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- Bizarre Vision
With the killers behind bars, the Manson story still endures
some believe that his influence went way beyond the West
Coast. What were the true motives behind the events of
1969? There is no obligation to prove motive in a murder
trial.
Confession and evidence proved beyond doubt that the accused
in the Manson trial were guilty. Why they did it is another
story. To find one possible reason, it is necessary to
go back to July 1969. Tex Watson was involved with a black
drug dealer called Bernard Crowe. lex bought $2.400 worth
of drugs from him. but refused to pay.
Crowe and two minders burst into Watson's girlfriend's
flat. Tex had disappeared and Crowe became threatening.
Manson and another Family member. TJ Wallemann. went to
the flat, and Manson shot Crowe.
Fortifications
Manson believed he had killed him and the very next day
news came out that a Black Panther had been found shot
dead. In fact Crowe had not died and the Black Panther
was someone completely different, but Manson was paranoid
that the wrath of the Black Panthers was about to descend
on him and the Family.
He began to fortify the Spahn Ranch, buying guns and preparing
additional hiding places out in the desert. While Manson
awaited the revenge of the Panthers. Gary Hinman. drugs
supplier, was accused by a biker gang of supplying a bad
batch. They began to apply pressure on Bobby Beausoleil.
It was Hinman's inability to provide the money that led
to his death. As an afterthought. Bobby Beausoleil and
Sadie Mae Glutz tried to involve the Panthers, perhaps
get the police after them, by daubing the Panther sign
and also a Panther word for white authority - PIG. When
Beausoleil was picked up and accused of Hinman's murder.
Sadie and the girls decided to try to free him. According
to Manson. they thought some copycat murders would be
the answer. If Bobby was in jail and similar murders were
committed, he would be free from suspicion. Manson always
denied that he was the instigator, but he instructed Tex
to go to the Tate residence.
He also chose the houses they were to go to. though he
did not know the victims. He had gone to 10050 Cielo Drive
with Dennis Wilson. He had also been to the house next
door to 3301 Waverley Drive, the home of a drug dealer
called Harold True. At the trial, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi
put forward a much more bizarre motive, which he called
Helter Skelter.
Bugliosi claimed that Manson had evolved an apocalyptic
world vision from a set of unlikely sources: the Bible,
particularly Revelation 9: the lyrics of the Beatles:
scientology and Robert Hemlem's science fiction classic.
Stranger in a Strange Land. According to Bugliosi.
Manson believed that there was about to be a bloody revolution
when the black man rose up and that he was meant to find
a great pit in the desert to hide his followers underground
while racial war raged above.
When the fighting was over, with the blacks victorious,
he and his followers would emerge, and the stupid and
inexperienced blacks would beg him to be their leader.
This gothic theory was called Helter Skelter, after a
Beatles" song. The murders were done. to stir up
black and white antipathy, in effect to start the revolution.
Split identity
Manson himself in Without Conscience plays down the whole
idea. But what Manson says he thinks and what other people
think of Manson are two different things. Probably the
motive was a mixture of various things: Manson wanted
to frighten off the Panthers, and to get his own back
on the 'fat cats" who had rejected him and refused
to listen to his music.
In any event, his followers were persuaded to kill. He
brainwashed them through a mixture of scientology techniques
and the warping of language. A favourite word for kill
was "discorporate" which is what Heinlein's
hero.
Valentine Smith, did to his enemies. In the end the Manson
murders were a result of the lethal cocktail of Manson
s philosophy finding a place in the hollowed out souls
of Bobby and Mary. Tex and Katie. Leslie and Sadie Mae.
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