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Here's the headline on an article in the latest issue of Intelligence Report, the magazine of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which pursues white supremacists and haters of all stripes.

The Ravening Wolf

A Catholic-bashing cultist's reemergence has ex-followers -- and residents of a small Arkansas town -- demanding action.

The cultist is Tony Alamo, free after serving four years on tax charges. He has churches in Fort Smith and Fouke. He has a guarded compound in Fouke, near Texarkana. People there aren't happy about it and fear his followers may have taken over the town council. The article says he has multiple "wives," some of them shockingly young. He has begun attacking opponents on local radio, suggesting, the article says, that God will exterminate his "Vaticanite" detractors.

It's a disturbing report. It recounts much of his sordid past in Arkansas. His wife, Susan, has not yet risen from the dead as he expected.

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Guess this means flyers on my car every time I go to the grocery store.

>>>>Guess this means flyers on my car every time I go to the grocery store.<<<<


hahahahaha
That was the 1st thing I thought of too.
I feel bad for the folks in that small town.

What a wierd agent this guy is. Remember the Kerr-McGehee station (and restaurant, and all that other commercial stuff) in Alma back in the '70s and '80s? Strange people would come out and clean your windshield. Alamo this and Alamo that. They've had people putting fliers under windshield wipers for decades. I worked briefly at a store in the mall at Fayetteville (about 1980) and remember finding Alamo fliers stuffed in about half the greeting cards in the store.

By the way, what age is considered "shockingly young" for a wife in these parts?

This is scary. We met our new friends from Dyer sunday afternoon and the conversation
turned to Tony Alamo, they filled in all the details and yes, Susan is still dead.

Good grief. Nobody in town knew anything about him? Doesn't Fouke get any newspapers? Or television news?

Somewhere buried in the attics of hundreds of true believers in NWA are sequined shirts, and genuine ostrich western boots, all designed and marketed by Tony. I think he sold his own autographed copy of the bible too.

The best that can be said about this old nutcake is that he and Jim Johnson are Energizer dudes, they keep going and going and going running on shear ego and meanness. Shirts and boots were marketed from that spiffy, weird station in Alma and via mail order too. Without ever knowing wtf they were about much less who they were their defense-of-faith-fliers arrived at my Fayetteville address throughout the 70s explaining Tony's persecutions at the hands of the evil IRS and state labor department inspectors who didn't take kindly to his paying his employees in room and board.
After all the employees were ex drug addicts Tony and Susan took off the streets and instilled new hope and life in them for the glory of god, and Tony.

Now you wonder how many penile implant stints Tony has?

By the way DBI, did Susan Alamo ever rise from the dead as Tony promised? He kept her body around in the refrigerator for a year. Is she hanging around Ft Baptist in saintly gowns?

Hey, y'all. Don't dismiss Alamo, even though Susan's not back yet. I mean, back in the eighties, he left a flyer on my car at Kroger that mentioned the future Nazi Pope, and, well...um...(cough)...

Oh, Arch, the devil is going to get you for that....

Alamo states the Vatican was behind the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy and behind the prostitution rings in America and behind the drug markets..........

Several articles about Alamo and company in the Texarkana Gazette, closest newspaper to Fouke. Looks like the old boy is taking over the Fouke city council, and involving himself and followers in other ways. How in the world did he settle on Fouke?
Cato, reckon we could get HDN a pair of those boots? Might take his mind off things a mite.

Stay away from the salad. Click on my name.

The new Fouke Creek monster is here! Yes....I have an Alamo jacket. Yes....I surprised Judge Arnold wearing it while he had 24-7 bodyguards to protect him from the Alamo Mafia. Yes...I watched Tony and Susan Alamo move into 3 houses on the corner of North 16th and Grand Avenue back in the early 70s....

Like an anal wart, Tony just keeps popping back up. And I agree with Doigotta....someone in Fouke knew Tony was bad news the day he hit town. I think I'd have to guess greed kept the locals quiet for a long time. Money's hard to come by in Fouke and Alamo cash spends like all the rest. So now that Tony has bought up everything....now they're going to turn against him. They knew he was a snake when they picked him up....so the old joke goes.

I'm no Alamo expert. I've had more to do with them than I ever wanted. The Intelligence Report works at being as harsh as it can be at every turn. I personally don't see any difference in the Alamo Ministries and any other religious group. They're all strange, they all have bizarre rules and they'll all bounce your ass out the door if you fail their inspection. Look at the Catholic Church pedophile priest deal without end.....tell me Tony's sins hold a blessed candle to that crap. I vote no on them all.

I was working at No De Fumar Hospital in 1976 when they cut Susan open and quickly closed her back up. On thing the Intelligence Report gets wrong is how she spent thousands on plastic surgery. I got news for ya.....ain't nobody as ugly as Susan ever had plastic surgery. The story also leaves out that she grew up in Dyer and pretty much worked the cheap hotels in Fort Baptist on her back, evidently practicing ministering to the penis before she took on the whole man, soul and all. Used to hear lots of old codgers talking about their rumble with Opal/Susan back in the 40s. She was probably 20 years older than Tony.

