Free Charles Manson Now by Marlin Marynick Page A

went on down the road, and I was left with that lesson, and two or three times in my life on this tier that I’m on, things have happened where I could have ganged up on somebody, but I held down, stood down from that. I don’t do that because my life was given to me by someone, so I try to pass that on in my life, as being a part of my life. I don’t think we should gang up on people. That’s why we got courts, that’s why we got laws, rules, and regulations for our survival. Any time that you don’t give the laws, and the rules, and the regulations to the most low-life fucking Manson in the world, then what you got is something coming from the will of God ‘cause the laws are made for survival. That’s why all those men died on all those battlefields to make those traditions. We live in the shadows of those traditions. That’s what I tried to explain. I was on the witness program, the State of California should of never bothered me. They should have stood down off of me. I didn’t have anything to do with that, that wasn’t my play. I’m not saying that I’m a good man, that I’m not a crook. I’m not saying that I haven’t buried a few people. That doesn’t have anything to do with what happened there. What happened there wasn’t my play, it wasn’t in my lane.
    I’m not saying I’m not worse than that. I’m probably a thousand times worse. Tex [Watson] was a child, you know. Whenever I do something, I don’t ever get caught. People don’t know what I do. I don’t let them know what I do. If I let you know what I do then I can’t do it. I’m the sons of liberty in the graveyard. That’s my gang. My gang is crooks. That’s my family, that’s my cult. That’s what we were convicted for. You just seen a little bit of it. You didn’t see what was really going on. See, with what really goes on I don’t need to break the law. The law’s kind of stupid actually. You know, I’m not conspiring with nobody to do anything.
    Can you imagine the Pharaoh conspiring with somebody to put a prick in the pyramid. He put his brick in the pyramid with his mind. Conspire? Tex wrote in his book, “I think that’s what he wanted me to do.” He was right. He was a good soldier. He did exactly what he was supposed to do, and did it well, man. Yeah. He did one mistake, they say, and I don’t believe he made a mistake. They say he left one fingerprint. I don’t believe it. He was too perfect under my guidance, man, to leave a fingerprint, and they said he left a fingerprint and I said I don’t believe that. He didn’t make a mistake. Tex did not make a mistake. There’s no such thing in my kingdom.

IV

HOW IT ALL STARTED

    When we returned home, Buck received inquiries from various tabloids about Donald. We booked Donald on more radio shows and his story took off exponentially with each interview he gave. But we were still stuck on how adamantly Donald had declined a lie detector test on the Howard Stern Show, so we gave him an ultimatum: Do the test, or we’re done. He complied.
    Kendall Shull is arguably the world’s leading polygraph expert. Shull served with the FBI as a special agent for twenty-five years, and was chief of the entire FB polygraph program when he retired. If anyone can tell if you are lying, Shull can. We contacted Shull and he agreed to test Donald at his personal facility in Knoxville, Tennessee. Donald was very quiet on the drive to Knoxville; it was obvious that the looming lie-detector test was getting to him. In desperation, he tried to talk us out of the whole idea. “How many other authors have to go through this?” he demanded indignantly. I explained to Donald that he really had nothing to fear, that this was a formality that had to be dealt with sooner or later.
    When we arrived at our destination, Shull greeted us, explained the entire process, then asked to be alone with Donald so that he could conduct the test. The polygraph test took four hours, and centered mostly