https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqcTVVUFnKQ
Sampled here in a Death Grips song - stay noided
Sampled here in a Death Grips song - stay noided
Charles Manson, a Villain in Life & Death, Praised as a Counterculture Hero in 1969, Dead at 83 Manson, the man who struck a violent coda to the era of peace and love, met his end in a Bakersfield hospital at 83.
Manson started his family in the Bay Area, where he tripped at a Grateful Dead concert at the Avalon Ballroom and busked in Haight-Ashbury for spare change, before heading south. The conman projected an oracular wiseman to fools. Biographer Ed Sanders notes, “The reality was that he was a glib grubby little man with a guitar scrounging for young girls using mysticism and guru babble.”
More than his naïve female followers fell for it. Even after Manson stood accused of orchestrating the murders of ten human beings in four separate incidents in 1969, some radicals stood by him. Others lionized him.
At their infamous Flint, Michigan, War Party at the end of 1969, the Weathermen hoisted a “Charles Manson Power” banner and spelled out pregnant victim Sharon Tate’s name in bullets. Trust-fund revolutionaries Diana Oughton and Kathy Boudin, the former obliterated by a bomb she hoped to explode at a soldier’s dance and the latter convicted of murder in the 1980s, idolized the Manson Family so much that they nicknamed their Weatherman cadre “The Fork” in homage to the eating utensil shoved into deceased victim Leno LaBianca’s stomach by Patricia Krenwinkel.
The charismatic Bernardine Dohrn, later a friend of Barack and Michelle Obama, feverishly told Weatherman followers: “Dig it: first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach. Wild!”
When I asked Weatherman Mark Rudd why his otherwise intelligent friends paid homage to Manson, he told me: “We wanted to be bad.”
Like Dohrn, Rolling Stone later went on to enjoy mainstream respectability despite publishing bizarre views on one of the twentieth century’s most notorious serial killers. Whereas Manson looked every bit the madman on the cover of Life, he appeared as a visionary on the front page of Rolling Stone. Therein, the magazine depicted Manson’s refusal to offer an insanity plea as a principled stand and characterized his criticism of the legal system as “obviously accurate in many ways.” In calling him Charlie, a first-name-basis intimacy later reserved for Madonna, Prince, Bruce, and other singing celebrities, the magazine actively sought to humanize the man who dehumanized so many.
Other underground newspapers went further. The Los Angeles-based Tuesday’s Child proclaimed, “Manson: Man of the Year” on one cover and depicted Manson as Jesus Christ dying on the cross under the tag “Hippie” on another. The Los Angeles Free Press ran a weekly column penned by Manson. The Other, playing off controversial remarks made by the president, headlined an issue “Manson Declares Nixon Guilty.” Upon the release of an album of Manson’s music, several underground newspapers provided advertising for it gratis.
Just another vile liberal.
libs love violence wrote:
Just another vile liberal.
He related to Rose McGowans boyfriend Marilyn Manson?
She got class, that one.
I was 20ish when Manson's "Family" committed its murders. I've been surrounded by liberal friends and family all of my life. Not a single person I knew ever admired Manson. As for the Weathermen, you realize they had about as large a following then as the Westboro Baptist Church does now, right?
F_ck Charles Manson I don't want him either.
That right wing Nazi tatt tho.
libs love violence wrote:
Just another vile liberal.
All the hate for this guy, and he never killed anyone.
I didn't realize he was that old.
Impressive he lived that long considering how crazy he was, and being in prison and all.
No, I don't respect the guy, just commending on longevity.
83? wrote:
I didn't realize he was that old.
Impressive he lived that long considering how crazy he was, and being in prison and all.
No, I don't respect the guy, just commending on longevity.
Now there's a guy that ran on pure hate.
Cali too liberal and PC to execute him
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I'm personally surprised by the amount of hate from younger generations. Not that the man doesn't deserve it, but why are so many teenagers, with no concept of the man's crimes, so hateful toward him? Because his name is well known?
83? wrote:
I didn't realize he was that old.
Impressive he lived that long considering how crazy he was, and being in prison and all.
No, I don't respect the guy, just commending on longevity.
Isn't commending a form of praise and respect?
He meant "commenting".
WTF is wrong with millennials?
https://twitter.com/CagedTigersRMad/status/932559366703796224
salt and pepa wrote:
That right wing Nazi tatt tho.
libs love violence wrote:
Just another vile liberal.
His racist views would have made him right at home on Letsrun. In fact I wonder if the Brojos ever reached out to him to be a moderator here.
Uncle Leo wrote:
Now there's a guy that ran on pure hate.
lol
Would rather see examples of millennials actually wishing him a peaceful afterlife than some tool claiming it is happening.
Uncle Leo wrote:
[quote]83? wrote:
Now there's a guy that ran on pure hate.
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If he had picked up a pair of spikes and done hills and 200 repeats instead of drugs and weapons, he would have run 1:38 for sure.
But he wouldn't have gotten laid as much.
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NAU women have no excuse - they should win it all at 2024 NCAA XC
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?