April 21, 2011
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
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April 21 is … Kindergarten Day
Wednesday was the 12th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre. Apparently someone wanted to celebrate with a bang. Investigators want to question a person of interest about a pipe bomb and propane tanks found after a fire at a Littleton mall, a discovery that raised the possibility of a connection to the Columbine massacre anniversary. Firefighters found two propane tanks and the bomb near the Southwest Plaza Mall's food court after a small fire broke out Wednesday that was quickly squelched. The mall was evacuated around noon. No one was injured and the bombs didn't explode. Wednesday was the 12th anniversary of the shooting rampage at nearby Columbine High School and officials expressed concern that the mall incident could be somehow linked.
"The fact that has happened on April 20, 12 years later, near the school and with similar devices is very disturbing," Jefferson County sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said. A possible connection to Columbine will be explored. "It's something that can't be ignored and won't be ignored," Kelley said. The mall is about two miles from the school, where two student gunmen killed 13 people and themselves on April 20, 1999 in a rampage that stunned the nation. Unexploded pipe bombs and a propane tank with explosives attached were found in the school after the original shootings.
"The fact that has happened on April 20, 12 years later, near the school and with similar devices is very disturbing," Jefferson County sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said. A possible connection to Columbine will be explored. "It's something that can't be ignored and won't be ignored," Kelley said. The mall is about two miles from the school, where two student gunmen killed 13 people and themselves on April 20, 1999 in a rampage that stunned the nation. Unexploded pipe bombs and a propane tank with explosives attached were found in the school after the original shootings.
Speaking of kindergarten, today is Kindergarten Day; Charlie Manson recently gave an interview to Spain’s Vanity Fair. Below is a story from The Sydney Morning Herald. Charles Manson, the leader of the cult that murdered the actress Sharon Tate, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of the dangers of global warming.
Showing no remorse for the crimes for which he was condemned 40 years ago, 76 year-old Manson chose instead to express his views on President Barack Obama and environmental doom. In a series of rambling interviews from his Californian jail, the man who brainwashed members of his commune known as The Manson Family into killing eight people on two nights in August, 1969, described himself as a "very mal hombre". Among those stabbed in the killing spree was Tate, the wife of the film director Roman Polanski, who was eight months pregnant.
Referring to the crimes for which he was sentenced to death, a penalty later commuted to life imprisonment when California abolished the death penalty, Manson said: "I live in the underworld, I'm very mean, I'm a very bad man." But he went on: "I am a martyr. But I am also a victim; and a performer. I am everything and I am nothing."
During the interviews with Spain's Vanity Fair magazine, he said: "You have to accept yourself as God. You have to realize you're just the Devil just as much as you're God; that you're everything and you're nothing at all." Manson refused to discuss whether he still posed a danger to society ahead of a parole review scheduled for next year, but instead warned of a "greater danger", that of global warming. "Everyone's God and if we don't wake up to that there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere," he said. "The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won't have air to breathe.”
"If we don't change that as rapidly as I'm speaking to you now, if we don't put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we've butchered, if we don't go to war against the problem..." he added, trailing off. He went on to describe Mr. Obama as "a slave of Wall Street". "I think Obama is an idiot for doing what he's doing," he said, in his first published words since the late 1980s. "They're playing with him." At his trial in 1971, the court heard that Manson had established a commune in the desert where he demonstrated hypnotic control over his devotees, the majority vulnerable young women, driven by drugs and sex. He ordered his followers to commit the murders in the warped belief that it would provoke an apocalyptic race war, which he called Helter Skelter after The Beatles' song that he interpreted as a coded prophecy of such a conflict.
Manson, a hardened racist who appeared in court with a tattoo of a swastika crudely carved on to his forehead, believed that he and his followers would lead the survivors of the war that ensued. Five members of The Family, four of them women, were found guilty of carrying out the murders and Manson of being the ringleader.
If global warming, a theory I do not put much credence into, kills Charlie Manson because he runs out of air to breath, it ain’t all bad.
Charlie is one weird dude and he loves the spotlight. He is also one of the wealthiest inmates in prison in California. He has web sites he gets money from, people just send him money, he sells paintings, has written some songs and sold some of his writings. At least two recording groups, Guns N’ Roses and Marilyn Manson have covered some of his songs. His ability to make money off his criminal reputation is legal since his crimes were before any of the “no profit from your crimes” legislation that has come into existence over the years. Manson has been in prison or jail uninterrupted since 1969.
Just a couple of thoughts I had.
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