We Believe The Children By Richard Beck

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]I mentioned last night that uh I'd been going through some debunking books and I have one of those books to review tonight and got some others to the uh popular mechanics very laughable 9/11 myths but that is for another video but uh this is we believe the children by Richard Beck and this came out this was published and the publishing date is important to this information. This was published in 2015.

[00:00:34]Um, these books, these debunking books that are come out like this. Um, can be unintentionally very valuable and I have a few that I've reviewed that I'll link some on the end screen. A good example of this phenomenon is mute evidence that is about the cattle mutilation phenomenon. And that whole book is trying to debunk the cattle mutilation thing at all and say it's probably not a thing at all and and tries to come up with any and everything other than probably what it most likely is. And uh and not to go too far off on that topic, but this is kind of important because one of you was asking about this about the cattle mutilation uh phenomenon and some of that kind of stuff. But the interesting thing with mute evidence is the what they try so hard in the book to kind of take the teeth out of is the idea that calam mutilations are anything other than just weird predator you know predators doing stuff to cows or you know just accidental deaths and then predator damage to the to the carcass.

[00:01:45]Um, but that they obviously they poke holes in the alien hypothesis and all that, but the one they really go after and really lean into hard is the hypothesis about chemical and biological warfare and cattle being used as a way to test u chemical and biological warfare, both the weapons and the delivery systems of those things. And the more I've explored that subject, the more I think there's something to that.

[00:02:13]And then of course when there's a whole book trying desperately to tell you not to think wrong think about that and steer you away from that it does make you wonder. And this is no different. So this is in we believe the children. The whole thing is subtitled here a moral panic in the 1980s. And this of course is right in line with the the satanic panic. And you know that as someone who lived through that era and was very conscious of that era uh and even worked in uh child care in the early 90s and worked with some of the ritual abuse cases.

[00:02:49]Uh and I'll get more into that here in a little bit. Uh I find a lot of it kind of laughable if they expect a certain level of ignorance about that era. And I know people 20 years younger than me that that weren't around and to see that up close. It's it's much easier to believe this kind of literature. And this basically goes through some of the the popular cases and tries to dismantle them and say, you know, these were just giant nothing burgers. There's nothing to it. And massive waste of police resources and typically just overzealous uh Christian groups or therapists implanting false memories. and they rely heavily on the false memory syndrome foundation uh material in this book. Um so lots of lots of fascinating stuff in this as far as their effort to to tear all that down. And one thing I came away from with this book is and especially going through the subject index. This is one that I've spent a lot of time not necessarily reading in order, but going through the subject index and looking up certain things and then weighing that against u a lot of the other case information I have in other books. And this is one of those frustrating things.

[00:04:05]A book like this is really designed for the general public that is not very curious that they want to you want to equip someone with something to say at a dinner party or whatever. um that they could throw out something and feel like they they know the topic and turn away and go away from that. So, it's just enough to keep them from ever really peeling back the the curtain or pull pulling back the curtain and looking behind it to see because as soon as you do, it's it's really hard to to not know that those things are there. So, a lot of this is to keep you from ever really getting curious. It's to keep you in your lane and say, "No, these are all crazy, paranoid lunatics that even consider this to be a thing." And look at all the damage they've done. Now, I brought up the date, the 2015 date in this, and that's important because 2015, that was prior to uh 2016, which when we had end of 2016, we got the um Pizzagate fiasco around the 2016 election. And a lot of very strange information came out that a lot of us had been talking about for years. And I, you know, anytime I bring this up, I'll have people say, "Oh, well that's been debunked as a a myth." It's like, "Has it? Has it really?" Because, and again, just to continue on, not to get too sidetracked on that, but then we of course have in 2019, we have the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and the subsequent unaliving of Jeffrey Epstein. now or whether or not you believe he's alive or dead or hiding somewhere or whatever, not the point. Either way, the Epstein case proved that there were massive human trafficking rings operating at the highest levels of government. And another good example of that, of course, is the Franklin scandal. But the Epstein thing was so much bigger than even the Franklin scandal that uh it's impossible to ignore and impossible to to um not see the connections to uh to all the political powers. So this if this book I was kind of hoping this book had been written after 2019 because I was kind of curious how they would navigate some of that because especially with the latest Epstein file release and all that it's really hard to get some of this stuff to stick now. And what I'd recommend and this is again this is the tough thing about this kind of mentality. This is written for the the kind of people that are not really genuinely curious. They just need to feel like they could they got enough information to win an argument. And that can go both ways. I'm not saying that people that dig into a lot of this other literature that I cover on this channel don't fall prey to the same thing. And that's why it's so important to know, don't get a book that's about the satanic panic is true.

