Battle of the Alamo: Inside Pastor Tony’s Twisted World
by Lorette C. Luzajic
The self-professed “strongest fundamentalist Christian in the world” looks more like Disco Stu than your average evangelist. At least, he used to. Gone are the rhinestone jackets and the pimp hairdo, the stardust and the glitter. The past 45-yrs of court cases, prison time, and defending his ministry against countless bizarre allegations have taken their toll. “You have to decide who you’re going to believe–this government … proven to be socialistic and communistic, or Pastor Alamo …Either you believe Pastor Alamo or the homosexual Pope.”
The New Jerusalem, Tony Alamo’s Christian Ministries, boasts, “The Alamo Christian Church provides a place to live with all the things necessary for life to all those who truly want serve the Lord with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.”
But the reverend’s story may be the strangest of them all. Earlier this year, the septuagenarian was found guilty on ten counts of child abuse and molestation, and those charges were the tip of the iceberg. The least lucky of the little lasses were actually his wives- one was married to
him when she was eight. But Tony the tiger denies any wrongdoing, even as he sits in prison facing 175 years of hard time. His legal defense? That the Pope was behind the charges.
Bernie Lazar Hoffman, born of Jewish and Romanian descent, changed names a few times before deciding on Tony Alamo. He hoped the name would land him success as a crooner.
After a stint in prison for a weapon offense, and a few years as a singer, Tony married Susan Lipowitz, a Jewish actress who had converted to evangelical Christianity. Tony got saved, and the two of them became street preachers in Hollywood in the ‘60s, early proponents of the Jesus Movement. A former “drug den” became a church. In ways that aren’t clear, this humble ministry, providing clothes and shelter for riff raff and other lost souls, grew rapidly and expanded into a gas station, a hog farm, a grocery store, a trucking industry, and a clothing design firm. The famous Alamo jacket, a glitzy denim and rhinestone affair, sold like hotcakes. The ministry claims their clothing line was so popular that they designed clothes for Elvis and James Brown. (Tony also claims that his management skills were so in demand that The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, and Lena Horn all asked for him to represent them.) The duo also had a syndicated gospel TV program. Their mission was to spread the gospel, to shine the light, and their getup sure helped them glow in the dark.
Tony was all about the show, and before becoming a preacher, he promoted himself as a musician by driving around in a fleet of black limousines rented from a funeral parlour!
It was all very big, very bountiful. But something was clearly wrong. Tony had had some troubles with the law, and in fact those denim jackets landed him in prison for tax evasion. He didn’t much like the government, and he started to think the IRS and the FBI and the CIA were after him, persecuting him because they were the anti-Christ. When someone starts talking about hidden cameras and seeing the FBI following them, we might see a warning sign.
But as the saying goes- just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t following you. In this case, Tony’s shoddy business habits, which included juggling the books with various “charities,” fudging the numbers, not paying employees, and dodging the taxman, meant the FBI most certainly was following him. Throughout the decades, he was constantly charged with finance related offenses. But even though Tony was clearly guilty, with umpteen witnesses, he blamed all of it on the devil trying to persecute God’s prophet.
Meanwhile, his ministry became more and more cult like. When he faced criticism from the wider realm of evangelical faiths, he declared they had been brainwashed by the Pope, who represented the true cult of the ages. While no one could disagree that the Church of Rome’s history is indeed filled with the atrocities that Tony railed against, it was impossible to seriously believe that the Vatican cared one whit about the Alamo ministries. Though widely listened to on radio, television, and from within, the church of the Alamo was small fry. Tony was clearly delusional, or at least seriously kooky. Those from outside dismissed him as a crackpot nutjob and didn’t pay him any attention. Those within became more and more enmeshed in his commandments, and as members of the church began moving into his compound, they became more and more isolated from outside influence.
One of the hallmarks of paranoid schizophrenia or related conditions is delusions of grandeur, along with other unusual religious perceptions. The claim to special powers, or special appointment by Jesus Christ or Buddha, along with bizarre magical perceptions often goes hand in hand with mental illness. Then again, said powers and charisma usually accompany greatness: Michael Jackson felt like he was God’s vessel for music to help heal the world; Mother Teresa felt she was a hand used by God to care for the sick; Dostoevsky believed God saved him from a prison sentence and execution to be His scribe. Tony’s charisma and conviction convinced a faithful audience that he was the real deal. His followers were called “Alamos.” The merely curious watched his story unfold for sheer entertainment value.
