Jim Jones & People's Temple [1]

[karenlangland1]

The True tragedy here is that the US Government can use Jonestown as a pretext to suppress Religious Freedom in the USA.

[riped01]

A genius.....but I disagree on the way he did it.....

[SenorZorrozzz]

He promoted his image, sayings and simple sayings of others that reflected his ideas. The idea of establishing a paradise on earth is completely foreign to the bible. His voice was broadcast through a PA 24 hours a day at the camp he created. Like so many tyrants, he had many wives fathered lots of children, may have had sex with children. He was a cult leader/dictator/tyrant/false God. Jim Jones was the polar opposite of Christ.

[SenorZorrozzz]

Jones was not a Christian. Jones stood before his followers and tore up a bible saying that his word was better than Gods. Jones idolized Mao. He died his hair black to look Asian. He named his church The Peoples Temple after the Peoples Republic of China. Jones openly advocated Communism.

Jones wanted people to follow him and his word, not Gods.

[EligosPoltergiest]

As I see it, every religious group is a "cult" in one way or another. If you think about it for a minute, and put the official definitions of a cult alongside the multitude of religious denominations and sects that exist in the U.S. alone, you will see they are all cults. Some are more accepted by society than others. Of course, this is only my opinion and I don't expect everyone to agree.

[kevinzarate]

fuck you jim jones go to hell fucker!

[DadsBlueAngel]

What I noticed about survivors when I lived in Northern California--one whose mother wanted to join--they were Southern Baptist after all--was that they had had a screw loose, probably before JIm Jones came to town. That conventional people were more susceptible. People who get along with everyone, like the German people, very few of whom understood the significance of HItler's psychopathology until Kristalnacht. This was Jonestown's Kristalnacht.

[Doughnutchef]

The killing of a cat as a child speaks volumes about jim jones,it's a tell-tale sign of a psychopathic personality,and it would appear that these signs were always there sitting in the shadows.One could only hope that the familys of the victims of this monster have found peace.

[dogterd]

I just can't believe anyone could fall for all this religious shit-rambling. Koresh, Jones, Manson, Scientology, Witnesses, ... it's all the same nonsense.

Folk, there's no God, so get some booze and call up some hookers.

[marc7388]

jim jones was a fukin nutjob and he brainwashed weak minded fools! I hope he is licking lucifers balls for eternity, Burning in hell for ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tokenluck]

is interesting all those paid agents supposely former church members do a lot of charges and acusations but no evidence at all, i haven't seen a video clip of anyone been brutaly abuse dont believe what you hear specially by govt run media or television programs

[polistyrenejassband]

not attacking you but what about those audio recordings of him telling people to kill themselfs

[richardboy2007]

totally agree with you there's more about this issue.....i think this was a government experiment to learn how to mind control.

[tokenluck]

jim jones was not a phsycho and his members didn't suicide, unfortunetly there are powers that hate equality and hate whites and blacks been bond so they have to destroy him and make lies about him, they were all murder

[Remington61189]

fuck that communist Jones

[fairikin]

christianity are very very confusing

[ImDiscombobulated]

"Change".

I'll give all that you ever needed.

Just drink this red stuff.

[67nairb]

Was this on the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on PBS?

[arfracer]

Google tape #Q51 Jones intimidates blacks, those folks were conned big time dog . They lie ,they cheat.

[veej31]

Jimi Jones was very manipulative, some of the things mention in this video are appealing, I'm not suprised that he gained such a following

[claireeleni6]

Very true. I am sitting here listening to this, as i right a term paper on Jonestown, and it seems that some of his views were not all that bad, and that maybe he wasnt that bad of a person, then i remember that he killed 918 people and that feeling kind of goes away. But i could see how people thought that he was the way to a new,better life.

If they only knew.

[kenbear2725]

i have to write a term paper on his too. you should send it to me. ^_^

[Lucifer986]

is that right you tax money kils milliosn more. infact your lifestyle kills hundreds more. your forefather killing millions more and nation still kills millions more?. so what he lead many to thiere death . he was human just like us and in this reality he found no solution accept death

[claireeleni6]

Okay sir whatever you say, just keep living in your little fairytale world.

:)

[Lucifer986]

im not the one whos delusionali gave you FACTS and i can give you sources and reading material. just go and read a noam chomskey book ir listen to his many lectures , are you going to deny what he says? a man who gives you sources and has reasoning that only a few posses with his prestige are you going to say noam chomsky you live in fairy tale land

[claireeleni6]

To be honest, I don't even remember commenting on on this video, so i have no idea what the hell your bitching to me about. Soo if you would like to enlighten me?

