Capturing Beauty – Patty Hurst

After I refused to be the Acid Messiah for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, I walked away from the Hippie Experiment that was becoming a Cult, a mass-mind grope into darkness.For fifty days I camped with Rena Christiansen atop a mountain in California. I considered us to be the new Adam and Eve in a world that was tearing itself apart in a deadly culture war. We were going back to being mere Individuals – high on life – and not drugs!

The last time I saw Rena was when I stopped in Lincoln Nebraska to see her at the University where she lived in a dorm. I was on my way to Rhode Island where my sister Christine was living with Michael Dundon and his mother, Rose. I would end up in Boston after Michael took Christine and her daughter, Shannon, hostage. Three year later, I am back in Oakland where two of my friends are being investigated by the FBI for being members of the Symbionese Liberation who took Patty Hurst hostage.

Taking people hostage in order to get them to believe in you and your cause, is the core theme of my novel ‘Capturing Beauty’. For on that mountain top I struggled with the plotter at the core of my being that hatched a thousand schemes on how I could capture my beautiful Muse, put her in a keep, and keep her very well – all to myself!

When I first beheld the Gothic tower on Fort Hill, I was reminded of the story of Repunzel where a beautiful maiden is kept in a tower, but, let’s her long hair down so her lover can climb up to her.

Rena Christiansen had become the symbol of the Great American Beauty that had been forsaken in the Cold War, and the Crusade to crush the Peace and Freedom Movement by the Christian Military Complex.

When the SLA murdered Foster for issuing identity cards in Oakland Schools, it was finished! When I spied on the Tea Party Patriots who came to my town three years ago, I discovered what I knew all along, that they are Evangelical Cultists in disguise – and they are very much like the SLA – in that they have to believe there exists a conspiracy out to get them so as to unite their followers on the battle ground of Armageddon, where evil folks are desperate to defeat them, and capture their Beautiful American Rose! But, I fear she has departed this world after marrying an Commodore, and baring two children on the Isle of Wight.

Rena was an expatriot, and if she is dead, then I am all alone to meet the enemy at the End of the World, there just me, the Lone Wolf standing, in the snow, below the Tower – crying in the wildness….

“Repunzel! Repunzel! Let down your hair!”

Here is a story about another man who ran for his life on Fort Hill, after he discovered Beauty was a Monster, a man wearing a wig, a rose captured in his clenched teeth, the teeth of a wolf in shepherd’s clothing.

There is no doubt in my mind many of the evangelicals that became Tea Baggers, were once hippie wanna-bes. But, they saw the light, joined another cult because they are religious addicts, and took over the Republican Party co-founded by John Fremont and Jessie Benton, whose kin and namesake lived just below the Dark Tower, where she was guarded very well.

One night, just befor midnight, it began to snow. I headed up to Fort Hill so I could see the city blanketed in white. There was a gold light in the clouds. Heading for the tower, listening to my boots crunching the fresh snow, I saw a figure come out of the darkness on to the park area, and head for the tower. It looked like he was trying to intercept me, cut me off.

Jon Presco

Copyright 2012

“The Manson Family preached
peace and love and went around killing people.
We don’t preach peace and love…”
-Jim Kweskin

Introduction
At the south end of Boston lies the Roxbury black ghetto, a dirty oasis of trees, homes and small stores that suddenly emerges from blocks of old factories and railroad yards. Like many of our nation’s famous darktowns, Roxbury includes hundreds of decaying apartment buildings housing too many people on not enough land, ruthlessly noisy elevated trains, and a sprawling, brand new, all concrete police district station.
Yet there’s something different here. It can be seen from all over Boston: a tower, an ancient brick watchtower that rises needlelike from a secluded hill – Fort Hill – in the center of Roxbury. A relic from the original American Revolution, the structure stands some 70 feet above an abandoned city park. The stone tablet commemorating it is itself nearly 100 years old and starting to crumble around these words:

