[CheshireTheCat]

I didn't know that more than half of those who died in Jonestown were black. I knew the number was high, but i didn't think it was quite that high.

[WashingtonSource]

Daniel Greenfield does a masterful disembowelment of the radical left in this piece.

[SamAdams76]

Interesting article.

Does anybody remember what happened on this airstrip?

[sauropod]

It was really high, iirc.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

If only law enforcement was able to stop Jones here in the US. They were getting close but a “hero” came to Jones’ rescue. Harvey Milk.

[livius]

Yes, he had a cult following among the poor and desperate blacks of San Francisco. This was of course encouraged by the Dem politicians, who were stepping all over each other to get their pictures taken with him and some token black person.

I lived in San Francisco during this and I was not in the least surprised when the Jonestown massacre happened.

[rockinqsranch]

Excellent journalism by Greenfield.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

“”Revisiting Peoples Temple’s goals of apostolic socialism and racial reconciliation offer important insights for understanding the group’s legacy that can contribute insight into ways of solving ongoing social problems related to poverty and racial inequality in the United State,” David Feltmate, an associate professor of Sociology at Auburn University, has argued.”

Wut?

[Big Red Badger]

Article was thought provoking and it stated
“Hundreds” died at
Jonestown,,,
I remember the body
Count as just
Under a Thousand!

[Louis Foxwell]

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[Othniel]

There was a guy named Jack Sparks who wrote a book called 'The Mindbenders.' It came out in '79/'80. Besides the moonies and a bunch of others, there was an analysis of Jones and the whole Jonestown thing. Jones was VERY involved in Bay Area politics. He was the go-to guy, apparently, if someone wanted the black vote, since his church was predominantly black. He was head of at least one committee for the city of SF. The analysis had Jones setting up a socialist compound in Guyana, with himself as the head. Rejecting the Gospel, he set himself up as god, with Christian songs re-written to show what a great guy and wonderful savior dude Jim Jones was.

The book is out of print. Sadly, Mr. Sparks got into legal trouble with one of the cults he mentioned in 'Mindbenders,' but there is a lot of stuff on the internet about Jones and Jonestown. But yeah, the whole 'we're gonna build a socialist utopia, even if it kills you' is still the mantra of the Dems, whether they admit it or not.

[headsonpikes]

Everything I need to know about “christian” socialism I could have learned from Jonestown; but it has a long history.

The so-called Social Gospel movement of a century and more ago laid the foundation of today’s political correctness commissars and wannabe Bolsheviki.

See tagline.

[GOPJ]

bump for later

[wjcsux]

Very well written article.

[Vigilanteman]

Most of them were children who were told to drink the Kool-Aid.

[Ouderkirk]

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