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Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Jonestown Survivor: Trump Has “All the Trappings” of Being the Next Jim Jones
At a rally in scorching Las Vegas on June 9, Donald Trump pointed out one of his followers in the crowd — a particularly fervent Trump fan nicknamed “Front-Row Joe” who’d attended over 200 such events. “It would be suicide before Biden, right?” Trump asked him. The remark instantly evoked one of...
Is Trump Hitler or Jim Jones, he can't be both.
Has Hitler become more likeable now that those on the Left have declared jihad on the Hebrew state? Is this why you have switched to calling Trump Jim Jones? Just know that Jim Jones was a Left wing loon himself as he broke from the church because it was not "progressive" enough and inclusive enough for him.
Here is the truth about him
The Unburied Truth About Jim Jones | National Review
The Sacrament, a new suspense film closely based on the 1978 Jonestown massacre, illustrates the extremes to which leftism corrupts and the ends to which its philosophy can ultimately lead. The fic…
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Yet the Jonestown massacre itself is only dimly known to contemporary Americans, and the details of the event are often ignored by news and academia. It is, after all, an inconvenient story, in which a Communist community, led by a committed Marxist and ’60s Bay Area radical, came to a horrifying end.
Following the mass suicide, the mainstream media spun the story into one of religious fanaticism rather than leftist fanaticism. Had a right-winger persuaded followers to join him in retreating from society and building their own enclave, then held them prisoner and ultimately persuaded or forced them to take their own lives in some sort of revolutionary act, Jonestown would be taught more widely in schools than Abe Lincoln. Instead, when Jonestown is addressed, the Marxism of the People’s Temple is whitewashed and the story is packaged as one of a religious cult gone awry, or as a warning against the perils of organized religion.
This deliberate obfuscation happened immediately. As a contemporaneous (1978) Accuracy in Media report made clear, “The ideology of Jonestown was communism, not Christianity, but the media have obscured rather than explained that fact.”
AIM explained, “Our media have concealed, misrepresented, or downplayed the key element in the philosophy of Jim Jones,” rightly noting that Jones was, contrary to the misleading media reports, “a long-time dedicated Marxist communist who admired totalitarian communist dictatorships such as the Soviet Union and Cuba so much that he built one of his own in Guyana.”
Even weeks after the event, AIM found there was not a single article in the mainstream press that delved into Jones’s Marxist beliefs and connections. Instead, despite his views and his well-known admiration for Castro’s Cuba and the Soviet Union, reporters went out of their way to avoid labeling Jones a Communist. Some in the media, such as Walter Cronkite, even reported on Jones as a “fascist” — any “ist” as long as it wasn’t a Communist.
Yet Marxist he was, and so was his group. Jonestown life was nearly identical to that in Communist nations: Inhabitants were essentially prisoners (prohibited from leaving the settlement and punished if caught trying to leave); no private ownership of any goods was allowed; no communication with the outside world was allowed; hard labor in the fields was mandatory, as was attendance at Jones’s lengthy, Castro-like sermons; armed henchmen spied on and intimidated others who dared step out of line or complain; family structures were deliberately destroyed, with Jones encouraging adultery or assigning husbands and wives to separate living quarters; residents were poorly fed and overworked, while Jones himself lived in luxury; and, of course, in keeping with Jonestown’s Marxism, there was almost no religious observance, making the media’s description of Jonestown cultists as religious fanatics, over more than 30 years, all the more dishonest.
As for the enigmatic Reverend Jim Jones, who was he? The Indiana-born Jones, a former community organizer, was a committed Marxist since at least the age of 18. (His idol was Mao Tse-tung.) He believed himself to be the reincarnation of Lenin and dreamed of a socialist America. Jones began attending Communist-party meetings in 1951 and was soon a full-fledged radical.
An atheist, Jones cleverly realized, quite early on, that religion could serve as a vehicle to attract followers to his social-justice views and his “church.” Masquerading as a Christian preacher, he ultimately founded the People’s Temple, which grew substantially thanks to followers’ donations. Jones would later readily admit that he asked himself what would be the best method to spread Marxism and decided on doing so by infiltrating Christians and preaching Marxism disguised as religion. In a 1977 New York Times interview, his wife reportedly admitted that Jones was promoting Marxism by mobilizing people via religion, and that he referred to the Bible as a paper idol he must destroy.
A decade after starting The People’s Temple in Indiana in the 1950’s, Jones moved camp to the greener pastures of San Francisco, where he found himself surrounded by fellow radicals such as Harvey Milk, who heaped praise on him and his work. Jones’s leftist views fit right in among the Bay Area glitterati. But upon learning that an upcoming press article was about to report on allegations by former Temple members that they had been emotionally, mentally, and physically abused (the bisexual Jones reportedly even sodomized some followers), the organization fled to Guyana in the summer of 1977, establishing its community abroad, away from prying eyes. Jonestown was comprised largely of committed leftists, many of whom were drawn, for one reason or another, to Jones’s railings against rampant racism, social injustice, and income equality. A few months later, Jones even visited Cuba specifically to meet with notorious Black Panther Huey Newton, returning with nothing but praise for the Communist island.
Lest there be any doubt about Jones’s political views and those of his fellow Jonestown residents, he once boasted: “I believe we’re the purest Communists there are.” When a Soviet diplomat visited Jonestown, Jones gushed: “Thank you, comrade. For many years, we have let our sympathies be quite publicly known, that the United States government was not our mother but that the Soviet Union was our spiritual motherland.”
This was not a church — this was a Communist organization.
The new settlement chugged along for over a year, but cracks began to emerge, particularly as it became harder for Jones to conceal his drug addiction.
Then, in November 1978, Representative Leo Ryan, a Bay Area Democrat, led a fact-finding trip to Jonestown in order to investigate allegations of human-rights abuses. The group included concerned relatives of Jonestown members, an NBC camera crew, and several reporters.
Ryan never returned, nor did four others of his team. They were gunned down at the airstrip when attempting to leave.
Later that day, Jones realized the People’s Church was finished and ordered his followers to end their lives. Cyanide was administered in cups of Flavor-Aid (similar to Kool-Aid) in an act of “revolutionary suicide.” More than 900 Jonestown residents, 303 of them children, perished, their bodies found in and around the pavilion. (Jones died via a self-inflicted gunshot.)
The tragedy is a stain on liberalism, not only because it showed the extremes of left-wing ideology but also because it could have been averted, had it not been for the Bay Area radicals who fawned over Jones. As FrontPage Magazine noted in a 2008 article:
San Francisco heavy-hitters Dianne Feinstein, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, and Willie Brown all supported Jones, with Milk lobbying on his behalf even after he and his followers had fled to the jungles of Guyana.
Precisely due to the clear Marxist ideology of The People’s Church, as well as San Francisco liberal leaders’ support of Jones, the key element of the Jonestown tragedy was brushed under the rug. A story of left-wing extremism instead became a watered-down, politically correct warning about the dangers of organized religion, as is the case in this CNN article that lists Jones as an example of “When religious beliefs become evil.”
Groan. When religion becomes evil, or when extreme leftism rears its true head?
