No One Wants Harvey Milk's Story Told Right (For Fear It's Too Wrong To Be Told)

Newsweek, and many others, think "Crazy" Pete Hegseth is "Now Boarding the USS Idiocracy" for reconsidering naming a Navy ship after Harvey Milk. While I agree the Department of Defense should have better things to do with their time, I don't think they're completely off base with this one. If anything - like the subject of America and Israel - Harvey Milk inadvertently directs our attention to the parameters Americans are deceitfully putting around the truth, to keep history hidden under layers of propaganda. Check out Milk's bio in The Daily Mail:

Milk served four years during the Korean War before being discharged due to questions about his sexual orientation. He went on to become the first openly gay member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and was assassinated in 1978.

What's not to love? Clearly, if the U.S. Navy wants to honor Milk - purely for his military service - then fine, have at it. Only a bigot would say otherwise.

But, the issue is, there's more to Harvey Milk than his four years in Korea. Much more. And it's NOT good. And the main problem is, as Michael Bellefountaine wrote in 2013, "despite all the exhibits and memorials of Harvey Milk throughout San Francisco,...none of them acknowledges Milk’s relationship with Jim Jones and Peoples Temple." 

    

 As bad as that oversight is, it gets even worse. While beginning to write this post, I immediately identified a huge incident in Milk's life story that appears to have been wiped from the internet's narrative: the night Harvey Milk bombed his own camera store and blamed heterosexuals for it. Google's AI says "Based on the search results, it seems there might be a misunderstanding or a connection being made that is not supported by the provided information."

Yeah, because it's been expunged, like a Soviet secret under Stalin. I found one passing refrence to it in a City Journal article:

During his successful run for city supervisor, for instance, Milk’s camera store was the object of a glass-shattering attack by low-grade explosives. Milk blamed singer Anita Bryant, the outspoken opponent of gay-friendly legislation. “Years later friends hinted broadly that Harvey had more than a little foreknowledge that the explosions would happen,” biographer Randy Shilts noted. One friend explained to Shilts: “You gotta realize the campaign was sort of going slow, and, well . . .”

That speaks not only to the character of Harvey Milk but also that of his defenders. Actor Sean Penn said of Hegseth, “I’ve never before seen a Secretary of Defense so aggressively demote himself to the rank of Chief PETTY Officer.” Penn said this, shamelessly, without ever having acknowledged the "True Story" he made about Milk's life was, both, blatant propaganda and largely a fabrication. Like the City Journal quote, above, Penn portrayed Milk's 1975 campaign as "successful" - and it was - but only because Milk stole the election. Here's the New York Times in a Dec. 17, 1978 article, "Followers Say Jim Jones Directed Voting Frauds":

Determined to help elect politicians friendly toward his People's Temple, the Rev. Jim Jones ordered what former temple members say was an organized campaign of fraudulent voting practices that included importing busloads of illegal voters to cast their ballots in this city's 1975 municipal elections. 

Among those named by some of Mr. Jones's former followers as recipients of his political support were Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, both of whom were shot and killed in their City Hall offices three weeks ago, allegedly by an enraged former city official.

That was NOT in Sean Penn's movie. There's also allegations of  child sexual abuse, rape allegations, and more. Like the cult's  mass murder in Guyana. Which brings me to one of the reasons I'm writing this post: Many Americans are living a lie, based on a manufactured culture, that few want exposed. A manufactured culture that's turned Harvey Milk - at best, a People's Temple associate - into someone admirable, to suit an agenda. An agenda that not only disrespects history, but the dead, who demand we wrestle with the truth.

And the truth is, Harvey Milk's participation in the Peoples Temple gave Jim Jones more credibility, political clout (Jones was rewarded with an office) and led, at least, 900 people to their deaths. How can we possibly hope to understand our time - when allegations of Democrat Party voter fraud in 2020 are still alive and well - if we aren't even allowed to know the Democrats not only did it, but got away with it, before? And, just like now, no one knew how it was done - until someone decided to confess. So we live a lie. And it's not the only one I can say this about.

Because even Joe Rogan doesn't wanna break through this bullshit.

SO LATE

From what I read, the media has passed it's liberal tipping point.

And the supporters of that media have become totalitarians.

Which is weird, because, that happened, but a long, long time ago.

 

Trial By Media: Jonathan Schmitz / Scott Amedure = Dan White / Harvey Milk

Jonathan Schmitz (above) killing Scott Amedure reminds me of Dan White killing Harvey Milk. Both are stories of straight white men manipulated by gays, and resorting to murder because they didn't have the social support system, or the vocabulary, to explain or defend themselves as betrayed.

