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Discredited Tourette Therapist Leslie Packer Is a Temple of Set “Bodyguard” Discredited Tourette Therapist Leslie Packer is a Temple of Set “Bodyguard” 16th October 2007 The attached was penned by Diana Napolis, a highly-competent child abuse investigator for the San Diego court system who was, via classified electronic mind control technology, CONVERTED INTO A POTENTIALLY-LETHAL CELEBRITY STALKER, similar to the manner in which Mark David Chapman was made to stalk John Lennon. That was mind control, too. (Any “skeptic” ((misinformed dupe)) who wishes to debate this point from an inevitable position of ignorance – the sort that gives a free pass to fascist conspiracies – will lose, so don’t even try. I’ve been arguing with brainwashed zombies for years. Fascism breeds conspiracies. Get used to it because public denial makes it possible.) In fact, Ms. Napolis attempted to free herself from invasive electronic harassment perpetrated by satainists with ties to military intelligence. I witnessed the assaults on Diana first-hand – and was unable to do much about it. The instigators are scum and appear to be related to Michael Aquino’s Temple of Set. New York Tourette Syndrome therapist Leslie Packer – who resigned from the APA rather than respond to complaints filed against her – is in league with Aquino and a satanic pedophile ring with links to the Temple of Set. (A brief search of the web and Usenet by any objective researcher will cofirm this statement.) Packer is the ringleader among Aquino’s “bodyguards.” This clutch – including discredited (by no less than Washington prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald under questioning on the stand in the Scooter Libby trial) “false memory” theorist Elizabeth Loftus – filed bogus cyber-stalking charges against Napolis, who publicized the criminal connections in Usenet posts repeatedly, and was subsequently convicted of “stalking” Aquino, Packer, Loftus, et al. CIA plants in the San Diego Cox (Mockingbird) press have given credence to the fabricated accusations made against Diana Napolis. How it happened: Napolis was morally offended by allegations of pedophilia and child abuse related to the Temple of Set – not to mention protection of Aquino and the others by federal and local law enforcement and the DoD – and was herself wrongly convicted. She was subjected to electronic harassment and imprisoned for acting out her programming, a brainwashing regimen that sent Diana packing after Jennifer Love Hewitt. Need I point out that this is a moral travesty? Packer and her fellow satanists are evading justice. The intelligence and legal communities have facilitated the acts of organized satanists and pedophiles against a courageous activist. Monsters are breathing down her back. This is Diana’s reward for attempting to protect victims of organized pedophilia – as the former court-appointed child abuse investigator was trained to do. The perpetrators are free to harass anyone they please, rape children and lie about it, employ hardcore tactics. The media and blogosphere support them with planted “Satanic Panic” cover stories promoting the “false memory” bromide for the ritual abuse of children, and furthering the careers of the perps. Such is the degradation of the legal system and press that the intelligence underground – which, in the past, quietly recruited Nazis Reinhard Gehlen, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie – has promulgated. One day I will write a book about all of this, and it will not be believed by dumbed-down, self- indulgent Americans, who cherry-pick their beliefs defensively, given the freedom to dissociate. I’m not so entitled. As an eight-year victim of CIA torture, I am more inclined to look at reality squarely. It doesn’t appeal to me – and has never been pleasant – but it’s everyone’s responsibility to prevent future Holocausts. This is a very serious case, deserving of much wider scrutiny. But we domestic CIA-DoD torture victims seem to have been abandoned to fend for ourselves via our own devices. Most observers ridicule victims of CIA-DoD mind control experimentation and harsssment. We are in extreme pain. No one seems to care. I am one of them. My life has been destroyed for reporting honestly on fascism, just as Diana’s was destroyed for reporting honestly on satanism and organized pedophilia. We whistle-blowers on the intelligence underground have been universally censored and abused by the media and a brainwashed public. The TI’s see it very clearly – and know mind control is YOUR problem. We are in pain, but we have no delusions. Good luck, America, with your mind control problem. I’ve tried to warn you, but am moving on to other topics of research and have no use for “kooks.” Theresa Duncan was murdered for writing on satanism and the intelligence community. I was tortured for years, and nearly been murdered many times … but who cares, eh? It’s well-known that the feds have a remote, portable crowd-control device that heats the body. I was the guinea-pig in those burn experiments. Someone had