Charles Manson and the Farce of Justice
I find it “funny” (read—absurd) that the government put Charles Manson in prison for murder even though he never committed the act for which he has become infamous. Research this if you “don’t believe it”—it was his circle of followers who did the gruesome deed. And yet Manson is doing time for the crime.
The prosecutor’s reasoning (if one can call it that) is that Manson controlled the minds of his followers and is therefore just as responsible for the crime as those who actually wielded the murder weapons. His reasoning was successful in that it resulted in a conviction of murder for a man who never committed murder. His alleged control over the minds of the so-called Manson Family, the prosecutor reasoned, was equal to actually committing the crime itself. And so Manson was found guilty.
Well…by this reasoning and with this precedent in hand, one could (if so inclined) to take any high ranking member of the government of the United States and send them to prison for exactly the same thing. Are not members of the government busy controlling people every day? Are they not busy telling people what to do and what not to do? And do the people they represent do as they are told? For the most part—Yes. Does this not mean that politicians are no better than the scapegoat of the hippie generation? Aren’t the politicians just as guilty of mind control?
For that matter, one could send the entire news media, including the whole gamut of television, radio, and print, and send them to prison for the rest of their lives for the exact same thing Manson was accused and convicted of doing—controlling minds and thereby making people do things they wouldn’t otherwise do.
Even the field of advertising and marketing falls into the same category. What is advertising except the action of controlling someone to the point that they want something you (the advertiser) have, which causes people to take actions against their own will and purchase what you have? Is this not a form of mind control? Aren’t advertisers thereby just as guilty as Manson?
And for that matter, isn’t the prosecutor in the Manson case (Vincent Bugliosi) just as guilty as the man he was prosecuting? Think about it. How did he manage to get (the judge or jury) to convict a man who never picked up a weapon, much less commit a crime? The answer? By the very thing he accused Manson of—mind control. The prosecutor used mind control to convince the court that Manson was guilty of mind control and thereby murder. Well doesn’t that make the prosecutor … guilty of mind control, and thereby murder as well? ( Murder being defined in the sense that he usurped the Free Will of the court to think for itself, thereby murdering the court’s own ability to use its own reasoning.)
Indeed, these are dark times in which we live where so-called “Justice” is so perverted that the one who does the prosecuting of the allegedly guilty party thereby becomes just as guilty as they believe the accused to be.
Where is Justice? Certainly not here on Earth.
Is this still “funny”?
I am not laughing.
