I heard on the news a little while ago that Joran Van Der Sloot, has been bragging to his "roomies" that he is receiving marriage proposals....
While this is revolting, it's not unusual....
High profile vile killers frequently get marriage proposals....Scott Peterson gets them....Richard Ramerez, "The Night Stalker" serial killer in Southern California has actually married one of these women.
When I first became aware of this phenomena some years ago, I was fascinated by it. I really wondered just what sort of a twisted fuck would want to marry one of these scum bags? What were they thinking? So I did a little research and I discovered some things about them and some explanations:
1.One primary motivating factor is the attention. When these guys respond to you you can get attention from the media. Most of these women tend to be not terribly attractive types, with poor interactive skills and not much of a social life. For many, this is the first significant attention they have ever received.
2.The drama. They find the idea of becoming involved with these dark evil men "exciting". They see themselves as going after "forbidden fruit".
3.The safety. If you think about, it's tough to imagine a relationship that's safer, (physically and emotionally) than being involved with someone who's on Death Row, or in prison for life. You always know where they are. They can't run out on you, and they also can't physically hurt you. They're also dependent on you to provide them with what they need to make their lives as pleasant as possible.
Well This Is Just About As Disgusting As It Gets
Well This Is Just About As Disgusting As It Gets
Last edited by Lord Jim on Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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The Horror...
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Where does Charles Manson figure into this?
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
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I'd bet he's the all time prison champ on receiving marriage proposals....(BTW, is that his picture that you're usinf for an Avatar?)
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hey no fair removing yout extra "the Safety" from your post! It completely fucks up my apocalypse now joke!
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Warhol got it right...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Actually Jim....Lord Jim wrote:I'd bet he's the all time prison champ on receiving marriage proposals....(BTW, is that his picture that you're usinf for an Avatar?)
My avatrar was lifted from an SFGate advertisement.
I do know that CM receives more mail than any prisoner in CA and I believe the US.
This photo from ATWA Brasil was taken on 4/23/10.
The girl behing CM is named "Star" I believe.
As you can see, CM is secure in his Coracoran abode. I believe it is here that he wants to be.
Star is from Illinois, there is an interesting YouTube bit about her and a fella named "Grey Wolf".
Yeah, I'm a Mansonphile, there are many.... you know.
(in no way to I condone what he was charged with doing back in 1969).
Just very interested in how the ramifications of a 40+ year old case continues to play out.
Cut below the crap from the mainstream press, one learns all is not what it seems.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Given your history you can't fault us from wonderingdales wrote:Actually Jim....Lord Jim wrote:I'd bet he's the all time prison champ on receiving marriage proposals....(BTW, is that his picture that you're usinf for an Avatar?)
My avatrar was lifted from an SFGate advertisement.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Yeah, I know. 
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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That picture is really creepy...
Not Manson, who just looks like your average little old man...
But the chick standing behind him....
She looks so much like the women who were recruited into his "family"....
Long straignt brown hair, parted down the middle, weird facial expression...(sort of half diabolical, half out of it)
I'm curious about the way you phrased this:
I'll give him credit for one thing...
At his 1967 parole hearing, he asked the parole board not to release him. He told them that he didn't think he could function on the outside...
You know if I'm sitting on a parole board and the potential parolee asks me to deny his parole because he doesn't think he could function in society, I would be inclined to grant his request.
Not Manson, who just looks like your average little old man...
But the chick standing behind him....
She looks so much like the women who were recruited into his "family"....
Long straignt brown hair, parted down the middle, weird facial expression...(sort of half diabolical, half out of it)
I'm curious about the way you phrased this:
Do you think he's innocent?(in no way to I condone what he was charged with doing back in 1969).
I'll give him credit for one thing...
At his 1967 parole hearing, he asked the parole board not to release him. He told them that he didn't think he could function on the outside...
You know if I'm sitting on a parole board and the potential parolee asks me to deny his parole because he doesn't think he could function in society, I would be inclined to grant his request.
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They should just cut him loose. He wouldn't live a week and the world would be a better place.
(But, uhh...his 1967 parole hearing? Err...)
(But, uhh...his 1967 parole hearing? Err...)
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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Lord Jim wrote:That picture is really creepy...
Not Manson, who just looks like your average little old man...
But the chick standing behind him....
She looks so much like the women who were recruited into his "family".... A Susan Atkins wannabe?
Long straignt brown hair, parted down the middle, weird facial expression...(sort of half diabolical, half out of it).....sexy as hell!
I'm curious about the way you phrased this:
Do you think he's innocent?.........He is NOT innocent in the conspiracy to murder, he was never found gulty of murder and was NOT allowed to defend himself before a jury. It is believed that Bugliosi would've been unable to get a conviction from a jury "under the spell of Manson. What a load of crap! Manson was allowed to speak if fron of a judge withoout the jury present.(in no way to I condone what he was charged with doing back in 1969).
I'll give him credit for one thing...
At his 1967 parole hearing, he asked the parole board not to release him. He told them that he didn't think he could function on the outside...He had been instituitionalized since the age of 12 or so. His mom didn't want him around while she was "entertaining" her boy friends.
You know if I'm sitting on a parole board and the potential parolee asks me to deny his parole because he doesn't think he could function in society, I would be inclined to grant his request....Hindsight is always 20/20
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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CM is a marked man, might as well paint a bull's eye on his ass and let the public have at him.Jarlaxle wrote:They should just cut him loose. He wouldn't live a week and the world would be a better place.
(But, uhh...his 1967 parole hearing? Err...)
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Why? In the grand scheme of things he didn't do anything particularly extraordinary? He never actually murdered anyone himself.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Yeah, neither did Hitler or Stalin....Why? In the grand scheme of things he didn't do anything particularly extraordinary? He never actually murdered anyone himself.
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True, but isn't Manson just an American bogeyman?
His total of murders nil, the total of murders by his followers, a small handful, by today's standards he's a total failure as a serial killer.
His total of murders nil, the total of murders by his followers, a small handful, by today's standards he's a total failure as a serial killer.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I don't think Manson really fits the profile of a "serial killer"....
Serial Killers get off on the act of killing personally, and generally either work alone or in some cases. with one other sicko partner...
For Manson, the motivating factor here was having total control over other people. and getting them to do whatever he told them to....
And since murder is the most extreme thing you can get another person to do, he got others to commit murders to demonstrate to himself just how total his ability to control them was....
I would argue that on a scale of moral reprehensibility, that makes him even worse than the people who carried out the killings; not somehow less culpable...
Serial Killers get off on the act of killing personally, and generally either work alone or in some cases. with one other sicko partner...
For Manson, the motivating factor here was having total control over other people. and getting them to do whatever he told them to....
And since murder is the most extreme thing you can get another person to do, he got others to commit murders to demonstrate to himself just how total his ability to control them was....
I would argue that on a scale of moral reprehensibility, that makes him even worse than the people who carried out the killings; not somehow less culpable...
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Nah, he's just a pussy cat really. 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”