EE-1-I & J-4<\/p>\n
Undated Statement from Laura Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n Laura Johnston<\/p>\n Socialism<\/p>\n Socialism is the road to communism \u2013 which is a totally egalitarian state where no one prospers at the expense of a poor class. Every one works together and the benefits and produces made are shared \u2013 no group works in an elite setting and has special privilege. The result of a group effort (or group control of the means of production) is that the product gradually builds up the standard of living of everyone, and makes benefits available \u2013 medical, food, housing, etc. that in capitalistic countries are available to only a select few \u2013 based on class, race, ethnic origin etc. or family connections.<\/p>\n Socialism can come about gradually \u2013 but the transitional stage is very different done peacefully. Like in Chile and now in Guyana \u2013 an elected<\/u> Socialist government that doesn\u2019t take strong measures to protect itself from capitalist and CIA interventions \u2013 especially in Latin & South America where the US feels more threatened by the presence of Socialist or even non-aligned nations so is determined to attempt to overthrow any such state.<\/p>\n Socialism is a way of saying \u201cif you don\u2019t work you don\u2019t eat, but if you can work, you can feed many others as well as yourself.\u201d In an advanced socialist or communist state, it is based on an individual\u2019s<\/u> responsibility to contribute to the whole \u2013 not an individual\u2019s fight not to be misused and swallowed up by the elite class like in the<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I & J-5<\/p>\n US and in all capitalistic states where outrageous prices are chased for legal aid, medicine, schooling, housing, and salaries are barely sufficient to cover the most basic needs for the real workers of the society.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t want to live in any capitalist nation. I don\u2019t want any \u2013 not one \u2013 child to suffer that life.<\/p>\n Ideas-<\/p>\n If a nation that can\u2019t take us in (Cuba \u2013 or any others) could provide us safe travel to South Africa or wherever the fight is on we could go there and fight \u2013 rather than be here shot down w\/out helping in a concrete way with some struggle<\/p>\n or<\/p>\n Could we somehow get to Chile and at least bring more public attention to that struggle or Brazil \u2013 or wherever<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-142<\/p>\n Letter to Laura Johnston from Guyana correspondent, October 1977<\/strong><\/p>\n 224 Independence Boulevard, Hello Laura,<\/p>\n I hope these few lines may reach you soft in the best of head also the people up there, for myself and all at home are going well.<\/p>\n Well Laura I rang many times home in Georgetown but your family told me that you haven\u2019t come home as yet, they don\u2019t know when you would come home, so we could get together (lets hope) so you must write and tell me when you are comming because I want to invite you home at me.<\/p>\n So Laura how is work up there don\u2019t work too heard because I know Agricultural work is heard, for my self I am still working at [illegible] as a switchboard operator so I sure can remember one.<\/p>\n I hope you are comming home for Christmas it is not far from now in the next two months.<\/p>\n Well Laura this is all for know until I hear from you. So long care yourself.<\/p>\n Yours faithfully [envelope addressed to Laura Johnston]<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n BB-31-a-278<\/p>\n Laura Johnston Letter to Dad on Tim Stoen<\/strong><\/p>\n 19 Dec 1977<\/p>\n To: Jim Jones I know I fuck up in my follow-through with different responsibilities \u2013 I would love to be able to do one thing right \u2013 without fucking up \u2013 If I could be useful driving a car off a cliff with Tim and any traitors I could take \u2013 or if I could carry an explosive into a group of them \u2013 without implicating the group \u2013 in any way that I could take others with me \u2013 I’d be more than willing to do it.<\/p>\n I have fears, preferences, many faults but I think that death offers me things I want so I don’t see myself falling short of any instructions in that area.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-182<\/p>\n Undated Statement from Laura Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n To: Jim Jones These are just a few reasons I have to be grateful to you. I don\u2019t even pretend to appreciate you enough!<\/p>\n \u2013 you saved me from the complacency, boredom and compromise of being a citizen of the U.S. today<\/p>\n \u2013 you saved me from identifying as a white person \u2013 which would have meant that I would be a drag on the momentum of the third world and communism.