Cat Confusion

"Then I say the life they are killing is mine. And then I go out, and they’re cutting a great big old tree down. And I say, '‘Oh, I feel that! what are you doing? You are cutting me down here!’'  And I say, '‘Stop cutting me down or I will shoot you.’'  You know, if you keep cutting the trees down, I’m gonna cut you down. He says, '‘Well look, I got a wife and kids and I need the money. I have a job and I don’t know anything else.’'  And I say, '‘Well, I can’t blame you. Who’s your boss?’'  So, I go to the boss and the boss says, '‘I worked 20 years to be foreman here.’'  And he says, '‘This is my way of life and my kids are going to college and I need the money.’'  And I say, 

'‘Well, it ain’t your fault.’'  And then I say, '‘Who’s your boss?’'  And he says, '‘Ace and Ace Lumber company.’'  So, I go to the Ace Lumber company and they're a subsidiary to a Rabiscapp company and 40% of that stock is owned by Reverend Sun Myung Moon; let me say Korea. Then another 20% is owned by Bolivia and somebody else owns 10%. Then Margaret of Malibu owns 10%. And I go check Margaret out and she died 5 years ago and she willed all of her assets to the cats. So, she’s got 300 cats living at a 10 bedroom mansion with a butler and a chauffeur, and everybody’s provided for life as long as they take care of the cats. And the cats are reproducing themselves, so we got a legal lock on the trees. And so the cats are walking around cutting all the trees down."

- Charles Manson 

1985

Interview with KALX Berkeley