Aww, shucks!
I knew two people who lived with the Manson Family. Fortunately for them they weren’t around for the murders.
I actually disagree with this. The crime WAS brutal, but she is no longer a threat and she has paid sufficiently for her crimes. We let gang bangers out of jail every day who are 100% more of a threat to all of us than she is. The parole board is playing politics to public opinion and the media.
Doesn’t some liberal college need teachers?
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It's a shame the executions weren't carried out before the death penalty was temporarily overturned in CA, it's what they all deserved.
No Manson family member in prison should ever be paroled, IMO.
I believe the Parole Board’s exact words to Houten in denying her parole was “FORK YOU”.
Incidentally, the brother of a man who married my late aunt was one of the cops that broke into the Tate/Polanski residence after the killing. He said he never saw so much slaughter in his life -- before or since. :(
Aww, shucks!
Vince Bugliosi said in 1980 (he was speaking at my college) That of all the murderers, buggerers (sp?) and thieves he ever dealt with, the one that really frightened him was Charlie.
You would think Roman Polanski would have manned up and taken some of these vermin out from the inside. But he’s a pedophile, so I guess not.
If someone did that to my wife and unborn child, “Law Abiding Citizen” time would ensue; take as many of them out as possible is as painful of a manner as possible.
I’m surprised no ones taken any of these trash or John Lennon’s killer out yet.
Good, let the witch rot.
Excellent! Now fry the bitch.
I’m having a hard time working up any sympathy for Ms. Houten.
The television we had seemed to be continuously running stories about the Manson trials, Patty Hearst, the search for Bill and Emily Harris, the fiery SLA shootout (I saw them burn to death on good old KTTV Channel 11 out of Los Angeles), the final days of Vietnam and the fall of Saigon, creepy European left wing "Red Army" militants setting off bombs everywhere, Black Panthers on the run, President Nixon facing impeachment, and and all the while every single adult I lived around was riveted to all this shockingly-weird violent insanity on the tube. I'd never regarded Arabs as anything but terrorists in ski masks trying to set the world on fire and kill children.
Everywhere I went there were copies of Bugliosi's Helter Skelter with the middle of the book displaying all the shocking pictures of the Manson murder victims, made to seem even more horrifying to my eyes because the murder victims themselves were 'whited-out' in the crime scene photos. Not to mention all the pictures of the dirty violent Manson hippies and their kooky clothes.
I started grade school when all that stuff was reaching it's peak. Just try to imagine. The culture of the early 1970s had imprinted on me as a young child the fact that hippies were dirty creepy people who were to be avoided and that Apollo astronauts were basically the only decent thing in America -- Well, them and girls who looked like Marcia Brady.
Piss on Leslie Van Houten for what she did. California better never let her out of jail. In fact, when she dies in prison, there needs to be a rule that they bury her body right out there in the prison courtyard. Only thing I can say positive about her is that she helped make me a conservative at a very young age. I swore that when I grew up to be an adult, the first thing I was going to do was buy a gun. So, for that, Leslie, thanks. You dirty evil bitch.
L.A. has thousands of gang-bangers of many stripes who go through the revolving doors of courts who have murdered, maimed, raped and robbed many people, not only their own kind.
If you doubt it, just look up the perfectly named Johnny Mata (Spanish for kill) who was recently released while up on a murder charge. He is a lifelong killer who has been in and out many times.
The reason the Manson women killers are still in prison is because this case is so famous and the girls were wild and poor and the murders heinous. They were justified in going to prison and getting the death sentence. California decided to commute the sentences. Ever since OJ, my opinion on Capital Punishment has changed. That murderer walked and will soon be out again. Enough of this, they more than did their best years in prison. Free up the space for more Johnny Mata’s.
Why do they have parole hearings for people sentenced to life without possibility of parole?
She should have killed a Republican, she’d have been freed by 1980, maybe earlier.
Good.
A smug little girl learns her lesson for the 20th time - nice :-)