"
Helter
Skelter" is the name of the official motive for the Tate/LaBianca
murders. They were supposed to kick off a race war in which Charlie and
his Family would eventually emerge on top. Those who believe in the
"Helter Skelter" theory of motive have questioned where he got this
bizarre theory. Researchers have pointed to the Book of Revelation,
Scientology, the Process Church of the Final Judgement, and the Beatles'
"White Album."
But
another probable influence long overlooked is the ideology of
the Black Muslims, aka "The Nation of Islam(NOI)." Their apocalyptic
outlook was very similar to Manson's:
".... the, primary beliefs of the Black Muslims... were that the black
man was morally and culturally superior, and was destined to rule the
earth. The sect... preached that the white race was conceived of devils
whose time to reign was coming to an end. It encouraged the reclamation
of fallen blacks... through the study of their true history, through
striving for economic independence, and by preparation for the Battle
of Armageddon which they believed would be the final struggle
between good and evil, black and white."
From
Zebra: The True Account of 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco, by author Clark Howard
"the black man was.... destined, to rule the earth"
Charlie said the blacks would emerge victorious in the race war.
"..the white race ... time to reign was coming to an end."
Charlie said the karma was turning, and that blacks would rise up.
" ...preparation for the Battle of Armageddon, which they believed would be the final struggle between... black and white."
Exactly as Charlie prophesied, while the Family hid out in those underground caverns in the desert somewhere.
And almost certainly, Charlie would have had contact with the NOI in the prisons.
http://www.earcandymag.com/deathtopigsmansongang-0612.htm
The
subject of the Black Muslim is brought up several times by Paul
Watkins(Family member), Sandra Good(Family member) and Phil Phillips
(Charlie's cell mate at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary).
In
Chapter 10 of the Paul Watkins autobiography,
My Life with Charles
Manson, Manson is quoted as follows: "The heavy dudes, though, are
the [Black] Muslims. ...they'll be the ones who bring the shit down.
Yeah, it's gonna come down hard... a full-on war."
Curiously,
neither of the two standard books about the Family--Vince Bugliosi's
Helter Skelter and Ed Sanders'
The Family--mentions the
NOI link. An oversight, or did someone not want the obvious connections
to be made?
And
that might be the end of it; 'it' being no more than a passing
resemblance to the apocalyptic beliefs of another cult that Charlie had
some slight contact with--one influence among many. Except for one curious fact. That (depending
on how you look at it)
Helter Skelter actually DID happen, in the form
of a nation-wide black-on-white homicide spree known as
the ZEBRA
killings, in which the suspects or perpetrators were all Black
Muslims.
Specifically,
Zebra refers to a series of about 20 black-on-white attacks that
occurred in San Francisco from October 1973 to April 1974, leaving 15
killed and 8 wounded. It turned out the killers were a cult--the
"
Death Angels"--operating within the Nation of Islam mosque in San Francisco, involving about eight men.
Though only four would go to prison. Their philosophy was bizarre: to
get to heaven they had to kill a certain number of whites--women and
children counting for more than men--before they could earn their
'wings.' They also seemed to have been led by charismatic leaders who
came out from the main NOI headquarters mosque in Chicago.
What
is not well known, however, is that the spree began much earlier, when
police started noticing that there were many unsolved crimes with the
same MO:
one or more well-dressed and groomed black men attacking
whites without any apparent motive. Exactly how many victims there
were is still disputed.
From the book "
Zebra: The True Account of 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco" by Clark Howard:
"...determined
to calm the fear and put a stop to the killings, Joseph Alioto held a
press conference to lay out what he believed he knew about Zebra. ... he
laid out a huge collection of speculative intelligence, claiming that
more than eighty killings across the state going back to 1971
could be linked to Zebra, and implying that those responsible for all
the crimes might be tied to the Nation of Islam."
"This
was October of 1973. The California attorney general’s office had
already secretly compiled a list of forty-five of those killings
which had taken place in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley,
Long Beach, Signal Hill, Santa Barbara, Palo Alto, Pacifica, San Diego,
and Los Angeles; and in the counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara, Los
Angeles, Contra Costa, Ventura, and Alameda. All the victims were white.
