Anonymous poster to the Tate-LaBianca Message Board, known only as "Revealed"
"You know what is good about you GoRightly - Nothing!" -
Manson researcher Bill Nelson writes:
"I received an alarming message from a visitor to my site that a link mansonmurder.com without the (s) goes to your site. I did not believe it so I used the link and guess what? It took me to YOUR site.
I pay for the exclusive domain name of www.mansonmurders.com with Network
Solutions. I have filed a complaint with them about this link that was used on purpose to distract people who type incorrectly, as was the case with this visitor who informed me.
I saw your site and the trash it contains. I absolutely forbid any connection between our sites and I will not accept any banner exchanges. Are you so dishonest that you had to use what I have built to start your own misguided web site of misinformation?"
Correspondence to Erik Bluhm--editor of The Great God Pan magazine--from Barbara Beausoleil, wife of former Manson associate, Bobby Beausoleil:
"A friend recently sent me an article that appeared in issue #13 of your magazine The Great God Pan. The article is entitled The Dark, Beautiful Sun – The Story of Bobby Beausoleil…It is one of the most irresponsible pieces of journalism I have ever read, and your readers should be made aware of this fact. I would also hope that you, as the editor, will be more discriminating about the articles you publish and certainly think long and hard before publishing anything else written by Adam Gorightly…."
Author Ian Blake writes:
"…I hate to pour cold water on your theories, but I’m also skeptical of any suggestion that the Family was "a military mind control experiment." A variation of this idea was first mooted by Ed Sanders in Crawdaddy magazine under the heading: "Was the FBI scummy enough to have hired Manson?" It’s been bandied about several times since then, but always without substantiation. Paul Watkins gave it short shrift in a 1989 interview. I can’t quote him verbatim offhand, but he said something to the effect that "We’re not talking about mind control mumbo-jumbo here; we’re talking about addictive personalities; it’s a health issue." To me, the real truth about Charlie--that he was a charismatic individual who could control other people by sheer effort of will--is far more fascinating than any amount of trumped up mind control hocus pocus. By some coincidence I picked up a copy of William Bramley’s Gods of Eden a few days ago, and found in it several references to the Family. Bramley begins by describing Charlie as a one-time police informer, which is about as far from the real truth as it’s possible to get. He then goes on to remark that Squeaky Fromme "tried to murder President Gerald Ford in 1975" and clumsily suggests that she was an unwitting pawn of the same shadowy cryptocracy responsible for murdering everyone from Bobby Kennedy to Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme. Well, I don’t feel comfortable in the role of debunker, but as far as I’m concerned, this sort of sloppy thinking is beneath contempt. Squeaky didn’t try to murder Ford; it was all just a dumb publicity stunt to focus media attention on what she perceived (and continues to perceive) as Charlie’s plight. Nor was she some kind of will-sapped conspiracy zombie. I’ve corresponded with Squeaky for some time now, and it’s clear to me that she was never in the grip of anything more strange or sinister than love--a love so profound and all-consuming that most people can’t even begin to understand it. She still raves about Charlie in all her letters. (The last one but ended with the words, "Manson is the brain of all time to me, and I see no other patriarch.") To suggest that their relationship involved some kind of deliberate thought control is to do everyone concerned a disservice…"
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