tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68274642994155824662024-03-07T02:24:16.564-05:00Jonestown Apologists AlertCult apologists always strive to unload the thickest sugar coatings over the true horror of People's Temple. One of the most elaborate was director Stanley Nelson's appalling 2005 whitewash documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple." This site is dedicated to exposing such insidious historic fiction, apologist promoters, and the self-serving power elite that lack the ethics and courage to confess the real truth about their role in this crime of the century.Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-91316205905306502932012-11-19T00:30:00.000-05:002012-11-19T06:07:42.196-05:0034th Anniversary Day: People's Temple New Cult Of The Faithful Celebrates A Macabre Memorial For Mass Murderers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, on another grim anniversary of the one of the worst mass murders in American history, they paid homage to the monster behind it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This crazed sociopath, now memorialized in stone by the newly reconstituted People's Temple, who paid their respects to the dead in their own "informal gathering" yesterday afternoon in Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery. James Warren Jones, killer of children, honored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These children, imprisoned by him in a South American Marxist death camp, and more than 300 other children, including babies, didn't stand a chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Neither did their parents and 600 other Americans of all ages, who were exterminated like cattle. Nearly all killed by an agonizing death-by-cyanide, the majority being forcibly injected. Not a mass-suicide as the lame-brained mainstream media always reports. Jones, however, never could have pulled it off alone--no more than Pol Pot could have achieved his heinous mass murder--without the indispensable assistance of his cult's enthused, blood-thirsty executioners. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Murderous Jim is not the only killer mixed in with the names of his victims, as I discovered in my visit to this perverse new shrine [in the background is the original memorial] earlier this year. Indeed there are some very notable culprits whose names will be familiar to anyone versed in the usually obscured facts of this unspeakable crime.<br /><br />Some of the other of the infamous cult's murderous enforcers include:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Annie Moore, sister of Becky Moore. Becky runs the cult apologist organization "Jonestown Institute" with her hubby Fielding "Big Mac" McGehee, both of whom served as the front group to fund this memorial with cash from an "unknown source.") Annie, mass murderer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carolyn Moore, Becky's other sister, was the Jones's mistress, a smooth-talking version of Eva Braun wanna be. Utterly ruthless. And, of course, a mass murderer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Larry Schacht, who oversaw the "medical needs" of the gulag. Something of a Dr. Mengele, actually, who knew just how much cyanide would do the trick. The highly trained, highly valued mass murderer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Big Jim" McElvane, the cult's "security enforcer," something of a gestapo kingpin. Yes, mass murderer too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, of course, what memorial would be complete without this beast, one of Jones's most fanatical cultists. Not a mass murderer, since she was in Guyana's capital city of Georgetown when all the slaughter was unleashed in the jungle. She was, however, enterprising enough to personally slit the throats of her three children before killing herself. Which makes her death a bona fide suicide rather than a murder like nearly all the others in Jonestown. She still has some murder credits, like the other vicious psychopaths shown above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are, of course, some other names here that have NO business being memorialized, such as the guards that forced the cyanide into hundreds of people or shot them to death. Becky and Big Mac know who they are but, hey, these homicidal gulag goons earned the requisite murder points to be featured as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Becky Moore is one of the more prominent cult apologists in circulation, publishing tripe about how "positive" the People's Temple cult really was and that, really, "cult" is dirty word that insults all the wonderful things that came from this group of brainwashed slaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Big Mac" McGehee is her very prolific propaganda hubby, who puts out the annual "Jonestown Report." To his credit, he includes some of the unsavory aspects of the forced labor camp called Jonestown in his publication. The only problem is its resemblance with the formula used by supermarket tabloids, but on a much more serious scale. Nothing quite so effective as a potent mix of fact and fiction grossly distorting perspective on the <i><b>actual</b></i> big picture. Just gloss over, obfuscate or outright deny the reality of cult psychosocial dynamics so lethal to free will and, in some cases, life itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Becky-Mac wants it that way, cause this enterprising fun couple crave that credibility enabling them to keep the New People's Temple cult followers happy and positive there really were some mighty good things that flowed from all the brainwashing, fraud, slave labor, torture, child abuse, and murder that were the hallmarks of the cult that died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jynona Norwood [second from right], who lost 27 of her family to Jones and his executioners, has tried desperately to stop this madness. She worked to put up Jones-free memorial for years. That some of the people that put Jones into power--Willie Brown, Cecil Williams, to name a few-- haven't contributed a dime to Norwood's efforts speaks volumes on their moral bankruptcy--and cowardice. They prefer not to remember those faces of the helpless little children having cyanide forced down their throats, knowing they helped make it all possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beyond lamentable is actually reading some of the twisted statements made by cult apologists in the Mac-Becky Cult Fans journal. One of them, by Natalia Danesi, observes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Evergreen Cemetery now has the four granite blocks engraved with all the victims' names, including that of Jim Jones. Despite the controversy, Jim Jones was among those who died that day, and it is proper and appropriate to remember the names of everyone who perished. </i><i>Another controversial figure is Linda Sharon Amos, who killed her three children before killing herself......seeing her name on the memorial must be unthinkable......While her final act is truly horrible, we must try to understand her position and point of view. Her name on the memorial should make us pause and reflect...."</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-88417421410377385332011-11-27T17:00:00.003-05:002011-11-27T20:51:20.966-05:00Dick Gregory Speaks Out Against The Jim Jones Memorial Wall -- And A Defector Tells His Story About Cult Madness<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">An interview with Dick Gregory by Jynona Norwood is scheduled to run on an <a href="http://www.morepublicradiointernational.org/MorePublicRadioInternational.org.html">internet radio network</a>, which you should be able to tune in, by clicking on the above link. As soon as I receive confirmation, I'll notify readers on its scheduled time and date, along with the scheduled air date of interviews with my sister Kathleen, myself, and my father.<br />
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Gregory is one of the many outraged by the inclusion of mass murderer Jim Jones on a memorial wall for those he and his executioners so brutally murdered. His interview, like all his appearances, will prove enthralling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's so much misunderstanding about what drove so many people into the arms of this demon and his murderous thugs. One of those who was able to defect--but inexplicably appeared at the May "dediciation" to this atrocious wall--was former member Garrett Lambrev. One can only guess that Lambrev still has some of the brainwash not washed out of him, judging from his appearance at this cult apologist monstrosity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But his words in this 2008 Cleveland Plain Dealer interview speak volumes about how bad the cult was BEFORE it even arrived in Jonestown and reveals how hard, and dangerous, it can be to break a cult's stranglehold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Convinced Jim Jones was God, Garrett Lambrev was the first person to join Peoples Temple in Ukiah, Calif., in 1966 after the group moved from Indiana. Ten years later -- two years before the Jonestown tragedy -- he was part of a wave of defectors, shaken to the core by tales of torture and wanting nothing to do with a god who could sanction such things. He was reviled as a traitor and lived in fear for his life. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> Back in 1966, Lambrev was a young grad student, searching for truth, for peace, for a new world. After his involvement in anti-Vietnam war protests that landed him in jail, he dropped out of a doctoral program in history at Stanford University and moved to Ukiah for a job as a welfare worker. When he met Jim Jones, who was teaching at a local school, he thought he had found the realization of all his dreams. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "I was utterly transfixed by him," Lambrev said. "He could talk for 14 hours, and I'd be fascinated. I'd never met anyone so intelligent, so cognizant of the human puzzle." </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> Even then, Lambrev took note of Jones' disturbing behavior. Lambrev had been in the temple only about two months, and he was listening one evening to Jones expound on environmentalism. "He was praising things the Soviets were doing to protect wildlife in the Soviet arctic. And I thought, 'What!' I spoke up, and I said, 'Jim, what about the Gulag? What about the labor camps?' </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "He turned red and glared at me, and said, 'Who do you think you are? You're speaking to the Almighty God,' and he pounded his fist. I felt so humiliated. I wanted to be under the floor. But I thought, 'He's God. I'm not.' So I went along with that for years. I questioned myself, rather than him." </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> During the years, Lambrev was what he calls a "black sheep" in the Peoples Temple family. He'd had trouble dealing with the discipline, and had left previously -- five times, in fact. But he returned five times.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "Inevitably, every time I left, I would fall apart and turn back. The center of life was Jim Jones. He was the access to the divine. For years, I was very much a prisoner of that reality. Nothing could break that until the revelations about the torture." </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>'Garry, there was torture. Physical torture.'</b> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> It was August of 1976, and Lambrev had no plans to leave. He felt very good about his place in the Temple and what he was doing. But there was a friend and fellow member who was upset, and he feared she might kill herself, so he reached out to her. They met outside the Temple, at a pizza parlor at midnight. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "She told me, 'You don't know anything. You haven't seen what I saw,'" Lambrev said, dropping his voice. "She told me, 'Garry, there was torture. Physical torture.' </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "I could find nothing to justify that," he said. "I was very, very angry. Enormously disappointed and shaken. I thought, if this guy is God, I want no part of his religion. So I left that night."</em></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><em> </em></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Lambrev went back to his small commune in San Francisco and started packing. His commune-mates alerted a "posse" of Temple devotees to stop him, he said. A car showed up, just as Lambrev and his friend were driving away, and a chase ensued. "We finally lost them through back alleys of Chinatown," he said. "It was laughable, like a Marx Brothers movie." </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> Lambrev went to a hiding place where another friend was staying. For a while, he worked with a defectors' group in Berkeley, called Concerned Relatives. Then, finally, he felt he must distance himself completely from anyone connected with the Temple, moving to the woods of Oregon. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> He was there when the tragedy in Jonestown happened. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "Like so many people, I didn't know what to make of it, whether this was done by a hit squad, if I was on the hit list, or if friends of mine were in danger," he said. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "I think we all knew Jim Jones was responsible for the deaths of about 1,000 people in Jonestown. There were others involved who carried it out. We'll never know who and how many committed suicide or who and how many were murdered. But the decision to carry that out was Jim's." </em></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Questions about what happened haunt him</em></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> Questions about what happened still haunt Lambrev, however. In the years before and after Jonestown, there were some mysterious deaths, including the still-unsolved 1980 murders of Al and Jeannie Mills in Berkeley, who had started Concerned Relatives. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em> "My ambition in this life is to know what really happened," Lambrev said.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A good start, Garrett. Unfortunately, kowtowing with those reprehensible revisionist/cult apologists (Becky Moore, Mac McGehee, Jimmy Jones, Jr, et al) is not a very positive beginning. <em> </em></span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-47278115009196337602011-11-18T15:50:00.004-05:002011-11-18T16:03:18.059-05:00Combatting Those That Are Honoring A Madman -- "The Kiss Of Death"-- On This Sad Anniversary<span style="font-size: large;">It's a special day. An especially sad day. 33 years ago a massacre occurred that never should have happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But for those in today's New Peoples Temple, the cultish behavior goes on and on. One of the red flags is when they attempt to sanitize and rationalize a monster, for his "good works," and to try any way they can to remain in denial about the true picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They really pulled it off this time, didn't they? And this afternoon at an Oakland, California cemetery, where there's a mass grave for hundreds of his victim, adopted son Jim Jones, Jr. will join with his other New Temple cronies and pay homage to his father--as a official "victim."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How do they do it--placing the name of the mastermind of a massacre right along side his victims?? (And, for that matter, the names of his accomplices--the Moore Sisters, Larry Schacht, Thomas Kice, Sr, et al-- that carried out the killings like a regiment of crazed Nazi SS executioners?) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But they did. And today these shameless cult apologists will pay their respects to a monster. Although not before an earlier memorial service, the authentic one, by a courageous woman who lost 27 members of her family at the Jonestown Massacre in 1978. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her news release spells it out, revealing the added anguish of having to witness the memory of her murdered mother and 26 other family members <em><strong>defiled</strong></em> on this, one of the most painful days in her life:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Dr. Jynona Norwood, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321646462_9">Jonestown</span> Memorial Services & Wall founder and executive director, LEADS</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;">33rd Annual Official</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Jonestown Memorial Service in honor of the beloved children-not </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><u>jim jones AKA "THE KISS OF DEATH"</u></span></span></b></span><br />
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<tr><td valign="top" width="18%"><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHO:</span></span></div></td><td valign="top" width="82%"><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">D</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">r. Jynona Norwood, Special Guests,</span> Civil Rights leaders, community leaders,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">ministers and family members</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="18%"><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHEN:</span></span></div></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="82%"><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321646462_14">Friday, Nov. 18, 2011</span> | <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321646462_15">11:00 a.m</span>.</span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="18%"><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">WHY:</span></span></div></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="82%"><div align="left" style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">To honor the victims and remind the public of the tragic murders of hard working and generous people, who had been in search of better lives for themselves and their children, were killed by Jim Jones</span></div></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="18%"><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">PRESS RSVP:</span></b></div></td><td valign="top" width="82%"><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Jynona Norwood | 310.292.5800 | <a href="mailto:drnorwood4@aol.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="mailto:drnorwood4@aol.com" ymailto="mailto:drnorwood4@aol.com"></a><a href="mailto:drnorwood4@aol.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:drnorwood4@aol.com"><span style="color: #234786;">drnorwood4@aol.com</span></a></span><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Free refreshments</span><div style="margin-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span> </div></div></div></td></tr>
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<tr id="yui_3_2_0_1_1321646449238222"><td id="yui_3_2_0_1_1321646449238221" width="100%"><div align="left" class="yiv2035447189MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 10px;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dr. Jynona Norwood is founder and executive director of Jonestown Memorial Services and Wall. On that fateful day, her family</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> lost 27 loved ones including her beloved mother and three-month-old cousin Charles Garry Henderson--the youngest child to perish in Jonestown. "Throughout the last 33 years I have paused to reflect on the sparks of life that God created who perished in Jonestown," commented Dr. Norwood. "After losing 27 vibrant loved ones, my family and hundreds of other affected parties will come together to say, "Love never dies, but lives on in our hearts and deeds." The Jonestown victims deserve a fitting Memorial Wall in their honor."</span></div><div align="left" class="yiv2035447189MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 10px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"></span> </div><div align="left" class="yiv2035447189MsoNormal" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1321646449238220" style="margin: 0px 10px;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1321646449238219" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Survivors, families, and community, civic and ministerial leaders will honor the memories of all victims of the Jonestown massacre. To learn more about the Jonestown story, visit INNOCENT CHILDREN ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE @ <a href="http://www.305icanr.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="http://www.305icanr.org/"></a><a href="http://www.305icanr.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321646462_17"><span style="color: #234786;">www.305ICANR.org</span></span></a>, </span></div></td></tr>
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</tbody></table></center></div></span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-31405661461817759602011-11-13T05:09:00.001-05:002011-11-13T05:38:33.433-05:00Accountability? What To Do With Those That Help To Create Heinous Crimes<span style="font-size: large;">For all too many today, it's an old, obscure story.</span><br />
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Millions who were born in years following the 1978 massacre have but one momento -- a cliche about somebody "drinking the Kool-aid."</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3GqQWI5AMEs1JJI9lUCTBeHCnnRGrANUTWbtxSA98f6snpKBW0Bm2jKOmkDlwdrsNSiAMX-ETu7gz-F6vFAga6dejdmLJlYjs19Q2H0p5l4ucpe6DDZAjPiJbGW1JPn3unV61chGZVID/s1600/Jim+Jones+clipping+on+guardian+home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3GqQWI5AMEs1JJI9lUCTBeHCnnRGrANUTWbtxSA98f6snpKBW0Bm2jKOmkDlwdrsNSiAMX-ETu7gz-F6vFAga6dejdmLJlYjs19Q2H0p5l4ucpe6DDZAjPiJbGW1JPn3unV61chGZVID/s400/Jim+Jones+clipping+on+guardian+home.jpg" width="362" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Stumbled upon this clipping recently, showing Jim Jones as he was beginning his rise in Indianapolis in 1953. That's one of the pages out of the sociopath's playbook; working with the needy and the downtrodden. Looks so damn impressive that these predators can't help but win over the public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's when they begin laying out their blueprint for the real work at hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a more recent story, with some interesting parallels.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjThcmbMkOva_hEgUu5i4JnXaBK8VGyXGR6d9E_aBAxIjEC46_xVzrNpsjfzW9so4sc424Ko2Xq37t8vAi_FAsDZLdJ6uZlgAT3_tD6i96pLXO3vhzmFT1BmTW-7jwwjj1wSgqJ6-xtGnpb/s1600/Sandusky++Touched+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjThcmbMkOva_hEgUu5i4JnXaBK8VGyXGR6d9E_aBAxIjEC46_xVzrNpsjfzW9so4sc424Ko2Xq37t8vAi_FAsDZLdJ6uZlgAT3_tD6i96pLXO3vhzmFT1BmTW-7jwwjj1wSgqJ6-xtGnpb/s400/Sandusky++Touched+cover.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Think we're all well-versed with this other predator who just the other day got caught, a decade after having published this touching book. One Amazon reviewer the other day commented it was "100% false advertising by Mr. Sandusky. Not a single page in this book 'touches' on how to appropriately gain the trust of young, at-risk boys, and then use that trust to perpetrate horrifying sexual assaults on the very children who turned to you for guidance and support...."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No, Jerry seemed of have left out those little details. But now we at least have been informed of the shocking & outrageous reality of the "Sandusky Story."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what could this tale of a twisted football coach possibly have to do with a twisted, murderous cult leader, besides them both having savage predatory personalities?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Actually quite a bit similar in another very significant respect. Have a look at the chronology of events in the Sandusky case, as reported by writer Sara Ryley:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>1977:</strong> Sandusky starts The Second Mile, a group foster home for troubled young boys that grew into a statewide charity serving hundreds of young boys.</em></span><br />
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<b>1998:</b> Victim 6 tells his mother that he was lathered and bear-hugged by Sandusky in the shower. His mother tells Penn State campus police.</em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Serial Pedophile Jerry Sandusky</strong></span></td></tr>
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<b>May 13 and 19, 1998:</b> Police eavesdrop on a phone conversation during which Victim 6’s mother confronts Sandusky and tries to make him promise never to shower with a boy again. Sandusky will not promise. She asks if Sandusky’s “private parts” touched Victim 6; Sandusky responds, “Maybe,” and tells her, “I wish I were dead.”<br />
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<b>June 1, 1998:</b> Sandusky is interviewed by investigator Lauro and campus detective Schreffler, and admits to hugging Victim 6 naked in the shower, saying that he knows it was wrong. He is told to stop showering with children.</em></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em></em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>District Attorney Ray Gricar</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Schreffler and Gricar, the district attorney, decide against criminal charges. A similar incident with a victim referred</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>to as B.K. was also investigated.</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Schreffler testified that Harmon,</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>then campus police director, </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>told him to close the case.</em></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>May 1999:</b> Paterno tells Sandusky he will not be the next head coach of Penn State. Sandusky retires but negotiates emeritus status, giving him an office and access to facilities.<br />
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<b>Fall 2000:</b> Calhoun, the janitor, observes Sandusky in the shower of the Lasch Building performing oral sex on a young boy pinned up against the wall, and tells other janitors and his supervisor. Fellow janitor Petrosky later testifies they were afraid they’d lose their jobs if they told anyone what they saw.<br />
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<b>March 1, 2002:</b> McQueary enters the locker room at Penn State’s football building at about 9:30 p.m. and hears the shower running and “rhythmic, slapping sounds.” He sees Sandusky having anal sex with Victim 2, who appears to be 10 years old. McQueary goes to his office and calls his father.<br />
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<b>March 2, 2002:</b> McQueary shows up at Paterno’s house and reports what he saw.</em></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Penn State Head Coach Joe Paterno</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>March 3, 2002:</strong> Paterno calls Curley to his house to report that McQueary </em></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>saw Sandusky doing something </em></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>sexual in the locker room showers. </em></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Schultz testifies that he was then </em></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>called to a meeting with Paterno</em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>and Curley, during which Paterno</em></span><span style="font-size: large;"><em> reported “disturbing” and “inappropriate” conduct in the shower by Sandusky.</em></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Penn State Asst. Coach Mike McQueary</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>Approx. March 13, 2002:</b> McQueary is called to meet with Curley and Schultz, and reports what he saw. Curley and Schultz say they will look into it. Curley later testifies that McQueary only reported “inappropriate contact,” not anal sex. However, Schultz testifies that he had the impression that Sandusky grabbed the boy’s genitals.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>April 2002:</b> McQueary hears from Curley, who says that Sandusky returned his keys to the locker room and was prohibited from bringing youths on campus, and that the incident was reported to The Second Mile executive director Raykovitz.<br />
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<b>July 2009:</b> Victim 1’s mother calls the high school to report inappropriate behavior. Sandusky is barred from the school and police are called.<br />
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<b>September 2010:</b> Sandusky retires from The Second Mile.<br />
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<b>December 2010:</b> McQueary testifies to the grand jury.<br />
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<b>Nov. 5, 2011:</b> Sandusky is arrested.<br />
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<b>Nov. 9, 2011:</b> Paterno and Spanier are fired.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, happy ending, now that Sandusky is behind bars and these two spineless wonders Joe Paterno & Graham Spanier have been sacked?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not quite. There's of course the life-long destruction of the mental health of those abused boys. But something else and this is where it rings a sickening echo with the Peoples Temple saga--WHY didn't the powers-that-were act to stop this crime rampage at Penn State?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe for just the very same unforgivable reasons that California's powers-that-were did nothing to stop the Jim Jones crime rampage, which of course took far more casualties. Sandusky could and should have been stopped. Just like Jones, who would murder everyone of the children in this picture and many, many more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But no. The "authorities" in Pennsylvania and California who we counted on to be responsible, conscionable, to do the right thing in the face of evil, instead embraced it, covered up the crime, and let it go on and on and on until it was too late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps now, with this appalling Penn State scandal, the people not old enough to remember Jonestown will now be able to grasp its <strong>real</strong> causes, the ones our mass media <em>still </em>will not owe up to. Today's print and broadcast reporters that sing the same story line, year after year, one anniversary after another, do so because they're far more comfy playing stupid, lazy, and frequently arrogant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that this Penn State tragedy has demonstrated the horrifying byproduct of inaction, people might just reexamine the cult tumor that was the Peoples Temple. It won't be difficult to find out about all those "honorable" politicians, police officials, clergy and journalists that were not only cowardly and ineffectual but aided & abetted Jim Jones.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">There were so many of them lining up to cheer Jones on. Then-Assemblyman Willie Brown was one of the worst.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <em>"I have had the great pleasure of knowing a leader with tremendous character and integrity,"</em> declared Brown, who would be rewarded by going on be San Francisco's mayor, <em>"Rev. Jones is regarded among government officials, civic and religious leaders, and particularly the black community </em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>and working class people, with utter respect for what he has done to upgrade the quality of life in our area and to bring greater health and well-being to thousands of poor, minority, and disadvantaged people."</em></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another big Jones cheerleader was Rev. John Moore. Two of his daughters, Carolyn and Annie, committed suicide at Jonestown--that is, <em>after</em> they had brutally murdered babies, children, elderly, and others held at gunpoint by Temple thugs.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Rev. Moore, who officiated at the May dedication of the Jim Jones Memorial Wall, had earlier proclaimed that the cult was a <em>"model for other churches."</em> Much like, say, Sandusky was a model for a youth leader?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This begs another question: Besides Jones, why should the names of ANY of the other mass murderers, such as Carolyn and Annie, as well as others like Jonestown death doctor Larry Schacht, be on this new memorial?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These blood-thirsty beasts have no more right being honored with the defenseless children and adults they butchered than does Jim Jones. What next, adding the names of the "victimized" Nazi SS executioners on the Auschwitz memorial? </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Frankie Fountain, murdered by Jim Jones</strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This memorial is for those that couldn't defend themselves--not Jones, not crazed killers like Schacht, or the Moore Sisters, the armed guards, and airport assassins such as Thomas Kice, Sr. and Ronnie Dennis, who shot to death a U.S. Congressman and three journalists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take off these murderers' names. Stop this horrendous desecration of the real victims of a senseless massacre that could have easily been avoided, contrary to the myths still promoted by cult apologists and media alike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or just leave them on. Let the revisionists and cult apologists win so that Santayana's grim prophecy will prosper.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-45357406291467495762011-11-09T04:48:00.001-05:002011-11-09T05:08:14.360-05:00Another Murderous Candidate For Memorial Status: Richard Speck<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Most successful murderers: Hitler, Pol Pot, and Stalin</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">So far we've explored the perversion of anyone honoring some of history's most heinous mass murderers--Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin--especially in memorials for the people they exterminated so ruthlessly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These three were monsters in an obvious big way, judging from the numbers of their victims. Murder, however, is murder. Most of the time its nothing more than just bloodlust, committed by an apolitical psycho. It could be just, say, eight people who the killer decided on because it "wasn't their night."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>The eight young women slaughtered by Speck in 1966</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Do these eight Chicago student nurses look at all familiar? They ought to. About 12 years before the night that Jim Jones launched his orgy of slaughter, another maniac named Richard Franklin Speck systematically tortured, raped and murdered Gloria, Patricia, Nina, Pamela, Suzanne, Mary Ann, Merlita, and Valentina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like Jones, Speck was reportedly high on drugs at the time of his hideous crime. Like Jones, he was complete sociopath, with no compunction at all about snuffing out human life.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Murderer Richard Speck</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Also like Jones, Speck had been an abused child. He was a victim, of his own madness.....just like, well, Jim Jones.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Murderer Jim Jones on the day of his massacre</strong></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">It would be safe to say that the co-captain of Cult Apologists Central would very well agree. <em>"Indeed,"</em> says Jonestown Institute front man Mac McGehee, <em>"some people have argued that, if one views Jim Jones as being mad at the end of his life, he was as much a victim of his own delusions and paranoia as anyone else."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes of course, Mac, if the creator of victims was a victim himself, that changes everything. Enough, in fact, to offically qualify them to go on a memorial with the men, women, children, and infants they butchered like cattle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the case of fellow killer Richard Speck, it would be very easy to arrange his picture on a nice polished granite memorial, surrounded by the eight photos of those young women he destroyed. Much easier, in fact, than having to carve Jones's name into a memorial one with his fellow 900 plus victims, don't you think?</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"The most basic consideration,"</em> claims McGehee, <em>"is that a memorial stone cannot be an opinion piece, but a factual piece. It will be around for at least another 100 years–since it is granite–long after we have all died, and our passions with us. In the years to come, people will come to look at the names of those who died. Whatever his degree of ultimate culpability, however much he did share it with others, whatever the role of madness played in his actions, the fact is, 918 people died that day, and Jim Jones is one of them."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I see. Well, Mac (and all the rest of your comrades in today's revived People's Temple), word is that we're coming up on another special date next month--the 20th anniversary of the death of victim Richard Speck. So in the spirit of revisionist abandon and unfettered denial, how about putting in a good word to the city of Chicago to post an "all inclusive" memorial for their tragedy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just be sure to mention the advantages of a hundred years built-to-last murderer's memorial. You want to be certain that all passions--and objections--over honoring a homicidal maniac will have time to expire.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">Clearly it will take some time. </span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-37966472563114041982011-11-07T04:34:00.000-05:002011-11-07T04:34:29.605-05:00Bracing For A Grim Anniversary And, Now, With A Mass Murderer On The Memorial<span style="font-size: large;">Got another candidate for official memorial status.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This fellow, in fact, had some things in common with Jim Jones. Both, very dynamic leaders. And true believers in social change. Dedicated as hell and more than willing to, as the saying goes, "crack a few eggs to make that [socialist] omelette."<br />
