"Jonestown", you bigots? Really?

It never ceases to amaze me when the bigoted media resorts to its dirty tricks to sully a good man's name, but this latest attempt is quite the humdinger.

Before I get into that, however, I'd like to set the scene; give an idea of the sort of conniving schemes these pawns of the Republican politicians get upto. During the Presidential Election campaigns, reporters of a certain media monster would go upto the reddest of necks down south, and deliberately word their questions such 'So what do you think (or to that effect) of Hussein Obama?'; to subconsiously raise the strong hatred they've harbored for the namesake; thanks to the bungling antics of a fool president (for one).

And their latest? In continuing with their harboring sour grapes; they've taken to even lower means of making Obama out to be something he's not. In the most recent attempt, they've raked up a 30-year old event, which was so horrifying it still manages to torment: Jonestown.

(For those of you in the dark, 'Jonestown' was a community in Guyana; that existed from the 1950s to 1978. Community, of course, is a loose term here; 'Jonestown' was actually a cult, headed and run by a serious American nutter named Jim Jones. Not only did he manage to convince his followers that they were better off associating with the communist ideologies of N. Korea or the Soviet, but he was able to create a panic solid enough to sell his Doomsday conspiracies. His last move was to have 900-odd (900, folks!) people commit mass suicide by drinking Kool Aid or some such laced with potassium cyanide (this included children, infants, the elderly-no one was left behind). All this, through talk of 'freedom', 'the promised land' and other such longed for entities.)

For whatever reason, Jonestown has been circulating on the media lately, and the louts have been zoning in on some specific bits of the bilge this Jones spewed. I wasn't shocked by the all-too common memorialization of murderers, but I was stunned to read this comment on a related article in the prominent local newspaper:
" 'Jones was known as a charismatic preacher who dazzled followers of the Peoples Temple with promises of racial equality and a socialist utopia.' Sound Familiar?"

Once again, the bigots at the media had managed to raise a parallel between an obvious violator of human rights and a decent, honest man with genuine morals. A considerable number of words come to mind to describe this travesty: unconscionable; outrageous; preposterous; appalling; unreasonable; and JUST PLAIN WRONG.

And what is with this need to disparage socialistic ideals? Is caring for the welfare & rights of the underprivileged so wrong? If I have it right, the Declaration of Independence, the marvelous Gettysburg address; why, the very spirit of the American Constitution communicate the high ideals of socialism.

Despite the shock, I am not falling for it. America has shown that it does have its head on its shoulders, after all (for the most part, at least), and I have immense faith in the changes to come. So put that in your pipes and smoke it, bigots.