Last week on the 18th of November 1978 From 30 years ago the the world not only in the United States shocked at what happened in Jonestown . 909 persons committed suicide or mostly killed in the Jonestown at Guyana “Their majority were injected by force and killed including 303 child and teenager “and opened the world’s eyes on the black side of the religious cults. Strangely the world did not learn from its mistake and the mass suicides of cults were repeated violently whether in Waco at the States years later or in the order of solar temple in Canada and Europe or in the heaven’s gate whose mass suicide was the second biggest one in the States after Jonestown , in fact some considered it the biggest on an American soil , Jonestown is in Guyana. The world did not pay any attention for the real danger of these cults except when we found ourselves in front of the Aum’s terrorist attack on Tokyo’s subway.
Here is the very early news report about the Jonestown Mass suicide or rather massacre including the rare footage of the Journalists who killed along with the congressman Leo Ryan who visited the commune to investigate the allegations around it.
What I am really interested at is how this cult leader Jim Jones was not able to deceive his own followers but also the public opinion before leaving to Guyana. Jim Jones unlike other cult leaders was a popular face in the San Francesco community. It does not surprise me because this sort of men like crocks got very powerful social intelligence. Still I can’t understand why he would commit suicide,I mean I see him a sort of a crock who cares only for himself. Of course You will never understand that sort of these men.
Also this mix between socialism and Religion , the People’s temple was a socialist Church that used Religion to attract people, they did not believe in God , they believed in Jones whom day by day was obsessed by the dictatorship in communist countries. Jones Planed that he would go along with followers to the Soviet Union if the conspiracies did not stop against them !! You know if you look to Jonestown ,you will know that Animal Farm was heaven on earth compared to it.
Here is a photo collection for the catastrophe , I warn some shots are shocking ,you only see this scene in wars and even in wars it is not like this.
Here is one of the best documentaries ever made about the people’s temple produced from couple of years by PBS,what I like about it that it included the history of cult from the beginning till the tragic end.It includes testimonies of former members and also footage from the mad Jim Jones.
I feel sad for the Children and the people who were killed there.Jim Jones fanatic followers killed those who refused to drink the poison !!I also feel sad for the poor congressman and journalists who died there.
CNN last week aired a very interesting documentary in the anniversary called the Escape of Jonestown . CNN made a fantastic online report including documents from Jonestown released by the FBI !!
And things do not stop here because Jonestown has its own conspiracy theory. With my all respect I do not think that the CIA is involved in that horrible incident , that was a concentration camp led by a mad dictator not a socialist haven , also I do not understand what this CIA experiment went wrong that Leo Ryan would expose it and thus it had to be ended !!?? This is too much , no everything the government would involved in. Already I do not see how the CIA would be supporting the socialist Jones !! For God Sake Jones, His wife and his mistress wanted the temple’s money “millions of dollars” to be sent to the Soviet Embassy !! Already this incident is strange and does not need conspiracy theories to make it more stranger !!
May Be We lucky not to have this sort of cults in Egypt and in the Arab world despite I believe that the group of the Heresy and Migration shared some of the ideas of these cults from a dominant leading character to refusal of the out world to troubling background of the members themselves to the blind obedience to the leader .
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Contrary to common progressive belief, more people will tend to behave as slaves than those who act as masters. There is a sense of comfort in submission and trusting authority. Doubt and questioning attitude is a burden and a cause of discomfort. The masses in people’s temple resolved their anxiety by laying their trust in Jim Jones, and followed him past the poisoned cool aid.
ReplyDeleteHow this would differ from the gullible people who accepted the official story of 911? They also resolved their anxiety by laying their trust on the official media story. The cool aid this time is the media material. Submissiveness and slavery never disappear, it just change to more sophisticated forms. Many people will not kill themselves, they will follow popular belief and continue breathing while nullifying their existence.
@Dear anonymous
ReplyDeleteyou described in the right way those people were already poisoned from the start and they could not resist it ,in fact they asked for more and more
My dear after 9/11 many people killed themselves by entering wars with no use at all ,the cool aid here also killed them and killed others in the world too