Wednesday, April 11th, 2012, will more than likely be Charles Manson’s finale parole hearing. Does this mean that I think that he a chance of actually getting released from the California Department of Corrections? A place where he has spent most of his life? No. Not a chance. Bu the reason why I think that this will be Charlie’s last stand (actually, Manson hasn’t attended an actual parole board in person since 1997 stating that he was a "prisoner of the political system.") is that California has passed a law where they can extend the hearings to up to 15 years. And now that Manson is at the ripe old age of 77 I think if they do that, well, it will be the last time for a hearing on the merits for his release. That’s not saying that he would actually live the allotted amount of time that has already been the standard for hearings. Like I said, he is 77 and how much time does anyone really think that he has left? The ironic thing when it comes to How long Manson has had to live is that if he was actually put in population with the other inmates that more than likely would of met the same fate as Jeffery Dahmner and had been killed by A) just for someone to make name for themselves’, or B) by the large black population that makes up the corrections faculties of the state of California because in the end Charles Manson wanted to cause a race war to end all race wars: Helter Skelter.
Manson was sentenced to death in 1972 after his convictions for the murders of actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, 35; Voytek Frykowski, 32; Abigail Folger, 25, the coffee heiress to Folgers; and Steven Parent, 18, along with the LaBianca’sin 1969, but that conviction was overturned in 1977 when the state of California reversed it’s stance and abolished the death penalty. Instead given life with the possibility of parole. Manson was also convicted for the murders of former stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea and Gary Hinman but with less fan fair since the Tate and LaBianca murders were the main headlines.
Since then Manson has made headlines with his outrageous antics behind bars by carving a swastika in his forehead, and going on wild rants to anyone that would interview him. In 1988, sensationalist journalist, Geraldo Rivera interviewed Manson, where the two spent most of the time arguing, Geraldo berating him [Manson] as evil while Manson bounced around the room acting as crazed as he looked, all under the watchful eyes of heavily armed guards. Oliver Stone depicts this interview and Geraldo himself in his Pop Culture Satire “Natural Born Killers” where Woody Harrison and Robert Downy Jr. portray the two men. Mason also has taken up the Global Warming cause. In 2011, after a twenty year silence from the crazed cult leader, conducted an interview about how we were “doing bad things when it came to the environment”. Strangely enough the interview coincided with the 40th anniversary of his capture. In retrospect, Charles Manson is a shell of his former self. The once wild eyed mad man who convinced his “family” of followers to commit murder, and acted out in court and for the television camera as he proclaimed that he was the Devil himself now looks like a shaggy haired homeless man that you can see on the streets on most major cities begging for change while drinking cheap wine from a paper bag, babbling the same incoherent thoughts about how they can beam their thought into the minds of their followers.
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