[stratman1969]

There is a bunch of revisionist history going on with this tragedy. A film has just been made, along with a play last year, that's trying to say "well there were some good things about Peoples Temple." Typical rationalization of socialism. Also, the director of this movie has an obvious left-leaning slant and is using the film to take veiled swipes at our government and how it's fighting the War on Terror. They came just recently to my area for a screening. There's a lot of unsavory things these filmmakers don't want to reveal, about corruption among S.F. clergy, politicians and the media who were all complicit in Jones rise to infamy.

http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2006/11/jonestown-filmmakers-ignore-sf-media.html

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

There were some good things accomplished by the People's Temple.

There were people saved from the wreckage of the inner city and others who found some meaning in their empty lives.

The problem is that Jones was a Socialist madman and those people either woke up and fled the Temple or died in Guyana.

Michael Frazier