The Manson family got its start in 1967, just north of where
we lived in Canoga Park, Calif. We rode up there one day looking for Spahn
Ranch where the Manson cult collected and did their evil business. We were
almost immediately turned around by signs saying"No Admittance"
accompanied by a heavy wire fence. Appropriately called the Spahn Movie Ranch,
it was owned by George Spahn who willingly allowed Manson and his followers to
live there.
The ranch had been the home for TV episodes of
"Bonanza," "The Lone Ranger," and "Zorro."
Although George Spahn wasn't involved in any of Manson's crime, his ranch was
where the 'family' lived while committing the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders in Los
Angeles. A wildfire destroyed all of the Spahn Movie Ranch film set and buildings
on September 26, 1970. The owner, George Spahn died on September 22, 1974. My
thanks to Wikipedia.
With this background, you might remember the book, "Helter Skelter," written by Charles
Manson's prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi. It was Charley's term for the race war
he intended to start between blacks and whites, expecting near annihilation
after which he would lead his followers to take over the country. The words,
from a Beatles' song, were written on the LaBianca's refrigerator door to
instigate the race war. And that's a long way around to get to this...
"The Russians who interfered in the 2016 US
presidential election are still at it — and this time, they’re trying to ignite
racial violence in America and a partial collapse of the United States."
Looks like Charley Manson got in Vladimir Putin's head,
assuming there is room next to Donald Trump. Here's the scenario from Vox...
"According to secret documents obtained by a Russian
opposition group, hackers have discussed plans to stir up racial resentment in
the United States in hopes of tearing American society apart. The operatives
are apparently associates of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man who set up a troll farm
and was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for his role in 2016
meddling."
Someone has been reading "Helter Skelter." There's
more...
"Prigozhin and his team of Russian trolls tried to
inflame racial tensions during the 2016 cycle by operating several social media
accounts that tried to discourage African Americans from voting, mainly by
repeating messages of police violence and voter fraud."
But the "apparent new plot" originating as early
as 2018, in preparation for the 2020 election, digs much deeper. The following
is unbelievable...
"The documents reportedly contain shocking proposals
such as sending black Americans to Africa “'for combat prep and training in
sabotage,' as well as targeting people who have previously been incarcerated
and people 'who have experience in organized crime groups ... for participation
in civil disobedience actions.'”
Manson could take lessons from this guy, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Vox says...
"there is no indication of how seriously the documents
— titled “Development Strategy of a Pan-African State on US Territory” — and
the plan overall have been received in Russia. It’s possible the set of
proposals went absolutely nowhere and were viewed as too extreme (or
ridiculous) even for Moscow."
We can only hope with Donald Trump in the White House.
The Manson family got its start in 1967, just north of where we lived in Canoga Park, Calif. We rode up there one day looking for Spahn Ranch where the Manson cult collected and did their evil business. We were almost immediately turned around by signs saying"No Admittance" accompanied by a heavy wire fence. Appropriately called the Spahn Movie Ranch, it was owned by George Spahn who willingly allowed Manson and his followers to live there.
The ranch had been the home for TV episodes of "Bonanza," "The Lone Ranger," and "Zorro." Although George Spahn wasn't involved in any of Manson's crime, his ranch was where the 'family' lived while committing the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles. A wildfire destroyed all of the Spahn Movie Ranch film set and buildings on September 26, 1970. The owner, George Spahn died on September 22, 1974. My thanks to Wikipedia.
With this background, you might remember the book, "Helter Skelter," written by Charles Manson's prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi. It was Charley's term for the race war he intended to start between blacks and whites, expecting near annihilation after which he would lead his followers to take over the country. The words, from a Beatles' song, were written on the LaBianca's refrigerator door to instigate the race war. And that's a long way around to get to this...
"The Russians who interfered in the 2016 US presidential election are still at it — and this time, they’re trying to ignite racial violence in America and a partial collapse of the United States."
Looks like Charley Manson got in Vladimir Putin's head, assuming there is room next to Donald Trump. Here's the scenario from Vox...
"According to secret documents obtained by a Russian opposition group, hackers have discussed plans to stir up racial resentment in the United States in hopes of tearing American society apart. The operatives are apparently associates of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man who set up a troll farm and was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller for his role in 2016 meddling."
Someone has been reading "Helter Skelter." There's more...
