By Ox Drover
My own personal opinion is that most humans, as a species, have a component that comprises “spirituality.” Evidence from some of the earlier cultures of our species when our ancestors were still living in caves indicate that these people had some idea that there were unseen gods or spirits in the heavens or in their worlds.
I think for many of us our spirituality is also part of our healing path and helps us to set a moral compass to follow in our actions and thoughts. Most of the sacred writings of several belief systems I have read all indicate that kindness to others, charity, and doing good to your fellow man is primary to following that belief. Though history and ancient evidence also indicate that some belief systems at least in the ancient past induced their followers to sacrifice their children by burning them before the altar of the idol, or offering blood sacrifices of captured enemies to the deity, those seem to be in the minority of belief systems.
Unfortunately, today there are many psychopaths who take advantage of what I believe is human nature to believe in something “higher than yourself” and to seek some one or some way to “contact” that “higher power.”
Tony Alamo presented himself as one of these “prophets of god” starting, along with his wife, Susan, preaching to the downtrodden in California, but eventually recruiting these people who fell under their spell, to work for them in profit making enterprises.
Alamo and his wife Susan came to Arkansas where they made the local news when after a losing bout with cancer, Susan’s body was kept above ground for months, with Alamo claiming that he was going to raise her from the dead. Even after he failed in the task of raising Susan from the dead, those disciples under his emotional and spiritual control did not desert him en mass.
Alamo’s many illegal antics attracted the ire of the IRS and he was convicted of tax fraud and spent about four years of a six-year sentence in federal prison. Though there was a great deal of information coming from those who had left Alamo’s discipleship that his “church” was sanctioning polygamy and underage sex with young women and girls as young as nine, Alamo, subsequently managed to stay un-indicted for these alleged crimes until recently when he was arrested while fleeing from authorities.
The judge ruled that he would not be allowed bail and six minors were removed into foster care from his compound and from his followers. Alamo was The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo by Maria Luisa Tucker, May 13, 2008.
I am relieved that this man is finally behind bars, apparently forever.
Amen!! I also think a lot of people in today’s world are trying to take away that moral compass, so people don’t have to be responsible for anything, not judged–even by society.
Be sure and read the link to the Village Voice “The barely Legal Empire of tony alamo” it is really a great article and tells all the “nitty gritty details” of his frauds as well as some of the other stuff besides the crimes he was convicted on…which is enough, but the other stuff is sooooo indicative of psychopaths in general, more of them are “crooks” than MONSTERS. I think Alamo qualifies as a MONSTER. hIS SWAGGER each day on the “perp walk” which was shown on the nightly news during the trial made me want to puke!!! There is justice sometimes, even if LONG DELAYED and Alamo’s was definitely long delayed, but like Bernie Madoff, he is in for the “duration”—I hope!
I hear today that they let the guy out of Scotland’s prison, the one who bombed the airliner over scotland on “humanitarinan” reasons….he has prostate cancer and only a few months to live. SO WHAT, did he give the occupants of that plane any compassion? He should have been hung by the toes—uh oh, back on my soap box again. LOL
I read the Village Voice article, he’s disgusting, married an eight-year-old? Sold donated items for profit? The threat he made against Nancy Grace… it just goes on and on, I want to puke just reading about him. It flashed in my brain that I got one of his pamphlets on the windshield of my car — years and years ago. Weird. I pray he stays in prison, he’s full of rot, if you touch him rot would run out.
ALL SET UP LIES ABOUT TONY ALAMO ,TONY ALAMO IS RIGHT HE SURELY A MAN OF GOD BLESS BY GOD ALMIGHTY TO EXPOSE THE TRUTH, TONY ALAMO IS THE GREATEST PROPHET IN THESE LAST DAYS HE WAS FRAME AND DEFAME BY THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT CHRUCH IN NEW WORLD ORDER WHICH IS THE VERICHIP 666 MARK OF THE BEAST NWO, CONCENTRATION CAMP LIES ALL THOSE GIRLS WENT TO WELLSPRING TO BE DEPROGRAM
BY THE GOVERNMENT VATICAN BACKBY OBAMA THE POPE NWO MARK OF THE BEAST LIES, BECAUSE HE EXPOSE THEIR STANK. WILL TRUST TONY ALAMO WITH MY DAUGHTER ANY DAY HE SAVE MY SOUL TO THE LORD MY DAUGHTER, MY HUSBAND AND THOSE SOUL ON MANY WATER, ALL GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST.
TONY ALAMO ONLY QUOTED WHAT JESUS CHRIST SAID IN THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE, A BOUT LITTLE GIRL THEY FORNICATING MAY AS WELL GET MARRY AND WHORE MONGER GET MARRY ALL TONY ALAMO SAY ONLY, WHOM EVER SAY HE IS A CHILD MOLESTER IS LYING AND IS A CHILD MOLESTER THEIR SELF. JESUS CHRIST TOLD TONY ALAMO AND ALL HIS SAINTS DO NOT CAST YOUR PEARLS BEFORE THE SWINE, OINK, OINK, OINK, AND TO GIVE NO PLACE TO THE DEVILS, THE POLYGAMIST AND WHOM THE WORLD IS NOT WORTHY BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO EVIL. TONY ALAMO WAS SET UP, THE HOLY MAN OF ISRAEL, BE OF GOOD CHEER TONY ALAMO THEY ALSO JAIL ALL THE PROPHETS BEFORE HIM IN JACOB TROUBLE, BUT ALL GOD SAINT WILL ARE IS IN GOD GOLDEN CITY FOREVER AND EVER NEW JERUSALEM COMING DOWN HEAVEN BEAUTIFUL SHORES, BUT YOU DEVIL WILL BURN FOREVER HELL HAVE ENLARGE HERSELF GOT BIGGER NO RELIEF IN THE BOWEL OF HELL NO BAIL NO RELEASE YOU WILL HAVE A PERFECT TORMENT THUR OUT ETERNITY, JESUS CHRIST IS KING OF KING AND LORD OF LORD.