<\/p>\n \u2013 you saved me from being an oppressed woman \u2013 There is no way I could have found happiness without Jim Jones, Peoples Temple and socialism<\/p>\n \u2013 you showed me reality, when I was looking at life with rose colored glasses. I was unhappy being alive at all even with those rose colored glasses<\/p>\n \u2013 you gave me hope that I could change, and grow into a more committed communist.<\/p>\n \u2013 you proved to me that once I was freed of capitalist bullshit, that I was the only thing in my way to principle \u2013 I was no longer in bondage to capitalism and theUnited States \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 you let me see camaraderie that can carry us through the most difficult times, because we gain strength and unity through stormy weather.<\/p>\n \u2013 you gave me memories of such love that I can never remember them all \u2013 summer trips,<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-183<\/p>\n drug rehabilitation projects, living communally, church projects, harvesting grapes, bus driving, animals adopted and cared for, children given homes, security for sweet \u2013 and some cranky \u2013 seniors, socialist rallies, marches around..the most fascist US institutions, winter trips through snow and ice storms, and finally a move to a socialist, third world nation \u2013 No memory could be so full, no life, less dull, no work so fulfilling<\/p>\n \u2013 you showed me that you have the patience of the ages \u2013 you endured church, endured Indianapolis, then Ukiah, then endured captivity in San Fran. and now you endure life with daily disappointments and trials which only you can bring us through.<\/p>\n \u2013 you gave homes to the most abandoned in the U.S. society \u2013 Mae Katherine Griffith and Estelle Railback, Comrade Mercer, Joe Beam, Renee McMurray, Mom Talley, Kay Rosas, Danny Beck, Mark Sly, Vincent Lopez, and many, many, many more.<\/p>\n \u2013 you gave me the privilege of being a socialist becoming communist here in Guyana.<\/p>\n \u2013 you showed me character and you alone are responsible for any that I\u2019ve shown or even now develop<\/p>\n \u2013 you showed me that you are concerned about each of us without a price \u2013 we have no need to try to sway you or bury you \u2013 you are righteous and not partial to us based on any superficiality.<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-137<\/p>\n Note to Jim Jones from Laura Johnston, Winter 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n 1\/2\/78 Self-evaluation 1 I know that I have too good an image of myself. I try to maintain an image \u2013 but I\u2019m a \u201ccloset\u201d fuck-up, I know. It is difficult for me to admit. I\u2019m wrong, defensive, lazy and passive. My self-image gets in my way \u2013 like when I had my medical check-up I didn\u2019t admit to Lisa Layton that I\u2019d been with anyone \u2013 that I could have VD \u2013 and I [crossed out: couldn\u2019t] didn\u2019t for fro a pregnancy check when my period was a few weeks late. (it has now been regular for months so no problem there). I know that with my fuck in Georgetown, it wasn\u2019t just a one time accident \u2013 I don\u2019t believe in those either. I know it was my anarchy and reason to be thinking \u2013 and then carrying out \u2013 such shit. I worry too that I talked too much to the outsider \u2013 about general things it seemed to me \u2013 but I wasn\u2019t objective in the situation \u2013 like I told him we had radio contact hours day \u2013 and night, and he knew which secretaries came in \u2013 by picking them up at the airport etc. I know that in every project I\u2019ve worked on \u2013 I have had poor follow thru and general lack of concern \u2013 the only exception possibly \u2013 has been keeping my welfare job for so long (thanks to you) and doing visitations in the U.S. I\u2019m involved with Agriculture here \u2013 but so far I haven\u2019t gotten that involved.<\/p>\n I first thought when I came out to Jonestown about staying for a year \u2013 then going back. I didn\u2019t want to have to work \u2013 but I didn\u2019t want to keep those in the U.S. from coming. Somehow the one-year plan eased me thru accepting the discipline of daily work \u2013 which I thought I was above. I know this is all fucked. More and more I know I couldn\u2019t stay in the U.S. I don\u2019t have any illusions of being principled or having deep morals \u2013 I know I\u2019m selfish and my only<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-138<\/p>\n fairness and morality comes from you. I\u2019ve worked thru that nightmare now and have no plans to return there. I just don\u2019t want to fuck up anymore here. I want to do my job<\/p>\n 2 I\u2019m still sexually attracted to you \u2013 I feel like I\u2019m not the least bit interested in any relationship \u2013 the routine of having to speak, relate in our exclusive way. I hope that continues, even those I listed in the last note as those I\u2019m sexually attracted to \u2013 doesn\u2019t apply. You asked in service who had no desire for relationships \u2013 and said it was because of the heaviness of the world nowadays. I wish I had that sensitivity but my own reason is