All the known suspects in the killings had been associated with the
Black Muslim movement. The killings were even then continuing throughout
the state."
http://openjurist.org/710/f2d/868/national-alliance-v-united-states-national-alliance
San
Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto's figure of 75 execution-style murders
of White persons by Black killers in California since 1971 has been
expanded to
approximately 400 by adding figures for similar
killings with an apparent racial motive in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Police officials who added the unsolved
killings in the six Midwestern states to those in California went as far
back as 1969.
There were enough clues that the spree had been planned for years:
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5288&context=jclc
1965 report on '
Black Muslims and the Police,' pg2of9
The
Muslims claim that they will overcome without violence or torture, but
there will be
complete annihilation of the white man. The
tentative date set for
this annihilation is
1970.
Some of the other killings thought to be Zebra killings:
EAST BAY
Oakland-Berkeley slashers
https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/2011/01/19/from-the-gregory-files-black-manchurian-candidates-the-enigma-of-billy-mapp-the-zebra-murders-al-constran/
Two
black men had been randomly shooting and attacking whites with machetes
in Oakland and Berkeley beginning September 14, 1970 and lasting a
year. 14 separate attacks leave 15 victims dead or wounded.
LOS ANGELES
According to this website,
https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/2011/01/19/from-the-gregory-files-black-manchurian-candidates-the-enigma-of-billy-mapp-the-zebra-murders-al-constran/
there
were at least seven people wounded or killed in the LA area in attacks
that fit the Zebra profile, commencing in June of '71 and lasting for
one year.
CHICAGO
Eight
blacks involved in two mass slayings of family members and others, from
August to October of 1972, leaving at least nine victims dead.. They
called themselves "De Mau Mau."
The killers were not themselves Muslim, but the group was founded by an ex-bodyguard to Malcolm X, Charles 37X Morris.
OKLAHOMA CITY
June 1973 to October 1974
Radical
Black Muslims headquartered in Oklahoma City suspected in a series of
black-on-white crimes, including at least six unsolved slayings, three
shootings, two abductions and a dozen arson fires. One member arrested
and convicted.
SACRAMENTO
April 1974 Sacramento shotgun murders
Four young Black Muslims kill two and wound two in separate attacks.
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-nation-of-islams-sacramento-murders.html
..both
(perps)Lang and Pratt "eventually expressed deep remorse to parole
commissioners, telling them the killings around the state were
coordinated by Muslim elders."
Pratt
told the parole board: "It definitely was a racial crime..... This was
constantly taught at the time. We had books on it, little pamphlets.
This is what I see now as part of the
brainwashing effect."
It
is probably not a coincidence that the end of the killing spree more or
less coincided with the natural death of the leader of the NOI, Elijah
Muhammad, in early 1975. His son, who succeeded him, quickly told his
congregation to cool the anti-white rhetoric.
Certainly what was written about the NOI back in 1932, in the beginning, could just as easily have been written about the Manson Clan in 1969:
Detroit Free Press, 11-24-32
Detectives
Wednesday expressed themselves as convinced that the cult had been
conceived by a...
religious fakir for personal gain and nurtured
by a
group of zealots whose reason had become
unbalanced. ... Police believe these men are
mad
leaders who deluded the cult's members into
homicidal
tendencies.
Detroit Free Press, 11-28-32
There
is a feeling of pity on our part for those who have so grievously been
misled. We offer our co-operation to help them by freeing them of their
unfortunate leadership and making impossible a repetition of
so
horrible a crime*. ... Detectives and others assigned to the case
said that they would continue their investigation until the cult is
stamped out.
*referring to a sacrificial murder committed by one of the group.
There were other curious links and similarities with the Black Muslims:
W.C. Fard Muhammad (founder of the NOI in the early 1930s)
http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/mystery-man/Content?oid=2175649
...Fard emphasized contempt for the white race, whom he called “
cavemen” or “white devils.”
So was it just coincidence that Charlie wanted his band to hide out in the
caves until Helter Skelter was over?
---------
Elijah Muhammad
Note the parallels in belief and language:
http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5288&context=jclc
1965 report on 'Black Muslims and the Police,' pg3of9
--Elijah Muhammad: "We believe that intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited."
