As I’ve written before here on FR over the years when mention of the Manson Family appears, I absolutely hate every single one of them and if it were up to me to decide to execute them all at once with a single press of a button or let them remain alive and in prison, I’d press the button with both thumbs and never think about them anymore. Without pity, mercy, or remorse.
I was a kindergartener in Southern California when the Manson Family did their crimes and read all I needed to know about them from Bugliosi’s book which was left laying around and available to me at such an early age. I watched the LAPD shootout with the Symbionese Liberation Army live on television and between them and the Mansons I came to regard every counterculture shaggy longhair as a societal cretin to be on guard from.
Today I’m a grown man, but if liberals today are now in favor of finally paroling a member of that fiendishly wicked Manson Family who by all rights should have been executed decades ago in California’s gas chamber, I’d just like to remind them that it’s people like Leslie Van Houten who are the reason I own all kinds of firearms today and didn’t foolishly grow up thinking that a smiling young woman couldn’t possibly be a savage demon deserving of being sent back to hell by any means necessary.
Leslie Van Houten, take this as due warning that if California is stupid enough to let you wriggle free from the prison you deserve to die in as a dried up old unloved hag and I catch you stepping one toe onto my property, I’ll explode your head from my doorstep like it was an overinflated balloon filled with red shaving cream. You goddamned better believe, you sick twisted witch.
Very well said!
You tell em old man, I swear what the hell is going on in our nation, I bet she is getting off easy cause she is a woman, just like Jodi Arias not getting the death penalty.
I knew two people who were part of the Manson Family. Went to high school with one, worked at a restaurant with another a few years later. They both came from very unhappy homes and I guess the Manson “family” gave them something to belong to. Neither were involved in the crimes, they were just part of the larger group.
The kid from high school wanted some of us to go up to Hollywood with him to meet his new friends, the “family”. We got the idea that is was a rock band of some sort, but he insisted it was just something called “the family”. Anyway he ran away from home to go live there. I think he’s mentioned once in Helter-Skelter as one of the younger teens living with the group.