re: #153 Jadespring

I had heard about him and his ‘race war’ but not in that detail.

It’s all in the Bugliosi book about Manson. VB was the prosecutor on the case.

There’s a great deal of info available about the Manson murders; the sensational info is what we still remember now, but Manson had a fully worked out ideology. Race war, the number 144,000, and various biblical shit came into it.

He also did some vicious things to the members of his “Family”, particularly the women. The coverage focusses on “How could a middleclass girl go out and do such things” — but at the time, in the trial and the press coverage, no one wanted to talk about what he was doing to them to break them down.

Very, very foul stuff.