Chicago. ‘It was definitely Michael,’ she said. ‘And knowing what I came to know about the Process’ real purpose, I also believe Berkowitz was nothing more than one of their hitmen.”
“In addition, Berkowitz verified a report that had languished in NYPD’s files since the days following his arrest — when a witness stated she saw him with one ‘Father Lars’ at the Process’ Manhattan headquarters. ‘It’s true. I was there with him,’ Berkowitz said of the report, which was ignored by the NYPD.
“Berkowitz said he had a reason to visit the group’s headquarters: ‘They had a big role in all of it.’ Specifically, he charged that the overall plan for a series of shootings was brainstormed during a surreal meeting at Moloch’s White Plains-area home in the spring of 1976. Present at the meeting, Berkowitz said, were at least eight Process leaders and members, along with ‘some friends of theirs’ and ‘at least two’ lower-ranked members of the Westchester cult — including himself.” (The Ultimate Evil, Maury Terry, pg. 533)
Looking further at Berkowitz’s claims, Terry found an abandoned pump house in Untermeyer Park in Yonkers, N.Y., called the Devil’s Cave, where he believed Berkowitz was initiated into the cult. Neighbors reported that groups of people with dark hoods and lit torches would gather in the woods near the structure. Berkowitz and many other people who lived in the area had said cult initiations involving the sacrifice of dogs and then drinking their blood.
While investigating Devil’s Cave, Terry discovered that it was mere steps from Berkowitz’s single-room apartment. He also found satanic symbols covering the walls of the cave and German Shepherd carcasses in the nearby woods. Terry associated the dead dogs with The Process because they were known to keep German Shepherds. More evidence of an organized Satanic cult.
Decorated former NYPD Detectives Jim Rothstein and Michael Cordella have claimed that the Process Church ordered the killings. Both ex-cops state that they came to this conclusion after being involved in the investigation of the Son of Sam case in the early 1990s. Codella says that, in America, the Process Church established ties with outlaw biker gangs, primarily to make money by running drugs, but also for human trafficking and other unsavory criminal activities.
Cordella further alleges that one of his biker informants personally witnessed the Process sacrifice a human being. Both Cordella and Rothstein also maintain that a number of their trusted informants repeatedly placed David Berkowitz at Process Church gatherings. One of these informants was a member of a biker gang named the Rat Pack and was serving time for sexual crimes against his wife, son, and daughter. A real dirtbag.
Michael Cordella was interviewed in 2016 by Ed Opperman, of The Opperman Report.Codella said in the interview that his informant was a prominent member of the Rat Pack biker-gang, which ran a business providing security to anyone and was hired by cult members to maintain a perimeter outside of houses where satanic rituals would take place. The cult was the Process Church of the Final Judgement. The informant and other bikers were reported to have initiated themselves into the Process Church and were introduced to Satanic criminal activities, including pedophilia, and even kidnapping for specific purposes of ritual sacrifice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aYa4NTZosA
The new Netflix documentary, “The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness,” directed by Josh Zeman, focuses on Maury Terry’s lifelong obsession with the murders. What is shocking to Josh Zeman and many researchers like myself is that the police didn’t even bother to interview the Carr brothers. Even after Berkowitz included them in his confessions. This is odd because they would have been the first people most good detectives would question in most major criminal cases like this. But for some reason, they chose not to, which raises red flags of a possible cover-up of something more sinister.
A Son of Sam survivor, Carl Denaro who was shot in the head also believed there was more than one person. Denaro said, “In all, there are probably between 150 and 250 pieces of circumstantial evidence that point toward there being more than one shooter.”
In regards to the Process Church, Zeeman stated in a foreword of Terry’s book “The Ultimate Evil,” which was recently republished; “To some, they were a doomsday cult responsible for a series of ritualistic murders that spanned the country. To others, they were nothing more than an oft-maligned church whose bizarre theatrics led to their scapegoating,” he said. He further wrote that as “hard as it is to fully accept Terry’s allegations, it’s just as difficult to completely dismiss them.”
The “Sons of Sam” director Zeman said, “There’s a preponderance of evidence to suggest that Berkowitz didn’t act alone, I have been told the names of those individuals, some of whom are still alive. So I think there’s obviously enough doubt to suggest that it’s worth looking into reopening the case.”
Zeeman recently told TheWrap, “My mouth just literally dropped to the floor… when I heard that [the police] didn’t interview John or Michael Carr. It’s insane. How could you not?”
“There was a preponderance of evidence to show that the case was not closed properly,” he said. “That’s what happens when you have original narratives that aren’t transparent. If the police were transparent in the beginning, then I think he wouldn’t have gone there. Transparency is what allows people not to go down rabbit holes,” said Zeman.
In the end, the Son of Sam was sentenced to 365 years in prison. But in prison, an act of God occurred. The infamous serial killer became a born-again Christian on a mission. Instead of being seen as a demon spawn incarnate, his fellow Christians look to him as a holy man sending him hundreds of letters as they pray for him and get his advice and spiritual insight. He now works as a prison pastor walking the prison corridors with his Bible to call on God.
Berkowitz says that he is battling his old friend, Satan.
“I’m heaven-bound and shouting victory,” he tells his Christian followers.
In my opinion, I believe that David Berkowitz was a mentally unstable young man who found out that his birth mother had given him up for adoption when he was an infant after having an affair with a married man. Journalist John Vincent Sanders wrote that Berkowitz’s childhood was “somewhat troubled,” and he became infatuated with petty larceny and starting fires at an early age. His adoptive mother died of breast cancer when he was 14 years old, and his home life became strained during later years, mainly because he disliked his adoptive father’s second wife.
When Berkowitz was 17, he joined the United States Army in 1971 and served at Fort Knox. After an honorable discharge in June 1974, he located his birth mother. After a few visits, she disclosed the details of his birth. The news greatly disturbed Berkowitz, and he was particularly distraught by the array of reluctant father figures. Forensic anthropologistElliott Leyton described Berkowitz’s discovery of his adoption and birth details as the “primary crisis” of his life, a revelation that shattered his sense of identity.
Another common theme amongst Satanists and killers. They have rough childhoods with harmful or abusive parents who abandon them physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The perfect unholy recipe to create a person with mental issues that can quickly morph into a degenerate with a burning hate for the world. A world they seek to destroy and find others like them to help do so.
