Entry onto the property occurred without incident late this afternoon and was coordinated by a combined team of Arkansas State Police and Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The search warrants were based on information gathered during the course of an extended and continuing investigation dating back at least two years. This has been a joint investigation between the Arkansas State Police and the FBI, with the assistance of the Arkansas Department of Human Services and the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Arkansas.
Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division and investigators assigned to the Crimes Against Children Division are interviewing minor age children who live on the Alamo property.
The state investigation is aimed at allegations that children living at the Alamo facilities may have been sexually and physically abused. No arrests have been made in connection with the execution of the search warrants, however an active investigation is continuing.
In an interview with The Associated Press tonight, Alamo said he believes polygamy is allowed in the Bible, but that he did not practice it himself. He also says that he believes "consent is puberty" --unquote -- when it comes to sex.
Alamo told the AP that the government is trying to harass him.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Alamo's organization as a cult that opposes homosexuality, Catholicism and the government.
The SPLC has even more disturbing information about Alamo's beliefs:
Claiming "homosexuality is caused by demon possession" and "the Vatican, the one-world government and church are spiritually powered by that old serpent called the Devil," this white-hot propaganda comes straight from the mouth of a self-fashioned prophet and convicted tax cheat. Since his release from prison in 1998, Alamo has secluded himself within a guarded compound in a small town near Texarkana, Ark., as opposition from residents and ex-followers mounts.
...In 1993, he published a tract called "The Polygamists" which argued, "the Holy Scriptures proclaim polygamy to be righteous." Fourteen years later, he still pushes that message, producing daily radio broadcasts that are beamed around the country and the world and proclaim a holy man's right to take multiple wives.
"They're condemning polygamy where it's never condemned. God never says, 'No polygamist shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven,'" Alamo declared angrily in one recent broadcast. "But these bastards, these homosexual Vaticanites, they condone homosexuals and they condemn marriage and a man that would take care of his... . [T]hey ... say, 'You're a polygamist,' that I married too many wives. Well, find out! Prove it! And even if I was, there's no law in the Bible [against] it."
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