[kmoneystacks]

im obsessed with cults im not wanting to join one i just find them absolutely amazing on how insane they are and entertaining and scary they are

[YungFlyModel08]

i know what u mean i didn;t know this was going on i saw a doc. of it today on ths (e)

[ErrrrrrRia]

Yeah, same here. Im not stupid enough to join a cult, but i find them extremely interesting. I got really 'into' scientology, though i don't agree it with at all. Its odd how people can come up with stuff like this, and insane how people then follow it .

[garvess]

I actually found the things he said and did in this vid inspirational. I can understand why people were pulled in by him, but under the bait theres always a hook.

[l0lercycle]

Check your grammar please.

[garvess]

How about you make a comment with some substance. I hate when people disagree with a comment they see then attack the grammar. Its like hearing someone say something that irritates you and telling him that his clothes doesn't match. Get a life.

[jarryjar]

He's insane!

[MadMart666]

he WAS insan ;)

[paul51]

To this day, I just cannot understand how someone can have such a hold on people, have them in a trance. Yet, look at Hitler. Amazing.

[hallmall]

Jim Jones was a Jesuit under extreme oath.

Dr. Alberto Rivera an ex-Jesuit deep into the occult late in the 60s, said himself to have met Jim Jones a couple of times in secret meetings to accomplish the agenda of the Jesuit Order.

It all ties up on the top, their master is sat in Rome as King, and respond by the name of "Holy Father" if you wish.

[natebgraham]

jim jones was a punk ass bitch. he knew jesus about as good as i do. he was a fraud and a freak.

[LaurelinB]

Jim Jones started off with good intentions. But as it often is: good intentions increasingly turn into bad intentions.

[Toracube]

A friend of mine went to see him when he passed through Grenada as he passed through and was appalled by the trickery at the service, entertaining as I am sure it was.

I took some friends to see the documentary at a cinema, but didn't tell them too much about it. I felt quite sick and they were speachless. He started so well and just went off the rails.

[jouckeding]

it's too bad he was insane.

[priscilaradiologia]

nada diferente do que acontece nas igrejas que se dizem protestantes hoje no brasil onde se aproveitam de pessoas humildes e sem instruçao para enganarem seus coraçoes com teologia que reforça o interesse de homens gananciosos

[Maquiavelico05]

"Ta na hora, ta na hora

ta na hora de ofetar!

Ponha aqui seu dinheiro, pra je$u$ te abençoar!

Quem oferta vai pra frente, quem não oferta

vai pra tras!

Se vc quer a salvação, pode ofertar

nunca é demais"

(Música cantada em um culto da IURD)

[josieldeassis]

"Vamos correr a sacolinha"

[nita2605]

Values like racial tolerance are positive things but when you push for equality you can go too far and people so taken up with community can have this feeling used against them. Similarly when we react in fear and sacrifice personal freedom for safety we can go too far in that direction as well. Oppression and violence can come from left or right and really north, south, east or west for left and right represents a false binary because it cannot deal with the full variation in politics.

[nita2605]

I think the dangerous problem was not the ideals of equality and social rights but the mixture of these humanistic ideals with the personality of the charismatic and mentally ill Jim Jones. People joined to do good but the group was poisoned by his paranoia and abusive acts. People can get so swept up in change and doing things that they don't know where or how to stop. Its like once you get a ball rolling it has a force of its own..

[o0envia0o]

brandonkirk, HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA......

I've got one thing to say: TED KAZINSKY!

I'm a socialist, the democratic party is not a socialist party. That's a joke. read a book.

Ehem, also- this is an effect of hysteria that is seen in... oh, well.... WAR- which murders far more people then this. My point is: this is fanaticism which is psychological- not really political.

[brandonkirk1974]

Then why did the media rarely bring up the point that Jonestown and the people (American Democrats) were socialist Communist? What do they have to hide and why are they ashamed to point this out (a major point in this whole thing)?

[brandonkirk]

Isn't it funny when you look back at old archives about Jonestown from our beloved media (i.e. ABC's 20/20) you rarely hear them talk about how Jim Jones used socialism to manipulate the people.  He idolized the old USSR, North Korea, Cuba and other repressive communist governments. Could it be that our liberal media, then and now, completely ignored this massive part of the Jonestown story because they personally agree with this kind of government, frequently found in the Democratic party?

[flyguy359]

I absolutely agree with this. I just read the whole wiki thing which talks extensively about the connection to soviet style fascism and was shocked - I had never heard this. I was 15 when this happened and followed it very closely and none of this was made clear. This first segment here talks about racism and only the voice of JJ himself extols the communist ethic.

[brandonkirk1974]

flyguy, listen to the final 45 minutes recording before and during the Jonestown deaths. Members of Jonestown were saying why can't we flee to the Soviet Union instead of killing themselves. Jim makes up some excuse why they can't.

