charles manson is a sick bastard who was and is a serious nutcase.. and what does it matter if he was a hippie or not? He's still crazy and scary as hell...
Just curious. The Human Mind is a strange/complex Creation. If I were to air my Wish List - Einstein/Hitler/Napoleon/Oswald/et al, well...*c*
yeah, but he's a nutcase, just a crazy.. People act as though he is a mass leader or some crazy stuff just cause he brainwashed other crazies... He brainwashed people to kill other people including a pregnant sharon tate...A person I want to have a conversation with? No thank you...
I saw one of those Diane Sawyer TV specials several years ago that featured interviews with Patricia Krenwinkle (sp?) and Leslie Van Houten. At the end of the program, Sawyer mentioned that Susan Atkins had converted to Christianity and declined to be interviewed. Intrigued, I found out how to write her a letter, in which I expressed joy at hearing of her conversion but politely added that I don't think she should ever be released from prison. She actually sent me back a very warm and lucid reply letter. She told me that the other 2 had also become Christians, and she didn't seem to dispute my contention that their forgiveness by God doesn't erase their debt to society. I don't know why they were given regular opportunities for parole when their death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.
I'm still so fascinated by people like that, that I could spend years just talking to him. Even if what he said didn't make any sence, I'd still find it fascinating. I've always had an interest in him.
No way he was a hippie, he found the weak people (who just happened to be [at this time] hippies) and manipulated them to his sick fantasies. He was and is very insane.
Charles Manson was basically just a manipulating bastard. People refer to the Manson family as a hippy cult, which in some ways is easy to perceive because of stereotypes; long hair, taking drugs, sitting around in fields have sex with each other. but there morals were barbaric, they were a bunch of fucked up kids who got brainwashed by an 'older mysterious man' who appealed to them. They were cruel, racist and selfish. There was nothing mentally 'hippie' about them. x
He took acid and had long hair, but he used the "hippie" label to draw people to him. If he were to be around today, he would probably present himself as a rapper or something like that. His behavior certainly didn't show hippie ideals. Racism, Murder, torture, ect. No, he was not a "hippie."
It is just a formality of the Cal Justice System. None of them will ever get parole. It's laughable that they would. I saw Manson on TV during his last parole hearing, he was talking to people who weren't there, rambling, STARING at the mother of one of the victims and mumbling. That guy is not going to leave that prison, Thank God.
Manson was no hippie, but he sure was a dream come true for the goverment. He really gave the hippie movement a black eye in the press. He really helped mess up public opinion of acid heads and pot smokers too.
