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Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
11-20-2017, 08:37 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/charles-manson-whose-cult-slayings-horrified-world-dies-055844949.html


Hippie cult leader Charles Manson dies at 83
[Associated Press]
Associated Press•November 20, 2017

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly a half-century in prison. He was 83.

Manson, whose name to this day is synonymous with unspeakable violence and madness, died at 8:13 p.m. of natural causes at a Kern County hospital, according to a California Department of Corrections statement.

Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, reacted to the death by quoting the late Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor who put Manson behind bars. Bugliosi said: "Manson was an evil, sophisticated con man with twisted and warped moral values."

"Today, Manson's victims are the ones who should be remembered and mourned on the occasion of his death," Hanisee said.

California Corrections spokeswoman Vicky Waters said it's "to be determined" what happens to Manson's body. Prison officials previously said Manson had no known next of kin and state law says that if no relative or legal representative surfaces within 10 days, then it's up to the department to determine whether the body is cremated or buried.

It's not known if Manson requested funeral services of any sort. It's also unclear what happens to his property, which is said to include artwork and at least two guitars. State law says the department must maintain his property for up to a year in anticipation there might be legal battles over who can make a legitimate claim to it.

A petty criminal who had been in and out of jail since childhood, the charismatic, guru-like Manson surrounded himself in the 1960s with runaways and other lost souls and then sent his disciples to butcher some of L.A.'s rich and famous in what prosecutors said was a bid to trigger a race war — an idea he got from a twisted reading of the Beatles song "Helter Skelter."

The slayings horrified the world and, together with the deadly violence that erupted later in 1969 during a Rolling Stones concert at California's Altamont Speedway, exposed the dangerous, drugged-out underside of the counterculture movement and seemed to mark the death of the era of peace and love.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Manson maintained during his tumultuous trial in 1970 that he was innocent and that society itself was guilty.

"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them; I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up," he said in a courtroom soliloquy.

Linda Deutsch, the longtime courts reporter for The Associated Press who covered the Manson case, said he "left a legacy of evil and hate and murder."

"He was able to take young people who were impressionable and convince them he had the answer to everything and he turned them into killers," she said. "It was beyond anything we had ever seen before in this country."

The Manson Family, as his followers were called, slaughtered five of its victims on Aug. 9, 1969, at Tate's home: the actress, who was 8˝ months pregnant, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, Polish movie director Voityck Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of the estate's caretaker. Tate's husband, "Rosemary's Baby" director Roman Polanski, was out of the country at the time.

The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were stabbed to death in their home across town.

The killers scrawled such phrases as "Pigs" and "Healter Skelter" (sic) in blood at the crime scenes.

Three months later, a Manson follower was jailed on an unrelated charge and told a cellmate about the bloodbath, leading to the cult leader's arrest.

In the annals of American crime, Manson became the embodiment of evil, a short, shaggy-haired, bearded figure with a demonic stare and an "X'' — later turned into a swastika — carved into his forehead.

"Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969," author Joan Didion wrote in her 1979 book "The White Album."

After a trial that lasted nearly a year, Manson and three followers — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten — were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Another defendant, Charles "Tex" Watson, was convicted later. All were spared execution and given life sentences after the California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in 1972.

Atkins died behind bars in 2009. Krenwinkel, Van Houten and Watson remain in prison.

Another Manson devotee, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, but her gun jammed. She served 34 years in prison.

Manson was born in Cincinnati on Nov. 12, 1934, to a teenager, possibly a prostitute, and was in reform school by the time he was 8. After serving a 10-year sentence for check forgery in the 1960s, Manson was said to have pleaded with authorities not to release him because he considered prison home.

"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system," he would later say in a monologue on the witness stand. "I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

He was set free in San Francisco during the heyday of the hippie movement in the city's Haight-Ashbury section, and though he was in his mid-30s by then, he began collecting followers — mostly women — who likened him to Jesus Christ. Most were teenagers; many came from good homes but were at odds with their parents.

The "family" eventually established a commune-like base at the Spahn Ranch, a ramshackle former movie location outside Los Angeles, where Manson manipulated his followers with drugs, supervised orgies and subjected them to bizarre lectures.

He had musical ambitions and befriended rock stars, including Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. He also met Terry Melcher, a music producer who had lived in the same house that Polanski and Tate later rented.

By the summer 1969, Manson had failed to sell his songs, and the rejection was later seen as a trigger for the violence. He complained that Wilson took a Manson song called "Cease to Exist," revised it into "Never Learn Not to Love" and recorded it with the Beach Boys without giving Manson credit.

Manson was obsessed with Beatles music, particularly "Piggies" and "Helter Skelter," a hard-rocking song that he interpreted as forecasting the end of the world. He told his followers that "Helter Skelter is coming down" and predicted a race war would destroy the planet.