more that:<\/p>\n I am hostile because I don\u2019t know where I stand. I know my Georgetown fuck was treasonous and that alot of my fuck-ups have been servers I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m the exception or if it is a general problem \u2013 I don\u2019t know if I should ask or volunteer for things like procuring on the river or going to PNC meetings, or if I should just sit things out. I know my own acts are the things that I\u2019m hostile about, and I don\u2019t know really how to treat myself accordingly \u2013 and I don\u2019t know how you want me treated. I know I used to clear letters, and that Rita [Tupper] made it clear that I was no longer needed. I don\u2019t know if that came from you or if that was her preference. I know you are so direct with each of us as you can be \u2013 based on our good as long as the collective is not harmed \u2013 so I assume I couldn\u2019t or can\u2019t take it that I\u2019m less trustworthy than Rita or Mary Lou [Clancey] again \u2013 I don\u2019t know which is paranoia, which is justified \u2013 etc<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-118 \u2013 119<\/p>\n Undated note from Laura Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n M-<\/p>\n I\u2019d gladly be able to serve by either taking care of Tim\/Grace or by committing suicide in the cabinet or wherever \u2013<\/p>\n (Using a gun would mean our loss of a gun we need) Who would be next in line after that? Would Hoyt [Guyana Minister of Development Desmond Hoyte] be a good one to eliminate? Or someone else in government here?<\/p>\n Laura Johnston<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-88<\/p>\n Note to Jim Jones from Laura Johnston, February 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n 21 Feb In any case \u2013 in case you do want this anyway, I\u2019ll go on \u2013<\/p>\n Bad Points<\/p>\n Good Points<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-19<\/p>\n Test Answers from Laura Johnston, May 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n News<\/p>\n So. America<\/p>\n Laura Johnston<\/p>\n (Soc. Teacher Test)<\/p>\n 7 May 78<\/p>\n Guyana \u2013 Forbes Burnham, PM, has visited 5 countries \u2013 USSR, No. Korea, E. German, and 2 others, showing the direction of the PNC is changing to be more openly pro-Soviet. A few weeks ago Cheddi Jagan threw his desk over in Parliament to appear to be upset about the conservative direction of politics under the PNC \u2013 the Soviet Union has made strong supportive statements about Burnham and Guyana (Cheddi Jagan is married to Rosenberg\u2019s daughter of early 1950 Rosenberg case)<\/p>\n Now there\u2019s a national strike of all workers to show solidarity within the union. They celebrated May Day \u2013 a day marking the \u201cHaymarket Massacre\u201d from the US in 1888 when some communists were framed and executed for a demonstration was broken up by police with some lives taken. The unity of labor and the clerical and office workers union is a great accomplishment since it closes the racial bias of Guyana. The Guyana stereotype Blacks as office workers and E Indians as the rice, sugar, agricultural workers for the most part. In Linden, where Bauxite is mined, there was a large demonstration and police had used tear gas to break it up. Min. Mingo traveled up to see why the police used the gas. The police chief reportedly is conservative there \u2013 Linden is on the East Bank Demeraras and is a liberal community the gov\u2019t has continued to support and encourage in industry and agricultural communes.<\/p>\n The Guyanese gov\u2019t has said we could protect ourselves if any mercenaries have the nerve to come in over land and they approved our use and permits for more guns.<\/p>\n The N. Korean embassy has had representatives visit our house, also GDF head and other officials.<\/p>\n Guyanese gov\u2019t \u2013 an election would be upcoming. The PNC is afraid they\u2019ll lose in a popular election since the E. Indian PPP outnumber the PNC. A referendum to postpone the elections is<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-20<\/p>\n being considered. We would do well under other party since they\u2019re both communist or socialist \u2013 tho the PPP is more Marxist than the PNC at this point \u2013 Dr. Reid is with the PNC, and he has been our closest allie in the gov\u2019t.<\/p>\n Schools \u2013 the gov\u2019t has licensed our school, says it is best in country. They require all students to take a comprehensive test \u2013 ours too, so we have to push school to get the students to pass.<\/p>\n U.S. Embassy here \u2013 McCoy has agreed to be contacted if anyone questions us keeping Maria or anyone here by force or if any one questions our progress here; also has told us he was contacted to allow mercenaries into Guyana to kidnap or kill \u2013 he refused and told us, but we don\u2019t know how some reightest member of Venezuelan govt\u2019 may react to the same plan.