Ultimately, everything would come undone, and a horrific web of domineering control, brainwashing, punishment, neglect, child abuse, polygamy, rape, pedophilia, child marriage, wife beating, babies having babies, illegitimate children, violence and worse would finally come to an end in 2008. Tomorrow, Alamo will be sentenced- probably to more than a century of prison. At 74, that means he’ll spend the rest of his life in jail, which isn’t nearly enough.
Outside the cult, we can sit on our laurels with smug certainty that we’d never be taken in by the greedy lies of a crackpot. Yet millions are, and if we faced facts, we’ve all been “had” somewhere along the way. We may have “let ourselves” be emotionally or physically abused in a relationship, and years later can’t imagine what we were thinking or why we couldn’t walk away. We may have given money to a person or causes we were sure of, and now know we were hosed. we may have voted for Bush, believing he could save us. Who hasn’t bought into the teachings of a charismatic guru or master, only to see later how transparent the tenets were? And each and every person reading this, I’m willing to bet, has at one point been completely sold on the “truth” found in some self-help book: The Secret, perhaps, or Think and Grow Rich. Nothing wrong with advice on positive thinking and money management, none whatsoever. But there is something human about wanting to believe with all our hearts, especially if we are lost or poor or recovering from trauma. We cling to hope, and we like to wash our hands of personal responsibility when we don’t feel strong enough to contribute or think clearly. We put our trust in someone or something, usually with a few good reasons. If
Tony and Susan working the crowds
we’re particularly vulnerable and our source of inspiration is a sham, we might be in real trouble. Remember that there are millions involved with cults, and that all of us have our own views as to which faiths and interpretations of faith constitute a cult.
The signs of trouble were showing in Tony Alamo’s testimonies long before anyone really clued in that he was a wing nut, and years before we stopped dismissing him as the harmless kind of nut. In his own words, talking about his ‘60s conversion from secular Jew to born again Christian, he described the psychotic break in which God told him to follow Jesus. (He doesn’t call it a psychotic break, but a “visionary experience.”)
In the middle of a major business deal, “Suddenly my ears went completely deaf. I could not hear any noise from the crowd in the room. We were only one floor up, yet I could not hear any noise from the street. I looked at the people in the room. Some of their mouths were moving, but I could not hear anything they were saying. Suddenly I heard a voice, a voice that came from every direction. It was all around me. It was going through every fibre of my being. My head, my arms, my legs; it was all around me. The voice said, “I AM THE LORD THY GOD. STAND UP ON YOUR FEET AND TELL THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK TO EARTH, OR THOU SHALT SURELY DIE.”
In his account, Tony says he questioned whether he was tripping or going crazy, because, “People had told me I was a genius, and geniuses often cracked up.” (Need I point again to those “delusions of grandeur?”) Tony told his colleagues that he was ill and had to leave. “As I did, God started playing with my soul like a yo-yo. He would pull it half out of me, and then put it back. My heart was palpitating so hard it felt as if it was going to jump out of my body, and suddenly a revelation came to me, so real I was astounded that I had not always known it. I knew there was a Heaven and a Hell…Again He started pulling the soul out of me.”
Of course, the associates thought he had lost it, but Tony headed into the streets to find a church in which to pray. Tellingly, he says that after visiting many churches, “I felt that I was the only person in the world that knew the truth, that Jesus was really coming.” He picked up a Bible and prayed. “I cried out to God to forgive me of my sins. My life had been so filled with sin. I asked Jesus to come into my heart and make me a new creature. God gave me a vision of Hell. I cried out, “God, don’t let me go there.” Then He gave me a vision of Heaven. I saw myself little, naked, kneeling before God. I was so peaceful I never wanted to leave. There I was, at His feet. I was afraid to open my eyes. I knew if I did, I would be looking into the face of Jesus, and I was afraid to look Him in the face. Then I saw a large illuminated cross and stars bursting, thousands of them, and angels singing. The Spirit of God entered into my body, and I knew beyond any shadow of doubt I passed from death into life. God broke my heart into a million pieces, and I lay on the floor with tears streaming down my face, and my body rocking in sobs, but I knew I was saved.”
Well, Reverend, I received a message in a vision I had: Jesus says, “Take your Thorazine.”