The last thing I want to be is an Alamo defender....they are a dangerous bunch. But I have known a number of the higher order of Alamo workers and I was always surprised that such intelligent people would be sucked into such an obviously fake religious cult. I think profit has always had a lot more to do with it than Prophet. The Alamo jeweler was a very worldly polished man. My Mom traded my old white Pinto for a nice diamond ring....not such a good deal for Tony, I assure you.

Earlier this year I stumbled upon the fact that Tony has been quietly buying up property around town thru his man, Mr. Scarletto of stolen mattress fame and another man who lives near me and would appear to be as normal as pie. They bought one chunk of old industrial property for over 200 thousand dollars....so not all his time is spent chasing naked 10 year olds. So who knows what Tony's up to. His plans have never been known, those that did surface always looked stupid...but here he is, all these years later still going 90 to nothing.

I do want to remind everyone how disastrously our government handled the Waco mess with David Koresh. More nuts to be sure......but they didn't deserve being roasted to death, man, woman and child. Our government and society hates misfits and once they get it in for you......bad things happen. So I'm not sure we can intelligently gauge if Tony Alamo is super evil or just pretty damn evil.

Tell me again how Tony is so much different than Cheney or Bush? We do have a German Pope and a Catholic mafia on the Supreme Court........god....now I'm starting to sound like Tony! May the Great Nothingness protect us all from religion of any kind. Amen

By the way Louie, answer Hugh Mann's question if you dare..."What age is 'shockingly young" for a wife in these parts?

Believe it or not, I went to the auction at his compound, bought a bunch of those jackets and sold them. Even had two private sales in Palm Springs and Nashville. I sill have a couple - anyone need a Mike Tyson?

Not to echo Twain or HG Wells or Twilight zone or anything like that, but Tony needs to be taken out of his (and our) misery. The world doesn't need people like him.

IF we're fantasizing about "taking out," I nominate Bob Johnson for your insightful consideration!!!

Hugh - I stopped at that service station in '74 or '75 on my way home to Texas for Thanksgiving or Christmas and was scared shitless. Goonies all over the place trying to wash the windows of my car.

I think I ended up not filling up my tank and stopping about 125 miles down the road in Oklahoma for gas and realizing that I had put my Chrysler Newport in D2 trying to get the hell out of Alma.

To this day I won't stop at that service station on my way to Fayetteville.

Hmmmmmmm. Interesting that so many of the regulars on this blog have had so much experience with Tony Alamo.


Oh yes widj we need our Tony's. Just reread DBI's comments. What harm did Tony ever do to anyone? Violated a few tax laws but I used to help set up far out tax schemes for very rich people that made Tony's stuff look like Wheel of Fortune games. He just got caught. He was anti drug and anti drinking.

He was selling Jesus Juice with large servings of Tony just like the 50-60 TV evangelicals do 24/7 and he does it with an excessive amount of drama-paranoia. I watched the PBS-FRONTLINE on DARTH CHENEY, "Cheney's Law" tonite. He scares the living shit out of me, Tony makes me grin and shake my head in disbelief and wonder about the weak minded, emotional cripples who found him worthy of following and slaving for. Cheney's followers are lawyers and rich industrialists who see no harm in overthrowing our Constitution so long as Dick has his way and the Unitary executive is enthroned in The Corporate United Regions of America. They pay taxes when there is no other way, which is not often.

What Timothy Griffith has done is worse than Tony's worst day. Saundra Day O'Connor's vote in 2000 created more evil in the world than a 1000 Tonys.

Do we need our Tony's? He reminds me that there but for the grace go I and possibly thee. I once feared the IRS because I had witnessed their power. But I realized they only go after tax protesters and rich people with lousy lawyers. I think for a while Tony was both. So the U.S.A. needs him to remind us that for some of us there is law and order, crime and punishment.

And about his prophecies: If you do enough of them even a blind squirrel finds a acorn occasionally.

If the article convinced you Tony is bad news what does it say about Arkansas officials who tolerate his child brides and beatings?
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To listen to any of Tony's numerous recent messages click on blue name. Oct 15 features a honky tonk
version of "just a closer walk with thee."

Correction....Mr. Scarcelli....all them Mexican names sound alike to me.

As an X-Cult Member and Italian/Portugese American, I feel I'm qualified to make a few corrections. "Scarcelli" is Italian, not Mexican.

The only true "victims" in that compound are innocent children. That demonic reprobate has the utter gal to molest them by virtue of "grooming" them to be his wives. He has stated in his garbage tracts that any girl who bleeds is old enough to marry and that 6-yr olds have sex all day long.
Isn't that enough?
Law enforcement in your corrupt town had better make a decision pretty darn quick about what to do with Tony Alamo and his crimes against children. The attorney general's office of AR and the State Department refer to him as "Teflon Tony". That's a frightening implication of them willingly, knowingly, and with all knowledge...letting him slide for fear of a few flyers being put on a few windshields at the mall.
God Help Local Law Enforcement and City Council who stand by and wait for this ticking time-bomb to explode.

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