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And both of 'em took radical steps to gettin' things done <em>their</em> way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one, of course, was the original Stalinist. But James Warren Jones loved his style and really dug Uncle Joe's politics. So much so that, besides injecting totalitarianism into the People's Temple cult, "Dad" Jim held regular Russian language lessons at Jonestown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like Jones, Stalin had a bloodthirsty side, on the kind of scale one would expect from the murderous dictator of an imprisoned nation. The early '30's Ukranian Famine, known as the "Holodymor," was one of his big successes. Killing by withholding food is a convenient form of slaughter although much less prompt than the "revolutionary suicide" of cyanide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone that knows Stalin's story should really appreciate what an abused child he was and the terrible conditions that he grew up under. He basically went more insane as time progressed. Like his <span class="hw">protégé, Rev. Jones, the Man of Steel would surely qualify for "victimhood" too, alongside his victims. And why not?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="hw">Which is precisely why this Kiev memorial to the Ukranian Massacre should have some added inscription that also honors the long-suffering Stalin. Right? Yeah, there might be a few Ukranians that would object. But they'll just have to understand that the only way to really heal is to include <em><strong>all</strong></em> the victims in such tragedies, in what ever form they might take. </span></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, the funds to modify this memorial could come from an "anonymous source," since disclosure of the source of such an act could prove awkward. Just carry it out nice and surreptitiously, as did the Peoples Temple boosters when they incorporated the predator with his prey once again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Which reminds me of a recent question by reader Stephanie Clare who demanded this secret donor come clean, especially in light of the searing controversy of memorializing a psychotic that orchestrated mass murder.</span><br />
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<tr class="hover"><td class="checkbox"></td><td class="title"><div class="relativeWrapper" onclick="togglePost('8258488482547051929');"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"I'd love to know the anonymous person who donated the money for this sick memorial to Jones,"</em> said Clare. <em>"Why won't they give their name? Are they ashamed of themselves?"</em></span> </span></div><div class="relativeWrapper" onclick="togglePost('8258488482547051929');"><span></span> </div><div class="relativeWrapper" onclick="togglePost('8258488482547051929');"><span><span style="font-size: large;">A lot of us are wondering the same thing. Unfortunately the same mass media that failed so abysmally to stop Jones and his cult assassins in all the years they operated in California is behaving likewise today--doing nothing to investigate.</span></span></div><div class="relativeWrapper" onclick="togglePost('8258488482547051929');"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">So exactly who showed the money, then?</span></span></div><div class="relativeWrapper" onclick="togglePost('8258488482547051929');"><span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span> </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The three men pictured here, Jones, Jr., McGehee, and Cobb, make up the muscle of the "Jonestown Memorial Fund," while Becky serves as their most able and lettered cult apologist, exploiting her religious studies professorship at San Diego State Univ.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">When this travesty of a memorial was unveiled last May, the mass murderer's adopted son reasoned that his father was a "victim of his own madness," hence, an "inclusive" monument.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"We are concerned that our relatives be remembered,"</em> claimed Jones, Jr. <em>"We are not thinking about who caused it and what happened after 32 years."</em><br />
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<em></em>Selective memory and revisionism is a neat trick, albeit sometimes with some very dirty consequences. "Not thinking" about the cause behind the effect that resulted in a mass homocide is the kind of risky business that drives the wheels of history repeating itself, over and over again.<br />
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</tbody></table>Jynona Norwood, who lost a staggering number of relatives--27-- to this murderous cult has a more realistic view on this obscene apologist memorial that she's battling as the anniversary gets closer. "It's like putting Hitler's name on a memorial for the Jewish community," she said.<br />
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Or, of course, Stalin's name on a memorial for the Ukranians.<br />
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Let this perversity come to an end. Remove that mass murderer's name.<br />
</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-11510796126791312152011-11-04T05:53:00.002-04:002011-11-04T06:13:40.520-04:00Social Activist Dick Gregory: "“This is outrageous and an insult! Tear down this wall!”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2cJ-ezfGyKCh79ag3QFsLExynaL9WzYSyQ1cYuBNKetWi_WWfDampyKzY8n7dpj_4g2MBbtP2DD25s206jYQvXyZ8RVNjtu6ksTu51Toh3f1BLFHI9Yyj_hyIkQVSM9gdExlXuq1xy6S/s1600/Hitler+speaking++hand+extended.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim2cJ-ezfGyKCh79ag3QFsLExynaL9WzYSyQ1cYuBNKetWi_WWfDampyKzY8n7dpj_4g2MBbtP2DD25s206jYQvXyZ8RVNjtu6ksTu51Toh3f1BLFHI9Yyj_hyIkQVSM9gdExlXuq1xy6S/s400/Hitler+speaking++hand+extended.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What if this man's name was inscribed in a memorial as a "victim," right along side all the names of those he had exterminated?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It would be inconceivable. Grotesque. Beyond unspeakable. No mass murderer, whether the slaughter was six million or a thousand people, could ever be honored. Unless, of course, the ones honoring the maniac were diehard Neo-Nazis or some other crazed, cultish group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But believe it or not, two weeks from today in Oakland, California, this blood-thirsty monster will get his second official tribute, by what one critic calls the "New Peoples Temple Leaders."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who are these people that could be so callous and deluded to memorialize a ruthless psychopath, some of them that even had close relatives--their parents, their children, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins--MURDERED by the Rev. Jim Jones??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's of course no Holocaust memorial anywhere in the world featuring Adolf Hitler's name. But here's the name of the mastermind of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, etched in stone along with those he brutally and senselessly killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">James Warren Jones. Consider yourself now honored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How is it possible for people to sink to the level of creating this travesty? And how much longer will they continue to get away with sticking this gigantic obscenity in our faces? In the two week countdown to the memorial service on November 18, it'll be a subject well-worth exploring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wouldn't you agree, Prof. "Cult Apologist" Moore? Or do you and the other perpetrators really think this is a<em> positive</em> step?? </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1320400532833159" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"The 'Jim Jones Honor Wall' impedes the healing process," </em>charges Dr. Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives,<em> "for the families, the public at large and children who are being victimized today and provides no solace by this malicious act perpetrated by a handful of holdovers of the People’s Temple."</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, Jynona, cult madness never seems to ever lose quite all of its toxic steam.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTgmY2Jo2xUZT1wBCFhuHkUYA6Jo0xJeyIV-E0iQM7og4hGd2XzQoRbJUe17RqYSdnbpVih_uC53YLNZltI2aAXWEee0gOkRFKyDZYTRmbTDDw40vbmww1stXH2OJfYmI1dYczEK9dC8F/s1600/Jones+cartoon+with+bodies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTgmY2Jo2xUZT1wBCFhuHkUYA6Jo0xJeyIV-E0iQM7og4hGd2XzQoRbJUe17RqYSdnbpVih_uC53YLNZltI2aAXWEee0gOkRFKyDZYTRmbTDDw40vbmww1stXH2OJfYmI1dYczEK9dC8F/s400/Jones+cartoon+with+bodies.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-4986956756177552312011-05-31T08:10:00.000-04:002011-05-31T08:10:03.091-04:00The Memorial To A Mass Murderer: Please Come To Oakland And See How It's Done<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Nyg4wwRuw2VMk-jpwLxkFGPZXSulRi_LsQopLgRmSMD0qglq2naZPrW_WBZXc3fkq8Vmw4QSLlHEQ-KR5aCS4KOQxKCqVv9H9um3pXp88BP9miyds02oJ1Ka0BKtdDsMeKKROK1L8pZi/s1600/Jones+and+Dead+people.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Nyg4wwRuw2VMk-jpwLxkFGPZXSulRi_LsQopLgRmSMD0qglq2naZPrW_WBZXc3fkq8Vmw4QSLlHEQ-KR5aCS4KOQxKCqVv9H9um3pXp88BP9miyds02oJ1Ka0BKtdDsMeKKROK1L8pZi/s640/Jones+and+Dead+people.bmp" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">The Rev. Jim Jones and his executioners have been given a freshly washed new face, ladies and gentlemen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now let us pray......for a return to sanity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It all became official at noon time last Sunday during an Oakland, California ceremony that loudly proclaimed all murderous psychopaths -- no matter how notorious, whatever heinous crimes, tortures, or executions they perpetrated -- are now eligible to be honored as <em>"victims."</em></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykWFadj2uOr2S_PnBYjcY56BMS0KGzdng4oqSwb4ZoNbizRr5Pc9b4VliPXCNkl2b9UKFR_0sCO7Nu4s0NSuk7_8YDzu-8zJzy04_KKoQckqDmqRm1hQTek9q0z2GjMdFGeZ6nuA8ozFR/s1600/Pol+Pot%2527s+victims.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykWFadj2uOr2S_PnBYjcY56BMS0KGzdng4oqSwb4ZoNbizRr5Pc9b4VliPXCNkl2b9UKFR_0sCO7Nu4s0NSuk7_8YDzu-8zJzy04_KKoQckqDmqRm1hQTek9q0z2GjMdFGeZ6nuA8ozFR/s320/Pol+Pot%2527s+victims.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Let's propose that Pol's pic be featured in the photo gallery of all his murder victims posted in Cambodia's Tuol Sleng Museum, formerly the notorious prison where his Khmer Rouge "inner circle" goons did their ghastly work. And why on earth not; it's the healthiest way acknowledge the entirety of the tragedy. Brings closure to ALL the relatives of those who suffered in the madness, be they givers or receivers. That's right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The very disturbed Mister Pot surely had good intentions at the start of his divine mission, didn't he? His nation-devouring Khmer cult simply wanted to create an egalitarian world with a rather radical form of "social engineering," where everyone could farm communally, peacefully, and free of <span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">bourgeoise contaminants.</span></span></span><br />
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<span><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"><span style="font-size: large;">Give him credit at least for being truly sincere, even if he did fall far short of the dream of "Apostolic Socialism." That little utopian notion belonged all to James Warren Jones and his Peoples Temple cult. But due to the little problem of Jones being a raging sociopath since childhood -- killing animals for "pet funerals," shooting guns at friends that didn't follow his directions and beating others -- his Brave New World was pretty much doomed from the start.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIpkYOXFlGyTq09MqdZ-uChSls1RVkSIQIjkc0zOpgKcRqO3lpLXxMwfTo5vp54j_sJyt5Zcjo_5GhE_bqNgUpzfdlzijLLpDcwm2VwnxTh29ZlaSidSHcL3o8xPA4o_Rg88dBRhjEdDW/s1600/Jim_Jones++sleazy+smile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqIpkYOXFlGyTq09MqdZ-uChSls1RVkSIQIjkc0zOpgKcRqO3lpLXxMwfTo5vp54j_sJyt5Zcjo_5GhE_bqNgUpzfdlzijLLpDcwm2VwnxTh29ZlaSidSHcL3o8xPA4o_Rg88dBRhjEdDW/s1600/Jim_Jones++sleazy+smile.jpg" /></a><span><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"><span style="font-size: large;">But for some reason, Jones's cult apologists just won't quit trying to resuscitate this demon. So on Sunday they took it a step further and included his name on a new memorial to all the Jonestown dead at Evergreen Cemetery. When this perverse proposal was being bandied about last November by one of his surviving sons, Jim Jones, Jr., one of my readers expressed the outrage:</span></span></span><br />
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<span><span name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"What a horrid, bloody nightmare and it just indicates that there is a serious and sustained effort to sanitize Jim Jones's image to the public," wrote Jei Hu Quan, " Jones was a psychopath, a rapist, a paedophile, a rampant abuser and grinning, braying sadist. It's clear that there's a concerted push by the same parties that engineered the massacre and other interests to minimize the actual atrocities carried out there. Every year around this time I see vile propaganda pushing the 'official story'.....making sure the story adheres to the deployed line. Monsters infiltrated amongst true survivors to synthesize credibility....."</em> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jynona Norwood (white dress), who has tried for the last ten years to erect a memorial wall -- one that would never feature the name of the monster that destroyed 27 members of her family -- leads the camp of relatives and their supporters (including the legendary Dick Gregory) that are understandably outraged. She went to court to try to have the new Jim Jones enhanced memorial blocked but failed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to the Oakland Tribune, <em>"Norwood's work to build a memorial wasn't successful -- the stones that were unveiled Sunday were the work of organizers including Jones' adopted son, Jim Jones Jr. -- and her efforts in court to stop the version with Jones' name from being made public were turned down by a judge last week.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>She promised to protest the ceremony, calling Jones' inclusion a deep insult to his victims, but she was not present Sunday, and the ceremony concluded without any disruption. Despite her conflict with the organizers, though, Norwood's name was spoken with respect during the ceremony.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>'I want to take a moment to appreciate the faithfulness of Jynona Norwood,' said Rebecca Moore, a survivor whose husband was among the fundraising organizers for the memorial. Year in and year out, she said, Norwood has diligently worked for the well-being of her fellow survivors and organized numerous ceremonies to help them come together."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ahhhh, Becky Moore and hubby Mac McGehee. Should have seen their greasy cult apologist prints all over this "new & improved memorial" travesty. (The real question is who exactly is the money bagman behind this desecration.) Now she adds insult to injury by patronizing Norwood while she, Mac, Jones, Jr., and the rest of 'em turning the knife round and round.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And a couple of corrections are in order regarding Becky: She's not a "survivor" since she never was a member of this cult (though a hell of a Temple publicist to this day, yes) and, secondly, there's the matter of her two sisters, Annie and Carolyn, who both died at Jonestown. These two were in Jim Jones's inner circle and were busy murdering babies, children and anyone else they could find during that horrendous day in November, like a couple of obedient Manson girls. The same question should apply: As with Jones, should the homocidal Annie and Carolyn (and any other of his mass murderering thugs that day) also have the privilege of being memorialized with their victims? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> One of the members of their camp, Jonestown survivor Leslie Wagner-Wilson, called their Jones-The-Victim salute a "healing wall" that's in the spirit of "inclusiveness and forgiveness."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Jones, Jr., pictured on left, appeared delighted last Sunday at their triumph (while his brother Stephen Jones, on the right, looked less than thrilled.) But the only victory here was one for the revisionists and cult apologists for whom this is far more than an issue of just "inclusiveness." What it sadly demonstrates is just how desperate people will behave in order to blast to smithereens that elephant in their room that just won't go away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, I'm sure there are also some diehard disciples of the Khmer Rouge that would have no problem with adorning any and all future memorials in Cambodia with the "healing" inclusion of the brutally efficient man that had children bludgeoned to death with iron bars and pickaxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In all likelihood, that was probably far more merciful a fate than that cyanide.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-10648487693138468262011-02-24T08:34:00.001-05:002011-02-24T08:55:39.257-05:00Now It's A "Cult Restaurant With Better Kool-Aid" And People Hellbent to Memorialize Mass Murderers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBTLIO0tQEv6bVjWc9x2nG4Ej8RietbfdD3dM97SXB68fQ1I6buUnzAcSV9nMFXzUYrNxrdFiEE6hxY6Bct5uYCgNcat8BUCEFx0Z0NMb-oASDEJ4dpcqc2DdoQ9OcGosKaQkkiapr-l8/s400/Hacienda+CULT+billboard.jpg" width="400" /></div><span style="font-size: large;">Did you happen to see the story about the Indiana eatery that really wanted to put a fun and profitable spin on the Jonestown Massacre?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, that's the billboard these cretins had posted all over the city of South Bend, Indiana for two weeks. Then somebody reportedly complained and suddenly it wasn't such a cute, catchy pitch after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So they mercifully pulled down these atrocious ads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Our role is not to be controversial or even edgy. We want to be noticed — and there's a difference," </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">remarked Jeff Leslie, Hacienda Restaurant vice president of sales and marketing. <i> "It went the wrong direction, hit a nerve, and we have come to realize we should not have done this billboard. We lose the core message." </i><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You "lose the core message," eh? I'd say the next best thing would be for you and anyone that approved that to lose, oh, how about your job. Better yet, since the owner surely had a say in this, why not diners just boycott this stinking company into bankruptcy. That's the very least they could do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, Jeff, there IS a fundamental difference between being noticed and exploiting this unspeakable tragedy for profit. I guess I can sort of understand what would tempt you and your fellow knuckleheads to play on this. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNcheNzkXGEFAL4rnHi9EhI80q36ndgUJUmzoPFJs2O3JwnQfeYM2P4ExPCLZ_-1CaW9-PC5PIHDpY7QtA6z0wJq6xlgJbL1RFJ-_uFCjpUg4L7hniwUtgNmNVPaJQZx9wAbswa77hOo/s1600/Jonestown++koolaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqNcheNzkXGEFAL4rnHi9EhI80q36ndgUJUmzoPFJs2O3JwnQfeYM2P4ExPCLZ_-1CaW9-PC5PIHDpY7QtA6z0wJq6xlgJbL1RFJ-_uFCjpUg4L7hniwUtgNmNVPaJQZx9wAbswa77hOo/s400/Jonestown++koolaid.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">After all, it is a part of our lexicon now, isn't it? You hear it everywhere. <i>"They really drank the Kool-aid on that one....We had to drink the Kool-aid, people....Oh, no, don't drink the Kool-aid yet....!"</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And sadly, with so much passage of time, there are too many people alive today with no memory of how truly agonizing it was to experience November 18, 1978, that event that took more American lives in a non-natural disaster in history, until the cataclysm of 9/11.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8bv87nJftMCf69HB0JBlequnj-JmLtAmYm9U7ELFm_yZ0N30p9abe6vJLOmv2y8EbTkw5CpP4aCMpLuppAamGMVFt_tbtC7xHASCs1n0F8Vvq1aRZbAGp0_qLdDCBLViHUGa0U03qHc/s1600/Jonestown+30th+Anniversary+Ceremony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8bv87nJftMCf69HB0JBlequnj-JmLtAmYm9U7ELFm_yZ0N30p9abe6vJLOmv2y8EbTkw5CpP4aCMpLuppAamGMVFt_tbtC7xHASCs1n0F8Vvq1aRZbAGp0_qLdDCBLViHUGa0U03qHc/s400/Jonestown+30th+Anniversary+Ceremony.jpg" width="400" /></a></span><span style="font-size: large;">Anyone who's followed this "item" since then or happened to see coverage a few years ago of the 30th anniversary of the mass murder of over 900 men, women, children, and babies will understand. The woman in the purple plaid dress is Jynona Norwood, weeping over the loss of 27 members of her family to a demon named Jim Jones and his gang of killers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They were unveiling the first panels of what was to be a memorial wall at the Oakland, California cemetery where nearly half of the People's Temple dead are buried together in a mass grave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, that ultimately will segue into another scandalous issue, involving a rival group of Peoples Temple survivors & relatives lead by Jim Jones, Jr., who want to build a separate Jonestown Memorial. Jones, Jr. is the son of the cult beast that robbed all those people of their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgZMGF408qWqXSgBq1X-1NSVOZ0JO5YP4aStJN7WDF6s5T2gUFWm4CIcE1CyRHHxHkgdmfv26U_V-u-zUwM7x7Uzn_IHXxPs-RHuH848djC84g4KupVV6Kp9hD1vDEAWTlUhPIX9HTg4/s1600/Jim+Jones+Jr+on+Oprah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgZMGF408qWqXSgBq1X-1NSVOZ0JO5YP4aStJN7WDF6s5T2gUFWm4CIcE1CyRHHxHkgdmfv26U_V-u-zUwM7x7Uzn_IHXxPs-RHuH848djC84g4KupVV6Kp9hD1vDEAWTlUhPIX9HTg4/s200/Jim+Jones+Jr+on+Oprah.jpg" width="200" /></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"I'm Jim Jones Jr.," he told Oprah Winfrey in an appearance last year, "I'm the African-American son that was adopted in Indiana by a Caucasian family. I'm part of an organization that tried to build a new world. Nine hundred people died, and I miss them every day. But I also recognize that they tried. They tried something—they failed horrifically—but they tried, and out of that, I've taken a lot of pride to realized that I'm Jim Jones Jr. I can't hide from that."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Build a new world"?? As in, oh, a kind of Brave New World, where entire families were brainwashed, threatened, extorted out their life savings, abused, beaten, and then slaughtered like cattle at "Dad's" command?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9iwRwBS3w4wPQAYI0kqliPava9m5nYioaZiofURK8S3VyADhEABIYqXEW0Upu_daq0q31qHQQd5E1SBigdRbDNkpFD3vXYLjI3ypuMHIhgOMVs6XQu0GYOYjy14F1W4EuWjXMNDXQ_qI/s1600/Becky+Moore+at+desk++serious.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9iwRwBS3w4wPQAYI0kqliPava9m5nYioaZiofURK8S3VyADhEABIYqXEW0Upu_daq0q31qHQQd5E1SBigdRbDNkpFD3vXYLjI3ypuMHIhgOMVs6XQu0GYOYjy14F1W4EuWjXMNDXQ_qI/s200/Becky+Moore+at+desk++serious.jpg" width="200" /></a></span><span style="font-size: large;">No, what Jones, Jr. is promoting is about the worst kind of cult apologists tripe one could imagine. Not much different than what "New Religious Movement" Prof. Becky Moore likes to preach. Not that he or she (the latter who wasn't even in the cult) should bear guilt over what occurred in Guyana by any measure. What they need is the simple courage and honesty to finally admit the reality of Peoples Temple was that it was one of the most destructive cults in American history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Instead, they and other Temple apologists continuing attempting to white wash the horror and make excuses. Astounding things, like claiming it was Cong. Leo Ryan that was the real culprit, along with all the other "apostates", for pushing Rev. Jones over the edge. Apostates, by the way, is the convenient little denigration that Becky slams into those lucky enough to escape the cult and try to rescue their family and friends still held captive in Jonestown.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu22fPsOk_0BuNSnPaG9Cylk6DwVNnWDB_ZVrHMVIQbm69LodhgDvJdq-pv-3cQbkC_BsrgNnRwmiFY4_0zZ4FNpWmoSqyHJc2usXAW67fwMJYaWw2NWfeNP7kFJ2Y_XWt7ZczfkZCs2I/s1600/John%252C+Carolyn%252C+and+Annie+Moore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu22fPsOk_0BuNSnPaG9Cylk6DwVNnWDB_ZVrHMVIQbm69LodhgDvJdq-pv-3cQbkC_BsrgNnRwmiFY4_0zZ4FNpWmoSqyHJc2usXAW67fwMJYaWw2NWfeNP7kFJ2Y_XWt7ZczfkZCs2I/s200/John%252C+Carolyn%252C+and+Annie+Moore.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">But like Jim Jones, Jr., Becky's got some emotional baggage that she too wants to "recondition." Being the sister of two of Jones's own personal mass murderers, Annie Moore and Carolyn Layton, and daughter of one of the cult's key disinformation men, Rev. John Moore, would explain that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it'll never, ever justify layering the truth with revisionist fantasies. Not one bit. They don't even want to call it a "cult," because that would suggest that something was fundamentally wrong about a group of people swirling in depravity, thanks to "Dad" Jones's expert thought reform and skilled terror tactics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ironically enough, Jim Jones got his start in the state of Indiana, the very same state where this deplorable restaurant chain currently resides. Would this, then, be a case of poetic justice?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's the nice sanitized send off remark, "poetic justice," that Becky Moore went on record to describe how her Jonestown executioner sisters met their end after they made sure all the adults, children, and babies were dead either from gunfire or the utterly agonizing cyanide--almost all of which was forcibly injected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdIITd9T8cBE3nVwDz8MfPbD8QmdHBLec_FLNuqMlW-YDBKll4DY4t89v87zov1LbhdiD5IB5t8sp5uZ5i4BEGyrVJ8hEUFkSTDkJr0Fz5xMc4xNkJlwoCpgn5La7YbNTeeovAjz3dTuQ/s1600/Willie+Brown+smiling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdIITd9T8cBE3nVwDz8MfPbD8QmdHBLec_FLNuqMlW-YDBKll4DY4t89v87zov1LbhdiD5IB5t8sp5uZ5i4BEGyrVJ8hEUFkSTDkJr0Fz5xMc4xNkJlwoCpgn5La7YbNTeeovAjz3dTuQ/s200/Willie+Brown+smiling.jpg" width="148" /></a></span><span style="font-size: large;">Which brings us to a really significant question. Norwood worked very hard to try to get the Memorial Wall constructed but has still come up short for cash. This really ought to be paid out by some of Jones's surviving San Francisco collaborators, such as the highly despicable former mayor Willie Brown and Glide Church pastor Cecil Williams. Jones couldn't have pulled off the crime of the century without them. They have blood on their hands but still couldn't care less about washing it off. No, just keep smilin', Willie. Enjoy the millions of dollars you stashed away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But there's yet another very important question burning into the conscience, for those that still have one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Should <i>this</i> monstrosity's name actually be placed side by side on a memorial designed to honor <i>his victims</i>? And for that matter, should any of those killers, Annie Moore, Carolyn Layton, </span><span id="search" style="font-size: large;">Larry Schacht</span><span style="font-size: large;">, and the others that worked so diligently for him <i>also</i> have <i>their</i> names memorialized -- as victims??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a bit like building a memorial for all the victims at one of Pol Pot's Cambodian death camps and insisting this include the names of murderous guards that committed suicide after they'd killed everyone. Jim Jones, Jr., on the other hand, is convinced he has the final word on the matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Pretty much everyone who was in the Peoples Temple is over Jim Jones," he said. "They've forgiven him or gotten past their anger. It's time we recognize that." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is recognizable here is that this is both ridiculous, irrational, and an insult to those that don't suffer from cult apologist think. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But that's just exactly what Jim Jones, Jr., Becky Moore, and the rest of their cult apologist group have planned for their rival memorial at Evergreen Cemetery. They might just as well erect a "To Die For!" Hacienda billboard while they're at it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-74779579548135414842010-11-19T18:01:00.076-05:002010-11-20T06:11:23.516-05:00New Jonestown Memorial: Honoring The Madman And His Assassins Along Side The Men, Women, And Children They Murdered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewhwnnC8jvwUoZeYe9uiNt_6SXLgvK6C4O2a_KRlu7xhiJZRgBjG6sRPP4PW1smqBpMYD7SWqnxuz4257zsVCdkFn0VGv84Kf5RmmAe_-S8vkPIOoDD-PAAthqvhGxq_dQvOWQJSXa9EW/s1600/Frankie+Fountain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewhwnnC8jvwUoZeYe9uiNt_6SXLgvK6C4O2a_KRlu7xhiJZRgBjG6sRPP4PW1smqBpMYD7SWqnxuz4257zsVCdkFn0VGv84Kf5RmmAe_-S8vkPIOoDD-PAAthqvhGxq_dQvOWQJSXa9EW/s320/Frankie+Fountain.jpg" width="294" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDA5636FFbYdC4VXr4LZMpRkY42kGDhSTrapL6AwRCuMdxnmmtgOvkyj6j4N-8O432WeItaZ3HcTL12tv7O74KgUbkbztRVQo8YdTCygF6YLqOVNVkEh30cmWin_g9DpoKZDhNS9QocO3/s1600/Jewel+Fountain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEDA5636FFbYdC4VXr4LZMpRkY42kGDhSTrapL6AwRCuMdxnmmtgOvkyj6j4N-8O432WeItaZ3HcTL12tv7O74KgUbkbztRVQo8YdTCygF6YLqOVNVkEh30cmWin_g9DpoKZDhNS9QocO3/s320/Jewel+Fountain.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Take a good long look at their faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today brother and sister Jewel (L) and Frankie Fountain (R) would have been 36 and 37 years old, probably with kids of their own. But Jim Jones and his hand-picked killers-- Larry Schacht, Annie & Carolyn Moore, Jim McElvane</span><span style="font-size: large;">, and the other thugs in the Peoples Temple inner circle--had other plans for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On November 18, 1978, four year-old Jewel and five year-old Frankie didn't stand a chance. No more than the rest of the 900 people in that pavilion ringed by the cult's gunmen. So, as today's flippant but popular saying goes, Jewel and Frankie "drank the Kool Aid."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe they forced down their throats through a cup or syringe, who knows. The vast majority of the others, however, had the deadly cyanide injected into their upper backs, as a forensic exam revealed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not a mass suicide, as usually reported, but mass murder. On a scale unspeakable, in a scene simply unbelievable. The pictures of the massacre still shock the world. It was perhaps the most overpowering message ever delivered about the lethal danger of cults, which kill a person's spirit, and sometimes the body as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday survivors and relatives met again on the grim anniversary at the cemetery with the mass grave containing the bodies of nearly half the murder victims. But this time the atmosphere was marred by bitterness and division, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="articlebody">It seems the grief and pain of Jonestown never fades. On Thursday, it erupted anew on a tranquil East Oakland hillside.</span></span></i><br />
