by Tonopah » Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:29 am
The 60's and early 70's were pretty crazy in the US. and California was a breeding ground for the ridiculous and the truly scary sort.
Jim Jones cut his teeth in San Francisco and later killed his followers.. with tainted Kool-Aid.
The Weather Underground planted bombs at a SF police substation.
The Zodiac killer whacked 4 or 5 people in the SF bay area, he taunted and goaded police with coded cyphers. He was never caught.
Symbionese Liberation Army robbed banks, killed people and recruited Patty Hearst as an accomplice - leader Donald DeFreeze died in a burning house during a siege with LA cops. Patty Hearst walked even though bank cameras showed her wielding a shotgun during a robbery.
Synanon was another freaky group. Members shaved their heads and lived in secretive communes where children were abused and molested. Members of the cult were used as extras in the science fiction film THX-1138.
Charlie Manson and the hobo and jug wine horseshit was Manson aping folksinger Woody Guthrie. He fancied himself a songwriter, poet and free-spirit of the free love culture. Its an act and a delusion.
Don't play word games or conjure abstractions. Manson is insane and evil.
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