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Transcript prepared by Fielding M. McGehee III. If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

To return to the Tape Index, click here.<\/a> Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1<\/a>, Pt. 2<\/a>).
\nTo read the Tape Summary, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Part 1:<\/strong> Message to Jonestown community, mid-October 1978<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2014Because our rain is coming. Well, it should have been over the first of August. It\u2019s now two and a half months, and it\u2019s still<\/i> raining. So we want\u2014\u00a0we must<\/i> follow the advice and counsel that\u2019s given.<\/p>\n

The Venezuelan operation of that general is a perfect front<\/i>. He\u2019s a candidate for the next presidency. There\u2019s hope<\/i> that he will be defeated. If not<\/i>, we have a perfect grounds then to say, we are going to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union has said, they\u2019ll take<\/i> us. They\u2019ll cau\u2014 cause us no conflict with Guyana, because we\u2014 Guyana will have nothing to say about this land. We will just get out. \u2018Cause we didn\u2019t make any agreement with\u2014 with the\u2014 Venezuela, and the Soviets have promised us protection<\/i> against any<\/i> kind of an invasion, or an attempt on the part of reactionaries that would take over Guyana<\/i>.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s more<\/i> serious than some people want to see. We have several enemies. And we had enemies that sent that little man who was here, the detective [Joe Mazor], and he told us all<\/i>\u2014 and it\u2019s all<\/i> written up in affidavits that penalty\u2014 under penalty of perjury, what he was going to do<\/i>, if he had not seen that our p\u2014 faces looked happy, and he saw no guards, and he saw no barbed wire \u2014 fortunately \u2014 he saw no television things looking at him, cameras, and he saw a determined people<\/i> that looked to him like they were voluntarily, which we were<\/i>, encircling our community, to be free<\/i>. That caused him \u2014\u00a0this is a testimony from the mouth<\/i> of the detective him\u2014\u00a0himself \u2014\u00a0that caused him to withdraw from the situation. And then later, through our contacts, we broached him to talk through someone that the\u2014 Dr. [Mark] Lane and Dr. [Don] Freed knew, he broke and talked and spilled all<\/i> the beans, and there were lots. (pause) [Tim] Stoen had been stealing money, had a secret bank account in England, Stoen was also being funded by a high-level com\u2014 members of the conspiracy. So now he\u2019s a class<\/i> enemy. Stoen had been a member of the CIA for eight years, according to this man\u2019s sworn<\/i> testimony. He has been a class enemy. Not just an enemy, but a class enemy. This man once bitterly despised us for communism and socialism, and still<\/i> does not accept our views politically<\/i>, but nonetheless, he admires our care<\/i> for one another, and he has given us services free<\/i>. That shows how much belief he has in what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m saying, please<\/i>, follow the advice, to be in the pavilion under the theater, under the library, there\u2019s no<\/i> danger to you. We have means of protection. There\u2019s no danger to you, if you will stay where you belong, and the security is to rove constantly. That is the rule of the day. Don\u2019t stop them and engage them in social conversations long. It is absolutely ess\u2014 if you follow the rules, you can be in the library studying news, sign in at the theater pavilion, or in your homes, resting.<\/p>\n

Moreover, anyone has any problem, feeling of suicide, please give your name in the radio room, because it\u2019s a grave and dangerous thing that you\u2019re doing to yourself. I wish you could<\/i> get out of this life, the ones that want out, but don\u2019t want to fight the enemy. I never wanted to give the enemy, capitalism, racist pigs like Ku Klux Klan white bullying cops\u2014 I don\u2019t want to give them the satisfaction of killing myself. But if you don\u2019t have those checks, put your name in and we can help<\/i> you, by some mood<\/i> elevation, medication that will help the situation. Write it down, write your name down, your feelings about it, and why you are feeling this way. I want the problem\u2014 you will not be brought on the floor. We are trying to stop good<\/i> socialists from laying down their lives and having to go back 500 generations. It\u2019s expensive to us. I would think there\u2019d be enough motivation, as I said, but I will not mention your name, if you need some kind of attention, because of feeling of committing suicide. We will not<\/i> mention your name whatsoever, to no one, so put it in the suggestion box, and the suggestion box must be opened by me, or if you wish to get there more rapidly, give it to the radio, sealed in an envelope, for me. Seal in an envelope, for me. Or someway, stapled, so that it goes directly to me. You could just say, “for my eyes only,” and no one else will pay any attention. We get letters like that every day. Suggestions or feelings that they want to send, just to Father, Dad, your best friend, the office, every day, we get those notes and have for many months, so if you put “for your eyes only,” no one will think anything about it. And they will certainly oblige that. I\u2019ve never seen anyone try to break into any notes or mail that has come to me. So all right. Now I\u2019ll let (unintelligible word) further.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t forget that when you do (sighs) try to commit suicide, and you put harm to your body, you use the energy of Jim Jones that could be used against the common enemy, or to protect the little girl that would\u2019ve been now dead, Teri [Smart], because of this septicemia, bacterial disease in her lungs. She had fainted three times and went into total<\/i> coma, and the doctors said it would have been a short time before she had died. (unintelligible word) the lad that had the serious uh, infection, kidney infection, another involvement, and we didn\u2019t have any place, he was too<\/i> close to disaster, we had no plane available, and they was healed within\u2014 both of them, within five<\/i> minutes time. But if people drain me down by letting their personal problems preoccupy them, remember what I said: the next person I revive from suicide, I will see that it is not going to be meditation spent on you. If you haven\u2019t taken advantage of my offer now, so I can help you, (tape edit) if you\u2019re in that de\u2014 state of depression, I can\u2019t help you.<\/p>\n

If you feel like running away or you feel like committing suicide, just imagine how many\u2014\u00a0how Timothy O. Stoen, who had Chris Lewis murdered, (unintelligible word) would feel, how much he\u2019d laugh. Imagine all those white devils, like Deanna Mertle [aka Jeannie Mills], and her who\u2014 her husband [Elmer Mertle, aka Al Mills], and all that evil<\/i>, like Liz Forman, that element that never would do a thing for the cause and stole from the cause, Grace [Stoen], who on one occasion alone, according to the Breidenbachs, $5000. That\u2019s terrible<\/i>. Would you want to give them the satisfaction that you\u2019d taken your own life? Let them smear in the pe\u2014\u00a0press that you hated socialism, that you didn\u2019t believe in equality and justice? Would you want that written? That\u2019s the way they\u2019d write your epitaph. Not that you were a hero, but that you did not like brotherhood socialism, and you preferred capitalism, which has turned into outright fascism, it\u2019s turned into outright fascism, already, in the USA.<\/p>\n

