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Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:55 PM

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Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison after 53 years [View all] BumRushDaShow Jul 2023 OP

Good obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #1

I can only imagine how the right will go bonkers over this. ificandream Jul 2023 #2

Why "the right"? BigmanPigman Jul 2023 #32

For the sake of accuracy, H2O Man Jul 2023 #35

I said that only because the right has become the Party of No. ificandream Jul 2023 #44

The Right because its always "we strongly object to anything Dems do!" LiberalLovinLug Jul 2023 #45

I'm on DU and I most definitely do not "agree" she should stay in jail. Stop trying o speak for the Martin68 Jul 2023 #50

Yes MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #58

Thank you obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #70

I am in the "don't have a strong opinion either way" camp. XorXor Jul 2023 #66

Not me, she should have been released years ago obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #69

I suppose it's time. Oopsie Daisy Jul 2023 #3

I know way more about the Manson case than I should...so LeftinOH Jul 2023 #4

She killed Mrs. LaBianca BigmanPigman Jul 2023 #8

She said she stabbed Mrs. LaBianca 16 times. mzmolly Jul 2023 #26

This teenager was high on drugs and had been brainwashed by a psychopath. Charles Manson was not Martin68 Jul 2023 #51

I believe MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #59

"she didn't kill anyone." LudwigPastorius Jul 2023 #10

Krenwrinkel doesn't ask to be paroled any more obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #15

Yes, she DID kill; she stabbed the woman 16 times. oldsoftie Jul 2023 #28

the death penalty is a barbarous relic Celerity Jul 2023 #38

Barbarity is stabbing someone 16 times. Or any other number of ways people murder. oldsoftie Jul 2023 #41

profoundly disagree, as does almost every other advanced nation on the planet Celerity Jul 2023 #43

China & Saudi Arabias murder rates are about 1/10th what ours is. oldsoftie Jul 2023 #60

Your self-admitted passion for having the state murder people is telling, as is your continued Celerity Jul 2023 #61

Easy to take away "chance", as I've mentioned in other posts oldsoftie Jul 2023 #62

Get the needle, huh? obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #71

To each their own; IMO she should've been dead 50 yrs ago. oldsoftie Jul 2023 #73

You are absolutely wrong! Brenda Jul 2023 #23

Exactly. mzmolly Jul 2023 #27

Wrong obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #72

So admitting culpability is no sign of rehabilitation. No excuses, no diminishing of guilt. She ... marble falls Jul 2023 #74

When I was young, a co-worker lived with Manson for a week womanofthehills Jul 2023 #25

Milhouse should be happy about that ArkansasDemocrat1 Jul 2023 #5

There can be no happy ending. It all still saddens me. I was going home twodogsbarking Jul 2023 #6

Only if she had poured cancer-causing chemicals into their water supply.... TheRealNorth Jul 2023 #7

I often wonder what our society would be like if walkingman Jul 2023 #9

"It began an era of police violence against peaceful protesters" Jarqui Jul 2023 #13

Good info - I finished HS in May '68 walkingman Jul 2023 #18

Comparing those times to today isn't easy. Jarqui Jul 2023 #19

"there is no common connection like it was during the Vietnam era" BumRushDaShow Jul 2023 #24

Very perceptive to you....I am an oddball walkingman Jul 2023 #31

I only had to try to figure it out due to my nieces & nephews and grandnieces & grandnephews BumRushDaShow Jul 2023 #33

Tell your grands they need to get OFF TikTok. Its dangerous. oldsoftie Jul 2023 #42

Oh I know... BumRushDaShow Jul 2023 #49

Get a job, hippie Showbizkid Jul 2023 #63

Funny, heard that before. I worked for 33 productive years and as of this year walkingman Jul 2023 #64

Did you stab a woman 16 times? Showbizkid Jul 2023 #65

The police were beating up hippies long before Manson's crimes. Manson just gave them another Martin68 Jul 2023 #52

What a dumb move to have the Hell's Angels for security?? You are right.... walkingman Jul 2023 #54

Absolutely. Some very naive people thought the Angels were just leather-jacket wearing hippies. Martin68 Jul 2023 #55

I think: hookaleft Jul 2023 #11

I don't think she'll last long. Archae Jul 2023 #12

I'm okay with this Jilly_in_VA Jul 2023 #14

She lived free for quite a while between her trials obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #16

same Skittles Jul 2023 #36

Who has the get for a much publicized tv interview? Sneederbunk Jul 2023 #17

Don't agree, but it is done Joinfortmill Jul 2023 #20

+1 CountAllVotes Jul 2023 #21

+1 n/t area51 Jul 2023 #29

She should be forced to serve life for the life she took. BigmanPigman Jul 2023 #30

Well, I would agree with you, except... robbob Jul 2023 #46

I wouldn't let her out until the people that they killed were resurrected. Chainfire Jul 2023 #22

See my reply robbob Jul 2023 #47

Taking bets, within a week she'll have half a dozen book deal offers, in the millions Shanti Shanti Shanti Jul 2023 #34

I rather doubt that. A shitload has been written about the Manson family, the murders and the Martin68 Jul 2023 #53

Maybe, she wasn't in on the Tate murder scene, but the others ... Maybe a screenplay, a movie Shanti Shanti Shanti Jul 2023 #56

Pretty thin material for a multi-million dollar contract... Martin68 Jul 2023 #57

There's not a lot of juice left in the Manson orange Showbizkid Jul 2023 #67

Moving on from Manson... Pototan Jul 2023 #37

Just in time for Medicare and Social Security! (Well, a few years late). Wonder Why Jul 2023 #39

How can she qualify for it? She hasn't been in the work force. Vinca Jul 2023 #48

I hope she disappears and lives a quiet life Mysterian Jul 2023 #40

I prefer that people who participate in heinous murders stay in prison. SYFROYH Jul 2023 #68

whatever happened to Ruth Ann Moorehouse? prodigitalson Jul 2023 #75