This is why Berkowitz ventured into the dark world of the occult and Satanism. But he had no idea what he was getting into.
This is a common thread amongst people who ignorantly think it is no big deal or can handle it. Unfortunately, with no real male role models or people looking out for his best interests, he became under the spell of black magick and insane after his short involvement with the Carr Brothers and the Process Church, thus making him the perfect scapegoat to commit Satanic crimes and murder for their evil cause.
While in prison, Berkowitz found what wits he had left, and God realized that he was duped into committing the crimes and abandoned. Feeling shame and remorse, he made the conscious decision to try and redeem his soul from the devil of whom he pledged his life.
You see, even a Soldier of Satan can become a Man of God.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
In a smart move to stop the indoctrination of their people and especially the nation’s youth, Russia announced this week it would be banning Scientology. According to prosecutors, the organization poses a threat to Russia’s safety, and it will now be one of the forty-nine foreign and international NGOs that have been listed as undesirable organizations.
The Church of Scientology was founded in America by a notorious Satanist, former O.T.O. member, and sociopath, L. Ron Hubbard.
Russia’s Justice Ministry claimed the Church of Scientology and its two other entities, stating that it’s a dangerous cult and a business masquerading as a religion. According to top the AP, “the Prosecutor General’s Office said the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises International and the Church of Spiritual Technology, which are both based in California, were “a threat to the security of the Russian Federation”.
In 1996, a resolution was passed classifying the Church of Scientology as a destructive religious organization in the lower house of Russia’s parliament, according to RAPSI. The Moscow Regional Court ruled in 2012 that some of Hubbard’s books be included on the Federal List of Extremist Literature and prohibited from distribution in Russia.
Since 2008, the Russian branch of the Church of Scientology has been the target of religious and youth groups who have asked the government to ban these organizations. Many protests have been held like this one when members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Guard had protested the Scientologists in Moscow on March 21, 2008.
(ALEXEY SAZONOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
“The activities for which senior figures [in the church] ended up in jail are conducted in all Scientologist communities, practicing in different countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia and Africa,” the letter added. Russia’s Justice Ministry has turned its attention toward the group’s earnings just weeks after outlawing Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian evangelical movement.
According to the Moscow Times, “Alexander Dvorkin, a former Soviet émigré and member of the Orthodox Church, in 1993 set up an NGO to research “totalitarian sects and destructive cults.” He says he was prompted to action after witnessing the distress of churchgoers who had relatives in Scientology. “Their families had been torn apart,” he says.
Dvorkin became a leader of a virulent “anti-cult movement” and a prominent figure in Russian media, where he has consistently warned of the dangers of so-called new religions. “Scientology is totally evil,” he says. “It oppresses people and draws more and more money out of them.”
The Russian Supreme Court ordered the closure of the group’s Moscow branch in 2016 and the Justice Ministry also declared some of the group’s literature extremist. Several arrests were made when police raided the church’s offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In October 2017, Russia’s security services raided Scientology headquarters launching a probe into the organization’s nefarious activities.
Russian is not the only country to go after Scientology. Recently France had labeled Scientology a dangerous cult after seven of its members were convicted of crimes, including contribution to suicide.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
In one of the first major Satanic music events in America, 300,000 anonymous bodies gathered together over the weekend on December 6, 1969. They were there to see some of their favorite rock bands creating an instant pop-up city at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California. A dusty little town located deep in the inland desert in-between San Francisco and San Jose long before the Techno-Titans of Silicone Valley arrived.
Most of the young people in attendance were openly consuming hard-core drugs and alcohol, while people ran around nude, openly having sex in front of total strangers before the first band hit the stage. Makeshift fences surrounded the concert area as cheap bottles of red wine spiked with bad LSD, and mescaline made their rounds.
When someone asked what was in the wine, a freaky big blonde guy with a fat mustache, tight blue jeans, and wire-rimmed glasses said, “It’s got two tabs of mescaline in it. Organic. Good stuff, too. We put it in this morning,” as he took a big swig of the Red Mountain Vin Rose.
Many of the concert-goers were upset the wine was spiked with hard drugs. They had not intended to take their minds to another planet, but it was too late. Once they swallowed the first drink, they were already traveling deep into the organic abyss within minutes.
It was just after noon on Saturday as the bands were starting to arrive in their chartered helicopters on a temporary runway on the asphalt pit area of the Altamont racetrack. Finally, at about a quarter to 3 pm, a helicopter carrying the Rolling Stones along with their entourage touched down.
A confused blonde chick running towards the chaos said in her raspy voice to her girlfriend, “Who is it? Who is it?’ Her teen friend, barely able to contain herself, exclaimed in religious type fervor, “It’s Mick Jagger! It’s Mick Jagger!”
Immediately, the doped-up crowd of approximately 500 people went into a complete frenzy. Within seconds, they turned into a dangerous mob who had quickly scaled a hill and nearby fence, rushing toward the copter, almost crushing one of the Stones and some of his escorts. Their security team tried to fend off the mad horde, but the band and their crew were swallowed in a sea of mayhem.
But not everyone was so happy to see the Stones.
Some guy on a mission quickly broke through the sea of panting females shouting, “I hate you, I hate you!” and reared back, punching the singer right in the face. Jaggers Great Welcome to Satanic America and set the stage for one of the craziest nights in rock and roll history.
Ronnie Schneider, the Rolling Stones’ 1969 US tour manager, had said after the event, “We’re walking off the helicopter, and a guy jumps up and punches Mick [Jagger] in the face. The guy was just out of his mind, punched Mick in the mouth, and I wanted to kill the guy. And Mick’s like, ‘Don’t hurt him, don’t hurt him.’ That’s when we knew we had a problem.”
Yes, it was complete chaos, but as they say, the show must go on.
The stage was only about 3 1/2 feet high, and Jefferson Airplane’s performance was soon engulfed by a chaotic crowd of more than 300,000 who were held back by the Hells Angels, who viciously guarded the stage with pool cues, fists, and their boots. Hell, they had a bunch of people high on LSD like this naked fat man who tried to work his way up to the stage, stepping on grossed-out people, while under the guise of dance.
One of the opening bands, Jefferson Airplane, was unprepared for the violence that was unfolding. Apparently, the singer, Marty Balin, pissed off one of the Hells Angels on stage, who then grabbed the singer dragging him down into the crowd as he and other Angels ruthlessly beat him unconscious.