"Everybody attached themselves to us, whether it was our fault or not," the Beatles' George Harrison, who wrote "Piggies," later said of the murders. "It was upsetting to be associated with something so sleazy as Charles Manson."

According to testimony, Manson sent his devotees out on the night of Tate's murder with instructions to "do something witchy." The state's star witness, Linda Kasabian, who was granted immunity, testified that Manson tied up the LaBiancas, then ordered his followers to kill. But Manson insisted: "I have killed no one, and I have ordered no one to be killed."

His trial was nearly scuttled when President Richard Nixon said Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly." Manson grabbed a newspaper and held up the front-page headline for jurors to read: "Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares." Attorneys demanded a mistrial but were turned down.

From then on, jurors, sequestered at a hotel for 10 months, traveled to and from the courtroom in buses with blacked-out windows so they could not read the headlines on newsstands.

Manson was also later convicted of the slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea.

Over the decades, Manson and his followers appeared sporadically at parole hearings, where their bids for freedom were repeatedly rejected. The women suggested they had been rehabilitated, but Manson himself stopped attending, saying prison had become his home.

The killings inspired movies and TV shows, and Bugliosi wrote a best-selling book about the murders, "Helter Skelter." The macabre shock rocker Marilyn Manson borrowed part of his stage name from the killer.

"The Manson case, to this day, remains one of the most chilling in crime history," prominent criminal justice reporter Theo Wilson wrote in her 1998 memoir, "Headline Justice: Inside the Courtroom — The Country's Most Controversial Trials ."

"Even people who were not yet born when the murders took place," Wilson wrote, "know the name Charles Manson, and shudder."

___

AP writer Michelle A. Monroe contributed to this report. This story contains biographical information compiled by former AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch. Deutsch covered the Tate-La Bianca killings and the Manson trial for The Associated Press and has written about the Manson family for four decades.

Bilgerat
11-20-2017, 09:06 AM
Well if Charley's dying ain't a reason to lift a glass, I don't know what one is :laugh:

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
11-20-2017, 09:45 AM
Well if Charley's dying ain't a reason to lift a glass, I don't know what one is :laugh:

You can hank democrats and liberalism for that murdering bastard getting to life out his life after murdering those people...
His sorry ass should have been tried and executed within a year at the most.
It is these damn POS liberals that see to it these type of lowlife bastards are not executed as they should be .
Which is one of the reasons that I so dearly despise liberals/dems..
Dem party and its stinking libs are nothing but a damn cancer upon this nation, IMHO... -Tyr

The Sage of Main Street
11-20-2017, 04:35 PM
Hippie cult leader Charles Manson dies at 83
[Associated Press]
Associated Press•November 20, 2017

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly a half-century in prison. He was 83.

Manson, whose name to this day is synonymous with unspeakable violence and madness, died at 8:13 p.m. of natural causes at a Kern County hospital, according to a California Department of Corrections statement.

Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, reacted to the death by quoting the late Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor who put Manson behind bars. Bugliosi said: "Manson was an evil, sophisticated con man with twisted and warped moral values."

"Today, Manson's victims are the ones who should be remembered and mourned on the occasion of his death," Hanisee said.

California Corrections spokeswoman Vicky Waters said it's "to be determined" what happens to Manson's body. Prison officials previously said Manson had no known next of kin and state law says that if no relative or legal representative surfaces within 10 days, then it's up to the department to determine whether the body is cremated or buried.

It's not known if Manson requested funeral services of any sort. It's also unclear what happens to his property, which is said to include artwork and at least two guitars. State law says the department must maintain his property for up to a year in anticipation there might be legal battles over who can make a legitimate claim to it.

A petty criminal who had been in and out of jail since childhood, the charismatic, guru-like Manson surrounded himself in the 1960s with runaways and other lost souls and then sent his disciples to butcher some of L.A.'s rich and famous in what prosecutors said was a bid to trigger a race war — an idea he got from a twisted reading of the Beatles song "Helter Skelter."

The slayings horrified the world and, together with the deadly violence that erupted later in 1969 during a Rolling Stones concert at California's Altamont Speedway, exposed the dangerous, drugged-out underside of the counterculture movement and seemed to mark the death of the era of peace and love.

Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Manson maintained during his tumultuous trial in 1970 that he was innocent and that society itself was guilty.

"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them; I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up," he said in a courtroom soliloquy.

Linda Deutsch, the longtime courts reporter for The Associated Press who covered the Manson case, said he "left a legacy of evil and hate and murder."

"He was able to take young people who were impressionable and convince them he had the answer to everything and he turned them into killers," she said. "It was beyond anything we had ever seen before in this country."

