TEXARKANA, Ark. – Federal prosecutors say jailed evangelist Tony Alamo (uh-LAH'-moh) "married" underage girls he had allegedly had sex with, exchanging wedding vows and giving them rings.
Prosecutors made the claim in a filing to U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes in Arkansas. Prosecutors want to include evidence of Alamo's alleged marriages in his trial on a 10-count indictment accusing him of taking young girls across state lines for sex.
Alamo's trial is scheduled to start Monday. Prosecutors and defense lawyers met with Barnes in a closed-door session in at the federal courthouse in Texarkana on Friday.
Defense lawyers for Alamo filed a set of motions Thursday requesting words like "polygamy," "cult" and "compound" not be used at trial.
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Sorry about the lack of pictures in recent posts. Got some malware on my computer and my browser loads slowly a lot of the time.
I just got done watching a movie called [Rec]. In the movie's poster, there is a red dot/eye, like when a camera is recording. It's a horror movie, shot in long takes with a handheld camera, kind of like Cloverfield or Blair Witch Project. It's actually pretty scary and I'm still a little shaken (also just feeling a little down lately). It's got all the symbolic imagery we've come to expect from any movie, but it is a little more unexpected in this case because of the way it was filmed. It feels more natural, and is more blended in with the other scenery. Unfortunately, the ending was completely spoiled for me a couple of months ago while browsing Youtube, so it probably didn't have as much of an impact as I would have liked.
I definitely recommend it if you're into horror movies, but if you get motion sickness from shaky cameras I'd stay away from it. I might do a full post on the movie if I decide to watch it again.
If I have any nightmares related to this movie I'll be sure to post about that as well. It didn't force me into an existential quandary, like The Ring did (didn't screw with my imagination quite as bad either), but it's still a good way to spend an hour and 15 minutes if you're bored.
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