I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
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I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.
'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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