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At the 32nd annual Jonestown memorial, held at an Evergreen Cemetery mass grave for Peoples Temple victims, a schism among mourners led to competing ceremonies - one led by a woman who lost 27 family members in the mass suicide in Guyana, the other by Jim Jones Jr.<br />
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The first ceremony was hosted by Jynona Norwood of San Francisco, who has organized what she calls the "official" Jonestown memorial for more than three decades. Hers is a heartbreaking ceremony focusing on lessons learned, guidance from God, and the dangers of following charismatic leaders like Jim Jones.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="articlebody"> The second ceremony, held four hours later at the same site, was organized by Jones Jr., son of the infamous Peoples Temple leader who ordered the suicides of 909 of his followers, plus the killings of Rep. Leo Ryan of San Mateo and a news crew, in 1978. Jones Jr.'s ceremony was more of a family reunion. People hugged, took snapshots, caught up on each other's lives and reminisced. There were no sermons, no music, no speeches. Jones Sr. was hardly mentioned at all.<br />
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Both ceremonies were attended by 30 to 40 family members of Jonestown victims.<br />
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Norwood was insulted by the "outrageous" second ceremony.<br />
"It's like spitting on the souls of those who've died," she said. "It's an insult."<br />
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Jones, now a medical equipment salesman in San Francisco, didn't see it that way: "After 32 years, do I need any more sermons? Do I need to learn the lesson again? Let's not talk about what happened anymore...."</span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="articlebody"><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisllbJVEKqA8NmpNo9eWemePTTeDyY4lLQoGwEvOWuvEuPsqWIzHxL7ISrIOaxwqjPASt7nTXVe3N6Sgh4dL-IVmOuy5nyQazppnehRMSSPr1MSFyTP5-TaRsNAvRvHD0D_3EUnMYajriv/s1600/Jonestown+Memorial+conversation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisllbJVEKqA8NmpNo9eWemePTTeDyY4lLQoGwEvOWuvEuPsqWIzHxL7ISrIOaxwqjPASt7nTXVe3N6Sgh4dL-IVmOuy5nyQazppnehRMSSPr1MSFyTP5-TaRsNAvRvHD0D_3EUnMYajriv/s320/Jonestown+Memorial+conversation.jpg" width="320" /></a><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="articlebody">Allowing two ceremonies was an easy decision for the cemetery's staff. In recent years, tensions have been increasing among mourners, and in some cases people had lost their tempers, cemetery director Ron Haulman said.<br />
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"We don't want anyone to come here to mourn and pay their respects and not feel safe," he said. "We want to be courteous to everyone."<br />
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In another rift among survivors, Jones Jr.'s group plans to install four granite plaques at the grave next year. The plaques will be engraved with the names of all 918 victims, including Jones Sr.<br />
Norwood's group also undertook a memorial plaque project. But it was engraved with only 917 names - everyone but Jones Sr.<br />
Norwood's plaque project is temporarily stalled because it is so large and heavy that it would have toppled on the cemetery hillside.<br />
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So Jones Jr.'s plaque appears headed for the memorial site. The $15,000 project has been financed by an anonymous donor who will be repaid over time with donations, said Fielding McGehee, head of the Jonestown Institute in San Diego, an archive of the church's history.<br />
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After 32 years, it's time for the new plaque - that includes Jones - and a new memorial ceremony that omits Jones, McGehee said.<br />
"Pretty much everyone who was in the Peoples Temple is over Jim Jones," he said. "They've forgiven him or gotten past their anger. It's time we recognize that."</span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mac McGehee and wife Becky Moore, who runs that colossal cult apologist clearing house, insist on staying unlearned in the lessons of history along with their cronies in the Jim Jones, Jr. camp. They not only want to put a sheen on the "good works" of the Guyana gulag but also it seems will now be able to officially memorialize psychotic mass killer Jim Jones.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmL6MM7vnWIu57D_rPznwb9DqMzK7QmexY8hoKVTgIS8-WDo-kAlQ4247OLn53LJyQQUIYdnMIZN9j3NfM2UGzznR9jRu4DzqxlBTKFwd1VyM0-nQjqZSqSgkWUgggmKqBI_IN33EwULcX/s1600/Jim_Jones++sleazy+smile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmL6MM7vnWIu57D_rPznwb9DqMzK7QmexY8hoKVTgIS8-WDo-kAlQ4247OLn53LJyQQUIYdnMIZN9j3NfM2UGzznR9jRu4DzqxlBTKFwd1VyM0-nQjqZSqSgkWUgggmKqBI_IN33EwULcX/s1600/Jim_Jones++sleazy+smile.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Mind-blowing. Put <i>this</i> monster's name in the same space as all his victims? For that matter, why should Temple assassins like Carolyn Moore, who dragged little six year old John Stoen up to Jones's cabin on the fateful day and murdered him, be memorialized? Or the gunmen that made the massacre possible?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not one of them deserves to be honored, least of the Monster Jones. It's a true disgrace, no less than having SS guards' names placed on a Holocaust memorial, right next to the names of those they savagely murdered. But McGehee & Co. are getting away with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is the victims that we honor, not the victimizers. A lesson that was lost on perhaps the saddest Jonestown anniversary to date.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdX8BUTvPQenBjRqy6gW5mY9tJxvlWdXvPqHcvEB5NWBPCOjHxOMDFnXSUg8ML-y9-lfJ2QWPM1iHAeUiDlepaB1_BDy_Pj7hNNzOC_zNTwVfT5ozW3ZKUOR6Ye_8oe2WutKAzVY_V0jO/s1600-h/013.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132458397828561106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmdX8BUTvPQenBjRqy6gW5mY9tJxvlWdXvPqHcvEB5NWBPCOjHxOMDFnXSUg8ML-y9-lfJ2QWPM1iHAeUiDlepaB1_BDy_Pj7hNNzOC_zNTwVfT5ozW3ZKUOR6Ye_8oe2WutKAzVY_V0jO/s400/013.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-15490197964762371712010-11-17T20:39:00.247-05:002010-11-18T15:36:10.501-05:00The Sounds Of Jim Jones--And That Horrendous Laughter--Back From The Grave<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOD0QEuQUUxDjpV4H_kc5M7zphYYNq3D-Na-4XoeVVDvQji7249riyZJ21fZY3obdIkqla3WBa4xuuugMYuIqB6v5Mn0MAAQ8ghfDF66XQNuzRwX_xxgUt2db3cxY6D6tptIjp59g0QVW-/s1600/Stanley+Nelson++leering+with+mic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOD0QEuQUUxDjpV4H_kc5M7zphYYNq3D-Na-4XoeVVDvQji7249riyZJ21fZY3obdIkqla3WBa4xuuugMYuIqB6v5Mn0MAAQ8ghfDF66XQNuzRwX_xxgUt2db3cxY6D6tptIjp59g0QVW-/s400/Stanley+Nelson++leering+with+mic.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><i><span style="font-size: large;">"I think what Peoples Temple offered, and some other movements offer, is a chance to be part of something that you feel is bigger than you.....Peoples Temple delivered on what it promised people. It promised them that they would be part of a big family and live in a new way. And it delivered. That’s why they stayed......They stayed because it gave them what they wanted....."</span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">-- Film maker Stanley Nelson</span><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size: large;">Director, "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was this kind of outrageous drivel, along with his widely circulated 2006 cult apologist film, that motivated me to create this website four years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, however, enough of the public got exposed to this propaganda and other apologists' revisionism that the reality of one of history's most destructive cults continues to be muddled. It's been reduced to an overused cliche about the folly of "drinking the Kool Aid." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cult "delivered" and "that's why they stayed"? So the mass murder final act was just something incidental then, Stan??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meet two of who may have been the final victims of the "big family's" massacre. This is Jeannie and Al Mills, two cult defectors that miraculously were able to escape the cult in 1974, after they had enough of what Nelson claims was "being a part of something that you feel is bigger than you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Their luck ran out 15 months after the Jonestown bloodbath, in February of 1980, when some unknown gunman, or perhaps more than one, murdered them execution style. According to the AP report: </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uW4ve4qGFrYH7QCWfCiGGW9zvtRk8hK0Bm1bDBmhSSIrhdumcCs5KKjfWeOSigvfOorXyuGuVaoDtKH36sVo7aDhG7SJaV6n8ybwH3AGwTUGq7987IhFZ8l5WQBVReE4JUjqIB0qA-7Y/s1600/Ukiah+church++PT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uW4ve4qGFrYH7QCWfCiGGW9zvtRk8hK0Bm1bDBmhSSIrhdumcCs5KKjfWeOSigvfOorXyuGuVaoDtKH36sVo7aDhG7SJaV6n8ybwH3AGwTUGq7987IhFZ8l5WQBVReE4JUjqIB0qA-7Y/s320/Ukiah+church++PT.jpg" width="320" /></a><i><span style="font-size: large;">Mills and his wife joined the Jones flock in 1969 when the church was gathering strength in Redwood Valley, a peaceful spot tucked away 125 miles north of San Francisco..... At that time, the Mills were Elmer and Deanna Mertle, names they shed after fleeing the church. The hard decision to leave came after watching their 16-year-old daughter, Linda, in 1974, writhe under 75 blows of a paddle — punishment ordered by Jones after Linda apparently embraced a friend that Jones deemed a "traitor" to the church.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">That cruelty and The Human Freedom Center, a haven the Mills created to give others a shot at life outside the temple, are described in Mrs. Mills' book, "Six Years With God," which was published last year. Angela Miller, editor of A and W, the New York firm that published the work, said the couple "was positive there was going to be some kind of retaliation" against them, a fear heightened last November as the first anniversary of the Jonestown holocaust approached.</span></i><br />
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On the last tape recording he made from his "throne" in the steamy agricultural outpost, Jones blamed the visit of Ryan in part on Mrs. Mills. "The people in San Francisco (surviving church members) will not be idle over this. They'll not take our deaths in vain, you know."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Had they lived, Jeannie and Al would surely be stepping up to demolish the grotesque fantasies of Nelson and today's other cult shills. I'm sure of it because I was able to meet and talk with the Mills when they made an appearance at my college about a year before their brutal murders.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGIT5GQGe_wSgLHN7AUsfYygC9XVu9wuVlpG4wdwYu7MlqE5AvBxtgznn7JEtiMGG1OoKXUJ5o_Ip-0Mw51auvwDUtDoI747PB7xmwdM37E-eP6h8K3h2NalUbamNfmLX5dKpkPf2kWzR/s1600/Twilight+++California+summer+10+085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqGIT5GQGe_wSgLHN7AUsfYygC9XVu9wuVlpG4wdwYu7MlqE5AvBxtgznn7JEtiMGG1OoKXUJ5o_Ip-0Mw51auvwDUtDoI747PB7xmwdM37E-eP6h8K3h2NalUbamNfmLX5dKpkPf2kWzR/s320/Twilight+++California+summer+10+085.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">They gave a detailed presentation about the dangers of cults and related their harrowing experience in the toxic confines of the Temple. Afterwards, I approached them and introduced myself, and they remembered well my father's attempts to expose Jim Jones in 1972. They were warm, sincere people who now wanted to make a difference in the lives of victims of other cults.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjCG0EAYV1Rjs6A1R2pTq9VxHEpgKIXTjtk-lmiGO6notGSPsEQsnSd6iAWQr0aVI7GteB4on6zMgzeMueSj-5BBqyEWtfowVzzvHJTiKG92A3CUhBk2LnI9bggfTk4vaYMpjwyCHS92T/s1600/Twilight+++California+summer+10+080.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjCG0EAYV1Rjs6A1R2pTq9VxHEpgKIXTjtk-lmiGO6notGSPsEQsnSd6iAWQr0aVI7GteB4on6zMgzeMueSj-5BBqyEWtfowVzzvHJTiKG92A3CUhBk2LnI9bggfTk4vaYMpjwyCHS92T/s320/Twilight+++California+summer+10+080.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">The Mills explained it had indeed been Temple members that burglarized my family home in the fall of that year to search for documents. Equally chilling was Jeannie's telling me how the cultists had concealed themselves in the bushes across the street from our home, spying on us and reporting everything back to Jones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was grateful to at last have a solid confirmation of something I already knew. My dad had been in terrible danger. Then one-time top Jones henchman Tim Stoen--now back in his original job as a Mendocino County Asst. DA--had worked on devising various ways to murder my father. In all liklihood, our entire family was in peril. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the news arrived about the Mills's 1980 execution murders, my mother, father, and two sisters were terror-stricken that, with my father near the top of Jones's "hit list," we all would be some of the next to go. But somehow, the ordeal passed. There were no other reported killings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not so fortunate, of course, were the prisoners inside the Temple, who were eventually spirited off and slaughtered in the cult's Guyana death camp. How could people be so obedient and fall prey to this madman calling himself "God"?</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYNJJxpcdHev4FuqkR89Zr7wipnpm_UIEOdVAKY4-4ulvQzTnOtPqD2Imt5p7ZfLeYtedTGHTSwltnJ1XK20-9rCEu8QJB75YcrTgFH8crnoTxKpX513l-fAhOyWWNUTI_aIgG_vdrETqf/s1600/jonestown+cabins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYNJJxpcdHev4FuqkR89Zr7wipnpm_UIEOdVAKY4-4ulvQzTnOtPqD2Imt5p7ZfLeYtedTGHTSwltnJ1XK20-9rCEu8QJB75YcrTgFH8crnoTxKpX513l-fAhOyWWNUTI_aIgG_vdrETqf/s320/jonestown+cabins.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are the real questions to address. This cheap business of simply labeling all these Americans as "extreme crazies that drank the Kool Aid" is as bogus as the fantasy that, hey, the cult really was a modern day Shangri-La, both in California and Guyana. And that, hey, only at the very end did their paradise go up in smoke?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is unmitigated bunk. Worse, it defiles the memory of those 900 plus murder victims. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As much as the revisionists and apologists want to paint a new portrait, the real picture cannot be changed nor will the reality of how it was engineered ever be ignored. It wasn't due to idiotic excuses about it "giving them what they wanted"--simple fact was they were brainwashed and terrorized into submission.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixONjb-tPURmNFbS3ICArGERFWufX4yWXF7_J616SkrutNXCdVlXTlSP-qKyOY3hda-Rx1Chp2zXAl5uzjJODBz5KNjqz659-hLFmSR0cxngpMSHiOlcOnEXkSdsIYpsDZ5Mv543oP2uJf/s1600/robert-jay-lifton.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixONjb-tPURmNFbS3ICArGERFWufX4yWXF7_J616SkrutNXCdVlXTlSP-qKyOY3hda-Rx1Chp2zXAl5uzjJODBz5KNjqz659-hLFmSR0cxngpMSHiOlcOnEXkSdsIYpsDZ5Mv543oP2uJf/s320/robert-jay-lifton.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Renowned Harvard researcher and psychiatrist Robert Lifton (who Nelson, for some odd reason, avoided contacting for his puff piece) is an expert on mind control, what he terms as "thought reform." It was the process practiced by the Chinese communists on American POW's during the Korean War, which Lifton broke down into eight components:</span><br />
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<ul><li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Milieu Control</b> – The control of information and communication. </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mystical Manipulation</b> – The manipulation of experiences that appear spontaneous but in fact were planned and orchestrated.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Demand for Purity</b> – The world is viewed as black and white and the members are constantly exhorted to conform to the ideology of the group and strive for perfection.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Confession</b> – Sins, as defined by the group, are to be confessed either to a personal monitor or publicly to the group.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sacred Science</b> – The group's doctrine or ideology is considered to be the ultimate Truth, beyond all questioning or dispute.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Loading the Language</b> – The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Doctrine over person</b> – The member's personal experiences are subordinated to the sacred science and any contrary experiences must be denied or reinterpreted to fit the ideology of the group.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dispensing of existence</b> – The group has the prerogative to decide who has the right to exist and who does not. </span></i></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: large;"> All of this, and more, Jim Jones and his white oligarchy of assassins and torturers unleashed with a vengeance on the predominantly black church. Psychologist<b> </b>Neal Osherow elaborates:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"Conditions in the Peoples Temple became so oppressive, the discrepancy between Jim Jones's stated aims and his practices so pronounced, that it is almost inconceivable that members failed to entertain questions about the church. But these doubts were unreinforced. There were no allies to support ones disobedience of the leaders commands and no fellow dissenters to encourage the expression of disagreement with the majority. Public disobedience or dissent was quickly punished. Questioning Jones's word, even in the company of family or friends, was dangerous informers and "counselors" were quick to report indiscretions, even by relatives. <br />
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The use of informers went further than to stifle dissent; it also diminished the solidarity and loyalty that individuals felt toward their families and friends. While Jones preached that a spirit of brotherhood should pervade his church, he made it clear that each members personal dedication should be directed to "Father." Families were split: First, children were seated away from parents during services; then, many were assigned to another member's care as they grew up; and ultimately, parents were forced to sign documents surrendering custody rights. "Families are part of the enemy system," Jones stated, because they hurt ones total dedication to the "Cause" . Thus, a person called before the membership to be punished could expect his or her family to be among the first and most forceful critics.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> Why didn't more people leave? Once inside the Peoples Temple, getting out was discouraged; defectors were hated. Nothing upset Jim Jones so much; people who left became the targets of his most vitriolic attacks and were blamed for any problems that occurred. One member recalled that after several teen-age members left the Temple, "We hated those eight with such a passion because we knew any day they were going to try bombing us. I mean Jim Jones had us totally convinced of this."</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Defecting became quite a risky enterprise, and, for most members, the potential benefits were very uncertain. They had little to hope for outside of the Peoples Temple; what they had, they had committed to the church. Jim Jones had vilified previous defectors as "the enemy" and had instilled the fear that, once outside of the Peoples Temple, members stories would not be believed by the "racist, fascist" society, and they would be subjected to torture, concentration camps, and execution. Finally, in Guyana, Jonestown was surrounded by dense jungle, the few trails patrolled by armed security guards. Escape was not a viable option. Resistance was too costly. With no other alternatives apparent, compliance became the most reasonable course of action." </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jones, as Dr. Zimbardo suggested, did a masterful job of bringing Orwell's nightmare to life and then exterminating the prisoners when time ran out. But during the time they were his cast of hand puppets, the cult master had an apparently hell of a fun time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And quite the sense of humor, albeit perverse and extremely sadistic, as is usually the case with sociopaths. The following is an actual audio recording from one of "Father Jones's" evening conditioning sessions in Jonestown, about seven months before the apocalypse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Listening to the assorted cult members coming forward to announce in graphic detail their desires to torture and murder their family members is beyond shocking. Please don't listen unless you have a strong stomach. Even more chilling--horrifying, really--is Jones's ghastly laughter, high pitched like a hyena on helium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ask yourself as you hear the evidence: Is this the kind of ambiance found in that former cult member's claim of a "Heaven on Earth"??</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lesson is clear: We either will or will not allow these shameless cult apologists to grind the real truth into oblivion. Hopefully enough will choose the latter as we prepare to remember the dead on tomorrow's anniversary.</span><br />
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</span>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-84596319420083286502010-11-15T17:09:00.002-05:002010-11-16T07:16:36.062-05:00Cult Expert On Jonestown: "A Mass Mentality 'Manchurian Candidate' That Killed The Enemy On Demand"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqiwF0kXZUqgXC5mJ8DdW9stgVhmwwNwOW2I5DZKGJR3ijmdfnufoPcnSERKJ055fI9cLduje5KqSy_udV6IS6LPlSOJWTIHI0GuAMFBb3go3Vi3hD3KWNhtOTpiUgTmLewwauFG6SZNh/s1600/Jones+preaching++hand+in+air.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqiwF0kXZUqgXC5mJ8DdW9stgVhmwwNwOW2I5DZKGJR3ijmdfnufoPcnSERKJ055fI9cLduje5KqSy_udV6IS6LPlSOJWTIHI0GuAMFBb3go3Vi3hD3KWNhtOTpiUgTmLewwauFG6SZNh/s640/Jones+preaching++hand+in+air.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Something very ironic about all this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the impending anniversary of that unspeakable tragedy over 30 years ago, I'm thinking about that infamous sign. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know the one. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4DfDXgCVB-dm_XBnOP-txpfk_x5JXo3i2SlAJzKxQtR2FqqN_YYkpkRTNmbsGGuLCT-KUbK3lfx9K4F2W8BspD7C4eNXDrie8LWDQKJrLaQOMo3oOqGa0T6JeoDBTpZFHypTOLFMWk26/s1600/Jonestown+sign++black+and+white.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4DfDXgCVB-dm_XBnOP-txpfk_x5JXo3i2SlAJzKxQtR2FqqN_YYkpkRTNmbsGGuLCT-KUbK3lfx9K4F2W8BspD7C4eNXDrie8LWDQKJrLaQOMo3oOqGa0T6JeoDBTpZFHypTOLFMWk26/s320/Jonestown+sign++black+and+white.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">We've all seen the assorted photos of the gruesome aftermath of the Temple Planning Commission executioners' handiwork. This one, however, is particularly chilling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's right there hanging over "Father's" throne, empty cause the occupant was sprawled nearby on the pavilion floor. He was too much the coward to have that hideously painful cyanide forcibly injected into him, as more than 80 percent of the people had. No, Jones took the easy exit with a bullet through the head.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxagy9c7PDaXPkvKkoVhmlHJJa37Myi03YwML1nZbKFsp5uZgngVl-AQ1I2zxADrc5KxqaO5zF4dPEB_tobHqCrxfh1GhbQHG-OdVKxRJ9ECE7KM1Fxtm0KInCAmyiXpoSylbjCHptLi5V/s1600/Jim+Jones++dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxagy9c7PDaXPkvKkoVhmlHJJa37Myi03YwML1nZbKFsp5uZgngVl-AQ1I2zxADrc5KxqaO5zF4dPEB_tobHqCrxfh1GhbQHG-OdVKxRJ9ECE7KM1Fxtm0KInCAmyiXpoSylbjCHptLi5V/s320/Jim+Jones++dead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"> He looked so pathetic in his death portrait. Eyes wide open, no longer concealed by those menacing sunglasses. Silenced at long last. Tragically, however, not in time to stop him and his gang of mass murderers from carrying out their own Final Solution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Jones, despite all his perversions and sick Stalinist mania, still had it right with philosopher George Santayana's creed that "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." It's something that spans across all realms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's the irony: Too many have <i>still </i>not learned the lessons of the past. The madness of crazies like this, running cults from the smallest to the largest, religious, secular, commercial, political, even one-on-one, continues unabated to this day. As do the cult apologists that keep on trying to somehow rehabilitate the Peoples Temple. Santayana's prophecy lives on. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQm_sWSuHMJ3yQY0i9Dv75UFd8IOMja0xF8SQT0wsB8AI7iU1mV8Uufi-4sVYYQGaMekkpdSvQTJc9dL_l6wjvudEyWW1GqHQ0JK37s7NZdmBRHuPMCePIt7hilFra9dMPPj5JvPBpgaG/s1600/Jonestown++koolaid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQm_sWSuHMJ3yQY0i9Dv75UFd8IOMja0xF8SQT0wsB8AI7iU1mV8Uufi-4sVYYQGaMekkpdSvQTJc9dL_l6wjvudEyWW1GqHQ0JK37s7NZdmBRHuPMCePIt7hilFra9dMPPj5JvPBpgaG/s320/Jonestown++koolaid.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"> Ex-Temple member Laura Kohl is just one of the many desperately wanting to put a fresh, glowing face on this, one of the most destructive cults in history. Maybe like the others, she's doing it in a sad quest for atonement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Times';"><i>"What happened then,"</i> claims Kohl, <i>"was the fusion of all of our spirits, our hopes and our hard work--into a New World--a Heaven on Earth. We didn't know it was possible, and it seeped into our souls and hearts. What we created was more than we could have dreamed about. We grew into a greatness well beyond what we could have done individually."</i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How does someone descend to this level of denial over something that was a perfect Hell on Earth? The answer probably rests in the syndrome of well-meaning people falling prey to brain washing that sometimes remains long after they've departed the cult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Renowned expert Dr. Phillip Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment that presented vivid proof of the power that a super-charged controlled environment has on behavior. In 2005, he authored a paper entitled "<i>Mind control in Orwell’s 1984: Fictional concepts become operational realities in Jim Jones’ jungle experiment.”</i></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOlbce19fLfqAjG4_YS0kUOG1vexhkcWEuleAidU7xpU54POF3kttx7KdeWu565Hu2_9094aRLoH0A72oEUSmHr-dTqP9mCAedd1R9iBLV8bJDwau58K-hUzcYUDqfXTe8k34e-6cAAUz/s1600/Philip+Zimbardo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOlbce19fLfqAjG4_YS0kUOG1vexhkcWEuleAidU7xpU54POF3kttx7KdeWu565Hu2_9094aRLoH0A72oEUSmHr-dTqP9mCAedd1R9iBLV8bJDwau58K-hUzcYUDqfXTe8k34e-6cAAUz/s320/Philip+Zimbardo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">In his findings, Zimbardo drew from many sources corroborating how this was accomplished, along with exposing the shocking dichotomy between the Hellish reality of Jonestown and the "Heavenly" fantasies still entertained by the survivors of the death camp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the most ghastly testimonies came from former member Debbie Layton, as described in a book by another member, Jeanne Mills:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Mills describes other torture chambers in PT. 'Debbie (Layton) told us about Bigfoot, a punishment that had replaced the Blue-Eyed Monster. It’s a deep well about forty-five minutes’ walk away from the camp,’ she said sadly. ‘Counselors have to sit in there, and when the child is disciplined they throw the child down the well.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> The kids would cry hysterically as soon as Jim would tell them they’d have to go visit Bigfoot. We’d hear them scream all the way there, and all the time they had to be down in the well, and by the time they got back they were begging for mercy. It was really awful. Some young people were forced to eat hot peppers or even have hot peppers put up their rectums as disciplines.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much for Kohl's notion about "growing into greatness."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Zimbardo's research blew apart such delusions. His analysis was thorough and devastating, revealing how much the spirit of Big Brother suffocated anyone unfortunate enough to be trapped in the Jonestown Gulag.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOje4jvCcE31KLxX-OSkOVW_2cDj19svjpAYbWHMH8LPesCW8j0iIPPWZ5Hp4gV77g1FqzoX_Ce0c9lfMobfH92n9MybKMFjVUdwSx_67tkpJKRc7wn2Bv_My9tZVFmhoP3NH3jbCcs1nu/s1600/Jonestown+work+crew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOje4jvCcE31KLxX-OSkOVW_2cDj19svjpAYbWHMH8LPesCW8j0iIPPWZ5Hp4gV77g1FqzoX_Ce0c9lfMobfH92n9MybKMFjVUdwSx_67tkpJKRc7wn2Bv_My9tZVFmhoP3NH3jbCcs1nu/s320/Jonestown+work+crew.jpg" width="320" /></a><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Obedience training, Newspeak, Crimestop, Doublethink, Reality Control, Emotional Control, sexual control, surveillance, hard work on starvation diets – the staples of the Orwellian Mind Controller’s repertoire – were adapted and put into effective operation by Jim Jones in his attempt to demonstrate total behavior modification beyond anything that MK-ULTRA had ever achieved. Jones succeeded in his perverted mind control 'experiment' by creating a mass mentality 'Manchurian Candidate' that killed the Enemy on demand, only the Enemy was one’s children, one’s parents, one’s mate, one’s friends, one’s self.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"> I believe that Orwell would not have been pleased to see his warning about the dangers of a totalitarian state acted out by a latter-day disciple in the jungles of Guyana, and then recently reenacted by destructive cult leaders in many other countries, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, the United States, and Uganda, all extracting the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of domination of free will, of individuality, of critical thought, and of the spirit of independence."</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, a horde of "New Religious Movements" (NRM) academics infesting universities across the land are hell-bent on not yielding even one inch to Zimbardo or any other expert that exposes cult dynamics and their horrifying consequences. They never fail to rush to defend cults as fast as five year olds running to the sound of an ice cream truck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'll give them their due before Thursday. Until then, there's nothing quite like the illuminating power of a dramatization. Sometimes they're way off target. Film maker Stanley Nelson's purported documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" was about as twisted a piece of cult apologist propaganda as they come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the other hand, straight fictional works can sometimes undo the damage by NRM puff pieces. "When you blindly give up your free will to a higher authority," warns the narrator in this 2001 Outer Limits episode, "be sure you are not also giving up control of your ultimate destiny."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Entitled "A New Life," this 45 minute eye-opener is well worth the time and attention (forgive the occasional commercial interruptions.) The alien theme provides the perfect metaphor. Please pay close attention to the dialogue. And should you just happen to wonder if there's any striking similarities with the Peoples Temple, you're right on target. