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Archive through November 06, 2008Edgydrifter30 11-06-08  06:55 pm
         

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Hexangler
Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 08:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I think this is the real reference why not to drink the Kool-Aid:


To the extent the actions in Jonestown were viewed as a mass suicide, it is one of the largest such mass suicides in history, and the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the incidents of September 11, 2001. One of those dying at the nearby airstrip was Leo Ryan, who became the first and only Congressman murdered in the line of duty in the history of the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
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Ferris_von_bueller
Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 10:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Jonestown occurred during the Carter years. It will be interesting to see if there are any mass suicides during Obama's reign, especially after the hypnosis wears off and is replaced with reality.
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Hexangler
Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 11:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Leo Ryan was a distant relative of mine.
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Hexangler
Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 11:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

He was born in Lincoln Nebraska... That's where my GrandPa's from.
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Hexangler
Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 11:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Here's another tidbit:

On November 1, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan announced that he would visit Jonestown.[31] He did so as part of a government investigation and received permission and government funds to do so.[32] He made the journey in his role as chairman of a congressional subcommittee with jurisdiction over U.S. citizens living in foreign countries. He asked the other members of his Bay Area congressional delegation to join him on the investigation to Jonestown, but they all declined his invitation.[11] Ryan had also asked his friend Dan Quayle to accompany him – Quayle had served with Ryan on the Government Operations Committee – but Quayle was unable to go on the trip.[33]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan
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