On my way to Town today I was listening to the most popular S.F. radio station KGO and Jackie Spier came on to talk about gun control. She linked her story to when she was shot 7 times in Guyana during the Jim Jones Peoples Temple massacre 40 years ago.
Well that brought back a lot of memories from 40 years ago and how many Dem. Politicians had been so supportive of Jim Jones so I started going back to the old news stories...boy that old staying the more things change the more they stay the same came to mind.
The Dems did then exactly what they are doing now and it's really worth reading...not just about the gun control but also the push for socialism using race.
Here's a snip of what I found and links to much more...guard your children well!!
snip
Jones Captivated S.F.'s Liberal Elite / They were late to discover how cunningly he curried favor
Michael Taylor, Chronicle Staff Writer Published 4:00 am PST, Thursday, November 12, 1998
FIRST OF TWO PARTS
On November 18, 1978, gunmen from the Peoples Temple opened fire at a jungle airstrip in Guyana. Five people, including Rep. Leo Ryan , were killed. Within hours, another 914 people had been murdered or committed suicide at Jonestown, including temple founder Jim Jones .
Jones had built his ministry into a force in San Francisco with a program of helping the young, elderly and destitute. Supporters, including powerful officials, defended him against allegations that he was abusing followers.
The probes drove Jones to Guyana. When a visiting delegation led by Ryan tried to leave with defectors, Jones turned to murder and "revolutionary suicide."
Before he became infamous for leading 913 people to their deaths in the Guyanese jungle, the Rev. Jim Jones was the darling of San Francisco's liberal establishment -- a man who could spread the wealth to all the fashionable charities and, at a moment's notice, marshal thousands of followers for a good cause.
Jones was a minister of the Disciples of Christ, but in San Francisco he was best known as the suave if slightly sinister leader of Peoples Temple, a flock of perhaps 8,000 people, mostly poor and mostly black, who appeared to do everything Jones told them to do.
With these willing workers, Jones made himself the perfect gift for the liberal machine of U.S. Representatives Phillip and John Burton, Assemblyman Willie Brown and Mayor George Moscone, which was trying to consolidate its hold on San Francisco politics.
After Jonestown, the politicians were left to explain how they had become so taken by Jones -- some of them pedaling away from their close relationship to the sect leader, while others simply admitted that they had been led astray.
"There wasn't anything magical about Jim's power," Timothy Stoen, who spent nearly seven years in Peoples Temple as Jones' attorney, said the other day.
"It was raw politics. He was able to deliver what politicians want, which is power. And how do you get power? By votes. And how do you get votes? With people. Jim Jones could produce 3,000 people at a political event."
and more
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Jones-Captivated-S-F-s-Liberal-Elite-They-were-2979186.php
and
Drinking the Kool-Aid: Remember When Jim Jones Was a Hero to Democrats?
By Daniel J. Flynn
October 15, 2018 6:30 AM
here
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/drinking-the-kool-aid-remember-when-jim-jones-was-a-hero-to-democrats/
and
How San Francisco's Democrats made Jim Jones, and then made his memory vanish
by Daniel Flynn
| October 15, 2018 12:00 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/how-san-franciscos-democrats-made-jim-jones-and-then-made-his-memory-vanish
Madman in Our Midst: Jim Jones and the California Cover Up
1998
By Kathleen and Tom Kinsolving
November 18, 1978. Guyana, South America.
https://culteducation.com/group/1005-jonestown/10912-madman-in-our-midst-jim-jones-and-the-california-cover-up.html
and last
Jim Jones (Nov. 25, 1998)
by Bruce Anderson, June 4, 2019
https://www.theava.com/archives/102841
in my opinion this is what watchman calls Bethel.
HC
