Charles Manson's last hideout burns in California

[Tab]

Source: Associated Press

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. – A California desert cabin that became cult leader Charles Manson's last hideout has been gutted by fire.

Death Valley National Park spokesman Terry Baldino said Thursday that the isolated cabin was discovered burned on Tuesday.

He says it's not known if it was an accident or a deliberate act.

The cabin was last seen intact Friday and may have burned over the weekend.

Manson and his followers hid at the cabin after killing actress Sharon Tate and seven others in the summer of 1969. He was arrested there that fall and is serving a life sentence.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/ap_on_re_us/us_manson_ranch_fire

[Auggie]

1. It's amazing it was still standing

[bemildred]

2. Gotta watch out for those pyromaniac kangaroo mice. nt

[Ikonoklast]

3. Too bad he wasn't in it.

[Generator]

4. Too bad it's not Guantanamo bay or rendition hell holes

First thing that came into my mind, as if someday-forty years from now-if we are lucky we will finally be free of this evil.

[Tab]

6. He's 74

With any luck, it won't take quite that long.

[bluestateguy]

5. Charles Manson: still eating 3 meals a day and sleeping in a warm bed, at taxpayer expense

nt

[tkmorris]

7. And that is exactly as it should be IMHO

Killing people is vengeance, not justice.

[Politicalboi]

8. Don't forget now

That is cheaper than putting him to death so some say. I don't believe it. They all should have been executed after the trial. This August 9th and 10th it will be 40 years.

[RedCloud]

11. Once politicians dangle corpses in front of the blood thirsty

There will be no power to stop the mob from clamoring for more and more to be put to death.

[heliarc]

12. The mob deserves a dangling Kissinger

Just as the Italians deserved a dangling Mussolini, the Chileans deserved a dangling Pinochet... and the french a dangling Louis.

A dangling Manson? Maybe so... but I think there are good enough arguments for dangling corpses in front of the blood thirsty... at least when the bloodthirsty are righteous.

I am fine with Manson where he is..., but I think Pinochet should have been killed by due process (as opposed to politicians)... it is meant to be due process isn't it? Not politicians?

[saigon68]

15. BE CAREFUL ABOUT REVENGE Life Magazine 100 Photos that changed the world

There's this gem




Indiana (Home of the Bayh Family) Lynching 1930

A mob of 10,000 whites took sledgehammers to the county jailhouse doors to get at these two young blacks accused of raping a white girl;

Although this was Marion, Ind., most of the nearly 5,000 lynchings documented between Reconstruction and the late 1960s were perpetrated in the South. (Hangings, beatings and mutilations were called the sentence of “Judge Lynch.”) Some lynching photos were made into postcards designed to boost white supremacy

Today the images remind us that we have not come as far from barbarity as we’d like to think.

ALL ONE HUNDRED

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm_index.html

[depakid]

13. 'I don't believe it.'

A lot of folks don't have much appreciation for expensive due process. Gets in the way of that pound of flesh-

Here's a paper on point that discusses the alternatives:

http://www.fnsa.org/v1n1/dieter1.html

[CountAllVotes]

10. sadly

Charles Manson has spent most of his life behind bars. He is a sick sick man no doubt.

The taxpayers paid for it alright and they still let him out and thus he was allowed to commit these awful murders by the very system he was more on less a product of.

Perhaps the fact that he still lives on is an example for people to see and remember of what evil is like, I don't know.

:dem:

[AlphaCentauri]

9. it would make a good tourist attraction n/t

[liberal N proud]

14. Guess that spot can be removed as a tourist destination.

[Hannah Bell]

16. I thought the place was interesting, not for the manson connection, just for the place.

http://www.charliemanson.com/barker-search-3.htm