Jonestown and the Jane Fonda Crowd
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
November 21, 2018, 12:01 am
Forty years later, the New Left never gets old nor ever is held accountable.
Washington
Forty years ago this past Sunday more than 900 men, women, and children either killed themselves or were murdered in Jonestown, Guyana. Geography buffs will note that Jonestown is just east of Venezuela, where yet another crazed left-wing experiment is being played out today, though on a much larger scale and hence the prospect of death on an even grander scale is still possible in that once prosperous country.
Yet forty years ago on November 18 the deaths were not over. In San Francisco, the hometown of Jonestown’s colony of death, there were still more deaths to be carried out. Harvey Milk, a local political charlatan, and George Moscone, San Francisco’s mayor, would be gunned down nine days later. It was all part of a festival of carnage that was going on in the City by the Bay, and surely it is still going on there today though not on the grand scale of Jonestown. Cities under Democratic control have a way of producing death and destruction. We know Chicago is dripping with blood, but San Francisco still has its moments.
Jonestown was the dream of the Rev. Jim Jones, a lunatic Marxist, an atheistic evangelical (all things are possible in San Francisco), and a practiced spellbinder.
more
https://spectator.org/jonestown-and-the-jane-fonda-crowd/
