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Study of a Socialist

September 24, 2012 at 5:00 am / by

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This man was all about “the People” and began his career as a community organizer.

He despised capitalism, denigrated the “millionaires and billionaires” and gathered the trust of the poor and oppressed by claiming he was a religious man.  Only after establishing their trust and devotion did he admit he was an atheist.

He was lauded by Democrat politicians and dignitaries including California Governor Jerry Brown, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Walter Mondale, gay activist Harvey Milk and former first lady Rosalynn Carter—all of whom either gave or attended testimonial dinners for him.

He claimed in a sermon that Jesus was a communist.

He was the friend of most of the United States worldwide enemies, including the Nation of Islam, communist leaders, dictators and terrorists like Angela Davis.  He was once described as a combination of “Martin King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein…ChairmanMao.”

He was an excellent fundraiser and collected money from people throughout the United States.

He hired media specialists to dispute any negative allegations made against him, including rumors that he had a homosexual affair.

He idolized Mao Zedong and carefully studied how Mao was able to overthrow the Chinese government.

No, he’s not Barack Obama, Van Jones, or any number of progressives in America today; his name is “Don’t Drink the Kool-aid” Jim Jones, founder of the Peoples Temple and the leader of one of the largest mass-suicides in history.

Jim Jones was obsessed with creating a ‘socialistic utopia’ in America and he realized the easiest way to manipulate the masses was by infiltrating religion. “How can I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church,” Jones said, and soon after he created  The Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel.  At a time when segregation was still occurring in America, Jones’ church was inter-racial and attracted thousands of poor and disadvantaged people.

After Jones was given tax-exemption status for his Peoples Temple church, he began openly telling outsiders that he was an atheist and communist.  He admitted in an article that he had learned the way to achieve social change through Marxism in the United States was to “mobilize people through religion.” In one of his California sermons, Jones said, “If you’re born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you’re born in sin. But if you’re born in socialism, you’re not born in sin.”

Jim Jones’ ultimate goal—much like the organizers of Occupy Wall Street–was to create a ‘socialist utopia’ in the U.S. but when he realized that wasn’t going to happen, he moved to a strip of land in Guyana which he renamed “Jonestown”.

Everything finally came crashing down when Jones learned that California Congressman Leo Ryan was coming to Guyana to investigate Jonestown for possible human rights violations.   Jones ordered some of his followers to murder Rep. Ryan, three journalists and a defecting Temple member in an ambush on a Port Kaituma airstrip. Backed into a corner, the master manipulator convinced his followers to participate in a “revolutionary suicide” by drinking cyanide-laced grape Flavor-Aide.  Jones had borrowed the term by Black Panther leader and Peoples Temple supporter Huey Newton who said, “the slow suicide of life in the ghetto ought to be replaced by revolutionary struggle that would end only in victory (socialism and self determination) or revolutionary suicide (death).”

On November 18, 1978, 909 inhabitants of Jonestown, 303 of them children, were found dead in and around a pavilion, including Jones who had died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.  The Jonestown suicides were the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the 9/11 attacks.

“We didn’t commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world,” Jones said in a tape recording made during the event.

In 2010 Jim Jones’ adopted son, Jim Jones, Jr. was on the Oprah Winfrey show.  He said, “I’m part of an organization that tried to build a new world.  Nine hundred people died, and I miss them every day. But I also recognize that they tried.  They tried something—they failed horrifically—but they tried, and out of that, I’ve taken a lot of pride to realize that I’m Jim Jones Jr.  I can’t hide from that.”

2011 Occupy Wall Street quotes:

“There’s a lot of different kinds of people here who want to shift the paradigm to something that’s addressing the huge gap between the rich and the poor.” Susan Sarandon

“You’re talking about raising political consciousness so it spills over all parts of the country…in the end we’re really talking about what Martin King would call a revolution: A transfer of power from oligarchs to everyday people of all colors. And that is a step by step process.” Princeton University religion professor Dr. Cornel West

“We’re here to give everything from the people from whom you stole everything.”  Van Jones

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”  Karl Marx

 
 

Ann-Marie Murrell

Ann-Marie is the original anchor and the National Director/Editor-in-Chief of PolitiChicks.tv. She is one of the go-to Conservative reporters in Los Angeles and has covered multiple political events throughout the United States. Ann-Marie has conducted exclusive interviews with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Lt. Col. Allen West, Newt Gingrich, Frank Gaffney, and was one of the last reporters to interview the late Andrew Breitbart. In addition to writing and reporting for PolitiChicks.tv, she has also written for Town Hall, Front Page Magazine, Reagan Report, The Blaze and dozens of other Conservative sites. Ann-Marie lives in ultra-liberal Los Angeles with her husband Mark.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000819770155 Lainie Sloane

    With Barack Obama in office, those who couldn’t get it done in the 60s think their time has come to achieve their goals of Communism. The Occupy Wall Street quotes say it all. Another great article, Ann-Marie!

    • http://www.facebook.com/annmariemurrell Ann-Marie Murrell

      Thanks Lainie. It took the ‘perfect storm’ to get someone like Barack in office, it’s going to take a HURRICANE to get him out…

  • rosemarienoa

    There is a TV show on the Military Channel titled “The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler” In a few years it will be titled “The Fatal Attraction of Barack Obama”!!! Wait for it! This is a story that will be another historical tragedy!!!

