Tweenkies kill.
[brainwashed followers into drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.]
Actually, it was Flavor-Aid.
Paraphrasing...Do you know why people are hesitant to make a joke about the Jonestown massacre? The punch line is too long.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Was milk really killed by a right-winger?
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?
I remember the video of all those bodies, seem just like yesterday.
Bottom line: anyone who trusts, believes or is influenced by a liberal is a fool.
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.
This is the other half of the minus Moscone, minus Milk = + Feinstein story...
Bkmrk.
Good post!
Bump for later references Diane Fineslime.
Jim Jones could not have killed 918 people without politicians, journalists, and activists running interference for him. They mistook ideology for ethics, a mistake common to fanatics of all stripes.Rather than learn from this mistake, they compounded it by portraying Jones posthumously as someone he was not to protect their ideology, shield their political skullduggery, and absolve themselves from the journalistic sin of performing PR instead of real reporting.
The facts revealed in this article (from the book) are nothing new to anyone who bothered to do some basic research on the cult or Jones and Milk. But it is good to see it going mainstream.
My husband and I had just moved to SF before the murders. The big news was not Harvey Milk, a sort of minor player in SF politics, but George Moscone, the beloved SF mayor.
We had to drive past The People’s Temple on our way home from work, gave us the chills even before they moved to Guyana.
We liked to have lunch at an Italian restaurant North Beach where they gave us the best table in the house, right next to the window. We wondered why the preferential treatment for newcomers in this cliquish town. Then someone told us it had been Mayor Moscone’s table and no San Francisco native wanted to sit there...
The day of the shooting, City Councilwoman Diane Feinstein, spattered in blood and badly shaken, pulled herself together and announced to the world that Mayor Moscone was dead. I always give her props for that one moment, and she easily became mayor.
Harvey Milk? Sort of a bit player in the actual drama. But the gays made it a cause. The large Italian population in SF could just as easily have made prejudice against Italians an issue too....Some of them had been interred as “enemy aliens” just as the Japanese had at the beginning of
WW2, but they were too busy having lives and making money.
The whole Jim Jones thing happened at the same time my brother bought the album, ‘Welcome’ by Santana. It came out much earlier but he happened to purchase it at that time.
I can never forget the whole Jim Jones/Guyana news without thinking of that album, so eerily did the music reflect those scenarios down in the jungle of Guyana. This was only our thoughts as I said the album came out years before.
The song, Love, devotion and surrender at the beginning of the album sounded like the tripe those followers were brainwashed with and the song towards the end of the album, Flame sky sounded so much like the nightmare they went through after they surrendered even their ability to ever get free again and the terrible scene as they were forced to drink the cyanide laced Koolaid.
If you want to hear those songs to see what I am talking about, here is Love, devotion and surrender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp3jDl2t1kw
and here is Flame sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BcNy3oe1QU