In the days leading up to Obama’s election there was a lot of talk about “socialism” and “drinking the Kool-Aid“, but none of that ridiculous, political mud-slinging compares to the atrocity of the kool-aid drinking socialism that took place during the Jonestown massacre. More than 900 Americans died 30 years ago in a South American jungle when Rev. Jim Jones ordered his cult commune to drink fruit juice laced with cyanide. Tomorrow night CNN will air Escape from Jonestown, a report on the few that survived the mass-suicide:
I recently strode confidently through the halls of the Scientology Celebrity Centre out of curiosity, thinking myself immune to indoctrination. But desperate circumstances and well-executed manipulation can lead people to do things they wouldn’t normally agree to. Don’t worry, I made it out of the Centre without being recruited.
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