The Manson Family, as his followers were called, slaughtered five of its victims on Aug. 9, 1969, at Tate's home: the actress, who was 8˝ months pregnant, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, Polish movie director Voityck Frykowski and Steven Parent, a friend of the estate's caretaker. Tate's husband, "Rosemary's Baby" director Roman Polanski, was out of the country at the time.

The next night, a wealthy grocer and his wife, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were stabbed to death in their home across town.

The killers scrawled such phrases as "Pigs" and "Healter Skelter" (sic) in blood at the crime scenes.

Three months later, a Manson follower was jailed on an unrelated charge and told a cellmate about the bloodbath, leading to the cult leader's arrest.

In the annals of American crime, Manson became the embodiment of evil, a short, shaggy-haired, bearded figure with a demonic stare and an "X'' — later turned into a swastika — carved into his forehead.

"Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969," author Joan Didion wrote in her 1979 book "The White Album."

After a trial that lasted nearly a year, Manson and three followers — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten — were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Another defendant, Charles "Tex" Watson, was convicted later. All were spared execution and given life sentences after the California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in 1972.

Atkins died behind bars in 2009. Krenwinkel, Van Houten and Watson remain in prison.

Another Manson devotee, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, but her gun jammed. She served 34 years in prison.

Manson was born in Cincinnati on Nov. 12, 1934, to a teenager, possibly a prostitute, and was in reform school by the time he was 8. After serving a 10-year sentence for check forgery in the 1960s, Manson was said to have pleaded with authorities not to release him because he considered prison home.

"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system," he would later say in a monologue on the witness stand. "I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

He was set free in San Francisco during the heyday of the hippie movement in the city's Haight-Ashbury section, and though he was in his mid-30s by then, he began collecting followers — mostly women — who likened him to Jesus Christ. Most were teenagers; many came from good homes but were at odds with their parents.

The "family" eventually established a commune-like base at the Spahn Ranch, a ramshackle former movie location outside Los Angeles, where Manson manipulated his followers with drugs, supervised orgies and subjected them to bizarre lectures.

He had musical ambitions and befriended rock stars, including Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. He also met Terry Melcher, a music producer who had lived in the same house that Polanski and Tate later rented.

By the summer 1969, Manson had failed to sell his songs, and the rejection was later seen as a trigger for the violence. He complained that Wilson took a Manson song called "Cease to Exist," revised it into "Never Learn Not to Love" and recorded it with the Beach Boys without giving Manson credit.

Manson was obsessed with Beatles music, particularly "Piggies" and "Helter Skelter," a hard-rocking song that he interpreted as forecasting the end of the world. He told his followers that "Helter Skelter is coming down" and predicted a race war would destroy the planet.

"Everybody attached themselves to us, whether it was our fault or not," the Beatles' George Harrison, who wrote "Piggies," later said of the murders. "It was upsetting to be associated with something so sleazy as Charles Manson."

According to testimony, Manson sent his devotees out on the night of Tate's murder with instructions to "do something witchy." The state's star witness, Linda Kasabian, who was granted immunity, testified that Manson tied up the LaBiancas, then ordered his followers to kill. But Manson insisted: "I have killed no one, and I have ordered no one to be killed."

His trial was nearly scuttled when President Richard Nixon said Manson was "guilty, directly or indirectly." Manson grabbed a newspaper and held up the front-page headline for jurors to read: "Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares." Attorneys demanded a mistrial but were turned down.

From then on, jurors, sequestered at a hotel for 10 months, traveled to and from the courtroom in buses with blacked-out windows so they could not read the headlines on newsstands.

Manson was also later convicted of the slayings of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea.

Over the decades, Manson and his followers appeared sporadically at parole hearings, where their bids for freedom were repeatedly rejected. The women suggested they had been rehabilitated, but Manson himself stopped attending, saying prison had become his home.

The killings inspired movies and TV shows, and Bugliosi wrote a best-selling book about the murders, "Helter Skelter." The macabre shock rocker Marilyn Manson borrowed part of his stage name from the killer.

"The Manson case, to this day, remains one of the most chilling in crime history," prominent criminal justice reporter Theo Wilson wrote in her 1998 memoir, "Headline Justice: Inside the Courtroom — The Country's Most Controversial Trials ."

"Even people who were not yet born when the murders took place," Wilson wrote, "know the name Charles Manson, and shudder."

___

AP writer Michelle A. Monroe contributed to this report. This story contains biographical information compiled by former AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch. Deutsch covered the Tate-La Bianca killings and the Manson trial for The Associated Press and has written about the Manson family for four decades.
He attracted spoiled richgirls, who are driven to wreck democracy one way or another. Birth privileges must be totally outlawed, including the ones granted to males and Right Wingers.

NightTrain
11-20-2017, 04:56 PM
He attracted spoiled richgirls, who are driven to wreck democracy one way or another. Birth privileges must be totally outlawed, including the ones granted to males and Right Wingers.


