Posted on 05/06/2012 1:34:50 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Jim Jones’ sinister grip on San Francisco
How the Peoples Temple cult leader ensnared Harvey Milk and other progressive icons
“Season of the Witch,” the new book by Salon founder David Talbot, tells the story of the wild and bloody birth of “San Francisco values.” The following excerpt – Part 1 in a three-part series -- recounts one of the darker dramas before the ultimate triumph of those values.
Jim Jones, the strange and charismatic leader of Peoples Temple, proved a master at politically wiring San Francisco in the mid-1970s. The driven preacher had begun his climb up the political pyramid by planting roots in the Fillmore district, the city’s devastated black neighborhood. Jones moved into the Fillmore at its most vulnerable moment. Urban renewal czar Justin Herman – the Robert Moses of San Francisco — had “literally destroyed the neighborhood,” observed community activist Hannibal Williams, “[and] people were desperate for solutions, something to follow. Jim Jones was another solution. He had a charismatic personality that won the hearts and souls of people. And people followed him to hell. That’s where Jim Jones went. That’s where he took the people who followed him.”
Jones’s flock, ignored and scorned by society, was electrified by the preacher’s vision of a new Eden. Everybody was exalted in his services, even the lowliest recovering drunks and addicts. “He made us feel special, like something bigger than ourselves,” said one temple member. “Total equality, no rich or poor, no races,” said another. “We were alive in those services,” testified one more. “They had life, soul power.”
Jones — an oddball and renegade his entire life, someone who never felt at home in his own skin —
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From what I’ve read, Alinsky was a similar malcontent.
From what I’ve read, Alinsky was a similar malcontent.
So, Jim Jones was a democrat, and the present democrats would have us drink the koolaid, right?
bttt
Also, Jane Fonda supported him Jim Jones.
Our favorite fellow traveler critical race theorist Soledad O'Brien has done a story on them. I haven't seen it, but I would guess she doesn't go into too much details about the democrat connections.
That's exactly what Jones and San Francisco liberal progressives did best and planned from the start.
Additionally, much of it was taxpayers money in the form of welfare checks that went to Jones to finance his political and personal empire.
That's why the useful idiots were moved to Guyana and held prisoner so they couldn't quit and take their checks with 'em.
It was worse than Stalin's Soviet union or Mao's Cultural Revolution.
Yep. Rebecca Moore. Her sister was one of Jones’ mistresses and sired one of his children. Their father, a retired Methodist minister and the whole Moore family are apologists for the Temple, even have tried to get Jim Jones name on a memorial wall at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland.
Correction, Jones’ name is on the Memorial at the Oakland Cemetery
http://www.ccgm.org.au/index.php?g=articles&a=0163&newarticle
http://www.rickross.com/reference/jonestown/jonestown82.html
If you guys haven’t seen Powers Boothe as Jim Jones in ‘Guyana Tragedy’ you really should. I highly recommend it. He was amazing and deserved that Emmy.
Hw actually stomped on it?
Mass suicide/mass murder would be more accurate.
Those bodies had been there for days. Can you imagine the stench?
Oh,my G-d!
That’s “he”,not “hw”.
Whoops!
That’s “he”,not “hw”.
Whoops!
There are a few closer pictures I saw before I posted that reveal how bloated the bodies are.
I have actually seen a video of Jones stomping on a Bible.
Since the video would probably have been approved by Jones, he clearly wanted it shown.
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