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The Jonestown Mystery

Tuesday November 21, 2006

Categories: Movies
The first image you see in Stanley Nelson's new documentary "Jonestown: the Life and Death of the Peoples Temple" is a row of smiling young faces--black and white, teens and 20-somethings--taken under a blue and sunny sky. They look as...
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Tom Kinsolving
March 10, 2007 8:40 AM
http://JonestownApologistsAlert.blogspot.com

....If Kim Winston really wants to be an insightful reporter regarding Jonestown, she need only research the dynamics of thought control, e.g., Prof. Phillip Zimbardo's work at Stanford, or Dr. Margaret Sanger, to understand how these people became slaves of Jim Jones and his cult mafia. And that is precisely what it was, engaging in extortion, torture, fraud, and other crimes, all aided and abetted by the left-wing Calif. political establishment.
The media has its own shameful role in facilitating the tragedy. Now comes Nelson, the Great Cult Apologist, telling us of the "joys" that existed. Outrageous.
Please see my website for more info, and pass the word, to stop this plague of disinformation.
http://JonestownApologistsAlert.blogspot.com



Tom Kinsolving

Joey Dieckman
December 22, 2007 2:27 PM

And if you want an OPEN discussion where you ARE NOT FORCED believe one way or another (read: make up your own mind) about Peoples Temple, please visit these two fine sites:

http://q875.makeforum.org/

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~remoore/jonestown/

There you can explore the ENTIRE picture, not just what some renegade with a blog wants you to know....

Joey Dieckman

Tom Kinsolving
January 15, 2008 2:52 AM

Yes, indeed, please do go and explore Jaded Joey's "fine sites," particularly the second address featuring the name "remoore". That's Rebecca Moore's website, which frequently sings the praises of an idyllic fictional little village of "Jonestown." The one where children were tortured, as they had been in California, and where there was slave labor, forced drugging of "troublemakers", Marxist indoctrination, disease, and malnutrition.
Like his handler Becky Moore, whose two sisters served as executioners for Jim Jones's mass slaughter, Jaded Joey is more than happy to not let facts hinder The Grand Apologist Illusion.
So go ahead, drop by the "Alternate Considerations of Jonestown" sideshow. Macabre, but high value entertainment.

Joey
February 20, 2008 1:42 PM

Yes, please do visit those fine sites. Unfortunately, Tommy exposes himself for what he truely is by way of the verbage in his comment.
Tommy is a hateful man and does nothing but spew venom everywhere he goes. You can tell this by reading ANYTHING he write.
What you dont know about Tommy is that he enjoys slandering people and is (probably) only a few short years away from some kind of lawsuit.
He also claims to really care deeply about those that died in Jtown, but it might interest you to know that the Kinsolving family is HIGHLY active in Civil War re-enactment "get togethers" where daddy dresses up as a confederate officer. Seems a bit racist to me. How does Tommy balance out his "care" for the JTown dead (mostly African American folks) with the fact that daddy plays dress-up as a pro-slavery scum bag?
Anyhow Tommy, thanks for proving once again that you cant ignore me.

Cheers!

Transcriptionist for FBI/CIA tapes
September 3, 2008 10:37 AM

Actually, there is more and more proof making it's way to the surface of this story that a majority of people, if not everyone, was drugged that final day. Survivors tell the story of some folks being drugged as they went about their daily duties. These drugs placed in sandwiches or various other foodstuffs.

There has been some FOIA file memos, letters, etc. that shows that a mass number of syringes were being ordered, or, "as many syringes as you can get". Also found was a memo asking "what should we do with those that do not wish to die?", written months before November 18th, when all the murders took place.

Another FOIA file memo found was from Doctor Larry Schaact, the settlement's physician, asking if he could have permission to test the cyanide on pigs from the piggery in Jonestown, because the pig's digestive system was closest to that of a human. This was also written months before the final day.

Jones was a charismatic man, no doubt, but he was also a control freak. He did condition people from the daily droning on over the settlement's PA system. The people did rebel towards the end, turning off the speakers of Jonestown so they could live in peace. Marceline also returned from one of her stateside trips and she put a stop to a lot of things such as this.

We have to remember though, the People's Temple wasn't a church. It was listed as a church and ran under the ruse of being a church, but Jones merely used the title to gain new members and to be able to have a scape goat on taxes and several other things. They were a political organization. The fake healings, etc. was put on for the public's benefit. In their normal meetings, there were no dances, or healings or singing per se.

Kathleen Mckenna
May 28, 2009 5:58 PM

I have spent the last two years researching and writing about Jonestown. Eventually it became a book-who knew? Jungle Rot is told through the voices of six people during the last six months in the encmapment. I do not use the phrase encampment lightly. After speaking with Black American survivors and family members of survivors a clear picture of a slave plantation and an organized genocidal movement emerges. Mr. Kinsolving has had many more years than I have to develop disgust and anger with this nightmarish subject. But he is right in saying we need to guard against any sort of apologist leanings toward Jonestown, lest we begin to sound like those well informed folks who insist the Holocaust was a made up event.

Kathleen

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