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Title: 45 Years too late
Post by: Northwoods on November 20, 2017, 01:41:52 AM

Charles Manson finally dead.

https://nypost.com/2017/11/20/mass-murderer-charles-manson-dead-at-83/

Title: Re: 45 Years too late
Post by: Fly320s on November 20, 2017, 09:17:48 AM

49 years too late.   :police:

Title: Re: 45 Years too late
Post by: Northwoods on November 20, 2017, 09:58:18 AM

Well, I was allowing for the time required to convict and sentence.

Title: Re: 45 Years too late
Post by: AJ Dual on November 20, 2017, 12:01:48 PM

I'm always a silver lining, glass half-full kinda guy.

(Although I'm always wary the half full glass might be piss...)

I do think that the Manson murders did help bring the hippy phase of the counterculture to an end. And that's not a bad thing. I think most here know the truth that it definitely had its dark underside, full of class-envy and hatred for the "squares". Much like the rhetoric we've heard from the Occupy movement and Antifa. It was not all free love and pot/LSD, and Woodstock.

While it's certainly still execrable for any number of reasons, it seems that the cultural Zeitgeist for the "cool kids" started shifting to the Disco era. Still hedonistic, but much more materialistic, and lacking in that drive to "change society" for the most part.

Title: Re: 45 Years too late
Post by: Fly320s on November 20, 2017, 01:49:48 PM

Quote from: sumpnz on November 20, 2017, 09:58:18 AM

Well, I was allowing for the time required to convict and sentence.

And I was hoping he died before the murders.

Title: Re: 45 Years too late
Post by: HankB on November 20, 2017, 01:53:09 PM

"I've never killed a man, but I have read some obituaries with great satisfaction."

(Often attributed to Mark Twain, there's some doubt he actually said this. But it sounds like it's in character. And it fits here.)