However, if you are so aware, please detail them in order that we can make a point of comparison. My response to your above questions would be that I am not aware of any crimes of the magnitude of Tate LaBianca by other similar groups at that particular point in time. (And in fact, was it only this group? Were there other less 'celebrated' crimes carried out by similar groups at that time, or was this set of murders unique?) Jat my question would be, why only this group? Maybe a perfect storm: Vietnam, drugs, rejection of pig society, plus the added factors of Manson's charismatic bitterness and nihilism and the psychopathic catalyst of Watson. Peter Coyote expresses it much more eloquently than I ever could when he talks about it here: I disagree Michael - I think the youth of the 60s contributed a lot to society then and the ripple effect of their actions are very much still ongoing today. They are the babies who threw their parents out with the bathwater. I see a lot of childish moral posturing, and a shallow pseudo-spiritual foundation underpinning a lifestyle of self-gratification (with a large dose of finger-wagging and preaching thrown in). ".When I watch footage of what kids were doing, thinking, and saying in the 1960s I struggle to find beauty in it. Makes you wonder if someone prepped him for that role. But he played the role so well he managed to discredit the entire subculture. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie." And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. I'm always amused by what John Ratzenberger (Cliff from Cheers) said:
When I watch footage of what kids were doing, thinking, and saying in the 1960s I struggle to find beauty in it. I agree, but in my own case with one major qualifier.
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