  • http://www.classy-cleaning.com/ Shannon J. Carpenter

    Great article Ann-Marie you know I w
    also had a thought of when Ronald Reagan began his career in acting the Communist were trying to take over and he helped to put a stop to it. It is Obvious Like Laine said that they now see this as a time to take over and Obama is their Leader. I would hate to see another four years of his insane policies and executive orders…it will be a sad day. Again Great article!

    • http://www.facebook.com/annmariemurrell Ann-Marie Murrell

      Thank you Shannon!

  • http://www.facebook.com/patti.b.terrell Patti Barnett Terrell

    What a powerful article –insightful and down right scarey. Politichicks are not fatalist – we just tell it like it is. Good job as always!

    • http://www.facebook.com/annmariemurrell Ann-Marie Murrell

      Lol, yep ;-)

  • jbalbo

    This is an interesting study of someone who believed in extremism and was frankly a nut job. For that, I commend the interesting piece which supplements what I remember from the events as a child. The quotes listed below the Jim Jones piece are of more current people who also believe in a more socialism-based mindset. I don’t see what it has to do at all with Barack Obama’s policies (to be fair, Ann-Marie, you did not directly make this reference, but clearly those commenting infer this). The fact that established politicial leaders mistakenly supported him also has nothing to do with Barack Obama. Ronald Reagan supported the Contras and gave weapons to groups who later became active against the United States (like the Taliban) and nobody blames him. The fact is he didn’t know at the time (we hope). So screaming Socialism, Hitler and other beliefs and then putting Barack Obama in the same sentence says nothing. [Side note: I'm from LA and the people I am surrounded by are mostly conservative.]

    • http://www.facebook.com/annmariemurrell Ann-Marie Murrell

      Read the first paragraph again & you should understand why I referenced Obama. Community organizer, denigrating “millionaires & billionaires”, strange church, surrounded by communists/socialists etc etc. Sorry, but the similarities are absolutely there.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lou.brown Lou Ellen Brown

    Wow, what an article, and probably news to some people who use the “drink the kool aid” phrase and never knew where it came from. Please take care.

  • slyefocks

    Sounds like comrade Barry Soetoro’s (aka Barak Hussein Obama) autobiography!!!

  • DHouk

    I agree Ann-Marie, the similarites are strikingly similar between the Obummer and Jim Jones. How do these whack jobs obscure their true intent to people and how do people lose all their senses and not see their deception. I have often said on many posts that we can survive the Fool (Obummer) because he is after all, only a fool; what we cannot survive are the fools that are willing to have one such as he as our leader. The lowering of our standards is what is the most dangerous threat to our country.

  • jeanne

    Every time I see and hear some of Obama’s rethoric, I am reminded of these poor people, who would not understand what was happening to them. A great deal of Obama supporters seem to be in this ‘I believe’ state of mind…that is truly frightening…not only for our country, but for them as well… I remember the Jim Jones tragedy and what a blow it was to America to see that he had such a hold over these people, that they were willing to ‘drink the kool-aid’.

  • GUEST

    To all who are taken in by ths Muslim Barry Soetoro, Alias, Barack Hussein Obama Jr., let me say this::. Wherever you are, if you have the chance to see him, you will do whatever it takes for you to see that SMILING, MAYBE LAUGHING, BUT LIEING FACE! but we are not going to vote for a person who smiles or laughs lots,we are going to vote for a man who can get the USA out of the very DEEP HOLE our man has got us into. You do not have to believe anyone, just check on his past, though he has hidden all of his private life, school records, birth certificate and everything that he WANTED HIDDEN. If a man hides something important that he doesn’t want Others to know, there is a reason. , and we learned his reason. , UNTIL he got by the person who did not check him for his elibibility, his cirtizenship, birth certificate and where he was born , a mistake by someone in Washington, D.C. Congress. He claimed he doesn’t know his birthday, lieing all the time. PLEASE do not vote for a person who should be working for the citizens of the USA , but must be traveling the country to CAMPAIGN. He seems NOT to have a problem in the world. WRONG!!! We are not going to hire a person who walks around whistling, smiling and laughing, because he has pulled an unbelievable FARCE on the USA. The citizens are the people that are suffering, not the Muslim. He has made enough money off of the citizens to have a very,very HIGH LIFE. However, he will have to start paying for all the traveling that his wife, Michelle does and that will take millions of dollars. You younger people who have not really found out just what he is going to TRY very hard to do,let me promise you, you are NOT going to like it. Be sure to vote but not for a Marxist, Communist, liar with the name of either Soetoro or Obama, Jr. It is not verified as yet.

  • pizano

    He would have a much easier time achieving his socialist utopia in today’s America!

  • purplewings

    The strange thing about all this that might prevent people from following so easily, is to recognize that usually those who convince others it is being done so ‘they’ can have a better opportunity in life, are those who have had everything, and make no effort to give away their own excessive wealth. So by accumulating loyal followers, they become powerful leaders who are also very wealthy due to the capitalism they feel so much hatred for.

  • http://twitter.com/LA_WriterChick Michele

    Here’s a chilling video (disturbing) of Jones with his zealotry for his socialism/communism and proof of links to the USSR, ties to big Dems, etc.
    http://youtu.be/xRGtGmPMGJ8