[00:06:59]Go find the original source material.

[00:07:02]and some of the original stuff like this is I think I've done a u a video about this and some other periodicals from that era. This is a special issue from 1990 about in the shadow of Satan, the ritual um abuse of children and um lots of really good trade publications put out around that time uh exploring that topic. And even when this was in in the height of the satanic panic, as it's called, you could tell that the the people that were writing these articles and dealing with this knew this was a massive explosive topic. And a lot of them were afraid to touch it. And they even talk about that in some of these articles, which I'll just have to read some of those on a video sometime about uh you know, being threatened and having people uh coming out of the woodwork suddenly popping up saying, "Hey, don't do that. Don't touch that. don't talk about that subject, which is not something you do. You don't have that kind of thing happen if you're not over the target. If nothing's happening, if there's really nothing there, then why why the the effort? So, but the trouble with this is this kind of book, of course, it looks scholarly, has a lot of innotes, a lot of, you know, a great index for guys like me that that look that kind of stuff up.

[00:08:21]Um, but to really dismantle this kind of stuff, you need a lot of the better source material to go back to. Um, and some of the ones I'd recommend if you really want to understand the subject and don't want to just read a debunking book and go, "Oh, well, case closed. Uh, that's been debunked." U, I mean, satanic panic, it rhymes. So, you know, obviously, duh. You know, we know we know that's silly. Um, this is an excellent book on the topic. This is by Lynn Crook. This is her personal account of her experiences in fighting the false memory syndrome foundation. Excellent book. Um, the other thing the one of the other things that uh I discovered as I went down that trail of digging into the ritual abuse topic was dissociative identity disorder. Now, multiple personality, this used to be referred to, I think in the DSM3 or something, it was um MPD, multiple personality disorder, and then it got a little better, finer point put on it and turned into dissociative identity disorder. And dissociative identity disorder is basically when people split and compartmentalize their head. it's not.

[00:09:39]Um, and they start compartmentalizing their memories about things and compartmentalizing how their brain handles certain things. And a good polite version of that that we all probably have some example of is if you've ever been driving somewhere and you get deep in thought and you miss your exit or or you get to where you're going and you don't even remember like the last third of your drive to where you were going because you were so deep in thought about this other topic. But your another part of your brain took over all those motor functions and took you to where you were going without issue. So your brain literally split off. Part of you was processing this information you were thinking about and another part of you was operating your motor vehicle without issue. So there's plenty of things like daydreaming is a form a mild form of dissociation.

[00:10:27]So it is a thing. Dissociation is very much a thing. Now, the dissociation dissociative disorder is when you start compartmentalizing to where you have trouble keeping track of what's where.

[00:10:39]Like it's almost like somebody with a bunch of file folders sitting out on their desk and trying to remember how they're they're all organized. And that's why people who've suffered from this have to go through an integration process of remembering things and working this all together so that they can actually function again. But what that the the reason I bring all this up and why this is so important is this is one of those disorders that does not happen in a vacuum. You don't just wake up with dissociative disorder. People are not born with dissociative disorder.

[00:11:12]This is almost exclusively the byproduct of severe abuse and neglect. Like this is what people do when their caregivers are their abusers. So if uh you know especially like a a a mother figure is a good example because there are certain things maternally that children expect from mom and when mom violates that natural order of things and abuses them the the person they're looking to for the this care and love and affection and that person is turning on them. uh and especially if it's violent uh that can cause massive dissociation. But especially mainly the parents, if it's somebody outside the family that could still do it, but having parental figures do that to you and especially if they possibly suffer from some kind of dis dissociative issues and they could switch themselves to where they don't even remember what they just did to the child, things like that. Um, but I bring all this up because this is one of those things that is the hallmark of severe abuse. Like people don't just wind up this way. And as a result, there's been a massive effort to try to say that this isn't even a thing. Like dissociative disorder is is uh this is another one of those crazy uh clap trap things and we just need to medicate everybody and everything will turn out good. But this is a great disorder to understand to understand how it fits with abuse and how this is the byproduct. So when you encounter someone with severe dissociative disorder, you are most likely talking to a victim of se severe and sadistic abuse.