Get<\/i> politicized more, and remember, my heart was broken when I was a child, when the panties of my only<\/i> girlfriend, best girlfriend, were dropped on my desk, only because I<\/i> wouldn\u2019t screw her. Then my best boyfriend, who wanted me to screw him<\/i>, my buddy, and I wouldn\u2019t do it, he<\/i> does it and drops her panties on my desk, and I\u2019d helped him with tests and everything. So no matter how many people, and there\u2019ve been thousands that have sought after me because of being a leader, wanting me for sex or whatever, but one thing that I learned from that experience, that people only use<\/i> you, until they become communist. And I\u2019m glad<\/i> for that experience. Now I\u2019m glad for that painful reje\u2014 rejection. When I went out and cried for hours and hours over the pain that that girl, Marilyn Kircher, brought upon me. I cried and thought I would die<\/i> of heartache. But the heartache was worthwhile. It made me trustworthy. Never again to fall for anyone, to only be in love with you as a family, and communism above all, so I think it was\u2014 Everything happens, not just happens, but everything happens just, if you\u2019ll look at it. Take every knock and make it a boost onward, in communism and socio-centric behavior on your part, away from ego-centrism. If you\u2019re socio-centric, put your ego down here, you\u2019re not going to ta\u2014 care what<\/i> anyone says to you, what happens to you, what you go through, you\u2019re going to be interested only in the cause of one day fighting<\/i> the vicious enemy.<\/p>\n

If we were to go to the Soviet Union, that would be very possible. We could volunteer for Africa, he assured us of that. You could do a lot<\/i> of things that some of you want. Some of you want to go to the university, some of you want to s\u2014 fight the class enemy. Well, you\u2019d be able to fight the class enemy there. We would also be allowed the privilege of the vain chance, just the bare bare risk that there was a chance to go back and help build socialism in America, and\u2014 the nuclear war, the Soviet Union was able to get such a bomb that would stop US\u2019s ability or such a defense system that would stop US bombs before they ever got anywhere to any part of the world\u2014 We uh, will be given the opportunity, he assured<\/i> me, of going back and helping the revolution.<\/p>\n

So you have everything before you. Protection here, in a warm beautiful climate, and remember the importance of living<\/i> in the highest conduct, and building<\/i> this to the best degree, because the delegation is<\/i> coming, and there\u2019s a possibility\u2014 a strong possibility, even though it\u2019s late, the offer wasn\u2019t taken up earlier, unfortunately, we didn\u2019t know about it, and there\u2014 the only chance that we won\u2019t have the alternative this<\/i> year \u2014 we\u2019ll have it next year \u2014 the only<\/i> reason we won\u2019t have it, is because it\u2019s been allocated to some other people. If\u2014\u00a0if we did not get it, it\u2019d only be allo\u2014 it\u2019d be because they thought nobody here was going to take it, because there was some vague mention of it, we didn\u2019t understand it through our office in headquarters, and they didn\u2019t get it clear, and they may have allocated it to some other nation. But it looks very good, but the delegation coming is absolutely sure. So let\u2019s be certain<\/i> to study our language and our current events with the highest reason<\/i>, that we can defeat the class enemy, that we can stand up as one for black liberation, for social justice, for economic equality. Don\u2019t be so silly as to lay your life down, to give the fascists a laugh, and the newspapers a headline. That is silly, and it is a waste of your whole<\/i> potential, because what\u2014 think what you could do, if you would not internalize that violence by self-destruction, and think towards the enemy<\/i>. Don\u2019t forget that Stoen\u2019s still walking around, but ask for Chris Lewis. He<\/i> deserved a chance to live. He was kind to older people. He helped us many times with many important endeavors to help other people, even though he didn\u2019t listen to me and stay here like I wanted him to stay here and be safe. Surely, surely<\/i>, you\u2019re consumed enough with the passion to see that Stoen and Mertles and Liz Forman, who demanded that man be put out of the way before they would cooperate with the authorities of this conspiracy, surely\u2014 and you\u2019d say, what do you mean? You know in fact? Yes, that\u2019s another thing that we\u2019ve had told to us by the conspirators that stepped forward. So we want you to realize<\/i>, you\u2019re fighting a real enemy, and be careful about following the rules, and keep yourself alive to\u2014 to register, when the time comes, a lethal<\/i> blow on the enemy called capitalism and fascism. Thank you, and much love.<\/p>\n

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Part 2: <\/strong>Message made the next day<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2014would\u2019ve thought that after I explained suicide last night, and the necessity for guilt, that there would be those who would consider it today. I would\u2019ve thought people would\u2019ve listened to the reasoning from my<\/i> heart, that I know people live on. But we had one young lady, and she tried to do something, and she will have to of course get more<\/i> help than ordinarily<\/i>, because we can\u2019t\u2014 and this medication, as I said, you take<\/i> the medication, it requires you to be just a little (Pause) more tranquil<\/i> and uh, you can\u2019t work around dangerous machinery<\/i>, so I hope we don\u2019t have a whole community that would not take on guilt and assume<\/i> guilt, like I<\/i> have, for others even, but one did not get the message last night, and thought they would uh, show that. So we will have to of course keep that person under surveillance until we see the medication is having some effect on<\/i> you. We are very sorry that we cannot (pause) relate\u2014 I cannot relate to how personal romance could be taken as a issue to hurt little babies, to cause shame on a movement. I don\u2019t know. This\u2014 this situation baffles me, that you are s\u2014 there are\u2014 there is capabilities<\/i> of being self-centered, that person can try this sort of thing, when I appeal so strongly<\/i> to you last night, the young lady, not to feel<\/i> bad about all of it, it must be that you are manipulating something you want to do. Well, when you can prove yourself responsible, then we will let<\/i> you have whoever you want, no matter whether we feel that the person may be good for you or bad for you, we will not interfere with your sick<\/i> love affairs, but if a person volunteers to me now, (Pause) rather than tells me they\u2014\u00a0of the\u2014 after the fact<\/i>, that they\u2019ve tried to do something, we can give you assistance that will enable you to work about, but you will be, for a while, sleepy and drowsy, and you will not be able to be around anything that\u2014 any heavy machinery or any place that required safety precautions<\/i>. But I<\/i> would think, that someplace in our minds, we could grow up. Write to me, even if you feel you need it, or if you don\u2019t need it, but you feel that way. If you feel suicidal, I may be able to lift certain burdens, take off certain tensions, to assist you, but we\u2019re in a revolution<\/i>, the only American group.<\/p>\n