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Afterward, you'll likely be wary of any and all cult apologists--who knows, they could very well be on a mission from another planet.....</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The anniversary of the nightmare is right around the corner, everyone.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This coming Thursday, November 18 is the day 32 years ago when an utterly preventable massacre took place in what history<i> </i>records as the <i>largest</i><u> </u>single loss of American life in a non-natural disaster. That is, of course, until it was surpassed by the horror of 9/11.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FzpEwRHRIJtwH6XaCYSJYWoEh3lcmXuPAja6nquJlF4YWuAobCqYDFGAUOTYFfuu-jz22vXflQKDUDL5KvC-f6tXgWTf050PKCu-VY2RqwDuN6d7TbpPUReYGJ4KxO1ctqWbt_keNS3o/s1600/Cecil+Williams+%2526+Jim+Jones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FzpEwRHRIJtwH6XaCYSJYWoEh3lcmXuPAja6nquJlF4YWuAobCqYDFGAUOTYFfuu-jz22vXflQKDUDL5KvC-f6tXgWTf050PKCu-VY2RqwDuN6d7TbpPUReYGJ4KxO1ctqWbt_keNS3o/s320/Cecil+Williams+%2526+Jim+Jones.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Too many of the culprits that helped pave the way for the Jonestown Massacre are <b><i>still</i></b> too gutless and dishonest to make amends, to apologize, or accept any accountability whatsoever. These shameless wonders, the politicians, the journalists, the clergy--and the especially appalling cult apologists--continue hopelessly stuck in a mind-boggling collective state of denial.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's that sad spectacle of what people are reduced to when they have blood on their hands. Then there's the case of some of the surviving members and relatives of the victims of the People's Temple cult, who swim in their own especially deep pool of denial.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Five days from now the anniversary memorial service will be held at the same location as all the others: Oakland, California's Evergreen Cemetery, home of the mass grave of 409 murdered men, women, children, and babies. But this year.....something's changed.</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSd_H3EoNgn45an55uTzI0tgKXQGVAOjG6GruhSPjJyScE3b7Pm8USTqX79KsDIgjymIxglSdhLh2uvLB4uLOcooV3NebQkxhNbAeJbSs67qyoKKeXoGO_PNw9NtQ62kDDjRI5NLe8S9Ng/s1600/jynona_norwood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSd_H3EoNgn45an55uTzI0tgKXQGVAOjG6GruhSPjJyScE3b7Pm8USTqX79KsDIgjymIxglSdhLh2uvLB4uLOcooV3NebQkxhNbAeJbSs67qyoKKeXoGO_PNw9NtQ62kDDjRI5NLe8S9Ng/s200/jynona_norwood.jpg" width="145" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The survivors and relatives, now bitterly divided into two different factions, can't seem to stand even being at the same service any longer. The first is lead by the Rev. Jynona Norwood, a Los Angeles pastor who lost 27 relatives in the massacre. She's overseen the construction of a Memorial Wall, part of which was unveiled at the cemetery during the service's 30th Anniversary two years ago. </span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">But Norwood was emphatic about one thing: When this wall is finally completed, the mass murderer that put her family to death will NEVER be memorialized. "To put Jim Jones's name on that wall is an insult.....to all the dead," declared Norwood at the 2008 service.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2k0G83HTK0jCqnsciOkmJpVfNBmYFHz3U2aDRv782kEM0CYmZXLhnLudqEFTK-MwCd4IzyoSy_mZgrzLyz05Hdg-nAcKiGkC1nO0ajIzaamvtobbRuu3J9yj3fAhcnfjH6BHKWLpLTvXo/s1600/Lela+Howard.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2k0G83HTK0jCqnsciOkmJpVfNBmYFHz3U2aDRv782kEM0CYmZXLhnLudqEFTK-MwCd4IzyoSy_mZgrzLyz05Hdg-nAcKiGkC1nO0ajIzaamvtobbRuu3J9yj3fAhcnfjH6BHKWLpLTvXo/s200/Lela+Howard.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">This is not a feeling shared by Lela Howard, who lost an aunt at Jonestown. She and her faction of survivors/relatives (which includes Jim Jones, Jr.) have railed against Norwood, demanding that Jones be memorialized. There's been accusations of financial improprieties in the $100,000 wall project which has left Norwood outraged.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The animosity is now so bad that the two rival camps have arranged for separate services, with Norwood's faction going at 11 a.m. and Howard's at 3 p.m. All of this, not surprisingly, has been ignored by the same local and national media that deliberately covered up the crimes of Jim Jones, empowering him to lay the groundwork for Jonestown.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cult Survivor Laura Johnston Kohl is siding with the Howard faction.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal1" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"As the years have gone on," she explained recently," I found the peace at Evergreen more and more disturbed by the tone of the 11 a.m. religious service. Its many expressions of anger towards Jim Jones – at the expense of honoring those under our feet – don’t speak to me, just as I believe the traditional Christian service doesn’t speak to my friends who are buried there. After all, while they put the Christian ethic to work – they fed the hungry, clothed the naked, helped care for those afflicted, and tried to rid the world of hate – they had left traditional churches to become activists. In fact, they were 'practicing' Christians, and they practiced that religion day and night. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal1" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiey5mEyPOLKM76Zhw6DafYmmIVVL3GNpDfcr-_5SGg3_PmBrktpCOGRXcO237FAOc9zz8sOMeMdbZFEblMwNOIymJ7jqcIPssCYoP4TapOBfSnv6mf7yjEqPz7WsPFjI_OHaKdO0LYVBCa/s1600/Laura+Johnston+Kohl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiey5mEyPOLKM76Zhw6DafYmmIVVL3GNpDfcr-_5SGg3_PmBrktpCOGRXcO237FAOc9zz8sOMeMdbZFEblMwNOIymJ7jqcIPssCYoP4TapOBfSnv6mf7yjEqPz7WsPFjI_OHaKdO0LYVBCa/s200/Laura+Johnston+Kohl.jpg" width="200" /></a><i><span style="font-size: large;">Last year, a fellow survivor</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">set up her own memorial on the site. She put the name of each person who died on a small name tag, and wrapped the flowing sash around several trees. It was a wonderful tribute to them, and its silence provided a welcome counterbalance. We don’t want to forget them. We cannot afford to forget them. </span></i><span style="font-size: large;">[Editor's note: It was stated in the earlier post that that fellow survivor was "presumably Howard." Scratch that, please. Have been informed it was in fact Kathy Barbour Tropp. Thank you, friendly informant. Apologies extended to Ms. Howard.] </span></div><div class="MsoNormal1" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">On that day, I determined what I needed for future anniversaries. After many conversations with other survivors and family members, we have come to a consensus about our day. We will begin holding a private, nondenominational gathering at 3 p.m. that same day. It will be the same time each year, on that rolling hillside. In that setting, we can gather and sit quietly or speak – whatever we are moved to do. It probably won’t be a place to lay blame or express hateful diatribes. It will be our time to reconnect and give thought". </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal1" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Peoples Temple consisted of "practicing Christians"??</span></div><div class="MsoNormal1" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">When you've finished gasping, try to remember this comes from someone floundering at the very bottom of that special pool of denial where every cult apologist lives. And this place is crowded with swimmers, rest assured.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal1" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The actual record shows there was just a bit more going on than "feeding, clothing, and caring for the afflicted by these so-called "practicing Christians." Oh, quite a bit more activities, such as fraud, extortion, slave labor, torture, death threats, sexual abuse and, yep, a whole lot of brain washing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal1" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"I got in trouble in the church because I lied, and Father (Jones) said I'd have to go to the Blue-Eyed Monster. Then they took me in this dark room, and the monsters were all over the room. They said, " I am the Blue-Eyed Monster and I'm going to get you"....Then a monster grabbed my shirt and tore it open. Then all of a sudden the monsters started to say, "I'm going to get you again‚ and then one hit me right here, she said, pointing to her chest. Then it felt like a knife was going right down to my back, and my body started to shake back and forth like this....Then my teeth were tied together so I couldn't open them....I couldn't believe it--it hurted so bad."</i><br />
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What the little girl had been describing was a darkened room filled with adults armed with cattle prods (which explained the blue electric light). They zapped the child with the cattle prods, then the impact of the electric current would lock the child's teeth together as they were propelled across the room to be hit yet again.<br />
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This, of course, all took place in California, years before Jonestown, where it evolved into a new torture: <i>"Big Foot,"</i> a horrendous series of well-dunkings for the children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those "practicing Christians." It's just hard to believe how Temple apologists like Kohl can perpetuate this charade. But she and her ilk do. And people are beginning to be taken in by this twisted revisionism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few years ago, I made a visit to the Redwood Valley church where the crime spree really took off, a place where Rev. Jim Jones first planted his "flock" in California in 1965. I had been brought there by one of the original members of Ukiah's Concerned Citizens group, which had tried so desperately to get help in stopping this growing, menacing cult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No one listened to them, as we now know. And according to our forthright mainstream media, all was well right up to 1977. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today it's the home of an Assembly of God congregation. I didn't get a chance to talk with its pastor. I would have asked him how he felt about preaching in a building that once contained a demon. I looked over the place, the front and back, for a long, long time, trying to imagine the place when my father first went there to interview Jim Jones in 1972 and discover his gun-toting enforcers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a poignant sight. The tragedy is how often, still today, religious charlatans are able to put on that smile and deceive a willing public as Jones did. Cults like Scientology thrive because they, like the Peoples Temple, can produce a good enough performance to trap a person in a web, as the spider does a fly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Across from the church building stood a single modest house. Yes, that was where the monster once lived and drew up his plans for destruction. Someone else lives there now but something caught my eye in the flower garden in the front of that house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then again, it was probably just a simple wilted blossom, viewed by someone in a melodramatic funk. Still, that thing in front of Jim Jones's house gave me an uneasy sensation I won't forget.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sensation, however, which I get each and every time November is one of sadness. Frustration. A longing for what <i>could</i> have been, if just only enough people in those high places--a clergyman who suddenly found his conscience or an editor his courage or a politician his morality--acted to stop Jim Jones from his hellish mission.</span><br />
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</i><i></i><i></i></span></span></span></div>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-63451839064116351312010-02-23T00:14:00.001-05:002010-02-24T22:15:46.344-05:00Jonestown Survivor: "I Am So Tired Of Hearing Jim Jones, Jr. Confess And Profess His Undying Love For This Sociopath...."<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl1n_t01UEFSxcRHE1PkixUTa620W2_HB1pi_udMPFL9377qrfEJ8KTQpTtJFSuUTRUYSq9rM1th3PzejEkmyO3SEqDLx1vZe0y3ZGlKL_1_lQtETUfG9tN61yluZJvhG4Yd24sWNTn29c/s1600-h/Jim+Jones,+Jr..jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl1n_t01UEFSxcRHE1PkixUTa620W2_HB1pi_udMPFL9377qrfEJ8KTQpTtJFSuUTRUYSq9rM1th3PzejEkmyO3SEqDLx1vZe0y3ZGlKL_1_lQtETUfG9tN61yluZJvhG4Yd24sWNTn29c/s400/Jim+Jones,+Jr..jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441714038560536706" /></a>A week ago Jim Jones, Jr., adopted son of the murderous cult leader that obliterated over 900 Americans, made a dramatic spectacle on the Oprah Winfrey show.<br /><br />Like all good apologists, Jones, Jr. wants the world to think that his long-extinct cult was "trying to build a better world," when they operated in California or in Guyana. Interestingly enough, he left out details of the seamier sides of the Peoples Temple "better world": Marxist, totalitarian, featuring all the charms of a criminal enterprise; extortion, fraud, child abuse, slave labor, torture, and murder.<br /><br />And Oprah let him get away with it.<br /><br />One of my readers, "Anonymous," had a quite different take on the show last Wednesday, saying:<br /><br /><em>"It seems like we were watching two shows. The one that I saw was not as you say, 'an apologist of someone's father.' It was a beautiful told story of the 'human spirt' and I actual take offense for minimizing that. It seems like Jones Jr. faced many internal demons and came out the better person for himself and his family. I can't understand how this creates honor or sympathy for Jones Sr. in my eyes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kqjk1Qzb9el9oCGqZedXHe3lRJaIQYSdvH7ol3bso0f9uA93DWkns5vW6exPxXlbmo_9onKnStNDkybmuwtsRoXQqSz99igQUKEe2yvlvZpTeHyLqAa7Sz_0_LTtr0bR__oDydf3p_p4/s1600-h/Jonestown+dead+with+parrot.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kqjk1Qzb9el9oCGqZedXHe3lRJaIQYSdvH7ol3bso0f9uA93DWkns5vW6exPxXlbmo_9onKnStNDkybmuwtsRoXQqSz99igQUKEe2yvlvZpTeHyLqAa7Sz_0_LTtr0bR__oDydf3p_p4/s400/Jonestown+dead+with+parrot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441715217756409698" /></a>What I saw was a candid description of why and maybe how come so many people were willing to travel to SA. I think it was Jones Jr's admiration for his lost loved ones for trying to build a new world that blinded them to the manipulations of his father. Additionally Oprah was in complete dismay/disdain of this tragedy and in my opinion not even close in doing a puff piece." </em><br /><br />Well, "Anonymous," I don't happen to agree. Jones, Jr.'s description on the hows and whys all those people got shipped off to an even more terrible enslavement in a South American jungle was anything but candid. <br /><br />That the man suffered, there is no doubt. He lost family members, friends in the massacre. But what seems obvious is that Jones, Jr.'s method of dealing with his "survivor's guilt" is to now try to paint a sweet-smelling rose garden along the path that lead to Jonestown.<br /><br />While this now may enable him to sleep better at night, it still won't change the reality of the Peoples Temple. Only in his deluded mind and others, such as director Stanley Nelson and Religion Prof. Becky Moore, sister of Annie and Carolyn, who were vicious cult enforcers & baby killers.<br /><br />One of my other readers, "Rhonda," (a former Temple captive who chooses to remain anonymous) had her own special assessment of Jones, Jr.'s performance:<br /><br /><em>"I am so tired of hearing Jim Jones, Jr. confess and profess his undying love for this sociopath, and now I wonder if these same traits are not fundamentally also inside of Jim Jones, Jr. Over the past 32 years he has gone overboard in his sharing of his philosophical views of this 'rainbow family.' Now there is no longer a rainbow family. The same man that created it took it away!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFNMggCSxefALMX-PXncodGsI_5uLsujTEMdHLbn0HrjrNfILh8OX_FlR5JdjWjh1U9yaLJB0rFP9kKYIF9pN4xMaiZ5Vut2bXKDvPL5BuTQZkj0ZqnHnfl-_-pjVu6fHsshJKrGcQZlE/s1600-h/Jones+looking+down.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQFNMggCSxefALMX-PXncodGsI_5uLsujTEMdHLbn0HrjrNfILh8OX_FlR5JdjWjh1U9yaLJB0rFP9kKYIF9pN4xMaiZ5Vut2bXKDvPL5BuTQZkj0ZqnHnfl-_-pjVu6fHsshJKrGcQZlE/s320/Jones+looking+down.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441717030966391490" /></a>And yes, I am encouraged that he was finally honest enough with himself and others to state to millions of people that he did not know that he is Black. How do you forgive a man for the murder of 900 people, including your wife, unborn child, mother, brother, etc.?<br /><br />Jim Jr., how do you look at yourself in the mirror each day? How do you justify genocide? How do you justify hatred? How do you justify the torture and punishment you witnessed of People’s Temple members that even occurred on U.S. soil? Finally how does a modern day Hitler like your Dad become a victim?<br /><br />Another thing that bothers me: Why would he keep the name he was given at the time of his adoption? Why did Jones, Sr., provide the Black adopted son with his name and not the natural born son? (Hmmm, I wonder why??) It is obvious that everything Jim Jones, Sr., did had a deliberate reason and purpose. However, I can only assume that Jim, Jr., maintains the name of this murderous self-proclaimed con artist minister in order to strike up conversations with people and to feel a sense of importance in our society. Maintaining this name exhibits a potential lack of self-esteem and independence.<br /><br />Obviously, he is still a child who has never surpassed the age of 18 years old living in an adult body. If Jim Jones, Sr. was so good and kind, then why has Tim Jones, another adopted son, never stepped up to the plate in support of his father? Why did Sue Jones never step up to the plate to tell others of his greatness? Why has Stephen Jones whom you refer to as “natural born” not been on major networks professing his love for Jim Jones, Sr.?<br /><br />Why must there be a person who appears to be Black in skin color be compelled to stand up publicly as an “Uncle Tom” during Black History Month on national television in front of Oprah Winfrey Show, defending the genocide of 900 people that by your own statement were 70% Black Americans? Is it for money, fortune, fame, notoriety, publicity?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihzucO2j33z1GhB-yXihWTzTFxSRJF2_ClB1hH9glfckxXvnQm3SpCQj4l82XHkDDc3zv2EF0dXWpEDPz72tihL3A__ZP2ljkdgcVt9VDtwKrigunMKItpkIDaSbZSg_257LudA_77gt4I/s1600-h/Jim_Jones++sleazy+smile.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihzucO2j33z1GhB-yXihWTzTFxSRJF2_ClB1hH9glfckxXvnQm3SpCQj4l82XHkDDc3zv2EF0dXWpEDPz72tihL3A__ZP2ljkdgcVt9VDtwKrigunMKItpkIDaSbZSg_257LudA_77gt4I/s400/Jim_Jones++sleazy+smile.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441720134781372498" /></a>Or is it to protect a white racist communist pig responsible for annihilating innocent people (including babies). I have several questions for you, Jim Jones, Jr.: Are you the second coming of Jim Jones, Sr.? Or are you really loathing over the fact that you were never allowed to minister over a large congregation like your Dad, the monster you idolize? <br /><br />And shame on Oprah for letting him off so easy, especially during Black History Month. Jim Jones, Jr. you are obviously still under the lure of your Dad and the brainwashing you endured no doubt is irreversible. Perhaps, if you are fortunate, God Almighty will allow you to come back in another life for a second time (the process reincarnation.) <br /><br />And this time, God might make you strong like Martin or Malcolm, and not like your adoptive parent--the conniving, manipulative, coward dictator 'Rev. James Warren Jones, Sr.' I pity and feel sorry for you because you are truly experiencing a roller coaster ride, attempting to make something virtuous out of something that fundamentally went deceitfully wicked." </em><br /><br />Ouch.<br /><br />Clearly Rhonda is no fan of Jim Jones, Jr. And I join her in these sentiments.<br /><br />Meanwhile, our detractor "Anonymous" added this in his/her comment:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g0ThfstEYuvQU_tgmApavez9WOSGQjH1sw_8e8VSCeAb4f01MynS25oluvZO2gZEdPAG0252k7H_3bSKkDU7xQR4Ku3VJLZ5fK-oMEc9Pk15DLvEssnCOc06yC_I7exyo6rqfAety37c/s1600-h/Stanley+Nelson++with+microphone.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 229px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g0ThfstEYuvQU_tgmApavez9WOSGQjH1sw_8e8VSCeAb4f01MynS25oluvZO2gZEdPAG0252k7H_3bSKkDU7xQR4Ku3VJLZ5fK-oMEc9Pk15DLvEssnCOc06yC_I7exyo6rqfAety37c/s400/Stanley+Nelson++with+microphone.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441722155909351954" /></a><em>"I am not aware of your references about Stanley Nelson, but from what I surmise, he is a film maker that tried to capture the voices of survivors of this horrific event. I think Oprah using this footage was so beneficial to explaining the story. I now want to look up his work and view his complete piece on my own." </em><br /><br />Oh, Lord Nelson is sure to delight you, "Anonymous," probably even more than the cult monster's adoring son. His cult-coddling film classic has a closing scene with the voice over reading of the "Final Letter From Jonestown." <br /><br />"....We wanted to live, to shine, to bring light to a world that is dying for a little bit of love,” wrote Jones henchman, Richard Tropp.<br /><br />Bring light to a world?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI06uzjJrslD-sDkYG1K5GKjIdkN_OsVjVvDX9ri_12qaf6jbBVFD8iGIm_8MDlOd9KqEIPyARX_iM4kQt4wmMn8SuYiVEjG_DXBTs1sUrEfg5VxxJoY04c-5-3pchn4pOBlY8Zo2zeeTf/s1600-h/Jim+Jones+with+children.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI06uzjJrslD-sDkYG1K5GKjIdkN_OsVjVvDX9ri_12qaf6jbBVFD8iGIm_8MDlOd9KqEIPyARX_iM4kQt4wmMn8SuYiVEjG_DXBTs1sUrEfg5VxxJoY04c-5-3pchn4pOBlY8Zo2zeeTf/s320/Jim+Jones+with+children.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441723842125713298" /></a>Was this before or after Comrades Jones, Tropp, and their fellow sadists were regularly getting their thrills dunking terrified little children into a dark, deep well in that jungle utopia? <br /><br />Nelson and Jones, Jr. Now THAT is an apologist duo from hell. But don't just take my word for it. Below, a 2006 promo of the revisionist wonder movie that no doubt could effectively dress up and sparkle even the most heinous cult in the neighborhood.<br /><br />Just imagine, a Charlie Mason, Jr., shaggy beard, coat & tie, telling us how much he "embraces" his daddy's famous name.<br /><br />Now take a deep breath, and watch this.....<br /><br /><embed style = "height:385px !important; width:480px !important;" src="http://xml.truveo.com/eb/i/3338507954/a/58ef677afb89fc040e3dec6de7dd6c26/p/1/h/4b7f7d291748410:d6b504be5eee4915b9c971d2f6fdbd98" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="playerID=10032373001&@videoPlayer=15803255001&domain=embed&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width=" 425" height=" 448" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed><H1 style="font:bold 0.8em arial;padding:0;margin:5px;">Watch more <a href="http://video.aol.com/channel/moviefone" target="_top" title="Moviefone videos">Moviefone videos</a> on <a href="http://video.aol.com/" target="_top" title="AOL Video">AOL Video</a></H1>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-64971708361578011312010-02-16T21:39:00.015-05:002010-02-17T03:51:17.293-05:00Wednesday, Oprah's Big Question: John Wayne Gacy & Jim Jones -- Monsters? Or Just Terribly Misunderstood??Get ready for an irresistible cult apologist's BIG splash, everybody -- smack-dab in the middle of the world-famed Oprah Olympic Pool!
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<br />That's right. But this time it's unlikely to be anything as sensational as Scientologist Cruise's notorious couch hysterics that we all remember.
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<br />No, not quite that. But Harpo's Royal Highness still has something to show the world tomorrow afternoon that might just be as valuable a ratings bonanza.
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<br />All over the Info Highway, the thrilling announcements: <em>"WEDNESDAY ALL NEW! Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy's Sister & Mass Murderer Jim Jones's Son Speak Out...." </em>
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<br /><em>"....What is it like to be related to the most notorious and reviled people in history? First, in 1978 the Reverend Jim Jones led over 900 of his followers to the biggest mass murder suicide in modern history. Now his son, Jim, Jr., speaks out about living in the shadow of his father's horrific crimes and explains the burden of bearing his adoptive father's name...."</em>
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<br />No doubt this promises to be a memorable show. Imagine, we'll have the sister of John Wayne Gacy talking about how "good and kind" her brother actually was. Sure, he may have lost it 33 times, torturing & murdering that many boys and men, burying them under his house so everybody would stay convinced he truly was "good and kind."
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZcPHSZIQ6aXlP9AHSWIFMrt78e3Yf0fkLfyUBitag_QIGt7TyG40LuOZX_JY_YAzi30RugEacAjWOqL2NaD0w0KCpIWi_y2ino0AzECwVKQH70MqTpRf3RqRk1mgY3zjGnc9wrWrK1Jy/s1600-h/john_wayne_gacy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkZcPHSZIQ6aXlP9AHSWIFMrt78e3Yf0fkLfyUBitag_QIGt7TyG40LuOZX_JY_YAzi30RugEacAjWOqL2NaD0w0KCpIWi_y2ino0AzECwVKQH70MqTpRf3RqRk1mgY3zjGnc9wrWrK1Jy/s320/john_wayne_gacy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439073109792717890" /></a>And one more thing, she says, needs to be cleared up -- he was <em><strong>not</strong></em> a monster.
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<br />Well, okay, if she insists. Tell that to the families of the people her crazed sibling butchered so efficiently.
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<br />Now if this is what we'll be hearing from Sis Gacy, just try imagining the promos Mr. Jones, Jr. might be tossing out about the "good and kind" sides of <em>his</em> dearly departed relative?
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<br />If his past statements are any sign, it ought to be more breath-taking than practically any of the hogwash floating around Becky Moore's propaganda palace, "The Jonestown Institute."
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghb69aQt0KOGtbtHyBUOadgziFAVI6iU2jqgicDdK7VAHpyVZWlAFudJmAUbKhKcbWAcV8eQ7ZuycZXrJoUaAWFANlocKMK1IJ09JYqxAANqVm-pF12Rcwdm60yii586it4WtmoGJMqvxG/s1600-h/Nelson+and+Jones,+Jr..jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghb69aQt0KOGtbtHyBUOadgziFAVI6iU2jqgicDdK7VAHpyVZWlAFudJmAUbKhKcbWAcV8eQ7ZuycZXrJoUaAWFANlocKMK1IJ09JYqxAANqVm-pF12Rcwdm60yii586it4WtmoGJMqvxG/s320/Nelson+and+Jones,+Jr..jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439089012889210706" /></a>In a 2006 interview, Jones, Jr. commented about his father's "functional" side when being asked about Director Stanley Nelson's twisted whitewash "documentary," entitled "Jonestown: Life and Death of Peoples Temple." Jones(R) is seen standing here with the scowling master of cult apologist cinema, Lord Nelson.
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<br /><em>"He [father Jim] must have presented something to them to make him trust them," </em>said Jones, Jr. <em>"And I think Stanley's film shows this functional world of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple."</em> Two years later, at the 30th anniversary memorial service for the 900 victims of his <em>"functional"</em> father, he made the astounding claim that this mass-murdering monster <em>"should <strong>not</strong> be villianized."</em>
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<br />Why?
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<br />Because, according to Jones, Jr., his savage, sadistic father was <em>"a victim," </em>just as much as the nearly 300 children and babies he subjected to agonizing death sentences by cyanide.
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<br />Painful beyond belief, it must have been, this <em>victim father's </em>gift of dying "with a degree of dignity."
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<br />Perhaps something like this:
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1RwgWW3gp67Pl_Zwna74znYl7YUfdPm-WGuaSaAllAY9pJVf6Fl3q5F28P5kzfX8Bu10jgszHUKlsmq5lEHtbzNB7BC-7KhB8W_OG3erBOLbK8RsOgj9euIepuZUDP2Y-MxWl7Vf1vnF_/s1600-h/Jones+and+Dead+people.bmp"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1RwgWW3gp67Pl_Zwna74znYl7YUfdPm-WGuaSaAllAY9pJVf6Fl3q5F28P5kzfX8Bu10jgszHUKlsmq5lEHtbzNB7BC-7KhB8W_OG3erBOLbK8RsOgj9euIepuZUDP2Y-MxWl7Vf1vnF_/s400/Jones+and+Dead+people.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439097462355397858" /></a>A toddler, screaming that her throat is on fire, heart racing uncontrollably, world around her spinning. She can barely breath.
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<br />A dark, complete terror wracks her brain.
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<br />The screaming slowly descends into a helpless moaning.
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<br />Bathed in sweat, she begins vomiting.
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<br />Then, her entire body surrenders to ghastly convulsions.
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<br />More.
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<br />And more.
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<br />And more.
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<br />Finally.
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<br />She's still.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaVmMhPEZoTizdObq_sVu-p0UyqlDa6qzY8dQoqjgh3ZyW0CrPcmPB3SbAk2UC7c7WBCtvJ-QOfcRYUc0S8ofWXv597PNeJMQmbddADJNk7d3p3LVnxPIBPVMpvPEsRfwqXyrmyOmXlHik/s1600-h/Jonestown+coffins++kids.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaVmMhPEZoTizdObq_sVu-p0UyqlDa6qzY8dQoqjgh3ZyW0CrPcmPB3SbAk2UC7c7WBCtvJ-QOfcRYUc0S8ofWXv597PNeJMQmbddADJNk7d3p3LVnxPIBPVMpvPEsRfwqXyrmyOmXlHik/s400/Jonestown+coffins++kids.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439111091846795634" /></a>
<br /><em>"Crossed over," </em>just as the monster and his planning commission executioners had hoped.
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<br />Imagine, if you can, this horror repeated 900 more times. Official estimate was that the great majority of Father Jones's victims did not in fact have their "C" served up in a cup of Flavor-Aid. They were forcibly injected in the back.
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<br />So much for the notion of "revolutionary suicide."
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<br />So tomorrow on Oprah, besides hearing how <em>"good and kind"</em> John Wayne Gacy was, will we also endure the sick spectacle of someone arguing the master mind behind this unspeakable Crime of the Century was <em>"a victim"</em>??
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<br />Let's hope to God he doesn't dare.
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<br /><object width="500" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9phorVRdv98&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9phorVRdv98&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="315"></embed></object>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-55093416432559303912010-02-07T22:45:00.018-05:002010-02-08T06:03:06.753-05:00The Beast And His Jonestown Baby Killers-- Commemorate Them??Bitterness and controversy on the <em>right way </em>to memorialize the dead of Jonestown just won't go away.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdfW9PTOjoqFPcQ-3lY1DSnvH3R6GuvXpGUWf6lotOR1cM8HPsV7PC9g8zBy79MmCPmraLHB2QXD5girWTnVFG6egGpPDxecihzOA1jWrlO-7DBGyMHr-fAj0SjKlma7a90l8BxFj07mCH/s1600-h/Jonestown+30th+Anniversary+Ceremony.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdfW9PTOjoqFPcQ-3lY1DSnvH3R6GuvXpGUWf6lotOR1cM8HPsV7PC9g8zBy79MmCPmraLHB2QXD5girWTnVFG6egGpPDxecihzOA1jWrlO-7DBGyMHr-fAj0SjKlma7a90l8BxFj07mCH/s400/Jonestown+30th+Anniversary+Ceremony.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435728524201516162" /></a>
<br />A few months ago I got this elated message from "Rhonda" (who's requested anonymity), a survivor of the Jonestown Massacre:
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<br /><em>"I wanted to advise you,"</em> she said, <em>"and I am glad to report that the memorial plaque constructed by Lela Howard bearing the name of Jim Jones along with the names of the real victims has not and will never be placed in the African American Historical Society in San Francisco. They are sensitive and understanding about the insensitivity of placing such a permanent fixture in their museum on a permanent or temporary basis. So I guess Lela best move on to perhaps the City of Los Angeles or some other city that will deem Jim Jones a victim of himself."</em>
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<br />The above photo from the Jonestown Massacre's 30th Anniversary Memorial Service is <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxx5dfclirEZXcstnyjui-DuDG8h3-G2Y-xRZxrKPsxdqZ-k8jYDf_yftgZOW0ukCOp-98YD0qn-4icXItYV57cMTzZ8s3g-WHiKVAoFCXfiw-gyJD1sgCJ0i6L0zdSaUxePNJResUSTo/s1600-h/Jonestown+gravestone++small+view.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxx5dfclirEZXcstnyjui-DuDG8h3-G2Y-xRZxrKPsxdqZ-k8jYDf_yftgZOW0ukCOp-98YD0qn-4icXItYV57cMTzZ8s3g-WHiKVAoFCXfiw-gyJD1sgCJ0i6L0zdSaUxePNJResUSTo/s200/Jonestown+gravestone++small+view.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435801336230829938" /></a>something altogether different, of course. Shown is one of the first two panels of a granite memorial wall unveiled at the site of a mass grave of Jonestown victims, most of them children, in Evergreen Cemetery nestled in the hills of Oakland, California.