No, seriously- in later sermons and writings, Tony talked about hearing voices in fields when he was a kid. “When I was walking through the field, I heard the sweetest voice in the air calling my name. It happened every few seconds. There were no people around at all. There was a farm and three other houses, including my grandmother’s house, far away in the distance, all with storm windows and storm doors still up. There was nobody in sight.” As disgusting as this bastard is, proper treatment may have helped him before his darkness took over him.
The reverend constantly mentions visions, signs, and so on over the years, and has no qualms about calling himself a prophet. He even encountered UFOs, but because he was Tony, there wasn’t just one flying saucer, but hundreds. “…A squadron of flying saucers began approaching us very quickly from far in the distance. They descended from way up high down within a fraction of an inch of the windshield of the car with a speed as fast as lightning. First one came, then two, then three. Then another three followed in a “V” formation. Two more, then one more came in from a far distance, and in less than a second were diving at our car windshield missing the windshield within a fraction of an inch as we moved forward. They just kept coming, six, twelve, two, and one over and over again. I could look out the back window and see their lights behind us, disappearing miles away in the night. They were all the same size, lit evenly and thoroughly both within and without. I couldn’t see anything in them. They were like frosted lights. They didn’t look as though they were made of metal or any other earthly substance, and they didn’t look like clouds or vapor. They all were perfectly round. They made a whooshing sound as they neared the car, letting us know they were made of some kind of substance. There were at least one hundred of them.”
Of course, there is the chance that God really did choose Tony to follow Moses and Abraham as prophets. Maybe Tony really did see UFOS and not a hallucination. But seeing things that aren’t there and hearing voices telling you what to do can get very dangerous. If you are a paranoid, constantly feeling persecuted, and you also believe God literally speaks to you, you’re a danger to yourself or others right then and there. At any moment, God could tell you to start raping children. And that’s what happened here.
There was almost no time in which Tony was not convinced of government conspiracies, and not coincidentally perhaps, no time at all in which he was not under fire for various money laundering and tax evasions. The couple moved from California to Arkansas, where they had a church. (Sadly, there are Tony Alamo Christian Churches all over the world.) In the ’70s and ‘80s, some who came in and out of the church referred to it as a “compound” and reported that it was more like a cult. Tony immediately began blaming the Vatican for loss of religious liberty, saying that Cult Awareness Network was a Catholic conspiracy against the true church and religious freedom.
He still claims today that deprogramming initiatives that purport to help un-brainwash cult victims are kidnapping conspiracies of the FBI or the antichrist. Deprogramming, he says, is mind control, where victims are tortured, starved, kept awake, and forced to denounce their passion for God or leader. (Substitute “denounce personal life” and you’ve got the exact scenario inside Tony’s compound.) In a brochure called “Conspiracy in the United States” Tony gives several examples of persons who “suffered” at the hands of government deprogramming. Interestingly, they are members of his church.
Amazingly, victims of degradation and abuse continue to stand up for him, a testament to how easily it is to cling to a belief, even if it unequivocally wrong. But on December 8, 2008, thirty-two children were removed from Tony’s compound and at long last the ring of child brides and violence, of mind control and megalomania was broken.
Sort of. Tony and his most devoted are still certain it’s a conspiracy against him. Citing that he was not convicted of previous child abuse charges is presented as proof of his innocence. He blames paid snitches and corrupt “child molesting” police officers for all the counts against him. He mentions that those involved in the case are “mentally unstable” and that some have committed suicide. Further proof that he is not supposed to be in jail comes from a press release, which bizarrely features a “letter” from the father of one accuser. This man’s 17 yr old daughter allegedly begged forgiveness because “the government did not keep their end of the bargain.”
Apparently the FBI threatened, pointed guns at, and listened in on conversations of said daughter, Desiree. “Desiree didn’t leave the church because of any physical or sexual abuse, she left because she knew I was coming to town and didn’t want to be confronted about her disobedience and unruliness.” Riiiiiiiight. Heartbreakingly, a love letter from young Dez to Tony is included, saying she didn’t want to “do this” to him because “I love you.” She confesses she can’t deal with getting beaten by her dad, and cried out, “I love you from the very depths of my heart and you don’t seem to really care…I didn’t want to do this, because every time I thought of leaving, my heart would break and I would start weeping uncontrollably. I love you, I always will.”
The brochure also includes, inexplicably, a diary entry from this Desiree about wanting to marry Eminem. If this was supposed to show Desiree’s “unruliness” or “instability” that’s just plain sad. The diary entry is from when she was twelve.