Marcus Garvey died on a lonely island, trying to see this day, a group of people leaving America and shaking the dust of capitalism off their feet. This has been the dream of black people from W.E.B. duBois, no one followed him, W.E.B. duoy\u2014 duBois, great communist, great communist he was, who really<\/i> knew colonialism and gave many of [Vladimir] Lenin\u2014 principle\u2014\u00a0Lenin his inspiration, this great black scholar, for many of Lenin\u2019s works<\/i> were based on the previous<\/i> work of W.E.B. duBois. But W.E.B. duBois could get only his wife to leave America with him, because people were so sick and so attached to the venomous octopus of America, who reaches out its tentacles and kills of\u2014\u00a0innocent, so that you can eat popcorn and soda pop, and go to a bebop dance or disco.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how anybody could lust after that place. I certainly don\u2019t. I would think you would think about the number of people\u2014 If you don\u2019t give a damn about Chris Lewis that was shot down, think about the Wilming\u2014 Wilmington 10, that they won\u2019t even give a trial<\/i> to, when all witnesses say they\u2019re innocent, and they\u2019re still being held in<\/i> jail for upwards of 400 years, when all the witnesses couldn\u2019t live with their conscience, and have stepped forward on the news media and said they are not guilty of burning down that empty garage. If you don\u2019t relate to that, I don\u2019t know what else to ha\u2014\u00a0do but to try to help you through our doctor, we\u2019ll help you through our counseling, if you feel<\/i> it. You say, I won\u2019t do it, but feel it, I\u2019d like to know that too, because nothing will be done. Because we know that that<\/i> is. We get tired and weary of the pain<\/i> that people are causing in life, but we are one of the few, the very few communities, the very<\/i> few communities in the world<\/i>, outside of the Soviet Union, that can do something about it, that can help those that are struggling still to be free, like Ethiopia, Namimbia, we have\u2014 and uh, Zimbabwe\u2014\u00a0we have the opportunity<\/i> to go to the greatest place on earth, and get training, and would equip us well and ably to defeat the common foe.<\/p>\n

Remember to have your homes early<\/i> in the morning presentable, and everything around here presentable, because [a] helicopter may bring in the cultural people, cultural center people, and the government official early in the day. That was their original plan, if something didn\u2019t come up. So, please, take this to heart. If you have depressions, write about them. We\u2019ll gladly counsel about them. We understand depressions. If you have suicide feelings, [but] say I won\u2019t do it, we understand that, and we will talk about it. If you feel a compulsion<\/i> to commit suicide, and write it before you\u2019ve done anything, and won\u2019t do it, give us an opportunity to help you with a tranquilizer, we will do that. But it\u2014 even as much as it costs financially. But there\u2019s no cost like the cost of laying your life down over some self- (Pause) you know, self-concern. Motivation. Don\u2019t you have any desire to defeat fascism? Don\u2019t you have any feeling that your body is worth some leverage against one oppressor? Each of you here have more skill and training, more knowledge of Marxist-Leninism? You could defeat a common enemy. Though I carry a temperature every day, I live with that passion. Though I have anxieties and pains, after bringing two back from the jaws of death last night\u2014 three<\/i>, naming the young man with the gasoline [Ricky Johnson]\u2014 my God<\/i>. I have no desire to lay my body down<\/i> and let it rot<\/i>, when I could carry it someplace and make an impact on\u2014 against the fascist<\/i> in USA, if nothing else.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s our whole motivation, the motivation of the Soviet Union. Youth can be trained to be doctors that want to be, youth can be trained to be fighters that want to. Seniors can be protected, and our children can feel peace. And here<\/i>, we ought to be grateful\u2014\u00a0we have the greatest peace we\u2019ve<\/i> ever known. More protection, because GDF [Guyana Defense Force] did<\/i> beef up their border forces. And as I said, all you have to do is stay on the path and don\u2019t go out in the bush, into the jungle where tigers and li\u2014 and snakes are galore<\/i>. Of course, we\u2019ve never been bitten by anything here, so let us be extremely mindful of this. Extremely mindful of what I\u2019m saying. Don\u2019t give the capitalists a laugh, the fascist pigs that would have headlines over you laying down your life. Don\u2019t give them that kind of laugh. They\u2019ll make you look like nothing but a weak person, and they\u2019ll say you didn\u2019t like socialism. You didn\u2019t like black people. You didn\u2019t like living in an inter-racial community. Don\u2019t<\/i> give fascists that kind of joy. I wouldn\u2019t do it, no matter how<\/i> depressed I get, and I don\u2019t take medication to keep from being depressed. And I\u2019m depressed, because of the way some people here use<\/i> me, badly, abuse me, and drive me, when I\u2019m not even physically well, but I will live on for a long time, because I care to protect all of you, some<\/i> who won\u2019t even try to protect yourself, or look after your own interest. Please take this to heart. The suggestion box is available to you, and privacy.<\/p>\n

But as I said, I (stumbles over words) will have to deal a little differently with the young woman that, after I appealed<\/i> most lovingly<\/i> to you, that uh, you could at the proper time have what you want, uh, and then you\u2019d go ahead and try to do something, or you couldn\u2019t get it done, I\u2019ll have to see that you get more medical help than the ordinary<\/i>\u2014 uh, I ju\u2014 I don\u2019t understand this at all. I can\u2019t relate to it at all. Anyone who succeeds<\/i> \u2014\u00a0and she didn\u2019t succeed either \u2014 if you were even to succeed<\/i>, to go back 500 generations, I just can\u2019t dig you people, that all you see, the miracles of a girl coming out of a coma, the little boy that was dying, and the young man with gasoline that should\u2019ve burned his esophagus and his stomach up, that should not be able to urinate, he urinated or uh, some hours later thereafter, ordinarily, when I went in to see him late\u2014\u00a0late in the morning, today, late last night, he urinated while I was there and hadn\u2019t urinated since he had had the (Pause) awful stuff in his body, so I\u2019m telling you, I don\u2019t dig you people, I would certainly know that this universe is\u2014 weird as it is, two out of three going to bed hungry, (Pause) it\u2019s certainly going to be weird enough to make you live on, because people want to be at rest and not live on so badly, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m sure<\/i>, the religionists are right, not the way they think it, but uh, we do survive the grave.<\/p>\n

