MANSON

In “Keeping Manson Behind Bars” (May 14), Martin Kasindorf wrote: “Outraged middle-class values have reasserted themselves, quite literally with a vengeance.” This statement reveals a lot more about the attitudes of the author than it does about society. To attribute outrage over sadistic attacks on innocent people to “middle-class values” is to side with the fundamental assumptions of the Manson point of view.

Tell me, in which social class in America is sadistic murder regarded as acceptable?

LARRY SELK

Los Angeles