Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo

I need to watch this.  It is going to be on the Sundance Channel towards the end of February.

When I was a County Sanitarian (Health Inspector) in Arkansas from 1983 to 1989, I had to deal with several Tony Alamo businesses.  They had a restaurant, at least one convenience store I remember.  They had a hog farm that was something out of a Mel Gibson Mad Max movie.  Between myself and another agency we got them to close that down.  I had to get on their main property one time to investigate a sanitation complaint.  They blocked my entrance, and of course by the time I went through all the legal hoops, if there had been a problem they had covered it up.   Fortunately, I never had to deal with Tony directly.

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