"Prigozhin and his team of Russian trolls tried to inflame racial tensions during the 2016 cycle by operating several social media accounts that tried to discourage African Americans from voting, mainly by repeating messages of police violence and voter fraud."
But the "apparent new plot" originating as early as 2018,in preparation for the 2020 election, digs much deeper. The following is unbelievable...
"The documents reportedly contain shocking proposals such as sending black Americans to Africa “'for combat prep and training in sabotage,' as well as targeting people who have previously been incarcerated and people 'who have experience in organized crime groups ... for participation in civil disobedience actions.'”
Manson could take lessons from this guy, Yevgeny Prigozhin. Vox says...
"there is no indication of how seriously the documents — titled “Development Strategy of a Pan-African State on US Territory” — and the plan overall have been received in Russia. It’s possible the set of proposals went absolutely nowhere and were viewed as too extreme (or ridiculous) even for Moscow."
We can only hope with Donald Trump in the White House.
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's chief strategist and top adviser, has already established his credentials as a white nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic. As an avid reader, he espouses to "The Fourth Turning, a book by William Strauss and Neil Howe, that history unfolds in cycles of 80 to 100 years. At the end of the cycle, the old order is destroyed and replaced." It would appear that Stevo plans to be there at the end of the cycle and implant the Trump/Bannon, perhaps the other way around, vision of common national purpose Trump announced in his first address to Congress on Monday.
As far as the speech goes, it was well received by Republicans as one would suspect but Sen. Chuck Schumer's comment was that, "Trump's speeches and the realities are very, very far apart. Until his reality catches up with his speeches, he's got big trouble," Others said he even looked a bit presidential, hoping he might maintain that and not revert to the crude behavior he has exhibited on Twitter and otherwise since entering office. But these hopes were born and played out before and it only took one news cycle to send Donald John romping down the crass road to vulgarity again.
Here are some comments by Lacy MacAuley, an activist and member of the Washington DC Antifascist Coalition...
"I absolutely think Steve Bannon is connected to a network of white nationalists. Just in the last few years there have been contractual obligations between white supremacist James O’Keefe at Project Veritas and Breitbart."
"Mr O'Keefe was known, she said, for taking down institutions and organisations via fake news."
"I would say that Steve Bannon is the advocate for white nationalism in the White House and there’s no doubt in my mind on that. It’s not just through Breitbart, it’s through his entire line of work."
There is the indication that Steve Bannon, when recruiting to fill out the National Security Council position, added himself to the NSC without Donald John knowing. Grounds for dismissal by most anyone, except someone with a hidden agenda. He was able to do this since he was the one writing the Executive Order, not Trump. The President was pissed but the fact that Bannon stays put is evidence of just how powerful the man is. Daryle Lamont Jenkins, executive director of the anti-racist organisation One People's Project exclaims...
"We've been dealing with a cluster of white supremacists within the beltway of the Washington DC area who do just that (using theories and academia to justify their racism): they try to back up their racism and justify why they should have a separation of the races, and justify a more strident attack on African Americans in the name of 'fighting crime'."
That's about as scary as it gets. Beginning to sound like Charlie Manson's Helter Skelter, starting a war between blacks and whites. Charlie was a confirmed white supremacist who went to the extreme of carving a swastika into his forehead with a knife. He had a following he mesmerized by convincing them that he was Jesus Christ, turning them into killers that would do his bidding. I'm not saying Steve Bannon is another Charlie Manson, but I am saying that Donald Trump, normally a man who seems to need no one, is definitely enthralled by Stevo's philosophies. That's what's scary.
The UK Independent reports that last July Breitbart had "...become the 'platform for the alt-right'. Now his platform has become the government." Well, that's even scarier. Donald John has been guilty of racially insensitive remarks in the past, and during his campaign refused to condemn the white supremacists who advocated for him, like David Duke and Richard Spencer. Here are some examples during his drive for the presidency...
He attacked Muslim Gold Star parents
He claimed a judge was biased because “he’s a Mexican”
He questioned whether President Obama was born in the United States
He even trashed Native Americans
He stereotyped Jews and shared an anti-Semitic image created by white supremacists
Just a few, but you can see more here. Huff Post says in a blazing headline, "President Trump’s VOICE Is About Justifying White Supremacy." VOICE means, Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement. So far it sounds like...