And then your principles\u2014 if I didn\u2019t know I wasn\u2019t going to live on, I would not give the enemy satisfaction, I can\u2019t understand this at all. I would stay alive, to be one<\/i> body, one American. They can use you on Radio Moscow, they can ro\u2014 use you from our own radio broadcast here, protesting capitalism. And we do it every day. We talk to every people that come in here about socialism and the racism in America, every<\/i> visitor we tell them the story, it\u2019s a chance to challenge, to produce a model, until the door is open for us there. And they want us to keep this door looking the best, working it hard, and I would think that that would be enough motivation. And please talk to your neighbor. Couples, talk to each other on this subject, until you understand. You<\/i> are betraying Chris Lewis, who died for us, he had the guts to go to Grace Stoen\u2019s house to tell her off, he had the guts to go to the Mertles when they were white-mailing us for thirty-five million dolla\u2014 thirty-five thousand dollars. He had the guts to go at several of those people and tell \u2018em, don\u2019t try to hurt Peoples Temple any more, Jim Jones and\u2014\u00a0and then they murdered him, for pro\u2014 trying to protect you. They murdered<\/i> him, just like I said they would. (Pause) Please, if you can\u2019t relate to that, rela\u2014 relate to the Wilmington 10 or Patrice Lumumba or Steve Biko, ah, on we go, on we go, Victor Jara, how many\u2014 how many do I have to name, how many sad stories of black people\u2014 Paul Robeson, didn\u2019t have a home, homeless all of his life, forced<\/i> out of his home, and then when he had to come back and see America for a few months, to settle affairs for his sister, it was too much on the old man, he\u2019d gotten to be 70 years of age, and it caused his mind to snap. This is horror<\/i>. This is horror of horrors, that we would let down people like that. I can\u2019t imagine it. You\u2019re not thinking, you\u2019re not caring, you\u2019re feeling too sorry for yourself. Why don\u2019t you stop for a moment, and think about the little baby that\u2019s laying someplace tonight, screaming, two out of three in the world, screaming for hunger, screaming to have something put in its mouth. If we help the Soviets, if we help socialism, we can change all of that. Soviets on the brink on special counter-defense weapons system to defeat<\/i> capitalism. They will defeat<\/i> it as sure as I\u2019m talking to you, and stop that day, when little babies, with their skin dried up around their bones, will be crying for hunger, and the mother has nothing to give them, not even water. This is a terrible thing, that you can be so self-centered. We must<\/i> not allow ourselves to be. Thank you, and I love you very, very much.<\/p>\n

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Part 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (agitated) (unintelligible phrase leading in) \u2014work rules. I\u2019m going to call the police and GDF. That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t call (unintelligible word). I knew this morning he was gone. I\u2019m just going to call the police, the Guyana Defense Force, we\u2019re not going to fool with this, because Commander [Clarence] Price is a very good friend. (Pause) Very good friend of ours. He\u2014 He\u2019ll do anything we ask him. By God, he\u2019s the head of the army, navy, and the marines. So we\u2014\u00a0ah, we\u2019re not going to put up with this shit anymore, and you can just take that in your little pipe and smoke it. \u2018Cause we\u2019ve had enough<\/i> of it. First thing you do when you run<\/i> away, we call the GDF and then they\u2014 they\u2019ll throw you in the goddam police\u2014 And their jails are not as nice as ours. (Pause) They got jails where they really mean business. They mean people to be socialist, or they get a cat-o\u2019nine-tails. (Pause) All right, folks, you can get back to work. What\u2019s your business is your business, and go back to your work, don\u2019t\u2014 just move production. (Pause) (Tape edit?)<\/p>\n

Everything go back to usual, all the work, be careful with the heavy duty equipment, because that revolution, it\u2019s the full moon. (Pause) All right. It\u2019s a full moon, so be cautious on the full-moon cycle. (Pause) (Tape edit)<\/p>\n

(Deliberate tone) \u2014want to make this clearly understood to any and all members of this community, that want to run away. The moment we find that someone has run away, from now on, we\u2019re going to call the Guyana Defense Force, comman\u2014 commander\u2014\u00a0comman\u2014\u00a0commandier Price is our close<\/i> friend. He\u2019s dined several times in our headquarters. So we\u2019re not going to put up with this bullcrap. If you want to run away, you\u2019ll have to deal with them. And I mean, they do deal with folks in their jails. They don\u2019t play around. The first thing they do, for nearly all<\/i> lawbreakers here, is to use a cat-o\u2019nine-tails, to give you thirty or forty lashes, to teach you something. So they don\u2019t mind if we want to box you around. We<\/i> try to reason with you folks, and you don\u2019t take to that. We have no violence here. We\u2019re not even allowed to spank a child. But you\u2019ve taken advantage of this. But what the GDF does\u2014 Guyana Defense Force does, is their<\/i> business. And what the police<\/i> do uh, is also their business. So we\u2019re just going to turn<\/i> the matter over to the police and the Guyana Defense Force, Commandier Price, General Price, com\u2014 he\u2019s a co\u2014 com\u2014 brigadier general Price, Brigadier General Price is his title, he\u2019s a very good friend, all we will do is lift up this radio, because if you<\/i> want to go outside and get bitten by snakes, or be down in the ISU, where somebody else is sick right now with something, we don\u2019t know what the hell\u2019s the matter with them\u2014 because there\u2019s no diseases in this community, no bugs in this community that\u2019ll give you anything. We\u2019ve never been bitten by a snake, mira\u2014\u00a0miraculous. There\u2019s not a community in California or anyplace in the United States where there\u2019re snakes with mu\u2014 many times more snakes than we have, that can make that record, that they\u2019ve never been bitten by a snake. We can.<\/i><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen miracles last night. We saw such a miracle, or miracles (Pause) as Mary Griffith. She was dying in rigors, and her tongue had gone back in her throat, and she was in the last quivering motions of death, she was saved, last night, miraculously. And then before that, miraculously, Terry Carter went into a\u2014\u00a0not Terry Carter, scratch that, Terry (Pause) Smart went into a coma with a septicemia. Septicemia of the blood. Impossible<\/i> to cure. Until I came up to her ear, and spoke the word, and now she\u2019s doing normally. And I don\u2019t know how many miracles. The miracle of this young man that drank the gasoline, three cup[s], but one<\/i> uh, teaspoon should be enough for you. One<\/i> teaspoon would\u2019ve killed you, just a breath of it. If you breathe gasoline long enough, you will die. You don\u2019t appreciate the miracles, the\u2014\u00a0some of you, you don\u2019t appreciate the care and the love. And I\u2019ve missed something else. James Baisy, who was dying with something rare, who we couldn\u2019t be with, kidney infection, we couldn\u2019t have gotten him out at that hour of night. When I walked back, immediately his temperature, all the medical staff, when I touched him, walked by, his\u2014 his\u2014 uh, his temperature dropped down, now he\u2019s normally well today.<\/p>\n

