Oh AND how the media will make anything that smacks of "conspiracy theory" an immediate "object of ridicule."
This prevents the media from ever having to investigate the many strange interconnections among the ruling class - for example, the relationship
between the boards of directors of media giants, and the energy, banking and defense industries.
First, we'll look at the Council on Foreign Relations, then on to Jimmy Jones. In the early 1970s, the newly-formed Trilateral Commission published a
report which recommended that,in order for"globalization" to succeed, American manufacturing jobs had to be exported, and American wages had to
decline, which is exactly what happened over the next three decades; and that, during that same period, the richest 1% of Americans doubled their
share of the national wealth, - is not "theory." It's fact.
Now, Jim Jones.
The media covered the situation this way: all the background, the analyses, the witnesses, the media heroes, were ready-made for the press; nor was
there any other candidate for blame but Jim Jones. The people at Jonestown were "brainwashed"; their defenders "apologists"; the only "credible
sources" were the people who had "exposed" Peoples Temple a year and more prior to the tragedy.
The mass suicide immediately followed the murder of Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-Calif.), who was visiting Guyana to investigate Jonestown and was ambushed
along with several others at the Port Kaituma airstrip. (professionally done, I might add, this is important later)
Jones, who had founded the Peoples Temple near Ukiah and later moved to San Francisco, had promised to create a utopia, where people of different
races, education and skills could work together for the common good. He preached of nuclear holocaust, etc, and he would promise his followers that
they alone would emerge as survivors.
It was mostly poor Black people, that got taken along on the ride.
Back at the compound (after the congressman's death), Jones announced that the community would soon be under attack and put into effect a plan of
mass suicide that his followers had rehearsed many times. The children were the first to die.
Grape-flavored punch laced with cyanide was squirted into the mouths of infants and given to children to drink. As the small bodies piled up, adults
drank the punch or were shot by gunmen who enforced the order of mass suicide.
Keep in mind, many foster children were ordered to join Jones' church by the GOVERNMENT! Many members were also recruited directly from San Francisco
mental hospitals.
Now, on to the left (or for those Latin lovers
Sinister side of things.
"There was an unwritten but perfectly understood law in the church that was very important: No one is to criticize Father, wife, or his children
"
Besides splitting parent and child, Jones sought to loosen the bonds between wife and husband. He forced spouses into extramarital sexual relations,
which were often of a homosexual or humiliating nature, or with Jones himself. Sexual partnerships and activities not under his direction and control
were discouraged and publicly ridiculed. See the "fallacy of uniqueness".
I'm sure the same happens with criticisms of the Brotherhood, love it or leave it, all or nothing.
Leo Ryan (the congressman that was sent down, and KILLED) had been a strong critic of the CIA and was the author of the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which,
if passed, would have required that the CIA report to Congress on all of its covert operations before they commenced.
Witnesses to the airport shooting described the gunmen as being "glassy eyed", "mechanically-walking zombies" who were "devoid of emotion."
Nine days after "Jonestown," San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed. They were murdered by Dan White, described
as being in a "zombie state" at the time of the killings. Moscone and Milk received substantial financial backing from Jim Jones during his stay by
the Bay; afterwards they were both investigated in connection to missing funds from the People's Temple. That is, until a "lone gunman" took them
out.
Michael Prokes, a former member of the People's Temple, informed a press conference, held in his motel room, that the CIA and FBI were secretly
holding an audiotape of the "Jonestown" massacre and that he was an FBI informant. Immediately following his announcement, Prokes went into the
bathroom where he supposedly committed suicide.
The final area of concern in the "Jonestown" massacre regards the official US decision not to conduct autopsies on the victims of the massacre; the
reason given was that the cause of death was readily apparent. The results of pathology examinations conducted by Guyanese coroner Leslie Mootoo
however, revealed his belief that as many as 700 of the victims were murders, not suicides. Mootoo claims that in a 32-hour period he, and his
assistants, examined the bodies of 137 victims. They had all been injected with cyanide in areas of their bodies, which could not have been reached by
their own hand, such as between the shoulder blades; many other victims had been shot.
The discrepancy in the numbers of dead in the first reports, and the final figure had led many to speculate that approximately five hundred people had
escaped the first spate of killings and escaped into the jungle, but were then hunted down and murdered. The official explanation, WHY of course the
OTHER 500 hundred bodies were hidden from view by the 408 already found. Stacked on top of each other, those Guyanans just couldn't count right.
A U.S. Army spokesman pronounced with complete authority, "No autopsies are needed. The cause of death is not an issue here."
Various researchers have concluded CIA MKULTRA operations did not terminate in 1973, as officially proclaimed, but instead continued in public
hospitals, prisons, and religious cults which were used as fronts. Holsinger later stated at a San Francisco psychology forum on Jonestown that he
believed the CIA worked with Jones to perform medical and mind control experiments at People's Temple.
So the question is, what did the CIA gain from Jonestown? Was it to learn, or to teach (the populace the danger of 'religious extremists', those who
don't trust authority)?