<\/p>\n Guyanese people and gov\u2019t are voicing concern over bringing the white racists from Transki to So. America. We\u2019ll have none but Costa Rica and Uruguay have agreed to take some. We backed this decision, signed a petition to voice our support.<\/p>\n Mexico \u2013 has held off any dispute on border lines of Nicaragua \u2013 which is a good sign since the US wants to stir up conflict and Mexico has been a puppet of the US for years. Still Mexico does not sue \u2013 or won\u2019t fight \u2013 US intervention \u2013 they sold out.<\/p>\n Venezuela \u2013 an independent capitalist country member of OPEC, that is now trying to find an alternative standard of exchange besides US currency.<\/p>\n Chile \u2013 in Sept. 1973 Allende was overthrown and assasinated. He\u2019d been an elected President \u2013 Socialist, and hadn\u2019t properly safeguarded his gov\u2019t against the USA \u2013 CIA so the army turned on him. The US spent $9 million on his assasination alone. Pinochet regime that they came into power is a torturous cruel regime that tortures and kills without regard for the UN sanctions and the reports on inspections by humanitarian groups. Dad is reading a book on Chilean prisoners and tortures now \u2013 from the beginning of the coup when the last free radio station was finally broken and the courageous radio broadcasters were arrested taken thru the torture chambers and with many others were killed or tortured<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-21<\/p>\n So America<\/p>\n Laura Johnston<\/p>\n Chile- cont\u2019d recently some prisoners were released, but still a drop in the bucket. People are still disappearing there. There is some activity growing to oppose Pinochet, but it is slight at this time.<\/p>\n Uruguay \u2013 a fascist capitalist country has agreed to take in some of the white racists from Transki.<\/p>\n Nicaragua \u2013 they recently had a revolution and won. The US has been involved in that nation for 120 years \u2013 in the past President Pierce and then another President sent in troops to keep \u201corder\u201d and ass kissing. (It is just so. of Mexico, so is actually in Latin or Central America). We, PT, were directly involved in their freedom battle.<\/p>\n Bolivia \u2013 six women fasted and caused freedom fighters all over So. and Central America to struggle and unite.<\/p>\n Panama \u2013 Central America \u2013 Panama treaty was a total sell out by the US \u2013 after Carter signed it, Congress amended and to make it worthless \u2013 finally after 1999, Panama will be self-governing but always \u201cneutral\u201d \u2013 so the US has excuse to interfere if that is not followed.<\/p>\n Granada \u2013 island near here \u2013 independent with socialist President Manley but less vocal and, as a possible refuge for us \u2013 more shaking because of the closeness to US.<\/p>\n Puerto Rico \u2013 US territory fighting against US domination \u2013 fishing vessels held of US naval demonstration.<\/p>\n West Indes [Indies] \u2013 Gr. Britain is trying to return minorities from the West Indes \u2013 an area that Gr. Britain controlled and governed for years \u2013 back rather than keep them and educate them.<\/p>\n The governments of Haiti, the Phillipines and Jamaica are especially repressive and murderous. England, that had once had the reputation of being fair to all ethnic races is now retracting that position. Thatcher, in Gr. Britain Min. of Education, has openly said that minorities should be sent back because of the expense of giving adequate education, care, is so high. Since they are so close to the US \u2013 their struggle for freedom and be more difficult tho in the Phillipines there have been struggles against Marcos regime<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-22<\/p>\n Cuba \u2013 island in Latin Amer \u2013 just 90 miles so. of Florida, is aiding in the struggles of other 3rd world countries \u2013 now in Ethiopia. Their country continues to progress, they have highest literacy rate in Latin and So. America, they have been supportive of Guyana\u2019s independence from Gr. Britain\u2019s influence and Socialist path.<\/p>\n U.S.<\/p>\n \u2013 3 children 3, 4, 7, burned to death is Taylor, Alabama, a goat placed on top<\/p>\n \u2013 80 cities had racial riots<\/p>\n \u2013 Police chief Davis running 2 to 1 against Gov. Brown is poll for next governor. He favors lynch mob violence, is a member of racist clubs.<\/p>\n \u2013 Frank Rizzo is mayor of Phila \u2013 running on a new party \u2013 White Rights party. When he ran years ago \u2013 he ran on platform that \u201cyour home is your castle\u201d and no one has the right to interfere \u2013 integrate, etc.