(Exctedly) Now mark my words, we\u2019re tired of uh, 30 people being taken off production, because of this. We haven\u2019t had that much, and we\u2019re\u2014 the rest of us\u2014\u00a0anybody else that runs, it\u2019s, uh\u2014 you\u2019re<\/i> in the hands of the Guyana Defense Force, and you\u2019re<\/i> in the hands of the police, and we\u2019re going to blight you and the parents who have backed us up in this or the guardians, and it\u2019s going to be too much trouble for you, because you<\/i> don\u2019t know what the hell you\u2019ve got until you get caught by somebody who doesn\u2019t believe in fooling around. They believe in people being disciplined, and they\u2014 when they take over in their<\/i> jails, they believe in teaching you a lesson. So that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen. We\u2019re tired<\/i> of this loss of production. Thank you, and I love you very much.<\/p>\n

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Jones:<\/b> Attention, attention, attention. Anyone coming near, wherever my abode is, don\u2019t get in front of my door or pull on my handle or my window. Don\u2019t touch my window or my door. You might find yourself in a lot of trouble that\u2019s meant only for mercenaries or somebody else that wants to come and start some shit with me or the children that I keep down there. You understand what I\u2019m saying? (Pause) Be sure you come, announce yourself, because you get on that porch, and don\u2019t announce yourself, trou-ble, trou-ble. Thank you.<\/p>\n

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Part 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Male:<\/b> Attention, attention. Just like to talk about the miracles that Dad has done in the last couple of days. We knew about the Baisy child that was going in convulsions, and he just walked over, and talked to him, and told him that everything would be all right. We know about Teri, when she had passed out, and her electrolytes were all unbalanced, and Dad walked away when the medical staff couldn\u2019t do anything, and he walked away, walked down to her, and he looked at her, and on his way down, he said it to himself that he couldn\u2019t let this be, and he helped her, just by his word and his presence there. And the Griffith child that had gone into convulsions last night, and\u2014 and he did the same thing, he helped her out also. (Pause) Also, when we were out at sea, going to Georgetown \u2014 this was about a week ago \u2014 the rudder broke off, we were drifting out there, but all of a sudden, the ocean was calm, (Pause) but there was no\u2014\u00a0no tossing, the weather was nice. We hooked up a radio that hadn\u2019t worked before, we tried it, and it worked. When we made our communications and we were safe on dry land, we tried to radio again, and it didn\u2019t work. I said all this to point out that things just don\u2019t happen, they happen just. And we really have to remember who and what Dad stands for. And also, we would like to point out the two seniors that Dad prophesied about. And before I talked about the two seniors, I\u2019d like to point about Teri Smart that had septicemia. Mary Black, who is a lab technician, who\u2019s uh, seen a lot of cases, was so astounded, that she had to go around and look at Teri\u2019s face, because you don\u2019t come out of a situation that Dad brought Teri out of. And she was definitely in the jaws of death, and Dad smashed her out. And this\u2014 She was in a coma, unconscious, the medical staff, as I pointed out before, they couldn\u2019t revive her, they couldn\u2019t do anything<\/i> for her. She didn\u2019t respond to any of the uh, treatment that the medical staff was trying to give<\/i> to her, they scratched her, they put light in her eyes, she rubbed her eyelids\u2014\u00a0or her eyeballs with cotton, they pricked her with pins, and no response. Only till Dad walked in the room and put his hand on her, and started to talk to her, did she respond. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> But there are dangers. Marianita Langston just fell head first out of a loft. (Pause) (unintelligible question) Attention, attention, attention. You\u2019ll have to watch your footing, you\u2019ll have to watch getting in and out of lofts. No children are to be in lofts. The lofts that are like Marinetta\u2014 Marianita\u2019s, when they (unintelligible word: “tilt”? “tote”?) to one end, they should go straight up to the middle, so no one can fall head first through them. Marianita Langston fell head first. If I hadn\u2019t had a feeling of revelation about it, as I was going on, that she\u2019d be okay, I suppose it\u2019d been my undoing. Fortunately, no harm came. Fortunately<\/i>. But I\u2019m warning<\/i> you, that a child that had a coma for several days, as you know, went into coma for several days, and we had one that went in for hours, that\u2019s been healed, like Julius Evans, the Evans child, so we\u2019ve got to be extremely<\/i> careful. Everything uh, the equipment, industrial and so forth. Also, it\u2019s a full moon, and the sixteenth [of October]. Most people\u2014\u00a0We\u2019re 98% water, so we rise like the tide. Most people it affects positively. And some it affects negatively. So we have to be more aware for dangers to our life<\/i>, or crippling disorders or diseases, around the sixteenth and the full moon. Please remember that fact, and regard<\/i> it for your own safety. (Long pause)<\/p>\n