[flyguy359]

I hate conspiracy theories, but JJ's connections to prominent Democrats spiked the political aspects of this story, without a doubt. In 1977, it would have been damn embarrassing to Carter and Mondale to be connected in anyway to this nut, but moreso if these communist utopian ideals had been revealed. These are much more important to understanding the motivations of everyone in the People's Temple than JJ's homosexual-leaning pecadillos (which would be covered up today).

[Oli93ilO]

why does all this religious cult nonsense only really prosper in America

[jobe69]

Hiding Behind Those Sunglasses..That Weird Evil Laugh of His...This Guy Was A Spook and Those Who Followed Him Were Doomed From Day One...They Were Blind..Maybe They Should Have Worn Those Sunglasses Too.....

[thegirl44]

Jim Jones didn't employ the use of the dark glasses until his raging amphetamine addiction irreparably affected his pupils, likely contributed to the evil laugh as well. I prefer the opiate narced, lisping Jim Jones toward the end, myself, no one can debate the fact that the man was bat-shit-crazy listening to those tapes.

[gopconservative78]

these people tend to vote Democrat

[Snotra]

Is anyone seeing what im seeing? Abort a baby because its going to be a monster?

[msunset]

Obama's followers are virtual clones to Jim Jones'. Scary...

[elmando213]

your a fucking retardes ass muthafucka!!! you should drink some of that kool aid!!! you fucking waste of sperm!!!!

[BeautifulMind111]

I only feel bad for those poor innocent infants and kids that died. The adults - well it's good that they died because they were obviously retarded and had no mind of their own.

[Snotra]

Jim used the race card and gained souls for his master. Nay God forgive Obama supporters used that criteria.

[Snotra]

Pinochet08, Your playing God like him when you suck a babies brains out of a cunt. Sorry for the details. May God firgive me.

[Pinochet08]

Snotra

Your comparison makes no sense....

READ well first, then make generalizations.

You make it sound like I support abortion when is totally the opposite. this DEMON, because he was NOT HUMAN is the ONE who SHOULD HAVE been aborted for obvious reasons.

READ WELL

[RdWrior]

im not very religious, but dont you go to hell for committing suicide? and this may sound too bold, but wouldnt killing yourself be like slapping god across the face? regardless i know he is burning in hell, and his mom should have aborted him.

[Pinochet08]

He should have been aborted by his mother.

[carliex3]

Yes he should have

[Pinochet08]

Thank you carliex3, one intelligent human being share my comment,unlike(Snotra)who totally digressed the subject.

[carliex3]

Well it's better than a baby never being born than being mistreated and suffering a horrible life because it's parents aren't capable of taking care of it or the baby growing up into a mass murder. Too bad there was no foreshadowing of the event to let the parents know to abort it xD

[jazzyfayy1983]

he kept those shades on so nobody could see hes eyes

[beverlycromwell4]

I will never believe jim jones help blacks I think this was a way to destroy blacks by brainwashing and then telling them to kill themselves

[averitas]

You're gonna see the same thing again, but done by a black man. Watch all of Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People's Temple (google), see what pops up for you. He sure stepped on us (hispanics too) on the southside, to line his and his friends pockets, get them jobs and push the socialist agenda via Ayers/Small schools/Annenberg. The radical education programs got the money for brainwashing, not the public schools directly. Don't even ask on housing/Rezko. They have amnesia, I don't.

[fortuna2007]

is the full-length documentry available anywhere?

[RaulKohl]

There are tons of great videos available. The life and death of people's temple is without question one of the best. Also the 30 year anniversity is this month so there will be a lot on TV.

[mariannemarkus1]

die mensen die met hem meeliepen zijn achterlijk want hij was niets waard, die mensen waren ook al gewoon braindead hierdoor. Ze waren gewoon al stuk toen ze het gif innamen.

Deze man was echt een hele zieke man die niet tegen zijn verlies kon.

Die mensen zijn gewoon voor niets gestorven. :S

[jamal23227]

racists will burn in hell

[fortuna2007]

you're a cunt.

[Piper259]

This makes me so angry so many people were murdered I understand why the people did it though cause they belived in what they were doing and that is what made them think that death was the best way James preched to them about this everyday so much that the people truly belived it so they all killed themselves People will never understand what happend that day I feel so bad for that man who lost his daughter and I cried when I saw that that other man lost his 4 years son.

[usethepinkbaby]

Good? Evil? Please explain, because I don't believe in either concept. Love, hate it's all the same goddamned shit. Good vs. Evil. Ha Ha!

Jesus Christ, the green one from outer space, the world's greatest and most famous manipulator.

