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Outside Income. "Our enemies are the national bourgeoisie and Yanqui imperialism," Toro announced to his "January 26th Compound," which is also known as the "Paradise Commune." Members adopted an eleven-point code of conduct. Among other things, it forbade fighting, wife-beating, card games and the "capitalist sin" of alcohol. Along with communal chores, members read from the writings of Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. At least half of Paradise's adults are unemployed, but leaders boasted that funds were coming in from bank robberies. As Toro said: "We do not promise...
...times Toro seemed determined to provoke a police attack. Chilean authorities seemed equally determined to avoid a confrontation, insisting only that the commune move to a new twelve-acre site half a mile away. Officials even promised to build a park and soccer field near by. Nonetheless, violence finally broke out two weeks...
...wanted it used as a clinic instead, and shouted: "Policlinica si, carabinero no" (Hospital yes, police no). Four hours later, the police returned with reinforcements, and after a barrage of tear gas and a volley of shots recaptured their headquarters. But they refused to pursue their challengers into the commune, even though at least six of its members had been accused of holding up banks. Toro him self, charged with harboring bank robbers, had already gone into hiding...
...that have been written about the case, one can gradually discover some of the new issues this case raises about the use of LSD and mescaline. While, on the one hand, we know these drugs to be often conducive to psychologically peaceful and loving states of mind, the Manson commune brings home the fact that an opposite reaction is also possible...
...home), had spent many years in jail, had failed in an attempt to break into show business. He was more or less apolitical and apparently had a great fear of blacks. His idea of revolution was one in which whites and blacks destroyed each other, while he and his commune escaped to start a new civilization in Death Valley. He saw all men-all except those in his commune-as "the Establishment...