*  OTO TRIES TO USE HATE CRIMES LAWS TO SILENCE FREE SPEACH:



'Cult' fights claims of child sacrifice

Barney  Zwartz

November 22, 2006


                                  ANTI-CHILD-SEX  campaigner
accused an occult religious  group  of  hosting  parties  at
which  naked  children acted as waiters and at which members
had sex with and murdered  children,  a  tribunal  was  told
yesterday.

The obscure group Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) claims Dr Reina
Michaelson and the Child  Sexual  Abuse  Prevention  Program
described  it  in  a  website article as a satanic cult that
sacrificed children and ate their organs and blood.  It  has
complained  under  Victoria's  religious  hatred law that Dr
Michaelson  and  her  organisation  vilified  OTO   members,
causing revulsion, ridicule, hatred and contempt.

According  to  OTO's  statement  of complaint, Dr Michaelson
said it was not a  religion  but  a  child  pornography  and
pedophile ring, that its members practised trauma-based mind
control, sexual abuse and satanic rituals to discourage  its
victims  from  complaining  to  the authorities, and that it
condoned kidnapping street children and babies and  children
from  orphanages for sex and sacrifice in religious rituals.
The case began at the  Victorian  Civil  and  Administrative
Tribunal  yesterday,  but  was adjourned to today to allow a
last-ditch attempt to settle out of court.

The article, still accessible on a  website  run  from  NSW,
suggests  senior  politicians and television celebrities are
part of a top-level pedophile ring and have  been  protected
by  some  police. It says some members of the ring pretended
to support Dr Michaelson's campaign and became board members
of her group to subvert it from within. Adam Paszkowski, for
Dr Michaelson, who was named Young Australian of the Year in
1997 for founding the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program,
said the article was published on the website  "without  her
knowledge or consent or authority".

Dr  Michaelson  last  year  called for a royal commission to
investigate her claims that Victoria Police did not properly
investigate  pedophile  ring allegations. Earlier complaints
led to a report by the police ombudsman  in  2004  that  was
highly critical of two senior detectives.