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Charlie Manson Is a Bad Man Who Doesn’t Want the World to End

I didn't actually get this from Stacy, but nowadays one can't be too careful about attribution.

Charlie's always been into apocalypse. The Tate-Bianco murders were fueled by acid-induced psychosis and Manson's vision of an American race war that would reconstitute society in such a way that the haves and have nots would effectively trade places, much, I suppose, as happened in Haiti, with such salutary benefits. Except that in Haiti, of course, there really were rigid class and racial social barriers, and slavery, and all the rest.

Paco calls it Melter Skelter that now, 40 years after being sentenced for leading his creepy little cult on their murder spree, and after 20 years of self-imposed silence, he's opened his demented maw to Vanity Fair Spain to warn about the imminent liquidation of the polar ice caps.

Charlie's apparent belief in this hockey-sticked hooey doesn't, in and of itself, discredit global warmism or climacaust changiness. Their cult is much bigger and more successful than his ever was. However, Frances Fox Piven and other leftists have kept alive the idea of class war, always best when it's tinged with racial strife, and are deeply disappointed that Americans are so much wimpier than their European counterparts when it comes to protecting their "rights" to the benefits bestowed on them by the Leviathan state, which is the apotheosis of The People. Speaking behind closed doors at a fundraising dinner a few nights ago, Obama could barely contain his disgust at those Qataris whose high standard of living makes them uninterested in rising up and striking a blow for democracy. Democracy Obama likes, so long as it's highly regulated in conformity with the Right Principles (which, luckily, are his); Constitutional Democracy, as practiced in the United States, he finds appallingly cumbersome.

Mind you, Bill Ayers' bride thought it was very groovy and far out that Manson's followers inserted cutlery into the distended belly of the pregnant Sharon Tate, though Ayers himself never meant to kill anyone, really, with his bombs and all that, and feels that when you get right down to it they didn't do enough.

Of course, that swastika Manson carved into his forehead was nothing but an affectation of badness, the memory of the Nazi nightmare having been so much more vivid back then. It had nothing at all to do with fascism, though as I say, it's possible that even Charlie Manson could be right about something.

Dan Collins

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