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Offline TomSea

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Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
« on: November 18, 2018, 02:50:36 am »
Quite a few Jonestown stories are out right now, Nov. 18th, tomorrow,  is the 40th anniversary.

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Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - This year marks the 40 years since the Jonestown massacre when more than 900 people died after following cult leader Jim Jones to South America.

Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life — for a time.

The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America.

As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his blade carving roads and sites for wooden buildings with metal roofs.

More than 900 people lived in the agricultural mission, with its dining pavilion, tidy cottages, school, medical facilities and rows of crops.

Read more at: https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/jonestown-massacre-40th-anniversary-survivors-lost-everything-built-new-lives/1603299452

I'd hope an excerpt is okay in view of the listed disclaimer.




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Re: Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2018, 03:03:20 am »
Jim Jones - Democrat

The politicos in San Francisco fawned over the guy.
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Re: Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2018, 03:17:46 am »
I wonder where the money came from, to operate in the US, air travel, food etc. for them in So. America?

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Re: Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2018, 03:56:59 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on November 18, 2018, 03:03:20 am
Jim Jones - Democrat

The politicos in San Francisco fawned over the guy.

He wasn't a Rat. He was a full out Marxist. The whole point of Jonestown was building a straight up Communist commune away from the evils of Capitalism. Whenever I see some docu on the topic with the survivors they always make a point to gush over what a great concept the whole thing was but the forced labor camps and suicides ruined it.

Screw the whole filthy lot of these degenerate losers.
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Re: Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2018, 04:00:43 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on November 18, 2018, 03:56:59 am
the forced labor camps and suicides ruined it.

Who could have anticipated that?
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Re: Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2018, 04:17:25 am »
Quote from: Dexter on November 18, 2018, 04:00:43 am
Who could have anticipated that?

Anyone who has observed previous experiments in Communism.
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Re: Jonestown massacre 40th anniversary: Survivors lost everything, built new lives
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2018, 04:29:22 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on November 18, 2018, 03:56:59 am
He wasn't a Rat. He was a full out Marxist. 

What's the difference?
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