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"Thrill kill" was a term born in the Fifties. You remember the "punks", the "hoods" of the Fifties, don't you? (And, parenthetically, in line with what I was saying in the last segment, if you had any proclivities to punkism PRIOR to that time, you knew better than to let it show.) Anyhow, the Central Park punks would beat or knife an old man to death just for the "thrill" of it, just for "kicks". But, just like good ol' "Rock 'n' Roll", it took a toe-hold and grew from there.
I love it when the System and the Establishment are made to look like conservative reactionaries. And the latest bunch of business coming out of California, the Leonard Lake and Charles Ng "survivalist" serial murders, has done just that. Mass graves, videotaped slaughters, etc. You see not all the manifestations of Liberal Democracy can be guaranteed or expected to proceed according to Hoyle. These people claimed to be getting ready to survive "Armageddon" but I can't see what the sex killings have to do with that (unless it's to break the boredom). But given that plus the fact that at least one of their prime movers is an Oriental and you can be sure that they're not what could be called revolutionary. No. They're a part of society.
"Thrill Killer" Gacy.
The press has already compared it to the Tate-LaBianca killings of 1969 and have freely admitted that this makes those look like "peanuts". (Indeed, such incidents from Juan Corona to John Gacy have already done that.) But Manson is still THE "mass murderer" for all practical occasions (even though "his" victims were avid in their videotaping of bestial and sadistic sex as well as notorious for running a dope supermarket in their home). The difference was and is that Manson is revolutionary, one of us, and they HATE him and FEAR him for it. Just as Hitler's supposed record for killing six million Jews is far surpassed by Stalin's grand total of thirty million and Mao's of fifty million. It's who you are and what you stand for, not what you do or how you do it.
Mass graves are perfectly all-right as long as they are filled with dead Europeans killed while defending their homeland. Horrible killing is okay as long as it is state sanctioned. Vile and perverse videotapes are readily available and completely legal. But put 'em all together– private enterprise style– and watch out!
We've got to chuckle at all this for it is genuinely funny. These folks are the REAL "avant garde" of Democracy! Talk about some jet-setters!! For the rest of the citizenry who can't quite understand it, it's only what they're getting in return for their tax dollars and their votes cast. As for any of us falling victim to this or some future excursion into "total democracy" on the part of these types which are burgeoning in the land, we're supposed to be conscious and aware, on our guard and prepared. And, above all, with a reputation more gruesome than the gruesome. With a little knowledge, it's easy to keep out of harm's way the majority of the time.
For the rest, let the darns burst! All sense and order and reason have failed. Let their own terror now consume them!
[Vol. XIV, # 7 – July, 1985]
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