Update – I was at CNN.com and I was reading the news on Evan Chandler, who was the father of Jordan Chandler the boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation.  Evan was found dead of an apparent suicide. He was 64 years old.

Evan Chandler is on his way to bow before the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

What does it profit a man to rob a man of $20 million and take his own life and soul?

My prayers go out to the Chandler Family.  However, spiritual justice and vindication was served down my the almighty.  I wonder what excuse or lie Joel Stockstill has to say about this or add it with another one of his blog writing errors, knowing him it will just magically erase from existance or be supportive my 31 people who like my mother says about people blinded by ignorance “They don’t want to change”.

Joel’s Blogs on Michael Jackson

http://www.joelstockstill.com/2009/07/thriller/

and here

http://www.joelstockstill.com/2009/07/thriller-pt-2/

I heard that Martin Bashir has a brain tumor.  Remember God is no respecter of persons.

“A man who began his career saving lives, and ended up destroying them”– Robert Stack on Rev. Tony Alamo

Finally, After watching this nut for about 18 years from the Unsolved Mysteries story, this is one blog I can truly Nip in the bud….Enter Tony Alamo.

In 1991, I watched a story that my sister had videotaped from the TV show Unsolved Mysteries with host the late Robert Stack.  It was a story that was eerily too familiar with the Jonestown People’s Temple cult and the Branch Davidian Group.  The man was Tony Alamo founder / Senior Pastor of the Holy Alamo Christian Church.  At the time of the broadcast, Tony was wanted on charges tax evasion and child abuse since 1977.  Tony had many talents, he was Senior Pastor, Country Western Singer, Clothing Designer, and Convicted Felon.

Bernie LaZar Hoffman – Aka Tony Alamo was born in 1934 to Jewish-Romainian parents, he and his family moved to Montana where he worked at a newspaper office.

In the 1960’s Alamo moved to Los Angeles, CA and pursued a career in music eventually becoming a rock singer and recording producer.  He was married and divorced and married  to his second wife Susan Lipowitz in 1966.  It was also around this time that Tony changed his name to Tony Alamo and begin his ministries in Saugus, CA.  James N. Griffin, Former member of the church says how he was a drug addict whose life was changed by the ministry of Tony & Susan Alamo.  He eventually gave up his drug habits and turned his life around for the glory of God.

"We are the World...We are the children"

In the 1970’s Tony and Susan’s ministry followers and congregation increased and they enjoyed the life of prosperity and the financial wealth lavished upon them by the contributions made by members and tv viewers who were affiliated with their ministry.  The Alamo expanded their ministry to include a satellite ministry compound and a nightclub in Alma, Arkansas, where Susie was born and raised.  Bill Clinton visits the nightclub to see Dolly Parton perform and describes Tony Alamo as “Roy Orbison on speed.”  Members who lived on the ministry compounds owned by the Alamo’s complained of the horrible living conditions which they were not accustomed to.  When confronted about the situation Tony would tell the followers; “if you want to be where me and Susie are then you are going to have to pay the price like we did”. Punishments varied for those who disobeyed the Alamos. Penalties ranged from withholding food to beatings to being booted from the church. Those leaving the church were told they would die, go insane or turn into homosexuals.

"Yes, pray for Susie to be healed my followers, or you'll turn Gay or the Devil!"

In 1980 Susan Alamo was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer,  She died on April 8, 1982 at the age of 56 at the City of Faith Hospital in Tulsa, OK.  It was around this time that things got even stranger at the Arkansas compound. According to news reports at the time, Tony Alamo claimed publicly that she would be resurrected. Local radio stations made fun of the announcement, Elishah Franckiewicz a former member recalls. “They were playing, ‘Wake Up, Little Susie,’ over and over again.”

“As a child in that environment,” she said, “I believed 100 percent that she was going to rise from the dead.”

Week after week, she recalls attending prayer vigils, and even lying down and curling up next to Susan Alamo’s rotting corpse. “She smelled,” Franckiewicz said. “She was cold and really, really hard. She was dead.”  It was six months later that Tony had a heart shaped crypt built for him and his wife to place her body as a resting place on the grounds compound.

After Susan’s death, Tony got more insane and starting taking his frustrations out upon members in the congregation, the majority was upon the little children.  James N Griffin, former member explains a time when an 8-year old girl Carissa was diagnosed with having early stages of epilepsy, and she would have spasms issues.  Tony said that she had the “Devil inside of her and that he needed to be be beaten out of her”.  The started off with 10 swats until it got to over a hundred.  And While he traveled, he maintained a tight grip on the ministries control.  Any issues were settled remotely through the telephone by having his followers carryout any acts of discipline or order.

