Charles Manson, dead at age 83

[Rev. Rye]

Lack of conscience/empathy doesnt mean they dont understand that what they are doing is wrong. Probably why he had his followers go murder that family at night when they couldn't be seen. Are you saying then that Manson should have been found innocent?

Actually, it seems that a good part of their plan was to create a false flag operation because they thought they killed Bernard "Lotsapoppa" Crowe, a drug dealer with connections to the Black Panthers (in reality, said dealer not only survived to testify against Manson, he's apparently still alive, and the thing about the Black Panthers was a colossal bluff) and decided to A) cover their own tracks, and B) start up the "Helter Skelter" scenario they thought was supposed to happen earlier in the year.