BEST FRIENDS TRUTH; ANIMAL SANCTUARY STRANGER THAN FICTION, by Ms. Jade

Best Friends Truth; Stranger than Fiction

Part Two - by Ms. Jade, TheDogPress Legislative Reporter

Editor’s comment: Ms. Jade's research gives pause for those who might ever be tempted to donate to what is now Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah. Most of us supported PeTA before we learned their real agenda. From The Process (part 1) to the impact Best Friends Sanctuary has through CBS, Animal Planet, and other politically progressive media outlets, there are still unanswered questions.

The chronological history of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary shows it was founded by The Processeans, human and animal sacrifice, and innovative "animal rescue" fund raising. With political connections you will recognize, Best Friends exploded from a little over $1.2 million to more than $32 million in its first five years at Kanab. The Founder boasts that Best Friends has become "a flagship for this whole movement" i.e. Animal Rights.

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July, 1970. “California Highway Patrol picked up "two longhairs," (see Serial Killers Central below) Stanley Baker and Harry Allen Stroup, on suspicion of a hit-and-run near Big Sur. Baker not only readily admitted fleeing the scene, but added ‘I have a problem. I'm a cannibal.’ In the pockets of both men were found human finger bones, taken from a recent victim in Montana named James Schlosser, whose mutilated remains were also missing a heart. Baker confessed to having eaten it.

Although Baker was a convicted murderer that howled at the moon, "Administrators still saw fit to let him travel through the prison system, teaching transactional analysis to other inmates" and proselytizing for a reputed splinter group of The Process called the 4 Pi, or the 4P that allegedly recruited him from a Wyoming college. Baker claimed to have participated in human sacrifices in the Santa Ana Mountains, and confessed to playing a part in the April 1970 murder of Robert Salem in San Francisco who was stabbed 27 times, nearly decapitated and discovered missing an ear. Harry Stroup was released in 1979 and Stanley Baker requested that his whereabouts remain confidential when he was paroled six years later…

William Bainbridge, future deputy Director of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation, joined The Process in the early 1970s and studied it from the inside for 5 years. He chronicled the group using a pseudonym in a 1978 book called Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult.

Bainbridge revealed “While using the trappings of the occult, the group's main goals were power, greed and terrorism. It is the embodiment of organized evil, and it still stains America on the eve of the millennium. It has thrived because its tentacles ensnared a number of jaded allies whose influential positions enabled it to extend far beyond New York.” Bainbridge claimed that as of the end of 1971, a conservative estimate of membership was around 10,000. This reference is from a Process pamphlet called “Fax ‘n Figgers”.

It is more likely that the actual number of core members at the group's peak was around 250, when factoring out the number of persons who contributed to street solicitations, or were otherwise engaged in some nominal way. Since Process membership involves an almost fascist hierarchy, it is inappropriate to equate casual contact with the inner workings.

By mid-1974, Chapters in the US and one in Toronto were in full swing, with headquarters located in Washington DC. In the communities where Chapters were located, Processeans took on a variety of projects and received grants from local and state government agencies. In some Chapters, prison ministries were set-up. The Church continued to expand, straining its limits. While the queen bee called the shots, the drones did all kinds of public service, smiled a lot, and burned through a lot of cash - as well as burning out some members along the way.

Instigated by Mary Ann, the D-I-V-O-R-C-E occurred in May of 1974. Officially, disputes between the ruling body of the Church and “The Teacher”, led to his dismissal. Unofficially, his affair with a woman he would later marry made him an unconvincing messiah. The Process was fractured and it soon became the Foundation - Church of the Millennium. The inner circle, loyal to Mary Ann stayed and kept their religious names but Church teachings shifted to suit “the Oracle” and her advocacy for the Jehovah incarnation. Some of the glow was fading into the endless push for more money and more rigid doctrine. A little struggle and sacrifice can go a long way for some people and processeans began to drift away.

Eventually, many gravitated to a ranch outside of Prescott, AZ. After “The Schism” Mary Ann virtually disappeared from public view. Robert and a group of lower level members tried to recreate the original pantheism but were somewhat unsuccessful in recreating their former glory.

And just when you thought you didn’t have room for another slice of “Pi”, when convicted killer David Berkowitz confessed to the “Son of Sam” murders in 1977, he also professed membership in the 4Pi. Although some of his statements are contradictory, he did appear to reveal unpublished knowledge of the California ritual homicide of Stanford, California student and Bismarck, North Dakota native Arlis Perry. Perry was slain on the anniversary of Manson’s arrest. Her murder remains officially unsolved and supposedly, the morning of Perry's funeral, a man dressed in black was seen trying to break into the church. Two weeks later, her grave marker was stolen.

Maury Terry investigated Berkowitz's allegations for his book The Ultimate Evil .(He also was later sued for statements contained therein, but this time the plaintiff was the OTO). Berkowitz professed the murder was a favor to their brethren in North Dakota, who had been irritated by the Christian woman's attempt to evangelize some of their members. Witness accounts conveyed that a cult in Bismark had held midnight meetings in the woods behind Mary College. “A married couple who lived in a trailer home near the cult meeting site at Mary told me that they saw torches and heard chanting and that three of their pet dogs were abducted in the middle of the night and later found mutilated inside a circle of stones.”