2nd Official Tate-LaBianca Murders Blog

I, like several other Manson researchers I know, follow the posts on the Official ATWA site – the blog-spot for the Order of ATWA – Air, Trees, Water & Animals, their founder, Charles Manson, of course! I have attempted to ask the webmaster of the ATWA site, this burning question of mine, but my efforts are to no avail… “Why, if the Air, Trees, Water & Animals were so gosh darned important to Manson, did he not a) gravitate to the back-country instead of the Haight? and b) form this association BEFORE the Hinman/Tate-LaBianca murders and not after them?” I, of course, continue to have my questions ignored and deleted from their site, heck, they won’t even give me a private answer, despite my leaving my TLB2 website where they could easily reply to me. Nope, all I get is silence. But I don’t give up easy. I continue to watch, listen and hopefully learn on my own why ATWA exists, has a following and admirers of Charles Manson and his beliefs, even if those belie...

Is this the face of a dictator of mass murder?  Does this old man even know the origins and meanings behind that swastika on his brow?  Are those tired eyes weeping for a wasted life which has gone on, and on, and on?  Or when he looks into the lens each year in the prison I.D. office, is he wishing he could just jump the photographer and stab him in the neck with the black Sharpie marker he carries in his breast pocket for those impromptu autograph sessions? Hard to tell, really. What's even more difficult to wrap your head around is the fact that it's been almost 40 years since that fateful August 9th and 10th and all of us bystanders had grown old too, from the kids we were, who really feared Charlie's crazy eyes in that LIFE magazine, to the adults we are now, looking into those same dark bottomless pools but now seeing only a worn and weary man, not at the end of his beginning, but at the beginning of his end. Would the A.P. and other m...