[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Thought so (just realized I could have googled this instead of asking )

I used to be fascinated with this story...how on earth do you convince someone to kill someone else. Especially more than one person too

It was the era of LSD, 'Flower Power', 'communes', cults, and anti-establishment radical thinking. Manson was a great 'orator' (like Adolf) and apparently had a 'magnetic personality' which drew certain hippies to him.

I don't personally go for these; "Watching horror films makes kids kill" and "ordinary young British Muslims can be brainwashed into becoming Jihadist butchers" type of B.S. theories, because I believe such traits have to be already in these people to begin with, so I don't accept that Manson convinced any of his 'family' to kill, more that he just crystalised their thoughts, and .'set them free'.

All of them should have been executed in my opinion.