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Ep247, How To Have Gods Life Living In You, Part 145, False Accusations, Spiritual Warfare, and Resisting Evil Through Faith
False Accusations as a Spiritual-Warfare Theme
Tony Alamo frames the program around his belief that false accusations by government institutions, law-enforcement agencies, courts, and the media are part of a larger spiritual struggle. He tells listeners that resisting Satan requires identifying and exposing what he considers evil systems rather than remaining silent. Throughout the episode, he interprets political and legal opposition through an explicitly biblical and end-times framework. He repeatedly identifies the Vatican, one-world government, and media as interconnected forces that he believes correspond to symbols in the Book of Revelation. These assertions are presented throughout the transcript as Alamo’s religious and political beliefs, not as independently established facts. His stated purpose is to give listeners examples they can use to recognize what he sees as persecution and false accusation.
Louis Tackwood and the Informant System
A major portion of the episode concerns Louis Tackwood, whom Alamo describes as a criminal informant sent into his church to generate accusations against him. According to Alamo, Tackwood later converted to Christianity and disclosed information about alleged practices involving police, prosecutors, informants, and fabricated testimony. Alamo introduces a press release that he says was based largely on Tackwood’s information and has Sharon read portions of it. The document alleges that jailhouse informants were given information about cases and incentives to produce testimony against targeted defendants. It also discusses Leslie Vernon White and other informants as examples of what the tract portrays as a broader system of false confessions and testimony. Alamo connects these claims to his own legal experiences and warns listeners about trusting inmates who may have incentives to provide information to authorities.
Ira Reiner, Los Angeles, and the Press-Release Allegations
The central documentary material attacks former Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner and attributes numerous allegations to the press release being read on the air. The tract discusses the McMartin preschool case, political candidates, an ex-policewoman accused of pandering, alleged government misconduct, spending controversies, and Reiner’s professional and personal associations. Alamo repeatedly interrupts the reading to add his own accusations and recollections, including claims concerning child-abuse charges once brought against him and later dropped. He also discusses people identified as Jeffrey Dix, Sue Lewis, Marvin Mitchelson, Robert Bruce Foltz, and others whose names appear in the historical document. Because many of these passages contain serious allegations, the transcript preserves them specifically as claims made by Alamo or statements read from his publication. The episode does not independently verify the accusations.
Personal Memories and Distrust of Institutions
Alongside the political and legal material, Alamo recounts personal memories that he uses to explain his distrust of authority. He says his wife Susie’s experience as a reporter at the Los Angeles Examiner exposed her to corruption within law enforcement and prosecution, while he had previously viewed American government with strong patriotic trust. He tells a story attributed to his brother about judges at a party and describes a childhood incident in which an aunt slapped him after accusing him of damaging a plant. He also recalls his interactions with attorney Jeffrey Dix and says he eventually led Dix and his future wife to Christianity. Other anecdotes concern a singer Alamo says was badly beaten by police and a custom denim jacket he made for the wife of attorney Marvin Mitchelson. These stories are woven into the larger message that institutions and public reputations can be deceptive and that people should examine accusations critically.
The Press Release’s Claims About Foltz and Tackwood
Later portions of the press release focus on Lancaster Deputy District Attorney Robert Bruce Foltz and return to Louis Tackwood’s history as an informant and alleged agent provocateur. The document claims that Foltz had psychological and professional problems while participating in efforts against the Alamo church, and it cites a lawsuit and disciplinary matters whose exact details require verification. It further describes Tackwood as a longtime police informer who allegedly received incentives and assistance in exchange for setting up targets and providing testimony. According to the reading, journalists interviewed Tackwood and a polygraph examiner found his answers credible, though the transcript itself does not independently establish the accuracy of those assertions. Alamo uses these passages to argue that his ministry faced a recurring pattern of accusations in multiple states. He presents Tackwood’s eventual conversion as evidence, in his view, that someone sent against the church ultimately exposed the methods being used.
Salvation, Scripture, and the Closing Appeal
Despite the program’s extensive focus on government and legal allegations, Alamo closes by returning to salvation and biblical obedience. He tells listeners that understanding spiritual opposition requires knowing the Bible and receiving the Spirit of God. He says that he does not ultimately want harm to come to the people he has criticized and instead wants them to be saved. He then leads listeners through a prayer confessing sin, affirming belief in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, and inviting Jesus into the heart. Sharon provides information for obtaining a free copy of program number 247 by website, mail, telephone, or fax. Alamo signs off by urging listeners to keep God’s commandments, after which the program ends with a prerecorded song whose repeated theme warns that a person may “run on for a long time” but hidden wrongdoing will eventually be exposed.
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