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<br />Seen praying over one of the panels at the far right is Jynona Norwod, who has overseen the project to build the wall. She has as good a reason as any other surviving relative, having suffered the devastating loss of 27 family members to Jim Jones and his executioners in November, 1978.
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<br />She is rightfully adamant the monster that destroyed so much of her family never, ever be recognized as a "victim," which would honor him with all the men, women, children, and babies he savagely murdered.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfPyXhRwrAiFwSW4ywoDbPdYq9aeQqZYgDDi5uY_ICCYkgjSJTRR59uvbBreTH1Z7Q1upKnHG4ltTKsi89AqAryd4B7jm6ICLkr7SX8jfxPcml4uKifTu92Ya-iHErSYXb7zHfiEu2Jg0/s1600-h/Jim+Jones,+Jr..jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfPyXhRwrAiFwSW4ywoDbPdYq9aeQqZYgDDi5uY_ICCYkgjSJTRR59uvbBreTH1Z7Q1upKnHG4ltTKsi89AqAryd4B7jm6ICLkr7SX8jfxPcml4uKifTu92Ya-iHErSYXb7zHfiEu2Jg0/s200/Jim+Jones,+Jr..jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404259093140466626" /></a>Other concerned parties, however, strongly object. They formed a rival group that constructed a separate memorial--a Lucite plaque--featuring the name of certain "faith healing" mass murderer. They apparently echo the sentiments of adopted son, Jim Jones, Jr., who claimed at the memorial service that "the tragedy is we're villianizing Jim Jones....also a victim, of his own madness. We need to memorialize all the bodies, as a great loss."
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<br />Granted, this was his adapted father. But it just can't change the fact that Jim Jones, Sr. was little more than a sadistic, psychotic killer. Memorialize a perfectly hideous beast that caused such unspeakable suffering, years and years even before the Jonestown Holocaust, as a "great loss"??
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<br />The revisionists and shameless cult apologists that we're so well acquainted with might be well pleased, because their desperate hope will forever be to one day dupe today's public that the People's Temple's demonic essence was shadowed by its bright, cheery sides.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67ndjFWR5KWc-vIy2J-3id26N_NzTmnK_soqIU25G1pj7zj-tmPEKS-ayK-OM-BVym_ec9laXYUpXyUPJWnVv5Md1qvg_DB0T1AtbskVRcv-fBgy3A9_FgdTVkd-0NeUNk5nHfXN2K0EU/s1600-h/Becky+Moore+at+desk++serious.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg67ndjFWR5KWc-vIy2J-3id26N_NzTmnK_soqIU25G1pj7zj-tmPEKS-ayK-OM-BVym_ec9laXYUpXyUPJWnVv5Md1qvg_DB0T1AtbskVRcv-fBgy3A9_FgdTVkd-0NeUNk5nHfXN2K0EU/s400/Becky+Moore+at+desk++serious.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435806099345520050" /></a>
<br /><em>"....Peoples Temple members were engaged in the world, and tried to make concrete differences in individuals' lives and in society as a whole." </em>--Rebecca Moore
<br />San Diego State Prof. of Religion and
<br />Sister of Temple mass murderers, Carolyn & Annie Moore
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<br />Food kitchens--and extortion. Miracle healings--and fraud.
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<br />Foster families--and child torture. Spiritual redemption--and brain washing.
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<br />Drug rehab--and murder.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-oWiOMNWC3z-bAN93ZnEzlmrqMawvb4c0l6AC8f8xAz4FFFPzhGdiUpI4ZUIQbbkSf2hY6O8oBkZVSaBagl_06rRpwwQ0JqQdHWl1UJbSpxBRgGfF99bUDdch3SVVhHIFkvQKyHoJUeM/s1600-h/stalin+and+soldiers.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq-oWiOMNWC3z-bAN93ZnEzlmrqMawvb4c0l6AC8f8xAz4FFFPzhGdiUpI4ZUIQbbkSf2hY6O8oBkZVSaBagl_06rRpwwQ0JqQdHWl1UJbSpxBRgGfF99bUDdch3SVVhHIFkvQKyHoJUeM/s200/stalin+and+soldiers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435811975409133826" /></a>All brought to us by that racially enlightened Marxist marvel, Comrade James Warren Jones and his near lily-white politburo, The Planning Commission.
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<br />Jones, honored? Along with his murderous organized crime family, including Sharon Amos, Larry Schacht, Annie & Carolyn Moore, Jim McElvane, and those gun-wielding death camp guards that so efficiently coerced all the other cult members to the slaughter?
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<br />Commemorate baby killers? Are you kidding??
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<br />Rival memorial group leader Lela Howard is deadly serious. She's the one Rhonda spoke of in her message. Howard lost an aunt at Jonestown and said, "This is the first time they will be recognized as human beings. It restores the humanity of these people and gives their names back."
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<br />It's hard to say where Howard and her group will place their memorial, now that it's reportedly been rejected for permanent placement in San Francisco's African American Historical Society.
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<br />That clearly will do little to cool down the rage and resentment Howard has for Norwood. At the end of 2007, she wrote to the Apologists Alert claiming:
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgICPGE41D8AZMrdkvReZvUVLHv3mfjOAIVm2Sfefy_oEoM2vdAhPFC9f3eC0iXPhQ5PLxvuF1rcHTf8lE_G_t99mGbqSC9lf7p7NkoHJJ3ExJegZqFW9o49wz-TasJR0NOPwFQZVUYYv/s1600-h/Lela+Howard.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 184px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgICPGE41D8AZMrdkvReZvUVLHv3mfjOAIVm2Sfefy_oEoM2vdAhPFC9f3eC0iXPhQ5PLxvuF1rcHTf8lE_G_t99mGbqSC9lf7p7NkoHJJ3ExJegZqFW9o49wz-TasJR0NOPwFQZVUYYv/s400/Lela+Howard.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435816373249063778" /></a><em>"A memorial wall at Oakland cemetery is great! But I thought money was collected for that many years ago--what happened to those funds? It seems as if there's an unnecessary competition in regards to memorials for the victims, which takes away from the focal point of remembering them.
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<br />This makes me very sad and confused, because this separates us or leans towards a school yard 'choosing sides' type of mentality, instead of family and survivors coming together and honoring our loved ones. It's more about the living and their egos, rather than those who perished...very, very, very sad."</em>
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<br />Then, about a year later, came another attack on Norwood. This time from another critic claiming anonymity as "Confused and Getting Upset." It was an even harsher denunciation [see November 9, 2009 JAA post], questioning both Norwood's financial accounting as well as her personal integrity.
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<br />Without any outright evidence, there's no way to go beyond mere speculation that this diatribe came from someone in Howard's group or Howard herself.
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<br />The attacks have outraged Norwood. She's issued a very lengthy rebuttal.
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<br />Some of the highlights:
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bnNq0ASiHEZc6BC8oyvjcPOT_3vpL5hd3PKlkpJ0nKFKdB_5kXtYWg1CL1d1ol9cfDSSFGfW_B1rlYZJ1O8JXQ0kJ4Rt4alF1dZCbkHnS-sLU6nBTPuKtLfUiWYBh9wgo5p6ZkHfgxLU/s1600-h/Jim+Jones++sleazy+smirk.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 64px; height: 64px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_bnNq0ASiHEZc6BC8oyvjcPOT_3vpL5hd3PKlkpJ0nKFKdB_5kXtYWg1CL1d1ol9cfDSSFGfW_B1rlYZJ1O8JXQ0kJ4Rt4alF1dZCbkHnS-sLU6nBTPuKtLfUiWYBh9wgo5p6ZkHfgxLU/s400/Jim+Jones++sleazy+smirk.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435822312119660610" /></a><em>"Your named and anonymous bloggers," </em>she wrote, <em>"are attempting to distract our focus in memorializing the 305 innocent babies that Jim Jones murdered. Remember that these are the types of tactics that was encouraged and taught by Jim Jones. I remember as a teenager that whoever did not join Jones's church was to be misaligned at home, within the family, and in public....
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<br />....It has to do with what is right or wrong. It is about correcting a wrong. In your blog an anonymous contributor compared me with Jim Jones and called me a charlatan because I minister in the five-fold ministry, of which the gift of prophecy is one such anointing....
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<br />....I have never said that I would list the names of the murderers at Jonestown. This is another lie. Our decision to include the names of all the fallen except Jim Jones is not complicated. We are neither judge nor jury. We do not know with any certainty all of whom were actually involved in the massacre, but we do know who the leader was.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPRQYDPxlA7RJxz9S38ZG1tj16Z2bYB4A7f6Fj1DelRW3t83UgJd7zcHJqbq1zQ5tXJuH7CYVsb45HGNCqPZplvS1btIeDGqCSeEKhpgeWbYzk9-a6LkHiQhKzCuM1l1YGoX_qoYervG_/s1600-h/jynona_norwood.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiPRQYDPxlA7RJxz9S38ZG1tj16Z2bYB4A7f6Fj1DelRW3t83UgJd7zcHJqbq1zQ5tXJuH7CYVsb45HGNCqPZplvS1btIeDGqCSeEKhpgeWbYzk9-a6LkHiQhKzCuM1l1YGoX_qoYervG_/s200/jynona_norwood.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435819137177778866" /></a>Would your bloggers also desire that I not accept the support, prayers and commendation's of the political, civil and community leaders who were deceived into befriending Jim Jones? They did not know that he would cause the murder of babies that included over 900 loving people. Therefore, instead of picking through the ruins, we are moving up from the valley of tears to build a monument to repentance, renewal and revival....
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<br />....Lela Howard garnered support from leaders and built a memorial honoring everyone including Jim Jones in her 2008 ceremony in San Francisco. She had the audacity to inscribe Jim Jones's name next to the victims and innocent children. She tried to have it placed in the African American Center in San Francisco where she held the ceremony, but when the African American community and leaders found out that she was honoring Jim Jones they called the center and put a stop to it....
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<br />...My books are open and I have nothing to hide....As soon as my CPA finishes his YTD report we will make these records available to the Office of the Attorney General and any reputable organization. Therefore, I call upon good people of the nations to help us do good in the face of evil and continue to love in a sea of hate. If we can do this together, we will never see another Jonestown massacre again</em>."</em>
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<br />One can only hope. Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-52603559950805971932009-11-29T02:59:00.026-05:002009-11-29T20:51:58.629-05:00Guyana Finally Finds The Time "Ripe" To Officially Recognize People's Temple Cult Mass Murder VictimsIt was over before anyone knew it. And long, long overdue.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrBXIGFF5CqfkCYJuGhrwqelaz1Gk4OeIYTOGQEbYsAsd5ckF9xJxMZpMKYHQM66xci1Y8gafhYhnOeun8vm3u0LD_dQHpvW8_wK4w18XeiDDVYbvE8YbNVGC3-IlTwkmmVcAh8sJ8CxvG/s1600/Jonestown+Guyana+Memorial.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrBXIGFF5CqfkCYJuGhrwqelaz1Gk4OeIYTOGQEbYsAsd5ckF9xJxMZpMKYHQM66xci1Y8gafhYhnOeun8vm3u0LD_dQHpvW8_wK4w18XeiDDVYbvE8YbNVGC3-IlTwkmmVcAh8sJ8CxvG/s400/Jonestown+Guyana+Memorial.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409615386527709410" /></a><br />The unannounced ceremony this past November 18th was as simple as the white stone plaque they erected at the Guyanese jungle clearing.<br /><br />It's taken far too long for Guyana's government to officially recognize the Crime of the Century that took place in their impoverished nation more than three decades ago. The stigma, however, seems to have finally lifted with the passing of enough years.<br /><br /><em>"We think the time is now ripe for some sort of memorial to remember those who died as 31 years have passed and the wound is not so raw," said Indranauth Haralsingh, the director of the Guyana Tourism Authority. "There should be something to remember them as people do come."</em><br /><br /><strong>"In memory of the victims of the Jonestown tragedy, November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana"</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5RfRVu576QdjsJBmDbX_1vjSpcmgwyoADU1hg-GXKDv4cLsfUl28PfHLbJI_GCZpkITChm2AACF-ojyybGF4EAut4SBcvET_Bf7hrOJ10sxP44mZoDcdN7w4q8gOcFO2Yp6UmR0tizF0/s1600/Jonestown+Tomb+Flower.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-5RfRVu576QdjsJBmDbX_1vjSpcmgwyoADU1hg-GXKDv4cLsfUl28PfHLbJI_GCZpkITChm2AACF-ojyybGF4EAut4SBcvET_Bf7hrOJ10sxP44mZoDcdN7w4q8gOcFO2Yp6UmR0tizF0/s320/Jonestown+Tomb+Flower.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409618599593694738" /></a>That's the memorial's sole inscription, just as it reads on Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery tombstone (with the added words "Guyana Emergency Relief Committee") where over 400 Jonestown victims are buried.<br /><br />Since the 30th anniversary of the massacre, the Evergreen site now has an emerging memorial wall of names of all the dead, save one, mass murderer Jim Jones--which has been some of the surviving relatives' vocal point for controversy.<br /><br /> <em>"I hope," said U.S. Embassy charge d'affairs Karen Williams, who helped unveil the Guyana's Jonestown Memorial, "that this simple and very reverent service today and monument will serve to help heal those wounds in both of our nations." </em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwhM1LhUGrL87s3INV3Ihi_9nOAU5cBZP4I_6Phtsbqyxg6o6H5W8dDHdUoKAiappRQKpMcsKY1krDrWbLVqOqjBBacHnbO5BksMDOD49ThVFM49BAllSWVohjhhDY4hk6I9lkVfDKebv/s1600/Jonestown+Guyana+memorial+unveiling.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwhM1LhUGrL87s3INV3Ihi_9nOAU5cBZP4I_6Phtsbqyxg6o6H5W8dDHdUoKAiappRQKpMcsKY1krDrWbLVqOqjBBacHnbO5BksMDOD49ThVFM49BAllSWVohjhhDY4hk6I9lkVfDKebv/s320/Jonestown+Guyana+memorial+unveiling.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409635110741747170" /></a>"Wounds"??<br /><br />Interesting perspective, Madam Charge D'affairs. <br /><br />Far more ethical and forthright would have been to come clean with her employer's disgraceful derelection of duty in the lead-up to the clearly avoidable massacre that cost over 900 lives, including Rep. Leo Ryan, the only congressman in history to die--senselessly--in the line of duty. <br /><br />Ryan had had five, count 'em, <em><strong>five briefings</strong></em> provided by that useless and duplicitious State Department prior to this extremely dangerous rescue mission, which not one single other member of Congress had the guts to accompany. With all the testimony about people in the Guyana Gulag being held prisoner, being tortured, and threatened with murder, Ryan requested that some critically needed straight answers be provided by those bumbling bureaucrats.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_5Q_o9LIPpEZgvGhEOcFJW-29MnMFhvE6rooyKRdpBMlhPr4rz9eszL9gCQmk6NTtR_3nNDSwumszq1KSWXizFXuB62hQtiKdA5lUYT3DwHP7Tfee9fcO_zAmfQVWkWR6W04laoRu7NS/s1600/state+department+building.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_5Q_o9LIPpEZgvGhEOcFJW-29MnMFhvE6rooyKRdpBMlhPr4rz9eszL9gCQmk6NTtR_3nNDSwumszq1KSWXizFXuB62hQtiKdA5lUYT3DwHP7Tfee9fcO_zAmfQVWkWR6W04laoRu7NS/s200/state+department+building.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409643966777813298" /></a><br />"Nonsense." That was what that oh-so conscientious, competent State Department told the doomed congressman regarding the peril he was about to enter. <br /><br />And nothing more.<br /><br />They deliberately sat on the critical information that would have saved Ryan, his delegation, and surely the rest of the Jonestown cult captives.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDwzeUIVFRE8uK1o4eSDYHv2rRJa0J3BO-qchGkFhHdblG5zdJiA-UQ-xjsY4zMkGiofc0LiT1dAQTOrHErRTXfkWYE2haJGoKlv471wkxqGJP86YjkrNRFYBqGWnUpADxPRXfFo1_ZUW/s1600/state+dept+sculpture.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDwzeUIVFRE8uK1o4eSDYHv2rRJa0J3BO-qchGkFhHdblG5zdJiA-UQ-xjsY4zMkGiofc0LiT1dAQTOrHErRTXfkWYE2haJGoKlv471wkxqGJP86YjkrNRFYBqGWnUpADxPRXfFo1_ZUW/s200/state+dept+sculpture.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409644552051916354" /></a>So as with the journalists, clergy, and American & Guyanese politicians in the Cast Of Shameless Wonders that enabled Jim Jones and his cult mafia to run amok, our U.S. Dept. of State also has plenty of blood on its hands.<br /><br />And like their reprehensible cohorts, it's a sure bet that "State" will never, ever owe up to its appalling guilt. Thank you, Ms. Williams, for clarifying that for all of us.<br /><br />Staboek News, an independent Guyanese newspaper, published this observation by one of the country's political parties on the day their memorial was erected:<br /><br /><em>"The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) says while the public continues to be baffled by the events that led to the Jonestown disaster, it was important to note that the tragedy could have been avoided if not for political interference in the judicial process....<br /><br />....The WPA said while questions continue to arise about the purpose of the Temple, what is clear is that Jim Jones and his group were allowed to establish a settlement by the PNC [People's National Congress] government in Guyana’s interior and there was little governmental oversight of the operations of that organisations. It is also clear that the Temple 'had acquired considerable influence among certain political officials in the then government who among other things, attempted to influence the course of justice.'<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsCedxA4I5xo3aXFPgtHWut-rpZ8dkCjq470EPhuUPndtVMIPRSxyKFxFSSlmNfR5vIainkdX-OwyL1p5Gh_xpql6baj2Fef_LVpWELbrw7jFxizr0Qwd9mYfTX5ROKetfGVpkJMRabe0/s1600/Aubrey+Bishop++Guyana+justice.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsCedxA4I5xo3aXFPgtHWut-rpZ8dkCjq470EPhuUPndtVMIPRSxyKFxFSSlmNfR5vIainkdX-OwyL1p5Gh_xpql6baj2Fef_LVpWELbrw7jFxizr0Qwd9mYfTX5ROKetfGVpkJMRabe0/s200/Aubrey+Bishop++Guyana+justice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409662977397250530" /></a>The WPA said the action by then minister of home affairs Vibert Mingo to get Justice Aubrey Bishop [pictured here] to reverse his decision that Jones 'must appear and give evidence in the Baby Stoen case' that had been engaging his attention, is just one example. Jones ignored the judge’s order, the WPA said, adding that perhaps the outcome at Jonestown might have been different if Justice Bishop’s order had been heeded...."</em><br /><br />Albert Einstein once wrote that the world is a dangerous place "not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”<br /><br />Sound social insight from a legendary scientist. It perfectly compliments the other plague: People that knowingly aid and abet evil in its most heinous forms. <br /> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4a4SIju7DmHfh_f6zmGSzL_CqrQKLxOoRFERAtu0nudTjlCN-nrY-xUj2hfgWxMRlrO9t8potM5fpKkXf9x5kZwUJc_Ze_yeLYKH_6QZXOWmm7Jg-rtqcgEG_KFegcamqDMA4QZli0ngs/s1600/jonestown+bodies+fisheye+view.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4a4SIju7DmHfh_f6zmGSzL_CqrQKLxOoRFERAtu0nudTjlCN-nrY-xUj2hfgWxMRlrO9t8potM5fpKkXf9x5kZwUJc_Ze_yeLYKH_6QZXOWmm7Jg-rtqcgEG_KFegcamqDMA4QZli0ngs/s400/jonestown+bodies+fisheye+view.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409461447167718978" /></a><br />On the 25th anniversary of the massacre, Guyanese pilot Capt. Gerry Gouveia made a crude but very reality show-like series of videos of his and a small group's journey into what remains of Jonestown. He might very well be the Guyanese reality show star, considering what he personally witnessed in 1978 and later found in this intriguing look at a notorious killing field that today is devoured by merciless jungle.<br /><br /><object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7fbCwTdp974&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7fbCwTdp974&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"></embed></object><br /><br />The Guyana Tourism Authority, despite the government's new memorial, continues to refuse the proposal to develop the place as a tourism attraction. Perhaps it might come in future years, if the country gets cash-strapped enough.<br /><br />Let's just pray that they make very, very sure that the cult apologists don't get their paws on the plans should the project ever come to fruition.<br /><br />Think of the possibilities, and then help yourself to a nice long shudder.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio76SFSZWvmpxqxvFrC0l_gSMzKLLWb1f5BR121J1nibDbsKvtMMhI-Nv1zT9Mdsrv8wkhDfZcerXIQ7S-CPMv1tNKCpozORFubWLtYZeTmG5s0l7gSEq3vSqZYAA987bzuU5YDBayZXlY/s1600/alamo+movie+poster.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio76SFSZWvmpxqxvFrC0l_gSMzKLLWb1f5BR121J1nibDbsKvtMMhI-Nv1zT9Mdsrv8wkhDfZcerXIQ7S-CPMv1tNKCpozORFubWLtYZeTmG5s0l7gSEq3vSqZYAA987bzuU5YDBayZXlY/s320/alamo+movie+poster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409673009115041298" /></a>Stanley Nelson's stomach-churning apologist film would look positively honest by comparison.<br /><br />It would bring new meaning to historic fiction and revisionism. Think of the fantasy & fairy tales that would make up a visitor's center sponsored by the Jonestown Institute.<br /><br />And instead of a watching it on DVD or reading about it in one of Becky Moore's Temple Tall Tales books--the latest which I'm going to review very soon--you could pay homage to all the "good works" of the cult "pioneers" that blazed a path shimmering with fraud, extortion, slave labor, and child torture.<br /><br />Better scenario: Let it be administered by <em>genuine</em> historians. And by <em>authentic</em> survivor testimony.<br /><br />Allow bona fide facts, not embellishments and half-truths, to tell the real story.<br /><br />Jonestown, like any of the world's other resurrected gulags, should be revealed to tourists in all its true horrifying colors. <br /><br /><em>"Conditions at Jonestown were even worse than I had feared they would be. The settlement was swarming with armed guards. No one was permitted to leave unless on a special assignment and these assignments were given only to the most trusted. We were allowed to associate with Guyanese people only while on a "mission". <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvyiovBpmZvqzuJKuVvd8dEh1JF8zE31QpySz7iTHaazVfD2Bzt8hsuBun6BzlfIwFMtHOg8ZkNlr_jPZVsHNvLrRa_uTNElbLv00BnJWHQnAftXrGfpaNY5ghlEubJnqUTW6-5fOkT_A/s1600/gulag+poster.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihvyiovBpmZvqzuJKuVvd8dEh1JF8zE31QpySz7iTHaazVfD2Bzt8hsuBun6BzlfIwFMtHOg8ZkNlr_jPZVsHNvLrRa_uTNElbLv00BnJWHQnAftXrGfpaNY5ghlEubJnqUTW6-5fOkT_A/s400/gulag+poster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409682494136814082" /></a>The vast majority of the Temple members were required to work in the fields from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M. six days per week and on Sunday from 7 A.M. to 2 P.M. We were allowed one hour for lunch. Most of this hour was spent walking back to lunch and standing in line for our food. Taking any other breaks during the workday was severely frowned upon. <br /><br />The food was woefully inadequate. There was rice for breakfast, rice water soup for lunch, and rice and beans for dinner. On Sunday, we each received an egg and a cookie. Two or three times a week we had vegetables. Some very weak and elderly members received one egg per day. However, the food did improve markedly on the few occasions when there were outside visitors. <br /><br />In contrast, Rev. Jones, claiming problems with his blood sugar, dined separately and ate meat regularly. He had his own refrigerator which was stocked with food. The two women with whom he resided, Maria Katsaris and Carolyn Layton, and the two small boys who lived with him, Kimo Prokes and John Stoen, dined with the membership. However, they were in much better physical shape than everyone else since they were also allowed to eat the food in Rev. Jones' refrigerator...."<br /> --Debra Layton Blakely </em><br /><br />No doubt that our <em>Alternative Considerations of Jonestown </em>apologists can put a mind-controlling spin on this "utopian community," as they've proven repeatedly in the popular media. <br /><br />Let's just say <em>no</em> to them this time.Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-36442860671136438402009-11-18T07:39:00.006-05:002009-11-18T07:55:04.378-05:00The Saddest Portrait Of Today's Jonestown Massacre Anniversary<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhRfegI_RPVmmZTV-hqipHvcBTK83W0ypESr5iw8eYGq3F2jD249Iuvdbii6DJUvFfiLkBNkg0mukobL7eXKp9ICeCCBrksaWVrP7cohpo92S91oFLZ9cbZ5ZJ94i4T8JV0p075-TPhyi/s1600/Jonestown+babies.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhRfegI_RPVmmZTV-hqipHvcBTK83W0ypESr5iw8eYGq3F2jD249Iuvdbii6DJUvFfiLkBNkg0mukobL7eXKp9ICeCCBrksaWVrP7cohpo92S91oFLZ9cbZ5ZJ94i4T8JV0p075-TPhyi/s400/Jonestown+babies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405422502431035586" /></a><br /><br />Today, these babies would have likely had families of their own.<br /><br />Of all the victims, they were the most senseless and heart-wrenching.<br /><br />The perpetrator list runs long and wide, as does the continuing coverup. As we mourn the dead today, a short film reminds us of one part of the coverup that continues.<br /><br /><object width="580" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRGtGmPMGJ8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRGtGmPMGJ8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="580" height="360"></embed></object><br /><br />More on this today. <br /><br />Prayers go out to the relatives of those killed by this Marxist Monster and his executioners 31 years ago.Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-57582064093390618222009-11-14T23:40:00.001-05:002009-11-15T06:17:40.079-05:00Continuing Rancor Over Jim Jones & Memorial: "He is not--and never was--a victim!"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgje5f_duTu_57jEbFf5JgLZ5gpi24G3TfEI1qCsHO6miyQDivyROcxWk_EryPKWoMIGLEHyWauPP929tfqKVbv69Psvgbr_1zFOpz-1TekZzJT3gqzxavlUjNwaIlJpJolVqcbATxW2gRa/s1600-h/waco+massacre.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgje5f_duTu_57jEbFf5JgLZ5gpi24G3TfEI1qCsHO6miyQDivyROcxWk_EryPKWoMIGLEHyWauPP929tfqKVbv69Psvgbr_1zFOpz-1TekZzJT3gqzxavlUjNwaIlJpJolVqcbATxW2gRa/s400/waco+massacre.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404216769109146450" /></a><br />This scene look familiar? <br /><br />Happened in Texas, courtesy of a cult maniac swaggering in the footsteps of another megalomaniac who hosted his own holocaust 15 years earlier in a Guyanese jungle.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGoyDoh9P_GBVkka9DEwga2YIpcFUrq-PV51H_yfQ5F9mwNMGPvEB89fefcgcPxIs46KYjeMNLOeLRdtXbpJD6pLEIf6nqKt3sXVH9rmTe7AWklUH5vNdZ2twExdAjGCAtyCMkskY_Ez1/s1600-h/waco+children+victims.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 93px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGoyDoh9P_GBVkka9DEwga2YIpcFUrq-PV51H_yfQ5F9mwNMGPvEB89fefcgcPxIs46KYjeMNLOeLRdtXbpJD6pLEIf6nqKt3sXVH9rmTe7AWklUH5vNdZ2twExdAjGCAtyCMkskY_Ez1/s400/waco+children+victims.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404236763032273890" /></a>A memorial for the victims of the 1993 Waco Massacre was established by Branch Davidian survivors two years later on the privately-owned Mount Carmel property. It was a layout of crape myrtle trees, which later had headstones representing victims placed at the base of each tree.