The majority in Jonestown were murdered to cover what was really going on there. Most of Jim Jones' followers had no idea what he was up to, and especially who he was in bed with that was giving him orders. The cult mentality is slipping amongst the sheep. The problem for them is, the physical poison was given at the indoctrination stage, and the dice was rolled.
Basically, a controlled Clown called Jim Jones created a "church", called the Peoples Temple, whose congregation consisted of mostly minorities. His tactics of control came straight from the Marxist handbook, using things like racism, sexism, equity etc. to indoctrinate. This was in California, unsurprisingly. After a few years his congregation grew into the hundreds, with people giving their possessions to the church.
Eventually, he takes those hundreds of people to Guyana, with the usual false promises of a Communist utopia. When the people get to the commune, they are worked like slaves and the place starts to fall into disrepair. Jim Jones refuses people to leave and eventually a congressman went out with worried family members of the congregation to find out what was going on.
Anyway, things happened and eventually the congressman decides to fly back with any member of the congregation that wants to leave, of which there were a few. While they were on the runway, armed militia stormed the airfield, shooting up the planes and people there. The congressman was killed, as was a number of others, but a small number escaped on foot and, if I'm remembering right, at least 2 of the planes managed to take off under fire.
After this, Jones knew it was game over for him, so ordered a mass suicide via loudspeakers (you can listen to recordings taken of those orders over on the WebArchive). Oh, I forgot to mention, he had also ran practice drills for this. It's also where the metaphor for "drinking the Kool-Aid" comes from.
A while later, 900+ corpses are found in the compound. Over the years, evidence has come out to show most didn't die from drinking the poison. Many were injected and others from straight up bullet wounds. Also, look at the pictures used by the press in the early days, who stacked the bodies? Anyway, I believe it was funded by some Clowns black budget.
That's from memory, but I think it covers most of what went on. It's an interesting rabbit hole to spend a while down.
I remember growing up and hearing about this being a religious cult experiement. When I was older I actually listened to the 40 minute tape recording of the mass suicide.
Times Jesus was mentioned: 0
Times God was mentioned: 0
Times escaping to Russia, communists, communism. was mentioned... several.
The majority in Jonestown were murdered to cover what was really going on there. Most of Jim Jones' followers had no idea what he was up to, and especially who he was in bed with that was giving him orders. The cult mentality is slipping amongst the sheep. The problem for them is, the physical poison was given at the indoctrination stage, and the dice was rolled.
I don't know anything about Jonestown, I never really looked into it. Can you expand on that?
Basically, a controlled Clown called Jim Jones created a "church", called the Peoples Temple, whose congregation consisted of mostly minorities. His tactics of control came straight from the Marxist handbook, using things like racism, sexism, equity etc. to indoctrinate. This was in California, unsurprisingly. After a few years his congregation grew into the hundreds, with people giving their possessions to the church.
Eventually, he takes those hundreds of people to Guyana, with the usual false promises of a Communist utopia. When the people get to the commune, they are worked like slaves and the place starts to fall into disrepair. Jim Jones refuses people to leave and eventually a congressman went out with worried family members of the congregation to find out what was going on.
Anyway, things happened and eventually the congressman decides to fly back with any member of the congregation that wants to leave, of which there were a few. While they were on the runway, armed militia stormed the airfield, shooting up the planes and people there. The congressman was killed, as was a number of others, but a small number escaped on foot and, if I'm remembering right, at least 2 of the planes managed to take off under fire.
After this, Jones knew it was game over for him, so ordered a mass suicide via loudspeakers (you can listen to recordings taken of those orders over on the WebArchive). Oh, I forgot to mention, he had also ran practice drills for this. It's also where the metaphor for "drinking the Kool-Aid" comes from.
A while later, 900+ corpses are found in the compound. Over the years, evidence has come out to show most didn't die from drinking the poison. Many were injected and others from straight up bullet wounds. Also, look at the pictures used by the press in the early days, who stacked the bodies? Anyway, I believe it was funded by some Clowns black budget.
That's from memory, but I think it covers most of what went on. It's an interesting rabbit hole to spend a while down.
I remember growing up and hearing about this being a religious cult experiement. When I was older I actually listened to the 40 minute tape recording of the mass suicide.
Times Jesus was mentioned: 0 Times God was mentioned: 0
Times escaping to Russia, communists, communism. was mentioned... several.
This was a leftist indoctrination camp.