Saints and Roughnecks

1. After reading this article, I can conclude that the only reason the saints were viewed as better than the roughnecks is based on social standing. To me, it’s the only reason that makes sense. Because, of them being rich and coming from middle to high class families made them better received. Compared to the roughnecks who were equally the same troublemakers but came from lower class backgrounds. In return, the Roughnecks were unfairly received because of that exact point. The saints were even proven to be and have worse wrongdoings in a shorter time. Often, they got drunk and drove around every night and vandalized actually quite often. Roughnecks weren’t involved in this stuff for weeks at a time but when they committed a deviant act they were judged vastly and often truly hated upon. It wasn’t fair.

 

1. In my report, I talked about Jim Jones. This man was a crazy cult leader who actually committed a mass murder suicide. He was a crazy man who was obsessed with power. He was loved but hundreds of people but also hated by officials and people with common sense. The acts he carried out until the mass murder suicide weren’t all terrible. He provided medical care programs and he heavily promoted social equality. What made him sadistic was the fact that he told them he was Jesus Christ. He was all powerful to the few that saw him as a leader and he sought an exodus. So, he moved all his followers and traveled to Guyana. And, he named the town Jonestown. The conditions were terrible but they still stuck with him. Eventually, being studied for crimes and going to be observed he urged 900 people to drink flavor-aid mixed with cyanide. Only a few survived and he didn’t live to tell the tale as he too drank the lethal mixture. It was largely known as the greatest loss of American citizen’s lives until the date of the September 11^th attacks in 2001. So, of course, he wasn’t able to be tried of murder because of the fact he died but he is largely known as the single greatest killer in US history as he was directly attributed to 900 deaths. Not to mention the fact that a large amount of the people who drank the mixture were children. If he was on trial and charged with murder, he would almost surely have been put on death row. In conclusion, this man was a terrible man who was so caught up in himself that he urged 900 innocent souls to kill themselves and also issued the murder of Congressman Leo Ryan as he was at the airfield outside of Jonestown at the time of the deaths. He truly was a terrible man.