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 THE RELEASE OF LESLIE VAN HOUTEN

Former member of the "Manson Family", Leslie Van Houten, has been released from prison on parole. The Manson Family, led by Charles Manson, committed two horrific sets of murders in August 1969 in Los Angeles. Leslie Van Houten was involved in the second one.

With all the volumes that have been written about these killings there is something that I haven't seen. It is known that the murders of wealthy and famous white people were committed to make it appear that black militants had done it. This was a time of high racial tension. Manson's idea was that this would set off a great race war which would be the Armageddon foretold in the Bible. The result would be Manson ruling over the world as Christ.

The Second World War, still fresh in memory at the time, had been concluded with two successive atomic bombings, and Armageddon was naturally expected to revolve around such weapons.

What I have never seen pointed out about the Manson murders is that there had been two sets of murders in quick succession, the actress Sharon Tate was murdered in the first one and a grocery store owner and his wife in the second, just as there had been two atomic bombs dropped in quick succession. The first set of murders took place on August 9, which was the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing.

Is this a coincidence or was it planned this way?