--Malcolm X, on the black Muslim: "He's
cleaning up the mess that white men have made."
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After the 1932 murder, Fard claimed to be a divine figure in police interviews:
https://2ndphilolog.wordpress.com/nation-of-islam/
Master
Fard Muhammad, who is still considered to be “Allah” by modern-day
Nation of Islam members, was described as “suffering from delusions that
he is a divinity.”
Of course Charlie also liked to imply he was Christ.
------------
Fard preached an end-of-the-world scenario, like Manson:
http://www.conspiracyschool.com/sites/default/files/master_fards_deceptions_and_doctrines.pdf
Only
144,000 people would survive, and all of those would be Muslims of color, the only “true” Muslims.
(Though the NOI probably got this from the
Jehovah's Witnesses, whom they have acknowledged as an influence.)
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Another commonality that has intrigued me is the use of the "
X" symbol by both groups.
The
members of the NOI often dropped their 'slave names' and substituted an
X to stand for their original, forgotten African names, for example:
Malcolm X, Louis X, Clarence 13X, Joseph X Polite, Charles 37X Morris,
etc.
And
of course we know that Charlie and his followers burned an X into their
foreheads during the trial, to show that they were "
Xing"(removing)
themselves out of society.
Charlie X?
Sadie X?
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Interview with Paul Crockett on Oct 3, 1969
https://youtu.be/IEVv9nqtZXQ
Part 1, at the 21:00 mark:
"....So,
all of these things he(Manson) .... says the black man is getting ready
to blow the whole thing open, that
he talks to them, that they know
him, that they tell him these things...."
Crockett
Crockett
implies that the links between the Black Muslims and Manson was much
closer than thought. Is it evidence that Charlie, in fact,
may have had
contact with them after his release from prison in the
spring of '67? Or is Charlie just embellishing?
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Here's Mommy, but where's Daddy's pic?
In
his book, Vince Bugliosi asks Charlie at one point if he is part black,
based on info from records relating to Manson's time at the National
Training School for Boys, Washington, D.C. in 1951.
Helter Skelter, Vince Bugliosi, pg555
"Father:
unknown. He is alleged to have been a
colored cook by the name
of Scott, with whom the boy's mother had been promiscuous at the time of
pregnancy."
Charlie
denied it, but Bugliosi had asked the wrong question. In the US back
in the '30s, 'colored' could mean anybody who had a darker skin tone,
including people from Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, etc.
IF
Charlie
was of mixed race, he may have played this up to win the
confidence of the NOI in the prisons. Certainly by their own rules
Charlie might have qualified as a brother:
https://archive.org/stream/blackmuslimsinam030743mbp/blackmuslimsinam030743mbp_djvu.txt
The Muslims consider all non-whites to be Black Men, whatever their skin color.
There
were a couple of behind-the-scenes events that occurred while Charlie
was incarcerated at the McNeil Island Federal prison in Washington state
from mid-1961 to mid-1966. They very well may have influenced his
relationship with the Black Muslims. The first was that the
Bureau of
Prisons(BOP) started adapting new tactics in their handling of
hard-to-handle inmates.
McNeil Island
http://realcostofprisons.org/materials/Resisting_Living_Death_Gomez.pdf
...the
1961 gathering titled “The Power to Change Behavior: A Symposium
Presented by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons” as a key moment in the
politicization of
institutionalized brainwashing, behavior
modification, and torture within the prison regime. The result was a
national directive to experiment with these techniques, originally used
against American POWs in Korea, on the
black Muslim prison
population. ... these techniques constituted a prison-based, Counter
Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)– like set of tactics that included
surveillance, infiltration, and disruption. ...
At
the same time(early 60s), there were two formidable forces from the
Left struggling against the decrepit conditions and racial violence
inside prisons.
Black Muslims and
writ writers, also known as
jailhouse lawyers, helped propel this shift.