When Crosby Stills and Nash hit the stage, the crowd’s energy and violence were reaching its peak. Again, the singer would do something to upset the Angels, which would result in Stephen Stills being stabbed multiple times in the leg.
“We did a partial set because [co-lead singer] Marty Balin got dragged into the audience and pummeled by one of the Hells Angels,” said Casady. “We were trying to keep it together as our lead singer was on the ground getting beat up. There was pushing and shoving going on during our set by various elements onstage. There was no protection onstage. It had gotten so out of hand and chaotic … but we played a number of songs before we stopped.”
According to former Angels Los Angeles President and author, George Christie, said that Hells Angels Paul “Animal” Hibbits knocked out Airplane singer Marty Balin who had disrespected him.
“Some people should leave their clothes on in public. (In reference to the photo above) It quickly spun out of control, Rock Scully Grateful Dead manager told me Jagger insisted that the Jefferson Airplane play early in the day with several band performances between each of their sets, there was a concern they would outperform the Stones.
That performance would end the friendship between the Angels and the Airplane when Sweet William challenged Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane on stage when he complained to the audience that Hells Angels Paul “Animal” Hibbits knocked out Airplane singer Marty Balin who had disrespected him,” Christie said.
After seeing the bloodshed, the Grateful Dead refused to go on stage due to safety concerns.
The concert management decided to postpone the Rolling Stones for a few hours until the evening, which only caused more alcohol and drugs to be consumed as the tension grew higher. But, unfortunately, no one knew that the worst was still to come.
As the night rolled in, small fires lit up the night sky blazing from trash cans as the shadows of people danced against the landscape reminiscent of the old fires of Baal. With the stench of smoke rising from the rotting trash permeating the night air, like demons rising from the depths of hell, the Rollin Stones would hit the stage with Jagger dressed in a black and red cape as if he was some Satanic High Priest giving a sermon on the Devil as the young girls listened intently.
By then, some of the Angels were also high out of their minds on bad acid and few others appeared to try to keep their fellow gang members in check.
As soon as the Stones hit the stage, it caused another massive crowd frenzy with Jagger’s sexual magnetization magic mixed in with his singing, putting many women under his creepy spell.
An eyewitness said he saw a young mother in a blue blouse and skirt pushed violently through the crowd carrying her baby, who must have been only a few months old in one hand well ahead of her husband as if a demonic spirit possessed her. She was there to see her favorite idol, Mick Jagger, the singer of the Rolling Stones.
The mother was probably high on drugs and possessed by her idol’s dark energies, becoming unaware of reality as she unknowingly dropped her baby onto the ground amidst the crowd of stomping feet. A Hells Angel attempting to manage the sea of doped-up maniacs and protect the stage had inadvertently stepped on her poor baby’s head with his oil-stained biker boots. She didn’t even notice, nor lose stride. The baby would allegedly survive the incident, but many other people wouldn’t be so lucky.
When the mayhem broke out, Keith Richards was unprepared for the violence of the American crowd who seemed to make their British rock counterparts look relatively tame. Richards had said of the event;
“The violence just in front of the stage was incredible.
Looking back I don’t think it was a good idea to have Hell’s Angels there. But we had them at the suggestion of the Grateful Dead. The trouble is it’s a problem for us either way.
If you don’t have them to work for you as stewards, they come anyway and cause trouble. But to be fair, out of the whole 300 Angels working as stewards, the vast majority did what they were supposed to do, which was to regulate the crowds as much as possible without causing any trouble.”
Richards concluded, “But there were about 10 or 20 who were completely out of their minds — trying to drive their motorcycles through the middle of the crowds. Really, the difference between the open-air show we held here in Hyde Park and the one there is amazing.
I think it illustrates the difference between the two countries. In Hyde Park, everybody had a good time, and there was no trouble. You can put half a million young English people together, and they won’t start killing each other. That’s the difference,” he said.
After the Stones opened with “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” the crowd went into a total frenzy. Jagger had pleaded for the audience to “be cool,” but it fell on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Meredith Curly Hunter, Jr. (nicknamed Murdock), an 18-year-old African-American with a big Afro from Berkeley, CA, attending the concert with his white girlfriend — tried to push his way onto the stage.
As the Stones played “Under My Thumb,” Hunter perched himself on a speaker box next to the stage when the confrontation had begun.
Hunter was violently pushed back from the stage by the Hells Angels. He became furious over the incident, so he stupidly pulled a gun.
A 21-year-old Hells Angel named Alan Passaro standing behind the melee had seen Hunter pull his gun. He quickly pulled a hidden knife from his boot and plunged into his back as he grasped his other arm holding the gun.
Still from ‘Gimme Shelter’ film about the Rolling Stones free concert at Altamont Speedway, December 1969.
Almost immediately, several other angry Angels pounced on Hunter, striking him all about the body and head unmercifully.
Within seconds, Hunter bled to death just twenty feet in front of the stage where the Stones were performing “Under My Thumb.”
Hunter was stabbed at least four times and repeatedly kicked in the head. As he lay dying, he reportedly told his attackers that he did not intend to shoot anyone.
“Hunter gets pushed back down by a Hells Angel, and he gets back up in the Hells Angel’s face. That’s when he starts getting his ass kicked — several Angels beat on him — and he falls back and comes up with a gun in his hand. Several feet away, Alan Passaro, who’s a San Jose chapter member, sees all this going down, he grabs a knife out of his ankle scabbard, and he stabs Hunter in the neck and back four times.”
A concertgoer who was a witness to Meredith Hunter’s death, Paul Cox, was standing right beside him before he was killed. He was a witness at Passaro’s murder trial. Author, Stanley Booth’s 1984 Dance With The Devil, later republished as The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, had told about what Paul Cox witnessed to the grand jury at Passaro’s murder trial and Rolling Stone magazine. Here is Paul Cox’s eyewitness testimony;
“An Angel, he’s hassling this Negro on the side of me, reached over and shook this Negro by the side of the head, thinking it was funny, and I knew something was going to happen. The next thing I know he was flying in the air, just like all the other people it happened to.
He scrambled to his feet and he’s backing up trying to run and all these Angels jumped off the stage, and his girlfriend was screaming to him not to shoot because he pulled out a gun, and his girlfriend is like on him and pushing him back and he’s trying to get away and these Angels are coming at him and he turns around and starts running.
