Did anyone learn anything from Jonestown?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish
If you're under 50 or so you may not have heard of a guy named Jim Jones. Jones was a charismatic psychopath, and in the early 1970's he founded a fake-religious cult in the San Fran bay area called the Peoples Temple. The overwhelming majority of his followers were black.
Then, as now, the entire Bay area (including San Francisco) was ruled by Democrats--and without a single exception they all praised and supported Jones and his cult. For one thing, Jones had enough followers to be able to swing the outcome of primary elections. (Whoever won the Dem primary was guaranteed to win the office, since Repubs had little support) Also, Jones could be counted on to deliver multiple busloads of "supporters" to rallies of pols he supported.
Jones ended up bringing a thousand of those followers to a jungle camp in Guyana that they called Jonestown. U.S. congressman Leo Ryan heard stories that some were being held against their will, and went to the camp to investigate. On Nov. 17, 1978, as Ryan and his group were at the airstrip preparing to leave, Jones ordered three of his henchmen to gun them down.
Jones then convinced virtually all his followers--912--to commit suicide.
Parents forced their kids to drink the poison first, then killed themselves.
Wiki and the networks will tell you all that. What they won't tell you--and what virtually no one outside the Bay Area every knew--is that Jones began his warped cult in San Francisco and was enthusiastically supported by the leaders of the entire Democratic Party. And both the list of Jones's supporters and their reasons for supporting him ring lots of alarm bells today.
Willie Brown, who was in the state legislature for over 30 years, ruled it as Speaker for 15, and later was the first black mayor of San Francisco, compared Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. In a 1977 letter to Fidel Castro, Brown described Jones as “a close personal friend and a highly trusted brother in the struggle for liberation.”
When Dianne Feinstein was on the powerful San Francisco board of supervisors she honored Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs” in the area.
Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, gave a speech at Peoples Temple.
George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.
Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown (the jungle camp in Guyana) as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media.
Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and [I] have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”
Jones preached the gospel according to Karl Marx. “I call capitalism the devil,” Jones said, “and socialism is God.” He urged his followers to hate the U.S.: “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty?” he sermonized. “No, my country ’tis of thee, terrible land of inequity, that’s what it is.”
Where have we heard this before? Ah yes: Obama's firebrand socialist "preacher" for 20 years, the ghastly Jeremiah Wright, who said "God bless America? No. God damn America!" But the media quickly swept that down the memory hole lest it jeopardize the election of the Chosen One.
Clearly, no one could have predicted Jones ordering his followers to open fire on Ryan and the reporters with him, nor could anyone have predicted Jones would order his followers to commit suicide. My point here is merely that Democrats have a long an ghastly history of sucking up to America-hating con-men (looking at you, Obama), many of whom prey on gullible minorities--who inevitably support--and help elect...Democrat politicians.
Are at least a few members of minority communities finally starting to wake up and reject this kind of exploitation?
Perhaps. But the Lying Mainstream Media will call any black critics crazy, "Uncle Toms," "traitors," "stupid"--just as CNN ad the WaPo did to Kanye West when he cited Trump's booming economy.
Oh well.
If you're under 50 or so you may not have heard of a guy named Jim Jones. Jones was a charismatic psychopath, and in the early 1970's he founded a fake-religious cult in the San Fran bay area called the Peoples Temple. The overwhelming majority of his followers were black.
Then, as now, the entire Bay area (including San Francisco) was ruled by Democrats--and without a single exception they all praised and supported Jones and his cult. For one thing, Jones had enough followers to be able to swing the outcome of primary elections. (Whoever won the Dem primary was guaranteed to win the office, since Repubs had little support) Also, Jones could be counted on to deliver multiple busloads of "supporters" to rallies of pols he supported.
Jones ended up bringing a thousand of those followers to a jungle camp in Guyana that they called Jonestown. U.S. congressman Leo Ryan heard stories that some were being held against their will, and went to the camp to investigate. On Nov. 17, 1978, as Ryan and his group were at the airstrip preparing to leave, Jones ordered three of his henchmen to gun them down.
Jones then convinced virtually all his followers--912--to commit suicide.
Parents forced their kids to drink the poison first, then killed themselves.
Wiki and the networks will tell you all that. What they won't tell you--and what virtually no one outside the Bay Area every knew--is that Jones began his warped cult in San Francisco and was enthusiastically supported by the leaders of the entire Democratic Party. And both the list of Jones's supporters and their reasons for supporting him ring lots of alarm bells today.
Willie Brown, who was in the state legislature for over 30 years, ruled it as Speaker for 15, and later was the first black mayor of San Francisco, compared Jones to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. In a 1977 letter to Fidel Castro, Brown described Jones as “a close personal friend and a highly trusted brother in the struggle for liberation.”
When Dianne Feinstein was on the powerful San Francisco board of supervisors she honored Jones “in recognition of his guidance and inspiration” in furthering “humanitarian programs” in the area.
Jerry Brown, California governor then as now, gave a speech at Peoples Temple.
George Moscone, who owed his position as mayor of San Francisco to Jones, appointed Jones to San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission, where he quickly became chairman.
Left-wing lawyers Charles Garry and Mark Lane depicted Jonestown (the jungle camp in Guyana) as a paradise and aggressively defended Jones in the media.
Jane Fonda joined other luminaries in expressing that she was “familiar with the work of Reverend Jones and Peoples Temple and [I] have no hesitancy in commending them for their example in setting a high standard of ethics and morality.”
Jones preached the gospel according to Karl Marx. “I call capitalism the devil,” Jones said, “and socialism is God.” He urged his followers to hate the U.S.: “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty?” he sermonized. “No, my country ’tis of thee, terrible land of inequity, that’s what it is.”
Where have we heard this before? Ah yes: Obama's firebrand socialist "preacher" for 20 years, the ghastly Jeremiah Wright, who said "God bless America? No. God damn America!" But the media quickly swept that down the memory hole lest it jeopardize the election of the Chosen One.
Clearly, no one could have predicted Jones ordering his followers to open fire on Ryan and the reporters with him, nor could anyone have predicted Jones would order his followers to commit suicide. My point here is merely that Democrats have a long an ghastly history of sucking up to America-hating con-men (looking at you, Obama), many of whom prey on gullible minorities--who inevitably support--and help elect...Democrat politicians.
Are at least a few members of minority communities finally starting to wake up and reject this kind of exploitation?
Perhaps. But the Lying Mainstream Media will call any black critics crazy, "Uncle Toms," "traitors," "stupid"--just as CNN ad the WaPo did to Kanye West when he cited Trump's booming economy.
Oh well.
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