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Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins dies
ABC News ^ | September 25, 2009 | LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent

Posted on 09/25/2009 4:56:55 AM PDT by ETL

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer..."

Debra Tate, the slain actress's younger sister, told the parole commissioners Sept. 2 that she "will pray for (Atkins') soul when she draws her last breath, but until then I think she should remain in this controlled situation." Debra Tate noted that she would have a 40-year-old nephew if her sister had lived..."

Atkins married twice while in prison. Her first husband, Donald Lee Laisure, purported to be an eccentric Texas millionaire. They quickly divorced. Whitehouse, her second husband, is a Harvard Law School graduate and had recently served as one of her attorneys.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bernardinedohrn; blackliberation; blackvswhite; charlesmanson; digit; helterskelter; helterslelter; manson; pigs; revolution; susanatkins; weatherunderground
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To: The_Victor
They shoulda shorn her legs too.

Lol! I see what you mean! I didn't get it at first.

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21 posted on 09/25/2009 5:49:10 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Worth another BTTT!


22 posted on 09/25/2009 5:50:28 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: The_Victor

Eewwwww.


23 posted on 09/25/2009 5:50:34 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: agrace
Just the difference in the face.


"Atkins during the grand jury proceedings"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Atkins
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"File - Convicted murderer and former Charles Manson family member, Susan
Atkins, is seen in a bed during her parole hearing in this Sept. 2, 2009, file photo
taken at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, Calif." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090925/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_manson_follower_9

24 posted on 09/25/2009 5:58:40 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

I know, hard to believe, but I guess cancer can be pretty devastating.


25 posted on 09/25/2009 6:00:08 AM PDT by agrace
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To: ETL

One down, three to go.


26 posted on 09/25/2009 6:02:27 AM PDT by yazoo (Conservatives believe what they see. Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: agrace
"Sharon was the last to die," Susan said with a laugh as she described how Sharon was begging her, " Please don't kill me. Please don't kill me. I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to have my baby. I want to have my baby."

Susan said she just looked at Sharon straight in the eye and said, "Look, bitch, I don't care about you. I don't care if you're going to have a baby. You had better be ready. You're going to die and I don't feel anything about it...In a few minutes I killed her."

Susan said she saw that there was Sharon's blood on her hand and she tasted it. "Wow, what a trip! To taste death, and yet give life."

Source: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/manson/confess_4.html

27 posted on 09/25/2009 6:02:56 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

She should have been executed shortly after the trial.


28 posted on 09/25/2009 6:08:21 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

“Debra Tate, the slain actress’s younger sister, told the parole commissioners Sept. 2 that she ‘will pray for (Atkins’) soul when she draws her last breath, but until then I think she should remain in this controlled situation.’ Debra Tate noted that she would have a 40-year-old nephew if her sister had lived...”


29 posted on 09/25/2009 6:10:51 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL
It's very sad. Not only did they lose a sister/daughter, the Tate family has had to endure knowing what a cruel death Sharon suffered. They're the ones who deserve our sympathy, as they have received a life sentence as well.
30 posted on 09/25/2009 6:14:26 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ETL

So basically you’re saying that someone can be so depraved that even the Creator of the universe can’t change them?


31 posted on 09/25/2009 6:15:43 AM PDT by agrace
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To: ETL

Gee, that’s tough. Hey!..pancakes!


32 posted on 09/25/2009 6:21:13 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: ETL

Thank you for the Sharon Tate pics, ETL. Beautiful...a dead ringer for my sissy...who died of brain cancer. How’s Hell goin’ for ya, Susan Atkins?


33 posted on 09/25/2009 6:22:30 AM PDT by Miss Behave (Lock and Load)
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To: ETL
You're going to die and I don't feel anything about it...

Oh, but you WILL feel something, Susan.

You most definitely will.

34 posted on 09/25/2009 6:26:14 AM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: Tax-chick
If she repented, God has forgiven her. I’m happy that she remained in prison until death.

: I'm not, I wish they would have killed her and the whole Manson tribe. They should have tortured them all over a period of several days, making death as painful and as long as they could and making it public while doing so. That would have sent the whole crew of hippie psychos roaming the country at that time to run for cover and would have stopped the 60s communist movement in it's tracks.

35 posted on 09/25/2009 7:06:59 AM PDT by celestron71
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To: celestron71
I wish they would have killed her and the whole Manson tribe.

Well, yes, that would have been good. I meant "as opposed to letting her out."

36 posted on 09/25/2009 7:20:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Steam goes up, water goes down, and you shouldn't hit catz.)
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To: All

“Susan Atkins, one of the killers, writes “Pig” on the house’s front door, in Sharon Tate’s blood.”

http://www.aboundinglove.org/sensational/wydfm/wydfm-014.php


“Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!”
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09


37 posted on 09/25/2009 7:54:17 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: All
"When police arrived at the LaBianca murder scene, they found various words written in blood. On the living room walls, there was "rise" and "death to pigs." Carved into Leno LaBianca's stomach was "war." Alone these seem to give no clue, but another writing on the refrigerator did. It was the incorrectly spelt "healter skelter." This led some investigators to believe the writings may have been influenced by the so-called "White Album" by the Beatles which included the song "Helter Skelter." Another song on the album, "Blackbird," used the word "arise" which may have inspired the bloody use of "rise."

The phase "death to pigs" was likely inspired by the Beatles' song "Piggies." Had police made the connection, they would have realized that "pig" was used in the previous murders at the Gary Hinman and Sharon Tate houses. At Hinman's, bloody writing said "political piggie" while "pig" was written at the Tate house."

http://www.charliemanson.com/helter-skelter.htm

38 posted on 09/25/2009 8:09:29 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: mom4melody

>>Susan Atkins died a Believer in Christ. Her sins were forgive<<
It is not for me to judge — that is between her and God. But jailhouse conversions are, shall we say, convenient.

Her particular behavior in the Tate killings was crueler than anyone but charlie’s — some things are too terrible to forgive. God, in His infinite wisdom may do so. Most of us can and should not.


39 posted on 09/25/2009 11:06:33 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ETL

“Debra Tate noted that she would have a 40-year-old nephew if her sister had lived...””

Something too many people forget. We only have one life, ONE LIFE on this earth and Sharon never got to live hers fully. I believe she went to heaven, but there is something poignent about how she is in eternal bliss, all needs met, but there’s something about living on earth and experiencing the feeling of comfort that warm socks, jammies, and good food bring in their own unique way.

I hate loathe, and despise the Manson family psychos for what they did. I don’t believe she died truly remorseful and you don’t just swtich from butcher to child of God in such a short time. If she was truly repentent, she would have been willing to live out her sentence. BUs instead she tried to get out time and time again.

Someone that messed up and easily led to the point of butchering those innocent people should be refused parole because if some other madman gets them under his control, she could easily end up killing again.


40 posted on 09/25/2009 11:08:08 AM PDT by Niuhuru (The internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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