And then some Angel snuck up from right out of the crowd and leaped up and brought his knife down in his back. And then I saw him stab him again, and while he’s stabbing him the guy is running. This Negro boy is running into the crowd and you could see him stiffen up when he’s being stabbed.
The Hell’s Angel grabbed onto both of his shoulders and started kicking him in the face and he fell down. He grabbed one of those garbage cans, the cardboard ones with the metal rimming, and smashed him over the head with it and then he kicked the garbage can out of the way and started kicking his head in. Kicked him all over the place.
And then the guy that started the whole thing stood on his head for a minute or so and then walked off. And then the one I was talking about, he wouldn’t let us touch him. He said, “Don’t touch him, he’s going to die anyway, let him die.”
We turned him over and ripped off his shirt, rubbed his back up and down to get the blood off so we could see and there was a big hole on the side and there was a hole in his spine and there was a big hole in his temple. All of us trying to help were drenched in blood,” Cox said.
Unaware of the murder, the Stones completed their set, bringing an end to a live blood ritual that also saw three accidental deaths and four live births.
Alan Passaro was the only Hells Angel arrested and charged with murder. However, Passaro never went to prison. The jury ruled that he’d acted in self-defense due to the fact that Hunter pulled a gun on the Hells Angels.
To stupidly pull a gun on one of the most violent gangs in the world was not only a suicide mission; it was self-sacrifice to the Sympathy Symphony of the Devil.
Hunter was rumored to be a member of a “street gang” called the East Bay Executors and a drug user. Methamphetamine was found during the autopsy in his bloodstream. It is no surprise he made such devilish choices because he had an extremely rough childhood.
Hunter’s mother was a prostitute that had schizophrenia, according to Joel Selvin. Hunter was named after his father, a Native American who abandoned the family when he was young. Due to his mother’s mental illness, his older sister took responsibility for raising him. Sevin had written that he started getting in trouble with the law when he was 11, and spent much of his teen years in juvenile hall.
Joel Selvin had also written that Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones had a big part in managing the event, and it was their arrogance, greed, ignorance, and naivete caused the mayhem and deaths. Selvin claimed that Jagger wanted to keep all proceeds from a video documentary film of the event called Gimme Shelter, which he reportedly hoped would make their band bigger than the Beatles.
According to Selvin, Jagger had vetoed playing at a much safer venue made for such events in Sonoma County, where he wouldn’t be able to retain all the film’s distribution rights, so they decided to hold it at the Altamont Race Track. Selvin said the Rolling Stones had used the film, Gimme Shelter to help absolve themselves of any wrongdoing while demonizing the Hells Angels and barely mentioning any involvement by the other bands like the Grateful Dead.
In the ensuing days after the concert, the Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger had attempted to deflect attention from themselves by claiming they never hired the Hells Angels as security and vowed that he would never use them again. However, in searching this claim, I have found several original posters of the concert that list the Hells Angels as security, so Mick Jagger was lying to save face due to the media scrutiny.
In fact, many of the original posters online have been changed with the newer versions having no mention of the Hells Angels.
Understandably, the Hells Angels were outraged with the Stones, knowing that Jagger had sold them out to the media, they had vowed to settle the score. Former FBI agent Mark Young had claimed in an interview they intended to get their revenge by killing Jagger. Not just once, but on four separate occasions. (BBC The FBI at 100 via the New York Times)
According to Young, it didn’t happen because bad weather intervened. “Their plan involved making entry into his Long Island property, going by boat,” he recalled. “As they gathered the weaponry and their forces to go out on Long Island Sound, a storm rolled up, which nearly sunk the watercraft they were in, and they escaped with their own lives.”
The Hells Angels dropped their beef after the alleged attempts to kill Jagger because they agreed to pay for the club’s legal fees they incurred while defending Alan Passaro’s murder rap, according to former LA Chapter President, George Christie.
“The entire afternoon was filled with bad drug trips and violence ending with the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro when Hunter pointed a gun at the stage. Alan was not held responsible for the death in a court of law.”
Christie said, “This also created a decade of conflict between the Stones and the Hells Angels that ended with the Stones ultimately paying for the legal fees the club Incurred defending Alan.
After the matter with the Stones was settled the club extended an olive branch to the Airplane to resolve the misunderstanding at Altamont, but word came back to the club the Airplane felt there was no reason to reconcile and it best to leave things stand. This was brought up at the west coast officer’s meeting and became part of the minutes,” he said.
The Stones also would eventually settle a lawsuit with the Hunter family for a reported $10,000. As for the Hells Angel who killed the man, Alan Passaro was found dead in a lake with over $10,000 in his pocket. Obviously, it was a hit and not a robbery.
Recently, Mick Jagger made media headlines again for having a child at such an old age with his new flame- 34-year-old Ballerina and Producer, Melanie Hamrick. You have to wonder if she would have been with Jagger if he didn’t have all the fame and money.
I don’t know about you, but something tells me not in a million years in Hell!
At 78 years old, while looking old, tired, and frail, he still appears to be fit and going strong in the Satanic lifestyle he has embraced since the 1960s. However, most likely with fewer drugs but still a lot of Viagra induced premarital sex and rock and roll.
You have to wonder if maybe Jagger and the drug-addicted Keith Richards have been protected all these years for having Sympathy for the Devil. But more importantly, all the souls they have delivered to his cause via their music easily surpassing the most ruthless biker gang in history, the Hells Angels, while also dodging their bullets without even knowing.
For Heaven’s sake, even the Great Satan likes a good song!
“Sympathy For The Devil” by The Rolling Stones
Composers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Lyrics:
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersberg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
What’s puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee as your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the Gods they made
I shouted out
“Who killed the Kennedys?”
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I lay traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reach Bombay
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah
Well, get down, hit it
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusin’ you is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, mmm yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, mmm yeah
But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game
“Sympathy For The Devil (Official Lyric Video)”
Directed by: Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy at Yes Please Productions
Producers: Julian Klein, Robin Klein
(C) 2018 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
The Process Church of the Final Judgment emerged from the 1960s London Counter Culture. Its founders, two former Scientologists, Robert de Grimston, and Mary Ann MacLean, combined a weird mix of Satanism, Scientology, Sex, and Christianity, mashing it all into their own thriving business that became a famous global Cult.
