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Posted on 12/15/2008 10:33:00 PM PST by ChuckNoblett
Yes they did.
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My father-in-law was a religion reporter for the San Francisco Examiner back in 1972 and tried to expose Jones when he was in Ukiah. Out of eight stories, only four ran, the others were not published after the Temple protested outside the newspaper. To this day, the Chronicle (which replaced the Examiner) nor most of the MSM will not own up to this, nor admit that anyone prior to 1977 tried to expose Jones before he went to the jungle and killed all those people.
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Marshall Kilduff tried to publish his expose on the Temple in 1976.
One problem: The Paper’s City Editor (Steve Gavin) that had been blocking his publication actually turned out to be a People’s Temple member!
The entire affair is almost too bizarre to fathom.
I never knew all this about these people, or Jones. Hmmmm.
Remember the Obama little kids ‘Obama’s going to change the world “ song??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtGrp5MbzAI
Regarding the newsbusters article above, I should add that it the video I posted also contains a little snippet of a rarely seen color video of Jones and Rosalynn Carter standing on stage together shaking hands at a political rally.
I also have the copy of the Jones and Rosalynn Carter correspondence and the audio of Rosalynn calling Jim on the phone (which the Peoples Temple recorded), but it’s not in this video.
Also note regarding the above that Jones didn’t just bring those accolades to Guyana with them, but showed them to several people to impress them. Including the USSR embassy in Georgetown. They showed them pictures of Jim with Mondale and Fidel Castro, and Rosalynn’s handwritten note to Jim (along with other items) to impress the Soviets. It worked. As you can hear some of the audio of the Soviets’ subsequent delegation to Jonestown in the video I just linked.
Random Obama worshiper on tha net.I think the post on 11 describes it best
Creepy..they could be brothers they look so much alike.
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damned dimocrats
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The real, or more largely accurate, story about the Peoples Temple’s long history and goals is coming out with the wider release of their tapes and documents.
They were rather radical communists and atheists that had used the old Pentecostal recruiting methods Jim had observed in his rural Indiana childhood to recruit newbies to the cause. They also employed organized weekly bus trips to places where they conducted fake faith healings for the locals and sold “blessed” prayer cloths to try to raise money. While this was overtly dishonest, especially given their atheist beliefs, they pretty brazenly employed an ends-justify-the-means decision-making process. If selling fake hopes or even beating members to enforce discipline would make their utopian vision for humanity more likely in 100 years, then it was worth doing. People being out a little money or hurting a bit was a small price to pay, so the reasoning goes.
Advancing the cause of revolution is their morality-the justification they use for every atrocity, every abomination.
Man boobs.
Man boobs alert!
Revolutionary suicide.. So what they though troops were coming. Or was it purely Little Stalin’s psychosis?
That music from One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest....creepy.
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