<\/p>\n \u2013 Carter said he\u2019d stop making nuetron bomb \u2013 never planning to do so \u2013 then \u201cchanged his mind\u201d 2 weeks later \u2013 bullshit. Nuetron bomb is designed for us in US ghettos \u2013 they can be made with exact ingredients to destroy a district \u2013 within yards. The bomb is being used in So. Africa and US has given it to France to that is a front for US to continue making it<\/p>\n \u2013 Senate Bill 1 \u2013 1437 continues on course<\/p>\n \u2013 Chicago \u2013 young children are castrated in schools, on streets<\/p>\n \u2013 C.P. office in New York was blown up, along w\/other leftist group offices<\/p>\n \u2013 more police violence than ever before in US and LA, SF included<\/p>\n \u2013 Zodiac killer has ret\u2019d to SF, killed 3 \u2013 now SF is all afraid, deserves it as it was and is unwilling to stand up to injustices<\/p>\n \u2013 Malcolm X killed after he went to Ghana and changed from Black nationalist fighter for all oppressed \u2013 every color. He said policy maker in US is not President but the ones with financial strings. He was still too religious but was getting too close to home, so was killed.<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-23<\/p>\n Laura Johnston<\/p>\n Conspiracy \u2013<\/p>\n We had a meeting of communists there \u2013 SFPT \u2013 including Herbert Aptheker \u2013 longtime US communist party leader \u2013 and others. Dad made strong radio message connecting us all in one struggle, and get standing ovation there. ((I met Aptheker 10 yrs ago during college demonstrations \u2013 my philosophy professor, Howard Parsons was one of the advisors on strategies of the C.P. \u2013 New York branch).<\/p>\n We\u2019re selling the RV church property separately so traitors can\u2019t tie up our resources.<\/p>\n Stoen was threatened with a few short months in jail and sold out \u2013 now he\u2019s vicious \u2013 as an unle Tom policeman who has to show he\u2019s white \u2013 Stoen is on offensive tho he knows he\u2019ll never be trusted (Dad said last night \u2013 they\u2019d kill Stoen and then blame us \u2013 so obvious but I hadn\u2019t thought of it) \u2013<\/p>\n KKK is growing \u2013 uniting with Nazis more and more.<\/p>\n Niva Muttes, Stoen live as neighbors \u2013 probably for \u201csecurity\u201d and have no idea how closely they\u2019re observed.<\/p>\n A police killed Christ \u2013 SWAT teams Red squads are being surfaced all over US \u2013 in SF and other cities.<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-24<\/p>\n Africa \u2013 Europe<\/p>\n \u2013 So Africa \u2013 aparteid still reigns supreme \u2013 Vorster tried to set up 2 puppet states to show how well he treats Blacks \u2013 in Transkei and Botswana \u2013 they both rebelled from So. Africa to set up indip. states. So. Africa is attacking Angola a free nation \u2013 a sent troops in 3 times in 36 hours \u2013 The So African govt is a US puppet \u2013 US controls the capital, the industries, etc. and financially (and therefore completely) controls the county under aparteid –<\/p>\n \u2013 unemployed Blacks for 120 days are sent to the Bantustan \u2013 a desert area of concentration camps<\/p>\n \u2013 wives and children are sent to the interior, pregnant mothers too<\/p>\n \u2013 stamps are put on arms of workers for identity, harassment<\/p>\n \u2013 all workers must be in by dark, have miles to walk to job<\/p>\n \u2013 40 Blacks to 1 white, pay scale 4 or 5 to 1 inverted<\/p>\n \u2013 workers w\/out passes are arrested<\/p>\n \u2013 workers living in Johannesburg are in concentration type housing<\/p>\n \u2013 family life is destroyed<\/p>\n \u2013 people are beaten, abused, with no recourse for justice<\/p>\n \u2013 worst, racist, most oppressive fascist gov\u2019t in world \u2013 as [illegible word] puppet, we see what faces U.S. So. Africa is rich in resource so U.S. is keeping tight control<\/p>\n Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) under Ian Smith runs close second to ratio \u2013 Black to white, yet no rights to Blacks<\/p>\n Transki \u2013 new gov\u2019t wants to send racist whites to other country in So America or anywhere \u2013 to get these out \u2013 we disapprove of any in this continent.<\/p>\n Red Brigade \u2013 continue to work in France, Italy, Germany, Japan \u2013 over 8 officials and financial leaders have been shot in the legs, over 15 killed. Aldo Mors, former PM of Italy, wrote his final note farewell to family etc \u2013 stating capitalists had sold him out \u2013 his life for just 1 prisoner \u2013 still refused. In US \u2013 over 2 million has been robbed has been robbed from banks by leftists for freedom fight. USSR supports Red Brigade.<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-25<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n Africa-Europe (cont\u2019d)<\/p>\n Laura Johnston<\/p>\n Ethiopia and Somalia \u2013 fight continues over boundary and rights to Horn of Africa. Capitalist forces pour money, troops to work from Somalia causing border disputes this area could easily be pretense for nuclear holocaust. Somalia thinks, relates white \u2013 though Arabic \u2013 so divided from Ethiopia<\/p>\n Zambia \u2013 turn to agriculture, US tried to manipulate copper payment and ruin Zambia\u2019s economy<\/p>\n Yemen \u2013 offered sanctuary to Red Brigade members. Socialist Arab states [illegible word] location \u2013 helps Soviet solidarity in No. Africa<\/p>\n Italy \u2013 they think Also Mors may have been smuggled back in, so they set up martial law, went house to house, found nothing. He wrote final note \u2013 saying his death soon \u2013 sold out by fellow capitalists.