Well
Charlie liked to associate with the troublemakers, according to his
records. And according to the BOP the two most troublesome groups were
the Black Muslims and the jailhouse lawyers--who liked to file a lot of
lawsuits against the prisons and helped others file lawsuits. One of
Charlie's close associates at McNeil was
Lanier “Red” Ramer, who
was transferred to the much tougher prison at Marion, Ill, in 1972 for
his 'writ writing.' The point is that Charlie very well could have
been caught up in this covert struggle between the prison administrators
and the inmate agitators. It would have been natural for the guards
to try to recruit Charlie as an informant on these groups. And if they
succeeded in getting Charlie to snitch on the NOI in prison, they might
have wanted him to do the same outside of prison.* Is that why the cops
and his probation officer ignored Charlie's criminal activities? I've
always suspected that the cops had an informant who was close to the
family. Well maybe it was Charlie himself.
*Though
real evidence of any contacts between Charlie and any black person is
mostly non-existent after he was released from TI in '67. But it must
also be remembered that Charlie didn't spend all of his time with the
family--he reportedly kept up contact with his non-family associates
during periodic visits by himself to Hollywood.
The other development was revealed by ex-NOI Malcolm X in this 1965 speech:
https://youtu.be/TFr4GACTGX4
Malcolm X 1965 speech
"I
mentioned the conspiracy between the Muslims and the right wing in this
country. I know for a fact there is a conspiracy between the Muslim and
the Lincoln Rockwell nazi and also the Ku Klux Klan. There is a
conspiracy. ... The Ku Klux Klan made a deal, or were trying to make a
deal, with Elijah Muhammad(leader of the NOI at that time)...." [Malcolm
then explains that the NOI were thereafter free to operate in the south
without hindrance from the Klan, and that the Klan was free to operate
without interference by the Black Muslims.]
Malcolm X
Charlie
was known for his chameleon-like ability to ingratiate himself with any
person or group. Did this hidden peace treaty between the white and
black segregationists filter down to the prison system, and did it pave
the way for Charlie to get close to elements within the NOI?
If
ever there was a crime that warranted federal involvement, it would
have been this interstate crime spree by the Black Muslims. But in this
instance,
the FBI was nowhere to be found. Though there is
evidence that the feds knew what they were dealing with:
https://violenceagainstwhites.wordpress.com/zebra/
NOI
also murdered whites in Oklahoma City and New York City, and an old San
Francisco copper who worked the original Zebra detail told me that at
the time he saw a secret
FBI memo that reported that a parallel
campaign was underway on the East Coast.
The
investigation by the San Francisco PD was hindered, it is said, because
they had no black undercovers that could have infiltrated the mosque of
the NOI in that city. But this is somewhat disingenuous, as the Black
Muslims had been an intensive target of FBI surveillance for many years.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/COINTELPRO/COINTELPRO-FBI.docs.html
From official FBI COINTELPRO documents: A March 4, 1968 communique
sent
out by J. Edgar Hoover ... specifically identified Elijah Muhammad and
the Nation of Islam as
primary targets of COINTELPRO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Amidst
the urban unrest of July–August 1967, the FBI began
"
COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE", which focused on King and the SCLC as
well as .... the Nation of Islam.
The Director, J. Edgar Hoover
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/82420.pdf
--pg37of313
On
May 3, 1974 Alioto flew off to Washington to share his information on
the Death Angels with (U.S.)Attorney General Saxbe ...Saxbe was
very
cool to Alioto. He treated the mayor as he would any other large
city mayor but with
little interest in the supposed
nation-wide murder plot Alioto had discovered.
SF Mayor Alioto:
What
can explain the lack of interest by the Feds? Fear of being
politically incorrect in that racially charged era? Or did they want to
see the violence continue to demonize black political movements?
The Attorney General of the United States and head of the Justice Department, William B. "Bill" Saxbe
"When
people talk about Zebra, it's usually as a serial killing. That may be
technically true, but the most accurate description of what Zebra was is
terrorism, plain and simple."
--Co-author Earl Sanders in "The Zebra Murders"
https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/2011/01/19/from-the-gregory-files-black-manchurian-candidates-the-enigma-of-billy-mapp-the-zebra-murders-al-constran/
The
machete attacks as well as the Zebra Murders were operational
(FBI-COINTELPRO-CIA-Project CHAOS) criminal counterintelligence
actions... to
destroy, disrupt and discredit Black Nationalism and
polarize the races...
But
if the Zebra killings, with their obvious similarities to Helter
Skelter, were part of
Operation Chaos, what does that mean for our
understanding of Charles Manson's murders?
