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Former Manson Family Member Linda Kasabian Breaks Her Silence |
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Thank you for sharing that, and I'm so glad you got out! #lindakasabianinterview
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Thank you again; your experiences sound chilling, and you must be such a strong person to have survived it, no matter how young you were. #lindakasabianinterview
10/30/09
One thing Bugliosi's and others' accounts mention that's not covered in this article is how the Family's children were reared. Manson believed that parents shouldn't bond with their children individually, and the kids had almost no relationship with their mothers. When Linda says Tanya was "at the waterfall," this was an area pretty far geographically removed from Spahn's Ranch, and being physically separated like that was SOP, day-in, day-out. I think that's part of what allowed Linda to flee and leave her daughter behind, in addition to her mortal fear--the two didn't have the close contact that would be the norm outside the ranch. #lindakasabianinterview
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I guess my point is that no matter how distant the indoctrination is, it never fully goes away and there things, like mother-child bonding, that cannot not be redone. #lindakasabianinterview
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Put another way, is an all-male panel talking about discrimination against women likely to come to the same conclusions as a panel in which women had a voice? I don't think what I said is controversial or offensive. #lindakasabianinterview
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Like most documentaries about them, they also seriously glossed over or glorified some of the more effed up aspects (you know, after all the senseless murder) of their little community, which is irritating.
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See, I don't know how anyone could know this. I actually don't have as much anger as others do toward him, but the need to tie the incidents together is kind of bogus, in my mind. #lindakasabianinterview
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I spend way too much time thinking about why people do the horrible things that they do because I'm a lawyer and have worked in criminal courts. Some of the murderers and child rapists I've met are absolute psychos, while others are pretty normal outwardly, but there is something inside of them that makes them do these horrible things. The latter type is so much scarier to me, because you wonder if you'd be in their shoes had you lived their life. #lindakasabianinterview
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(im not defending him, just adding another detail to the whole thing) #lindakasabianinterview
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Those were horrible, horrible murders, so sad... #lindakasabianinterview
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Usually, their reenactments seem like a 6th grade play. This is better than that. #lindakasabianinterview
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Far too sensationalist and while I appreciate they want it to appeal to a wide selection of people, I found it almost patronising in how it explained everything. I half expected Dick and Jane to turn up as serial killers, it was so remedial, which is a a real shame because Linda Kasabian could have been much more interestingly shown. #lindakasabianinterview
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