A Leftist Horror Story: Jim Jones

"Before orchestrating the murder/suicides 900+ people in Guyana, Jim Jones was the darling of the San Francisco Left. Huey Newton, Angela Davis, and Willie Brown embraced a man who killed more blacks than the KKK. Democrats Rosalynn Carter, Walter Mondale, and Gerry Brown made campaign visits to the Peoples Temple’s “comrade leader.” The mayor of San Francisco even rewarded Jones for his activism by appointing him chairman of the city’s housing commission. “The temple was as much a left-wing political crusade as a church,” The Nation reported in 1978. Unfortunately, as the years progressed, more Americans gulped down the Left’s Kool-Aid that Jones was of the religious Right and not an atheist leftist."

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"...As to the second concern, I would direct interested parties to the Evergreen Cemetery in the heart of Oakland, California.

There, in a mass grave, lie the bodies of more than 250 children, the great majority of them black, the victims of the greatest one-day murder of American young people in the nation’s history.

They are, of course, the children of Jonestown. Three year-olds don’t commit suicide. Held in the jungle, often against their wills, their parents did not have much choice in the matter either.

Nor did the children die “in the name of religion” as supposed. They died for the opposite of religion. There was not even a chapel at Jonestown, but the place revealed so much obvious reverence for Lenin, Mao, Che, and Fidel that one might have thought it an extension campus of San Francisco State.

Not surprisingly, it was while at college—Indiana U--that Jim Jones got his first injection of Marx, and he was hooked from the beginning. Replacing capitalism with communism in 1950’s Indiana held about as much as promise as replacing basketball with croquet. So Jones took another tack.

“I decided how can I demonstrate my Marxism,” he would recount years later. “The thought was ‘infiltrate the church.’”

Jones thought of Christianity as a “a dark creation” of the oppressed. Salvation would come through other channels. “Free at last, free at last,” he led his temple comrades in prayer, ““Thank socialism almighty we will be free at last.”

By 1973, after aggressive recruiting in black neighborhoods nationwide, the Peoples Temple boasted some 2500 members, most of them in San Francisco. Better still, they voted as if with one voice, Jones’.

Given their affection for independent thinkers—and so many of them in one place!--Democratic vote harvesters from far and wide wooed Jones like a Southern Belle, Bolshevik or not.

Local pols like Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, George Moscone, and Harvey Milk all came a courting. So too did national Democrats like Rosalynn Carter and Walter Mondale. “I figured if these people—if anybody should know, they should know,” testified one black survivor as to why he stuck with Jones.

After taking office as mayor of San Francisco in 1976, George Moscone repaid Jones by appointing him to the Human Rights Commission and then to the chairmanship of the city’s Housing Authority. That same year, The Los Angeles Times named Jones “the humanitarian of the year.”

That was just two years before he murdered all those children in Guyana. As at Waco, the progressive establishment rushed to bury the truth along with the bodies. Too much truth might just estrange African Americans from the party that has made Al Sharpton a star.

Now, about that Don Imus!"

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the Jonestown clan had something in common with Obama's church:

"The government gives them drugs, builds bigger prisons, possess a three strike law, then wants us to sing 'God Bless America'. No. No. No. God damn America!" (Rev Jeremiah Wright 2003 sermon)

The whites have got control of the wealth. You've got to have the wealth taken out of their hands, and redistributed, dime for dime, dollar for dollar, acre for acre. It's gotta be in the hands of all the people....." ( Jeremiah Wright??? NO, NO, NO! Rev. Jim Jones sermon, Peoples Temple transcript of recovered FBI tape # q1053.)

"The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systemized Liberation Theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone's book ' Black Power and Black Theology'......I used the word systemized because it was in existence long before Dr. Cone's book" ( Talking point of Rev. Jeremiah Wright.)

"This is a Black Liberation Movement in here. Anything we can do for you, if they give you any trouble anywhere, you've got a friend." (Rev. Jim Jones sermon, People's Temple transcript of recovered FBI tape # q1053.)

WHAT DO THESE MEN HAVE IN COMMON? A deeply ingrained socialist ideology that they both discovered could be best exploited under the auspices of 'christianity'.
Could Barack and Michelle Obama have sat under such hateful and twisted tutoring and themselves remain unaffected? HARDLY.
"America is a mean country"..... (Michelle Obama)
"America is desperately wicked!" (Rev. Jim Jones)
"We can't drive our SUV's and you know eat as much as we want and you know keep our homes at 72 degrees at all times." (Barack Obama)
"It's not fair that you have a right to do with what you want, when other people are starving to death...we must all have the same." (Rev. Jim Jones)

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