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But in reality, no one 'drank the coolaid' at Jonestown

posted 10 years ago by roell29
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Those people were all murdered according to the official coroner's report. They were tracked down in the forest by special forces and injected with cyanide after they tried to escape. Jim Jones had intelligence connections up the wazoo. The brilliant researcher John Judge (RIP) did some mind-blowing investigations into Jonestown, proving that truth is way stranger than fiction (http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/Jonestown.html. It was one of series of covert government-sponsored psy-ops conducted in the early '70s (SLA, Weathermen, Manson family) whose intention was to poison the legacy of the sixties in the collective psyche forever. John Judge focused much research on all these operations. The Jonestown MK-Ultra experiment failed. A bunch of mostly impoverished black people were not talked into committing suicide - they had to be murdered - yet the popular mythology that they "drank the kool-aid" persists. Typical of Vice Media (run by Rupert Murdoch's son) to reenforce those phony myths surrounding Jonestown.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli...

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[–] fidgette 9 years ago

This was not a VICE film, the writer had the idea and got permission to do the film using their brand.

[–] benman46 9 years ago

One word, bollocks.

[–] brewpub420 8 years ago

The ones who didn't drink the grape drink (was a generic powder , not Kool-Aid brand) and didn't make it into the forest were shot. The vast majority though did drink the grape drink. Only a handful were injected and it was mostly kids. They were not "ALL" murdered. Hence why it is referred to as the largest mass suicide in recorded history. I suggest you check your facts again friend , because you are quite wrong.

[–] roell29 8 years ago

http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=31980#_ftn1

"...Doctor Mootoo was the Guyanese state pathologist, and one of the first to enter Jonestown after more than 900 people died there. Having trained in London and Vienna, Doctor Mootoo was the only competent person to examine the dead in a timely way. And it was his conclusion that more than 700 of those who died were probably murdered.[1]

This conclusion was based on several observations. For instance: whatever the cause of death, the children – of whom there were some 260 – could not be held responsible for their own deaths. Whether the kids were duped, coerced or murdered outright, the adults were obviously responsible.

As for the adults themselves, Mootoo reported that 83 of the 100 bodies that he examined had needle-punctures on the backs of their shoulders – suggesting that they had been forcibly held down and injected against their will.[2] As if this were not evidence enough of foul play, Mootoo noted that syringes containing cyanide, but lacking needles, lay everywhere on the ground – which led him to conclude that they had been used to squirt poison into the mouths of those who refused to drink. Still others were tricked into thinking that they were taking tranquilizers: bottles containing potassium cyanide, but labeled “Valium,” were scattered on the ground around the central pavilion.[3] Based upon this evidence, it would seem that as many as 700, and possibly more, of the Jonestown dead were murdered..."