The founders had met while both were enrolled in the Church of Scientology, which was operated by the former secret society member of the Ordo Templi Orientis’ (O.T.O.), L. Ron Hubbard. As a result, they would incorporate several of Scientology’s techniques, such as the E-meter, into the Process teachings early on.
As I explained in my article, Rocket Scientist Jack Parson’s and Scientology’s Ron Hubbard’s Satanic Adventures, Hubbard had learned black magic while in Aleister Crowley’s O.T.O. that he used later to invent the Church of Scientology. The Process Church was just another manifestation of the same Satanic stream that created the O.T.O. and then helped from some of the ideas for the Chruch of Scientology.
Hell, even these magicians knew that when something works, copy it, change a few teachings, and tenants, repackage it with a new name, and you can create a Cult that makes you appear to the profane like some sort of genius or even Satan himself.
The Process Church of the Final Judgment members walked around in black robes with hoods with Goat of Mendes patches preaching the coming Apocalypse, and that humanity was evil – the spawn of the Devil. They also liked to have dogs. Very big and mean dogs. Real hell hounds.
Their message was gloom and death mixed with sex, which was the opposite of the flower power generation and tie-die flower power’ resistance that became the main message for the 1960s peace movement.
The Process ran a London coffeehouse known as Satan’s Cavern as they befriended celebrities and popular musicians who would not only become their students and patrons, they would be the largest distributors of their hateful ideologies around the globe which helped create a global “Satanic State of Mind.”
A 1973 article in the Toronto Star along with a photo of the Process Church members performing an open Satanic ceremony in a public library with its original caption explains my concept simply. It reads;
“The Process Church of the Final Judgement; opens its Sabbath Assembly every Saturday night to the public. Under a silver cross with a red serpent coiled on it; a symbol of unity to Processians; Father Lars addresses the group with Mother Hathor seated (right). Processians believe Christ and Satan must be unified.”
Like the O.T.O., and the Church of Satan, the Process Church of the Final Judgment targeted ignorant celebrities. Everyone knows that is where the damn money is at. However, their main niche would be making magazines and courting musicians who would be instrumental in spreading their propaganda to millions of their fans—people who would do and copy just about anything that their idols did. This is just marketing 101 – chapter 1.
The Process Church’s first magazine, The Common Market issue, was printed and sold on the streets of London and also distributed to each member of the House of Commons (UK Parliament). Their propaganda proved to be very influential to other cultural provocateurs and revolutionaries at the time — including the cult leader and convicted killer Charles Manson who had also preached the end of the world had personally contributed an article he had written to the “Death” issue of The Process magazine.
The leaders of the Process Church would also regularly commune with various celebrities such as The Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, and John and Michelle Phillips, who in 1965 co-founded the iconic vocal group the Mamas and the Papas. Their ideologies would also influence the underground music scene with bands like Skinny Puppy and had access to enter people’s living rooms and their children with their own T.V. shows.
You will find that many of these Satanic sects, like the Process Church had purposely infiltrated popular culture via the music scene and even Hollywood with underground cable T.V. shows.
Author, Adam Parfrey, had written;
“The Process Church of the Final Judgment officially changed its name and its gods in 1975, but even today the original group enjoys cultural influence. It’s screeds were reproduced as linear notes for two Funkadelic albums; Skinny Puppy had an album called Process complete with an anti-vivisection lyrics, a prominent Process Church concern.
Process rituals were appropriated and valorized by Psychick TV and Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth (or TOPY), and the Process’ misanthropic bombast appeared on the pages of my Apocalypse Culture compilation.” (Love Sex Fear Death: Rarely What It Seems, pg. 7)
The Process Church was active in San Francisco, in the Haight-Ashbury areas of California, during the mid-1960s. They can also be connected to Charles Manson, whose Manson Family house was set up at 636 Cole, just a few blocks from the Process Church San Francisco headquarters, at 407 Cole Street.
Let me, please add that in the same city of San Francisco, nearby was the Satanic High Priest Anton LaVey’s Black House, which was used for many years as a place of initiation into the Church of Satan – established and formally incorporated in the State of California around the same time in 1966.
Author Peter Levenda wrote in his book, Sinister Forces;
“A key element in Terry’s thesis is that the Process Church of the Final Judgment is alive and well, and involved in nefarious activity stretching from drug-running to child prostitution to murder. This was also asserted in Ed Sanders’ study of the Manson Family, The Family. Sanders was successfully sued (in the United States) and references to both the Process and the O.T.O. — so prevalent in the first edition of his book –were expunged by the time the book was republished. (This was not so in the United Kingdom, where the courts decided in favor of the publisher and author.)
However, Terry recounts in The Ultimate Evil his discussions with Sanders concerning these cults. Terry makes no bones about mentioning both the Process and the O.T.O. in The Ultimate Evil, and has evidently resisted any legal attempts to get him to change his story.” (Sinister Forces Book III, Peter Levenda, pg. 196)
When the Police were investigating the Manson Murders, they suspected a possible connection between the Family’s leader, Charles Manson, and the Process Church. When they questioned Manson if he knew Moore, he responded: “You’re looking at him. Moore and I are one and the same”. The Process Church included an article written by Manson in the 1971 Death issue of its magazine.
Since the early 1970s, author and founding member of the folk outfit the Fugs, Ed Sanders, said the Process Church was connected to the Manson cult in his book The Family. The district attorney’s prosecutor of the Manson family, Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of the Manson trial, later stated in his book Helter Skelter that Charles Manson may have been ideologically influenced by the Process Churches teachings, which is the main premise of this book, “The Satanic State of Mind.” Bugliosi had written;
“From about April through July 1967, Charles Manson and his still fledgling family lived just two blocks away, at 636 Cole. In view of Manson’s curiosity, it appears very likely that he at least investigated the Satanists, and there is fairly persuasive evidence that he ‘borrowed’ some of their teachings.
“In one of our conversations during the Tate-Labianca trial, I asked Manson if he knew Robert Moore or Robert DeGrimston. He denied knowing DeGrimston, but said he had met Moore. ‘You’re looking at him,’ Manson told me. ‘Moore and I are one and the same.’ I took this to mean that he felt they thought alike,” Bugliosi wrote.
