War on the "pigs"

History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. In a review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders, attention is called to  approval of the Manson "family" murders by political radicals. The Mangione fans are hardly original:

.... Manson sought to discredit the entire proceedings, and was tutored in flamboyant disruptive tactics by Jerry Rubin, one of the “Yippie” (Youth International Party) activist prankster-protesters who’d caused mayhem by donning judges’ robes in court two years earlier, when he’d been charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago.

Rubin claimed to have fallen “in love with Manson” after seeing his “cherubic face and sparkling eyes on national TV”. He wasn’t the only Leftist who saw Manson and his co-defendants as fellow travelers in the revolution to come. Members of the terrorist Weather Underground group equally toasted the Family’s supposed war on “the pigs”, meaning the ruling establishment, on the basis that the victims were white and wealthy. .... (more)

Travis Elborough, "Why Charles Manson was even more crazed than you thought," The Telegraph, May 19, 2026.