Comments on: Manson follower Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme released from prison today http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 15:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566553 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566553 Keeper...did you really want CHENEY to be President? Keeper…did you really want CHENEY to be President?

]]> By: Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-567337 Maggie Koerth-Baker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-567337 #35 I remember reading elsewhere that there was a good reason for that. Fromme staged a successful escape attempt in the late 80s. The agreement made during her parole hearing was that she would be paroled, but would serve an extra year on account of that bad behavior. Whether or not you agree with that decision = shrug. But this wasn't a violation of human rights where somebody was paroled and then randomly just kept in jail for an extra year with no knowledge of why. #35

I remember reading elsewhere that there was a good reason for that. Fromme staged a successful escape attempt in the late 80s. The agreement made during her parole hearing was that she would be paroled, but would serve an extra year on account of that bad behavior.

Whether or not you agree with that decision = shrug. But this wasn’t a violation of human rights where somebody was paroled and then randomly just kept in jail for an extra year with no knowledge of why.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-1018938 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1018938 She has done her crime and her time.simple.we r still all humans. She has done her crime and her time.simple.we r still all humans.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-680511 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-680511 What does Squeaky like on her Pizza.? What does Squeaky like on her Pizza.?

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-567364 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-567364 More precisely, she was granted parole on the initial charges against her, but had to serve the additional time added to her sentence for charges related to the escape. But Maggie is right; there's no miscarriage of justice involved in that delay. More precisely, she was granted parole on the initial charges against her, but had to serve the additional time added to her sentence for charges related to the escape.

But Maggie is right; there’s no miscarriage of justice involved in that delay.

]]> By: Ned613 http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566602 Ned613 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566602 Why after 34 years must the media still refer to her as Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. Could we possibly confuse her with some other public figure named Lynette Fromme? It's not like there is Senator Lynette Fromme or Oscar winning actress Lynette Fromme. Actually come to think of it she could run for Senator or maybe pursue a career in acting. Why after 34 years must the media still refer to her as Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme. Could we possibly confuse her with some other public figure named Lynette Fromme? It’s not like there is Senator Lynette Fromme or Oscar winning actress Lynette Fromme. Actually come to think of it she could run for Senator or maybe pursue a career in acting.

]]> By: Ned613 http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566608 Ned613 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566608 I mean she definitely as the name recognition to pursue either of these to career paths. I mean she definitely as the name recognition to pursue either of these to career paths.

]]> By: buddy66 http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566611 buddy66 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566611 That was always the question, Xopher. I spent eight years afraid somebody would shoot the little cheerleader. That was always the question, Xopher. I spent eight years afraid somebody would shoot the little cheerleader.

]]> By: AnoniMouse http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566616 AnoniMouse Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566616 @3 Most prisons have libraries, and many have computers. While I'm sure the new iPhone may be somewhat wondrous, prisoners still get to the the ads- just like everyone else. What we should be considering is how people who have been institutionalized learn to cope with living on the outside. Squeaky hasn't gone to a grocery store in almost 50 years! No bank account! No doctor, no dentist, no marketable skills to get a job. Who is going to hire her, a 60 year old convicted, famous, murderer? ANd the system doesn't provide any safety nets. Prisons do not rehabilitate, they handicap. @3
Most prisons have libraries, and many have computers. While I’m sure the new iPhone may be somewhat wondrous, prisoners still get to the the ads- just like everyone else.

What we should be considering is how people who have been institutionalized learn to cope with living on the outside. Squeaky hasn’t gone to a grocery store in almost 50 years! No bank account! No doctor, no dentist, no marketable skills to get a job. Who is going to hire her, a 60 year old convicted, famous, murderer? ANd the system doesn’t provide any safety nets. Prisons do not rehabilitate, they handicap.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-581465 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-581465 they release this woman knowing she is still a bit of a well ding bat . Yet they deny parole to Susan Atkins and Paricia Krenwinkle and Leslie VanHouton who while they were involved in the murders have changed their lives GREATLY One is slated to die soon and is paralyzed. She would go from Jail to a nuirsing home or a home with constant nursing care. How can this be a bad thing?? These woman can not at least show their rehabilitation all because Debra Tates sheer Anger and hate. They have expressed their remorse MANY times but it is Never enough for Debra. She is seriously eaten up by Hate Mind you I have experienced a death of a loved one he was murdered while I carried our daughter He was and still is 24 years later my one true love even though he is no longer here. but come on i can not spend my life jumping across the country making sure the killer stays in prison just because of my pain How can one live like that? Ms Fromme has shown many times and still speaks highly of Manson. :0(( She has been in trouble in prison and escaped once too. The other ladies have all good things no issues How does this happen?? the others admit their mistakes they were young woman high and misled by a loony bird. It makes me wonder about our system and why it never changes for the good. they release this woman knowing she is still a bit of a well ding bat .
Yet they deny parole to Susan Atkins and Paricia Krenwinkle and Leslie VanHouton who while they were involved in the murders have changed their lives GREATLY One is slated to die soon and is paralyzed. She would go from Jail to a nuirsing home or a home with constant nursing care. How can this be a bad thing??

These woman can not at least show their rehabilitation all because Debra Tates sheer Anger and hate. They have expressed their remorse MANY times but it is Never enough for Debra. She is seriously eaten up by Hate Mind you I have experienced a death of a loved one he was murdered while I carried our daughter He was and still is 24 years later my one true love even though he is no longer here. but come on i can not spend my life jumping across the country making sure the killer stays in prison just because of my pain How can one live like that?

