"Lest We Forget"

“Lest We Forget”

cji

6/15/16

MSM has forgotten

our government as well

citing a reason today

for gun control yesterday

mixing up terrorism

with the word ‘hate’

since he was one

the idea of ‘hate’ fails

yet was this the largest

(not counting mob hits)

seems difficult to believe

one need only to love

history yet to be changed

Wounded Knee for one

and Jonestown another

seems like there’s more

these two came to mind

lest we forget history

and what terrorism is

and what our government

pretends to be today!

On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it.^[7] A scuffle over the rifle escalated, and a shot was fired which resulted in the 7th Cavalry opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their fellow soldiers. The Lakota warriors who still had weapons began shooting back at the attacking soldiers, who quickly suppressed the Lakota fire. The surviving Lakota fled, but cavalrymen pursued and killed many who were unarmed.

By the time it was over, more than 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded (4 men and 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300.^[8] Twenty-five soldiers also died, (killed by other soldiers in a cross fire) and 39 were wounded (6 of the wounded later died).^[9] At least twenty soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor.^[10] 

On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction of their leader Jim Jones (1931-78). The mass suicide-murder took place at the so-called Jonestown settlement in the South American nation of Guyana. Jones had founded what became the Peoples Temple in Indiana in the 1950s then relocated his congregation to California in the 1960s. In the 1970s, following negative media attention, the powerful, controlling preacher moved with some 1,000 of his followers to the Guyanese jungle, where he promised they would establish a utopian community. On November 18, 1978, U.S. Representative Leo Ryan, who had gone to Jonestown to investigate claims of abuse, was murdered, along with four members of his delegation, by Jonestown gunmen. That same day, Jones ordered his followers to ingest poison-laced punch, while armed guards stood by.

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