Have you ever noticed that despite how aggressively and arbitrarily law-enforcement officials and journalists, especially tabloid journalists, will mendaciously accuse someone of being a pedophile, none of these same people ever seem to accuse the late Charles Manson of being one? I find it somewhat interesting, but I have some idea what the reasons behind it are.
In case you're not familiar with the late Charles Manson, below is a video that provides a summary of his crimes and his so-called family that committed those same heinous crimes on his behalf. He and his accomplices were sentenced to death in 1971 for a series of 1969 murders in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area in California.
The Late Charles Manson Shocked The World With His Egregious Crimes Against Humanity
This subhuman maniac had the luck of the devil, because his death sentence was reduced to life in prison with eligibility of parole in 1972 after the California Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment and the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") followed suit. He died in 2017 at the age of 83, but he left behind a whole trail of misery for everyone whose lives he sabotaged.
The late Mr. Manson has been called a number of things, but I have never heard anyone of relevance accuse him of being a pedophile, and I'm quite baffled by it. The British have no reluctance in labeling Jimmy Saville as a pedophile, even though all of the minors he engaged with sexually were teenagers rather than prepubescent children.
Of course, people who participate in discussion threads on social media have accused the late Mr. Manson of pedophilia. Who really takes them seriously? Herein I'm going to explore the underlying reasons that law-enforcement officials and journalists have avoided pedo-shaming the late Mr. Manson like the plague.
1. The Late Charles Manson's Involvement With Teenage Girls
When the late Charles Manson was in his twenties, he married a 16-year-old girl and then pimped her into a life of prostitution. Now, I can understand that anything that he did before 1980 would not likely be pedo-shamed, because the everyday public at large didn't use words like "pedophile," "pedophilia," and the likes in their daily vocabulary back in those days.
Back in those days, if anyone uttered the word "pedophile," it meant that that person was either a mental-health professional or some kind of forensic expert in the criminal justice system. Moreover, such a person would have adhered to the edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders available at that time.
The Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ("DSM-4") and the Fifth Edition of that same manual ("DSM-5") both specify that a pedophile is someone 16 years of age or older who is either exclusively or primarily attracted to a prepubescent child five or more years their junior in a sexual manner. Therefore, if teenagers were the late Mr. Manson's thing, it would not have made him a pedophile.
The late Mr. Manson did indeed have a strong interest in teenage girls, and they were not all over the legal age of majority either. One of his followers was Dianne Lake, who was 14 years old upon first becoming involved with him. He was well into his thirties by the time that he met her and invited her into the Manson Family.
Ms. Lake never committed murder alongside the late Mr. Manson's other followers. However, it is highly possible that she had sexual intercourse with him after she first met him.
Other women in the Manson Family were minors when they first went to live with the late Mr. Manson. I don't rule out the possibility that he had sexual relations with them before they were of age, because he couldn't have cared less about the law.
Even though the late Mr. Manson was not clinically a pedophile, law-enforcement officials and journalists would seem to have branded him with that label because of his sexual depravities with underage girls who would have either been attending middle school or high school if they had not run away from home and moved in with him. Nonetheless, they didn't.
Journalist Tara Brown from 60 Minutes Australia absolutely loves to throw words like "pedophile" and "pedophilia" around at people that don't even come close to fitting such descriptions, but I've never heard or seen her accuse the late Mr. Manson of being a pedophile on television. Why hasn't she? What is she so afraid of?
Other female journalists have mentioned that girls as young as 13 years old have regularly mailed letters to the late Mr. Manson during his imprisonment to offer to have his baby, even after he got into his eighties. These could be the same girls who would tell a middle-aged man to buzz off if he were to drive up to them in his car and offer them a ride.
I once saw a group of teenagers on a rerun of a daytime television talk show, and they spoke of the late Mr. Manson as though he were the Messiah. A 16-year-old boy who obviously operated on a higher intellectual level than them tried to convince them to get out of the late Mr. Manson's orbit, but they would not listen to this young man.
When he was in his seventies during his imprisonment, the late Mr. Manson won the heart of a 16-year-old girl named Afton Elaine Burton. He later proposed marriage to her after she was in her twenties, but they didn't go through with the wedding. Below are two videos about it.
The Late Charles Manson Had Wedding Plans During His Twilight Years
Nonetheless, the same female journalists who proudly pedo-shame anyone they want never seem to accuse the late Mr. Manson of pedophilia. They really shouldn't be doing so, because he would not be one in that event. In any event, nobody would ever snipe at anyone for pedo-shaming the late Mr. Manson in a mendacious manner.
2. The Late Charles Manson's Odd Connection With Small Children
The late Charles Manson was a parent himself, but he wasn't necessarily a good one. His son, Charles Manson, Jr., committed suicide at the age of 37 because of the stigma he suffered of being the son of a notorious mastermind of serial murders.
