Photo of Charles Manson is released by prison officials

[kskiska]

Source: LAT



California corrections officials released a photograph taken Wednesday of aging convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, replete with receding hairline, fading forehead swastika carving and a thick, heavily graying beard.

The photograph of the 74-year-old cult leader was taken at Corcoran State Prison, where he is serving a life sentence, and is part of periodic updates of inmate images by prison officials, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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Manson has made 11 failed bids for parole since 1978, the last in 2007, when he was ordered to continue serving life sentences. Manson's next parole hearing is scheduled for 2012.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-manson19-2009mar19,0,854205.story

[skooooo]

1. Rot in hell, psycho. nt

[junior college]

2. He's actually not a bad guy

(just kidding)

[Rusty5329]

38. At least...

He has the common decency to let you know he's bat-poop* insane the second you meet him.

I forget who made that reference

[Rashel]

3. His swastika grew a tail.

[cyberswede]

4. His eyes...

still have that crazy glassy look

[SpiralHawk]

36. But, a new addition to the eys - there is sorrow in there

I think the light of reality may have penetrated a bit, even if he's no where near getting it on the conscious level.

Oddly, that give me a glimmer of hope for people afflicted with Republicon Homelanderism Syndrome.

[bitchkitty]

5. He is where he belongs.

At least in that one little aspect, all is right for the world.

[olddad56]

40. but Bush and Cheney aren't. They belong in the same cell with Charlie

[rateyes]

6. I hope that when he dies, they find a way to bury him under his jail cell.

That way he NEVER gets out...dead or alive.

[Ian David]

7. Charles Manson killed one less person than Laura Bush.

Michael Dutton Douglas

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2825373&mesg_id=2825580

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Charles Manson almost certainly killed Shorty Shea personally

He likely murdered a number of others at the Spahn Ranch and in Death valley. That he didn't directly kill any of the Tate-Labianca victims doesn't mean he didn't kill anybody. Given his history, it's also quite likely that Manson killed people during his out-time in the 50's and early 60's. You don't wake up one morning and start blasting people.

[cali]

10. oh for the love of reason

you're actually saying that Laura Bush is worse than Manson? Please. And one of my son's friends was driving a car that overturned and killed 2 of my nephews and two other kids. They were all drunk. The driver survived. He's hardly on the same level as Charlie Manson. Neither is Laura Bush.

dang, I hate stupid.

[Hannah Bell]

23. nah, she's only married to a mass murderer.

what's the body count, about a million, i think.

[Kalyan]

11. no comparison ...

Mr. Douglas' death was an accident - no less, no more.

Mr. Manson is a psychotic who in cold-blood planned the murders of 6 people. He was a criminal even before he planned & executed these murders

How can you even compare them? your comment was entirely unwarranted and in bad taste

[Ian David]

24. I borrowed the idea from a Republican bumpersticker that compared Manson to Ted Kennedy. n/t

[cali]

37. Some ideas aren't worth borrowing. And zero freeper ideas are.

[Ian David]

39. Why do you hate America?

Hmm... maybe you're right.

[Wind Dancer]

20. One of the dumbest posts ever!

Please - don't insult our intelligence!

[Thothmes]

29. and 34,000 less that Lyndon Johnson.

[Angleae]

30. So did Hitler and Stalin.

Neither one had any direct connection to the killings other than ordering their followers to kill, just like Manson.

[Ian David]

33. IIRC, Hitler did personally kill people in fights at beer halls. Plus, he was a soldier. n/t

[Kalyan]

9. Mr. Manson - don't harbor hopes of getting out

It is disgusting that criminals like him still exists. He deserved the capital punishment, no less.

[jb5150]

12. As I recall

He got the death sentence, but it was commuted to life when the court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Manson has always claimed to quite like prison

He's certainly spent more time in than out - virtually his entire life in various stints, from the age of 11 or so onward.

[treestar]

52. I remember reading in "Helter Skelter"

that when he was let out of prison for one of his prior crimes, he told people they shouldn't let him out.

Always found that interesting.

[Carni]

14. Listen to Manson's speaking style/similar to bush IMO

I noticed it when I caught a few seconds of some old Manson interview...I wasn't looking at the TV and I thought it was W talking, imagine my surprise when I rounded the corner to see Manson on my screen.

Maybe I need a hearing aid, but I find their accents and speech patterns to be similar.

[Iggo]

46. Whoa! You're right!

Never put the two together before!

Yikes! and LOL!

[Carni]

50. I am glad I am not the only one who hears it lol

I was so shocked when I thought manson talking on TV was Bush!

[Iggo]

51. Think we can trick W...

...into saying, "I've X-ed myself from your world, man!"?

