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Due to the enormous number of these sound bites, (practically every single audio program that Tony Alamo has ever made includes him bragging about his self) we are only able to include these few.

They Say I’m A Genius

I Get Many TV Offers

Alamo rambles on incessantly about how he was set up by the IRS and the Anti-Christ government because he was preaching the gospel. So now he tells anyone who will listen that he was put in jail for the “gospel sake”. This sounds a lot better than federal tax evasion. PLUS he gets the added bonus of being in the mile high club with all of the other “religious convicts” that were criminals for the gospel sake; Peter, Paul, John, Jesus. Being a self proclaimed prophet, he claims he is in good company.

Some other accusations he continues to defend are those constant child abuse and polygamy accusations. There are plenty of headlines about him on this subject. Not to mention, the child marriages. He asks everyone to check his background and court records. He claims we will not find any sex crimes in his record. Well there are a couple statutory rape charges (his stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie, testified that Alamo raped her and a criminal background check indicated he had a background that included statutory rape charges) but perhaps they don’t count because he claims the Lord told him to do it. One thing is for certain, Alamo does not have a sex offender record YET because he has not been caught. We will never find more than one woman registered as his wife because he is not stupid enough to get a license for all of his brides but several “wives” have left the group and come forward with their eye witness accounts. And when he physically abuses / beats children, he has been known to RUN from any charges. That’s right. RUN. The thing he claims that he NEVER does at the end of this sound bite from Persecution & Threats – Part 2 from Program #340 dated March 6, 2007.

Criminal or Innocent Victim? We bring you the facts. You decide.

I’m Squeaky Clean! – from Program #349 dated March 15, 2007 - 2 minutes

There is a little known fact amongst anyone who actually knows Tony Alamo and how he uses psychology to get his followers to obey and believe he actually hears from the Lord. One of the more effective methods is to claim that anyone who becomes ill has been afflicted by God because their soul has fallen away or they have been sinning and they are going to hell by some disease that has manifested because of their rotten souls. In this sound bite he offers to “lay hands on them and cure them” if God allows him to.

Susan Alamo died of cancer in 1982 (after many years of being a heavy smoker). When she was sick Alamo blamed the congregation for her illness. Alamo’s message is always changing based on the situation and how it will work to his advantage.

Below are a few recent sound bites of the World Pastor speaking of the persecutions he has endured and a few threats were thrown in for good measure.

True Christian leader or Cult leader? We bring you the facts. You decide.

Persecution & Threats – Part 1 from Program #340 dated March 6, 2007 – 3 minutes

Persecution & Threats – Part 2 from Program #340 dated March 6, 2007 - 3 minutes

FOOTNOTE:
Fact: Bill Levy did have a stroke.
Lie: Bill Levy is paralyzed and can not walk or talk because he came against Alamo’s “church”.
Truth: Bill Levy is not paralyzed and can talk just fine. He has a YouTube video blog that shows him walking and talking.

Fact: Reverend Roger Mixon did suffer from a heart attack.
Lie: That the Reverend has been struck down by God because he made an enemy of Alamo and he will die soon.
Truth: Rev. Mixon is not at death’s door as Alamo claims. He has made a full recovery and is back to work and was recently at the city council meeting.

When telling people what a great promoter he was, Tony Alamo often mentions the “Twenty Original Hits” records. In the audio “Earthquake 2″ on www.alamoministries.com, for example, about 33 minutes into the recording, he says he invented “Twenty Original Hits” and eventually stopped selling new editions only because he “got bored.” Click here to listen to the sound bite from Earthquake on the 20 original hits.- 2 minutes

In several of his tracts, Alamo has bragged about how he came up with the “Twenty Original Hits”. Below are two of his tracts that mention his part in the scam. The first one is from page five of a tract titled “Broken To Pieces” (written December, 1997) and the second one is from page one of Alamo’s tract titled “Biting The Bullet” (written September, 1999).

The fact is the records were $2.98 each and sold because they seemed like great bargains, a fraction of what the twenty songs would have cost one-by-one. How was he able to sell twenty songs so cheaply and still make a profit? Real simple! Tony Alamo never bothered to pay the copyright holders for rights to use the songs. They were pirated. And when the copyright holders finally came after Alamo for their money, he couldn’t be found. It’s funny how he forgot to mention this.