[00:12:56]Um so now back to the book. So this really isn't just an excuse for me to talk about all these other things.

[00:13:05]the the thing that I noticed about this.

[00:13:07]So I went all through the false memory syndrome um foundation FM memory syndrome foundation FMF I think is the abbreviation. It has since been dismanted. It quietly uh broke up in 2019. I think in the end of like summer or fall of 2019.

[00:13:32]And again, that's important because the whole their whole basis for how excuse me, the way they analyze information was all very bizarre. And guys like um oh where is he? Fryon I believe um Dr. James G. Fryson points out and he does an excellent job in this book of explaining that the false memory syndrome is not even a thing. Like there's no that's not even a scientific thing. um I think it's Elizabeth Loftess that was one of the uh false memory syndrome foundation people that um used this Maul test that she would talk about um as proof of how someone could have an implanted false memory and they would take somebody and they would convince them that they had been lost in a mall.

[00:14:21]Well, that's a terrible example because most of us if you're of a certain age bracket, you probably got more lost in a mall. So, that's not a really good example. like you need something that is more more likely to not have happened to me because I can remember several instances of being lost as a child and it freaking me out and uh none of those things were implanted in my brain or anything like that. So you would have to have a more distinct memory that you could say that somebody picked up rather than being lost because you know granted when I was three or four years old being lost I I definitely remember being lost but I don't always remember all the particulars of where it happened and all the details but that feeling of being lost and not knowing where your parents are. Most of us if we've if you've experienced that you definitely remember it. I say all that to say that's it was things like that that were used to try to validate that theory. And Fryson, unfortunately, this is a reprint of the original book. And I'm pretty sure the original book, I need to find it because the original one has a whole section on the kind of a who's who of the false Memory Syndrome Foundation. And they were all u u they were all people who had been accused of exactly the kind of stuff they were trying to discredit. So now that was presented as well they're they're doing that to save other people from the the torment they've been through. But I think it was the Freud Pamela Freud F re or Freud however you pronounce her name.

[00:15:55]Um she was married to her stepbrother.

[00:15:58]There was a lot of really bizarre connections within that. And one of the couples had been publishing a uh seam shall we say publication. Um there were a lot of and a lot of them were involved in some very questionable activities on the side and then they just so happened to form this group to dis to uh discredit u survivors of sadistic abuse.

[00:16:22]So gee what are the odds? So, um, anyway, so I notice he actually brings up one of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation members in this book, um, in a slightly negative light, but then kind of steps around it and, um, tries to kind of downplay it. And it's almost like, see, I put it in the book, so we're not covering it up. See, so it's there, you know, I didn't cover it up.

[00:16:48]And there's a lot of stuff like that. I couldn't There was no mention of the Finders. um McMartin, the McMartin preschool, which I'll get to that here in a minute. Um is talked about extensively in here. Um but here's how that's valuable and this is why it's so important to have a good understanding of some of these these cases through other books and other periodicals. Um great book on the McMartin preschool case is By Silence Betrayed. And this is one that's actually more about just the problem of child abuse at large, just all the issues with it and um how this should be addressed and all this sort of thing.

[00:17:31]But it has a very good chapter about the McMartin case. This is a great resource.

[00:17:36]Um also this is cult and ritual abuse by James Randall Noble and Pamela Sue uh Perskin. I believe that's his wife. And uh Rand Randy Noble was a an expert witness for a lot of uh cases, some of the daycare cases. I think one of the ones that happened here in the state of Texas and a lot of really good uh a lot of really good uh case specifics about that and again from the perspective of someone who was a licensed professional and a uh and an expert witness on those cases. So, it's important to read material like this and then weigh that against this kind of material and see what you get. And the the I think the best way to put it and it's kind of a funny way if you don't if you don't have knowledge of these cases then it's kind of like somebody saying, "Hey, that field over there has been mined. There's mines all through it. So, don't go in that field." And then somebody going, "No, no, no, no. There's no mines in that field. That's an urban legend. In fact, I'm going to go walk out in the field. I'm going to show you.

[00:18:48]And they walk around in the field and and uh nothing happens. Okay. So, you be like, "Oh, I guess they're right.

