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Another Witch to Burn

Sioux City, Iowa – January 2008
Pagan Step Father murders Christian Step Children

A blog reports that “25-year-old Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. considered himself a pagan..” (3). Although the blog does not cite a source, information we can find in quotes from police and from Harris himself indicate the blogger is probably not all that far off.

Kendra Suing (10) and Alysha Suing (8) were found apparently stabbed and strangled to death. The official cause(s) of death have not yet been released. Police say their stepfather, Lawrence Harris Senior, then set fire to their home.

“Police Lt. Marti Reilly said Harris had been performing “some strange ritual.” Harris told investigators he was casting a spell that “had gone bad” and the spell “could have had severe consequences,” according to Sioux City Police Chief Joe Frisbie.” (1)

This was the first murder in Sioux City, Iowa since 2001when Iowa experienced one of its worst mass murders. In an interesting twist, the two girls murdered in this case were members of Cornerstone Church in Sioux City. The same church which is now dedicated to the victims and parish members of that Church back in 201, Leticia Aguilar(31) and her five children were murdered by Adam Moss(24). Leticia’s throat was slashed and her five children were bludgeoned to death with a hammer. In the same spree, Adam Moss murdered Ron Fish (58).

According to Pastor Cary Gordon of the Cornerstone youth group, Club Genesis both Kendra and Alysha Suing were regulars in the parish until November of 207, just a couple months before their murder and the charged against their stepfather. Why did they leave the church and its teachings? Evidently, their parents objected to lecture presented in November on the evils of witchcraft. (2)

“The girls attended regularly, Gordon said, until a youth-group lecture highlighted “the evils of witchcraft, Ouija boards, voodoo, that kind of thing,” in November. (2)

On the bus ride home from the youth center, Gordon said the girls “pelted” the bus driver with questions about the church’s issues with the practice.” (2)

Joan Suing (great –grandmother of the two girls) said: “I don’t know if it’s Satanic or what it is,” she said. (2)

“Joan Suing suggested Monday that her great-granddaughters were intended as a sacrifice.” (2)

‘Harris told police he “had been casting a spell that had gone bad, and that the spell could have severe consequences,” a police-issued statement said.’ (2)

‘When asked whether Harris claimed any particular religious belief while he was being interviewed at the police department on Sunday night, Reilly said he did, but referred further questions to investigators.’ (2)

Many of you have heard my rants about Gavin and Yvonne Frost, their book The Good Witch’s Bible which I consider a pedophilic instructional, and horror at organizations such as Convocation (a Michigan based convention operated by MEC of MI) which has gone out of its way in what I think is an attempt to silence my protest against them and other such matters. Pagan organizations, authors, and festivals have shun me because I insist on pointing out the sickness in our society. Because I warn of things like the acceptance of mental illness. Because I warn that if someone tells you they are talking to god via their ouija board, they are probably mentally ill. That as a community, if we really cared about these people we would tell them they need medical help rather than embracing their insanity.

When asked about this murder, Dr. Bruce Forbes said: “When I think of other crimes in the past that have been associated with witchcraft, it’s really a mentally unstable person who then looks for some kind of religion that is unusual in the larger society and then they’re drawn to those symbols but it’s not the religion that made him do that, it’s their own mental illness or personal problems that cause them to do that.” (4)

You might recall my announcing that after 13 or 14 years of doing so, I would never again hold an event titled ‘The Real Witches Ball’. I explained that the words witch and witchcraft attract nut cases. Here is a university trained professor who states the same.

Jeva Singh-Anand leads a Wiccan organization in Sioux City, Siouxland 1st Wiccan Congregation. (4)

Jeva Singh-Anand said: “Being part of a spell that had gone wrong, it doesn’t make sense…” (4)

I think it makes perfect sense. At the Michigan based Convocation, I was one of the Honored Guests in 2007. There, part of the pattern that I now see in the pagan community started to form. Someone there whom I had until that point very much respected informed me that he was in hot water with his wife, but claimed that it was not his fault. Evidently he had invoked Hades and it was Hades that beat his wife that year at Michigan’s Convocation, not him. As I recall, the man was staff there.

I had further confirmation of my belief in this trend when I discovered that at this past year’s Real Witches Ball, Baphomet threw a woman across the room. Upon hearing the story for the first time in December, my wife immediately responded that Bapohomet is lucky charges were not pressed. My thought was that I can not believe that as the event organizer that someone did not bring this to my attention when it occurred so I could have the man arrested for the assault.

Possession by Hades is NOT a defense to spousal abuse. Possession by Hades is NOT a defense to assault. A spell gone wrong is NOT a defense to murder. But guess what folk, if not for my writing this. If not for my protest. Most of the people here at Pagan Nation would read about the murders of Kendra Suing (age 10) and Alysha Suing (age 8), think oh well he was mentally ill, and never give much thought to Baphomet and Hades who I understand are both involved with Convocation this year.

I, however, will not be there because my protests against this insanity, against the promotion of pedophilia as a Wiccan tradition, against the silence about these illnesses, I have been banned because I do not meet their mission statement due to my avocation of violence.

Well, here is some more advocating of violence. If you attend Convocation and Hades or Baphomet attempt to assault you, beat the living hell out of them! It is your legal right to defend yourself, even against people who think they are possessed. If Lawrence Harris Senior is convicted of these murders, I hope he is put down in a horrifically painful way, even if it were just a spell gone bad.

Ah, but Convocation and the rest of the Pagan Community does not want to make waves. It wants to be tolerant of our diversity.

Wake up! I started warning of what was going on back in Wicca for Couples. The books you are reading are poisoning your mind! The thing you call community is sick and the only thing that is going to stop it is if the sane stand and be counted. If they say NO, you are NOT Baphomet and you do NOT have the right to assault me. If they say NO, you are NOT Hades and you do NOT have the right to beat me. No, you do NOT have the right to advocate pedophilia. No, you do NOT have the right to murder children. These things are NOT ethical and NOT moral and we DO have morals and ethics in our community.

If we continue to tolerate these things, we will continue to see the death count rise…

Pastor Cary Gordon was partly right in his assessment of “the evils of witchcraft, Ouija boards, voodoo, that kind of thing,” in November. There is evil in witchcraft. But not the evil that Pastor Gordon spoke about. It is the evil, the demons that Dr. Bruce Forbes warned about:

“When I think of other crimes in the past that have been associated with witchcraft, it’s really a mentally unstable person who then looks for some kind of religion that is unusual in the larger society and then they’re drawn to those symbols but it’s not the religion that made him do that, it’s their own mental illness or personal problems that cause them to do that.” (4)

It is the evil of mental illness (pedophilia being one of those) and more over, the pagan communities demands that we tolerate the diversity of such, that we do not make waves. I am going to go cry myself to sleep now.

On a closing note and without mentioning names: I wonder when the Council of Twelve is going to instruct their possessee to start killing his girlfriend’s kids.

May god by what ever name you call him and / or her keep Kendra and her sister Alysha Suing and protect the other children of the world from the likes of what I see growing within the pagan community.

1. http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2008/01/08/news/breaking_news/doc47821cb51581b511698554.txt

2. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080108/NEWS01/801080368/-1/LIFE04

3. http://pysih.com/2008/01/14/lawrence-douglas-harris/

4. http://www.ktiv.com/News/index.php?ID=21323