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Imprisoned Evangelist Tony Alamo Dead
Arkansas Matters ^ | 5/2=3

Posted on 05/03/2017 5:15:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A spokesman with the Federal Bureau of Prisons has confirmed the death of evangelist Tony Alamo. He was 82.

Alamo, who operated ministries in Arkansas decades ago, had been imprisoned under his real name of Bernie Hoffman at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Butner in North Carolina.

Hoffman died on Tuesday, the spokesman said. He had been sent to prison in 2009 after a conviction of transporting minors across state lines for sexual purposes.


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1 posted on 05/03/2017 5:15:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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[ He had been sent to prison in 2009 after a conviction of transporting minors across state lines for sexual purposes. ]

Pedo gate connection???, have to wonder if he died because he was too old or because he knew “too much”...


2 posted on 05/03/2017 5:17:17 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: nickcarraway

Seems just like yesterday I used to come out of the grocery store and find one of his flyers under my windshield wiper


3 posted on 05/03/2017 5:21:02 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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At 82 and having been in prison for 7 years, I’d say natural causes.


4 posted on 05/03/2017 5:41:23 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Sybeck1

Hmmm; now that you mention it, I remember something about the Alamo as well. Seems like a long time ago, though.


5 posted on 05/03/2017 5:41:42 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: nickcarraway
Before he became a cult leader, he was in the music business. But he should not be confused with the Tony Alamo who sang with Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Robot Walk--Tony Alamo (1964)

6 posted on 05/03/2017 5:42:13 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Gamecock

Ping?


7 posted on 05/03/2017 5:42:19 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Sybeck1
"When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away." - Mitch Hedberg
8 posted on 05/03/2017 5:52:43 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: PAR35
Hollyood paid big bucks for his jackets.


9 posted on 05/03/2017 5:53:54 PM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech is a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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- Mitch Hedburg.

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10 posted on 05/03/2017 5:57:49 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Veni, vidi, Vomui- I came, I saw, I hurled.)
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To: nickcarraway

Back in the day, he was also a notorious anti-Catholic, along the lines of some of the late Jack Chick’s material. Jack meant well and had a lot of legit stuff too, but Alamo was pure shyster.


11 posted on 05/03/2017 6:13:41 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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I was visiting someone in the federal lockup in Memphis and in walks Tony Alamo himself. He was surrounded some of his sheeple. As a bonus, I saw Auburn Calloway, the one who tried to hijack FedEx flight 705. Only in a prison can you see such luminaries.


12 posted on 05/03/2017 6:13:56 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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I remember seeing their show on TV from California. Thought they were weird.
Then when I moved to Oklahoma and Arkansas guess who showed up, like a bad penny!
When Susan died Tony kept her unburied, believing he could resurrect her. He failed, so she was entombed. When his “empire” came down around him, her tomb was broken into and her body missing. Wonder if it has ever been found.

We ate at their restaurant on I-40 at Alma forty years ago. High priced and poor quality food. Only reason we ate there is the KFC across the street was not open yet, so my MIL demanded we EAT, NOW! She was driving so we left the closed KFC and she pulled into the Alamo restaurant.


13 posted on 05/03/2017 6:21:32 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
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Tony Alamo/Bernie Hoffman has already received his eternal damnation/reward...


14 posted on 05/03/2017 6:49:15 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Fiji Hill
Before he became a cult leader, he was in the music business.

Tony Alamo and Dawn?

/s

15 posted on 05/03/2017 6:59:29 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Don't be a pessimist, be an optometrist.)
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To: nickcarraway

I can’t say that I remember that Alamo.


16 posted on 05/03/2017 7:46:18 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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Strange fella, a staple here in Nashville back in the ‘70s/early ‘80s. Prayers for his soul.


17 posted on 05/03/2017 9:09:01 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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Remember the Tony


18 posted on 05/04/2017 4:49:47 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning)
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19 posted on 05/04/2017 5:13:57 AM PDT by Gamecock ("We always choose according to our greatest inclination at the moment." R.C. Sproul)
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Funny, I don’t remember.


20 posted on 05/04/2017 7:10:55 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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