January 25, 2007
The Truth About Jonestown
The original body count done by the Guyanese was 408, and this figure was initially agreed to by U.S. Army authorities on site. However, over the next few days, the total of reported dead began to rise quickly. The Army made a series of misleading and openly false statements about the discrepancy. The new total, which was the official final count, was given almost a week later by American authorities as 913. A total of 16 survivors were reported to have returned to the U.S.
...the Americans proposed (a) theory — they had missed seeing a pile of bodies at the back of the pavilion. The structure was the size of a small house, and they had been at the scene for days. Finally, we were given the official reason for the discrepancy — bodies had fallen on top of other bodies, adults covering children.
It was a simple, if morbid, arithmetic that led to the first suspicions. The 408 bodies discovered at first count would have to be able to cover 505 bodies for a total of 913. In addition, those who first worked on the bodies would have been unlikely to miss bodies lying beneath each other since each body had to be punctured. Eighty-two of the bodies first found were those of children, reducing the number that could have been hidden below others. A search of nearly 150 photographs, aerial and close-up, fails to show even one body lying under another, much less 500.
http://www.outlawjournalism.com/news/?p=2416 | Outlaw News
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What if Jonestown wasn't a CIA experiment gone bad; i.e. no MKULTRA. Only a Christian work camp-transplanted cult that the Guyanese army together with their CIA advisors destroyed and looted? That's not to say Jones didn't use drugs and techniques he learned from his CIA buddies but to suggest there may have been more expedient less "top secret" and messier reasons for the murders and coverup.
How about a "military style police action" that went bad?
Set off by the congressman's assassination, that turned into a million-dollar heist, covered up by mass murder cooperatively and politic-ly (sic) reported as mass suicide?
Were the people who escaped into the jungle hunted and killed Waco style? Were some of them armed; did they resist their "rescuers"?
The assassination causes the Guyanese army with their US advisors to storm Jonestown while Jones is busy exorcising his demons and doing his killing thing. They're met with unexpected armed resistence and their response quickly and tragically gets out of hand.
They destroy the compound in order to save it and kill more (about the same, half-as-many) men, women and children as Jones?
Jim Jones was a monster but he was a monster with many influential friends. Better an atrocity blamed on one man and his dead followers then hundreds of witnesses with lawsuits requiring embarrassing answers from both Guyanese, California and US officials? An investigation and court cases that would've destroyed careers and wrecked Guyana as a tourist destination for generations to come.
Either mass murder/robbery or 'mind control experiment' the complicity of American and world journalists in these deaths is worth remembering.
If back in 1978(?) journalists and editors everywhere could find no fault with the story of 900+ American ciitizens suiciding themselves and their children with cyanide-laced kool-ade, imagine the fictions the dwindling ranks of the fifth estate must swallow and regugitate for mass consumption today?
In the jungles, deserts and remote places of the world the CIA always acts more llike mobsters than mad scientists?
Posted by Stubbornson at January 25, 2007 04:48 PM