Edwin Ramos is charged with murdering a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month.  It appears that Mr. Ramos, now 21, “benefited from the city’s long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation.”

San Francisco Chronicle

During Charles Manson’s trial in 1970, prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi questioned 20-year-old Manson Family member (and murderer) Paul “Tex” Watson. I’ve edited this down a tad, but don’t worry, I left all the freaky stuff.

HELTER SKELTER

Bugliosi: “During your association with Charles Manson, did he frequently discuss Helter Skelter with you?”

Watson: “Constantly.”

HOW HELTER SKELTER BEGINS

Watson: “There would be some atrocious murders; that some of the spades from Watts would come up into the Bel-Air and Beverly Hills district and just really wipe some people out, just cut bodies up and smear blood and write things on the wall in blood, and cut little boys up and make parents watch…

“[Then] all the other white people would be afraid that this would happen to them, so out of their fear they would go into the ghetto and just start shooting black people like crazy. But all they would shoot would be the garbage man and Uncle Toms, and all the ones that were with Whitey in the first place. And underneath it all, the Black Muslims would know that [Helter Skelter] was coming down.

“So, after Whitey goes in the ghettoes and shoots all the Uncle Toms, then the Black Muslims come out and appeal to the people by saying, ‘Look what you have done to my people.’ And this would split Whitey down the middle, between all the hippies and the liberals and all the up-tight piggies. A big civil war would start and really split them up in all these different factions. And after they killed each other off, then there would be a few [white people] left who supposedly won. Then the Black Muslims would come out of hiding and wipe them all out.”

Bugliosi: “Wipe the white people out?”

Watson: “Yes. By sneaking around and slitting their throats.”

THE UNDERGROUND CITY

Bugliosi: “Did Charlie say anything about where he and the Family would be during this Helter Skelter?”

Watson: “Yes… Charlie used to walk around in the desert and say — You see, there are places where water would come up to the top of the ground and then it would go down and there wouldn’t be no more water, and then it would come up again and go down again. He would look at that and say, ‘There has got to be a hole somewhere, somewhere here, a big old lake.’

“And it just really got far out, that there was a hole underneath there somewhere where you could drive a speedboat across it, a big underground city. Then we started from the ‘Revolution 9′ song on the Beatles album which was interpreted by Charlie to mean the Revelation 9. So-”

Bugliosi: “The last book of the New Testament?”

Watson: “Just the book of Revelation and the song would be ‘Revelations 9′. So …in Revelations 9, it talks of the bottomless pit. Then later on, I believe it is in 10…”

Bugliosi: “Revelation 10?”

Watson: “Yes. It talks about there will be a city where there will be no sun and there will be no moon.”

Bugliosi: “Manson spoke about this?”

Watson: “Yes, many times. That there would be a city of gold, but there would be no life, and there would be a tree there that bears twelve different kinds of fruit that changed every month. And this was interpreted to mean — this was the hole down under Death Valley.”

Bugliosi: “Did he talk about the twelve tribes of Israel?”

Watson: “Yes. That was in there, too. It was supposed to get back to the 144,000 people. The Family was to grow to this number.”

Bugliosi: “The twelve tribes of Israel being 144,000 people?”

Watson: “Yes.”

Bugliosi: “And Manson said that the Family would eventually increase to 144,000 people?”

Watson: “Yes.”

Bugliosi: “Did he say when this would take place?”

Watson: “Oh, yes. See, it was all happening simultaneously. In other words, as we are making the music and it is drawing all the young love to the desert, the Family increases in ranks, and at the same time this sets off Helter Skelter. So then the Family finds the hole in the meantime and gets down in the hole and lives there until the whole thing [Helter Skelter] comes down.”

HOW HELTER SKELTER ENDS

Bugliosi: “Did he say who would win this Helter Skelter?”

Watson: “The karma would have completely reversed, meaning that the black men would be on top and the white race would be wiped out; there would be none except for the Family.”

Bugliosi: “Did he say what the black man would do once he was all by himself?”

Watson: “Well, according to Charlie, he would clean up the mess, just like he always has done. He is supposed to be the servant, see. He will clean up the mess that he made, that the white man made, and build the world back up a little bit, build the cities back up, but then he wouldn’t know what to do with it, he couldn’t handle it.”

Bugliosi: “Blackie couldn’t handle it?”

Watson: “Yes, and this is when the Family would come out of the hole, and being that he would have completed the white man’s karma, then he would no longer have this vicious want to kill.”

Bugliosi: “When you say ‘he,’ you mean Blackie?”

Watson: “Blackie then would come to Charlie and say, you know, ‘I did my thing, I killed them all and, you know, I am tired of killing now. It is all over.’ And Charlie would scratch his fuzzy head and kick him in the butt and tell him to go pick the cotton and go be a good nigger, and he would live happily ever after.”

Chet Stiles, 27, appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom yesterday to confirm he’s broke and needs a court-appointed attorney to defend him against charges he sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl. Oh, and filmed it. But in time-honored American tradition, a man who raped a toddler on videotape will still cost taxpayers millions of dollars with a “not guilty” plea. You might argue that these millions would be better spent on sex offender treatment, or restitution for his victim, or food for starving children. You fascist.

