Rep Jackie Speier compares 1/6 to day she was shot, left for dead at a Jonestown, Guyana. RIGHTEOUS!

[IcyPeas]

JUST NOW:
@RepSpeier
compares 1/6 to the day she was shot and left for dead at a Jonestown, Guyana airport by Jim Jones' henchmen. She rarely speaks publicly about the experience.

Link to tweet

[roamer65]

1. It definitely would have brought back those "demons" for her.

The two events were strikingly similar.

She is a profile in courage.

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

I have loads of respect for Jackie Speier

[NBachers]

3. Jackie's got guts and credibility. She knows what she's talking about.

None of these yellow belly piss ass puke ass Republicans can hold a candle to her.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. In A History Channel Doc...

...called "The Jonestown Massacre: While We Watched", she's interviewed several times.
Her calmness recalling the events is remarkable.
She related that after she was already down, gunman came by and shot the victims a couple times to be sure they were dead.
But, 2 of them survived anyway, after bleeding out all night.
Incredible, hearing her talk about it!

[IcyPeas]

10. It's an unbelievable documentary. Recommend it highly...

Especially for those too young to remember it. She is amazing.

[rurallib]

5. Wish I could rec this more than once

[LT Barclay]

18. I was going to skip it, but threw mine in for you.

[rurallib]

19. Thanks

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[George II]

7. Every time I see her or hear her name, I think of that horrible day in Guyana. Then I think of....

....some of those colleagues of hers who got all melodramatic about being in an office building a block or two from the Capitol on January 6.

They should sit down with Representative Speier and talk sometime.

[TNNurse]

8. She has the credibility to speak her mind

and people should listen.

[Nululu]

9. She was shot 5x & left for dead

Congressman Ryan was killed. They wanted to help people trapped in Jonestown.

She is a very brave woman. More courageous than almost anyone there.

[gulliver]

11. Two egomaniacal cult leader's kooks endangered her life.

[Ferryboat]

12. I came home from fishing 7 months on the Bering sea,

Guyana happened a couple of days after I got home. Every day the newspaper headlines the body count went higher chronicling the madness of that event. The thought that the world had gone mad led me to cut short my vacation.

In those days news wasn't instantaneous, it took weeks for major or minor news to reach to reach the Aleutian islands.
I didn't know Bing Crosby had passed. Or Pope John Paul.
As my brother said at the time, "you missed 6 months of white Christmas".

[madamesilverspurs]

13. My heart went out to her.

My reaction to those across the aisle who chose to ignore her message was considerably different.


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[sarchasm]

14. Brava!

Showed incredible strength to merely address the other side and not be shaking her fist and pointing directly at them.

[demtenjeep]

15. she is great

and that point was spot on!

[demtenjeep]

16. she is great

and that point was spot on!

[Liberal In Texas]

17. Wow. n/t

[Snackshack]

20. I remember when that

Happened… I will never forget sitting in the living room that night watch the news and seeing the footage from a helicopter flying over the compound and seeing all of those bodies laying face down, all the different colored clothing…there were sooo many bodies.

The Documentary I watched on this was really good. The end of it has footage from the airport where the Congressman was killed and Rep. Speier we’re attacked at.