This allexus 8sounds likea total fruitcake at the very least! Ive contacted Donna re these 2blogs from him. Doesnt he know that capital letters mean you are shouting?He sounds barely literate.By the way, full stops are there for a reason. Period! Gem. Probably best to ignore him and he’ll go away.[hopefully.}
I don’t mind people with unusual viewpoints as long as they don’t attack other bloggers.
This whole hate, lie and slander campaign against Pastor Alamo is coming from the Vatican Rome using its secular one world government and Satans mouth the media.
It amazes me the herd of Americans that just turn on the idiot box and like a sponge absorb the filthy rotten lies the media puts out. Americans think the TV and their talking heads are god! It’s time to open up your KJV bible and read people. We are in the endtimes here. Wake up! Repent! and believe God who is his word.
This man said it quite well.
“WE ARE INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTES”
One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying: There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
Pastor Alamo is innocent! And all these blogs just further the fuel against his bible believing church in order to destroy these families by stealing their children and trying to close down a true work of God.
Here is a letter from one of the false accusers FATHER.
To Whom It May Concern:
My daughter, Desireé Kolbek, has called me on many occasions asking me to forgive her because the government didn’t keep their end of the bargain. She said she knew she went too far with all the horrible things she said regarding Tony and me, and that there was nothing she could do about it nor could she get out of what she had already done.
She stated in the last year, in many different phone conversations, how she wanted to keep me out of this—knowing that the FBI threatened—at gun point to take my life and Tony’s. Therefore, she thought that by helping to bring Tony down, it would spare me, her mother, her brothers, and sister.
Now, as stated before, she has begged for forgiveness because she didn’t realize they were lying to her.
Desireé didn’t leave the church because of any physical or sexual abuse, she left because she knew I was coming through town and she didn’t want to be confronted about her disobedience and unruliness.
I am sickened by the government using, and I mean “using” my daughter, making deals with her. They are destroying what is left of her. She is frail and weak minded and they are playing on that.
John Kolbek
You people need to STOP RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND THIS HATE AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND THEIR PASTOR, CHURCH AND CHILDREN! 36 children were stolen, some at gun point and NO ABUSE was found! They have the Pastor in jail and they still will not return the children! This Vatican government does not care about it’s people! They burned alive those children in Waco, TX the Branch Dividians and they are out to destroy American, Christianity and anyone who gets in their way.
Go to http://www.alamoministries.com
http://www.arcticbeacon.com
http://www.inquisition.org
http://www.vaticanassassins.org
http://www.one-evil.org
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com
and STOP this HATE!!!!
In Jesus mighty name we pray!
Amen
I didn’t mean to start an attack on LF by Alamo’s followers! I guess they must be keeping an eye out for anywhere his name turns up on the Internet.
In any case, my point is proven I think, that in spite of evidence, like him being UNABLE TO RIASE HIS LATE WIFE SUSAN FROM THE DEAD, and other documented things, he still has followers. I actually heard a newscast at the time Susan was being held above ground FROM HIS OWN MOUTH that he was going to raise her from the dead—when he failed some of his followers departed as well, but some stayed, and like many religious groups where a “single man/prophet” is at the forum, others came and went.
I think the above posts are examples of cult and trauma bonding and unfortunately, logic, reason and law do not apply in trying to reason with people who have their minds made up and are bonded to their abuser, as WE OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW–the more the abuser is unmasked, the harder the victims defend them. Jesus himself stated that there would be “false prophets” arise and lure many away from His doctrine of love. Several of the passages where Paul wrote to Timothy have recently been quoted on this site, listing the qualities of psychopaths and “false prophets.”
While the people who support Alamo (or whatever his name really is) are in my opinion angry and enraged and striking out at others, I personally pity these people, as I pity the people at Branch Dividian, and at Jonestown who paid for their beliefs with their lives. I see too, that I was also caught up in the “cult” of my egg donor’s “religious teachings” which I think now were contrary to not only good sense but to the teachings of the Bible itself. Having finally had my eyes opened to the truth, I realize I was just as deluded as any of the followers of any cult-like religion. Admitting I was deluded was very painful to me, it went against everything I believed to realize that my egg donor was a liar, and had twisted religious belief to keep me under her control of FEAR, OBLIGATION and GUILT that if I did not follow her dictates I would lose my immortal soul. All we can do, I think, is to pray for these people that the scales fall from their eyes. Arguing with them or anyone else who strongly holds an attachment to a psychopath is totally an exercise in futility.
Thanks for this Oxy:) I read the article, it also made me want to puke. I find it incredible how strong these cult/trauma bonds are, how people en mass can be duped into allowing their own children to be fed to MONSTERS.
this quote from Alamo says it all.
“You get a young girl and you get them mad at you, they’ll lie that you’ve had sex, that you’ve raped them or something. This is just the nature of women, especially if you don’t continue to have relationships with them. They will leave, and they will tear you to ribbons with their lying tongues.”
What kind of crazy person would say or think this about women or girls? Oh, I know, a misogynistic sociopath who blames his victims for not being complicit in his depraved exploitative and evil behaviour.
They all do this, if you see the mask slip and come to your senses you are branded a liar/crazy/vindictive person with sour grapes. And it keeps working for the ba****ds. How many of our own dear sociopaths actually hooked their next victims using the story that the previous victim was just bitter and crazy and ‘out to get them’ because they were ‘rejected’? YUK!
Sick,sick,sick.