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What sickness is it that keeps sending me kids and followers? It's your world out
there that does it. I don't solicit any mail or ask anyone to come and visit me. Yet the
mail continues to arrive and your pretty little flowers of innocence keep showing up
at the gate. Hell, they don't know me. They only know what your world has projected
and won't let go of. 71

That his evil is really ours projected through him is cheap justification
for brutality and conscienceless destruction of human life and consistent
with his lifelong inability to accept responsibility for his actions. It is also a
damning statement. The press will always report stories about an evil man
who kills by remote control, wonder how it can happen, and ask how he
attracts so many damaged souls. But for all its coverage and analysis of the
Manson murders, however, the press fails to report on why society produces
so many damaged souls.


NOTES
1 Ed Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack
Battalion ( New York: Avon Books, 1971), 40.
2 Vincent Bugliosi, with Curt Gentry, Helter Skelter, The True Story of the
Manson Murders ( New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974, 1994), 408. The
Bugliosi/Gentry book is an encyclopedic version of the state's perspective.
3 Charles Manson as told to Nuel Emmons, In His Own Words, The Shocking
Confessions of "The Most Dangerous Man Alive" -- Rolling Stone ( New York: Grove
Press, 1986), 222.
4 Charles Watson as told to Chaplain Ray Hoekstra, Will You Die For Me? ( Old
Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1978), 69-74.
5 Ibid., 71-72.
6 Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, The True Story of the Manson Murders, 237.
7 Manson, In His Own Words, The Shocking Confessions of "The Most
Dangerous Man Alive" -- Rolling Stone, 91.
8 Ibid., 108.
9 Ibid., 108-119.
10 Ibid., 119.
11 Ibid., 111.
12 Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack
Battalion, 42.
13 Susan Atkins with Bob Slosser, Child of Satan, Child of God ( Plainfield, N.J.:
Logos International, 1977), 80-81.
14 Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack
Battalion, 38.
15 Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, The True Story of the Manson Murders, 225.
16 Sanders, The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack
Battalion, 193-194.
17 Bugliosi, Helter Skelter, The True Story of the Manson Murders, 232.

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