Indeed, many family members of victims, including parents, are still convinced Tony is a “holy man of God” and believe God “told his followers God instructed him to marry younger and younger girls.” (From a court report. Tony denies, however, that he married or slept with children, or even that he had multiple wives, though there were at least seven. He claims he told followers that the Virgin Mary was elevenish when she met God, so puberty was the age for marriage if a girl was otherwise helpless against her voracious need to fornicate.) Experts say these people are just as much victims as they are suspects, and the whole mess now unraveling is atrocious. The mother of one victim, for example, testified joyously on behalf of the defense, attesting to Tony’s true love for them. What remains a mystery is where her four other missing children are.
Others testified that Tony controlled them by providing love and shelter, and then when they were most vulnerable- pregnant, unemployed, whatever- he would threaten to throw them out or make them disappear if they spoke up against what they saw. These witnesses say families and children were starved, abused, and brainwashed. They say they were terrified of going to hell if they tried to escape or cross him. Before we pass judgement on “gullible” people, remember that many of these people were born into the church, and from the beginning they were taught that all outsiders were possessed by the devil.
For example, one child was hit with a board 140 times when his father tried to escape the compound. Tony uses this case to “prove” he was innocent, but in fact, he wasn’t found innocent. The charges were simply dropped because at the time he was already in prison for tax fraud.
Authorities are still looking for up to one hundred children who may be in danger of abuse. Amazingly, some parents still dole out Tony’s commands to batter and beat, even as he rots in prison.
And though the unspeakable world of the Alamos is already sick enough, many former adherents are just grateful that there was (so far) no mass suicide, for apparently Tony was so compelling and skilled at mind control that even experts feared it could be the next Jim Jones. (Jim Jones, by the way, according to Alamo, was not a cult leader who committed mass suicide with his followers, but a sacrifice by pagan Rome. “Jim Jones, a Roman Catholic Jesuit deacon posing as a Christian, was sacrificed (not with poisoned Kool-aid), murdered, along with his flock, by the Vatican to make the world look narrowly and suspiciously upon innocent Christian retreats.”)
Former cult member Diane Bach spoke out after Tony’s arrest. Though she wasn’t sexually abused, she still has posttraumatic stress disorder 23 years after leaving the church. She told Oregon Live’s Michelle Roberts that she wasn’t allowed to make any decisions for herself, not even the smallest one, and that she still can’t function as an adult in the ‘real world.’ She was forced to labour in Tony’s businesses without pay, believing sincerely that she would go to hell if she didn’t do this for God.
Indeed, somehow this man had enough charisma and bully in him to convince his Alamos to believe and do very weird things. The group delusion or hallucination is a bizarre phenomenon, yet paranoia IS contagious, and minions believe even today that their prophet is unfairly imprisoned. The Bible does support polygamy, of course, and the case can be made that it also supports child marriage. Followers of the Alamo believe that if King Solomon could have so many concubines, why would Tony not be allowed?
It wasn’t just Tony who got the peaches fresh off the tree. Tony also dictated who should marry whom within the compounds where he reigned supreme, and many weddings took place, giving child brides to old men. Children were also prostituted, and incested. One eyewitness told jurors earlier this year that Tony had so many sex partners he had to schedule it in to keep it all straight. When he began describing to her what he wanted to do to an eight-year-old girl while she held her teddy bear, some light finally flashed on in her eyes. This witness was third generation Alamo, meaning she’d been born into the compound life.
By now, with someone wives, you are surely wondering what happened to dear Susan. Susan died of cancer in 1982. Tony kept her body, on a mountaintop, with his servants constantly around it praying, for he told them she would be resurrected! It was half a year before he placed her in a sealed coffin, and then only at the behest of the state of Arkansas. Tony told her son and his Alamos that God told him she would come back to life. Susan’s family didn’t get her back until nearly a decade later. When Tony went on the lam for financial fraud- and these charges were no small fries, this time it was for 19 million- Tony’s followers hauled Susan’s massive casket along with him. Tony disappeared, and he was even on Unsolved Mysteries, having seemingly completely vanished from the face of the earth. Ultimately, he was put in jail, and she was laid to rest at last. (But he hid her body throughout his prison term and beyond, and it didn’t get to her family until 1998.) And the story wasn’t over. He kept right on lording it over his people, even from prison. Ex-Alamos say he phoned constantly with orders on how to administer his advice, sermons, and commandments.
