Dangerous slurs

By LANCE TAPLEY | October 1, 2009

Satanists do not turn the other cheek if they are “provoked or disrespected,” L’Heureux added, but the violence directed against the offender is usually a form of magic or witchcraft — “mentally, emotionally destroying a person without putting hands on.”

The prison administration, he said, “has a problem understanding that.”

Lance Tapley can be reached at lance.tapley@gmail.com.

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