Quotes from Red -

How can the social system be improved? It's a crime to smoke marijuana, a plant, but poisoning millions of people through toxic wastes is business as usual. How much will you give for the lives of your children's children, which is yourself. How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.

Almost everything you eat or drink has water in it. No matter where it's from, most of it's polluted. Most of it's got a lot of chemicals that we have to stop producing, It's a simple thing. We don't transfer it. We don't move the poisons somewhere else. We stop producing them. We use our brains.

I want clean water. I want water I could take a newborn baby down to and... you're not interested in air and water and you're gonna need it! And as it disappears from the earth, if you don't do anything about it... if you do not participate in doing whatever you can to protect your mother, your nurturer that keeps you alive, you don't get life.

Rattlesnakes eat the animals that reproduce in quantity. They all have a purpose, so we need them. Since we don't know or understand the overall purpose of so many animals, it's to our advantage to let them enlighten us. Snakes serve to keep people from being unaware oafs (ln the wild). If not for the need to look out for dangers around us we'd all be blundering plundering pigs. If animals didn't have a survival instinct, many more would be food to a few who'd get fat, flounder and die. End of story. Finito. No more life. Women holler and bitch to the contrary but we all live in a matriarchy and have for many many years. Women's needs have been the reason for work, war, religion and death. When in balance with the needs of the soul or patriarch (father, God, spirit, universe) this works well because the women's role has always been to make sure the young survive. When out of balance it destroys life.

Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them.
Keep judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror.
You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you, or you will commit suicide.

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Q: In 1975, what was your reason for trying to assassinate President Ford?

I pleaded "NOT GUILTY" to the charge of "attempted assassination of a President". There were 4 bullets in the handle of the gun - none in the chamber. Had I wanted to use a bullet, I would've jacked back the slide til it cllcked and pushed it forward, injecting one into its chamber. I moved spontaneously, as anytime feeling or intuition its strong, and I didn't choose to load the weapon. So - the plea was true. If Manson had anything to do with it, it is this - He asked the women around him to put the Earth before him to work for air, trees, water, animals (he calls it ATWA). He told me long ago that life on Earth does not begin with humans, but with all that keeps us alive. He said the Earth and its animals can survive without people. People cannot survive without it. Such a simple thing. You may say that everyone knows it; but humans behave now as if they can eat money and drink gasoline and oil.

I had that and other pollutions on my mind when Ford flew into Sacramento for a big Business and Industry breakfast the following morning.