In his trials this year, several recorded tapes of current phone conversations were presented, of him letting his people know that he is still boss. And while he claims to be innocent of polygamy and child abuse, he concurrently attests that as a follower of God, he must take any woman or child who stirs his loins.
“Anyone who would believe that polygamy, according to God’s Holy Scripture, is dead, would believe that God is dead, and that the Bible is meaningless. I, Tony, just as Paul and the twelve disciples of Jesus, was not called into the ministry by man, but was divinely called, supernaturally and directly called by God Himself…not ashamed to preach the full truth of God’s Word, the rewards for believing, and the eternal damnation for disbelieving.” He correctly points out that all of the prophets- Moses, Abraham, etc had many wives, but I would hope we’ve come a long way from the entitlement of the patriarchs.
Born into the cult, it would become second nature to trust in the religion, the way we all trust the religion of our childhood, at least until we’re older, and usually still then. My fundie family was sure the unholy Church of Rome was evil and Hindus and Muslims were going to hell, too. Of course, criticism and knowledge of errors or moral issues in faith is perfectly valid, but it doesn’t usually sound like this:
“The Vatican is posing as Snow White, but the Bible says that she is a prostitute, “the great whore, … Because of her age-old desire to control the world government and church, the serpent-like Vatican has infested the world and the U.S. government with so many of her zealous, highly-trained and dedicated Jesuit devotees, that she now controls the United Nations (which she created), the White House, Congress, every state, federal, civic, and social government agency, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the IRS, the FBI, the Supreme Court, judicial systems, the armed forces, state, federal, and other police, also the international banking and federal reserve systems (called the Illuminati and Agentur), labor unions,3 the Mafia, and most of the heavyweight news media.”
The thing with cults is that there is a fine line between their theology and the theology of the dominant branch in that belief system. The ridiculous notions within that cult, and even the systemic abuse, are just offshoots of theology and behaviour that is widely accepted as permissible.
For example, bullying congregations into submission through our natural terror of death by threatening hell- eternal torture- is still a regular tool in the majority of pulpits’ arsenals today. Controlling women by reducing them to sex and baby making machines only, making contraception a sin, is still widely bought. Using the Bible to justify whatever it is that particular sect of Christianity wants to justify is the oldest trick in the book, and we have about 100 000 branches of Christianity, all with varied beliefs, all sure theirs is the correct interpretation. There’s a verse there somewhere to condemn or justify whatever behaviour or philosophy you want. So, yes, you can argue- as Doug Wilson does- that slavery is approved of in scripture. You can argue a case, as Tony Alamo does, for beating your women into submission.
Thing is, though, that no matter how deeply entrenched the beliefs you were born into, or converted into, become, in most churches you are free to come and go. Ultimately, you can seek, or you can backslide. You are not, at least today, not literally beaten, raped and tortured and forced to stay.
One ex-Alamo reported in Los Angeles’ Press Argus, “The living conditions were disgusting. We slept body to body in sleeping bags on the floor. When I was there, I never saw a real bed. At the time I left though, I was sleeping on a cot. We loved it when the weather warmed up, so we could sleep outside where it wasn’t so crowded. The bathroom conditions were worse. The toilets were always full because we were told that if we flushed them, the leaching field wouldn’t hold it all. So about every two or three days they were flushed. There also wasn’t no more than three toilets per 50, 60 men [sic]. I do not know how it was for the women or the children. Showers were very seldom. We either never had time or the water was always cold. I took a shower about once a week.”
Of course, for Tony, every single critic, accuser, law enforcer, or suspicious citizen is Satanic. His writings and statements would read like hilarious satire- sicker than South Park- if the whole story was some sarcastic joke instead of tragic truth.
“The late Honorable Judge Hudson, is the judge who decided to have one hundred different law enforcement officers raid my church, office, and home, as well as all the homes of my church members throughout the US, then had me arrested on false charges, then put me in jail. He also ordered that all the Christian children of my church should be taken from their parents and be adopted out to homosexuals, lesbians, child molesters, and numerous other wicked and satanic, obnoxious people,” he says. There’s those evil homos again!