On this eminence stood ROXBURY HIGH FORT, a strong earthwork planned by Henry Knox and Josiah Waters and erected by the American Army June 1775 – crowning the famous Roxbury lines of investment at THE SIEGE OF BOSTON.
Five years ago a small community of young white intellectuals and artists from the Boston-Cambridge area moved onto the hill and “took over” several empty apartment houses bordering the park. Relations with the black neighborhood immediately deteriorated, and soon guards, members of the new Fort Hill Community, could be seen patrolling the fort for the first time in almost 200 years.
Since then peace has returned, relations have improved, and there is some question on a recent summer evening why guards are still needed at Fort Hill. Or who, exactly, is being watched. It’s dark, about 9:30 PM, as one of them approaches holding a flashlight. He appears troubled, glancing nervously up and down a long row of houses now owned by the community. Inside the first house some 60 Fort Hill members are eating dinner, methodically cleaning their plates after a 12-hour work day. Suddenly the guard turns and walks briskly to an area at the rear of the houses where garbage is dumped. He shuts off his flashlight and from a large green plastic garbage bag secretly retrieves a suitcase packed the night before. Then, without looking back, he runs as fast as he can, as fast as he’s ever run, past the garages, past the basketball court, past the tool sheds, down the long dirt driveway at the rear, through the winding paved streets of the ghetto and the straight paved streets of the first factories, past the nearest subway station, where they’d be sure to check, to a second station, blocks and blocks away, more difficult to find.
As the sentry boards a subway train, safe for the moment, the interior lights reveal his panting, boyish face. He is Paul Williams, a rock author and first editor of Crawdaddy Magazine, who several months ago gave up his writing career to join the Fort Hill Community.
“I was very frightened, sure,” he admitted later at his New York hideaway. “I said I was leaving the day before and they said I wouldn’t be allowed to. They said they’d be watching me 24 hours a day. So I was super paranoid, super cautious. But that doesn’t bother me. I mean, they owed it to me, in a sense, to keep me on the hill.
“If I grow enough, someday I may come back. I care about Mel Lyman more than anyone outside of myself; someday I may be able to care about him more than me. [The people who can, have something really beautiful going.]”

than you would in four years. “Let your ego go…let things happen to you. It’s a feeling of closeness to each other we are after, the death of the ego. A reference point for the rest of your life. You may change your value system, notions about life and viewpoints about people. It will produce a new breed of human beings with greatly expanded potentials. If you do your best, you can’t fail.” (Tony Lang, Synanon, Morantz archives on Synanon).

And although the Family was often accused of strong-arm tactics in dealing with neighbors and alternative-community groups, they certainly never killed anyone or even manifested serious homicidal intent.
However, in 1973, members of the Family, including Frechette, staged a bank robbery. One member of the Family was killed by police, and Frechette, sentenced to prison, died in a weightlifting accident in jail in 1975.[13]

If the function of art is to make us aware of what we know and don’t know we know, the function of the Christian Church and all its metastases has been and still is to keep us in ignorance of what we know. People living on the sea coast knew the earth was round. They believed it was flat because the Church said so. And hardcore Synanon members still believe the media put that rattlesnake in Paul Morantz’ mail box to discredit Synanon. Is there any limit to brainwashing? Apparently not. Such cults as Synanon, Scientology, the Peoples Temple derive from the same infected source as Christianity. In fact they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Govemment agencies have become Satan incamate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.

Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force or Mademoiselle de La Force (1654–1724) was a French novelist and poet. Her best-known work was her 1698 fairy tale Persinette which was adapted by the Brothers Grimm as the story Rapunzel.[1]
She was the daughter of François de Caumont de La Force (eighth son of Marshal de La Force), marquis de Castelmoron and of Marguerite de Viçose. Raised as a Protestant, she converted to Catholicism in 1686 and received a pension of 1000 écus from Louis XIV. Like other famous women writers of the 17th century, she was named a member of the Academy of the Ricovrati of Padua.
Her first novels were in the popular vein of “histoires secrètes”, short novels recounting the “secret history” of a famous person and linking the action generally to an amorous intrigue, such as Histoire secrete de Bourgogne (1694), Histoire secrète de Henri IV, roi de Castille (1695), Histoire de Marguerite de Valois, reine de Navarre (1696).
She had a long affair with the much younger Charles Briou, finally managing to marry him secretly with the king’s permission, but her family and his father intervened to have the marriage annulled.[2]

Paul Morantz is an attorney at law specializing in the prosecution of fanatical cults, religious or otherwise, and their leaders for harmful conduct. He is most recognized for his cases against Synanon, a behavior modification drug rehabilitation group in the 1970s, which attempted to kill Morantz and derail his efforts to rescue members of the group.[1][2] Since then, Morantz has continued practicing law specializing in the prosecution of those whose victims suffer through the undue influence of coercive persuasion. Morantz served as pro bono appellate counsel in Molko vs. Unification Church in 1988, which became the first case where the California Supreme Court recognized brainwashing as a wrongful and harmful tort, and allowed victims the right to sue for damages.[3][4]
Morantz is also a freelance writer and investigative journalist, who wrote the story for the 1978 television movie Deadman’s Curve, based on the lives of surf singers Jan and Dean.[5] The original story Morantz wrote was published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1974 and was scheduled to be the cover, but Nixon resigned soon after and the story was pushed off the cover.[6] Morantz also has published an article in the Los Angeles Times about John Walker Lindh, the American man caught fighting with the Taliban. The article is an argument for understanding some of the psychological mechanisms which may have led to Lindh joining the Taliban and raises the question of whether he may have been brainwashed.[7]

