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Jonestown Mass Suicide: Revisiting The Cult That Ended With The Deaths Of 900 | TODAY
NBC Today ^ | 4/4/17 | NBC Today

Posted on 11/19/2023 9:24:17 PM PST by DallasBiff

It began as charismatic preacher Jim Jones’ attempt to build a socialist utopia, but it ended with the deaths of more than 900 people in a remote settlement in Guyana known as Jonestown

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Happened 45 years ago, yesterday,

Socialist paradise turned into hell.

Surprised, that NBC reported the truth.

1 posted on 11/19/2023 9:24:17 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

A historical moment in history. They were the first to “drink the Kool-Aid.”


2 posted on 11/19/2023 9:28:21 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It wasn't "genocide" when Hamas did it. Hypocrites!!!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Here is an amazing document with lots of little known facts about the history of Jim Jones and his travels in South America:

https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Was-Jonestown-a-CIA-Medical-Experiment.pdf


3 posted on 11/19/2023 9:30:53 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

What the news media never tells you:

Jim Jones was a Marxist wannabe dictator. By the time Jonestown happened he had no ties to any form of Christianity.

But all we hear is preacher, reverend, blah blah blah.


4 posted on 11/19/2023 9:31:25 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: DallasBiff

Jackie Speier, aide to Congressman Leo Ryan, was shot and left for dead in Jonestown on an investigative trip. Speier survived and just retired from Congress. Congressman Ryan was killed.


5 posted on 11/19/2023 9:36:54 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: DarrellZero

In other news, liberalism kills. Time and time again.


6 posted on 11/19/2023 9:44:27 PM PST by 82nd Bragger (Count to four except when in a helicopter)
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To: DallasBiff

Jones made a tape at the end as the Kool Aid was mixed up and passed around.

He called the People’s Temple a “Marxist-Leninist Organization”.

In other words Jim Jones was a Communist.


7 posted on 11/19/2023 9:46:25 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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Do you know it was NOT poisoned Kool-Aid that Jones gave the people?

It was Flavor-Aid

8 posted on 11/19/2023 9:58:04 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Do you know it was NOT poisoned Kool-Aid that Jones gave the people?
It was Flavor-Aid


There were never any tasteless jokes about Jim Jones because the punch line was too long.
9 posted on 11/19/2023 10:01:03 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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A little known fact about Jim Jones is that he was an aspiring boxer

He quit the sport after taking out 900 people with one punch


10 posted on 11/19/2023 10:04:48 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DallasBiff

Not everyone drank willfully. Children were threatened by his guards, some were told to drink at gunpoint, some were shot, and Jones took a bunch of drugs before shooting himself.

The time period glorified Marxism and Communism, but people never seem to learn that those ideologies require force against them. Each generation since has flirted with it, and we’re seeing the result now.

People’s minds are weak now. It’s why so many are blindly converting to Islam.


11 posted on 11/19/2023 10:17:40 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: DarrellZero

Interesting.


12 posted on 11/19/2023 10:18:31 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

It’s sad, I know.


13 posted on 11/19/2023 10:19:12 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: jjotto

Cong Spier on floor of congress Reveals Having An Abortion
MARCH 3, 2011

HEARD ON TELL ME MORE
11-Minute Listen

Transcript

As the budget debate rages in Congress, the heated battle over federal funding for the Planned Parenthood Federation for America has moved to the Senate floor. The national organization provides reproductive health services, including abortions.

The House voted to stop funding for the group two weeks ago. During that intense, late night debate, Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, entered the fray with a personal revelation. Host Michel Martin speaks with Speier about her own abortion procedure as well as her views on budget cuts. Be advised that this conversation may not be appropriate for all ears.

Snip


14 posted on 11/19/2023 10:25:54 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: DallasBiff

Our ship was in the area when that happened. We didn’t find out about it until we got back to the states.


15 posted on 11/19/2023 10:28:21 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Cheap bastard.


16 posted on 11/19/2023 10:29:16 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: DallasBiff

What do you call 900 dead Socialists?


17 posted on 11/19/2023 10:31:44 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: DallasBiff

The San Francisco Democrat Party established enabled his death cult.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish


18 posted on 11/20/2023 2:37:52 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: DallasBiff

Jim Jones was actually an atheist using Christianity as a cover. Sort of like Pope Francis. He was also a life long communist, like any leftist.


19 posted on 11/20/2023 2:48:34 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

Wiser than before.


20 posted on 11/20/2023 2:56:07 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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