'Cause seriously, that would be cool.

[Naipes]

15. He's 74 already...

Wow...

[jmowreader]

16. Charming...

Only the good die young, so this sumbitch is going to outlive everyone here.

At the age of 100, our currently young friend Ava Lowery will turn on her electronic newspaper one morning to learn that Charles Manson has been denied parole AGAIN.

[bdamomma]

17. and he still is a lunatic.

[Cheap_Trick]

18. Upon listening to the sharp clarity of "The White Album" on CD, Manson was quoted as saying..

"Geez man, I guess they WEREN'T speaking to me after all. Must've been a blown speaker."

[slampoet]

32. When Quoting Dennis Miller please use quotation marks please.

[Maine-ah]

19. if it wasn't for the swastika on his forehead, I wouldn't have

recognized him.

I don't think his eyes look the same at all. Though I'm sure he's still bat shit crazy.

Rot in jail, Mr. Manson. It's exactly where you belong.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. Worst Beach Boys song EVER.

Never Learn Not To Love (by Charles Manson, from "20/20")



Cease to resist, come on say you love me
Give up your world, come on and be with me
I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see

Come on come on, ooo I love you pretty girl
My life is yours, and you can have my world
I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see

Never had a lesson I ever learned
I know I could never learn not to love you
Come in now closer
Come in closer closer closer ahhhh

Submission is a gift given to another
Love and understanding is for one another
I'm your kind, I'm your kind, and I see

Never had a lesson I ever learned
I know I could never learn not to love you
Come in now closer
Come in closer come in closer ahhhh

Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh
Ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhhhh

[uppityperson]

34. Were the "ahhh ahhhh ahhhh"s after he stabbed her?

Charlie Manson is batshitcrazy and charismatic

[carlyhippy]

41. I beg to differ, Student Demonstration Time is the worst IMHO

but I do agree, they should have just let Manson keep his Cease to Exist/Never Learn Not to Love song.

[last_texas_dem]

53. I actually think that song's pretty good

I've heard a few of Manson's recordings of his own songs, too, and they're really not bad if you can get past the fact of who's singing them...

Worst Beach Boys song would have to be something from one of their overproduced nostalgia-fest albums from the eighties, IMHO.

[mitchum]

54. I also think it's not a bad song...

he's also a pretty decent player.
Of course, he has had a lot of time to practice.
Worst BB song is "Johnny Carson" or "Kokomo"

[kestrel91316]

22. If he didn't have the swastika, and shaved his neck better, he'd

almost look human.

[Raine]

31. Yeah really, he would look kind of distingushed

almost like a professor or judge etc. except that he's totally insane.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

25. The question is what is the police going to do about this fucking lunatic on the loose.

[ohio2007]

26. HELTER SKELTER

Made to look like a nice guy getting a tough break ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92rldj9czs



he's a real nowhere man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2oZWpqtNi4&feature=related





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rInMQWpGpYg#

[hyphenate]

27. The fire of madness in his eyes

has faded--if I encountered this guy on the street, there is little about his face that would scare the crap out of me, unlike images of the insane freak who headed a cult of murderers.

It appears, perhaps incorrectly, that spending his life in prison is good for all of us.

[Mira]

28. Even knowing about the swastika I would not recognize him.

Good for Bugliosi. Now it's time to put GWB** into the cell next door.

[uppityperson]

35. Sometimes I just do not understand some people. Charlie is one of those

Now he looks like an old man, older than his 74 yrs. I really don't understand how people can act so inhumanely as he and his did

[undeterred]

42. They should put the chimp in his cell.

Mass murderers can double up.

[daleo]

43. He looks a bit like he is staring into the abyss

But it is easy to read what you want to see into a photgraph.

[struggle4progress]

44. Various interviews with Manson

1970: http://www.charliemanson.com/rolling-stone-2.htm
????: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uhmtAmwnDQ
1981: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3gmhf_charles-manson-interview-tom-snyder
1986: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBH6U8Mf7kQ
1987: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzIM4GGS1pI

[Joanne98]

45. "Manson has made 11 failed bids for parole since 1978" Not true.

He hasn't even been going to his parole hearings. He went once maybe twice then stopped. The media can't get anything right. No matter how easy it is.

[madmusic]

47. In response to The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right

That's my guess. Nip in the bud before it takes off.

[InkAddict]

48. In our house, a first interview is known as the

"Charles Manson" interview in which the potential employer makes sure he's not hiring Charles Manson. Now said interviewer has a great new tool which which to compare the face across the desk. ROTFL!

[dysfunctional press]

49. he looks like the love child of dennis hopper and george carlin...

if that kind of thing were possible.