Jonestown: Paradise Lost

Did anyone else watch this on the History Channel? I have heard the story, seen the photos, and read the testimonials, dozens of times, but everytime I see something new, I just sit there, stunned, with my mouth open, just saying...why? This documentary was the most realistic, in depth, account of what happend that I have ever seen. I sat in front of my TV for ten minutes after the show ended, staring at the screen, with chills all over my body. How can one person be that evil, that selfish, to take nearly 1000 peoples lives, not out of cold blood, but to simply save his face, and prevent the truth of what he did from getting out. I cant imagine what the survivors of Jonestown have to live with every single day. To walk into the camp, and see over 900 of your relatives, neighbors, and friends, lying there, dead. Its shit like that, that confirms my belief that, there is no god.

 

Ya, I never heard the part about the guys wife and daughter slitting eachothers throats after they killed their little kids, or when the guy shot the pilot in the head, that was stunning. I wish they would have shown more of the actual footage though, instead of reinactments. They have all of those interviews with Jim Jones on tape.

 

To add to that. He started the cult because he was an egocentric, greedy, power hungry, twisted man. He took broken down people, broke them down even more by exposing everything they believed as falsehoods, then rebuilt them with his own views on life. He persuaded and forced his followers into giving them their lives earnings, and their children. When he began to be questioned by the general public, he then moved his operation to the middle of the jungle in Guyana. He forced people to stay in the camp with armed guards, and anyone who tried to escape was tortured or killed. After hearing stories of this, Congressman Ryan and NBC flew down to investigate, they found out too much, and were killed when they attempted to leave. Immediately after that he forced everyone to drink the kool aid laced with cyanide and sedatives, everyone who refused was either forced to drink at gun point, or injected with the mixture. Jim Jones himself couldnt bear to go out the same why his followers had, so he had one of his guards shoot him in the head. All because he didnt want the story of what he had done to get out. Thats pretty much the whole story in a nutshell.

 

Ummm, maybe try going to homeless shelters, take a few of them home, give them a bunch of acid, and show them subliminally laced tapes of the Treehouse Trolls....that worked for me at least.

 

Im sure it will be on plenty more times, it was on later last night again already,