[thegirl44]

Yawn! Oh excuse me that was rude. It's just that I find opinionated people like yourself boring when I can read the ideas of people with an investigated stance and their points to support said stance.

[Pllm30]

he was sexy then.

[tweetybabii09]

WHO?

[usethepinkbaby]

He is sexy.

[pastelsand]

Faith without consideratin can lead to a big disaster, this is so sad. :(

[Furrdy]

Hitler, a failed art student, a genious?

I don't think so...

[usethepinkbaby]

Furrdy can't even spell genius. Genius is an overused term, it's all relative. The greatest minds are in our mental institutions.

[Furrdy]

Big deal I mispelt genius. Focus on what the words mean not how they are spelt.

[n9neether]

GOOD SHIT...THATZ WHATZ UP

[watersigns01]

You do raise a good point, people fail to realize that. Charlie Manson has an IQ of a genius, he was also a master manipulator. You can't lead a few or for that matter even hundreds or thousands of people without having a high level of intelligence.

[Childofbodom6666]

jones like adolf hitler was a genious but both used there smarts for the bad things

[Payam0]

i know eh

[Payam0]

i know eh

[WurldNewz]

cheers for the vid... we ended up featuring the full-length version on our website after seeing your clips :)

nice1

[stargazer3k]

pentecostals are wackos

I used to attend pentecostal church when I was young.

[beeninsane]

Are these clips combined the whole documentary? I remember seeing the whole of it on youtube, but can't remember if it was this.

[neildonoghue]

quote - 'don't compare him to Obama you fuck'...haha yeah he probalby would have fed obama with cyanide..he was a genius jim jones good or bad ..listen to his tapes!!!

[Pllm30]

big difference between genius and skilled con artist, neildonoghue. no evidence to support him as such. master manipulator true. no, obama would never have been fed cyanide. he was too busy getting his degree at Harvard than to associate with cults.

[southernlovin85]

Genius may be the wrong word to use here. But sociopath's fuckheads are usually great at what they do.

[southernlovin85]

I was trying to say sociopathic fuckheads at first but then I realized sociopathic isn't a word. I changed it and forgot to delete fuckheads. ooops!

[Najee1020]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[DemandSkillzEnt]

don't compare him to Obama you fuck

[Urvy1A]

And Jim Jones also had gay sex, so he was a psycho and gay

[buffykidd1971]

erm not all gay people are psycho thanks very much

[Cjayzzle]

i can tell your huffin pole

[buffykidd1971]

what pole you idiot I am a woman..... prat

[Cjayzzle]

hehe......single?

[Cjayzzle]

hehe......single?

[buffykidd1971]

no in a relationship for the last 5 years thanks

[Shtaze]

Hey - he sounds just like Obama.

[Urvy1A]

That man was a psycho.

[strfruit]

very informative video. i myself grew up in a cult. i went thru persecution from family and relatives when i stood up against the deceptions. i saw all the telltale signs in this video. wow !!! thanks for sharing.

[craptokker]

Thank you for sharing this. This is terrible but we should all know about this.

[JamesNintindoNerd]

no he is int he a fuking pshyco

[Pllm30]

jim jones is really cute!

[bayareamayne]

Wow ... did you even WATCH this documentary ?? Thats a real wacko thing to say about a man like that. Thats like saying Charles Manson is a hottie.

But hey, no disrespect ... to each his (or her) own.

[Pllm30]

deeds were questionable yet man was sexy as hell. if i saw someone like that, i would well um...let me hush. he's hot! the sunglasses, that jet black hair, bowed lips, big pretty face, milky white skin, fiery persona what more can i say.

[Cruzer867]

People are down-rating you, but many of his followers felt just the same way. that's why they were attracted to him.

He was pure evil though.

[Pllm30]

cruzer867: yes, such is true. as a matter of fact, there was a fall out with some of the women because he was sexing some more than others and jealousy came into play. So he got up in the pulpit and said,

"Jealousy? I can't deal with this. I'm going to stop showing my affections."

He said that.

[JamesNintindoNerd]

he killed blacks because he did'nt like them

[Pllm30]

no he died and took others because 1). the congressman had been killed and 2). he didnt want to lose the heated custody battle of a son he had with loose woman he slept with. he knew he was up shit creek once the congressman died anyway.

[fortuna2007]

ever considered therapy?

[TheBobcatChannel]

thanx 4 the uplod. where can i get the DVD?

[doubleas2380]

Thanks for the upload Blake.

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[qbnas]

muthafucka sholy was a menace, at least this cat wasnt crackin no whips., shit

[trikzz]

Jim Jones is despised... what kind of moron convinces people to kill themselves??? You tell me... fucking stupid mother fucker.