Tony would eventually lend his voice again to the country and western world by recording and doing duets.  He also started and was very successful at his  ”Tony Alamo” brand sequined denim jackets selling them for $5,000 each.  He would make up to about $60 million dollars off of the business. He eventually turned the ministry into a sweatshop.  Working his followers long periods and slaving under intolerable conditions.  In 1985, one of the members when to the Department of Labor and filed a complaint against the ministry regarding the issue of no pay and lower than minimum wages.  The Labor Department issued a judgment against the Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation.

When news spread of the way Alamo shamefully treated the workers, the jacket sales started to decline and people were no longer interested in buying the jackets.  After this the IRS revoked the ministries tax-exempt status and followers started to leave.  Griffin decided that he had enough of Tony’s hypocritical messages he says that “people were being used and manipulated”.

In 1989 two former members charged Tony with child abuse and he was wanted on the charges, becoming a fugitive.  The following year the members were awarded 1.4 Million Dollars in civil damages.  Because Tony refused to cooperate with the settlement, the compound was seized by US Marshals to satisfy the settlement.  It was this time while Tony was in hiding that he threatened to kidnap a federal judge and brought before his Alamo court, and execute him.

On February 16, 1991, Tony Alamo had his wife’s body removed from the heart-shaped crypt.  Tony took credit for the removal of the body.  He was ordered in 1995 to return the body. The Chancery Court judge stipulated that if Alamo did not produce the body, he would be sent to the local jail upon his release from federal custody.  She was entombed in Tulsa, OK in 1988.

Justice was finally served on Friday November 13, 2009 in a federal courtroom in Texarkana, TX.  Tony Alamo was given the maximum sentence of 175 years in prison.  U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes said Alamo used his status as father figure and pastor and threatened and threatened the girls with “the loss of their salvation.”  ”Mr Alamo, one day you will face a higher and greater judge than me; may he have mercy on your soul.”  Judge Barnes said.  Before the sentencing Alamo gave a statement praising God and stating “I’m glad I’m me and not the deceived people in the world”.

Tony Alamo's Tract Passing Goons

Interesting fact:  I remember when Tony Alamo’s tract-passing henchmen came on the yard of Southern University in 1997.  Passing out his tract entitled God’s Two Witnesses, I never forgotten the story I saw on Unsolved Mysteries back in 1991, at the time I couldn’t remember the Pastor’s name but I remember this was the exact photo from the Unsolved Mysteries show.  I glanced through the tract and noticed several false truths and blasphemous lies that were made by Tony and Susan Alamo here are some of the statements from the tract

• “Tony, God keeps telling me I’m not going to live, I’m going to die. I’m going to be gone for quite some time. After that time, God is going to raise me from the dead, and when He does, you and I will be the two witnesses of God mentioned in the eleventh chapter of the book of Revelation.” — Susan Alamo
• “The Old Testament prophet Daniel saw a vision of the two witnesses of God. He didn’t understand the vision. Then Daniel said, “O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And He [God] said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” The vision that Daniel saw was, “There stood other two [the two witnesses], the one on this side of the bank of the river [on this side of the Jordan, which is the earth], and the other on that side of the bank of the river [which is in Heaven].” The river Jordan symbolizes going from this life into Heaven for those who are redeemed. Susan is in Heaven, and I am left here on earth. She shall soon be raised from the dead, and join me that we may fulfill the “time, times, and an half” chapter eleven Revelation ministry.” — Tony Alamo
• “The tares which Satan has sown into the world are the false Christians with their false churches, who belong to Satan’s world system. Satan has sown these tares for the purpose of confusing the world as to what true Christianity is. You will see Satan’s system along with the tares, the false Christians with their false churches, hate us the more as time goes on. This only proves the more that we are the two witnesses of God, and that the world worships the world system which is the devil’s.  This is another end time prophecy fulfilled. The plagues will soon be upon the earth. Another reason that Satan hates us so much is that God confirms through us that the Bible is absolutely true by sending His plagues, by raising Susan from the dead, by giving our ministry power for three and a half years for the purposes mentioned in the eleventh chapter of Revelation, and finally the Spirit of life from God will enter into us, and we will stand upon our feet after having lain dead in the street for three and a half days while the entire world watches us ascend into the kingdom of Heaven on television.” – Tony Alamo

Tony & Susan (Jenova) Alamo

What scares me about dangerous people like Tony Alamo is that these people still exists in the likes of people like Larry Stockstill and Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland.  The things that they do to deceive manipulate, and use people.  Con tactics they use to coerce people out of monies, investments, and properties.  And force to work in miserable meager penniless places and locations.  Shame on these people who live their lives lavishly and let their kids enjoy their spoils, while their members get turned away or BEATEN! My prayer is what Christ told those who were caught in the house of the cult “Come out from among them and be seperate.“

"We hope that you can join us in our powerful anointed service on Sunday and don't forget to bring yer checkbook!"