<\/p>\n Ghana \u2013 where Patrice Lamumba killed \u2013 formerly Belgium Congo, Malcolm X changed policy when visiting here \u2013 to [illegible]<\/p>\n SWAPO \u2013 So. West Africa Peoples Organization set up in Botswana as the Socialist group \u2013 freedom fighters<\/p>\n OPEC \u2013 oil producing countries. -Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Iran, _______________ are meeting to discuss oil prices. They are discussing changing off of U.S. currency as exchange figure<\/p>\n Asia and Middle East, Africa<\/p>\n Libya \u2013 leaders Khadafi who is very friendly to PT \u2013 an indep Socialist state \u2013 Arabic, but w\/out the false separation that some Arabic Socialist states have \u2013 (ie Somalia) pro-Soviet nation<\/p>\n Uganda \u2013 Idi Amin purged his gov\u2019t to get rid of opposition.<\/p>\n Israel \u2013 Begin P.M. is visiting US as Carter wanted Zionists in US to be assured of US support since Carter has been meeting with other Middle Eastern countries for oil negotiations. Isreal is artificial state set up when other nations refused to accept Jews when Hitler tried to sell them internationally. So Isreal was set up by UN \u2013 puppet move \u2013 in a desolate part of Middle East \u2013 but on Lebanon\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n Palestine \u2013 PLO \u2013 Palestine Liberation Org is still fighting guerilla warfare from the Arabic section of Palestine, trying to free former territory.<\/p>\n Sudan \u2013 pro Soviet area, important resources, location in Near East politics<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-26<\/p>\n Middle East, Asia<\/p>\n Afghanistan \u2013 leader and his son were killed, then other officials, 24 hour revolution won socialist state.<\/p>\n Pakistan \u2013 P.M. Bhutto awaits his execution on June 1 in a cold prison cell w\/out a lover. Army took over. When nuclear devices exploded in Himalayas \u2013 US lost position in most Near & Middle East countries<\/p>\n Japan \u2013 youth killed 1000 porpouses \u2013 sweet, intelligent creatures by stabbing them \u2013 in US 375 thousand are killed yearly \u2013 capitalist infection is deep in minds only socialist compassion can re-educate us away from such tragic sickness<\/p>\n China \u2013 growing dissent to present \u201cNationalist\u201d policy. While all in one neighborhood were at a communist rally, homes were blown up by dissidents who supported the internationalist policy of Mao\u2019s wife and the 3 who were ousted with her. They have fantastic domestic policy \u2013 terrible foreign policy. They figure with their 2 billion \u2013 they\u2019d lose one-third in a nuclear war and still have enough to control the world. They entered in an alliance with England against USSR \u2013 tracially to fight another communist state with such unholy alliance! China supports white Arabic Somalia against socialist Ethiopian on the same side as fascists \u2013 US and Gr. Brittain, China had refused to admit Chilean refugees after the \u201873 coup.<\/p>\n Chad \u2013 US has sent trench troops to right and Moroccan troops to keep from Socialism (North African country). In USSR, students have occupied the Chad Embassy to show solidarity with the struggle Chad is going thru now fighting off the fascists on several borders, USSR is showing support by not interfering with the students (many of Patrice Lamumba University) the students want foreign forces out of Chad, want freedom<\/p>\n Viet Nam and China \u2013 now involved in border disputes \u2013 a shame China is on wrong side in every controversy between capitalist states and communist states \u2013 now fighting communist against communist (here and w\/Soviet Union)<\/p>\n Turkey \u2013 has had US money and military bases for years, now struggle going on \u2013 pro-Soviet attitude of some in country on So. border of USSR \u2013 has had recent history of fighting w\/ another fascist state, greece, over Cyprus.<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-27<\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n 5 \u2013 Laura Johnston<\/p>\n Third World doctrine \u2013 China’s foreign policy \u2013 world is divided into 3 worlds<\/p>\n China includes herself in 3, but on international politics is inevitably on the side of the capitalists, against the oppressed. Until \u201869 \u2013 US was #1 enemy, but in \u201869, US failed in Vietnam, lost face as US Army rebelled and Albania switched camps from China to Soviet Union \u2013 so USSR was moved from 2nd group enemy up to #1 group and #1 enemy. China now has only one nation in her camp.