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.
Oxy, I dont think we need to worry about being ‘put off’ by supporters of any of the MONSTERS we talk about here, Its so important to share the information we all have and highlight the ways in which sociopaths operate in our neighborhoods, families and across the world. When their supporters show up here (whether melllisae, or these guys above or poor Biddy trying desperately to support HER monster in the face of overwhelming evidence) it serves as an example of the damage and mind control these creatures are capable of and illustrates the depth of their evil effect. Knowledge=power:)
x
And yes, it is a reminder to all of us, who have also at one time been in the ‘thrall’ of such creatures.
Dear Blue, I read that quote too, and I thought it sounded like the guy who robbed a clerk and dennied being there, then says “I should have shot that snitch!”
Kind of like, “I did NOT have sex with that woman!” LOL
LOL! They come in all shapes and sizes but they sing the same old tune:)x
WHOA….
Either we need to imbibe more in the ‘pulpit juice’, or someone needs to drink less of it!
🙂
I have NEVER seen a cockier guy on a perp walk, he was so thrilled with the attention he got. Before the trial started his hair was BLACK but by the time he was done, his hair was white and his BALD head showed up like a lava light, yet he kept on strutting like he was God’s gift to women–er ah– I mean the less than 12 year old crowd! guess you can[‘t get black hair dye in the Federal Lock up. I bet there are lots of things in there that he can’t get that he is used to. I have a feeling his cell mate, Bubba, may not worship him as much as his cult does. I hear that when a person is convicted in a big public trial on all the news shows and EVERYONE knows he is a “baby raper” he doesn’t have an easy time of it in even the Federal Club Feds.
I know I shouldn’t GLOAT over someone going to prison, but if ANYONE besides Charles “Jackie” Walls III (who molested 1500+ kids over a 20 year period here in Arkansas) deserves to go to prison for life I think it is ALAMO! The ONLY differences in the two is that Jackie had no one at his trial supporting him, and it looks like Alamo still has a few supporters…but hopefully, with him gone away, his influence will wane, but sometimes even that takes a while, look at how LOYAL Charlie Manson’s girls were!
OxDrover: You are in Arkansas? So am I.
OxDrover: Jackie Walls from Lonoke? The Boy Scout ‘leader’?
TWICE BETRAYED!!! OMG do you know him too? What a small world. I used to live in Lonoke in the 1970s for about 9 years. I knew his father (the judge) who was at that time one of the local attorneys, and all his family….it was a horrible trauma for them all, especially his dad. I am glad his mother had died by the time he was arrested. My adopted son D is a counselor for the BSA and so I am really protective about the BSA.
I knew Jackie was a jerk and a horse’s butt, but NEVER thought for one minute he was a MONSTER. The 1 hour docudrama that was broadcast about him had the female DA say “if we coudl have asked for the death penalty on this case we would have” I believed her. Jackie’e wife and kids were devestated.
You can go onto the Arkansas prison web site and see a photo (mug shot) of any prisoner and information about their conviction and sentencing….when the “Trojan Horse Psychopath” was in Ark prisons I kept tabs on him, and the victim’s advocate (a GREAT GAL) helped me to get his first parole turned down, even after it had been ILLEGALLY GIVEN to him. Kept him in another 5 months. The THP is on parole now and his parole officer did not even know he was a thrice convicted sex offender, ages 9, 11, and 14 for the victims.
Yea, I am still in Arkansas, though I left the state for several years and went to California, Texas and Florida for several years but came back to ark in 1989, and am now living on my grandfather’s old family farm. I don’t have a great deal of friends still left in Lonoke but a few—most of them have died off or drifted off and I don’t keep in touch much any more. Went over that way this spring to pick up some purebred ducks and ate at Perry’s on the freeway, still good food.
Don’t miss the skeeters though, cause up here in teh hills we don’t have many of them, but we do have TICKS! Course we had ticks in Lonoke too, plus the skeeters! As far as I know I am the only other poster here from Arkansas, though there are I think probably a bunch more readers than posters.
When they had the floods over there this spring and the hail later in the summer that wiped out the soy bean crops on some farms, I saw my old boss’s son (nnow in his 50s) interviewed on teh channel 7 news….Last time I saw him was about 1980 , he was 17 or so. My son who started first grade there is 40 this fall. Gosh I don’t know where the time went.
My neighborhood there was like “Happy Days” and all the neighborhood kids ran in a pack from house to house and all the moms watched all the kids, all the kids were from 4-8 or so and they were such a nice group of kids, and the mom’s all had garage sales together and bought each other’s stuff, and occasionally sold some to someone outside the neighborhood. LOL We buried each others’ families, gave big weddings on the spur of the moment, all pitching in. It was almost like a dream yet seems like ‘yesterday.” My house was one of the old Victorians and I remodeled it and I loved that house, it is still there, but the big elm tree is gone, and the box hedge is gone, but some of the bushes I planted are still there abnd the pecan trees. Once I was so tired of pecans that I had friends from little rock just come rake the leaves to get them. Now I would give my right arm for those pecans….or wild ducks by the millions or crawfish from the minnow ponds.
When I first moved in my next door neighbor didn’t know me yet and she saw me out by teh trash barrel cleaning a pile of ducks and she got on to me and said if I (a woman) cleaned ducks and the men in the neighborhood heard about it they would all want their wives to clean ducks too! LOL My husband wasn’t the hunter, so he didn’t clean ducks, I was the hunter and I cleaned what I shot! LOL
Yea, old jackie has given me a bad taste for child molesters and since I finiished my nursing degree (I am a retired advanced practice nurse) I have done all I can to PERSECUTE child molesters. Unfortunately, too many of them are like Jackie and get away with it for years.
Well, glad to have another Razorback in the crowd. Small world really. I’ve been here for nearly two years on this site, was on one of the Sam Vakin-owed sites on MSN for a while (6 months or so) but they are as disordered as HE is with flames and fights between the managers and the posters, and I just wasn’t comfortable there, like here. This is a great blog, and Donna is the greatest! Lots of really BRIGHT people here, not sure why exactly, but couldn’t ask for a better bunch of folks. Great articles from Dr. Leedom and the others here, with good information. Glad you are here, this is a healing place, and believe me when I say, I don’t think I could have gotten through this mess without the support I have had from this site. Lots of the previous bloggers have moved on, and aren’t many of us “old heads” hanging around here, but I still learn so much and it keeps me centered I think, so I keep on keeping on at LF. (((hugs)))) and Whooooooo Pigs seweeeee!
I am printing this and keeping it for the be-wty.x in the morning i will google skeeters.x