"...the program will be limited simply to undocumented immigrants, but will also include crimes committed by legitimate VISA holders, Green Card holders and possibly even permanent residents who are not naturalized citizens.
But then HP blasts, "Let’s call this what it is: VOICE is racist government propaganda." And isn't it interesting that Steve Bannon, formerly of Breitbart, had a section called Black Crime, which documented the crimes of immigrant communities, when it is known that immigrants are actually less likely to commit a crime than non-immigrants. Brian Stone of Huff Post adds...
"Creating this hate-list will do nothing except provide official government sanction to the opinions of white supremacist groups and the alt-right."
Remember Pat Buchanan, a presidential wanna-be from 1992, 1996 and 2000, who ran on a platform of right-wing populism and who also was a white supremacist? As far back as 2015, he was backing Trump along with other white supremacists, including David Duke. Buchanan regretted what he called the end of white America "...due to immigration and increasing rights for people of color." This is a statement that is hard to believe coming from someone who is supposedly educated and worldly. It can only be attributed to someone who is a true racist and white supremacist.
Most of this crowd doesn't believe in violence, a fact that is not true of Trump’s rank-and-file supporters. One such Donald John follower was Dionisio Garza III, 25, also a Muslim hater, who went on a shooting spree back in early 2016 in Houston, leaving one dead and six injured. In another instance...
"Jim Sherota, 53, [who]works for a landscaping company and attended Trump’s rally in Mobile, Alabama, on Friday, [August 2015] told The New York Times before Trump’s arrival that he hoped Trump would announce a plan to issue licenses for hunting undocumented immigrants and offer $50 for 'every confirmed kill.'”
Couldn't stand the heat
A bounty? Now that's interesting because back in 2015 just escaped El Chapo placed a $100 million
bounty on Donald Trump's head when the then candidate accused the Mexican government of letting him go tweeting...
"El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels use the border unimpeded like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the U.S."
Jake Tapper of CNN pushed Trump to disavow David Duke and rebuke any vote from him or any other white supremacists. It was a typical brainless meandering by the candidate...
"Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about white supremacists or about Duke himself. When Tapper pressed him twice more, Trump said he couldn’t condemn a group he hadn’t yet researched."
A Virginia leader of the Ku Klux Klan told a TV reporter, “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in.” And that's the scariest yet. In closing, here is a list of his "white supremacist fan club" compiled by Huff Post reporters...
"The Daily Stormer, a leading neo-Nazi news site; Richard Spencer, director of the National Policy Institute, which aims to promote the “heritage, identity, and future of European people”; Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance, a Virginia-based white nationalist magazine; Michael Hill, head of the League of the South, an Alabama-based white supremacist secessionist group; and Brad Griffin, a member of Hill’s League of the South and author of the popular white supremacist blog Hunter Wallace."
I recently did a post on Donald Trump's use of racism to fuel the many racists out there looking for a new leader.They found him and, unfortunately, he will be leading the most powerful country in the world in less than two months. In that post, The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reports that over "300 incidents of harassment or intimidation have been reported following Donald Trump's election Tuesday [Nov. 8] night."
Then on Saturday, The Southern Poverty Law Center counted more than 700 cases of hateful harassment or intimidation in the United States since Election Day on November 8. An additional 400 cases in less than two weeks. Many have accused Trump of fostering xenophobia and particularly Islamophobia, which stems from his earlier statements re. banning Muslims from the U.S., later establishing a "radical Islam commission."
Then, abruptly, the President-elect sobs he is "so saddened" to hear this is going on and tells the public on "60 Minutes" to stop it. I am not a physicist, but what Donald Trump has brought forth in hate and racism during his campaign now appears to have achieved the form of perpetual motion, perhaps unstoppable. Swastikas and the word "Go Trump" were painted on playground equipment at Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn, according to the New York police
New York City Councilman Brad Lander, who represents that part of Brooklyn, wrote on Twitter: "Yet more hatred & anti-Semitism from Trump supporters." In Denver, a transgender woman's car was spray-painted early Wednesday morning with a swastika and the words 'Trump' and 'die,' among other derogatory terms." "Heil Trump," an anti-gay slur and a swastika was painted on the side of the church, Saint David's Episcopal, in Beanblossom, Indiana.