He further said, “Not long after this I was visited by two representatives of The Process, a Father John and a Brother Matthew. Having heard that I was asking questions about the group, they had been sent from their Cambridge, Massachusetts, headquarters to assure me that Manson and Moore had never met and that Moore was opposed to violence. They also left me a stack of Process literature.”
Bugliosi concluded, “The following day the names’ Father John’ and ‘Brother Matthew’ appeared on Manson’s visitor’s list. What they discussed is unknown. All I know is that in my last conversation with Manson, Charlie became evasive when I questioned him about The Process.”
According to the author, Michael Newton, Charles Manson had learned various psychological techniques from the Process Church to use on his followers, called “The Family” who used to hang out at the “Devil House” in San Francisco.
“In 1967, hanging out around a San Francisco landmark called the ‘Devil House,’ he started rubbing shoulders with a morbid cult from England called the Process Church of Final Judgment. As one’ family’ member described the scene for author Ed Sanders: ‘The Devil House people said it was a religious order, and it went under many ancient names, one of them being the Champions of Life, another one being the Final Church of Judgment.
The Final Church is the name Manson chose for the church he would eventually found.’ Aside from its name, Manson also borrowed his concept of ‘The Fear’ from Process spokesmen, along with the cult’s program for recruiting outlaw biker gangs to ‘terrorize society’ on the eve of Armageddon.” (Raising Hell pg. 239)
The Process Church has also been linked to other murderers like Michael Carr, who was a suspected member of a Satanic Cult and an alleged high-ranking Scientologist in Clearwater, Florida, and the New York area with the serial killer, David Berkowitz, who was also known as the Son of Sam.
They had a chapter operating in New York City in the 1970s when Berkowitz went on his terror spree, eventually being arrested in 1977, which I will discuss in an upcoming chapter. The Process Church was then operating under a new name – Foundation Faith, which coincidentally left New York the next year in 1978.
As author and researcher, Steven Snyder had written, “This association was further reinforced by the publication of Maury Terry’s The Ultimate Evil in 1987, a book that linked the Process not only to Manson, but also to the Son of Sam killings, the murders of Stanford University student Arlis Perry and New York vaudeville producer Roy Radin, Valentine’s Day shooter Fred Cowan, and so on.”
As Snyder notes, since the book, The Ultimate Evil was released in 1987, several great researchers have joined the investigation, including David McGowan, Adam Gorightly, and Peter Levenda have all connected The Process Church to a nationwide wave of crime, murders, and death cults like Henry Lee Lucas’ Hand of Death cult, Adolfo Constanzo’sMatamoros cult, the “Company” of Drew Thornton, the Atlanta Child Murders, and many others.
In the end, like most Satanic cults, jealousy among the leaders, scandal, and a woman scorn would cause the group to become disbanded.
While Robert de Grimston was the leader and participated in sexual rituals with other members, his partner, Mary Ann, allegedly, did not. She was said to be the most dominating personality of the two and jealous of his sexual rendezvous.
Eventually, the jealousy would boil over to Mary Ann becoming enraged when Robert suggested performing a ménage a Trois with one of their top female aids named Morgana. The couple soon split after that, and The Process Church of the Final Judgment would experience turmoil.
To remind you, the same fate happened to Jack Parsons when L. Ron Hubbard made off with his girl. He ended up losing his girl, money, and life in the end. It seems when you play with love, sex, and, more importantly, people’s souls, all hell breaks loose for many of these damned Satanists.
In 1974, Robert would leave his wife to be Mary Ann to live with Morgana in an apartment in New York City, and they divorced the following year.
The Process Church of the Final Judgment changed its name to The Foundation Church of the Millennium, and Mary Ann took over the sole leadership of the cult.
Many senior members of the group would relocate to New York, where they would purchase a large four-story building on First Avenue in Manhattan offering courses, classes, conferences, and Psychic Fairs. A true Satanic bizarre. They also had radio shows, frequent appearances on T.V., innovative conferences, and a magazine with a print run of 200,000.
Former Process Church member and author Timothy Wyllie had written;
“In retrospect, it is far easier to see how deliberate were her motives and taking over sole leadership of The Process, but in the fear and confusion of the moment, as we watched our two revered teachers ripping into one another, those of us close to the Omega went passively along with Mary Ann’s furious dismissal of her husband.” (Love Sex Fear Death: My Life Inside the Process Church- pg. 105)
In 1979, Robert gave up his hopes of running another Satanic organization and got a job. His wife, Morgana would become an attorney. They would live the rest of their lives in relative obscurity.
Next up, I have to tell you about the story of “Sympathy for the Devil” when Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones got punched in the face as he exited his charted helicopter.
Later that night as the Stones played on stage, a bunch of doped-up Hell’s Angels high on LSD and Meth hired as security guards beat the skulls in of many stoned drunk hippies, which ended with an African American being violently killed after getting stabbed multiple times. But that was after he pulled a gun on some members of the Hells Angels.
It was mayhem like you have never seen before.
Here is what happens when you combine Sympathy for the Devil, the Rolling Stones, doped-up Hells Angels, a bunch of crazy hippies, and some bad LSD and mix it all together in the 1960s for a blood ritual night of hellish fun in San Francisco, California – the unofficial Capital of Satanic America.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
(Warning Explicit 18 or older) – “I stepped onto your world in the Bay Area of San Francisco in 1961, but I didn’t stay there long. I was quickly shuttled down to Long Beach—a working-class town chock-full of blue-collared laborers, retired navy men, hustlers, homosexuals, and squares.
My human father was in the military, so they’d moved often. He was a junior officer with, at the time, three other children—two boys and a girl. Biologically speaking, I was the sport: a spiritual mutation that crawled out of hell into humanity.” – Jack Grisham (Author of an American Demon and Singer of T.S.O.L.)
I could clearly remember in 1982 hearing T.S.O.L.’s Dance With Me album for the first time. It was after a high school football game as I lay prone after just shotgunning two beers and taking a few bong hits of some chocolate thai. I was in my Rockabilly buddy’s 21 window Volkswagon van that I kid you not had one of the loudest sound systems in the city of Anaheim.
The guitar and drums pumped out an eloquently vicious sound at a speed and in a way that I never heard before. It was as if it was coming straight from the underworld and grabbed hold of my soul. The songs came out one after the other harder, faster, and louder than the next.
