Sects, Drugs and Rock N Roll
Oct 16 2005 20:12
Has anyone else bought the CD "The Black Flower Bus Leaves at Dawn" a spoken word investigation into Charles Manson, David Koresh, L Ron Hubbard, Jim Jones, the Unification Church, Aleister Crowley etc?
It is very, very interesting and special marks must be given to Jim Jones (he of the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana) for believing himself to be the reincarnation of Jesus, Buddha and Lenin!
The CD has its faults - the British Order of Druids are shoved on at the end for little apparent purpose, and no attempt is made to look at the security service links of both the Moonies and Jim Jones.
Still for four quid I should not complain!
Oct 16 2005 21:32
#2
sounds interesting - where'd you get it from.
More information on Jonestown here:
Oct 16 2005 22:03
#3
Fucking hell they were all socialists??!?!??!
That is the craziest thing I ever heard! Will read that in full in work tomorrow...
Oct 17 2005 06:57
#4
Catch wrote:
sounds interesting - where'd you get it from.More information on Jonestown here:
Flashback on Essex Road is selling the CD for £4, in its spoken word section.
On Jonestown, the term "revolutionary suicide" is a mis-use of the Black Panthers use of the term - they meant it to mean that if you were a black revolutionary in America you had to be prepared to die for your beliefs, not that you should actually kill yourself.
One documebntary on Jonestown that I saw included recordings of Jones speaking (well rambling) to his followers after the order for suicide had begun. At several points he says "this is terrible" suggesting there was still some understanding, somewhere in his mind, of what he was actually doing.
If I recall correctly the American senator who was murdered attempting to lead some people out of Jonestown earlier in the day was one of the few post war US politicians to actually describe himself as a socialist - religion and politics was utterly mixed throughout this case.
Oct 17 2005 07:04
#5
PaulMarsh wrote:
If I recall correctly the American senator who was murdered attempting to lead some people out of Jonestown earlier in the day was one of the few post war US politicians to actually describe himself as a socialist - religion and politics was utterly mixed throughout this case.
Leo Ryan was the Congressman concerned see:
Scientology is slightly scarier than the people who think Global Warming is a myth.