<\/p>\n Guilt \u2013 (I wrote one note about 3 mos ago)<\/p>\n I feel guilt that in the US, I had my mind on my ass so much \u2013 just fantasies then but they kept me from knowing myself as I should by now. I’m sorry I couldn’t be one of the ones who had earned your trust enough to stay to the bitter end \u2013 so someone else could be here not there, I’m sorry I always have had food as such a big part of my thoughts \u2013 I’m just working through it now. I’m guilty I didn’t help more followers there, on letters or with Carol Stahl ot visiting people who needed attention. I’m sorry I wasn’t around when Melinda Breidenbach left \u2013 I maybe could have talked to her, or Ben Bowers \u2013 you mentioned once that he\u2019d left \u2013 he was always strange, but if I\u2019d written to you maybe I could have helped by giving him more involved some way \u2013 trying might have at least been better than not trying at all \u2013 I don’t know<\/p>\n Revolutionary Death or Action<\/u><\/p>\n I would gladly take some of those assholes with me to a death \u2013 some ways I thought of:<\/p>\n \u2013 jealous wife \u2013 Kill Stoen for trying to make it with say Andy, as my fianc\u00e9, or Grace, or Deanna \u2013 maybe I just found<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-28<\/p>\n For long term \u2013 harassment \u2013 get some time into the community where they live \u2013 neighbor etc. \u2013 where rumors could be started about them \u2013 either Stoen or Mertles sexually abuse children \u2013 or whatever \u2013 so their comfort and stability would be shaken up \u2013 also any groups they involve themselves in. That is a small-scale idea \u2013 probably too time-consuming for results.<\/p>\n Some easy things to harass:<\/p>\n \u2013 send in their phone # to sex magazines so they get a lot of calls<\/p>\n \u2013 put them on mailing list for porno literature \u2013 they might have to explain that in the future.<\/p>\n \u2013 divide and divert attentions so Mert & Deanna think each has someone else, Tim & Grace are lost causes to this myth already \u2013 maybe have Mert think Deanna & Grace have something going \u2013 or Deanna and Liz \u2013<\/p>\n to kill any of them \u2013 without lots of questions or living thru it \u2013 all I can see is going into a house where a lot of them are gathered \u2013 and for me to go in with explosives that I got \u2013 lots<\/u> of them \u2013 and having the whole house explode.<\/p>\n Maybe the Red Brigade act \u2013 shooting one in the knee would quieten the rest somewhat \u2013 say Tim, he’d be less likely to get around to do his dirty work \u2013 maybe it could look like these Zodiac or a Zodiac prot\u00e9g\u00e9 did it. Also \u2013 maybe the traitors would get the word that the Zodiac is after their asses \u2013<\/p>\n Thank you dad for teaching us with your sensitivity and love \u2013 thanks for insisting that we learned the news so we can better relate to all who are struggling for freedom.<\/p>\n Laura J.<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-225<\/p>\n Test Results from <\/strong>Laura Johnston, June 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n Laura Johnston<\/p>\n 6\/9\/78<\/p>\n No demonstrating against bills passed 5. Cholera \u2013 Rhodesia and Chad.<\/p>\n 6. Nkomo [illegible] his country welcomed Carter \u2013 his country welcomed all savages from USA<\/p>\n He said this to show he had no illusion of U.S. being more developed, evolved etc \u2013 he knows Carter is acting on pure capitalist greed<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n EE-1-I&J-226<\/p>\n Begin \u2013 Israel<\/p>\n Castro Cuba<\/p>\n Smith Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)<\/p>\n Vorster Rhodesia<\/p>\n Brezhnev \u2013 USSR<\/p>\n 21.<\/p>\n \u2013 —-<\/p>\n Reflection of Dick Tropp Letter from Laura Johnston, July 1978<\/strong><\/p>\n EE-2-h-30a<\/p>\n 6 July 78<\/p>\n To: Dad Coming from white, elitist background I feel is enough to make me constantly schizophrenic \u2013 one side close to treason \u2013 selling out, living in an illusion that I don\u2019t have to relate as oppressed. The other side of me is committed to communist ideals (that is Jim Jones\u2019 ideals \u2013 the purest form of communism). I have cycles of more one then the other, etc. \u2013 in spite of my realistically seeing that I couldn\u2019t make it under capitalism ever again \u2013 some of the illusions persist \u2013 kind of like a \u201csane\u201d person considers at times \u201cinsane\u201d actions. I know that if I ever did leave within the first 24 hours, the pointlessness of it all would make me go back to the same escapes I used before \u2013 sex, drugs, whatever. I just cannot imagine ever working with assholes like Debbie [Blakey], TOS [Tim Stoen] \u2013 or taking racist positions. For me, the hard part of being a Jim Jones communist (or at least moving in that direction from a far off point) is that both mind and body have to move \u2013 I can physically live socialistically or follow rules (except for my fucking in Georgetown), share, not complain, stand, sit, clap, work, be on time, etc. \u2013 those things are generally not my problem. My problem is having to mentally<\/u> be accountable, to make numerous<\/u> mistakes and having to be accountable for them coming to be accountable for not working as many hours, with as much effort as I know I should \u2013 I guess \u201cconscience\u201d bothers me \u2013 it bothers me that it doesn\u2019t motivate me like it should. I don\u2019t like myself and like less and less as I see my shallowness about treason \u2013 I don\u2019t feel I\u2019ll ever commit the treason of leaving \u2013 I know my efforts are so lax as to be treacherous though. It is clear to me that life outside is a total void.