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGivUvZzphnGCqi4yEFnnqaC53Zuidqp8F_BtE1ixrqhqG-iX1SYvyY92ow145yJRmlJ6s2tP5e9WSCAA02zK9IFoeiy8R9X0lwtZjyrOVEVZqUmF_ddID9mUKhC8itJ7pMPAMz7YEeBNw/s1600-h/David+Koresh.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 173px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGivUvZzphnGCqi4yEFnnqaC53Zuidqp8F_BtE1ixrqhqG-iX1SYvyY92ow145yJRmlJ6s2tP5e9WSCAA02zK9IFoeiy8R9X0lwtZjyrOVEVZqUmF_ddID9mUKhC8itJ7pMPAMz7YEeBNw/s200/David+Koresh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404235930334141634" /></a>Amazingly, one of those headstones--until it was rightfully destroyed by the property owner in 2006--was dedicated to a murderous, crazed sexual predator.<br /><br />As controversial as was the ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound, it's outrageous watching muddle-headed wonders award victim hood status to ruthless, sadistic monsters like David Koresh.<br /><br />Koresh's crime spree, however, was something of a virtual misdemeanor next to the unspeakable horrors inflicted by Jim "Dad" Jones and his People's Temple Mafia. So <em>why</em>, once again, are people stepping up to actually honor another raging psychopath as a "victim"??<br /><br />One of those is a group of family survivors lead by Lela Howard (whose aunt died in Jonestown) that tried but failed to erect their own memorial that included Jones in San Francisco's African American Cultural Center, thanks to protests by other survivors.<br /><br />One of the protesting survivors, "Rhonda" (who's requested anonymity), told the Apologists Alert:<br /><br /><em>"It was insulting, illogical, and outright disrespectful of Black Americans. Jewish people have never proclaimed Hitler as a victim, nor has his name been placed on a memorial wall erected for those he ordered murdered.<br /><br />Ms. Howard was never a member [of the cult] and she should have conferred with others prior to making her decisions to be disrespectful. Instead she selected to speak with Jones's sons and other white members who were part of the hierarchy. My suggestion is that Ms. Howard maintain her memorial in Los Angeles so that she can frequently visit a site locally for remembrance. Don't smear our faces in it or bring this back to San Francisco." </em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfPyXhRwrAiFwSW4ywoDbPdYq9aeQqZYgDDi5uY_ICCYkgjSJTRR59uvbBreTH1Z7Q1upKnHG4ltTKsi89AqAryd4B7jm6ICLkr7SX8jfxPcml4uKifTu92Ya-iHErSYXb7zHfiEu2Jg0/s1600-h/Jim+Jones,+Jr..jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfPyXhRwrAiFwSW4ywoDbPdYq9aeQqZYgDDi5uY_ICCYkgjSJTRR59uvbBreTH1Z7Q1upKnHG4ltTKsi89AqAryd4B7jm6ICLkr7SX8jfxPcml4uKifTu92Ya-iHErSYXb7zHfiEu2Jg0/s200/Jim+Jones,+Jr..jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404259093140466626" /></a>The late cult leader's adopted son, Jim Jones, Jr., is clear about his place in the revisionist camp, alleging that "the tragedy is we're villainizing Jim Jones," who he claims "was also a victim, of his own madness. We need to memorialize all the bodies, as a great loss."<br /><br />It's obvious that Rhonda appreciates the Jones, Jr. perspective about as much as she does Howard's. We get the feeling she's equally unenthused over our favorite cult apologist film maker, Stanley Nelson.<br /><br /><em>"I am tired of those who continue to surface as self-appointed spokespersons for black victims of People's Temple," she says, "I'm tired of the ignorance, lies, and misstatements of Jimmy Jones, Jr., who....is an embarrassment to every intelligent black person in the world.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVz-s4GGMViFV9M8RAgHk46oDVEsEvTwsNMquNRnoxdUsEbJJKmbPoVlWE2ZW3QwTyo5FXl-lX0zPPY0D7k_Bl7Z2K5sA2D-9xDgKsGig7EcjvCvqYv1akYFUCrBmoEeSC370CvBPws1H/s1600-h/jim+jones++red+picture.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 152px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVz-s4GGMViFV9M8RAgHk46oDVEsEvTwsNMquNRnoxdUsEbJJKmbPoVlWE2ZW3QwTyo5FXl-lX0zPPY0D7k_Bl7Z2K5sA2D-9xDgKsGig7EcjvCvqYv1akYFUCrBmoEeSC370CvBPws1H/s200/jim+jones++red+picture.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404268078762450786" /></a>Jim Jones, Jr. makes ridiculous statements about what a great man his dad was. We must remember that his dad killed his wife and their unborn child in Jonestown. He goes on speaking engagements for pay and has used the death of others as a major source of income.<br /><br />My question: Why would you continue to bear the name of a murderer? This is sick, just as disgustingly sick as his adopted dad.<br /><br />I think of the Lela Howards and Stanley Nelsons as the “Aunt Janes” and “Uncle Toms” of the world....Their mission is an attempt to portray Jim Jones as a "victim". They attempt unconvincing arguments that Jim Jones’ name should appear on a wall with the true victims’ names. He is not--<strong>and never was</strong>--a victim!"</em><br /><br />Rhonda voices much support for Dr. Jynona Norwood's work in getting the Jonestown Memorial Wall erected, calling her "a faithful and humble servant trying to give the lost souls their own identity, a name, and dignity. However, she meets constant roadblocks."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SWskFA9nruJntpOkhvJSO9rw2CuoUF3bH7s5hc3d_7mqrysJ5ef8KrIjpfsMId3b29Sgr0b0rhw1qqCgmDWbuF0E2GXV6oCGnf8kLJ3jVbXp6UtIJ3cRlvdeGieR2Y3_TBb8-9GhGzBL/s1600-h/Willie+Brown.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 149px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-SWskFA9nruJntpOkhvJSO9rw2CuoUF3bH7s5hc3d_7mqrysJ5ef8KrIjpfsMId3b29Sgr0b0rhw1qqCgmDWbuF0E2GXV6oCGnf8kLJ3jVbXp6UtIJ3cRlvdeGieR2Y3_TBb8-9GhGzBL/s200/Willie+Brown.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404280905184805714" /></a><br />Obviously one of the biggest challenges has been raising funds for the wall. It's time to petition former Jones allies such as Willie Brown and Cecil Williams<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSCIcMuXJTlqgawCLOtVD6lvr6uits6v5E6b4JwMZsxnBDLwsAYS05oIgilkHXKTgY1Hql9vFVS_h68QPDZSB7fPJBq30OxTBkKeVXGlrMczrJPm6P3mf0Iw-VD6Yq-utXtIQNCe7mOz4/s1600-h/RevCecilWilliams.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeSCIcMuXJTlqgawCLOtVD6lvr6uits6v5E6b4JwMZsxnBDLwsAYS05oIgilkHXKTgY1Hql9vFVS_h68QPDZSB7fPJBq30OxTBkKeVXGlrMczrJPm6P3mf0Iw-VD6Yq-utXtIQNCe7mOz4/s200/RevCecilWilliams.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404281839834004722" /></a> to cough up a substantial chunk of the expense. After all, they're part of that California political rabble with blood on their hands from November 18, 1978. <br /><br />Let Brown, Williams, and the rest of those self-serving elites make their financial amends next Wednesday at Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery, right after they've publicly apologized to the grieving relatives of every one of the real victims of their Prized Marxist Missionary.<br /><br />I'm sure they'll have an undoubtedly receptive audience, judging from last year's memorial service:<br /><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E8rgFCkkPg8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E8rgFCkkPg8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-85760590649943070192009-11-09T23:03:00.003-05:002009-11-30T14:54:05.952-05:00Jonestown Massacre Memorial Wall: "Something is Wrong!"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOnFX7aD6RjLjzYtOFRmEQJT-OI3nBLzQSBZodSJ8U5WXHJ4OSOwZWwOzQuWLcujEHjXizHqec1awAiiq7ze09vxfZQJfm7AYYRP1Q9-uVru7WA3IzZckP0hMo8Sz-MxGS7zC8yiQ9FrH/s1600-h/Jonestown+30th+Anniversary+Ceremony+Opening+shot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOnFX7aD6RjLjzYtOFRmEQJT-OI3nBLzQSBZodSJ8U5WXHJ4OSOwZWwOzQuWLcujEHjXizHqec1awAiiq7ze09vxfZQJfm7AYYRP1Q9-uVru7WA3IzZckP0hMo8Sz-MxGS7zC8yiQ9FrH/s400/Jonestown+30th+Anniversary+Ceremony+Opening+shot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402353023275136338" /></a><br />Another anniversary of that senseless, horrific day of slaughter is crawling towards us again. <br /><br />Last year's 30th Remembrance at Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery saw the unveiling of two black granite panels of what was promised to eventually be a 36 foot-long stone wall with the names of all the victims. A year has passed and the question remains:<br /><br />Where are rest of the panels?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07BGxjuCGnvtE2fKjBA5XPlxMJS-q9HJ6KnresOEe3QkIw0l917mgI7NkK0_J-qzHwSdZhqhyphenhyphenXJ9f0e_4DRl4_Sjiu3fJ4KezcGujwopmOb9tNvFbmLYIOjQLvLbyGIkg_fGlcyLSB0Z1/s1600-h/sharon+amos+and+children.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07BGxjuCGnvtE2fKjBA5XPlxMJS-q9HJ6KnresOEe3QkIw0l917mgI7NkK0_J-qzHwSdZhqhyphenhyphenXJ9f0e_4DRl4_Sjiu3fJ4KezcGujwopmOb9tNvFbmLYIOjQLvLbyGIkg_fGlcyLSB0Z1/s400/sharon+amos+and+children.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402369731159573746" /></a>What's more, will they show <em>all</em> the names?<br /><br />Can you just imagine having those Jonestown assassins carved in granite <strong>right next to</strong> the men, women, children, and babies they brutally murdered??<br /><br />Would you like to see names like Sharon Amos, the bestial Temple executioner that slit the throats of her two young children? Or any of the monstrous guards and Temple inner circle, such as Carolyn and Annie Moore, who personally orchestrated the cyanide mass murder of their "suicide" targets?<br /><br />There are still some voices of furious discord amongst the relatives of the Jonestown victims, who continue to question the management of the memorial wall construction, currently overseen by Jynona Norwood, a Los Angeles evangelist who lost 27 family members in the Guyana bloodbath.<br /><br />Less than a month after last year's memorial, an anonymous reader "Confused and Getting Upset" wrote to the Apologists Alert:<br /><br /><em>"How are the marble panels going to be secured at the Oakland cemetery? It was brought out on a tracker, so the weight must be over a ton. It was beautiful, but left me thinking: How the ground is going to handle the weight? Also, I have donated money to that fund and after 27 years of collecting money, why is $70,000 more still needed to complete the wall?<br /><br />There is a website called <a href="http://www.themiraclewall.org/Dr_jynonaOK.htm">'The Miracle Wall.'</a> On the site, Jynona Norwood claims to be a "prophet" and predicted Jonestown (if so, why didn't she do something about it?), the Iraqi war and Princess Diana's death....<br /><br />I am starting to feel uncomfortable about this. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1J_O9R-Xct0jtlfNTE7libAGSh04xg3VLPoWstmOv_ee1Eznv6Z47bHYik02zAI-6SjnYO4sBclZV0Ih_ng1HJlBJNHxojwzRNqxBXgl_CruYgbxOvrRBGMwtnJksMVT0Eyc-1F-FnIOP/s1600-h/Jynona+Norwood++close+up+teeth+bared.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1J_O9R-Xct0jtlfNTE7libAGSh04xg3VLPoWstmOv_ee1Eznv6Z47bHYik02zAI-6SjnYO4sBclZV0Ih_ng1HJlBJNHxojwzRNqxBXgl_CruYgbxOvrRBGMwtnJksMVT0Eyc-1F-FnIOP/s320/Jynona+Norwood++close+up+teeth+bared.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402365476364498338" /></a>The original focus is being lost and celebrity is sought. Jones said he was a 'healer' and 'prophet.' Now Norwood is claiming to be the same charlatan, who passes around a collection bucket after the ceremony at the cemetery? I was literally sickened and walked away.<br /><br />The wall in Oakland is designed to include the names of known killers?<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />They killed! They killed! They killed! Their names should not be on the wall!<br /><br />I am outraged! It is not right! Their names next to they those killed?!<br />How can this be stopped? I don't want my money used for this. <br />I think you or your dad need to really look into this!<br /><br />Something is wrong!" </em><br /><br />Last November, this blog reported the brewing controversy. Norwood demanded that only the most notorious name should be left off the wall, while some of her other detractors insisted that all, killers and victims alike, be featured. The excerpt: <br /><br /><em>"Jones was not a victim," said Norwood, "To me, that's like putting Hitler's name on a memorial to the Holocaust."</em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMZ6nY7P0TMKARB-wAZ-qspHINkGsvQRPILHn50Uv_8SooL1dEZyPxnfrV3267HJU_vTscEf4-KGOixT_VwdCJTvLSiFkCGyy7ujQnyoIP0W6LT1TTCdZAo6Z6zaJ9xHrdPc9JeC5mshS7/s1600-h/Lela+Howard.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 184px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMZ6nY7P0TMKARB-wAZ-qspHINkGsvQRPILHn50Uv_8SooL1dEZyPxnfrV3267HJU_vTscEf4-KGOixT_VwdCJTvLSiFkCGyy7ujQnyoIP0W6LT1TTCdZAo6Z6zaJ9xHrdPc9JeC5mshS7/s400/Lela+Howard.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402375572842667602" /></a>It's clear, however, that her sentiment is not shared by all the relatives and survivors, including Lela Howard, who lost an aunt in Jonestown and had contacted the Apologist Alert late last year. She has publicly questioned Norwood's accounting of memorial funds (See "Division and Controversy Roils Construction of Jonestown Memorial," January 4, 2008 post.)<br /><br />But that's not all. Howard's rival group of survivors unveiled their own memorial plaque at the ceremony, bearing all the names of the dead, including a vicious sociopath named James Warren Jones. They've arranged to have the plaque displayed at San Francisco's African American Historical and Cultural Society.<br /><br />Norwood said she intends to inscribe the names of the Temple assassins that murdered Congressman Leo Ryan, three journalists, a defector, and shot 11 others (including Ryan's aide, Jackie Speier, who now holds his Congressional seat) at the Port Kaituma Airstrip. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEJKZaonJdDBL2s-DIfhInpUvuIl5c3bh0bhQrMv8eSXz9Wf_QENqufOs3IXbQhDvYnZ6w-O0Ik1j82-ZHF6M-dLCNcjNQudd_EtFkU2MomRUzBaiQ2UaVSvznfq5zdGLUR2XMIIIBV67/s1600-h/Jim+Jones+day+of+massacre.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEJKZaonJdDBL2s-DIfhInpUvuIl5c3bh0bhQrMv8eSXz9Wf_QENqufOs3IXbQhDvYnZ6w-O0Ik1j82-ZHF6M-dLCNcjNQudd_EtFkU2MomRUzBaiQ2UaVSvznfq5zdGLUR2XMIIIBV67/s320/Jim+Jones+day+of+massacre.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402377638658267394" /></a>But not Jones. Not ever. <em>"To put Jim Jones's name on that wall is an insult ... to all the dead," she said. "He was the most evil man who walked on this earth."</em><br /><br />Not so, says the man that carries his name, who survived the bloodbath with his bothers, thanks to a basketball tournament in Guyana's capital city, Georgetown. Jim Jones, Jr. sides with the Howard faction. <em>"The tragedy is we're villainizing Jim Jones," said the cult leader's adopted son. "Jim Jones was also a victim, of his own madness. We need to memorialize all the bodies, as a great loss."</em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi12MbL6iKE6XcMPaCds1DrkwSZtBMD1B5_CaHFR_UyEMTxcAh53XiOD0qEjkL9UwyoevUzBDdiVSteuw2Gfe3wEPFqU3KfNLP_jGfA2Yu6dzrn1XYYWGcIYF6nqHqbyvKGKhqXoWpwE1Kd/s1600-h/stalin+and+hitler+closeups.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 179px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi12MbL6iKE6XcMPaCds1DrkwSZtBMD1B5_CaHFR_UyEMTxcAh53XiOD0qEjkL9UwyoevUzBDdiVSteuw2Gfe3wEPFqU3KfNLP_jGfA2Yu6dzrn1XYYWGcIYF6nqHqbyvKGKhqXoWpwE1Kd/s200/stalin+and+hitler+closeups.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402383858807012418" /></a>Other victims of their own hyper pathology include a pair of notables that Father Jones in his early years studied voraciously to learn the finer techniques of sadism, power, and mind control.<br /><br />His cult of personality ended up fitting like an iron glove and crushing like a charm.<br /><br />Memorial, anyone?Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-64359396864615406032009-10-25T19:28:00.004-04:002009-10-25T23:54:23.863-04:00Manson, Jones, And Koresh: MSNBC's Halloween Banquet Of Cult Horror<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-X9PcmA9yDVTj1D2yLg3BgaCDnfoaGdQD-LuVKKhZo7lRsXc6diDJ0Bia7zRwlmw2xmZKXa2J999D3jHEPN6At2L0VNhLlDyaSyT_nWn-6gRVae6ajCG8kGyvqtAC7SRgw-kvhsVWWHl/s1600-h/charles+manson+and+followers.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-X9PcmA9yDVTj1D2yLg3BgaCDnfoaGdQD-LuVKKhZo7lRsXc6diDJ0Bia7zRwlmw2xmZKXa2J999D3jHEPN6At2L0VNhLlDyaSyT_nWn-6gRVae6ajCG8kGyvqtAC7SRgw-kvhsVWWHl/s400/charles+manson+and+followers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396683488337377042" /></a>Some TV network execs have apparently now been bitten by the cult bug.<br /><br />More than two weeks ago, <em>long</em> before the November anniversary marking the tragedy, CNN rebroadcast Soledad Obrien's "Escape From Jonestown".<br /><br />Now, tonight on MSNBC, we're getting served a triple entree of cult crazies. From 7 to 9 p.m., the saga of those ferociously poisonous flower children is being presented in "Will You Kill For Me? Charles Manson And His Followers."<br /><br />Between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m., we'll see the replay of last Sunday's "Witness To Waco," detailing the horrifying end to David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult.<br /><br />In 2003, ten years after the Waco holocaust, Cult Expert Rick Ross wrote an expose in his Cult News Network about one of the many cult apologists that continue making excuses for Koresh's slaughter of nearly 80 men, women, and children.<br /><br />Her name is Catherine Wessinger, a professor of religious studies at Loyola University. Ross reported the following:<br /><br /><em>"It seems Wessinger can be depended upon for an apology no matter how bizarre and/or destructive the cult. Today in the Waco Tribune-Herald’s second installment of its nine part series about the Branch Davidians she once again offers her unique spin on a cult’s demise.<br /><br />What does Wessinger make out of the Davidian cult tragedy? <br /><br />Well, she says it was largely about 'the militarization of law enforcement and the problems … and abuse that arise from such militarization.' <br /><br />Right.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPyAFBuvmPRA-fIbOhoSUmS9gjWsaszbjznlgpm7qLtPzU8Ifrlfr45TUdh0kYCXWF2o_8gSNMoeZ6dGnmQbsQbpAXTcRPcdx92LjjtSQKQr90aUGg4hR8sgdJK5AFZjFgW-sABaxcRev/s1600-h/David+Koresh++Time+Cover.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 227px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPyAFBuvmPRA-fIbOhoSUmS9gjWsaszbjznlgpm7qLtPzU8Ifrlfr45TUdh0kYCXWF2o_8gSNMoeZ6dGnmQbsQbpAXTcRPcdx92LjjtSQKQr90aUGg4hR8sgdJK5AFZjFgW-sABaxcRev/s320/David+Koresh++Time+Cover.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396706544126004658" /></a>Apparently this college professor doesn’t wish to acknowledge the implications of a purported 'psychopath' leading a cult group. Wessinger admits, 'I’m not trained in psychology so I don’t articulate those opinions....I’m sure he [Koresh] had some psychological issues.'<br /><br />What an understatement.<br /><br />Wessinger offers her usual apologetic spin. She has previously attempted to explain away cult tragedies such as Heaven’s Gate and Jonestown. Wessinger once said, 'If Jones and his community had succeeded in creating their Promised Land, they would still be here. But due to the attacks and investigations they endured, they opted for the Gnostic view that devalued this world.'<br /><br />Again, no meaningful blame is placed upon the deeply disturbed cult leader and the inherent destructive dynamics of his control over the group. Apparently almost any cult and/or cult leader’s behavior may be largely excused according to Wessinger’s reasoning under the general heading of 'persecution'....<br /><br />Koresh broke the law, failed to comply with a warrant, murdered federal officers and then refused to surrender for 51 days, despite the repeated pleas and guarantees of law enforcement. In the end he chose instead to kill himself and all his followers within the compound.<br /><br />The cult leader’s behavior had little if anything to do with 'biblical prophecy' and his 'work' was really more about criminal violations of gun laws and sexual abuse than the 'Book of Revelation.'<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBB1xlwopxPrEYT20fo1VeTe8H9-T5C9Y73XFKBGJf-9KjyBATa02Prejeu6AC5OzMxgNqCBwT6XQrOVx9NCHPOXjkwIZ5gwn_vbJoROzPzDUGHcGgrLUH61GqwnoJuh4LrXfUGc0GPLnU/s1600-h/catherine+wessinger+++river+boat+background.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBB1xlwopxPrEYT20fo1VeTe8H9-T5C9Y73XFKBGJf-9KjyBATa02Prejeu6AC5OzMxgNqCBwT6XQrOVx9NCHPOXjkwIZ5gwn_vbJoROzPzDUGHcGgrLUH61GqwnoJuh4LrXfUGc0GPLnU/s400/catherine+wessinger+++river+boat+background.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396728777480561346" /></a>However, 'apologists' like Wessinger apparently ignore such facts in favor of speculation based upon specious, but supposedly 'politically correct' views, instead of reality."</em><br /><br />You'll see Ross interviewed in the documentary. If Wessinger shows up, we'll know there's something amiss.<br /><br />Oh yes, and that leaves the hours, 9:00 to 11:00 p.m.--what notorious cult show might be sandwiched between the twin terrors of the Manson Family and the Branch Davidians?? Why, it's yet another "witnessing," like Waco, entitled "Witness To Jonestown."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNu_2ZRVWEYYSe413rECnLecMaJ-71orkxB7GkKIpSK-_Me-7VJ_cnDkcMpiZuZy31uvSH9Um4pL9fMbMjoyTSxr8qiFwCkzrCj5zWwBVM0yZGnKAsIp8rrNIIvMCtLUZl5euJT5-NeRc/s1600-h/Jim+Jones+scowling,+sunglasses,+trench+coat.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNu_2ZRVWEYYSe413rECnLecMaJ-71orkxB7GkKIpSK-_Me-7VJ_cnDkcMpiZuZy31uvSH9Um4pL9fMbMjoyTSxr8qiFwCkzrCj5zWwBVM0yZGnKAsIp8rrNIIvMCtLUZl5euJT5-NeRc/s400/Jim+Jones+scowling,+sunglasses,+trench+coat.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396722501463679170" /></a>Thaaaaat's right, people. The <em>Good Reverend</em> and his Temple of--at least, of course, <strong>til the very end</strong>--<em>Good Works</em>. After this program ran last year, one of my readers, "Dave," had this to say about MSNBC's distorted reporting:<br /><br /><em>"I observed all the same criminal omissions. The most glaring being the way they always present the People Temple's accommodation of old people and children as 'humanitarian' and ignore that it was the primary source of income. (California child welfare and social security checks were coming in at the rate of $65,000 per month)....."</em><br /><br />Dave also had some rather harsh criticism of a certain religious studies professor that runs a particular "institute" all about Jonestown and the People's Temple cult. Except <em><strong>it's not a cult!!</strong>, </em>sayeth Dr. Rebecca Moore, of San Diego State University.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIZiWds35TepwhrEKgNXjThR2UqgXSvt6f_WemtwA8gwu-gOrR2aRQJA-4csTAPK_b7dFtoIoZTkr0Z1x1msGVf6oBSJU1veJOMS5iEgTk-zxpdgBDlUv7v0lA1sY1NudEU_vK0kPaP4k/s1600-h/Becky+Moore+smiling++big+photo.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIZiWds35TepwhrEKgNXjThR2UqgXSvt6f_WemtwA8gwu-gOrR2aRQJA-4csTAPK_b7dFtoIoZTkr0Z1x1msGVf6oBSJU1veJOMS5iEgTk-zxpdgBDlUv7v0lA1sY1NudEU_vK0kPaP4k/s200/Becky+Moore+smiling++big+photo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396734566984720738" /></a><em>"Moore and her ilk," </em>charged Dave,<em> "have reduced the label for these destructive, con-games-on-a-massive-scale to the word 'cult' and have then dismissed the word. <br /><br />She should be ashamed of herself.<br /><br />As a religious scholar, she needs to know that putting cults and the worship of God on the same plane diminishes religion. Period."</em><br /><br />And here's an utterly amazing coincidence: Blue Ribbon Jonestown Apologist Becky juuuuuust so happens to be a real good buddy of our Koresh Booster, Cathy Wessinger. In fact, they both co-edit the insidious <em>"New Religious Movements"</em>(translation--CULTS) propaganda journal, "Novo Religio."<br /><br />The lady scholars get a little help from a third flaming cult apologist named Douglas Cowan. He runs the online "Religious Movements Homepage Project," currently under renovation. Cowen is celebrated for his crafty embellishments of virtually any and all cults, no matter how ruthless or rapacious.<br /><br />That's probably why Becky and Cathy have Cowan helping to co-pilot their barge, U.S.S. Apologia. In a 2004 academic paper, Cowen announced the very destructive Scientology <em>"has an image problem." </em><br /><br />Image problem?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pzy9YiaZyClT6pRgid1OF_dZnPTo7rAIO749r_gokkSRQa_0Dx1M9aeEZmb9VpZ5xngGNKXqXh3fpqHa13Pymnha5rNhuTJzrLRxD8NQDEiWBJ1VBHSUt7xSNFJcJVP7ogAoXt2URmgJ/s1600-h/Jonestown+gasmask.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pzy9YiaZyClT6pRgid1OF_dZnPTo7rAIO749r_gokkSRQa_0Dx1M9aeEZmb9VpZ5xngGNKXqXh3fpqHa13Pymnha5rNhuTJzrLRxD8NQDEiWBJ1VBHSUt7xSNFJcJVP7ogAoXt2URmgJ/s400/Jonestown+gasmask.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396742204982521746" /></a><br /><br />Oh, yeah. That sometimes happens.Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-36023505643046777292009-10-17T22:41:00.000-04:002009-10-18T07:00:06.631-04:00High Politicos Continue Milking The Man That "Gave Hope" To A Doomed Cult<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCO5M2G9Zdw_478mzgs1kOyGNan_yYVryFjORxXEdgHp9vVfLhW1bdJNSAKCRQqVkmAE654g2vuc4e4sKbbc_PxMGC-HtWAkwnSuGOuDaZ9r6uWfnO-BcXixhEi-xW_YbIdVTtNk_EZkHI/s1600-h/Harvey+Milk+City+Hall+Shrine.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCO5M2G9Zdw_478mzgs1kOyGNan_yYVryFjORxXEdgHp9vVfLhW1bdJNSAKCRQqVkmAE654g2vuc4e4sKbbc_PxMGC-HtWAkwnSuGOuDaZ9r6uWfnO-BcXixhEi-xW_YbIdVTtNk_EZkHI/s400/Harvey+Milk+City+Hall+Shrine.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393795771438346258" /></a><br />The Harvey Milk shrine gracing the top of San Francisco City Hall's grand staircase has an inscription from the late supervisor's famed speech claiming his election "gave young people out there hope. You gotta give 'em hope."<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfc_EYC_q9x42GMfnVSxeagdGL9JTSq4J9pMXNXw1Zhq0fg2EFxj9xDYkmvEdfIMledCQz_xOd2QBxWchCaIwKu803Ter9FcG1IpCNsX3p0g1Druoo1Jh7Zt_R2j5YKFqhqTl_w75isDAh/s1600-h/Got+Milk+Ad++Clockwork+Orange.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfc_EYC_q9x42GMfnVSxeagdGL9JTSq4J9pMXNXw1Zhq0fg2EFxj9xDYkmvEdfIMledCQz_xOd2QBxWchCaIwKu803Ter9FcG1IpCNsX3p0g1Druoo1Jh7Zt_R2j5YKFqhqTl_w75isDAh/s200/Got+Milk+Ad++Clockwork+Orange.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393822658318558146" /></a>Hope clearly is fast gaining steam in some quarters now that this <em>new & improved</em> milk propaganda blitz has hit the stratosphere. Last Tuesday California Gov. Schwarzenegger followed Pres. Obama's lead in deifying the Jim Jones accomplice, with the signing into state law "Harvey Milk Day" every May 22nd. This comes on the heels of Governor Musclehead's plan to induct the Milk Man into the California Hall of Fame in December.<br /><br />That next side show will follow the month after another Jonestown Massacre anniversary, which Harvey also gets a bow for being one of the preventable tragedy's most notable official facilitators.<br /><br />Sure, there's some folks that continue taking issue with me here, some of them who just can't resist playing apologists for all the brazen allies of the torturers & murderers that ran the People's Temple cult. One of my readers, "Emily," wrote in earlier this year (and PLEASE do excuse me for letting some of the comments fall through the cyber cracks!) pleading compassion for the self-serving slobs, living and dead, who have Jonestown blood-stained hands.<br /><br />Emily, an apparent fan of fictional bio-pics, set the record straight about the "Milk" movie:<br /><br /><em>"Come on. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0qSSUK3CeyDU_RTpSTzHBWZ0SixpcubmW-w_chBMaLQhrDjzRrcW9gG-H0Dq7csXCO7vVYHlwO4jrAmMM2_N-dE3CifZMd4TqH9IT4fy7x1mRuSljz-PEFFIuG_PyrkM9m9gSI14gh1d/s1600-h/leo+ryan+++scared+at+Jonestown.