Others, including some of the survivors, have also revealed that Jones & Milk were close. And so were Jones & Jerry Brown and other California politicians as well as churches.
Liberalism is a cult
Ping.
\ was omitted that the murder of milk is what started Feinstein et alii on their gun control rampage.
I wuz there.
Wow, do I remember the Jim Jones, Peoples Temple thing. Inwas a first year junior college student and a ham radio operator. I was always trying to contact a new country and get a QSL card from them to verify it.
One day I was listening and heard a station from French Guyana which I had never contacted. I tried ab\nd contacted them. They said They would send me their station QSL card if I sent them a US Postal Service Reply Coupon that would pay for their postage. I agreed and sent it.
A few weeks later the Jim Jones mass suicide happened. I did not think anything about it. About two weeks later my father came into the house mad as hell after going by the PO Box on his way home. There was a letter for me from the Peoples Temple thanking me for my contribution and also having their station QSL card confirming the contact. Well, that was the first time I knew who they were and it took a lot of explaining to my father to get out of trouble. I still have the card.
Tim Reiterman in his book RAVEN gives a biography of Jim Jones and a fairly even-handed story of the People’s Temple. But he understates Jones’ complete commitment to communism. He does not mention that the audio recording of Jones while the Kool-Aid murder/suicides are happening are of a harangue about socialism. He should have included an entire transcript in the appendix.
Congressman Ryan who was murdered by the People’s Temple in Guyana also pandered to the pavilion crowd saying that for many “Jonestown was the best thing” that ever happened to them. But Jones learned that people were handing notes to Ryan informing him that they wanted to leave Jonestown. It was this PR embarrassment which led to the murders at the airstrip and the subsequent mass poisoning.
The basic fact is that Jim Jones could turn out 300-1000 people for a political event. In a city the size of San Francisco, that is power, pure and simple.
After the Jonestown people killed the Congressman, one of the alternatives they considered was fleeing to the Soviet Union.
Jim Jones was NEVER a fundamentalist Christian. Fake news.
The real story is that Rev. Jim Jones (Love the “Rev” part, just like in “Rev” Al Sharpton - charlatan) was a raging Marxist fanatic who used the cover of religion to create his “cult” of the dispossessed, low economic poor, as W.E. B. DuBois once said, “as cannonfodder for the Communist Party” (or in this case, Jonestown).
Remember, Jones’ own people shoot those who wouldn’t drink the Koolaid as well as Rep. Ryan (D-NY), one of the weirdest leftist members of congress at that time. Unfortunately, they missed killing Jones’ two commie lawyers, id. CPUSA member Charles R. Gary (with whom Hillary did her internship on the Black Panther New Haven torture murder trial re Alex Rackley) and Mark Lane, “Rush to Judgement” the disinformation book about the Kennedy Assassination and “Conversations with Americans”, another hoax book about so-called Vietnam veterans who committed atrocities in Vietnam (Leftist journalist Neil Sheehan, to his credit, discredited this book after many months of actual research revealed that most of those who claimed to have committed atrocities in VN were either not there, not in the military, or not in combat units.
Harvey Milk is his own story and the praising film, I believe it was called simply “MILK” and a documentary about him, left out a lot of what Daniel Flynn has written about.
By the way, for my bonifides, I debated Lane on television in 1970 and basically wiped the studio with him because of his lying and then admitting that he never read any of the VN atrocity reports on what the communists were doing there. This even pissed off the liberal moderator who criticized Lane on air for NOT reading the materials I was showing the audience before he criticized them and me.
Game, set, match with the sane viewers despite the reds packed studio audience.
You’ve got to know the whole story about so-called social leaders (Lane, Jones, Milk, Sharpton, even Ralph Abernathy - who later defected from the reds - because their often is a greater “truth” than what the liberal/left media said and wrote about them.
If half the stories I was told about various people, events and organizations were true, I wouldn’t be typing here at FR, I would own it from the sales of my articles and books.
And yes, in some cases, there are photographs and documents (buried away in hopefully un-destroyed files), that might, yet, see the light of day.
No wonder Sean Penn sought to immortalize the homo in the movie “ Milk”. Penn is all aboard child molesters and psychopaths.
Did you hear the one about the genocidist and the pedophile...?
This is actually reversing the revisionism.
Glad to hear about this book. As someone who grew up in SF, I can confirm that people I know have been talking about this subject for years. There has been an Orwellian memory-holing of the fact that Jim Jones was extremely close to many prominent Democrat politicians. I remember hearing years ago that Mayor Moscone basically owed his election to voter fraud perpetrated by the JIm Jones and his countless disciples/cult members who voted early and often all over down.
Little known is tjis is what MADE difi what she is today
A now 30 plusyear senator
Whenever I see articles that tells another side of what I though was true as a kid, I’m reminded the Napoleon Bonaparte said history was a lie agreed upon.
Wherever the left is involved, there will be lies, and the lies will be flagrant and coordinated. The left’s willingness to outright lie to protect its ideology is one of its most distinctive features. There is a degree of shamelessness there about using deception that is unique.
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