It was a year ago in November of 2008.  I remember sitting down at my fiancee’s house in Manassas, VA watching a televised documentary on the History Channel called Jonestown Paradise Lost, a documentary talking about former deceased cult Leader Rev. Jim Jones and his People’s Temple Congregation.  For those of you who do not remember or was too young to understand anything about Rev Jones and the People’s Temple I will take you down memory lane. (I also found a interesting video here @ youtube.  Jonestown Massacare Reel

Rev Jones was born and raised in Indiana, his father was in the Ku Klux Klan.  Jim’s childhood acquaintances recalled Jones as being a “really weird kid” who was “obsessed with religion … obsessed with death”, and claimed that he frequently held funerals for small animals, and had purportedly fatally stabbed a cat. Jim’s parents seperated in his life and he remained with his mother. He was a voracious reader as a child and studied Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler carefully, noting each of their strengths and weaknesses. Taking up Communism and attacking the leaders who stood against its evils.

Jim Jones was the leader of the People's Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana. He later ordered the mass suicide of his 913 followers. November 18, 1978

Jim and his wife Marceline got involved in church ministry in the 1950’s and eventually started a church Called the People’s Temple.  He used his ministry to help intergrated the Indiana churches and help the poor and blacks.  In the 1960’s due to the heightened Cold War and the threat of Nuclear war.  Jones begin to preach his Marxist Communistic Revolution views from the pulpit, and eventually moved the church family to California.  It was also during this time that Jim’s messages and lifestyle was getting sicker and crazier by the minute.  Jim’s healing services were phonies and fakes, cancers being removed were merely more than Chicken Gizzards propped to convince people that it was real when it was a hoax.  Jim also had several affairs and was showing homosexual tendencies towards congregational members.  Jim’s messages were on his self-glory and exalting himself as a God and higher diety saying that there was no God and that “he is God” and “you are Gods”.  He was referred to by Temple members as “Father” or ‘Dad”, something used by the late Father Divine.

In 1974 Jim decides he wants to move his ministry and people out to Guyana several miles from the Capital of Gerogetown, Jim called this place Jonestown.  It was a farming agriculture community, and the people seemed to love it.  It was also around this time that Jim’s addiction to prescription drugs was spiraling out of control.  Members were getting disgruntled and because of this they were punished either mentally or physically.  One of the members of the Temple Christine Miller who stood for truth and justice was trying to be intimated by Jim through the use of a firearm pointed directly at her or point blank at her head.  In the end it was Jim who would eventually back down.

1978 was a bad year for Jim and the People’s Temple.  Word had reached back to the United States of complaints of members wanting to leave Jonestown to return to the US for good.  Jim was not happy about this.  The US Government got involved into the concerns of the complaints and sent a delegation team lead by Congressmen Leo J. Ryan and Jackie Spier and the NBC News team to report and investigate on the situations at Jonestown.  Jim starts spooking out and is getting paranoid.  He refuses to allow anyone entry into Jonestown, and later allows the Congressmen and a few NBC cameramen in.  On the last day Congressmen Ryan put forth a call for anyone wishing to leave to join his group.  A fellow Temple member stabbed Ryan and the situation was ended peacefully.  ongressman Ryan and his people succeeded in taking with them fifteen People’s Temple members who had expressed a wish to leave.  At that time, Jones made no attempt to prevent their departure.

As the Congressmen and his delegation and the defectors from the Temple boarded the planes.  Several of Jim Jones’s members pulled up on a tractor-pulled trailer and began shooting at the delegation.  Congressmen Ryan, Don Ryan of NBC News and his cameraman died.  Along with Patricia Parks Ex-Temple Member.

