Rot in Hell: Charles Manson

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Dead of natural causes at age 83 (via CBC/SBC).

R.I.H.

Now that he's dead, can we get around to just remembering his victims, but forgetting him?

...I'm certainly not going to try and justify what he did, but (what he was convicted of was relatively minor, IIRC, but, yeah, he probably did more bad stuff that he was not convicted of), IIRC, he was pretty much mistreated and cast aside from childhood on . That can lead to horrors.
Also, to be blunt, there are killers/marauders evrn worse than him, who committed more than he did - but weren't supet-melodramatic " hippie death cult " leaders hanging around rock and movie stars - the template for umpteen paperback novels and B pictures.
To repeat myself - I am not justifying his actions or saying that he shouldn't have been punished - He was never executed because his trial happened at a time when the death penalty was on hold. If not, I would have had no overwhelming problem with his being executed. There, that bloodthirsty enough for you? .
However, one remembers Phil Ochs: " There but for fortune may go you or I " ...

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

If I recall correctly from the book Helter Skelter (written by the prosecuting attorney) Manson orchestrated the murder of 4 people in Beverly Hills and a delivery guy, and then an elderly couple in Los Angeles. And tried to frame the Black Panthers. He was hoping for a race war in which people of color would prevail, but would also need Manson to be their leader.

What will Geraldo, and the Tabloids, do now that they don't have their favorite villain to exploit when the news gets slow? lol!

The families of his victims can finally get the sense of peace anticipated for almost fifty years.

Glad he's finally gone.

They're being very hush-hush about the cause of death. All I read was that Manson had had gastrointestinal bleeding, but because of his age and fragile health, no surgery was performed.