Jim Jones: How very much I've loved you; how very much I've tried my best to give you the good life…
Crowd: Yeah! That's right!
Jones: In spite of all that I've tried, a handful of our people, with their lies, have made our life impossible. There's no way to detach ourselves from what's happened today. Not only—We're in a compound situation, not only are there those who have left and committed the betrayal of the century, some have stolen children from others and then seek right now to kill them because they stole their children, and we are sitting here waiting on a powder keg. I don't think it is what we want to do with our babies. I don't think that's what we had in mind to do with our babies. It was said by the greatest of prophets, from time immemorial, "No man takes my life from me, I lay my life down."
Crowd: That's right!
Jones: So, to sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane—it's gonna be a catastrophe… Almost happened here, almost happened, the congressman was nearly killed here… But you can't steal people's children. You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. And, that's not so unfamiliar to us, either, even if we were Judeo-Christian, even if we weren't Communists. The worldly kingdom suffers violence and the violence is triggered by force. If we can't live in peace, then we must die in peace.
Crowd: (Applause)
Jones: We've been so betrayed, we have been so terribly betrayed, but we've tried, and as Jack Beam often said—and I don't know where he's at right this moment, poor Jack—he says, "If it's only worked one day, it was worthwhile."
Crowd: (Cheers)
Jones: Of what's going to happen here in a matter of a few minutes, is that one of the few on that plane is gonna shoot the pilot. I know that. I didn't plan it, but I know it's gonna happen. They're gonna shoot that pilot, and down comes that plane into the jungle and we had better not have any of our children left when it's over, 'cause they'll parachute in here on us. I'm telling you just as plain as I know how to tell you, I've never lied to you… I never have lied to you. I know that's what's gonna happen, that's what he intends to do and he will do it. He'll do it. What's there being so bewildered with many, many pressures on my brain, seeing all these people behave so treasonous, it is just too much for me to put together, but I now know what he was telling me and it'll happen. If the plane gets in the air even. So, my opinion is that we be kind to children, and be kind to seniors, and take the potion like they used to take in Ancient Greece, and step over quietly because we are not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act. We can't go back. They won't leave us alone. They're now going back to tell more lies which means more congressmen. And there's no way, no way we can survive. Anybody … Anyone that has any dissenting opinion, please speak … Yes … You can have opportunity, but if their children are left we're gonna have them butchered. We can make a strike but we'll be striking against people that we don't want to strike against. And what we'd like to get is the people who caused this stuff and some, there's some people here are prepared to know how to do that … go in town and get Timothy Stoen, but there's no plane, there's no plane, you can't catch a plane in time. He's responsible for it. He brought these people to us. He and Deanna Myrtle. But people in San Francisco will not, not be idle over this. And not take our death in vain, you know … Yes, Christine…
Christine Miller: Is it too late for Russia?
Jones: Here's why it's too late for Russia. They killed. They started to kill. That's why it makes it too late for Russia. Otherwise, I'd said, "Russia, you bet your life." But it's too late. I can't control these people. They're out there. They've gone with the guns and it's too late. And once we kill anybody, at least … that's the way I've always … I've always put my lot with you. And when one of my people do something, it's me. … Understand, I don't have to take the blame for this, but I don't live that way. They said deliver up Ujara, who tried to get the man back here. Ujara, whose mother's been lying on him and lying on him and trying to break up this family and they've all agreed to kill us by any means necessary. You think I'm going to deliver them Ujara? Not on your life. No.
Crowd: No! No!
Unidentified Man: Is there any way if I go, that it'll help?
Crowd: Yeah! That's right!
Jones: In spite of all that I've tried, a handful of our people, with their lies, have made our life impossible. There's no way to detach ourselves from what's happened today. Not only—We're in a compound situation, not only are there those who have left and committed the betrayal of the century, some have stolen children from others and then seek right now to kill them because they stole their children, and we are sitting here waiting on a powder keg. I don't think it is what we want to do with our babies. I don't think that's what we had in mind to do with our babies. It was said by the greatest of prophets, from time immemorial, "No man takes my life from me, I lay my life down."
Crowd: That's right!
Jones: So, to sit here and wait for the catastrophe that's going to happen on that airplane—it's gonna be a catastrophe… Almost happened here, almost happened, the congressman was nearly killed here… But you can't steal people's children. You can't take off with people's children without expecting a violent reaction. And, that's not so unfamiliar to us, either, even if we were Judeo-Christian, even if we weren't Communists. The worldly kingdom suffers violence and the violence is triggered by force. If we can't live in peace, then we must die in peace.
Crowd: (Applause)
Jones: We've been so betrayed, we have been so terribly betrayed, but we've tried, and as Jack Beam often said—and I don't know where he's at right this moment, poor Jack—he says, "If it's only worked one day, it was worthwhile."
Crowd: (Cheers)
Jones: Of what's going to happen here in a matter of a few minutes, is that one of the few on that plane is gonna shoot the pilot. I know that. I didn't plan it, but I know it's gonna happen. They're gonna shoot that pilot, and down comes that plane into the jungle and we had better not have any of our children left when it's over, 'cause they'll parachute in here on us. I'm telling you just as plain as I know how to tell you, I've never lied to you… I never have lied to you. I know that's what's gonna happen, that's what he intends to do and he will do it. He'll do it. What's there being so bewildered with many, many pressures on my brain, seeing all these people behave so treasonous, it is just too much for me to put together, but I now know what he was telling me and it'll happen. If the plane gets in the air even. So, my opinion is that we be kind to children, and be kind to seniors, and take the potion like they used to take in Ancient Greece, and step over quietly because we are not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act. We can't go back. They won't leave us alone. They're now going back to tell more lies which means more congressmen. And there's no way, no way we can survive. Anybody … Anyone that has any dissenting opinion, please speak … Yes … You can have opportunity, but if their children are left we're gonna have them butchered. We can make a strike but we'll be striking against people that we don't want to strike against. And what we'd like to get is the people who caused this stuff and some, there's some people here are prepared to know how to do that … go in town and get Timothy Stoen, but there's no plane, there's no plane, you can't catch a plane in time. He's responsible for it. He brought these people to us. He and Deanna Myrtle. But people in San Francisco will not, not be idle over this. And not take our death in vain, you know … Yes, Christine…
Christine Miller: Is it too late for Russia?
Jones: Here's why it's too late for Russia. They killed. They started to kill. That's why it makes it too late for Russia. Otherwise, I'd said, "Russia, you bet your life." But it's too late. I can't control these people. They're out there. They've gone with the guns and it's too late. And once we kill anybody, at least … that's the way I've always … I've always put my lot with you. And when one of my people do something, it's me. … Understand, I don't have to take the blame for this, but I don't live that way. They said deliver up Ujara, who tried to get the man back here. Ujara, whose mother's been lying on him and lying on him and trying to break up this family and they've all agreed to kill us by any means necessary. You think I'm going to deliver them Ujara? Not on your life. No.
Crowd: No! No!
Unidentified Man: Is there any way if I go, that it'll help?
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