Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Suicide? Murder? Massacre? "Don't Be Afraid to Die."

Thirty yrs. since "Jonestown." Maybe we should not use that name at all, or maybe we should never forget it. Jim Jones. A real "All-American" name.It's been thirty yrs. for the woman who talks here. MSNBC, having exclusive footage which only cost NBC News a reporter & a camera operator, has been working up to the anniversary for some time, & now features this AP story. If for nothing else, we should remember it for the phrase "Drink the Kool-Aid," which wasn't what was actually consumed, but we suppose the Yankee mind is too limited to grasp anything w/o a price on it.A perhaps deeper look at The People's Temple & other "suicide cults," from Salon.

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