Stacy Brooks (born April 8, 1952) is a critic of the Church of Scientology. Like her late ex-husband Robert Vaughn Young, a Scientology whistleblower employed by Scientology for over 20 years, Brooks was also a member of the Church, working in its upper level management in Los Angeles for almost fifteen years.[1] After leaving in 1989 Brooks joined the Lisa McPherson Trust, served as an expert witness in many high profile Scientology lawsuits, and to date has made many television appearances on programs including Dateline, 20/20 and 60 Minutes criticizing Scientology.[2]

LRH COMM NETWORK INTERNATIONAL

ED NW _26_ PAC 29 JUNE 1979

ALL PAC EXECS AND CREW

_PREGNANCIES AND BABIES IN PAC_

Our Children are our most valuable future resource. Sea Org
children are the future officers and executives of the Sea Org.
LRH says in SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL “…an interest in children includes
an interest not only in the bearing of the child but in the child’s
well being, happiness, mental-state, education and general future…
The whole future of the race depends on its attitude toward children.”

Currently the execs of the CCO are working to set it up to take
care of our children but the current set up is inadequate for our
existing Sea Org children and far behind the growth of the baby
population in PAC. It is important that CCO be given the chance to
become set up to ensure our children are cared for optimumly and
trained for their future. We have alot of work to do on the third
dynamic here in PAC and alot to handle and the time and work having
to be expended to cope with the expanding baby population at CCO can
be better directed toward this. Therefore the following rule is
established:

FROM NOW UNTIL THERE ARE ADEQUATE FACILITIES AND PERSONNEL FOR THE
CCO AND THAT ORG IS SET UP TO HANDLE BOTH EXISTING SEA ORG CHILDREN
AND FUTURE EXPANSION, THERE ARE TO BE NO MORE BABIES OR PREGNANCIES
IN PAC.

This rule will stay in effect until CCO has a new building,
has a full complement of the necessary personnel and an established
and functioning HCO which can and does continue to put the org there.
Once these conditions are met, the rule will be lifted.

Any couple violating this rule will be subject to immediate
Fitness Board to determine whether they are sufficiently a facility
differential to their org and the Sea Org to warrant the expense,
manpower and space required to care for their child. If the Fitness
Board finds that they are not, they will be routed out.

Any person recruited for a PAC Org who has children must be
weighed against his value to the SO versus the expense and work of
caring for the child or children. For example, a Class VIII who has
one child would be of sufficient worth to the SO, however, a Basic
Courses Grad with four children would not necessarily be. Before
any person with children is routed in a CSW showing the person’s
worth and how the org is going to accomodate for the children at CCO
must be approved through Sr HCO PAC.

This rule is not intended in any way to cut across the Second
Dynamic of PAC Sea Org members nor is it intented that Sea Org members
may not have children. It is only until CCO is set up to care for
and accomodate more children.

This rule applies only to further pregnancies, no SO couple
expecting a child is to be fitness boarded because of that. They
and their org however, should do all possible to assist in the
establishment and expansion of the CCO, as should any couple who
wants to have children. By actually putting CCO there and setting
it up to establish and expand itself, we will make it possible for
the growth and expansion of Sea Org children, those with us now and
those of the future.

The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American self-styled left-wing urban militant group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence.
The SLA became internationally notorious for kidnapping media heiress Patty Hearst, abducting the 19-year-old as she and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Steven Weed, sat relaxing in their Berkeley, California, home. Interest increased when Hearst, in audiotaped messages delivered to (and broadcast by) regional news media, denounced her parents and announced she had joined the SLA. She was subsequently observed participating in their illegal activities. Hearst later alleged that she had been held in close confinement, sexually assaulted and brainwashed.

n November 6, 1973, in Oakland, California, two members of the SLA killed school superintendent Marcus Foster and badly wounded his deputy, Robert Blackburn, as the two men left an Oakland school board meeting. The hollow-point bullets used to kill Foster had been packed with cyanide.[7]
The SLA had condemned Foster for his plan to introduce identification cards into Oakland schools, calling him “fascist”. In fact, Foster had originally opposed the use of identification cards in his schools, and his plan was a watered-down version of other similar proposals. An African American, Foster was popular on the Left and in the black community.
On January 10, 1974, Joseph Remiro and Russell Little were arrested and charged with Foster’s murder, and initially both men were convicted of murder. Both men received sentences of life imprisonment. Seven years later, on June 5, 1981, Little’s conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeal, and he was later acquitted in a retrial in Monterey County.[8]
Little has stated: “Who actually pulled the trigger that killed Foster was Mizmoon. Nancy was supposed to shoot Blackburn, she kind of botched that and DeFreeze ended up shooting him with a shotgun.”[9]