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Jones:<\/b> Attention, attention, attention. I demand\u2014\u00a0it\u2019s going to be a matter of observation by the people, the observers, and even the citizens of Jonestown, if people do not smile and give encouragement to people as they pass, by friendly greeting and a pat on the shoulder occasionally, or warmth. We need to quit (unintelligible word: “correcting”?) and share love with all people. I demand it now, you\u2019ll hear it next from the floor, if some of you don\u2019t change your patterns in this way. All of us who\u2014\u00a0owe at least friendliness to each other.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a great miracle just wrought today. Two of them. Carriet\u2014 Marianita Langston, the last of which fell from the attic, head first. She should not<\/i> be alive. She should be a vegetable. She should\u2019ve broken her neck. No<\/i> way can you come out of that. People are not appreciative enough. They have so many things going for them. But whether you appreciate it or not, I want to see you speaking, and there\u2019s a group that not\u2014\u00a0who are not speaking or not showing a friendly smile, you\u2019ll be [could be, “you\u2019ve been”] given a warning. And you know two warnings mean public services. So please, all of us start showing some kindness and love. To our children \u2014 I\u2019ve said this before \u2014 uh, give them that kind of love, hug them every now and then, and show warmth as you pass them. It\u2019ll help them like flowers<\/i> grow. Even plants respond to love.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I would like to remind the women that go into different ports of duty, such as Georgetown or upriver. Karen have had several come on to her, and Karen\u2019s a good-looking woman, a good-looking woman indeed. Karen Layton. But she knew their games, and all the other women have told her the same thing: she said\u2014 If you\u2019re looking at somebody that (unintelligible word) in the States, I can\u2019t do it. And then the men right there on the spot would say, you have a friend that could. You have a girlfriend that might help me. So that\u2019s what they\u2019re interested in you. And you\u2019re going to have\u2014 that\u2019s why<\/i> you\u2014 they\u2019re very interested in you, you\u2019re going to have the good sense and judgment to understand<\/i> that, and not be an ass, and think that they\u2019re interested in you because of your beauty or they want to give you money. It\u2019s all a bunch of bullshit. They want to mar\u2014 marry you, which will give them an opportunity to become a U.S. citizen. That\u2019s the only reason any Guyanese would have interest in you, because we\u2019ve had too many reports\u2014 too many reports. Evelyn [most likely Evelyn Marie Eichler], Karen, all the\u2014 particularly uh, the workers in Georgetown, not one<\/i> hasn\u2019t told me something about this kind of experience. So I want to you to take that in mind\u2014\u00a0keep<\/i> it in mind, that no matter how beautiful you think<\/i> you are, that\u2019s all the Guyanese males out there want from you, because socialism hasn\u2019t got down to the grassroots yet. The leaders in government are strongly socialist, many of them very, very committed, but socialism has not got down to the people yet. They think America is a\u2014 the Mecca, America\u2019s the greatest hope of the world, they don\u2019t know<\/i> about its racism, they refuse to face it, even some of them are guilty of reverse racism. One person rather high in the\u2014 in the party<\/i>, for instance, said to our people just uh, yesterday, “You know, American blacks are lazy. Blacks here<\/i> are lazy.” Said, well, aren\u2019t you black? Yes, but I\u2019m mixed with white. So this idiocy goes on, until they become socialist. This reverend did have theoretical socialism, but she still wasn\u2019t a practical socialist. And it\u2019s very damned important that you don\u2019t get carried away by your good looks, because some of the best looking women here have been approached, offered everything if they weren\u2019t\u2014 (unintelligible) to give them this and that, and when they said, frankly, no, like Karen and Evelyn and several others, a sister, all kinds of reports I\u2019ve had, they immediately say, Oh well. Or get\u2014 they get mad, like Evelyn did, with the uh, businessman, or they will say they get mad at her, or they\u2019ll say very boldly, like they were (unintelligible word), do you have a friend that can help me? They\u2019re very<\/i> non-specific. Socialism\u2014 they love themselves very much. Socialism has not gotten down to the people yet. So remember that fact. Thank you very much, and much love.<\/p>\n

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Jones:<\/b> Attention, attention, attention, attention. Those who are interested\u2014 and the community seems to be at large in going to the Soviet Union\u2014 but never call it Russia\u2014 the Soviet Union\u2014 and never speak of the Warsaw Pact, call it the Warsaw Treaty, that\u2019s the alliance of all of the great socialist nations with the Soviet Union. Don\u2019t worry about language. We will be a community intact. So some of you who feel that you can never learn the language of the Soviet Union, don\u2019t be fearful, because we would be allowed to speak English, they said. It wasn\u2019t a big issue if some didn\u2019t ever<\/i> learn it perfectly. But we want to try<\/i>. We want to try. Students, another matter. We won\u2019t have difficulty, because every student now in the Soviet Union speaks English as their second language. It\u2019s just a matter of course<\/i>. They teach English even to the little children in the nursery schools. They\u2019re very advanced in that regard. To those of who that have fears that, the Soviet Union, you won\u2019t have more freedom\u2014 you won\u2019t have as much freedom, you\u2019ll have indeed a great deal more, (unintelligible phrase) not like it, you could go back and live in fascist USA. Wo\u2014 They wouldn\u2019t object. They\u2019ll let you do that, if you choose. But I wanted to stress some of those things that might be of some concern. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Also, there may be even some scholarships by the first of the next year offered to us, because the Guyanese did not take Soviet scholarships, and the\u2014 and some who ought to (unintelligible word), ambassador told us, they\u2019ll now be offering them to us. They may be admitted next year, so if you have university ambitions, you have more opportunities for university, (unintelligible word) hope for three months, at least to get ah\u2014 scrutinized, it\u2014 It\u2019s not a matter of overnight, and to those that want to stay in the project, if you\u2019re having difficulty, you can write that up, or if you can maintain both, because we\u2019re not going to leave on an unfriendly basis. We\u2019re going to be producing as we ever did. We\u2014 They in the producing, right up, that was most important, the ambassador said. To leave in a friendly tune and a friendly tone. And so, it\u2019s very conceivable, if someone is reluctant to go, they could have this place as their home forever<\/i>, if that\u2019s the way they felt<\/i> about it. Didn\u2019t want to go with the office. I would think that would be foolhardy, if you wanted to leave the office at anytime, when you think about the number of accidents that happen to any community, and we\u2019re thinking of (unintelligible phrase) fall on her head today, Morton child had a heavy fall, Muhan, Muhan\u2014 (tape edit?) (unintelligible word). You had uh, someone take gasoline, and you\u2019re supposed to die even when the fumes even come to your nose. We had another, that was uh, struck with a terrible kidney attack and uh, another with reaction to a bee, and another who had a uh, septicemic rare bacterial disease that\u2019d been forming in her blood for years. Teri Smart and Lucille (unintelligible name), one right after another, and uh, wrought by uh, one young man in the S.C. unit who had not been able to urinate for 25 hours, and he urinated. Uh, the\u2014 uh, that\u2019s your privilege there, if you don\u2019t want to be around, when somebody has that kind of power or principle. At that point, as I said, you are uh, free. You can stay here. When we get there, all we have to do, we want to be sure that no one messes up. If we get there, or what this (unintelligible word) the U.S. Consulate and ask to go back. We\u2019ll have that arrangement, if it has to go back. There\u2019s no problem about that. If you really want to live in Babylon, and face a nuclear hell, a concentration camps<\/a>, and in nuclear hell, there will be no<\/i> shelters like there are in the USSR, great cities underground, that\u2019ll be your privilege and your prerogative. But it looks very, very positive, and we will let you know the moment on the (stumbles over words)\u2014 the musicians or the basketball team, they prove to be (unintelligible sentence). Uh, there would be no question about it now<\/i>, but uh, Guyana\u2019s quota which they didn\u2019t take, may have already been (unintelligible word) people for this<\/i> year, but there\u2019ll certainly<\/i> be no doubt about it, no question that you\u2019ll be having quotas in scholarships and quotas in uh, chi\u2014\u00a0uh, cultural exchange, quotas for entertainment, and then as I said, this one author alone, sixty thousand US dollars at minimum. A minimum, sixty thousand US dollars would go to other (unintelligible word) and the best of care while you were there for two or three weeks. Just wanted to pass that on for something to think about, and for people to really understand the beautiful teacher you have, as young people and<\/i> as seniors, because it\u2019s the greatest medical centers in the world, the best of medical care, and we\u2019ve been promised\u2014 (voice fades)<\/p>\n