The evidence that “Twenty Original Hits” was pirated by Tony Alamo is all in the public record. A search for “Tony Alamo” on the Lexus legal database turns up three separate court actions, dating from 1966 to 1972, about copyright violations by “Twenty Original Hits” records.

Click on the documents below to download the legal documents in PDF format for easy viewing.

The main case was dated February 8, 1971, and was decided in favor of the copyright holders. Tony was named as a defendant along with the advertising agency which worked for him and the radio stations which carried ads for “Twenty Original Hits.” The copyright holders were unable to find Tony and collected instead from the advertising agency and from the radio station.

Tony’s defenders sometimes argue that one or another charge against him is a manipulation by the Catholic Church. It is hard to see how that could possibly be for the copyright case. If the copyright holders couldn’t find him, it seems highly unlikely anyone in the Catholic Church knew anything about Tony at all. In addition, the evidence against him here certainly in no way depends on the word of “backsliding” and “disgruntled ex-members” of the Foundation. Plus, by the time the case was decided, according to what Tony tells us, he was a born-again Christian. But “born-again” Tony, who certainly knew he had been using songs without paying the copyright holders, apparently felt no responsibility to show up in court or to go back and pay the copyright holders what they were due. And then, we’ve got the coincidence that Tony tells us he “got bored” with “Twenty Original Hits” at just about the same time the copyright holders began looking for him.

Finally, even as theft goes, “Twenty Original Hits” was not a particularly clever or original scheme. The footnotes to a July 18, 1966 ruling, rejecting a motion by the defendants in the case, include the following rather unflattering description of the case and of Tony:

“Record piracy is not of recent origin. Since the early 1950’s it has been a recognized and well-publicized evil of the industry. Its existence was noted by our own Court of Appeals almost ten years ago. Plaintiffs point out that the practice has taken on a particular form in that usually it is carried out by small unreliable operators of dubious financial background who stay in business only long enough to reap their ill-gotten gains and disappear when legal action against them appears imminent. As already noted, plaintiffs here charge that Mark-Fi and its organizer, Tony Alamo, were such operators.”

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Posted on Factnet Alamo Foundation Discussion Board by “Wilma”:

For people who were at the Alamo Foundation for any length of time, we’ve heard Tony Alamo brag over the pulpit and at his house on numerous occasions about this wonderful idea of 20 Original Hits he brilliantly dreamed up. He bragged about how he made so much money that he even rolled in it with his friends for fun. He told us he had suitcases full of money. Funny that Tony Alamo forgot to mention that these songs were acquired illegally!

Does anyone else see a pattern here? Just like Alamo couldn’t be found to be served papers for court in this instance, we have seen him do this in the Miller felony child abuse case, where he went into hiding from the FBI, disappearing for two years, until he was apprehended in Tampa, FL.

I think Tony and Sue incorporated the Tony & Susan Alamo Christian Foundation somewhere around 1969. At least that’s when Carlos Ave (the first church) started. So this lawsuit was going on all during that time up through 1971, and he never appeared for court. Same ole Tony.

The messages were divided into 2 parts. Each part is approximately 45 minutes long. By clicking on one of the messages below you will download the file to your computer and listen to it with your specific audio program. You might need RealPlayer to listen to the files.
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The Holiness of God - Recorded 02-13-93

The Formula Recorded 02-14-93

Depths – Recorded 02-17-93

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This being said, it would seem very unlikely that you don’t have to ask Tony for permission to marry someone. However, that is what he claims in this sound bite. Many people have witnessed the child weddings and we were lucky enough to get an actual photo from the day one of the ceremonies took place. Click here to view the wedding photo of twelve year old Jackie Garner.

We bring you the facts. You decide.

Program #330 date February 24, 2007 – 1 minute

One of the rebuttals that Alamo often uses when confronted with this polygamist accusation is “I am only married to one woman. Anyone can do a search through court records to find out the truth about it.”

Tony Alamo under-estimates the intelligence of the population, at large, if he assumes that people would believe he would get a marriage license for every one of his many wives. Since it is against the law to have more than one wife in the United States, it is highly unlikely that he would march on down to the court house every time he took a new bride.

This is just another sound clip of Alamo claiming he is only married to one woman.

Program #330 dated February 27, 2007 – 1 minute

These are short sound bites from Tony Alamo’s messages . These message can be heard, in their entirety, here and the older ones can be heard here.

Program #313 dated February 6, 2007 – 2 minutes

Program #330 dated February 24, 2007 – 4 minutes