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Jim Jones & Harvey Milk: The Secret History
American Conservative ^ | October 15, 2018 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 10/15/2018 12:43:12 PM PDT by C19fan

Next month marks the 40th anniversary of two landmark events of American popular culture: the assassination of pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk, and the mass suicide of 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult.

If you remember anything about the mass suicide, it’s probably that cult leader Jim Jones was a fundamentalist Christian demon whose Bible-thumping berated brainwashed followers into drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.

Harvey Milk, by contrast, is a folk hero. The San Francisco supervisor became a gay-rights saint because he was martyred by a right-wing fanatic.

That’s the received history in both cases. But according to author Daniel Flynn, it’s scarcely truth at all, but rather propaganda. And the way history remembers these men and the time and place that made them offers a dire warning to us today.

(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: ca; donwhite; harveymilk; homofascism; homosexualagenda; jerrybrown; jimjones; jimjonescult; lavendermafia; left; lgbt; milk
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When I was in college, I had to watch a documentary about "Saint" Milk. Of course, the docu made no mention of Milk's darker side or the true background of his murder. I immediately realized that Dan White's murdering of Milk had nothing to do with Milk being a homo as he killed Mayor Moscone and wanted to kill Willie Brown and another SF office holder.
1 posted on 10/15/2018 12:43:12 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Tweenkies kill.


2 posted on 10/15/2018 12:44:49 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: Bullish

I remember that part of the case. I was 10 yrs old at that time.


3 posted on 10/15/2018 12:46:00 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

[brainwashed followers into drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.]

Actually, it was Flavor-Aid.


4 posted on 10/15/2018 12:47:03 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Bullish

Killer twinks.


5 posted on 10/15/2018 12:49:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: C19fan
A version of this joke was posted on Free Republic...don't remember who posted it:

Paraphrasing...Do you know why people are hesitant to make a joke about the Jonestown massacre? The punch line is too long.

6 posted on 10/15/2018 12:49:57 PM PDT by LiberalismDestroys
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"Next month marks the 40th anniversary of two landmark events of American popular culture: the assassination of pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk, and the mass suicide of 900 members of the Peoples Temple cult."

I stopped reading after that lie.

NOPE. No sale.


7 posted on 10/15/2018 12:50:23 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: C19fan

Bttt.

5.56mm


8 posted on 10/15/2018 12:51:26 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: C19fan

Was milk really killed by a right-winger?


9 posted on 10/15/2018 12:56:01 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: treetopsandroofs

I stopped reading after that lie.


I was just mentioning to a woman in a meeting I was just in about people who stop reading when they see something they don’t like (It was in one of my document deliverables).

The article agrees with you that it is a lie. It explains why.


10 posted on 10/15/2018 12:57:49 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: treetopsandroofs

They didn’t drink the kool-aid?


11 posted on 10/15/2018 12:58:03 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: C19fan

From everything I’ve read, Harvey Milk is the ultimate winner of the Vic Morrow exact wrong place, exact wrong time award. Every indication is that if Milk had stayed in his office, he would have lived through that day. White was not gunning for him.

Wasn’t there something about Milk taking action to divert legal accusations against Jones?


12 posted on 10/15/2018 12:59:26 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: C19fan

I remember the video of all those bodies, seem just like yesterday.


13 posted on 10/15/2018 1:00:22 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: C19fan

Bottom line: anyone who trusts, believes or is influenced by a liberal is a fool.


14 posted on 10/15/2018 1:01:01 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: C19fan

Jim Jones and Harvey Milk may have even had a ‘thing’.

Jim Jones DID sodomize men in the Peoples’ Temple including the doc who mixed up the poison punch.


15 posted on 10/15/2018 1:02:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Skywise

Some were shot. Armed guards stood over the masses and coerced them to comply. Mothers forced their crying children to comply.

The Commie loyalists of the Peoples Temple even killed people stateside after the Jonestown massacre.


16 posted on 10/15/2018 1:05:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Skywise

Those that didn’t were shot.

It’s irresponsible to call this simply a mass suicide.


17 posted on 10/15/2018 1:05:54 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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This article is badly written. I don’t blame you for not reading further.

However, the author goes on to CONTRADICT himself. And say these were perceived thoughts.

Which they really weren’t either.

I started off thinking this was a leftist propaganda piece of crap. Either it is or is - as I said - badly written.


18 posted on 10/15/2018 1:06:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Plenty of Democrats running interference for Jim Jones but also gay serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

The 70s were a sickness.


19 posted on 10/15/2018 1:06:50 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

and in Philly in the modern era Gosnell was given cover for his crimes.


20 posted on 10/15/2018 1:07:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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