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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-09-08 10:56 PM
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Jim Jones was a Republican
With his new wealth, Jones was able to travel to California and establish the first People's Temple in Ukiah, California, in 1965. Guarded by dogs, electric fences and guard towers, he set up Happy Havens Rest Home.<98> Despite a lack of trained personnel, or proper licensing, Jones drew in many people at the camp. He had elderly, prisoners, people from psychiatric institutions, and 150 foster children, often transferred to care at Happy Havens by court orders.<99> He was contacted there by Christian missionaries from World Vision, an international evangelical order that had done espionage work for the CIA in Southeast Asia.<100> He met "influential" members of the community and was befriended by Walter Heady, the head of the local chapter of the John Birch Society.<101> He used the members of his "church" to organize local voting drives for Richard Nixon's election, and worked closely with the republican party.<102> He was even appointed chairman of the county grand jury.<103>

lots more . . . http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/Jonestown.html
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-09-08 10:57 PM
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1. well that explains his insanity...n/t
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-09-08 11:00 PM
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2. More crazy Republicans here
http://www.republicansexoffenders.com/

Ted Bundy worked on political campaigns for the republican party.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-09-08 11:10 PM
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3. Ted was the leader of the Young Republicans of Seattle
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norepubsin08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 01:02 AM
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4. Hey, I sang for Ted Bundy's step dads funeral
tell me more about what you know about World Vision spying...thanks!
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juno jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 02:32 AM
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5. K&R n/t
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 06:31 AM
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6. No he wasn't


He just acted like one.






This one is, though:

http://www.isc.idaho.gov/jjonesbio.htm

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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 06:35 AM
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7. Many people didn't know Forbes Burnham
the President of Guyana. He was put in power by the CIA. The files are open and I've read them. That move to Guyana fit in nicely with having a permanent CIA presence in Guyana although it was Democrats in power and their names are called in the destabilizing of that country.

Burnham would not have given them that land without both US pressure and a nice sum of money.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 08:40 AM
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8. I saw Jim Jones in Berkeley in 1975, up close....
He was so crazy you could feel it from 20 feet away. He was full of hate and anger, and just talking crazy, yet he was a big favorite of the Bay Area and Cal state politicians at the time - he was on a lot of committees and got a lot of money because of the "good" he did for low income people.
Later it was revealed hw was taking thoes people's social security or disability checks, giving them little in return beating and molseting many of them, keeping them in fear. I saw him on Sproul Plaza one afternoon, a small man wearing big sun glasses, red-white-blue striped shirt, and built-up black boots.

I did not know who he was till I saw the news about Jonestown much later.

mark
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