September 25, 2008 05:45 PM
Evangelist Tony Alamo arrested in child porn case
Another day and another sex scandal.
Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said.
The 74-year-old founder and leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was arrested without incident at 2:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. ET) as he was departing the Little America Hotel with his wife, said Manuel Johnson, spokesman for the FBI in Phoenix, Arizona.
The FBI, the Flagstaff Police Department and the Arizona Department of Public Safety were involved in the arrest, he said.
Alamo was charged under a federal statute with having knowingly transported a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity, Johnson said...read on
Rofl.
My my, I am so shocked. Yet another hypocritical evangelist pervert. Who would ever have thought. Next we'll discover another homosexual Republican who sponsored a state DOMA.
Oh, but the age of consent is puberty...isn't it???
why are all of these evangelists turn out to be sexual offenders
Sounds like Donnie Darko.
castrate that sob!
focus on the family
Different ReThug, same ol SHYT.
Now, back to regular programming.
Wow! republicans really are the party of Orwellian-speak... pastor means pervert in this case as well as many others. Pitiful!
Whoops!
Won't someone think of the children?? Sounds like Tony Alamo was thinking about them a bit too much.
Scratch a fundies surface, find a fucked-up psychopath.
Gotta love those Family Values.
That's just fu*king sick. The guy is in his 70s and he's messing around with little kids? I don't care if he's a minister or a ditch digger, if he is proven guilty put his ass away for the rest of his life.
My mom said she kept us away from religion because all of the preachers were perverts. She had ber 80th birthday this year. My grandmother gave me, what she called the greatest book. Thomas Paine's Age of Reason.
Everyone is a liar. No man is not a hypocrite. No woman has not lied.
Joe H. @ 14:
You are truly lucky to have the mom you have and also the gift from your grandmother.
Hate, Genocide, and now - Child Porn.
Republicans have one fucked up god.
Why are they calling this a "porn case"? He was going to have sex with this child, correct? Isn't that much, much worse?
ditto on your comment, POP
Commentator @ 16:
Maybe I missed it, but how do we know this guy is a Republican? He probably is, but do we know for sure?
Sarah Palin Ministries
Ahh time to fire up Frank Zappas "Best band ..." Cd to listen to "Lonesome Cowboy Jim (Swaggart Version)". Performed during the 1988 tour it has maintained its relevance ... :)
Maybe we should return to the days of public executions. First in line should be preachers and religious zealots. Next, the rethugs responsible for screwing us all. Trust me, the world would be a much better place.
Let's not
equate this fuck with Repubs
because if you equate him with politicians,
you equate him with Repubs,
who are no different from Dems.
FBI documents identified Alamo by his birth name, Bernie Lazar Hoffman: Jews for Jesus.
My sincere apologies to any Jewish people.
Pic of the day.. http://i33.tinypic.com/2hocy12.jpg
ROFL!! These headlines always make me laugh.
Its a good thing he was religious, no telling how much more immoral he may have behaved had he been an atheist.
Ivan @ 17:
They were investigating him in a child pornography case. Finding him with all these girls, I believe, is separate. Both are just as bad.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-alamo26-2008sep26,0...
Alamo was convicted on tax-related charges in 1994 and served four years in prison after the IRS said he owed the government $7.9 million. Prosecutors in that case argued that Alamo was a flight risk and a polygamist who preyed on girls and married women in his congregation.
I'm pretty much convinced now that anyone who gets into religion as a career really knows that their region is a crock of shit and is really in it so they can get away with shit they couldn't otherwise do.
Surprise surprise. This stuff has been happening for years. It's just that people haven't called them on it as regularly as necessary. "The Franklin Cover-Up" on Google Video is a nice summary. The National Enquirer just put out a story about a possible affair that Sarah Palin had. These "Christians" are the biggest hypocrites. They are no more moral than anyone else, they just get by because people assume they are. They should be called out on their shit.
Franklin Cover-Up.
What the hell is a gay prostitute doing in the White House. No one cares?? Jeff Gannon.
I don't mind sexual escapades or whatever people like to do. But do by a hypocrite and try to legislate your bullshit on others.
This guy's been a sleazebag for decades. I lived near Fort Smith, Arkansas, in the mid-80s. At that time he had a group around there, and he supposedly raised somebody from the dead (his first wife, Susan?). I wondered then how such an uber-conman could be allowed to walk the streets. But unfortunately, he had a lot of gullible followers.
Religion is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
more from LA Times . . .
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, describes the ministry as a cult. Alamo's church rails against homosexuals, Roman Catholics and the government, and Alamo has preached that girls are fit for marriage once they are sexually mature.
Republicans have a history of liking little boys and gay stuff. Nixon called them out about their Bohemian Grove escapades. Jeff Gannon provides a concrete example. The Discovery Channel doc "The Franklin Cover-Up" provides the background. They are gay as hell and in denial and we are paying the price for their internal conflicts. Expose the bastards.
