[lbo-talk] Jonestown

[Michael Pugliese]

Wanzala>...As to Jonestown, even radical lawyer Charles Garry lawyered for 
Jim Jones, and much of the left, especially in the Bay Area was enamoured 
of him. Much of the current left establishment in San Francisco were 
supporters/enablers of Jim Jones.* Even Angela Davis went to the Peoples 
Temple* and many leftists failed to realize - or ignored the fact - that he 
was a charlatan - until it was too late.

 (*source Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs "Raven - the Untold Story of the 
Rev. Jim Jones and his People")

 "I come with the black hair of a raven. I come as God socialist.!" - Jim 
Jones.

   As I know, being a San Franciscan. Just after Jonestown, Michael Kazin 
in Socialist Review, wrote their editorial, "Jonestown and the Bay Area 
Left."

   See this webpg. for photos of Jim Jones w/ Jerry Brown, Willie Brown, 
Charles Garry,Rev. Cecil Williams, George Moscone, Walter Mondale.
> ...Willie Brown attributed Moscone's electoral victory to Jones.
http://www.brasscheck.com/jonestown/pics.html#top

   >...I come as God socialist.!" - Jim Jones.
http://216.247.220.66/het/1998/billingsley11-98.htm
The Death of God Socialist
by K. L. Billingsley
Heterodoxy | November 1998

   Three of the better books.

   Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the 
Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton

   Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History by 
John R. Hall Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the 
Peoples Temple, and Jonestown (Religion in North America) by David 
Chidester

-- 
Michael Pugliese, overposted, time to spank me, oh Tom of Finland!...
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