I think you get the idea. Just in case you don't, all you uneducated rednecks out there have elected someone to the highest office in the land that is capable of starting Charley Manson's Helter Skelter. Trump didn't take his followers to the mountains of California like Charley did, that would be too bizarre for even him--besides, Melania would never camp out--the presidential contender somehow got to them in the corn fields, cotton fields, cattle farms, etc.
But you did it and we all have to live with it. I'll leave you with this:
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charlie Manson talked to his many followers about the racial wars that would come, naming them Helter Skelter. It was at a New Year's Eve gathering of the Family in 1968 that he coined the term. He said blacks without an outlet for their frustrations would lash out in violent crimes against whites resulting in a murderous rampage against blacks by frightened whites, as recorded in Wikipedia. Although Charlie's goal was a Shangri-la for his family and an outlet for his music, what he described as the events leading up to it, Helter Skelter, were very similar to what is going on today between blacks and law enforcement.
Two anonymous Baltimore police officers said, simply, they are "feeling scared." Baltimore PD leaders have put them in a mode of just reacting instead of being proactive, which has allowed the city's streets to run wild, resulting in 42 killings just in May. But in Helter Skelter Charles Manson was considered by his followers as their savior, Jesus Christ, a leader who interpreted for them Chap. 9 from Revelations, which describes, as one biblical professor put it, when "All Hell Breaks Loose." If there is a leader in today's violence it has to be the gun lobby led by the National Rifle Assn. because of their persistence to put more guns on the street, thus, more murders. Racial tension has always been there but the gun rights bunch gave blacks the means to follow through on Helter Skelter.
Although Taylor Marsh is a well-known political analyst,
writer and strategist, I still might have discounted someone I never heard of
like Stan Solomon whose Talk to Solomon
Show recently had conservative blogger Greg W. Howard on his show.I have also not heard of Howard but being new
to the game of critical politics, just figure I may not yet be up to speed.However, when Larry Pratt’s name came up I
not only took notice but became very interested.As a gun fanatic, Pratt is only topped by
Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Assn. (NRA).
Charles Manson
Then I understood the first entry in Joyce Arnold’s article
on the Taylor Marsh Blog.Arnold quoted from Brian Tashman at Right Way
Watch: “Gun Activists Warn Obama is Raising a Private Black Army to Massacre
White Americans.”Pratt was on the Talk
to Solomon Show with Howard predicting that, “Obama may begin confiscating guns
in order to provoke a violent response to justify further oppression, which
host Stan Solomon feared would lead to the imprisonment of hundreds of
thousands of people.That’s heavy; also
completely brainless.
There’s more.“I
believe they will put together a racial force to go against an opposite race
resistance, basically a black force to go against a white resistance, and then
they will claim anyone resisting the black force they are doing it because they
are racist,” commented Solomon and seconded by Howard.Can you believe this idiot Howard accuses
Obama of sowing the seeds of racial hatred when it has been clear from the
President’s first inauguration that many in this country dislike, even hate,
Barack Obama simply because he is black?
Clip from the Helter Skelter movie:
There is a comparison between Obama’s gun control legislation
and the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge where government force was used to
quell an illegal uprising, resulting in lives lost.Each of those episodes was carried out due to
a defiance of the law and the people involved decided to fight rather than
surrender peacefully.Arnold asks the
question which is no doubt uppermost in the mind of anyone who reads her
article:
“I don’t know how many people take this kind of ‘thinking’ seriously,
but it’s happening in the context of the ongoing national debates about gun and
ammunition controls.”It is gun hugger
scare tactics at their worst…my words.
And then Arnold quotes Evan McMorris-Santoro of Talking Points Memowho exclaims the war over gun
control has gone to the “ground;” in other words as the media decide it is
yesterday’s news, both sides will depend on grass-roots action to get the job
done.McMorris-Santoro points out that
the NRA is already running ads against weak Democrat and Republican moderates in
states like Arkansas, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina and West Virginia.At the same time we can expect more on gun
control through groups like Gabby Giffords new PAC.
Those moderate Democrats, above, are not as afraid this go-around because of the rash of firearm deaths across the country, particularly mass incidents like the Newtown, CT massacre. The Senate is working on a plan re, universal background checks but McMorris-Santoro comments, “there’s the usual GOP House members who oppose most everything that isn’t their idea. Some of them probably think it’s possible ‘Obama is Raising a Private Black Army to Massacre White Americans.’” Shades of Charles Manson and his HelterSkelter.