Later on that day in Jonestown, Jones had one of his infamous “White Nite” drills.  This time it was not a drill, it was the real thing.  Jim informed the members about the Congressmen’s death, and the rejected asylum into Russia and that Given that reasoning, Jones and several members argued that the group should commit “revolutionary suicide” by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid (often misidentified as Kool-Aid) along with a sedative.  Remember that lady I was talking about Christine Miller, well she tries to talk some since into Jim’s head about living life and letting the innocent babies and children live.  Jim fires back and tells Miller and the people that “the best testimony we can make is to leave this goddamn world.”

When members apparently cried, Jones counseled “Stop this hysterics. This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die. We must die with some dignity.”  Jones can be heard saying, “Don’t be afraid to die,” that death is “just stepping over into another plane” and that “[death is] a friend.” At the end of the tape, Jones concludes: “We didn’t commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.” According to escaping Temple members, children were given the drink first and families were told to lie down together.

Jonestown Newsweek 1978 The Cult Of Death Cover

Instead of drinking his poison, Jim like a coward shoots himself in the head.  All together

The facts of the Tragedy of Jonestown November 1978 Incident are

• 918 People Died 276 were Children.
• The Majority of those who perished were African-Americans either poor or disaffected.
• African-American People’s Temple Members gave away meager retirements, houses, estate deeds, Social Security Incomes, Welfare Incomes to Jim Jones.
• A video on Children dying first - Escape from Jonestown: Kids First to Die
• A video on the Eyewitness to the Jonestown Aftermath – Witness To Jonestown – An Eyewitness Account of The Massacre

The thing that stuck out to me the most was how and the way that the innocent children were made to drink the poison by a squirting a syringe into their mouths.  When I think of those children, I think of those who could have grown up today in the present time to enjoy a good education, the joys of family and their own children.  But it was there in November 1978 that their lives were ended senselessly by a crazed, deranged cult leader.  Below are some of the passport photos of the Jonestown victims who lost their life on that day.

The Aftermath of the Suicides from Jonestown

Tiquan Ramon Crenshaw Born 2/26/77

Diane Wilkinson

Fast forward to the 21st century.  We see how much history always comes back to bite us in the butts.  You have your ministries like Benny Hinn and the Larry Stockstills.  While some speak of overly giving and contributing to Capitalistic Campaign Drug Dealings, and fake healings and false prophesies.  All that adds up is one big NEGATIVE on your mind and soul.

Look at me fellow brother and sisters in Christ…Gawd has given his servant and mondate to take the gokspel into the world and if you don’t stroke out that check to TBN then FIYYYA is going to rain down on you!!!!!

"I'm tellin you better watch it, or be a victim Be a victim, in this Stocksteal's world.."-- D.K. Foreman

Jonathan Stocksteal

The Stockstill Boys Living It Up America. Joel "Thank You Suckas for Buying Me My Authentic Kobe Jersey, God Bless You Suckas!"

As I look at the Blacks who get caught up in the megachurch cults throwing their kid’s and families funds away in these psychotic institutions.  I can see how much of a serious problem this has turned out to be

Please Continue To Give $$$$ Our Kids Need More than yours!! Your Blessing Is Coming!! Ummm, oh yeah, THIS IS THE YEAR OF BREAKTHROUGH, have more faith. What's Larry's other one? Oh yeah, Your money is cursed, give more to "Reverse The Curse" http://www.yfrog.com/froggy.php?username=hippofloat

Black people and other minorities, its time for us to wake up and realize the dangers of these cults.  We need to:

• Work on our own personal money management skills, stop supporting Capitalistic Campaigns and their lies and denials.
• Work on establishing and maintaining healthy relationships with our families, spouses, and children.
• Work on establishing future money management investments and skills to our children future generations.
• Work on managing the educational fundings of our sons and daughters for college.
• Work on managing and maintaining better black communities, and home environments.
• Stop supporting so-called Christian televisions such as “INSP” and “TBN” with its entertainment and itching ear gospels of foolishness.
• Stop giving away estates, deeds, and inherited properties and assets to people such as Hinn, and the Stocksteals.  It is these ministries who are trying to keep up with the Bill Gates’ (Notice I did not say the Joneses because they have surpassed them including the majority of you).
• These televangelist have become the 21st Century Bernie Madoff , while trying to maintain their exempt status.

A rule of thumb is that, God said to prove him in his word by honoring him by your giving him “Tithes and Offerings”.  God expects only 10% or the tenth which is where the word tithe is derived from.  God never said anything in his word about Capital Campaigns nor $500 – $1,000 lines for your blessings, or TV evangelist scams.