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Jones:<\/b> Attention, attention, attention. Some people feel insecure because of my health, and your\u2014 that affects your ideas about my future and your<\/i> future. I want to tell you, those that worry the most about my health, I will long<\/i> outlive you. I\u2014 As you see me running around this place, it\u2019s quite obvious that I have gone through the valley of the shadow, and returned. And I\u2019ve been through the valley of the shadow of death so many times in nearly a half century, that you wouldn\u2019t even dream. Naturally, when I heal people, I get arthritis that goes ne\u2014\u00a0into my hands and my joints, that\u2019s a part of it. And it\u2019ll pass away. My hands may appear slow, and then it\u2019ll pass away. You have nothing<\/i> to worry about, about my health, not one single thing (pause) because I did not bring you to this point to leave you without a future and without someone who loves you and will plan and care for you. Thank you and much love.<\/p>\n

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Part 9:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2014just as strongly, the forced expulsion in Moscow yesterday of an Austrian radio and television conni\u2014 correspondent. The Austrian foreign ministry today informed the Soviet Embassy in Vienna that the action constitutes a violation of the Helsinki agreement, in their mind, and could damage friendly relations. The reporter was forced to leave Moscow yesterday, after Soviet officials cancelled his visa, because he was working with the CIA. The Soviet Union were much more generous than many of us would have been, when they allowed Austria, once\u2014 they conquered<\/i>, uh\u2014 the Nazis that controlled Austria, and Austria\u2019s always been very Germanic in its tendencies, was very pro-Hitler, Austria had uh, been conquered by the Soviets. I mean, the Nazis had been defeated in Austria, and they allowed it to become independent, thus showing a great deal of uh, tolerance on the part of the Soviet Union to avoid nuclear war, \u2018cause it was just about to that point. Now Austria is moving more and more to the right, as if\u2014 West Germany is also, there\u2019re Hitlerite movements, worshipping Adolf Hitler as much as they did back in the 30\u2019s, in spite of the millions that he killed in gas chambers. People of color, minorities, socialist and communist, and Semites. It\u2019s a terrible, terrible<\/i> thing that people learn so little from history.<\/p>\n

A heavy fog over the Irish Sea (moved microphone) is hampering efforts to clean up a 16-kilometer \u2014 that\u2019s equal to over nine miles \u2014\u00a0of oil slick, threatening the English coast, the Welsh coast. Tons of oil began spilling<\/i> into the sea late last night after a Greek tanker ran aground on rock.<\/p>\n

Today, we shall discuss the ruling class, kicking Nixon around again. Richard M. Nixon has started to crawl back into the news again, and none too soon. A number of liberal-minded souls have professed to sentiments of moral outrage that the ex-president should emerge from his self-imposed isolation after resigning the presidency in disgrace in the summer of 1974. They are furious that David Frost should have paid Richard, the jackal-hearted, one million dollars and provide him major access to the nation\u2019s heart and minds in a series of highly-publicized interviews. A covey of booksellers and other righteous guardians of the public morality think it\u2019s a dis\u2014 disgrace, it\u2019s a disgrace that the unindicted co-id\u2014 co-conspirator of Watergate should be permitted to have his memoirs published and sold at the price of nineteen dollars and 95 cents for each book in the otherwise moral business climate of the USA. The last grouping promoted a campaign from the dubious slogan, “Don\u2019t Buy Books From Crooks,” and more self-defeating, \u2018cause the proposition cannot be imagined. For this campaign to succeed, the country\u2019s multi-billion dollar publishing industry would have to give up the ghost on the spot, \u2018cause all of the books that American public are really allowed<\/i> to read, that are promoted<\/i> by the media, are books written by crooks. Falling hard on the heels of his excursion into the uncertain region of the Book of the Month Club, Nixon began making carefully-selected public appearances, going to church, attending local political gatherings, low-key testimonial dinners, the theater and the like. Guardedly sympathetic articles about the musings of the hermit of San Clement\u2014 San Clemente, California, Mr. Nixon, have begun to appear in newspapers and journals, not otherwise known for their circumspection. During the summer, the former chief executive ventured further from home, into the friendly hills of traditionally-Republican eastern Kentucky. There he was lustily cheered by thousands of corps of die-hard loyalist[s] of the kind who have gone to their graves protesting that commies heaped on the head of Jack the Ripper.<\/p>\n

Taking heart from this outburst of provincial approbation, Nixon went on to dare the perils of New York City, where particularly, he was greeted with comparable enthusiasm. There were some that gawked in the streets at Manhattan, and booed in a college auditorium. No matter. Having long ago written off New York as an min\u2014\u00a0me\u2014 melange of ungrateful un-American activities \u2014 un-American minorities, rather \u2014 and a hotbed of subversion, the once-mighty Milhaus Nixon was not at all dismayed by his reception in the Big Apple. In fact, he probably relished it. For one thing, it confirmed\u2014 it confirmed indeed his most deeply<\/i>-held prejudices. Beyond that, the ex-president, who almost became a dictator, purpose was clearly not to show that he was popular in New York, he was always had\u2014 he always<\/i> had a stubborn streak of realism, but rather to demonstrate that he could enter into the lion\u2019s den and still retire unharmed.<\/p>\n