When the late Mr. Manson was living with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson's niece, Carnie Wilson, was a newborn baby at the time back in the spring of 1968. I vaguely recall watching some documentary in which Dennis Wilson may have mentioned that despite that he found the late Mr. Manson to be fascinating, he still kept his niece, Carnie, far away from this maniac. I don't think anyone could rightfully blame him for doing so.
Even though the late Mr. Manson was not any kind of self-admitted child molester or pedophile, anyone could see that he was not the best influence on small children. What greatly shocked me was when I was watching a documentary about him on television, and it showed that some of the followers in the Manson Family were in their thirties like him at the time and they had their small children living there with him. Some of these little kids were toddlers.
I did once hear a rumor that the late Al Lewis, who played Grandpa Munster on The Munsters, was close friends with the late Mr. Manson and allowed for him to babysit his little kids. I don't know how true that rumor is, but it would be absolutely insane for him to have done so if it were all true.
The late Mr. Manson would not have made a good role model for small children, to say the least. Some people will do the most erratic things they can think of, and the late Mr. Lewis' actions took the cake if he really did enlist the late Mr. Manson to babysit his small children.
3. The Underlying Reasons Behind The Late Charles Manson's Immunity To Mendacious Pedo-Shaming
Now comes the million-dollar question. Why have law-enforcement officials, journalists, and other relevant individuals spared the late Charles Manson the indignities of them pedo-shaming him? If you really look into the crimes of the Manson Family, the answer will be staring you directly in the face.
The Manson Family continues to exist to this very day despite that the late Mr. Manson has been dead for nearly a decade. If you have ever seen any of these people be interviewed on daytime television talk shows, you'll realize that they act on impulse rather than on reasoning.
If the press, the media, the authorities, and the likes were aggressively to accuse the late Mr. Manson of having been a pedophile, such a move on their part could unleash a plethora of dangers to small children. These same weak-minded followers of the late Mr. Manson might get it in their head that raping and murdering little kids are somehow cool.
The Manson Family members are unafraid of prison. In fact, one of them who interviewed on a daytime television talk show even stated that the prison guards had to force her to leave prison after she had served her sentence. She apparently didn't want to have to deal with the real world outside her correctional facility.
If anyone of relevance was to convince the Court of Public Opinion that the late Mr. Manson was a pedophile and a child molester, the Manson Family members would likely idolize him for it; and then they would go around the nation and commit atrocities against small children to honor their hero - the late Mr. Manson. To a normal person like you and me, those actions on their part would not present themselves as rational. However, these people are not rational.
Many of you will say that if someone enters the prison system with "bad charges" involving kids, the other inmates will be likely to torture that person and even murder him. On the other hand, whenever an MS-13 gang member is sent to prison for raping an 8-year-old girl, somehow that gang member never seems to confront any problems in prison. Why? Because his fellow gang members will have his back at all times.
Convicts hate child molesters and pedophiles with a vengeance. At the same time, they're not looking to leave prison in a body bag.
The Manson Family members do not fear prison life as most people do. If they get sent to prison in droves for violently and sexually victimizing small children, they will view themselves as strong in large numbers. Their inmates won't bother them at all in spite of the hatred they'll feel for them.
Now, it's not to say that cult members and gang bangers don't confront violence from their inmates at all whenever they enter prison for victimizing children. The problem with them confronting violence from a prison gang is that those kinds of incidents seldom ever end very well for anyone involved. Usually, they turn into bloodbaths, and everyone suffers one way or another.
For these reasons, journalists, law-enforcement officials, and the likes distance themselves from pedo-shaming the late Mr. Manson in every way possible. They value the safety of their own loved ones and the loved ones of others, at least on a superficial level.
4. Final Thoughts
Some theorists blame the late Charles Manson's crimes as well as those of his followers on rock-and-roll. Others blame them on the downward spiral of society that was taking place in the form of the counterculture in the 1960s and the early 1970s. I blame them all on the late Mr. Manson himself.
It could be that some people don't see the teenage girls that the late Mr. Manson lured into his orbit as being victims because they themselves allowed him to turn them into killing machines. No matter which way you look at these events, everyone is responsible for their own actions regardless of whether they're over 18 or under 18 years of age.
The late Mr. Manson shook up the world once the news broke of his and the Manson Family's heinous crimes in 1969. The authorities who investigated those same crimes will even tell you that the world will never be the same again because of them. He certainly gave Diane Sawyer a hard time when she interviewed him so many years ago.
All I can say is that the best thing that the late Mr. Manson ever did was die in 2017. He may have been a talented singer, but he was no pillar to society, to say the least.
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