The words one some of the songs were equally shocking to my virgin ears as I heard the singer belch out his dreams of necromancy saying that he wanted to fuck the dead.
The Code Blue lyrics read;
“I never got along with the girls at my school
Filling me up with all their morals and their rules
They’d pile all their problems on my head
I’d rather go out and fuck the dead
‘Cause I can do what I want and they won’t complain
I want to fuck I want to fuck the dead
Middle of the night so silently
I creep on over to the mortuary
Lift up the casket and fiddle with the dead
Their cold blue flesh makes me turn red”
To be honest, at the time in my young punk career, the lyrics were a bit unsettling, but also a welcome invite for my initiation into the Southern California Hard Core Punk Scene. These guys were locals from a neighboring city and their band, True Sounds of Liberty – T.S.O.L. with their flamboyant singer, Jack Grisham, was now one of my favorites.
Over the years, I would see T.S.O.L. in concert and hear about their off-stage antics. It was well known in Orange County that Jack was one of the biggest assholes in the punk scene with an enormous ego and bad drinking and drug habit. Many other bands and punks had run-ins with Jack and despised his transvestite stage costumes. But at 6 foot 3 and as crazy as anyone, he would be able to withstand the criticism and still crossdress when he wanted.
More importantly, his band kicked ass so they got a free pass as good bands often do.
Being evil or what we can simply call a human piece of shit was normal punk rock behavior back then. I know because I embraced my own excrement, which I vomited onto the world for their payback so I was not shocked to read about Jack Grisham’s outrageous antics. The tales of abuse, crimes, sexual ambiguity that borders rape, and his spiritual embrace of demon hood, were no surprise which he explained in an aptly titled memoir, An American Demon. This is a cautionary tale, but he also weaves his personal history into the sex, violence, and chaos of the 80’s punk scene, without apology or psychoanalysis.
Jack tells us that his thirst for destruction and need to do such terrible acts of violence shows us that the American Demon is written under the premise that he must be some kind of demon to create such mayhem on Earth. But you know what, I believe him. At least he’s honest. In the same vain, he makes you want to falsely believe that some of these tales are made up and cannot be real.
However, anyone who knows the real Jack Grisham and the 80s punk scene like I do understand that this book reads more like a biography. An authentic narrative by a man who was not only behind the scenes, he was one of the main demons who created it.
Jack was not only a master of shock and awe, he was a narcissistic sociopath. That is why he had no problem making a Faustian bargain with the devil in order to release his inner demon upon the world. His payback from Satan for raising hell and abusing countless victims would be what allegedly kept him safe all the years from prosecution for his many crimes and even death.
To some people, reading An American Demon is like stunning them with an electric shock, but to many of us punks who were there with boots on the ground, it gives you a comprehensive account of Grisham’s childhood, onto the present day. Jack puts his demon self out there with his blood dripping horns, sweat, and semen, allowing you to see the world through the first-hand account in the eyes of a sociopath.
Jack takes you on a journey with his shadow as your guide through the underworld of his life, showing us that the actual demons are not to be found in the movies, but they are the beautiful people sitting right next to you, showing that good looking people you would never suspect can be genuinely evil for no good reason.
“The most successful serial killers are always the boys next door—gentle children of summer, flashing smiles like soft breezes through a park, sharpened knives wrapped in grass-stained Levis. I was akin to these monsters. I was camouflaged and deadly, a viper smiling in the dark,” Jack Grisham had written.
He continues, “To be a truly great demon you’ve got to be attractive—no one sensible gets taken in by a goon. I was born with summer-blond hair, a soft evening smile, and the sweetly dark taste of defiance slashed across my lips—a scrawny, scuffed up teddy bear with a voice that could string words like lights across a carnival midway. Believable, that’s what I was: a perfect distraction for the careless mark.
They never saw me coming.
Some of the evil fucks I later ran with were way too ugly to be of any real use. The cops read them like a beacon flashing on a street corner. But not me—the code of the demon, my code, was to fit in, to move from the inside out, to slide into their world, to lodge myself against their love, and then to attack from beneath the skin,” Grisham had written.
He says, “When people refer to demons, they invariably claim we come from the underworld. God, I hate that cliché. It makes us sound like we’re all hanging around in a bondage cavern, trying on leather gear and waiting for tricks. And while I do love the smell of leather and I thoroughly enjoy caves, I tortured people for fun, not profit. The concept of a demon coming from underground is pure shit.
If you want to know where demons truly come from, I’ll tell you: we’re from right here. We exist in a shadow that lies over your world—a kind of transparency of evil that some demented teacher laid out on an overhead projector. We move around you, through you, in you. We are your fathers, your sisters, your lovers. We are your next-door neighbors.
We come and go as we please—although it’s a bit harder to leave when we’ve taken residency in a body. The old Hebrews used to call their angels “Those who stand still,” and the name they gave themselves was “Those that walk.” If a demon was ever called anything, it was usually prefaced with a very terrified “Oh my God!,” Grisham concluded.
Jack Grisham has called his book a “memoir of selfishness,” but it is more than that. The American Demon reads like a true biography of a real-life Son of Satan who reveals his sins and crimes to the world as a type of predeath bed confession of sorts towards the end of his life.
The demon – Grisham is possibly doing so to atone for his sins.
A way to purge all the unadulterated violence, abuse, mayhem, and chaos to everyone who was unfortunate to cross his path. As someone on the fringes of the hardcore OC punk scene back in the day and knowing Jack personally for a brief time, I would say that there is no doubt that most of the incidents he mentions had most likely occurred.
In 2013, I befriended him, and we formed a short relationship. At the time, I started an internet marketing agency and was creating websites and producing videos so I offered my services to him. I recorded this interview at a record shop in Huntington Beach with the former Dead Kenedy’s drummer, D. H. Peligro.
After I met him and shook his sweaty hand, he made a fleeting comment that why some fans and old punk rockers act like meeting him is no big deal, as if other people and I are supposed to act as if we are a good Catholic who just met the Pope. So let’s just say that I was not at all impressed by meeting one of my all-time favorite old punk rock singers.
He was still selfish and loud but had a fake sheen to his demeanor. When comparing the old Jack to when I was a young teen in my punk rock heydays watching him play onstage with T.S.O.L., today, he was much less intimidating and a lot fatter.
Our relationship didn’t last long.