VietVet8666 @ 23:
I agree--separation of Church & State!! What side of the political fence these sickos are on has nothing to do with what they are. As a Christian, it makes me mad and sad to see these evil people try to hide behind religion. Hypocrits the lot! None of us are perfect, but there are some things that are totally unacceptable and child porn (or abuse of any kind) is at the top of my list.
JudyLou @ 32:
I think this may be what you are referring to:
[Alamo's wife, Susan] died of cancer in 1982; he claimed she would be resurrected, and he kept her body on display for six months while followers prayed.
We sit by and let them tear apart Bill Clinton over a nice stress reliever in the oval office. Yet we let George Bush and Karl Rove get by with giving out Press passes, something that effects us all, to an unqualified gay prostitute. There really are double standards and our society is showing the signs of letting them get away with it.
CMINCA @ 36:
From what I've heard from relatives in the area most Christians consider him a nut and he has a rap sheet long as most rappers.
Praise Jeebus.
CMINCA @ 33:
To go along with this, here are some of Alamo's own words on a news broadcast about this case. In it, Alamo says: They(girls) should be able to be married at 13, 14, 15, years old and in some cases if the've menstrated already, 12 years old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5cNYcbGa0
Cynthia McKinney publicly called out Donald Rumsfeld on the Defense Dept. contractor who was charges with human trafficking. Nothing comes of it. It's like this stuff is too disturbing to talk about, so we put up with the consequences instead. Same with the Anthrax terrorist attack. Too difficult to digest. Same with Voting fraud etc. We deserve what we get, if we can't muster the strength to get to the root of the damn problems and get over our uncomfortableness with certain topics.
god bless the USA
Its Me Ya Krazy @ 5:
It's time to get old school with these sick twists.
Hitler failed as a power grabber not because he thought too large (Poland, Russia, France, England, etc.).
But because he did not understand the true nature of power.
The true nature of power is not military might. It's the ability to enforce your will economically.
Lyndon Johnson learned this lesson in Viet Nam.
He did not have enough economic power to win in Viet Nam.
He could turn on the printing presses. But that did no good.
[Deleted. Way too long. We love you Bob, really we do, but that thing's already been quoted in full three times, and I've had to scroll for what seem eternities to edit those quotes. Please re-post an abbreviated form of this list, followed by a link. Thanks! Site Monitor]
High officials in the U.S. government are involved with the illicit sex trade.
Cynthia McKinney asking Rumsfeld about the Pentagon contractor DynCorp and their involvement in the international illicit sex trade.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6C59WFWQqg
DynCorp & Haliburton Sex Slave Trade Scandal
http://thetruthproject.us/2007/05/24/dyncorp-haliburton-sex-slave-trade-...
Get after it. And start doing some investigative journalism and spread the real news that is going to get us our country back from these international mobsters.
When are people going to wake up and realize that they have been duped and screwed royally with the Gaawd and Jeezus stories built on fantasy? It is just amazing to see otherwise reasonable people get so lost in fantasyland, while their pockets are being picked by silver-tongued storytellers masquerading as agents of the ever mysterious Sky Fairy.
pissed off patricia @ 19:
We don't know that but then what are the odds he's a Democrat. I wonder , since this person is from Arizona, whether there aren't any photo op pictures of this man with,say, a Senator from his home state.
♠♠...Bangkok Bob...♠♠ @ 45:
FTR when you get beyond congressmen you're cherry picking.
Peter G @ 48:
Totally irrelevant and devoid of meaning but... damn good question! hee hee!
someguy @ 49:
Yeah, those other guys get a mulligan.
IdiotShrub @ 47:
There is a sucker born every minute and guys like Tony Alamo just happen to use religion as a means to get what they want from those suckers. Peter Popoff was and is the same way though his motivation appears to be greed. In the 80s Popoff was exposed as a fraud yet his ministry (as of 2007) is still raking in millions.
♠♠...Bangkok Bob...♠♠ @ 45:
Wow! Thanks for the dossier! This is a compilation that we will never live long enough see this in the MSM.
Greup @ 21:
"A world of secret hungers
perverting the men who make your laws."
For good ol' tony, "Old enough to pee, is old enough for thee!!"
He thinks it's Christian to love little children? Depends on how you love them--Jesus did, or as NAMBLA does....and unfortunately, for Tony, it's the latter, not the former......
#23 The first step for healing is forgiveness...or another option, get even!
Filthy Harry @ 50:
Wouldn't it make for a great caption contest. Here's a couple I'd offer: Be careful who you sell your soul to. Or maybe: Guess which one just got charged with child porn?
Yes, Repubs are sexually corrupt (whatever that means).
Get real.
The bailout is not about politics, however much fun that may be.
It's about who can get a piece of the pie.
This is excellent news for McCain.
Peter G @ 51:
Ha Ha.
Lets face it there are enough city councilmen in America that it should come as no shock when one or two get busted commiting a crime.
theblimp @ 54:
It's actually great to be un-burdened by being neither a republican nor a religious "believer". Some of y'all need to try this sometime.
Now there is another good republican for you!
He's just a nutjob.
Religion and politics aside... he's a nutjob.
