Ok so my first rant is going to be about something that i probably know a bit to much about.
Starting out on August 8th and 9th of this year (2009) was the 40th anniversary of the Tate/Labianca murders committed by the infamous Manson family. One week later Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme the most avid follower of Charles Manson was released from The Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, after the 1975 attempted assassination of then president Gerald Ford. Though it was secret service agents who subdued her and took the loaded weapon from her since there was no bullet in the chamber she was given life with the possibility of parole. On the 16th of August that possibility became a reality. It was speculated that she never really intended to kill the president but was merely attempting to lunge Manson's name back into the headlines. She was obviously idolized by much of the family after Charlies incarceration as she was openly his favorite of them all. She has since been idolized by another icon. She was named as "The hot Manson chick" in the Rob Zombie film "House of 1000 Corpses" and the lines in the movie recited by Baby Firefly (Sherri Moon Zombie) "What ever needs to be done, You do it. There is no wrong. If somebody needs to be killed, you kill em' " were actually taken from the opening lines of a 1973 documentary on the Manson family staring several of the original family members.
17 days after Squeakys realease, on September the 2nd, Susan Atkins AKA Sadie May Gluts one member of the Manson family that was personally responsible for the brutal stabbing death of actress Sharron Tate and her unborn child was denied medical clemency having terminal brain cancer. The actual brutality of the murder was so terrible it really isn't surprising that she is still so horribly thought of. Sharron Tate was forced to watch her friends die before being strangled and then stabbed 16 times. But the media saturation was I believe due to her fame. She was young, beautiful, rich, and famous. An actresses fame that overshadowed what was really going on at that time. The police and citizens of California wanted to believe that it was drugs, devil worshipers, and scape goat they could find really. However after the eventual apprehension of the Manson family it was Susan Atkins bragging to her cell mates that ultimately lead the police to the evidence they needed for convictions. And though later in life Atkins claimed to be so under the influence of LDS, Belladonna, ect... and under the influence of Manson himself that she bairly remembered much of the 2 years she spent with Charlie. After doing work with churches and writing books and claiming to be a born agin Christian she never officially appoligized to the victoms families.
My problem with the situation is that i believe the reason Squeaky was freed and Sadie was not is because it was a much more public spectacle and much more media saturated when Sharron Tate died than when Squeaky tried to kill the president. Now my sister disagrees with me on the fact the one cost 2 lives, the other on ALMOST cost 1. I understand that point but I firmly believe if it had been a poor nameless person instead of Sharron Tate, that Sadie would have been free before Squeaky. Everything in life depends on what level of expendable you are. And had it been some junky prostitute instead of a movie star they probably would have never even broke a sweat looking for the killers.
Anyways i may add more later.
Starting out on August 8th and 9th of this year (2009) was the 40th anniversary of the Tate/Labianca murders committed by the infamous Manson family. One week later Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme the most avid follower of Charles Manson was released from The Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, after the 1975 attempted assassination of then president Gerald Ford. Though it was secret service agents who subdued her and took the loaded weapon from her since there was no bullet in the chamber she was given life with the possibility of parole. On the 16th of August that possibility became a reality. It was speculated that she never really intended to kill the president but was merely attempting to lunge Manson's name back into the headlines. She was obviously idolized by much of the family after Charlies incarceration as she was openly his favorite of them all. She has since been idolized by another icon. She was named as "The hot Manson chick" in the Rob Zombie film "House of 1000 Corpses" and the lines in the movie recited by Baby Firefly (Sherri Moon Zombie) "What ever needs to be done, You do it. There is no wrong. If somebody needs to be killed, you kill em' " were actually taken from the opening lines of a 1973 documentary on the Manson family staring several of the original family members.
17 days after Squeakys realease, on September the 2nd, Susan Atkins AKA Sadie May Gluts one member of the Manson family that was personally responsible for the brutal stabbing death of actress Sharron Tate and her unborn child was denied medical clemency having terminal brain cancer. The actual brutality of the murder was so terrible it really isn't surprising that she is still so horribly thought of. Sharron Tate was forced to watch her friends die before being strangled and then stabbed 16 times. But the media saturation was I believe due to her fame. She was young, beautiful, rich, and famous. An actresses fame that overshadowed what was really going on at that time. The police and citizens of California wanted to believe that it was drugs, devil worshipers, and scape goat they could find really. However after the eventual apprehension of the Manson family it was Susan Atkins bragging to her cell mates that ultimately lead the police to the evidence they needed for convictions. And though later in life Atkins claimed to be so under the influence of LDS, Belladonna, ect... and under the influence of Manson himself that she bairly remembered much of the 2 years she spent with Charlie. After doing work with churches and writing books and claiming to be a born agin Christian she never officially appoligized to the victoms families.
My problem with the situation is that i believe the reason Squeaky was freed and Sadie was not is because it was a much more public spectacle and much more media saturated when Sharron Tate died than when Squeaky tried to kill the president. Now my sister disagrees with me on the fact the one cost 2 lives, the other on ALMOST cost 1. I understand that point but I firmly believe if it had been a poor nameless person instead of Sharron Tate, that Sadie would have been free before Squeaky. Everything in life depends on what level of expendable you are. And had it been some junky prostitute instead of a movie star they probably would have never even broke a sweat looking for the killers.
Anyways i may add more later.
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