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 174px; height: 174px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI0qSSUK3CeyDU_RTpSTzHBWZ0SixpcubmW-w_chBMaLQhrDjzRrcW9gG-H0Dq7csXCO7vVYHlwO4jrAmMM2_N-dE3CifZMd4TqH9IT4fy7x1mRuSljz-PEFFIuG_PyrkM9m9gSI14gh1d/s400/leo+ryan+++scared+at+Jonestown.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393859094977765602" /></a>Even Ryan himself was initially fooled by the supposed utopian socialist paradise while he was standing within its very walls. Jones was a masterful con man and was very, very deft at appearing kind to outsiders. Even initial criticisms and reports of abuse could have been disputed as a disgruntled or intolerant agenda against what, from the outside, very easily could have appeared to be nothing more than a loving group of people committed to a self-sustaining lifestyle apart from the real world.<br /><br />Yes, you and I know that was far, far from the case now, but we have history on our side. It's very easy to sit back in judgement when you know what was going to happen next.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yGx9ta94CewVJ1u7b2sdUaplzZqFMXayoIxDv-TOhfHD9G1qUTXgVO1Jh7_i4FTZT5tEVP4_MdxODPe4vxM9Il9LUpRaFdSqRAOilNMoPbg0jtXRZ2mbg-UYSr3zPO0_gdV8CTJy8MJn/s1600-h/cecil+williams+++jones++MLK+award.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yGx9ta94CewVJ1u7b2sdUaplzZqFMXayoIxDv-TOhfHD9G1qUTXgVO1Jh7_i4FTZT5tEVP4_MdxODPe4vxM9Il9LUpRaFdSqRAOilNMoPbg0jtXRZ2mbg-UYSr3zPO0_gdV8CTJy8MJn/s400/cecil+williams+++jones++MLK+award.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393860802400522050" /></a>Do you honestly think any of those people would have been complacent and done nothing if they had hard, factual evidence that there was extreme abuse that would result in everybody in Jonestown being killed? Do you think nobody feels any guilt for being a part of what ultimately enabled Jones to get away with it all?<br /><br />The movie is about Harvey Milk and his activism for gay civil rights, not Harvey Milk and everybody he ever knew in his lifetime. Introducing the Jones aspect would have been an almost awkward non sequitur that couldn't have been done in a manner that would do the severity of the subject justice, unless you made the entire film about that association. It's the stuff of dense biographies, not a two-hour biopic. Simply brushing over the subject as if it were not important would have been worse than not mentioning it at all.<br /><br />A lot of people were fooled by Jim Jones. I can't condemn every last one of them for not knowing the horrific fate of his followers."</em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzD8_hnR9KsdafG1XwqFsCMbzMNILXS4ntMjgRsosx64dGwNzgAH2P3TNhQvuNm1NvzqKBzY7iUyqcQ8tTkmBnICnSDiexCCWBz-1r8x1VN5GDfgyvEDayg-uBXGgAyUW22JQA7UKfXR11/s1600-h/Jones+001.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 184px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzD8_hnR9KsdafG1XwqFsCMbzMNILXS4ntMjgRsosx64dGwNzgAH2P3TNhQvuNm1NvzqKBzY7iUyqcQ8tTkmBnICnSDiexCCWBz-1r8x1VN5GDfgyvEDayg-uBXGgAyUW22JQA7UKfXR11/s200/Jones+001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393864775285528402" /></a>Emily, it looked like it was cinch for Harvey Milk to sing the cult praises as a "loving group of people committed to a self-sustaining lifestyle apart from the real world," just as long as he (A) kept on getting their invaluable election support and (B) averted his eyes to the continuing avalanche of substantiated reports of Temple fraud, abuse, slave labor, beatings, extortion, and death drills.<br /><br />Not a problem either, for other shameless wonders like Willie Brown and Cecil Williams. They cheered on Jones right up to day of the slaughter in Guyana. And the film's fantasy Adventures In Milkville? Understandable. After all, a Hollywood saint's working relationship with a mass murderers might just be very "awkward."<br /><br />I hardly agree with the right-wing on anything (left-wing, for that matter, too.) But once and while they actually manage to right a flagrant wrong. The issue of the culprits that had repeat dance cards with Jim J. Frankenstein, for instance. Author Daniel Flynn wrote the following in his devastating expose, "Drinking Harvey Milk's Kool-Aid," which appeared in the online City Journal magazine last May.<br /><br />Hopefully Emily and others will consider Flynn's cogent warnings<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXRhESPp0RxZTZP9EB6aRu2IgcXyBFZUvPHa-83k2iCFvJHtIdZ569OV-FeZD-FQHaNVFbgI3PhB4yhzspMbMwBWprpSGqiIFNYNI699JjMX4f9DUhoVSRnyLM6YadjkjzNBSQb4Se7Wl/s1600-h/Harvey+Milk++office+door.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXRhESPp0RxZTZP9EB6aRu2IgcXyBFZUvPHa-83k2iCFvJHtIdZ569OV-FeZD-FQHaNVFbgI3PhB4yhzspMbMwBWprpSGqiIFNYNI699JjMX4f9DUhoVSRnyLM6YadjkjzNBSQb4Se7Wl/s400/Harvey+Milk++office+door.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393873015038951938" /></a> against whitewashing/mythologizing--on or off the silver screen--people that have sinned something terrible. Even those no longer with us. It's bad for future generations.<br /><br />As the ol' saying goes, "Those that do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them...."<br /><br /><em>".....Milk makes a rather unremarkable subject for the silver screen," </em>writes Flynn, <em>"In his seven years in San Francisco, he made four bids for elective office, only emerging victorious in his last—a 1977 run for city supervisor. For his persistence, Milk jokingly referred to himself as the 'gay Harold Stassen.' He served for less than a year.<br /><br />In naming the onetime camera-shop proprietor one of the 100 most important people of the twentieth century, Time conceded, 'As a supervisor, Milk sponsored only two laws—predictably, one barring anti-gay discrimination, and, less so, a law forcing dog owners to clean pets’ messes from sidewalks.' Eleven months on the city council hardly seems the stuff of Hollywood legend.<br /><br />So Hollywood invented a legend. <br /><br />Rather than the gentle, soft-spoken idealist portrayed by Sean Penn, the real Harvey Milk was a short-tempered demagogue who cynically invented stories of victimhood to advance his political career. During his successful run for city supervisor, for instance, Milk’s camera store was the object of a glass-shattering attack by low-grade explosives.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmw9OtCE7WVnni6QdxWP6XQbqm_GUbCpvj1GjahG7lYEuiuJFanfoPGkO2gR3GLEOZE3jch5SyS4NHgIUosCrozy8hjBMno9tWqm3RB8YlQXWohqkxJGbAShP-1vj4mx82Q61SfWx5-6G/s1600-h/Harvey+Milk++hand+on+chin++scowling.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 364px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmw9OtCE7WVnni6QdxWP6XQbqm_GUbCpvj1GjahG7lYEuiuJFanfoPGkO2gR3GLEOZE3jch5SyS4NHgIUosCrozy8hjBMno9tWqm3RB8YlQXWohqkxJGbAShP-1vj4mx82Q61SfWx5-6G/s400/Harvey+Milk++hand+on+chin++scowling.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393868114876489858" /></a>Milk blamed singer Anita Bryant, the outspoken opponent of gay-friendly legislation. 'Years later friends hinted broadly that Harvey had more than a little foreknowledge that the explosions would happen,' biographer Randy Shilts noted. One friend explained to Shilts: 'You gotta realize the campaign was sort of going slow, and, well...'<br /><br />The stunt would hardly have been the sole instance of Milk’s employing deceit to further his standing within the victimhood cult. In the upside-down world of San Francisco politics, Milk curried favor with voters by boasting that his homosexuality had resulted in a dishonorable discharge from the Navy in the dark ages before the sexual revolution. But far from the in-your-face, ponytailed 'Mayor of Castro Street' of the 1970s, Chief Petty Officer Milk of the 1950s was a closeted homosexual whose discharge papers reflected four years of honorable service. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2tSosItQ4iYdq2aEueMvY2reLFtiuc0PLuyCJMBEtrqCrB9YWYFzuWuDsvAimT27vLqMxHyLf-VmCxkYAq68Lwais3xg4X4oKYL2j83x_8T2I1wqzBRSOJS_lMq64-VKMJz04V_VL0kg/s1600-h/Bill+Sipple+++outed+by+Milk.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 201px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2tSosItQ4iYdq2aEueMvY2reLFtiuc0PLuyCJMBEtrqCrB9YWYFzuWuDsvAimT27vLqMxHyLf-VmCxkYAq68Lwais3xg4X4oKYL2j83x_8T2I1wqzBRSOJS_lMq64-VKMJz04V_VL0kg/s320/Bill+Sipple+++outed+by+Milk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393870721389689282" /></a>Milk was far more cavalier about the privacy of others than he was about his own. When Bill Sipple became a national hero for tackling gun-toting kook Sara Jane Moore before she could kill President Gerald Ford in 1975, Milk anonymously leaked news of the former Marine’s homosexuality to the media. 'It’s too good an opportunity,' Milk reasoned. 'For once we can show that gays do heroic things.' Just as Milk anticipated the 'outing' tactics of ACT-Up and Queer Nation, his rhetoric, too, foreshadowed the hyperbole of AIDS activists of the following decade.<br /><br />Milk liberally tossed the 'Nazi' label at opponents of various gay-rights proposals and even compared politically moderate homosexuals to Nazi collaborators. 'We are not going to allow our rights to be taken away and then march with bowed heads into the gas chambers,' Milk proclaimed at 1978’s Gay Freedom Parade in San Francisco. <br /><br />Such unflattering details made neither the final draft of the 'Harvey Milk Day' legislation nor the final cut of the Milk biopic. Milk’s cheerleaders are guilty of sins of omission and commission. What the film and legislation insinuate--in an effort to depict Milk as a martyr for the gay rights movement on par with Martin Luther King’s martyrdom for the Civil Rights movement--is that homophobia killed Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978. <br /><br />But Harvey Milk’s homosexuality played about as much of a role in his murder as San Francisco mayor George Moscone’s heterosexuality played in his. Their murderer, troubled political neophyte Dan White, had donated $100 to defeat the Briggs Initiative, which would have empowered school boards to fire teachers for homosexuality. White hired a homosexual as his campaign manager and voted as a city supervisor to fund a Pride Center for homosexuals. White wasn’t driven to murder by Milk’s vision of gay rights but rather by something more pedestrian: the petty politics of City Hall. What makes for good history doesn’t always lend itself to good theater. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgWF-B6QIQ-szXA7PPyYMsm8W2Wjt2ZG_Za6ENpcyurXU5xbokSVmF43FmM4Dtk1jw8kV9Xd8BdpJODL-2xsi4DMp9w2PW52vlT3HgIs44Rne4v5_rzdCdVjQDCiSYrK0EdL9nkgX2BgH/s1600-h/Dan+White+II.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTgWF-B6QIQ-szXA7PPyYMsm8W2Wjt2ZG_Za6ENpcyurXU5xbokSVmF43FmM4Dtk1jw8kV9Xd8BdpJODL-2xsi4DMp9w2PW52vlT3HgIs44Rne4v5_rzdCdVjQDCiSYrK0EdL9nkgX2BgH/s400/Dan+White+II.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393875373135830034" /></a>In a sign of the instability he would so dramatically display on November 27, a cash-strapped White had resigned his seat on the Board of Supervisors on November 10, only to demand four days later that the mayor reappoint him. Mayor Moscone publicly responded by saying that he still regarded White as a member of the board, handed back his letter of resignation, and promised him the seat.<br /><br />Enter Harvey Milk, who saw White as an obstacle to progressive initiatives. As the movie depicts, Milk successfully lobbied Moscone to refuse to reseat the former policeman, fireman, and Vietnam veteran. Believing Milk and Moscone guilty of perfidy, the tightly wound, sore-loser White assassinated Moscone and then Milk. <br /><br />Perhaps the most amazing historical detail of the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone is that their dramatic assassinations weren’t the biggest story to hit San Francisco in November of 1978. Bowdlerized from the Hollywood treatment is the role Harvey Milk played in the news story that eclipsed his own murder. <br /><br />Nine days prior to Milk’s death, more than 900 followers of Jim Jones--many of them campaign workers for Milk--perished in the most ghastly set of murder-suicides in modern history. Before the congregants of the Peoples Temple drank Jim Jones’s deadly Kool-Aid, Harvey Milk and much of San Francisco’s ruling class had already figuratively imbibed.<br /><br />Milk occasionally spoke at Jones’s San Francisco–based headquarters, promoted Jones through his newspaper columns, and defended the Peoples Temple from its growing legion of critics. Jones provided conscripted 'volunteers' for Milk’s campaigns to distribute leaflets by the tens of thousands. Milk returned the favor by abusing his position of public trust on behalf of Jones’s criminal endeavors. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V3mrDQ69iFSJauQFyR6VIwytLNz2Qgqf42drtDVsRrAaI__dQze236bJQZ_6_7fx01arGYsbLGdsLxiQYGfhgJ7Egz4SqHb7_XGNw-kSMqavTHr2s2F_Pbae4TH0TXVKfjfat5TNIpTp/s1600-h/Sleazy+suited+grinning+Jim+Jones.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V3mrDQ69iFSJauQFyR6VIwytLNz2Qgqf42drtDVsRrAaI__dQze236bJQZ_6_7fx01arGYsbLGdsLxiQYGfhgJ7Egz4SqHb7_XGNw-kSMqavTHr2s2F_Pbae4TH0TXVKfjfat5TNIpTp/s320/Sleazy+suited+grinning+Jim+Jones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393876575679159410" /></a>'Rev. Jones is widely known in the minority communities here and elsewhere as a man of the highest character, who has undertaken constructive remedies for social problems which have been amazing in their scope and effectiveness,' Supervisor Milk wrote President Jimmy Carter seven months before the Jonestown carnage. The purpose of Milk’s letter was to aid and abet his powerful supporter’s abduction of a six-year-old boy.<br /><br />Milk’s missive to the president prophetically continued: 'Not only is the life of a child at stake, who currently has loving and protective parents in the Rev. and Mrs. Jones, but our official relations with Guyana could stand to be jeopardized, to the potentially great embarrassment of our State Department.' John Stoen, the boy whose actual parents Milk libeled to the president as purveyors of 'bold-faced lies' and blackmail attempts, perished at Jonestown. This, the only remarkable episode in Milk’s brief tenure on the San Francisco board of supervisors, is swept under the rug by his hagiographers. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYCFHD4KNtoDokgEuG-h2nm4J_OUkVHCN-1KXoyTwy7qvwwbMtZDn8NnYSm74A0LiPFiOat3NtaDEV0uRjyZawLFaUA9ujfSe-k890VpZ2rvTPZVCKT0avyqef_Uyo0znBh6czVM7cKk5/s1600-h/spiderman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYCFHD4KNtoDokgEuG-h2nm4J_OUkVHCN-1KXoyTwy7qvwwbMtZDn8NnYSm74A0LiPFiOat3NtaDEV0uRjyZawLFaUA9ujfSe-k890VpZ2rvTPZVCKT0avyqef_Uyo0znBh6czVM7cKk5/s400/spiderman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393883834444367490" /></a><br />Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk is as real as Toby Maguire’s Spider-Man.<br /><br />Who has time for the sordid details of purportedly staged hate crimes and boosterism of America’s most prolific mass murderer when there is a gay Martin Luther King to be mythologized? Even the fervent atheist Milk understood the need for patron saints. When confronted by a jaded supporter over his fabricated tale that the Navy had booted him out because of his sex life, Milk responded: 'Symbols. Symbols. Symbols.' He understood his movement better than his movement did.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMkn7yAag9Z9IfJeXwEZ9woDJ6OLjNay-Q62gOBjtIxA_Z9JOfZvpGKUXA52L1A48g407a2-xN44FQpNR0yJEfM1cEObakj9AWisjlHJsWcqMz65pbeiqIMTKbn52NFgaNAYy72YmrA9E/s1600-h/penn++milk+with+outstretched+hands.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMkn7yAag9Z9IfJeXwEZ9woDJ6OLjNay-Q62gOBjtIxA_Z9JOfZvpGKUXA52L1A48g407a2-xN44FQpNR0yJEfM1cEObakj9AWisjlHJsWcqMz65pbeiqIMTKbn52NFgaNAYy72YmrA9E/s320/penn++milk+with+outstretched+hands.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393885946767338642" /></a>When the facts didn’t fit the script, both Milk and his present-day admirers adjusted the facts. As the elected sponsors of Harvey Milk Day realize, Californians are more likely to remember the celluloid hero they saw depicted by Sean Penn earlier this year than the obscure city official who walked largely unnoticed in their midst three decades ago. <br /><br />The advocates of a Harvey Milk Day know box office. They don’t know the real Harvey Milk."</em><br /><br />And the ones that did?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkWWI9BeufAMsyNKeQgsjrmrwgQ2zHeSuqscdqfR8wz5E_kc8K1R9DynDFp7Tn02eoWU_P6mb9i2OEQa5kNo9uqtFAAWlzeWxXifIAjZFJnxXgS8NYxq0i5H2eCRK9wAqlUMRq8AxoOEj/s1600-h/Jonestown+dead+with+parrot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkWWI9BeufAMsyNKeQgsjrmrwgQ2zHeSuqscdqfR8wz5E_kc8K1R9DynDFp7Tn02eoWU_P6mb9i2OEQa5kNo9uqtFAAWlzeWxXifIAjZFJnxXgS8NYxq0i5H2eCRK9wAqlUMRq8AxoOEj/s400/Jonestown+dead+with+parrot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393854302748564002" /></a><br /><br />They're not talking.Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-58987353549553110092009-10-10T18:14:00.022-04:002009-10-11T09:52:24.775-04:00An Early Anniversary Kick Off With CNN's "Escape From Jonestown" Laundering Of The People's Temple Saga<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzBFGCB-HRdJ0YOFVi98LltGP9PcGEx81009n07lUGld0o2rYPz5NqHYAToy4uLMNt2PGdHXcVxdj4sXgj3rj07TyXL6SYgNV3WpwfZIlCfojWzELbVoWQs3Reg_q8y5aQcEekufCVIn5/s1600-h/CNN+Escape+Jonestown++Jones+Pic.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQzBFGCB-HRdJ0YOFVi98LltGP9PcGEx81009n07lUGld0o2rYPz5NqHYAToy4uLMNt2PGdHXcVxdj4sXgj3rj07TyXL6SYgNV3WpwfZIlCfojWzELbVoWQs3Reg_q8y5aQcEekufCVIn5/s400/CNN+Escape+Jonestown++Jones+Pic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391101747748439266" /></a>Looks like the annual People's Temple White Wash Festival arrives early this year.<br /><br />Tonight, Saturday, at 8 p.m. EST, CNN will be rerunning Soledad O'Brien's "Escape From Jonestown" documentary shown during last year's 30th Anniversary of the massacre. Of course you wouldn't know it unless you've kept tuned to CNN for the past several days and seen the promos. <br /><br />For some unfathomable reason, none of the TV listings off or online have the program listed. I had to call CNN headquarters, where their spokesperson admitted they had made a "boo-boo" and that it would be posted. Maybe, maybe not. Likely a lot of audience will miss out (unless, of course, the CNN rep got it wrong, and the TV promos were misplaced....)<br /><br />Nope, surely not the first or last time for a Big Media screw-up. To err is human, the ol' adage says, but mass media behemoths have a whole lot of latitude. Save the day. Send multitudes into oblivion. The gamut has been long and wide, and just too often unaccountable when it came to things like the lethal sins of omission.<br /><br />And then, what do ya know, this marvelous information highway shows up and all that fog wafts magically right out of the public eye! <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirq6Mjt_KdrRXlLwvmAN0t-ficJGVFebcQJwwEG9mYyienj0Oku6heScYJkNZAuV5QXHCCHO85iR7wnGThMD-3V63ag5xi99RTA-uCx7bICH9VD-dGKsl6xP3ToIOKtQVlebeN_dQCjX1B/s1600-h/Jonestown+mass+of+bodies.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirq6Mjt_KdrRXlLwvmAN0t-ficJGVFebcQJwwEG9mYyienj0Oku6heScYJkNZAuV5QXHCCHO85iR7wnGThMD-3V63ag5xi99RTA-uCx7bICH9VD-dGKsl6xP3ToIOKtQVlebeN_dQCjX1B/s400/Jonestown+mass+of+bodies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391130784276468450" /></a>This episode of abysmal failure to do their jobs to stop an utterly preventable slaughter of over 900 Americans was one of the most appalling in history. <br /><br />It must be said that "Escape" is one of the better of the People's Temple retrospectives because there are some good solid interviews with survivors. Nonetheless, the cover up continues on the media's conspiracy of silence on the real evolution of the Crime of the Century.<br /><br />See if you notice these choice excerpts from tonight's show:<br /><br /><em>O'BRIEN: By his own account, Jim Jones was born on the wrong side of the tracks, in a small Indiana town in the Depression years. By high school, Jones was going to a revivalist style church and preaching to others from the sidewalks of his hometown. At 21, Jones became a student pastor by taking a correspondence course. Within a few years, he had started his own church in Indianapolis, named it Peoples Temple and opened its doors to African-Americans.<br /><br />He and his wife Marceline became an interracial family through adoption and embraced racial harmony in an era that resisted it. But even then, Jones preached of catastrophe.<br /><br />G. PARKS: At that time, the cold war was going on. And he was yelling a bomb was going to fall and there would be a nuclear war.<br /><br />O'BRIEN: In the mid-'60s, Jones moved his church outside the town of Ukiah in Northern California.<br /><br />G. PARKS: So he got this revelation somehow to come to Ukiah, California. And there was a cave out here.<br /><br />O'BRIEN: A cave in the hills around Redwood Valley that would shield everyone from nuclear fallout.<br /><br />G. PARKS: I know now as sure as I'm sitting here -- and I knew, you know, I have for a long time, there was no such place. It was all one of his lies.<br /><br />O'BRIEN: Jones built this church and offered sanctuary there -- a safety net to the elderly and poor, usually blacks from the inner city. They signed over their Social Security checks and the Peoples Temple cared for them for the rest of their lives....</em><br /><br />"Offered sanctuary"? "A safety net"? "....Cared for them for the rest of their lives...."?? Interesting take on it, Soledad. Not a whole lot of discussion, though, about the fraud or extortion or electroshock torture carried out by those "caring" Temple folks on five year-old children.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96JfBLkcTqEAin13qO7xjB_FbelA6KF7dPKv56pXfNpfuA_XotcTY3S8gHtNU4G_N4bDkrh49iYXuZsUo7Egs1GZQBYo3v8ADXvMZzJ0N-UE4S_ZDF_Gsy7ENlz-0N2UA5gn_TOCMU2Gc/s1600-h/Examiner%2520Logo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 82px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96JfBLkcTqEAin13qO7xjB_FbelA6KF7dPKv56pXfNpfuA_XotcTY3S8gHtNU4G_N4bDkrh49iYXuZsUo7Egs1GZQBYo3v8ADXvMZzJ0N-UE4S_ZDF_Gsy7ENlz-0N2UA5gn_TOCMU2Gc/s400/Examiner%2520Logo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391133003690423138" /></a>Nothing, either, regarding the San Francisco Examiner's four page one 1972 articles on a host of nefarious activities occurring in this "safety net," part of a devastating series of exposes that would have obliterated Jim Jones's death camp march. Unfortunately, that came to a screaming halt when that grand Hearst newspaper decided that turning coward was easier.<br /><br />So the Examiner ceased examining--for five long critical years.<br /><br />No, such details are just too much of an "inconvenient truth" for CNN's, or any other Big Media Script.<br /><br />Another excerpt:<br /><br /><em>O'BRIEN: Verne Gosney joined the church in California about that same time. He and his wife, an interracial couple, were welcome.<br /><br />GOSNEY: The Peoples Temple was a rich tapestry of people. They were people who had survived adverse situations -- racism, discrimination -- just very difficult lives. And they had triumphed to that point.<br /><br />O'BRIEN: In 1975, Jones moved his church headquarters from Redwood Valley down to San Francisco, to a larger stage, where he became a political force and a face in photo-ops....</em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IUK1PVwH0pE9U5CwNYlSrOPuCxHvlgO4XVUf3LX4j6hCnMt7m18neM2JkffS2kBFLk4OhUR4NfhEJNyUt2rEXeE7sIFk-Dz4_Pjn2KDkdDWDLWI_VqfhR-r4_W2ok3OkuBAk9-8TXj89/s1600-h/Jim+Jones+being+touched+by+cultists.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IUK1PVwH0pE9U5CwNYlSrOPuCxHvlgO4XVUf3LX4j6hCnMt7m18neM2JkffS2kBFLk4OhUR4NfhEJNyUt2rEXeE7sIFk-Dz4_Pjn2KDkdDWDLWI_VqfhR-r4_W2ok3OkuBAk9-8TXj89/s400/Jim+Jones+being+touched+by+cultists.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391135437261532642" /></a><br />Oh, come now, Verne. The cultists <em>"had <strong>triumphed</strong> to that point"</em>? <br /><br />Was this before, or after, they had been bludgeoned and brainwashed into slave laborers?? <br /><br />This last O'Brien statement is the one parroted faithfully by just about every pundit head that runs around Investigative Reporting Wonderland:<br /><br /><em>O'BRIEN: "....In that summer of 1977, Jones was facing increasing criticism from some members who fled the church because they no longer believed in Jones. When 'New West' magazine published an expose article about church beatings, Jim Jones suddenly decided to leave the country...."</em><br /><br />Keep the tradition alive. NO ONE in the Fourth Estate knew <em>anything</em>--until those sleep-walking crusaders Marshal Kilduff, Tim Rieterman, and others leaped out from under their rocks a whopping five years after the Examiner had exposed Jim Jones. Nice work covering their collective tails--err, tales, CNN.<br /><br />Again, this is not to say that "Escape From Jonestown" doesn't have a lot of solid reporting. It does. But sadly, outrageously, there's enough of a credibility hole here to toss it in with all the other disingenuous servings on Big Media's "true story" slag heap about the People's Temple cult.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyN_JALpdkRRuaxHgzKN8lhsSTbUlistUnBo4Yrn9yLh3Tselp-Udnh1bBuYjnwWtnScZSzKvUSQYE0u4Q1gtAtJVOCWn0-hoT96fCcIuY-j5eyR5hqkYSq_VbkxH8jj76W8daIL1JW92D/s1600-h/Harvey+Milk+As+Saint.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyN_JALpdkRRuaxHgzKN8lhsSTbUlistUnBo4Yrn9yLh3Tselp-Udnh1bBuYjnwWtnScZSzKvUSQYE0u4Q1gtAtJVOCWn0-hoT96fCcIuY-j5eyR5hqkYSq_VbkxH8jj76W8daIL1JW92D/s320/Harvey+Milk+As+Saint.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391140735847640882" /></a>Oh, yes, there's also the little matter about the late Harvey Milk, who not only was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom over the summer but was also recently inducted into the California Hall of Fame, along with the great Carol Burnett, George Lucas, and Chuck Yeager.<br /><br />They're even waiting for Gov. Schwarzenegger to sign into law an official "Harvey Milk Day" for California. Let's just hope that The Terminator can guess who--out of Burnett, Lucas, Yeager, and Milk--faithfully helped Jim Jones keep his flock for the cyanide slaughter in Guyana. <br /><br /><br />Coming up.....Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-37607041403568609602009-08-18T01:30:00.000-04:002009-08-18T07:42:42.956-04:00Pres. Obama's Glittering Award For A Mass Murdering Cult Lord's Accomplice<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ZeUpLJ81HCj-vEU0XOfKeBQwUuWLnV9cEmg9xr9oq8tDxi6-4I9K8-XoB6s9yTvCMeioHnE9FaEi4Gyo0o7DTkkgYglGc9FMA0EqUVaJgY1dlOnFuMmrbE3vvLphrksazoxfg3tywIAp/s1600-h/Jones+and+Dead+people.bmp"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ZeUpLJ81HCj-vEU0XOfKeBQwUuWLnV9cEmg9xr9oq8tDxi6-4I9K8-XoB6s9yTvCMeioHnE9FaEi4Gyo0o7DTkkgYglGc9FMA0EqUVaJgY1dlOnFuMmrbE3vvLphrksazoxfg3tywIAp/s400/Jones+and+Dead+people.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365303393623635554" />
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrp01BHUbZg25DGmItVTqbiEsMU_tbXIbnrCnNHLMUAq1u3rFEQRuB4gdLdHh4czA8Ra8u5IMJjLWBvnw9IoQ3SpZjO_WU9zfSLNWGrOVEVorChj7CIWuHqKTxvMN_WBVPBFLWaRvzcm3/s1600-h/Harvey+Milk+sneering.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 392px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrp01BHUbZg25DGmItVTqbiEsMU_tbXIbnrCnNHLMUAq1u3rFEQRuB4gdLdHh4czA8Ra8u5IMJjLWBvnw9IoQ3SpZjO_WU9zfSLNWGrOVEVorChj7CIWuHqKTxvMN_WBVPBFLWaRvzcm3/s400/Harvey+Milk+sneering.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365303174393747122" /></a> The Rev. Jim Jones couldn't have asked for a more rousing endorsement.
