A History of Atrocity and Man’s Inhumanity to Man

When the history is told, in some future years, of the last quarter of the Twentieth Century and the early years of the new Millennium in Britain and the United States of North America, there will be told a story of events which will rank alongside those of brave deeds of wars in Eastern countries and of the terrors brought by self-destructive madmen and of changes to the world wrought by great politicians. These events will be of great atrocities committed against the children of these two countries and the families of ordinary people by State-empowered zealots.

They will be of events which will rank alongside others as examples of man’s inhumanity toward man and the joy which some men seek in the infliction of pain upon others. In times past such events included the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem and English Witch Hunts, the purges by the Nazis of the peoples of Germany and other European countries and by Stalinists of Russia, and of the McCarthy era in America and the events in South Africa under the State rule of Apartheid. The earlier of these atrocities being committed in the names of God and the latter events in the name of Man and the State in which they occurred.

The atrocities of our times are the tearing of children from their families – some to be thrown into stranger families as a social engineering experiment and others to languish and vegetate unloved in State care. Many hundreds more families, fortunate to keep their children but forever branded and stigmatised as surely as having the Star of Israel or the Cross of the Plagued painted on their door – their emotions brutalised and their good names ruined.

Yet these who carry out the atrocities are ordinary men and women carrying out the State’s will in an extraordinary fashion – men and women with families of their own but who have become uncaring and lacking in compassion. Just as the evils and atrocities carried out in the name of God were done by men who distorted and invented the meanings of the Scriptures for their own ends, so these men distort and invent their own meanings of psychology, also written by men to bring enlightenment to others and to help gain meaning of men’s behaviours. Of the creation of false beliefs by these child-saver zealots in Satanic Ritual Abuses of children, of questionable medical theories of child sexual abuse and of parents deliberately causing children’s illnesses and diseases and disabilities. Of false memories of childhood abuse created in them by the brainwashing powers of powerful professionals. And the justification for the committal of their State-mandated atrocities - the perverse pretext that they are protecting and saving these children from abuse and maltreatment. Just as those before them justified their actions with higher moral and religious and political goals.

The history of our times will show of many broken families, of children without a family to remember, of heartache and tears of fear and a lifetime of terror of that knock on the door at midnight. Of being wrenched from mother’s arms and of brothers and sisters disappearing, never to be seen again. Of men and women wrongfully cast into prisons, tormented for years by the knowledge of their innocence.

This will be the legacy of our times for future generations – it is now being written. In newspapers, television documentaries, Parliamentary debates, and most importantly of all, by those who have suffered.

Charles Pragnell.

Expert Defence Witness – Child Protection and Child/Family Advocate