<\/p>\n With his last thought of having intellectuals shot as they no longer have usefulness \u2013 I wrote up before \u2013 that is why I\u2019d like to carry a bomb in to where TOS or others are and blow us all up. I do know<\/u> I could do that \u2013 I really feel certain that I wouldn\u2019t fail in that. In day-to-day things \u2013 I make so many mistakes, I\u2019m not what I should be \u2013 and I feel I\u2019d be more useful with the bomb idea. I think I could get myself killed if captured by enemies, I can live through jail \u2013 the more dire kinds of life or death, I have confidence in myself \u2013 specific situations with specific responses from me are things I can handle best. I agree Debbie should have been shot before this point \u2013 before she left Guyana. If I ever planned to leave \u2013 I would be saying I\u2019d rather die than keep living today under Jonestown law \u2013 and<\/p>\n \u2014\u2013<\/p>\n EE-2-h-30b<\/p>\n I would rather be shot than ever doing the traitorous things Debbie and others have done \u2013 I know I have problems but I am certain that these things are fully integrated into myself \u2013 not adaptions but really inseparable<\/p>\n These are just some observations I\u2019ve made \u2013 kind of like VISITATIONS.<\/p>\n Pat Grunnet \u2013 She mentioned that ever since she left Tanzania and Peace Corps, she\u2019s known she\u2019ll go back there sometime \u2013 still believes it<\/p>\n Annie Moore \u2013 she jokes a lot, always did talk mostly about her job & told funny story from there. I think she\u2019s committed to Carolyn, Kimo [Jim Jon Prokes], more than Dad \u2013 her conversation is rarely about here and now \u2013 my own opinion is that she\u2019s best off not in Georgetown \u2013<\/p>\n Edith Roller \u2013 she\u2019s not flexible as a roommate \u2013 she gets uptight over disruption of her personal routine<\/p>\n Rita [Tucker] Lenin \u2013 her daughters Ruth & Mary work nights, spend a lot of time at Rita\u2019s cottage, as does Janet. I think she hasn\u2019t freed them enough to be independent. They sleep at her cottage often instead of their own separate cottages \u2013 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s for her benefit or theirs.<\/p>\n Peter Wotherspoon and Mike Lund [Rozynko] \u2013 Mike was counseled for telling Shirley Baisey that he\u2019d heard gossip about himself & Peter staying around so much together \u2013 he was very defensive about his position as a heterosexual, and his function as Peter\u2019s supervisor \u2013 it was too defensive, I thought \u2013 and I think he is probably screwing Peter \u2013 may have been as he\u2019d had to keep Peter off children \u2013 whatever, if so, he\u2019s showing his reservations or rebellion.<\/p>\n Christine Lucientes \u2013 has been having news discussions with Odell Rhodes, Sebastian McMurry \u2013 other male & female. There is some sort of friendship or something there \u2013 to me, Odell is divisive, anarchistic and plays a game of looking important and more dedicated \u2013 does not support authority but strongly and vocally confronts anyone not consistently supporting his.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2013<\/p>\n \n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EE-1-I & J-4 Undated Statement from Laura Johnston Laura Johnston Socialism Socialism is the road to communism \u2013 which is a totally egalitarian state where no one prospers at the expense of a poor class. 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\nLa Penitence
\nGreater Georgetown\/
\n25th October, 1977<\/p>\n
\nNadine Seeram<\/p>\n
\nFrom: Laura Johnston
\nRe: Present commitment concerning TOS<\/p>\n
\nFrom: Laura Johnston<\/p>\n
\nTo: Jim Jones
\nFrom: Laura Johnston
\nRe:<\/p>\n
\nSexual feelings towards you
\nHostility towards you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
\nTo: Dad
\nFrom: Laura Johnston
\nSelf Evaluation \u2013 as Misfit<\/p>\n\n
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\nNo participation in meetings discussing strike or protest or dissent
\nNo participation in setting up anti-govt strikes
\nNo protest of laws supported by gov\u2019t.
\nNo striking unless gov\u2019t supports strike.
\nNo question about why bills are passed
\nNo preaching ideas about protest, or passing leaflets<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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\nFrom: Laura Johnston
\nRe: My response to Dick Tropp\u2019s letter<\/p>\n\n