Shortly after that, I sent him a message on Facebook in an old punk rocker and classic Moe fashion telling him, “Fuck You, Jack! You are a selfish asshole!” We have not spoken since, but I’m sure he could care less, and maybe I should count myself lucky that I didn’t know him when I was younger.
There is not only natural narcissism and pathology in how Grisham thinks, lives, and writes – there still may be a real demon in control of his soul.
As for Jack, he wouldn’t want it any other way.
For me, the old T.S.O.L. is still one of the best old-school punk bands of all time, regardless of my distaste for Jack Grisham.
Hell, sometimes the worst of demons put out the best music.
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
A speech given in the late 1990s by Jesuit political scientist Michael Novak, published in the weekly magazine of American Jesuits, claims the United States of “liberty and justice for all” was a political system built for a land of sinners who would constitute the “moral majority” of the country. Novak had stated,
‘The framers wanted to build a “novus ordo” that would secure “liberty and justice for all”…. The underlying principle of this new order is the fact of human sin. To build a republic designed for sinners, then, is the indispensable task…. There is no use building a social system for saints. There are too few of them. And those there are are impossible to live with!… Any effective social system must therefore be designed for the only moral majority there is: sinners.” (1)
This statement by the Jesuit political scientist Michael Novak is essential to relate to the title and theme of my new book – The Satanic State of America. It is a national state of mind that I believe is mental and, more importantly, has originated from sin, sinners, and what could be called a Satanic ethos.
When I use these terms, please do not confuse this with a typical fundamentalist Christian point of view or someone not educated on philosophy, occultism, and history. The English word sin means to “miss the mark.” It is derived from the Biblical Greek New Testament ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin”, missing the mark (failure or error) which is derived from the Hebrew hata – “sin”. A word that originates in archery and literally refers to missing the “gold” at the “center of a target,” but hitting the target – i.e. “to miss the mark.”
Think of sin as not being a good or decent person who treats others as they want to be treated. Hence, you are missing the point of being a good person. In secular terms, it means hate, selfishness, lewdness, human excess, crime, immorality, gluttony ie eating or drinking too much, consuming porn, stealing, drug use, cheating on your spouse, inventing killing devices, consuming human blood or semen, and the list can go on. Even non-religious people and decent atheists understand this and will refrain from these activities.
Many of the world’s best philosophers and political statesmen, no matter the country or time going back throughout history, have mostly believed that all people should strive to live a just, moral and ethical life. In the Biblical sense, they should do their best to remain free from sin. This serves as the microcosm of a nation that is the macrocosm mirroring and governing this same ethos. However, in the United States, when you allow everyone to have liberty and bad people with bad ideas to have Free Speech, this leads to immoral and evil activities that are protected by law.
In the Scripture, we learn that the law is for the sinners, rebels, and the immoral who are the lawbreakers to be punished for their sins, “We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine” (1 Timothy 1:8-10″ — University Of Wisconsin-Madison, Legal Studies Program, Sources Of Law 1)
When you understand that in the early beginning of American history, it was both a plan and an experiment, you will find that our nation bears all the signs of the Novus Ordo Republic of Sinners. As if the U.S.A. was purposely created to allow individuals to pursue liberty and individualism without being taught about philosophy and or religious values.
This would result in human error and a lack of wisdom to know the difference, causing many of the irreligious and ignorant citizens of the United States to create a Satanic culture. They are being punished for their sins via the various laws that enchain them.
The upside of sin is that the United States has become a global superpower, spawning some of the most intelligent independent thinkers like black magician Jack Parsons and Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Peace Prizes or the many other people who have invented some of the best machinery, weaponry, medicines, poisons, computer systems, and media that the world has ever seen. A massively successful experiment for the government, military-industrial complex, global elites, and big business.
However, there is a massive downside to allowing sin to be protected by law. The cost on the mental health and criminality of the people can be seen in the nation’s most current statistics indicating we have a massive crisis on our hands.
For example, the United States has the worst mental health-related outcomes, including the highest suicide rate and second-highest drug-related death rate. 20.6% of U.S. adults have experienced some type of mental illness such as major depression (also called clinical depression), manic depression (also called bipolar disorder), schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
According to John Hopkins University, “an estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older — about 1 in 4 adults — suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time.” Approximately about 18% of people ages 18- 54 in a given year have an anxiety disorder in a given year. In 2019, 51.5 million people representing 1 in 5 adults. (2) The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates these numbers as high as 40% post COVID. (3)
The U.S.A. also has the highest prison and jail population with over 2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails—a 500% increase over the last 40 years. Many of these people are in jail for the sins they committed, like simple drug crimes where the so-called criminal has hurt nobody and committed no crime to anyone but themselves. Since the 1980’s War on Drugs, sentencing policies have caused massive growth in incarceration for drug offenses skyrocketing from 40,900 in 1980 to 430,926 in 2019. Hence, they are behind bars for their sins. (3)
One of the most common reasons to go to jail is because of drug-related offenses. This is because the prison industrial complex with the guard unions and private prison system along with cheap labor make billions of dollars by capitalizing on the sins of the American people. The politicians also benefit from the lobbyists’ donations. It seems all the players are winning while the people lose their minds and their freedoms.
This massive increase in mental health diseases and the incarceration of millions of people, I contend, was caused by the legalization of sin via the Satanic State of Mind in the American culture. It happened slowly over time through the liberalization of our culture and the courts resulting in our values and various laws being changed.
The graph below shows the increase in incarceration rates, which coincide with various events, mainly starting in the 1930s and 40s with the promotion of sin with the invention of television, the entertainment industry, legalizing alcohol, and multiple drugs for medicine. Then we had famous black magicians such as Aleister Crowley and the teachings and O.T.O. promoting a lifestyle of liberalism and ultra individuality that took off in the 1960s with various Satanic organizations such as Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan and the Process Church of Unification who infiltrated the music scene and Hollywood with their Satanic ethos infecting the entire nation like a viral contagion.
The results can be witnessed as I mentioned above and also many other statistics via our modern mental health and prison crisis which can all be attributed to sins of the people and the government due to the Satanic State of America.
SOURCES:
1. Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge About Governing Bodies
2. John Hopkins University – Mental Health Disorder Statistics
3. Sentencing Project – Criminal Justice Facts
4. Prison Policy – Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