[00:18:56]There's no minefield out there." Well, when you have a good understanding of a lot of these cases, then you know, you can see them walking around where you know the mines are and you can see that they are very carefully navigating that field to avoid the mines that are very much there. And uh if heaven forbid they accidentally set off a mine, they'll just blame it on something. Oh, that was that was from an older event and that's that's totally unrelated. Um, that was Yeah, but the but all the other stuff in this field, this is not a minefield at all. But again, you would then notice if you knew it was a minefield and you knew the layout of the minefield, you would know exactly. You could watch them walk and be like, "Oh, well, yeah, they know where the mines are, so they're walking around them." And that's the really damning thing about this kind of literature is watching these authors carefully navigate some of these issues.

[00:19:50]And then again, kind of like the accidental mind going off. Occasionally, they'll have to address something that's so egregious, they'll have to actually talk about it. But again, it's kind of like his mention of the some of the false memory syndrome people. He mentions it kind of in a passing like, "Ah, yeah, they had to be careful about that cuz you know, people are they'll just blow everything out of proportion."

[00:20:10]So, um anyway, it's that's why it's really important if you have this is a great companion book and pretty easy to get your hands on um to this book and weigh the two out. And then again, if you can find this one, this is u I've seen this. This is actually I have two copies. I have the hardback and the softback version of this book. And I got books like this that have really good information about like especially about like the McMartin preschool case. I always like to have a backup copy so I can make sure I can dog ear stuff and write notes and all that sort of thing.

[00:20:46]But uh this one I found in Halfpric Books. I think the hardback edition I got on Amazon, but um when I got this at Halfpric Books, it was like maybe like two or three bucks. Um, but a a lot of this is a lot of people don't realize that this has a really good section on the Mc Martin preschool case. So anyway, both of these are great rebuttals to this kind of information. And again, this kind of stuff, if you are well aware of the case, the the cases and a lot of the details on that, then you can watch these guys as they carefully try to walk around some of these issues because again, you can now Google a lot of the original members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and see their very questionable behavior and their ties and some of the stuff they were doing. And then when you see a guy like this walk around those things and you're like, why would you not be like, "Holy cow, this is bad. This is demonstrably bad." Like, why do we have all these accused predators now uh trying to get other predators off the hook? Like, this is something is very wrong with this. And to wrap it up, to take it back to my my experience, um I worked in a group home uh back in the early 90s, early to mid well really really through the the mid almost late 90s. And that was the first place I ever heard the term of, you know, ritual kind of violence against children. And um even then even in that setting uh I mean it wasn't like conspiracy theory talk. It was but it was very it was explosive material. So people were very careful in how they discuss those sorts of things. And I worked in a capacity where I only needed to know.

[00:22:41]It's very much a need to know kind of thing where I was working with the kids on a daily basis, making sure they got up and got to school on time and did all the things. Um, I was not involved in their we would take them to a therapist or take them to counseling sessions and things like that, but we were not directly involved. we would be given um tips on okay so and so is dealing with X Y and Z so that means you guys need to be careful about how you do blah blah blah blah blah or whatever and we might have some role in that but it was never you know obviously we were very basic staff kind of stuff we were doing we weren't uh again we weren't therapists or counselors or anything like that so I say all that to say we would hear that I mean because there was stuff that they would say hey little so So and so he's been through blah blah blah blah blah.

[00:23:34]So you need to be very careful when you do this this this and this. Um so that he is not set off by that. And we had I I remember probably a good half a dozen cases that were very severe. I mean really bad. And a few cases they were so bad that we couldn't help them. And because our the the facility I worked at we could help back then they had a numbering system of one through five.

[00:24:00]And if you're watching this video, you're probably a one or a two level of care. And again, I don't know if this system if they even use this anymore.

[00:24:08]That's all that stuff changes all the time. But back then, this was, you know, in the '9s, there was this 1 2 3 4 5 scale. And a one or a two is probably you out there in the general public watching this. Most of us that could just get through the day, go about our business. You know, as a kid, we might have argued with our parents a little bit here and there, or we might have done something we shouldn't have done, got in trouble for it, whatever. That's like level one, level two kind of behavior. Um, level three and four, that's where you start getting into like serious like personality disorders and and u oppositional defiant disorder and things like that where kids start like actively working to subvert their own environment. And then you get up into like four in the four and five level that's where they're actually like physically violent where they need to be physically restrained or in some cases put into lockdown where they have like a padded room they get put into uh to protect themselves and the other kids.

