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But I am not going to give you my healing unless you take my truth.
If you keep trusting in me, in socialism I'm going to free you of cancer, I'm going to lower your blood pressure, you're going to have the best health you've ever had.
I heal my people better than anyone on earth... but that's not why we're here. We're here because we want a new earth, a new society, a new movement
We've delivered those that were crippled from the paralysis of capitalism. We've lifted those that were bound by the capitalists and we've set them free and their lives have been healed and restored, free from those aspirations of worldly gain, the selfishness, the aggrandising spirit of mortal-minded animalism
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death to self, death to capitalism, death to the profit motive seeking, death to culture seeking, death to status-qouism, death to socio-economic positions, death to class structure, death to racism, death to possessions, death to materialism
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and resurrection of love
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Now a lot of you ought to think about the whole picture. Not to mention racism you ought to consider nuclear war, -- that's not, not only a situation that would affect black people -- it's a little more difficult for you to relate to, because you've not been black, you ought to think about the gross unemployment amongst whites, 350,000 miners are going to go to jail or go back to, to the mines, and they're white. Those who are unemployed-- , they're going to experiment to make a certain type of human species who will not able to think and only do physical work. That's what they're gonna do with the unemployed. They're messing with the genes. In the same process of doing this, they can create viruses that will kill the whole of the United States, because they don't know what the hell they're doing. They're altering lifestyle. The University of California's doing it, tax money's being spent at University-- Northwestern University, Michigan State University, which is a CIA front. We know that from our own experience. Michigan State University's been involved in the conspiracy against us. It is a whole, a whole telecommunications system there involved with such schemes as how to destroy revolutionaries.
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That's the delightful America. So that, that America will affect you. It is America that has a very short future. If you are in America, you have to think in the terms that your-- your beautiful daughter will never grow up. There's not a scientist that gives any child a chance, that is the age of your child, to make it 14 years. There's not a scientist that gives a chance for the United States to last 14 years. (Pause) We're at the 12 o'clock hour. I think it's a half minute to 12, by the nuclear clock, according to scientists.
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You're all ordained to be here. You're a chosen people, the avant garde, the front line, the first ranks of the revolution, and I'm giving you one freedom chapter of your history.
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I know the day when bombs are going to burst in America. The elements are going to melt with the fervent heat. We're close to the end. We're close to the time of the settling day, of Judgement Day
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Capitalism has brought us to the threshold of thermonuclear war and you are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come. Wherever you come out, you are going to make history. That ought to give you a sense of good feeling, of depth of character, 'caues we are gonna make history. It's destined to be.
Now you might not like the kind of history we make. We may be swingin' through the sky on a rope, but we are gonna make history
(The Jonestown Reenactment wishes to credit Rebecca Moore and Fielding M. McGehee III for transcriptions of many of the segments used here.)