I don’t really care that Squeaky Fromme is being paroled, but I sure wouldn’t fell comfortable about having her for a neighbor. Something about the Manson Family is just incredibly creepy. I hope she moves in next to Glenn Beck.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
This poor deluded woman has spent 29 years in prison. Her entire life was ruined by her deranged decision to point a gun at Ford. She was probably mentally ill, and should have been hospitalized.
I feel a tremendous amount of compassion for her. She made a terrible mistake, and paid for it with her life.
I don’t know about her mental state, but pointing a gun at the president isn’t something to take lightly.
Pointing a gun at the president, should be no different than pointing a gun at any other human.
I also was charged with attempted murder of a police officer with intent to commit great bodily harm.(no gun involved)
I did prison time for that, in Supermax, high security.
29 years in prison is medieval though.
Boogey people are spun to reflect political opportunities.
“They tried to kill my daddy” unleashed the dogs of war.
Why isn`t that “moran” doing 29 years, or hanged from a rope.
Is it because he was a president?
No, it`s because the justice system is political, not legal.
The prison system is all for profit.
There are many “gitmos” in this country.
I imagine it`s easy to convict (looks good on a resume) but the convictors wouldn`t last but a few days if they were to be incarcerated in many of the prisons in this country.
29 years. That`s really sick.
Where`s all the clamor about the Kids that have been in Gitmo for 7 years.
So someone pointed a gun at a president. It is most definitely not to be taken lightly, but I would like to do a search on the average prison term for attempted murder, though I`d bet it`s a hell of a lot less than 29 years.
linda kasabians’…probably most important witness against him… life was also destroyed, has broken her silence after 40 years of hiding in shame to a british docu-drama producer.
via guardian, uk:
crazy shit…all round.
Hello – have you ever seen her on video? She lived for blood and death. She was not some poor woman. She has evil in her soul.
If ever there was a group of people I would not trust to parole, she’d be quiet near the very top of the list.
No way this should happen. This woman is not poor or deranged. There’s a very good old documentary about ‘the family’ of Manson, featuing Squeaky and the others, on the farm, in their natural environment, laughing giddily about killing people. Seriously. Watch that.
I have sympathy for more than most. But not these.
Evil? How superstitious. Do you figure there were demons involved, too?
I suspect that well within our lifetimes, we will have the technology to detect, diagnose, and correct the neurological defects that lead to behavioral malfunctions of the sort exhibited by Manson and his followers.
Unquantifiable myths like good and evil aside, there is no room for free will in a deterministic universe. The idea collapses in the face of even casual logical examination. I hope that at some point, we will incorporate that simple fact into our correctional system and abandon antisocial ideas about punishment in favor of actually correcting neurological defects and their behavioral expressions.
Manson and his followers are no more “evil” than a rabid dog — though before the germ theory of disease, there were those who attributed moral properties to organic disorders. We should certainly protect society from such people, but we would be better served as a society to look for effective treatments and cures for their conditions. Not only would they be better off, but society as a whole would be better off to replace the destructive impulse toward punishment and revenge with a bit of pragmatic compassion.
Thank you, ….thank you.
Did you ever read Bugliosi’s book? Fromme was Manson’s right-hand man(or in this case woman). There is no reason to parole her. Is she in the Federal prison system now? Do they allow Manson visitors besides TV cameras on occasion?
There should always be reason to parole someone.
Let`s just say that when she turns 84 she`d not be a threat to anyone, but I certainly don`t advocate she be kept till then.
When do you think she should be able to breath freely, & not under the boot of jailers, never?
29 years in prison.
That`s hard to even comprehend.
As you say, paid with her life.
Let her be paroled already.
Thank you dataguy
Wow, Boo, who knew you were such a yente supreme? Glenny & Squeeky: a marriage of true minds for sure. You could start a dating service. “Krazy Konnections” would be catchy.
Charlie Manson wanted to start a race war. If Squeaky still digs this she’ll probably be a regular watcher of Glenn Beck.
Charlie Manson couldn`t have started the Brickyard 500.
But it sure was a money maker for the tough on crime lobby.
Nixon sure helped things along too.
Until the most heinous criminals of our day are at the very least under criminal investigation for crimes against humanity & war crimes, open the prison gates. As long as those criminals walk free, so should all criminals
under the flag of “justice for all”.
Violence at Tampa health care forum
Just saw it. Fortunately, no one appears to have been seriously hurt.
And, oh yeah, with the GOP having taken it to the level of actual mob violence, we win.
Maybe now, as the arrests begin, we’ll see some GOP interest in due process.
“GOP interest in due process.”
hahahhaahaha
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See my diary – Mob Violence at Tampa Town Hall
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."