Then a couple of women brought out these trays of cups of what they said was cyanide-laced Kool-Aid, or Flavor-Aid—whichever they had. Everybody drank it. If we didn’t drink it, we were forced to drink it. If we ran, we thought we’d be shot. At the end of it, we were wondering, Why aren’t we dead?

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[–]Chipit 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Jim Jones was a socialist.

Yes, that's right! Jonestown had had many visits by the Soviet embassy where they taught about Marxism, had Russian language classes, etc. His plan was to airlift his Jonestown community to the Soviet Union. When the Soviets refused him, that's when the Flavor-Aid cyanide happened.

And yet, nobody ever mentions it. It's gone down the memory hole. He was also good friends with child rapist Harvey Milk and got a medal from San Francisco.

"We loaded up all 13 of our buses with maybe 70 people on each bus, and we had those buses rolling nonstop up and down the coast into San Francisco the day before the election," recalled Jim Jones Jr. "We had people going from precinct to precinct to vote. So could we have been the force that tipped the election to Moscone? Absolutely! Slam dunk. He only won by 4,000 votes. I'm sorry, but I've got to give my father credit for that. I think he did the right thing. George Moscone was a good person; he wanted what was best for San Francisco."

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/jim_jones_sinister_grip_on_san_francisco/

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Anti-racism was all a tool he used to get members.