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<br />This one, priceless: A letter from a big city official, addressed to the President of the United States.
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<br />And no ordinary politician, oh no. As one of the first openly elected Gay public officials in American history, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk surely had the attention-getting pull the People's Temple cult craved.
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<br />Milk was more than happy to dress up his ravenous wolf pal in a real nice sheep's vestment.
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<br /><em>"There are some facts you should be informed of," </em>he wrote to Pres. Jimmy Carter on February 19, 1978. <em>"Rev. Jones is....a man of the highest character, who has undertaken constructive remedies for social problems which have been amazing in their scope and effectiveness."</em>
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<br />Mind you, Milk is writing this <strong>well after </strong>Jones had escaped the country to take refuge in his Guyana Gulag, <strong>long after </strong>all the evidence was out about his fraud, extortion, sadism, and suicide drills forced on cult captives.
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<br />No matter, the big city supervisor owed his good buddy who had garnered him votes. Clearly the men, women, children, and infants now trapped in the Guyana Death Camp--with just nine months to live--were expendable.
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<br />The thrust of his letter was a withering attack on two key members of the Concerned Relatives group that was desperately trying to rescue their loved ones, only to be repeatedly scorned by California's political (with the exception of Cong. Leo Ryan) and religious leaders. The Milk Man was on a whitewash mission. So he viciously denounced Tim and Grace Stoen, who were trying to get their son--that Jones claimed as his own--out of the cultist's murderous hands.
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<br /><em>"Timothy and Grace Stoen, the parties that are attempting to damage Rev. Jones' reputation," </em>Milk continued in his letter to the president, <em>"and seriously disrupt the life of his son, John, have both already been discredited by the media here."</em> Accusing the Stoens of everything from "blackmail" to "bold-faced lies," the supervisor added:
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<br /><em>".....the life of a child is at stake....Mr. President, the actions of Mr. Stoen need to be brought to a halt. It is offensive to most in the San Francisco community, and all those who know Rev. Jones to see this kind of outrage taking place." </em>
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<br />An "outrage." Interesting perspective, Mr. Milk.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQRff9fpVSdpSKAt8TTOMQkboESYQ8ww-vQuYAnIMwmaxyw-bwnFikazGpe-TX-TcGXJc1CZ88tMwLwlXpSFlY8s1CqLLn5OdObVG87OiFg_o1oVqbf5IapD_BrvtiWpt6iVn_fGFVKZsc/s1600-h/Milk+(Penn)+in+motorcade.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQRff9fpVSdpSKAt8TTOMQkboESYQ8ww-vQuYAnIMwmaxyw-bwnFikazGpe-TX-TcGXJc1CZ88tMwLwlXpSFlY8s1CqLLn5OdObVG87OiFg_o1oVqbf5IapD_BrvtiWpt6iVn_fGFVKZsc/s320/Milk+(Penn)+in+motorcade.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371065723733080050" /></a>
<br />Now, I just wonder. You think that "outrage" would have been the same sentiment of screen writer Dustin Lance Black and director Guy Van Sant had anyone even remotely suggested including anything that might have soured their 2008 silver screen canonization, "Milk"??
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<br />All the film's propaganda signs point to YES.
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<br />They clearly wanted under no circumstances a public that would get confused or find even the smallest speck of doubt about who was their real Harvey Milk. Yes, his untimely death, along with Mayor George Moscone, was tragic. His role in the Gay Rights battle could not be understated. These aspects of the film were of course dramatic and compelling.
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<br />Nevertheless, while audiences certainly deserved to learn about all this, it was unconscionable to deliberately present an distorted portrait. Especially in light of his criminal connection to Jim Jones.
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<br />Aiding and abetting. Obstruction of justice. Ironically, unlike just about all the other accessories to the Crime of the Century (Willie Brown, Rev. John Moore, Cecil Williams, et al), soon after Milk helped ensure the worst mass murder of Americans until 9/11, he received his own death penalty, along with George Moscone.
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<br />Harvey Milk's subsequent sainthood bestowed by Black & Van Sant did not go unnoticed by Pres. Obama. I voted for Obama and think he's more conscientious than most. But he still is what he is: Another politician. Currently Obama's got some serious problems to deal with, such as steadily slipping poll numbers; some of which is attributed to policy flip-flops and betraying promises made during an inspiring campaign. The latest is his shameful surrender, of we the people, back into the rapacious tentacles of our Big Insurance/Pharmaceutical Corporate Mafia.
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<br />Obama has also angered the Gay Lobby by not pushing for repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military, as well as not trying to get rid of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that does not recognize same-sex marriage.
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<br />So it's predictable he tried to score whatever points he could by giving Harvey Milk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom last Wednesday. Please note carefully if you hear one word about Harvey's pal, Jimmy:
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<br /><em>"Gotta give 'em hope," </em>said Milk? "Hope"--for all those doing time in that forced labor camp called Jonestown, and for the children being tortured at night, in a deep, dark well his cult playfully named "Big Foot"??
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<br />Milk's nephew had the honor of accepting America's highest civilian award for his uncle. Again, listen carefully to the voice-over. The narrative might as well have been lifted right out of Van Sant's puff piece film:
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<br />Once again, that "H" word! <em>"Hope," </em>said Milk, <em>"will never be silent.</em>" Except, of course, for 900 Americans silenced forever by the maniac that our Hope Merchant so faithfully promoted, while all the time privately admitting his feelings about the "dangerous" and "wierd" cult. What integrity, eh?
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<br />It would be fair to say that had Milk not aided & abetted Jim Jones (again, not the only crooked politico to do so), he would surely deserve this presidential award for all he did for his oppressed minority group.
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<br /><em>"....This is a moment that will transcend identity politics," </em>writes Chuck Wolfe, head of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, <em>"because Harvey Milk represents the aspirations of all Americans. More than 200 years ago Washington, Jefferson and Adams fought to create a more perfect union. They probably had no idea that their vision would be embodied in the late 20th century by a gay, Jewish camera shop owner in San Francisco.
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<br />Milk's story, as recounted in last year's Academy Award-winning movie 'Milk' and books such as 'The Mayor of Castro Street', involves his struggle to become one of the first openly elected gay public officials in the U.S. His political ambitions coincided with the rising gay rights movement and resulted in him winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors."</em>
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<br />Again, however, the roughshod side of Milk's politics, even beyond his sordid connection to a death cult, is something altogether different. And few want to talk about it for fear of deflating the myth.
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJybbkuXmviNE2PLLX1GY2n6lPJ93QXLBrd51pzk07nGOlX_rx_dQ2G1MOhh-dv2oShWJ3DwplHxy-wBzSOzVQs7EvmmxkJSa3NzudZDzZJODMe0zIAD72zrBmHCVwAPUNPv_BjoZQvXfj/s1600-h/Molotov+Mitchell+Eats+Mohamad+Cookie.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJybbkuXmviNE2PLLX1GY2n6lPJ93QXLBrd51pzk07nGOlX_rx_dQ2G1MOhh-dv2oShWJ3DwplHxy-wBzSOzVQs7EvmmxkJSa3NzudZDzZJODMe0zIAD72zrBmHCVwAPUNPv_BjoZQvXfj/s400/Molotov+Mitchell+Eats+Mohamad+Cookie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371210961873365778" /></a>Except for a highly irreverent fellow named "Molotov" Mitchell. He's a self-described Conservative Film Maker (watch out when they trumpet ANY title spiked with "conservative"!) that runs "Illuminati Pictures" out of North Carolina, in which he cranks out unorthodox, extreme right-wing videos. See a few of his videos and you might even suspect that he's actually a covert progressive doing needed parodies of this country's lunatic reactionary fringe.
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<br />Part of his mainstay is nonsensical smears of Barack Obama, Islam, and just about everything else not fitting snugly into a xenophobe's microscopic gray matter. One especially inflammatory incident said it all, when an episode from his weekly show, "Flamethrower," had Mitchell munching away at a specially prepared "Mohammad" cookie.
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<br />Hmmmmm--any investors out there interested in sending this enterprising fellow over to Saudi Arabia to run a cookie kiosk??
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<br />Even Faith TV, a national Christian Right network that runs Mitchell's show, had to censor the episode, "All Things Islam," because network president Jim West said <em>"We feel this program just goes beyond the bounds of good taste." </em> Now just why would a good Christian say such a thing?
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<br />But it has to be said that one of Mitchell's "For The Record" videos, replete as it is with trademark offensive, politically incorrect antics, happens to be a potent, much-needed antidote to our disengenuous left-wing Hollywood cover-up. Sit down with the rampaging Molotov as he provides an eye-opening serving of "Milk and Kool-Aid." And don't worry about those scattered moments when our host's horns and forked tail pop out....
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<br />On the other hand, and I'm gonna say PLEASE --for the record (mine)-- DISREGARD completely all the rest of the utterly inane, borderline insane DEN ("Domestic Emergency Network") videos attached at the end of the Milk expose.
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<br />Unless, of course, you're in the mood for some hardcore comedy.....
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<br />There was, of all places, something incriminating in a November, 2003 edition of "The Advocate"(The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine.) It was the 25th Anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre. The article was entitled: "Death of Dreams: in November 1978, Harvey Milk's murder and the mass suicides at Jonestown nearly broke San Francisco's spirit. Eerily, Milk knew and worked with Jonestown founder Jim Jones"
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<br />An excerpt:
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<br /><em>"Milk was of two minds about the temple. He accepted temple members' help in his successful 1977 campaign for board of supervisors--which made him one of the first openly gay elected officials in the country and certainly the most popular. But he also reportedly said temple members were 'weird and dangerous.'
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<br />He was not alone in this assessment. As the temple grew in size and status, Jones faced increasing scrutiny from the press, which investigated reports of 'suicide drills,' physical and sexual abuse, and extortion. In August 1977 the San Francisco Examiner published a damning two-part investigation on its front page. The stories were headlined, 'Rev. Jones: The Power Broker, Political Maneuverings of a Preacher Man,' and 'The Temple, a Nightmare World.'
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<br />Under pressure, Jones and some 1,000 followers started moving to Jonestown in late 1977. A settlement in the Guyana jungle, Jonestown was promoted as a multiracial socialist paradise far from the racism and class oppression of American life. Many hundreds more temple members stayed in San Francisco, where services continued under the leadership of associate pastors. Milk spoke at a service for the last time in October 1978. He had been enthusiastically received at Peoples Temple several times before, and he always sent glowing thank-yon notes to Jones afterward.
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<br />After one visit, Milk wrote, 'Rev. Jim, It may take me many a day to come back down from the high that I reach today. I found something real today. I found a sense of being that makes up for all the hours mad energy, placed in a fight. I found what you wanted me to find. I shall be back. For I can never leave.' Milk may have been disingenuous in his praise, or perhaps the rousing services at Peoples Temple made him feel a genuine bond."</em>
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<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cKmUJfc1uUgqLaFLzKGjA0g3u4XciJTTXp06V4WRYPWLBIxZK8cAZHMfcdJ-SqUTUueHJVz8I9SkS4Ja5we4FUFFXVqKOSn2dnkwugLjvkMBnvZwtbkOUaWVuSo9NlfSNj3XscbwuoBK/s1600-h/Jonestown+Throne.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cKmUJfc1uUgqLaFLzKGjA0g3u4XciJTTXp06V4WRYPWLBIxZK8cAZHMfcdJ-SqUTUueHJVz8I9SkS4Ja5we4FUFFXVqKOSn2dnkwugLjvkMBnvZwtbkOUaWVuSo9NlfSNj3XscbwuoBK/s400/Jonestown+Throne.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371265641733652386" /></a>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6827464299415582466.post-73067651625324013812009-02-22T14:52:00.027-05:002009-02-22T21:16:00.480-05:00"Milk": Another People's Temple Political Strongman Gets The Whitewash -- And Just Maybe Even An Oscar Or Two?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjU7zestcA3vigm2_Qlq6pQ5TBO-jMsqy4nKCRAFk6GKkvUJ8N0fCFn0_0pAnH4SAFEZJOJ3EmviE2WLi-Kqrlc14LFrURV407WwuMt0MVdP9S4VPyl9GAkp1yxWPPGQoYg1TeHd1U_65/s1600-h/Milk+Film+Poster.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjU7zestcA3vigm2_Qlq6pQ5TBO-jMsqy4nKCRAFk6GKkvUJ8N0fCFn0_0pAnH4SAFEZJOJ3EmviE2WLi-Kqrlc14LFrURV407WwuMt0MVdP9S4VPyl9GAkp1yxWPPGQoYg1TeHd1U_65/s400/Milk+Film+Poster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305732359352607826" /></a><br />Tonight the Academy Awards Community has to make a decision: Should they, or shouldn't they--despite the well-honed production--reward a film that both mangles history and portrays a man that deliriously supported a mass-murdering cultist?<br /><br />How much longer will Harvey Milk's tragic murder continue to allow him this waiver, to the point to sanctifying him now in a multi-Oscar nominated film, that includes not just Best Picture and Best Actor, but a couple of other categories that seem to say it all:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7E_chj28u_41rPn8-PwCu9BizlujPQTXBOdENQM9ndgXmTTp4yjhf7Xz6d3LMBm0c0IKjOMOyY0o83_uG0_3ea0i-bBQGXHs5aVA4z72AdWE_qMQ1BDwBuPl2HYh7nCVhN-HIjeQHeqT-/s1600-h/Oscar+statues.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7E_chj28u_41rPn8-PwCu9BizlujPQTXBOdENQM9ndgXmTTp4yjhf7Xz6d3LMBm0c0IKjOMOyY0o83_uG0_3ea0i-bBQGXHs5aVA4z72AdWE_qMQ1BDwBuPl2HYh7nCVhN-HIjeQHeqT-/s400/Oscar+statues.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305783991721060562" /></a><br /><br />"Best Original Screenplay" and "Best Editing."<br /><br />Right. Very "original screenplay." The very "best editing."<br /><br />But not for the same reasons that our august Academy members would say, of course. The "original screenplay" is an amazing thing, because it can give carte blanche to all manner of fictional add-ons, while the "best editing" is that enchanting process that, in equally unscrupulous hands, may produce small & large milestones in fantasy-turned-reality.<br /><br />No one of course knows this better than the man running "Firelight Media," our acclaimed left-wing Producer/Director Stanley Nelson. With joyous and unlimited "expert guidance" from those rousing official National People's Temple Cheerleaders, Becky Moore & "Mac" McGhee, the three of them cooked up the most insidious cult apologist film in history, "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple."<br /><br />The good news is, folks: The Academy didn't get suckered in and refused Nelson and his revolting cult whitewash even a nomination. He does, however, manage to keep on getting film gigs in "fantastic fiction" documentaries, the latest of which is part of PBS's upcoming American Indian series. Nelson's fantasy segment is on the gun-slinging militant American Indian Movement (AIM) that blasted its way through a 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee Battlefield.<br /><br />I'm suuuuuure that ol' Stan will, like he did with the People's Temple, provide ALL <em>the relevant facts</em> so that viewers have an sterling accurate portrait of history, with not a trace of leftest bias. Now if anyone out there has the slightest question about how Nelson manages his magic, I'd say just give him a call at the office:<br /><br /><strong>STANLEY NELSON, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8IeASu41EzON5kB8HSX7nNSkogcVy8uxaT-BrsYgb_gfCnCSOUAOPhcuWWHUaz3cFANHWI4ZsZZFJ-5gnOfMloFuiuodmnmVQOd7ELw1-qK8_0D4LTj02RCTM_zRtriIElrEVWN8B1Kq-/s1600-h/Stanley+Nelson+red+coat.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8IeASu41EzON5kB8HSX7nNSkogcVy8uxaT-BrsYgb_gfCnCSOUAOPhcuWWHUaz3cFANHWI4ZsZZFJ-5gnOfMloFuiuodmnmVQOd7ELw1-qK8_0D4LTj02RCTM_zRtriIElrEVWN8B1Kq-/s200/Stanley+Nelson+red+coat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305752716627087090" /></a> <strong>FIRELIGHT MEDIA</strong><br /><strong>Phone: 212-234-1324 </strong><br /><br />You can also send Stan a <strong>fax: 212-234-6688</strong> in case you want more<br />details about what he terms his "evocative technique" in film making.<br /><br />I'm certain that Lord Nelson was more than pleased over any and all aspects of "Milk," even if he can't take credit. The important thing is that the Great Spirit of Obfuscation was in full cinematic force, right? <br /><br />"Milk," of course, is a very interesting part of history, dealing with the very first openly gay man to be elected to office in California. It is a poignant story, and worth telling, no question. The big problem, however, comes with this "original screenplay" and "editing." And for that, all the rest of the awards should go out the door, just to teach these fabricators a lesson about telling THE WHOLE TRUTH.<br /><br />The "whole truth"? What whole truth? What, pray tell, is MISSING from our Oscar-nominated film, that has such a spectacular performance, as is almost always the case, by lead actor Sean Penn.<br /><br />Well, how about this little tidbit for starters.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEohIkQmQ22b1imCPImrbdmT4zZ1v2QrhJmJDbAvdnPaGiLgHG0v6BcZrT6jbQHRJJMGij2wBOrdbgYWSu2bSZ-oTbhmM5fsPTfQntSoSzSUoINCEzIvLv-wAk_m1bd92EI4mK28P127Z2/s1600-h/Milk+Letter+For+Jones.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEohIkQmQ22b1imCPImrbdmT4zZ1v2QrhJmJDbAvdnPaGiLgHG0v6BcZrT6jbQHRJJMGij2wBOrdbgYWSu2bSZ-oTbhmM5fsPTfQntSoSzSUoINCEzIvLv-wAk_m1bd92EI4mK28P127Z2/s400/Milk+Letter+For+Jones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305757320803082914" /></a><br />It's a letter written to President Jimmy Carter, in February, 1978, by none other than St. Harvey himself. He wrote it just nine months away from the slaughter, but LONG after all the <em>long-overdue 1977 exposes </em>had finally told him, his fellow Temple boosters such as George Moscone, Willie Brown, and the rest of their degenerate San Francisco political cronies about Jim Jones's reign of terror, his extortion, fraud, torture of children, and all the rest.<br /><br />And did Milk, or any of them--<em>except for one courageous man named Leo Ryan</em>--do ONE DAMN THING TO HELP THOSE POOR PEOPLE TRAPPED IN JONESTOWN?<br /><br />More importantly: how much does the film "Milk," nominated for multiple Academy Awards tonight, have of this in the script? <br /><br />25 minutes? No.<br /><br />15? Guess again, people.<br /><br />5 minutes?? You're gettin' warm.....think "Nelsonesque Film School" now.<br /><br />Zero???<br /><br />A "biopic" about a man that, while achieving greatness in fighting for his minority's rights, <strong>doesn't want you to know </strong>that before his own tragic murder, he aggressively aided in condemning over 900 Americans to death?<br /><br />Incredible. Utterly incredible. <br /><br />While Jones was busy in his Guyana Gulag dunking little children at the bottom of dark wells, confining others for weeks in a box, and doping up dissidents with heavy narcotics, Milk insisted on describing him as a "loving protective parent" and "a man of the highest character."<br /><br />Gay activist and historian Michael Bellefountaine, who passed away in 2007 had been working on the final<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOOK7boHgGSZZIP_tvbHkO7P0JlzKak3Lziuxe8CtZSjDHQgU8pkNNqugr-aI-_fevumPnejlx4XE_Kimdhx2Vdo74xy7F5eetNz9UoUPjC3aXQsreN-cB0pPA48PyiwQJVf5kGkYXBZF/s1600-h/Michael+Bellefontaine.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 116px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOOK7boHgGSZZIP_tvbHkO7P0JlzKak3Lziuxe8CtZSjDHQgU8pkNNqugr-aI-_fevumPnejlx4XE_Kimdhx2Vdo74xy7F5eetNz9UoUPjC3aXQsreN-cB0pPA48PyiwQJVf5kGkYXBZF/s400/Michael+Bellefontaine.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305785985113929602" /></a> stages of his book "A Lavender Look At The People's Temple." A couple of years earlier, in the midst of all his research, the real picture of a far less saintly Harvey Milk appeared to emerge, as Bellefountaine explained in an article he wrote on the 25th Anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre.<br /><br /><em>"Harvey Milk’s name appears throughout San Francisco," wrote Bellefountaine, "A municipal railway station and plaza, a park and recreation building and one of the city’s most influential political clubs are all named in his memory. A local elementary school is known as the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, and the Eureka Valley Library is now called the Harvey Milk Branch.<br /><br />"The theme for this year’s gay pride parade was 'give them hope,' Milk’s inspirational rallying cry from gays and lesbians in San Francisco to their brothers and sisters living in rural America. The International Gay and Lesbian Historical Society is producing an extensive exhibit of Milk memorabilia which includes the blood-stained suit he was wearing when he and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978. Twenty-five years after his murder, Harvey Milk has been catapulted to the level of gay martyr. Without question, he has left his mark on San Francisco. <br /><br />"Despite all the exhibits and memorials of Harvey Milk throughout San Francisco, though, none of them acknowledges Milk’s relationship with Jim Jones and Peoples Temple.... <br /><br />"When Milk and Moscone were killed, San Franciscans were still reeling from the murder of Representative Leo Ryan and the news that hundreds of Jonestown residents, previously thought to have saved themselves by running into the jungle, were apparently willing participants in a suicide ritual. In the aftermath of their murders all mention of connections between Milk, Moscone and Jones were intentionally obscured.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_NGnRfptT2c-Bywo1RT3TdqTnCAB3l3VjN-5OcOhUOSMfCoazjYo0VkyvemGG7W7NkIJNCAexMhNZV6Fxw0vqZhyldUsOYeYTzSSt6-bPm3o-cVDCDfzf88qZg7ekfZPMYTfhyphenhyphenQKU4Ps/s1600-h/Harvey+Milk+in+Doorway.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_NGnRfptT2c-Bywo1RT3TdqTnCAB3l3VjN-5OcOhUOSMfCoazjYo0VkyvemGG7W7NkIJNCAexMhNZV6Fxw0vqZhyldUsOYeYTzSSt6-bPm3o-cVDCDfzf88qZg7ekfZPMYTfhyphenhyphenQKU4Ps/s400/Harvey+Milk+in+Doorway.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305761804856838546" /></a>"Out of respect for the politicians, their followers took all necessary steps to sever Milk and Moscone from the pariah Jones. It was not the only mass exodus of political support in the wake of the Jonestown tragedy. Politicians who once enjoyed volunteers, donations and votes from Peoples Temple, could not distance themselves from Jim Jones fast enough.<br /><br />"Many of these people are still in politics today. <br /><br />"....One story has it that Milk asked Peoples Temple to remove his name from the church’s list of supporters when reports of violence and theft first came to light, and that he was outraged when the Temple failed to comply with his demand. Eventually, history settled on an official story: Jim Jones was a master manipulator who used unwitting local politicians to gain power for himself.<br /><br />"The politicians, including Milk and Moscone, used Jones for volunteers and votes, while remaining personally distant and blissfully unaware of rumors of Temple violence, abuse, theft, and even murder. The timing of Dan White’s murderous rampage was deemed coincidental. <br /><br />"However, upon closer inspection, it is clear that Harvey Milk was a strong advocate for Peoples Temple and Jim Jones during his political career, including the tumultuous year leading up to the Jonestown tragedy.<br /><br />"Milk spoke at the Temple often, wrote personal letters to Jim Jones contacted other elected officials on the Temple’s behalf,<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxwuE5Cb6_M-jpkpAuYVF479yEuHVIAfyHkDhb55NoicmVw8LcctJNhNQ-H18qPDb49wwKCfE4RRPOftgR1blmtMFNFUutuzNGVY1dZPfEFyZxqa31O4rAq42ES74dytQCq7RgobK6j3O/s1600-h/Sleazy+suited+grinning+Jim+Jones.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQxwuE5Cb6_M-jpkpAuYVF479yEuHVIAfyHkDhb55NoicmVw8LcctJNhNQ-H18qPDb49wwKCfE4RRPOftgR1blmtMFNFUutuzNGVY1dZPfEFyZxqa31O4rAq42ES74dytQCq7RgobK6j3O/s400/Sleazy+suited+grinning+Jim+Jones.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305775258617961970" /></a> and used space in his weekly column to support the works of the Temple, even after the negative New West article went to press. Milk appeared in the pages of the Peoples Forum, the Temple newspaper, and received over fifty letters of sympathy from the residents of Jonestown when his lover, Jack Lira, killed himself in September 1978.<br /><br />"It is readily apparent from the letters and historical memorabilia that Milk and the Temple enjoyed a mutually supportive relationship until their concurrent deaths. Why then is the relationship such a secret, even taboo to discuss?<br /><br />"The only biography of Milk to date, 'The Mayor of Castro Street,' by Randy Shilts, downplays the Milk/Temple relationship, even going so far as to paint Milk as one of the countless people who cruelly ridiculed and ostracized the surviving Temple members and their supporters. Like most historians, Shilts opted for an image of an expedient politician, instead of truthfully portraying how Milk worked with Peoples Temple until the end of his life."</em><br /><br />Congratulations, Randy Shilts, you have have definitely earned your honorary membership in the People's Temple History Hall Of Shame.<br /><br />Of course, your portrait will most certainly be in one of the lower tiers, Randy. There are too many others--sleazy politicos, scribes, academics, and wolves in clerical garb--whose depraved notion of ethics will forever ensure them top billing.<br /><br />As for tonight's Academy Awards spectacle, should for some godawful reason the heavily whitewashed "Milk" take home even one golden statue, let's hope that someone includes in their insufferable acceptance speech a recognition of just how St. Harvey traveled on Beatification Highway.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimwacLY4uaMiIFgJLGVs4U5sgi0NjpLHWJIPpO9AxJcKbzD2FeFJbxUrM5ANR_ECHVqUFFRqHvmlRHsrrr7ZTMO_QIUJRkKq6lO_iZaDjI4AEIwLA6QbB-653xcONTy2qrlVIAqKQrbcn/s1600-h/Harvey+Milk+As+Saint.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimwacLY4uaMiIFgJLGVs4U5sgi0NjpLHWJIPpO9AxJcKbzD2FeFJbxUrM5ANR_ECHVqUFFRqHvmlRHsrrr7ZTMO_QIUJRkKq6lO_iZaDjI4AEIwLA6QbB-653xcONTy2qrlVIAqKQrbcn/s200/Harvey+Milk+As+Saint.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305795801112568130" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoIdK5gk0N66XCqTFe-tMkSUOYUEguFGETmt7CyUj-fOxtZsmZEZtURiywXRXSVxhpWuvS1ENFshLeebsHrqyhHhfyUtucNEvpY9JVOu9Bi6BCmzne6MpwxwPZDTQBVV9stQV7tKTmuw_/s1600-h/Jonestown.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoIdK5gk0N66XCqTFe-tMkSUOYUEguFGETmt7CyUj-fOxtZsmZEZtURiywXRXSVxhpWuvS1ENFshLeebsHrqyhHhfyUtucNEvpY9JVOu9Bi6BCmzne6MpwxwPZDTQBVV9stQV7tKTmuw_/s400/Jonestown.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305793865092757714" /></a>Tom Kinsolvinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17696831283935899290noreply@blogger.com11