Manson
and The
Girls
Murder Teens Drugs
and Preaching
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In August of 1969 a young
He was living with his aunt
beautiful nearly nine-month pregnant
when he first got into trouble. He was
actress named Sharon Tate was
nine at the time and was caught for
murdered. Slaughtered in her
stealing from a local market. From
Hollywood home by a group of
there he spent life in and out of reform
murders under the wing of Charles
school and jail.
Manson, seven were killed on this
When he was 32 he was finally
dark night in Hollywood. This wasn’t
released form jail, this was against his
the first or the last of the murders.
will, he wanted to stay. Charles felt
Charles Manson was born to a
comfortable in jail. He moved to San
young 16-year-old girl in Cincinnati
Francisco during the summer of love
Ohio. Most people that knew his mom
in 1967. He had an apartment in
knew her as a teenage whore who
Berkeley with a friend. They hung out
drank too much, and her life was a
around Haight and Ashbury a popular
mess. His mom was the kind of mom
hippie hang out. This is where he
you would never leave your kids with.
learned about drugs and how to
Charles never knew his real father, but
influence people with them.
his mom briefly married a man who
He started to attract a group of
gave the boy the last name Manson.
followers, most of them young girls.
When she was charged for armed
He tore the group a part, making them
robbery Charles was sent to live with
question what they thought was right
his aunt.
from wrong. He gave them LSD and
other drugs to “Open their minds.”
Drugs were always used to Manson’s
He told his followers they were
advantage. The so-called “Manson
going to be safe and escape this
Family” toured up and down the west
because they were in the desert far
coast. They eventually settled at a
from it. The Manson Family believed
ranch in Death Valley. It was what
that the blacks would murder the
they called their home; it was later to
whites in the year of 1969. Well when
be named by the public as The
this didn’t happen he said, "The only
Manson Ranch.
thing blackie knows is what whitey
Manson was obsessed with two
things his music and his philosophy.
He never impressed the music
has told him. I'm going to have to
show him how to do it."
They first killed Rosemary
producers and this frustrated him.
LaBianca and after took her wallet
When the Beatles released their song
into a gas station in a heavily black
Helter Skelter, he thought they were
neighborhood. They left her wallet
four angels sent from god. He believed
and credit cards in a woman’s
this song was talking to him. This song
bathroom to frame a black woman of
fit perfectly with his philosophy. He
the murder. This was another one of
believed that that African Americans
Manson theories or plots that never
would soon be taking over the United
worked.
States. Manson also told his followers
The Manson Family killed a
there would be a lot of murders of
total of seven people. The most
white people due to the take over.
famous murder was of the actress
Sharon Tate. The Strange thing is
Manson never committed any of the
their god. How can anyone believe or
murders. He convinced others to
call a murder a god.
murder for him, he has a very
convincing deceptive personality.
This has made many people
On an aol.com blog site a young
kid named Tim Madison writes about
how Manson is his god. He quotes his
wonder how can a man be so
philosophy and tries to give examples
manipulative, what kind of knowledge
of how it is true. He also is convinced
does it take to get young girls to
on how easy it is to understand
murder for? How can a troubled drug
Manson’s philosophy. He claims
influenced person be so convincing?
Manson is the Nordic God, the Wotan
On the date of the trial, Manson
showed up with a red swastika carved
war like god, The Gnostic God, and
Shiva a Hindu God.
into his forehead. The girls showed up
On other web sites you can find
with shaved heads and were singing
young Mason fans, are sites like
“happy songs” while walking through
myspace.com. There are a group of
the parking lot of the courthouse.
kids on MySpace, who have a clan.
Even on the day of the girls trial, he
They think Manson is the greatest
still had that much of an influence on
man in the world and should be set
them.
free. Well why would any one think
To this day Charles Manson
still has an impact on the world. He
this?
Its kids with this mind set that
still has kids reading his philosophy,
make people nervous. Would they
wearing his shirts, and calling him
ever take it to the next step and
actually kill someone in Manson’s
Manson did in the late 1960’s and the
name, or is it just a way of getting
early 1970’s. He is one of the scariest
their parents attention. After all the
men of our time. One reason people
girls that murdered for Manson have
believe Manson is so influential on
the same characteristics. They wanted
young kids is because of the quotes he
attention, they followed Manson
uses. He portrays the message that
words, and they viewed him as a God.
kids parents make them into bad
Then you get the musician
people, liars, thief’s, cheats, Satanist,
Marilyn Manson who takes his last
and he says he just help’s the kids
name from Charles Manson. He goes
realize it. He also gives very
out and performs for an audience of
comforting advice like, “Our family is a
anti social kids putting an image of
circle of love and strength. With every
Charles in their heads. This shows that
birth and every union, the circle
a person with a certain type of
grows. Every joy shared adds more
personality can really make a
love. Every obstacle faced together
difference in the world today. Even if
makes the circle stronger.” He also
your completely evil.
tells them, “If you're alone, I'll be your
Any one that can get a group of
shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your
mainly young female’s to go out and
shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be
murder on your behalf, and in the
your pillow. If you need to be happy,
name of your teachings takes a certain
I'll be your smile. But anytime you
type of person. Not many people have
need a friend, I'll just be me.” Quotes
ever scared the nation like Charles
like these are the reason that Manson
was believed to be so deceptive and
misleading. It’s still amazing to this
day how much attention he can still
get.
If you ever read any of
Manson’s philosophy you quickly
realize that just about anything he
preaches has multiple meanings.
Manson’s voiced cultivated a group of
over a hundred plus people, he said he
would have killed hundreds earlier if
he would have realized the effects he
was having on the nation. Manson still
is an issue of public concern because
you still have people following his
teachings, remember he never killed
anyone it was just the people that
listened to him.