Was digging on Snowden's NoName/Mandalay Bay/Las Vegas Gambling Commision and came across some crazy backwoods Arkansas pedo cult led by a different Tony Alamo (same name as Mandalay Bay Boxing Commissioner).
Bill Clinton was apparently "very friendly" with Alamo (Mena, Arkansas is nearby Dyer where Alamo was "holed" up with his gaggle of underage brides + Billy mentioned him in his autobiography).
If not notable, some real interesting reading since a lot of bad things seemed to happen in that part of the country in the 80s and 90s…
noName's meeting with (the other) Tony Alamo
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/john-mccain-to.html
Inside the Arkansas compound, tales of abuse and neglect
Updated September 22, 2008 at 10:27 AM; Posted September 21, 2008 at 8:28 PM
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By Sieon Roux, The Oregonian
Courtesy of Elishah FranckiewiczAs a 2 1/2-year-old in 1973, Elishah Franckiewicz (front right) poses with other children after a Fourth of July Jesus parade at Tony and Susan Alamo's first compound, in California.
If only she prayed hard enough, she could make Susan Alamo rise from the dead.
At age 12, having not set foot outside a religious compound in Arkansas since she was 4, Elishah Franckiewicz believed it was possible.
Day after day, she lay down beside the corpse, dressed in a wedding gown, for Susan Alamo was "the bride of God."
And day after day, she endured beatings by church elders because the dead woman – wife to sect founder Tony Alamo – did not open her eyes.
"We prayed over her open coffin for months," said Franckiewicz, now 37 and an English teacher at an area community college. "When she didn't come back to life, Tony (Alamo) started losing his mind. He believed that it was because the devil was in the children, because we had weak souls."
On Sunday, the morning after federal investigators raided the Arkansas headquarters of Alamo's ministry as part of a child pornography investigation, Franckiewicz, for a brief moment, became that 12-year-old again.
In a resolute voice, she made clear how she and others in the greater Portland area endured and escaped unspeakable abuses at the compound. Franckiewicz fled in 1985 at age 15.
Olivia Bucks / The OregonianElishah Franckiewicz escaped from Tony Alamo's Arkansas compound in 1985 at age 15. She says she withstood repeated beatings while there and expresses concern for those caught up in Saturday's federal raid.
Franckiewicz said she and a loose network of adult compound survivors spent Saturday evening on the phone, calling one another from opposite ends of the country to discuss what they could do to help the six children who have been placed in temporary state custody as they are interviewed in the wake of the raid.
"We've been watching CNN," Franckiewicz said. "They announced that authorities were doing what they could to return the children to the parents again as soon as possible, which is the worst thing that could happen."
Franckiewicz says she was the first baby born at Alamo's first compound in California. Years after her escape, she testified against Tony Alamo, now 74, whom she describes as a "seriously dangerous man," in his tax evasion trial in 1994.
more https://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/inside_the_arkansas_compound_t.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2569424/Judge-awards-525M-evangelists-abuse-victims.html