Remember fellow countrypersons, ’tis better ten videotaped child rapists go free than one defense attorney piss himself in a fit of constitutionally protected rage.

I found this article in a scanned vintage newspaper, it was part of a syndicated feature called “Chronology of the Year”, a veritable orgy of death statistics published in the U.S. at the end of 1901. It seems there were 131 recorded lynchings in the United States that year. We can be confident in the accuracy of that number, I surmise, because lynchings were so carefully documented by unbiased journalists and local law enforcement officials. It certainly puts one’s mind at ease to learn that only nine of the year’s 131 lynchings were motivated by racial prejudice. The remaining 122 executions were justified with various reasons including a lynching for forcing a white boy to commit a crime. “I swear, ma! The negro made me do it!”

News: India fires 6 policemen over deaths of children, women

In a country long known for its outstanding commitment to social equality, citizens were outraged after learning local police essentially ignored reports that poor women and children have been disappearing from a wealthy suburb of Delhi over the past two years.

One migrant worker told reporters that when she asked police to investigate the disappearance of her 20-year-old daughter, they laughed, saying “Why do you people have so many children if you can’t look after them?” Of course, this was before they found the dismembered remains of at least 17 women and children in the sewer behind a businessman’s residence. He was arrested, along with his faithful manservant accomplice who reportedly performed domestic chores, including light kidnapping and body disposal.

After the first wave of nausea and abject horror, I was left wondering.. since when is killing women illegal in India? I kid, I kid! Seriously though, you guys are great.

Muslims around the globe are outraged that the Pope publically quoted a 14th-century Christian Byzantine emperor who said “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

As I sit on my couch watching Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer is questioning a Newsweek reporter about how the Pope could have said what he did. Not only did he say Islam was violent, chide our television friends, the Pope also failed to mention how crusaders in the early middle ages waged war to reclaim “holy lands” in the name of Christianity. That mean old pope.

Good Morning America didn’t mention the militant muslim repsonse. Furious over the Pope’s unfair accusation that Islam is linked to violence, Muslims are trying to set the record straight. For example, one extremist Sunni group stated the Pope is “doomed” for mischaracterizing the Religion of Peace. After conquering the West, they plan to “break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (killed by) the sword.”

If only the Pope could be more like Diane Sawyer, and celebrate (non-Christian) religious tolerance and diversity. Just because someone wants to kill you and everyone you know doesn’t necessarily make them “violent.” Man I hate that pissy old Pope.

A Hong Kong DJ and his producers publically apologized to outraged legislators and citizens after posting a poll on the radio show’s website asking people to vote for which female celebrity they would most like to rape. Crazy feminists.

This comes as China works hard to clean up it’s image in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, arresting jay-walkers and fining people who cut in line. A smoking ban is in the works, and since the Chinese are apparently exceedingly fond of hawking loogies — in the street, on hotel carpet, wherever — volunteers have hit the city sidewalks with free “spitting bags.” After eradicating these terrible offenses, I assume China will get around to focusing on minor etiquette violations like genocide, state-sanctioned torture and human trafficking.

Former vice-president of South Africa Jacob Zuma, kicked out of office for mass corruption, is on trial for raping an HIV-positive relative. His defense? She was totally asking for it, the dirty slut.

You see, the tramp–I mean, the alleged victim–was wearing a knee-length skirt. If that’s not asking to be raped, I don’t know what is. In addition, Zuma somehow surmised she wasn’t wearing underwear, clearly an invitation for violent assault.

The prosecution has argued that Zuma would have used a condom to have consensual sex with an HIV-positive partner. The fact that he didn’t use protection makes the rape scenario more plausible.

Zuma testified that her HIV status had indeed caused him to “hesitate.” But in the end he decided that he must have sex with her because in Zulu culture, leaving a woman horny and unsatisfied is tantamount to rape. “…In Zulu culture, you don’t just leave a woman,” he told the jury. “She will have you arrested and say you are a rapist.” You just can’t win with these lying bitches, can you?

Besides, he said, he figured he could wash the HIV off in the shower.

[tags]rape, crime, zuma, south africa[/tags]

According to an article in the LA Times, illegal immigrants in Maywood, CA don’t like having their cars impounded. Common traffic stops and drunk-driving checkpoints are extra annoying for them since they don’t have a driver’s license or insurance. (Come to think of it… law enforcement isn’t really very popular among people who are breaking the law.)

Recently, a “pro-[illegal]immigrant” city council was elected and got right to the root of the problem by immediately dismantling the entire traffic department.
Although the town is 96% hispanic, there are lots of residents who aren’t keen on the council giving the green light to illegal drivers. The opposition is mostly legal immigrants who worked hard and went through all the steps of legal immigration, and now pay through the nose (it is California, after all) to maintain the roads, schools, and other tax-funded amenities that illegals use for free.

The council says it wants to make Maywood a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants. That’s all fine/dandy, but they’re not gonna have much of a budget with such limited tax revenue and zero traffic fine revenue. However, I’m sure they can crawl into bed with some sugar-daddy special interest groups and get along just fine.

[tags]illegal immigration, illegal aliens, crime, maywood, california[/tags]