A Recent Statement by Charles Manson on his Doctrine of ATWA

If I told you the truth
and you did something about it
would I be sent to prison
for being your leader
and blamed for the problems of the world?
Seems to me
that’s a lot like
what I have been in prison for 40 years this time.
If I told you
if you let them cut the trees
and you do not do nothing [...]

Check out A.C.’s Blog for Info about Charles Manson getting out of Solitary and new info on contacting him

http://theaceplace.blogspot.com/2008/09/charles-is-out-of-secure-housing-unit.html

Charles Manson “Critique of Meat-eating”

Every morning you eat
that meat with your teeth.
You’re all killers,
you kill things
better than you.
And what can I say to you
that you don’t already know?
And I have known
that there is nothing
I can say to you.
There is nothing
I can say to any of you.
It is [...]

Both parts of Charles Manson’s Latest Essay are up at Ace’s Place

http://theaceplace.blogspot.com/

New Text from C.M. at Ace’s Place

http://theaceplace.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-have-been-sent-5-photos_12.html

Manson’s Letter to Timothy Leary

Los Angeles Free Press October 9, 1970
General Tim Leary (Sunstone):
So I hear your call to arms to face the fears mad dog of suppression. My soul cries from a misty grave as I’ve always lived in this tomb of living dead. I’ve cried so long for freedom until becoming one with self is like to [...]

The American Meaning of Charles Manson

An intesting article I recently found in the Internet archives:
http://fromspahnranch.wordpress.com/the-american-meaning-of-charley-manson/

One Law

I don’t care.
I have one law
and I learned it
when I was a kid in reform school.
It’s don’t snitch.
And I have never snitched.
And I told them
that anything they do for their brothers
and sisters is good,
if they do it with a good thought.
from “The One Way of [...]

New Book Alert

Riding On Your Fears
by Curt Rowlett
http://www.lulu.com/content/2242551
Riding On Your Fears is an essay that takes a look at a few of the unsolved mysteries surrounding the murders committed by Charles Manson and his infamous “family.” The author asks and seeks to provide answers to such hard questions as, could Manson be considered a true counter-culture revolutionary? [...]

Lets Drink the Kool-Aid! (Book Review)

Manson Family Picnic
Text by R. Downey & Garth Powell
illustrated by R. Downey
Santa Rosa, CA: Playroom Press, 1997
44pp comic book
This is a strange little comic book with a drawing of a Kool-Aid pitcher with a happy face drawn on it, smiling at the invasion of picnic ants which dot the front cover. The same cover also [...]