Why "Squeaky" Fromme was released this week: Woodstock

[Cetacea]

It's a bit ironic that she is released the same week of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Perhaps a bit tin-foilish but I believe it is to continue the myth that she was a "hippy" that followed anything-but-a-hippy Charles Manson, and that this is proof why hippies are dirty, disgusting drug adled murderers. And all of those rotten hippy types took over a farm for three days, took drugs and left a dirty mess behind.

[Joanne98]

1. She has more in common with Glenn Beck....

They both want to start a race war......

They both think bringing guns to Presidential events is cool.

[Cetacea]

2. True enough. But to the public she was a "hippy" who followed a "hippy".

Considering "W" made a statement that he was at war with 60's ideology I believe reflects part of the right wing agenda, even after all of these years.

[Joanne98]

5. The public is stupid. Charlie was a redneck.

[laststeamtrain]

3. Mae Brussell on Manson & the crushing of the counter culture & Paul Krassner on a trip w/Squeaky

http://www.maebrussell.com/Transcriptions/Show%2016.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/my-acid-trip-with-squeaky_b_252681.html

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I remember hearing Manson's music on Krassner's radio show, The Rumpled Foreskin Show, back in the day.

[old mark]

4. I never understood why Manson was considered a "counterculture"

hero to some people.
He's a punk lifetime criminal who learned how to manipulate people.

He could have been a politician, but went to prison to early in life....


mark

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Long hair

That's all it took in 1969.

People could, and DID, judge books by their covers. The Left did this as much as the Right.

OTOH, Manson was a gun nut who wanted to start a race war, and taught that men should subjugate women.

With a haircut, Manson would have been denounced as a reactionary.

--d!

[old mark]

7. God, the Left was just as bad. I once hitchhiked home on leave

from the Army in 1970, and wore my uniform.
People threw beer cans and other trash at me, and NO ONE gave me a ride for the last 10 miles or so.
This while the RWers I knew in the service called me a commie.


mark

[Cetacea]

8. Long hair, acid, communal living, musician, Beach Boys connection

You are right though. Long hair in and of itself would have been enough in those times.

[Echo In Light]

9. Bingo ... but he presented a great opportunity for the Establishment to discredit Counter Culture

[Cetacea]

11. How are you, Echo? n/t

[Cetacea]

10. Oooh, Someone didn't like this OP.

I have to admit it's not one of my best, but c'mon. I was enjoying that sole "recommend".