“The FBI paid all of their tuition to go to a place called Wellspring, which is a “deprogramming center.” Deprogramming is a nice word for hypnosis, brainwashing, mind-control, voodoo, black magic. Their testimony is not to be believed because it is not true, and they are not in their right mind. They are under a hateful spell of witchcraft. They (in court) have all said that I, Tony Alamo, said, “The Lord said you are to marry me.” This is all a lie. I never told that to any one of them. Their testimonies cannot be believed because they are all uniformly brainwashed. They (the young women) never contacted the FBI; the FBI contacted every one of them and gave them thousands of dollars and many gifts to lie for them. The FBI is against the Bible, Christianity, God, and all Christian churches.”
Then there’s the other stuff that’s just plain weird:
“Also, we should all remember that angels don’t have sex organs. “Now going back to “angels don’t have sex organs,” you should know that when we get to Heaven, neither will we. The reason I am teaching this is so you will be able to identify certain false teachers who say angels (the sons of Seth) had sex with the daughters of men, producing a race of giants. Again, God never calls angels sons. This is very false doctrine.” Obsessed much, Mr. Alamo?
“…Democracy, which is human rule rather than God’s rule, it is an ungodly purpose. This is why God is against democracy and the United Nations.”
“Remember how they murdered, burnt up, the Christians at Waco, Texas! They are demonic.”
“It’s too late for earth day. Earth day is just a trip the devil is putting all of you deceived earthlings on. God is going to keep messing up the environment, and those who despise wisdom are going to spend trillions to unsuccessfully clean it up.” (I guess our waste and garbage has nothing to do with it at all, then? Hmm.)
“Then, to the woe and dismay of everyone in the world, Jesus, who is commonly and falsely today known as “sweet Jesus,” will abruptly, without notice, turn the world upside down in a moment and literally tear it to pieces. Again, one-third of this world’s population will be annihilated, then millions upon millions more will be killed in the most dreadful ways, ways that could never be imagined or dreamed of by the human mind.”
“The devil incarnate and his church-state are telling the world they have the true message of love, peace and safety. It is now revealed how utterly hateful their profane message of fantasy is. It is nothing more than a cleverly devised fable and pure fiction. This fable, when believed, sends its believers to Hell forevermore (I Thes. 5:3). These satanic beings are the very ones who howl that the true prophets of God preach hate. The true message of love is God’s message of salvation through Christ. God demands that you renounce every other religion or savior other than Christ, that you reject Satan and sin, and that you fear God and keep His commandments. If you don’t, there will be His judgments, His wrath, and Hell.”
“Using these fruitless, demonic tactics and pretending to cast out devils is a tactic used by a particular large, political, and unscriptural religion for the purpose of convincing people that God’s power is within their religious order.6 Their doctrine forbids their congregations’ reading of the Bible because if they do, they will know the untruths their false religion has taught them.7 This religion teaching the satanic word and act of exorcism, both dictionaries state, is connected with other satanic practices such as “divination, astrology, clairvoyance, augury, sortilege, necromancy, thaumaturgy or wonder working, alchemy, jugglery, legerdemain, and the trickery ascribed to demons.” All the aforementioned are ascribed to demonic powers. Incantation is “the recital of magical formulas, the pronouncement of a word or words (as the name of a deity) of magical power [demonic powers], or the performance of a magical ritual procedure.” This is occult power also called “charming or enchantment.” I hope you will agree with the Bible and both the Webster and Oxford dictionaries that such practices are not of God but of the devil.”
Let’s all hope this lunatic monster is behind bars until his death, though he gets off easy, having spent most of his life rich, and in bed with young girls.
His wife Susan’s daughter had a few words to say earlier this summer: (Christhiaon Coie, Susan Alamo’s daughter, at tonyalamonews.com)
“I want to thank Federal Prosecutor Kyra Jenner for having the guts to finally bring justice to this coward who has hidden behind a Bible for decades. She introduced truth and justice where no one else (other then IRS) had the chutzpa to tread. Had she and Special Agent Harris and Bishop not brought this evidence from this den of iniquity Tony would still be raping, beating, and starving these victims…To the victims, especially the ones who took the stand, I do know how hard it is to take the stand and relive being violated. You told the truth and you guaranteed that he will never put his filthy hands on anyone again. You are my heroes…I have spent almost 40 years of my life trying to stop this. Please stop and think, you have a chance to show your families that you have a brain along with that soul. Call the local authorities and tell them where weapons, documents, etc are hidden. Don’t let Tony destroy anymore of your lives. Remember what the Bible says. When you know the truth the truth will set you free.”
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