Great news! Murderous cult leader Charles Manson is dead!
Bad news -- he lived to a thoroughly rotten old age. Demonic cult leader Charles Manson gets to be with his buddy Satan forever. In orange, depicting the heat of the place in which he now lives. A place that makes brutally-hot Kern County, California summers seem downright chilly by contrast.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Killer-Cult-Leader-Charles-Manson-Dies-409655795.html
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Bad news -- he lived to a thoroughly rotten old age. Demonic cult leader Charles Manson gets to be with his buddy Satan forever. In orange, depicting the heat of the place in which he now lives. A place that makes brutally-hot Kern County, California summers seem downright chilly by contrast.
Quote:Charles Manson, the California drifter-turned-cult leader responsible for a string of murders that cast a dark pall over the summer of 1969, died Sunday night in a Kern County Hospital. He was 83.
Debra Tate, the sister of actress Sharon Tate, one of Manson's most famous victims, received a call from Corcoran State Prison telling her Manson died at 8:13 PM.
While Manson died of natural causes, Tate knew he had been sick for a long time and was "expecting" this.
Manson was recently taken to Bakersfield Hospital where he was being treated for intestinal bleeding since January. Surgery was recommended but it was later deemed too risky.
He had been locked up since his arrest in December 1969 following his conviction for orchestrating the murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others. Some of his followers remain behind bars for their part in the killings. One, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, attempted to kill President Gerald Ford, and was later released on parole in 2009.
Tate says she will make sure all of Manson's followers remain behind bars for the rest of their lives. “I’ve forgiven them, but that does not mean I’ve forgotten what they did … I will never forget,” she said.
At a former movie ranch outside Los Angeles, he and his devotees — many of them young runaways who likened him to Jesus Christ — lived commune-style, using drugs and taking part in orgies. Children from privileged backgrounds ate garbage from supermarket trash.
"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.
It was the summer of the first moon landing. War raged in Vietnam. Hippies flooded the streets of San Francisco and gathered in upstate New York for the Woodstock music festival. But many remember the time for Los Angeles' most shocking celebrity murders.
Fear swept the city after a maid reporting for work ran screaming from the elegant home where Tate lived with her husband, "Rosemary's Baby" director Roman Polanski. Scattered around the estate were blood-soaked bodies.
The beautiful 26-year-old actress, who was 8½ months pregnant, was stabbed and hung from a rafter in her living room. Also killed were Abigail Folger, heiress to a coffee fortune; Polish film director Voityck Frykowksi; Steven Parent, a friend of the estate's caretaker; and celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, killed by Manson follower Charles "Tex" Watson, who announced his arrival by saying: "I am the devil, and I'm here to do the devil's work."
The next night, wealthy grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, were stabbed to death in their home in another neighborhood.
Manson was arrested three months later.
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I'm not taking back my assessment of Salvatore Riina.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.