Gosh. I'm starting to feel so abnormal. I'm married and monogamous. I don't have weird sexual liaisons with minors. I believe in the constitution and a non-unitary executive. I'm such weirdo compared to the normal average Republican fundamentalist.
Jeez! The things people will do or let others get away with in the name of religion. At some point, someone has to stand up and say religion is a detriment to mankind. It always has been and it always will be.
What a trend we have in Jeezus.....
Freddy Knuckles @ 65:
Some where up above Ghandi is laughing at you.
Alamo was only doing what god told him to do.
Remember the Alamos!!
sciguy @ 64:
My husband and I laugh about this all the time. We just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary.
I've always thought the family values band wagon was a load of shit. Most of the people I know value their families,
they just don't need to trumpet the fact or place a mag ribbon on their vehicle.
I think the catholic church is uniquely capable of hiding gays who are afraid to come out by giving them a cover for not dating or marrying those of the opposite sex.
I blame homophobes like O'Reilly for this condiition, who claims he has no objection to gays, as long as they don't reveal themselves.
Libidinous motherfuckers these jesus christers. But they know there is no god, and therefore no punishment.
someguy @ 67:
Well,according to the Republican base he'd be down below wailing and gnashing his teeth in a lake of fire.
Peter G @ 73:
Yeah well those people are dicks.
Tax these "churches" and business they own.
Religion strikes again.
When an organization like Jack-in-the-Box makes some racist/homophobic gaff they are drummed out of business.
These churches lie cheat steal molest and murder and still qualify for tax exemption!
What can you expect from a group of freaks who worship a corpse nailed to post?
VietVet8666 @ 23:
Except which is the party that gets its panties in a twist over consenting adults (gasp!) having sex. Non-missionary! With the lights on! Sorry, they're Repubs, because these hypocritical fucks are the one claiming that allowing homosexuals to marry will lead to every manner of perversion, who claim that educating kids about their bodies and contraception will lead to more VD and pregnancy, yadayadayada. Yet who's sending salacious emails to minors? Who's marrying or molesting teenagers? Why it would be the "moral values" crowd, of course. Because they've been brainwashed into being ashamed of healthy sex, and I'm not in the least shocked when a normal, healthy impulse finds its vent with something illicit--and, in this case, patently immoral. (In for a penny, in for a pound--that sort of thing...)
But getting back to the political tie-in: The Republican Party sold its soul to these people years ago, and putting a Dominionist on the ticket is just another move in the endgame that will hopefully implode the party for a decade. And I used to call myself a Republican, too, back in the 80s. But until they get out of bed with the Rapture-ready crowd, the Dems would have to put one big ol' festering stinkburger of a candidate on the ticket before I'd vote GOP ever again.
Tony Alamo has been around so long that he had his own feature on the show Unsolved Mysteries. He's not an evangelist, he's a psychopathic con-man on the level of David Koresh and Jim Jones. I'm not a fan of right-wing evangelical "christians" AT ALL, but lumping Tony Alamo in with them is disingenuous.
Albatross @ 2:
Did I miss something? I didn't see anything about homosexuality in this story. It was pedophilia, and it may have been with the opposite sex, unless I missed something.
Orangutan. @ 34:
Orangatan, your name suits you. This story is about a pedophile, and from everything I read, he was heterosexual, like 90 percent of pedophiles are. You are a raging homophobe.
Who the hell would even attend a "church" called the Tony Alamo Christian Church, run by a guy who's real name is Bernie, and not expect their children to be molested!!?????!!
In the name of bob, what is wrong with these people??
Why do you believe everything the media and government tell you? Do you think the government or media have changed for the good. Don't you remember what it was like in the 60's?
How come the Catholic priests are not arrested and the alter boys taken into custody by the DHS?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9205552144117321879&vt=lf&hl=en
What is wrong with you?
VietVet8666 @ 44:
Power is the ability to get people to do things with your words. Ultimate power is to use getting people to do things with lies.
Yet another example of why the rabidly gay-hating are that way: It's not just because they believe the lie of "gay pedophiles", it's because they want to keep the kids for themselves to molest.
"Good christian" is at best a coincidence, more often an oxymoron, and never a redundancy.
I disagree with the posters who equate this guy as somehow representative of Republicans or Christians. There are MILLIONS of Christians and Republicans who are disgusted with these types of charlatans who give them a bad name.
I think Republicans and Democrats, Christians and non-Christians that people who prey upon children are evildoers and should be severely punished.
Never heard of the guy. Is he politically active? If not, why is this on a political blog.
halhiker @ 85:
I agree than unless the person is a Federal official a very powerful religious leader a stat chairman or a Govenor a/o Vice Gov. we shouldn't consider it a representation of a party.
What is it with religious cult leaders and sex? Who would submit to such an obvious psychopath? There's always a connection with extreme religious beliefs and mental illness. Koresh, Jones, Manson, Alamo...the list goes on. I don't get it. Religion seems to me to be an oasis for the weak. It's a shame that these "leaders" jump on this fact.
Dabby @ 88:
I agreed with you till you started bashing all religions.
Some where up above Ghandi is laughing at you.
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