to be. The eight-year torture of Alex Constantine, which no one cared about, taught the bad guys how to torture YOU “kooky” people. ALL BACKS WERE TURNED ON ME … and the truth about John Lennon’s murder … and the vicious assaults on Napolis … and the killings of Robert Kennedy, et al. …. Duncan and Blake … HOW MANY OTHERS? CIA torture? A revelation? NO. I reported it 2O YEARS AGO – when it was starting up on ME. Who cared, eh? Most Americans had and has better things to think about: Sex. Religion. TV. Nothing. Peasants. - Alex Constantine •••••••••••• www.Newsfeeds.com Dr. Leslie Packer, Usenet & Internet Child Pedophile Rings (Repost) From: Oopsie Doodle Subject: Dr. Leslie Packer, Usenet & Internet Child Pedophile Rings (Repost) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:16:44 +0200, Charles D. Bohne™ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:47:54 +1200, Sir Gilligan Horry >wrote: > >>Leslie Packer > >is a Satanist > >http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/ >Tourette Syndrome “Plus” © Copyright 1998 – 2005 Leslie E. Packer Here’s everything anyone needs to know about Leslie Packer and cohorts who hail from spp, excluded is Aquino’s cult memebers, David Green also from San Diego. If you think criminal atrocities can’t be covered up in high places, see this article about pedophile cover up. Diana Napolis (Address omitted) Superior Court of California County of San Diego Central Court THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Plaintiff, v. DIANA LOUISA NAPOLIS, Defendant. Case No. 171331 DECLARATION OF DIANA NAPOLIS IN RESPONSE TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE Date: February 19, 2003 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: 15 Judge: Hon. Howard H. Shore Diana Napolis declares as follows: I am the defendant in these proceedings. I make this declaration in response to the RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE filed in these proceedings and presented to the court at the hearing of February 19, 2003, 9:00 a.m. My attorney did not file a response to the Board’s recommendations. The Court did not follow the Board’s recommendations. Regardless of the fact that the hearing was held six months ago, it is important for my case to make a written record of why the Board’s recommendations are ill-founded and should not be followed by the Court. This is a complex case that can only be understood within the following context: I have a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology and I worked as a Court Investigative Social Worker for the County of San Diego from the years 1990-96 and as a visitation supervisor for Family Court cases from the years 1995-2000 with one year overlapping due to moonlighting during the last year of work at Child Protective Serves [CPS]. In the year 2000, I obtained my Marriage and Family Therapy License [MFT]. I was following the controversy surrounding the subject of ritual abuse for 10 years within CPS, and in the academic community in general, and had handled several cases involving ritual abuse claims. There was an attempt to cover-up and down- play ritual abuse within the County of San Diego by a Grand Jury in the early 1990’s, led by a woman by the name of Carol Hopkins who insisted this type of abuse did not occur. [F1] Due to her activity, during my tenure at CPS and afterwards, I concentrated on gathering evidence and cases from around the world which proved the existence of ritual abuse. I then went on the Internet under a pseudonym attempting to bring attention to these crimes and to the irresponsible actions in San Diego County. See my archive of satanic ritual crime cases at: http://www.newsmakingnews.com/KarenCuriojonesarchive.htm. I then became interested in tracking the various harassment techniques used by cults and the False Memory Syndrome Foundation [FMSF] – a political organization defending those accused of ritual abuse, sexual molestation, and mind control atrocities. The targets are usually therapists, investigators and victims who speak out. The silencing and intimidation techniques used in the 1990′s included harassing lawsuits, threats, and censorship. In rare cases, unusual assaults classified under the misnomer of “non-lethal” weaponry, electronic harassment, or psychotronic warfare, were also used. Psychotronic warfare utilizes directed energy to negatively affect the mind. It is discussed in various military journals. In 2001, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced a bill in the House of Representatives banning “non-lethal” weaponry, including psychotronic weaponry. There have been several lawsuits filed in the past 10 years in an attempt to bring this technology to the public’s attention and to name the perpetrators in an attempt to seek justice. For example, see John St. Clair Akwei vs. NSA – (Attachment A). It came to the attention of myself and others that not only governments in third world countries use these technologies against enemies of the state, but countries like the United States and Russia do as well.
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