Ms Fromme has shown many times and still speaks highly of Manson. :0(( She has been in trouble in prison and escaped once too. The other ladies have all good things no issues

How does this happen??

the others admit their mistakes they were young woman high and misled by a loony bird.

It makes me wonder about our system and why it never changes for the good.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566362 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566362 Reality Show!!! Reality Show!!!

]]> By: Purly http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566363 Purly Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566363 Is this the chick that John Waters is friends with? Is this the chick that John Waters is friends with?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566367 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566367 wow. She's in for a big, nasty shock... imagine being locked up since 1975 and then finally getting out this year and seeing how much the world and technology have changed. It's like stepping out of a time machine, no? I often wonder how people, who have been in prison so long, have any idea what the Internet is like and what a modern computer looks like. wow. She’s in for a big, nasty shock… imagine being locked up since 1975 and then finally getting out this year and seeing how much the world and technology have changed. It’s like stepping out of a time machine, no?

I often wonder how people, who have been in prison so long, have any idea what the Internet is like and what a modern computer looks like.

]]> By: cory http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566383 cory Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566383 JW is friends with Leslie van Houten, not Ms. Fromme. JW is friends with Leslie van Houten, not Ms. Fromme.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566385 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566385 #3 SQUEAKY "Do Sonny and Cher still have that stupid show?" BROCKMAN "No! She won an Oscar, and he's a congressman." SQUEAKY "GOOD. NIGHT." *flatline* #3

SQUEAKY “Do Sonny and Cher still have that stupid show?”

BROCKMAN “No! She won an Oscar, and he’s a congressman.”

SQUEAKY “GOOD. NIGHT.”

*flatline*

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566391 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566391 @3 Yes, because prisons are technological voids, completely shut off from society, change, and cultural influences... @3

Yes, because prisons are technological voids, completely shut off from society, change, and cultural influences…

]]> By: busydoingnothing http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566394 busydoingnothing Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566394 #5, Anonymous: +5 for excellent Simpsons reference. Easily one of my favorite scenes. #5, Anonymous: +5 for excellent Simpsons reference. Easily one of my favorite scenes.

]]> By: buddy66 http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566397 buddy66 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566397 The first thing she's going to do is head straight for Charlie. The first thing she’s going to do is head straight for Charlie.

]]> By: buddy66 http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566665 buddy66 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566665 The extended Family will provide... The extended Family will provide…

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-567183 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-567183 BobsYerUncle, why are you doing Squeaky with a lower class English accent? She's an American, from California. BobsYerUncle, why are you doing Squeaky with a lower class English accent? She’s an American, from California.

]]> By: randalll http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566418 randalll Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566418 John Waters is gonna be pissed! John Waters is gonna be pissed!

]]> By: bobsyeruncle http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-567186 bobsyeruncle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-567186 @Xopher Here's the reference: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0xiA_jLcO4">Ivan Dobsky (Monkey Dust)</a> @Xopher

Here’s the reference: Ivan Dobsky (Monkey Dust)

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-567187 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-567187 Ah. Watched the first few minutes, and now I get your reference. Damn that's depressing. Poor guy. Ah. Watched the first few minutes, and now I get your reference. Damn that’s depressing. Poor guy.

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566423 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566423 Squeaky didn't actually murder anyone. She made a not-very-credible attempt, as I recall. Van Houten was actually involved in the torture-murders. Squeaky didn’t actually murder anyone. She made a not-very-credible attempt, as I recall. Van Houten was actually involved in the torture-murders.

]]> By: ARCANE12 http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566685 ARCANE12 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566685 And the "squeaky" wheel gets the grease---rolling all the way out of prison, despite trying to kill the president and escaping from a prison briefly and hitting another inmate with a hammer! And the “squeaky” wheel gets the grease—rolling all the way out of prison, despite trying to kill the president and escaping from a prison briefly and hitting another inmate with a hammer!

]]> By: TroofSeeker http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566430 TroofSeeker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566430 Too bad Squeeker didn't get out ten years ago. She could have taken some pot shots at Dubya. People in prison have TV's and internet. If anything surprises her, it's how Spanish is becoming our primary language. Too bad Squeeker didn’t get out ten years ago. She could have taken some pot shots at Dubya.
People in prison have TV’s and internet. If anything surprises her, it’s how Spanish is becoming our primary language.

]]> By: Keeper of the Lantern http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566943 Keeper of the Lantern Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566943 Xopher... Good point. I forgot about Dubya's "bullet-proof shield"... Xopher…

Good point. I forgot about Dubya’s “bullet-proof shield”…

]]> By: mdh http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566432 mdh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566432 She did her time - Squeaky's clean. (sorry for that, it had to get out) She did her time – Squeaky’s clean.

(sorry for that, it had to get out)

]]> By: mdh http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-566433 mdh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-566433 troof - citation please re: spanish is becoming... troof – citation please re: spanish is becoming…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/14/manson-follower-lyne.html#comment-569505 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-569505 Here's what I would like to know: what is a this real life theater game 'creepy-crawling' that Krassner was referring to? Seriously, what is that? I did a quick google search but just kept getting a definition for creepy crawly. What exactly is a game of 'creepy-crawling'? Here’s what I would like to know: what is a this real life theater game ‘creepy-crawling’ that Krassner was referring to? Seriously, what is that? I did a quick google search but just kept getting a definition for creepy crawly.

What exactly is a game of ‘creepy-crawling’?

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