I think you'd fit right in down in Venezuela. They've got you covered, comrade.

hjmick
11-20-2017, 05:08 PM
He attracted spoiled richgirls, who are driven to wreck democracy one way or another. Birth privileges must be totally outlawed, including the ones granted to males and Right Wingers.


Ah yes, the bigotry of the left on full display...






As to the topic of the thread...

It's about time that waste of human life sucked his last breath, he should have died in the lap of Old Sparky decades ago... Actually California employed the gas chamber back then, but you get the idea...

aboutime
11-20-2017, 05:08 PM
How much do you love your buddy Manson Sage???
<img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSUW7f5lNK91h_Ds2TX0SvmWVoflZhxp DifMjVlJN5UdZS_Y9lbDw">
Manson's cemetery for the birds.
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IN PRETTY JAIL HOUSE COLORS.
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aboutime
11-20-2017, 05:15 PM
Care to share with all of us "How long have you known you are a spoiled little RICH GIRL!"

<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPDlVC6X0AERhlw.jpg">

Gunny
11-20-2017, 08:20 PM
Ah yes, the bigotry of the left on full display...






As to the topic of the thread...

It's about time that waste of human life sucked his last breath, he should have died in the lap of Old Sparky decades ago... Actually California employed the gas chamber back then, but you get the idea...Agree. We should have stopped feeding him in 69.

aboutime
11-20-2017, 08:40 PM
Reality is. His turn for the garbage disposal came up, and he's now mixed in with the rest of the World's filthy garbage, floating around in some cesspool where the INORGANIC's of Manson will remain, stuck to the bottom of the deep, dark tank.:clap:

High_Plains_Drifter
11-20-2017, 11:57 PM
He attracted spoiled richgirls, who are driven to wreck democracy one way or another. Birth privileges must be totally outlawed, including the ones granted to males and Right Wingers.
WTF are you even trying to say?

What a bunch of ultra commie bull shit.

High_Plains_Drifter
11-20-2017, 11:58 PM
You can hank democrats and liberalism for that murdering bastard getting to life out his life after murdering those people...
His sorry ass should have been tried and executed within a year at the most.
It is these damn POS liberals that see to it these type of lowlife bastards are not executed as they should be .
Which is one of the reasons that I so dearly despise liberals/dems..
Dem party and its stinking libs are nothing but a damn cancer upon this nation, IMHO... -Tyr
I'm with ya, brother.

Black Diamond
11-21-2017, 12:23 AM
He attracted spoiled richgirls, who are driven to wreck democracy one way or another. Birth privileges must be totally outlawed, including the ones granted to males and Right Wingers.
They were middle class at the most. Squeakys dad was an aeronautical engineer who ignored her. Didn't speak to her for months on end even though they were in the same house. Susan "Sadie" Atkins grew up without a dad. Leslie Van Houten was crushed when her dad left and parents divorced. Hmmmm. I think I may on to why the girls were attracted to a magnetic male. And it ain't cause they were rolling in the dough.

Black Diamond
11-21-2017, 12:24 AM
Btw. It's up to moonbeam whether or not Leslie Van Houten gets parole now. It was recommended by the parole board.

darin
11-21-2017, 01:17 AM
would it be weird to get to heaven and see Charles Manson there?

The Sage of Main Street
11-21-2017, 03:52 PM
I think you'd fit right in down in Venezuela. They've got you covered, comrade.
Karl Marx was the sex slave of a Patty Hearst type duchess. Socialists are the brats of the rich you worship. Part of that spoiled hereditary class believed that democracy would inevitably outlaw their birth privileges, so they decided to take it over in order to maintain their Born to Rule self-delusion.

The Sage of Main Street
11-21-2017, 03:56 PM
Ah yes, the bigotry of the left on full display...






.
Limousine Liberals, Cadillac Conservatives, Rolls-Royce Radicals, Ferrari Fascists are all part of the Demolition Derby against democracy.

aboutime
11-21-2017, 03:56 PM
Karl Marx was the sex slave of a Patty Hearst type duchess. Socialists are the brats of the rich you worship. Part of that spoiled hereditary class believed that democracy would inevitably outlaw their birth privileges, so they decided to take it over in order to maintain their Born to Rule self-delusion.


Sage. I gotta be really honest with you, and your useless rants about nothingness.

I don't feel sorry your Buddy, and Hero Manson kicked the bucket, and is now worm-dirt.
With mentalities like both of you have, and had. Nobody will miss either of you longer than it takes to wipe my nose.

The Sage of Main Street
11-21-2017, 04:03 PM
Agree. We should have stopped feeding him in 69.

If those born in the White working class took back the laws, that creep would have been executed ​before he even started his cult. But no, we are forced to follow rules made by spoiled little sissies.