Just when we thought main stream news media was all but hopeless; Xenox News style reporting may yet be alive and well after reading this gem from Greg Baum on the back page of today's Age.
"Warne can distinguish right from wrong when offered a bribe, but not, it seems, when offered a root."
Puts it all into perspective.
Pithy Quote
In the mix-sixties, while in McNeil Island Prison in Washington State, Charlie (Manson) picked the brains of a Scientologist inmate, at the same time he studied Masonic ritual and absorbed an indiscriminate amount of occult lore; it may have been then that he read Stranger in a Strange Land, and it was certainly then that he developed a kind of persuasive charisma based on (Scientologist) Hubbard's auditing.