And then the crime is further compounded because it's gaslighted as being a Hate Crime, and a source of gay "pride" when it's really gays behaving unethically.

900 blacks died in Jonestown because Harvey Milk would rather exploit them for his campaign, than pull them from Jim Jones' grip, and don't forget it.

 

A True Story: Dan & SF's Fab Four - Jim, John, George & Harvey (Who Milked It)

In November of 1978, immediately after San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were murdered in City Hall, the police asked their assassin, former police and fireman (and, now, former Supervisor) Dan White when he'd previously ever brought his firearm to the federal building:

"I guess it was a few months ago. I, I was afraid of some of the threats that were made and I had a committee hearing coming up where some of these people were going to appear and I, and I know they had a history of violence..."

Who were "these people" with "a history of violence" making "threats" but still openly "going to appear" at an upcoming committee hearing? Back in 2003, the late Michael Bellefountaine's work in the article "Research on Harvey Milk Renews Calls for Reappraisal of Peoples Temple" hinted at one possibility:

"If there were any connection between the City Hall murders and Peoples Temple, it would clearly have been because Milk and Moscone were too closely tied to Jones and the Temple."

You think? And what did "too closely tied" even mean? Could it be what the cult leader himself, Jim Jones, once told Peoples Temple member Deborah Layton?

"Don't think you can get away with bad-mouthing this church. Mayor Moscone is my friend and he'll support my efforts to seek you out and destroy you." 

Michael Bellefountaine seemed to think so when he also wrote:

"One story has it that Milk asked Peoples Temple to remove his name from the church’s list of supporters when reports of violence and theft first came to light, and that he was outraged when the Temple failed to comply with his demand. Eventually, history settled on an official story: Jim Jones was a master manipulator who used unwitting local politicians to gain power for himself. The politicians, including Milk and Moscone, used Jones for volunteers and votes, while remaining personally distant and blissfully unaware of rumors of Temple violence, abuse, theft and even murder."

But were they "personally distant and blissfully unaware"? Dan White certainly didn't think so - which seems to be entirely why Harvey Milk got himself killed:

I didn't agree with [Harvey] on a lot of things but I was always honest, you know, and here they were devious and then he started kind of smirking cause he knew, he knew that I wasn't going to be reappointed. And ah, . . . .it just didn't make any impres­sion on him. I started to say you know how hard I worked for it and what it meant to me and my family an then my reputation as, as a hard worker, good honest person and he just kind of smirked at me as if to say, too bad an then an then I just got all flushed an, an hot an I shot him.

Which sounds too guilty, until you ponder political life in San Francisco, under cultism. Consider another resident of the wrong persuasion, John Barbagelata (March 29, 1919 – March 19, 1994) San Francisco's last Republican Supervisor and the 1975 mayoral candidate, who lost to George Moscone by 5,000 votes:

Barbagelata...opposed labor unions, hippies, and leftist radicals, which made him a target...He received numerous death threats, a bomb was exploded outside his house, a gun was fired through the windows of his West Portal real estate office, and two mail bombs were sent to his house, eventually requiring 24-hour police and FBI protection for his family....Barbagelata ran for mayor in 1975 against progressive candidate George Moscone,...For the rest of his life, Barbagelata maintained that the Peoples Temple far-left religious cult, led by Jim Jones, committed election fraud in the 1975 election by busing in out-of-town church members to double- and triple-vote for Moscone under the names of dead voters.

That sounds like devious behavior, if you ask me. But no one asks. Nor cares:

"After the mass suicide at Jonestown in 1978, Temple members revealed to The New York Times that the Temple arranged for "busloads" of members to be bussed from Redwood Valley to San Francisco to vote in the election. A former Temple member stated that many of those members were not registered to vote in San Francisco, while another former member said "Jones swayed elections." Another former Temple member stated of Jones that "he told us how to vote." She stated that Temple members were required to produce booth stubs to prove that they voted, and members that could not produce such stubs were "pushed around, shoved and physically abused." When asked how Jones could know for whom they voted, the member responded "You don't understand, we wanted to do what he told us to."

They like the pretty little Leftist lie, instead: The pretty lie that they're our heroes.

"San Francisco District Attorney Freitas set up a special unit to investigate election fraud charges. He named Temple member Timothy Stoen, whom he had hired as an assistant district attorney, to lead the unit. Stoen employed Temple members as volunteers to help with work on the investigation. The Temple was not mentioned in the proceedings that followed."