[00:25:07]So when they our our facility, the kids I worked with were level three and four and when they started to be, you know, high level four, you know, and they really pushing it on that or level five, they were out of there and they were off to another, I think, I forget they had another name for that kind of facility that had to have that lockown capability. I can't remember the the name of that kind of facility back then, but u there were several of the kids that would be with us for just sometimes just a few weeks and they realized whoop we cannot like this is such insane behavior we can't handle it here. And I bring all that up to say like the kids weren't running around making allegations. It was just their behavior was so off the charts, like violent or predatory towards the other children that they could not interact. And it was really sad because there's things when you see a grown-up do it, you're like, "What happened to you?" But when you see a like a six six-year-old kid doing it or even a nine or 10 year old kid doing these very overtly really um sexualized behavior, it's like this didn't happen in a vacuum. They didn't figure that you this is like very detailed stuff and I I don't want to get into all the details u of that. Uh that's there's absolutely no point in that. But just rest assured that when you see that kind of behavior, you know, again, it didn't happen in a vacuum. And when you see kids that have just this compulsion towards that behavior, um that it's kind of like the dissociative identity disorder that doesn't happen in a vacuum. You don't wind up there. Some of those behaviors you don't just accidentally do. And there were some of the kids that could be just the sweetest kid. Again, kind of like the dissociative angle, but yet they could not be left alone with another child. I mean, at all.

[00:27:06]Like, you had to have 100% supervision because if you There were several that I worked with that you could if you weren't around them for even like 30 seconds to just a few minutes, something would happen and it would be something life-changing. So, so um that and I all of that is to point out the frustrating things with guys like this is they're really trying to discount the damage done by that kind of abuse and and try to say that this sort of thing just doesn't exist. The whole idea of organized abuse that it just isn't a thing. it doesn't exist. Which again is insane in light of we have lots of information and even in 2015 and well before we had plenty of information showing that that that was very much not the case. But there is a lot of money spent and a lot of ink put on paper and a lot of trees cut down to make this possible to write books to say there's nothing to see here. This is not a thing. which is again really tragic because having seen the human collateral from this that it's impossible to not see the implications of this. But uh again and all the the kids I worked with were never running around making false accusations or anything like that. They just wouldn't talk. That's one of the most insane things about that kind of abuse is the children that have been subject to that will rarely ever uh lash out at the abuser. They'll lash out at somebody protecting them from it. And especially if they're if they know the abuser can actually hurt them, can actually cause them physical harm, pain, emotional suffering, whatever. So that's the person they wind up loyal to even in spite of all the evidence of their own abuse and suffering. So uh I never heard a kid ever turn on their parents and say either one of their parents and say like you know I hate my mom and dad or anything like that. Never heard that from any of the kids I worked with. Um, and that's one of the sad realities is they will turn on the actual people that are trying to help them a lot, but they will very rarely if ever turn on the actual abuser unless, you know, the situation just gets so absurd that they're forced to do that. So anyway, so I I hate to end kind of on a sad note there, but uh it is very frustrating to me because these guys on some level or another you can't write a book like this and not realize you are excusing the behavior of professional predators and um I mean at best you're protecting abusers. At worst, you're protecting entire rings of abuse and networks and doing your best to to uh steer people away from even noticing to not trust their own intuition that yeah, I know you see a whole lot of smoke over there, but that's actually a weird weather phenomenon that you're seeing. It's not actually fire. Don't think for a second it is. So, anyway, I will stop there.

[00:30:11]But yeah, this is a uh books like this.

[00:30:14]Again, I I would never say don't buy this book. Um it it wasn't cheap. I got the hardback edition and um this might have set me back 20 25 bucks or so. But if you're like me and you want to really make sure you're weighing all this stuff out and you have a good understanding of how guys like this are coming at the subject, um it's it's valuable information. But I would say make sure when you are approaching information like this that you also approach it with some you know some good counterbalance material so you can see the victim side of it and understand uh what these guys are covering for. So, uh, I will stop there, but I think that minefield analogy is really important to think about when you're viewing these debunking books of that idea of a minefield and the way they look at because if you read enough of this literature, you'll know how the minefield is laid out. And then when you watch these guys carefully navigate that and you could see them almost take a step where they shouldn't and quickly turn the other way and you're like, "Yeah, dude. you you had to have known there was a mind there otherwise you would have taken a step and you know anyway enough of that but there you go that is we believe the children by Richard Beck and I haven't looked up Richard Beck that's one thing I got this book fairly recently so um haven't done much research on him but that is another important thing to look up is the authors of some books and their connections so I will stop there but uh hope y'all are all having a good Saturday evening