It is to be sure tempting to join in the swelling chorus of denunciation that has greeted Nixon rallies in the\u2014 sallies into the public limelight. It\u2019s one thing, however, to register disapproval of the man, and all that he has stood for, but it\u2019s quite another if such a campaign might discourage the ex-president to the point where he would once again retreat into undeserved obscurity. That would<\/i> truly be a pity. We wou\u2014 We should want old Nixon to kick around again, not only out of any sense of pecu\u2014 and with picayune\u2014 or with his personal character, but as a useful means for focusing public attention again and again on the political character of the bourgeoisie state in its last stages, before it become du jure<\/i> fascism. It is now a de facto<\/i> fascism. In fact that is, it is fascist, though the armies are not on the streets, the system is a de facto<\/i> fascist state. First of all, the suggestion that Nixon isn\u2019t fit to be seen in public, or even to hold illusions about the possibility of once again holding political office, makes the rest of our public officials look a lot better than any of them deserve<\/i>. We should be arguing that Mr. Nixon has just<\/i> as much right to hold public office as the rest<\/i> of monopoly capitalism\u2019s unindicted co-conspirators, all of which are crooks in Congress. Over half of them holding gold, that\u2019s been taken from the blood of South Africans, Union of South Africa, they hold gold stocks, but blacks are cruelly<\/i> tortured to death, working for just a minimal of sixteen\u2014\u00a0twenty-one cents an hour, in the Union of South Africa, to get that gold that half<\/i> the Congress owns stock in.<\/p>\n

Is there a crime after all he has committed which has not been committed by almost every one of his predecessors in the White House, and by any member of the state political apparatus who has managed to survive the political war? As one of our large conservative thinkers, Victor Lasky, has pointed out, it didn\u2019t begin with Richard Nixon. At most<\/i> the one-time chief executive was guilty of ineptitude. It\u2019s hardly a hanging offense, but that more\u2014 would that more of our officials were equally clumsy. Nor should we discourage people from reading the Nixon memoirs, although it would undoubtedly<\/i> be wiser and more economical to salvage it\u2014 them from the remainder bins in due course than to part with the $20 still being asked. But the wit and wisdom of Richard Nixon are worth keeping alive, and even publicizing. Most of it is self-serving\u2014 self-serving blather, of course, and it comes in that unique Tricky Dick style of unctuous prose, in which Nixon has always been devoted under the illusion that\u2014 co\u2014 that it comes off as a frank and sincere\u2014 that it comes off as frank and sincere, when the real impression it gives is that he is selling snake oil, and that<\/i> at the inflated price.<\/p>\n

The ex-president\u2019s view of Watergate is a most fascinating section of these memoirs. For one thing, he makes it perfectly clear that he was definitely not the sixth man in the Watergate break-in. He takes great plain\u2014 great pains to tell us that he was in Florida at the time, down to the detail that his first report on the incident came from a news item in the Miami Herald<\/i>. And as to the charge that somewhere along the line, he pulled a smoking gun on [White House counsel] John Dean is a fit of picu\u2014 picuny\u2014\u00a0Well, more to the point is what he did do. What, with three Cubans and Howard Hunt under arrest, Nixon was certainly<\/i> pleased to hear [White House counsel] Charles Colson\u2019s explanation of the break-in a few days after the event. According to Colson<\/i>, says Nixon, it was all a Cuban \u00e9migr\u00e9 plot, because of the right-wing Cubans were afraid that if [Democratic Party presidential nominee] George McGovern were elected president, he would normalize relations with socialist Cuba. Colson went on to explain Nixon[\u2018s] claim that it was logical for Hunt to [be] involved, since one of Hunt\u2019s in the CIA was to train Cuban exiles for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Although, why anyone<\/i> would be willing to trust their political future to Hunt after the fiasco seemingly has not occurred to anyone. Also very strange that Hunt was seen at the site of the murder, the assassination of President [John F.] Kennedy. What was Nixon\u2019s reaction to all of this? “I told Colson we were just going to leave the Watergate matter where it was, with the Cubans.” And this from the fearless investigator of Alger Hiss.<\/p>\n

There is much more along those lines, some of it so deliciously revealing of the chain of lies, deals, bribes, and general corruption that flourishes in the heart of fascist USA state apparatus, that one can only admire the sagacity of those who contrived Nixon\u2019s political de\u2014 demise so as to shut the man up. It is understandable why the political establishment generally is viewing the Nixon revival with such distaste. So far as they<\/i> are concerned, they let the ex-president off easy. Did they ever? But instead of expressing his appreciation for such magnanimity, and letting a conspirator to destroy a nation go free, Nixon is trying to make a nuisance<\/i> of himself all over<\/i> again. The power brokers know that, none of this can do themselves or the class they serve any good, so that the Trilateral Commission is doing to do all he can to try to resist him. He can only serve to remind people of all these nagging<\/i>, unanswered questions they were beginning to have, and not<\/i> just about the missing eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape, although Nixon still claims to be mystified about that one as ever<\/i>, though it\u2014\u00a0admitted one occasion that he had destroyed it. On a more serious<\/i> level, people were beginning to suspect that the democratic face of this republic was nothing but a mask<\/i>, an elaborate disguise, designed to obscure the real nature of the political power under the last stages of monopoly capitalism and the Trilateral Commission.<\/p>\n

That after all is the essential<\/i> cover-up in the whole process. Clearly monopoly capital\u2014 finance capitalism would like to keep Richard Nixon bottled<\/i> up, leaving us with an image of him as a one president who did wrong, and sort of the exception who proves the rule that in general, we are governed by the wisest<\/i> and fairest, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof, and separate him from the criminality of all the other presidents, like the lies about the Bay of Pigs told by [former president Lyndon B.] Johnson. Every president has heaped<\/i> us with lies. Every president of the United Stated has been a tool of the imperialist ruling class of the Trilateral Commission. Keep Nixon under wraps? Hell, no. We should be demanding that the genie be let out of the bottle, so people can really see how wicked the system of USA imperialism is.<\/p>\n

Much love. Much work, I hope. Show to us that you can work in eight hours what you did in ten has not yet been shown, and then we\u2019re going to be able to cut back. Let\u2019s make our goals so we can get our people out<\/i> of the state of horror that they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n

End of tape<\/strong><\/p>\n

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