Jim Jones

Jim Jones, of Irish and Welsh descent, grew up as an outsider in Indiana, the only child of a working mother and a much older father, a disabled veteran of the Great War. Jones claimed his dark hair and high cheekbones came from Cherokee blood on his mother’s side. His adopted children were Korean and black, and significantly, his black son, Jim Jones, Jr., shared his own name. Peoples Temple member Gary Lambrev remembers, “Jim always pointed out not only that his family, his immediate family, was interracial by adoption but that he personally was a man who was profoundly blended of many different racial and ethnic streams. But then increasingly as the organization became blacker and blacker, he began to talk about himself as a black man, first a man of color, and then a black man.”

James "Jim" Warren Jones (13 May 1931 – 18 November 1978) was a far leftist and anti-white American cult leader who, along with his inner circle, initiated and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana, South America. This caused 914 deaths, including of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, who had led a delegation into the cult commune to investigate what was going on. A third of the victims were minors. The Jonestown mass suicide/killing was the largest such event in modern history.

Life

Jones from early on had far leftist views, eventually becoming a Communist. He first attempted to create a racially integrated church in the U.S. The organization was first titled "Community Unity" and later titled "The Peoples Temple". It was given extensive praise and support from mainstream sources. He was an early supporter of, for example, extensive race mixing. Jones later actually attempted to create a socialist, egalitarian, racially integrated utopia in Jonestown in South America.

Race

"In Jones’s view, white men were the enemy. He believed the world might be destroyed either by nuclear war or by genocide against people of color. Church members went through radical loyalty tests called “white nights,” so named because of Jones’s belief that white men were trying to ruin his project. One church member wrote a final testament praising Jonestown because there were “no more racist tears from whites and others who thought they were better.” Jones even claimed that the final suicide decision was necessary because some of his white followers had defected and wanted to escape with Congressman Ryan.

About 80 percent of his followers were blacks, but Jones made intelligent but gullible white women his chief assistants and main sex partners. [...] Although Jones was a preacher, and claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine, it is not clear how religious he really was. He once said:

“If there were no rich, no poor, if everyone were equal, religion would soon disappear.” One Jonestown survivor, asked if Jones was mainly interested in socialism or Christianity, answered, “Jim was a socialist first and an atheist second.”

Jones stated on Jonestown that

"I believe we're the purest communists there are."

Politically correct sources, such as the leftist Wikipedia, avoid mentioning aspects such as the anti-white views.

Rape

Based on survivor accounts, historical documentation, and research into the Peoples Temple, Jim Jones used sexual coercion, manipulation, and rape as tools of control over both female and male members of his congregation. Documentation includes accounts of rape in the back of his bus during "Freedom Rides" and the coerced sexual submission of the wives of several members. Reports indicate Jones also forced some male members of his congregation into sexual acts. Jones used these acts to break down personal autonomy and ensure absolute loyalty, often using his "special care unit" to isolate or punish those who did not comply.

Pedophilia

I think it’s important to mention how we dealt with pedophilia. There was one pedophile in Peoples Temple that I knew about in the final days of Jonestown, a man who was married and had a child. He did molest several Peoples Temple children. He was beaten in a public or semi-public meeting. We could have turned him over to the authorities instead, but we had made the decision – as a group – to be self-governing, and that included a system of punishment and discipline. No one was sent to juvenile hall, jail, or prison. Rather, they were brought up in our public forum, the matter discussed, and the situation handled, just as it might be in a large family unit that has made a contract to watch out for and protect the entire family unit. There were consequences for unacceptable behavior, but they didn’t include ostracism or exile. The pedophile died in Jonestown, as did his wife and child.

External links

• Jonestown, FBI
• The Most Gruesome Multi-Cult of All (Archive)