Reply #90: Debra Tate said it well... [View All]

[Westegg]

"I don't have any animosity for these people. I have gotten over that years ago," Debra Tate, 55, the sister of Sharon Tate and last living member of the Tate family, said Monday.

"I do think it is appropriate that they all will pass away while they are incarcerated," said Tate, who lives in Southern California. "I don't trust that they are less sociopathic than when they committed the murders 40 years ago."

Of Atkins' illness, Tate said, "I really do feel badly for her family."

---Personally, I think Susan Atkins was a troubled kid who fell under the sway of a madman, Manson, and so she ultimately reaped what she sowed. I do have some sympathy for her dying in prison, but she killed people and was duly tried and convicted. Of all the "Manson girls," I always thought Atkins was much more involved in the crimes and murders than some of the others--- Krenwinkle, for instance.

I think it's pretty definitive that if you carve up a bunch of people in 1969 Los Angeles and are later caught and sentenced for your crimes, you're going to die in prison. They were all supposed to go to the gas chamber decades ago.

Manson was the man who made it all happen. But they all have blood on their hands.