I cannot believe what I have just found out about "Captain" Heather's Dad, Dr Gene Neill! (See my last post.)
Sit back folks you just ain't going to believe this one.......
Follow this
thread on Cruising World where Heather's Dad and I have been having a 'difference of opinion'. That's putting it mildly.
Well guess what I have just found out? Blow me down with a feather the old man is... a missionary!
Aaghh, what the hell have we got going here in the sailing community. It gets worse. He's a convicted felon, sentenced to 50 years!!Got out in 2 after 'being saved'. Bet that was a hard choice...
Now it all makes sense, that's why he argued it wasn't balls she needed but soul. And that's why they're not interested in yachties, it's the religious suckers they are after. That's who they aim to fleece.
Wonder where his 50 years of cruising experience comes from, my mind leads me to fast ribs and men in black balaclava's!!!
This is the information I got through the forum thread
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Gerry, Please ignore this person.....
He is famous across a number of sites for abusing anyone who disagrees with his somewhat sad and outdated ideas. I feel sorry for his daughter but I hope that when she gets away from his clutches she will take better advice along her route.
What he fails to mention in his inflated view of himself is that he is a convicted felon (its on his web site).
See
http://www.go-to-jail.org/Click on his photo and it will give you his resume;
"When he was forty, Neill became deeply involved in organized crime, and was sentenced to serve fifty years in a Federal penitentiary. Indictments under which he was sentenced included large-scale narcotics distribution, possession of machine guns, a pistol with a silencer, massive insurance frauds and related conspiracies."
He found GOD (or more likely GOB (the Good Old Boy network)) and he was released after 2 years.
Since then he has been preaching to a captive audience in prison who no doubt are very interested in how he scammed himself out of a 50year stretch. He also touts his book, printed in 1975 and now out of print.
He is rather ill at the moment and I wish a speedy recovery and I wish his daughter well on the trip. Any more of your wise advice will however, be wasted. As the saying goes, "She who washes the head of a pig looses both her time and her soap".
I'm just happy that under Florida law he cannot vote!!!
And here is an excerpt from his own website. You really couldn't make it up!!
| More Than One Life
Dr. Gene Neill was a professional race car driver, and served honorably in the United States Marine Corps in the Far East during the Korean War. He majored in Philosophy in undergraduate school, and graduated with a Doctorate in Law, cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law in 1961.
Neill served as a Public Defender in Miami for three years, and was later appointed as a Prosecuting Attorney in the Special Prosecution Division of the Dade County State Attorney's Office in Miami. In that capacity he prosecuted many of the organized crime and Mafia figures in the East Coast underworld, and he later became a very successful criminal defense attorney in Miami.
When he was forty, Neill became deeply involved in organized crime, and was sentenced to serve fifty years in a Federal penitentiary. Indictments under which he was sentenced included large-scale narcotics distribution, possession of machine guns, a pistol with a silencer, massive insurance frauds and related conspiracies.
But in a little dimly-lit underground solitary isolation cell in a maximum security Federal penitentiary, he had a dramatic conversion experience. After a total of two years and thirteen days in prison he was miraculously set free, and has been a full-time prison minister and evangelist in great demand around the world since his release twenty-three years ago.
An ordained minister with the oldest and most extensive international prison ministry in the world, Neill is the author of the current international best-selling book, "I'm Gonna' Bury You!", published in five languages. Since his release from prison he has spoken in thousands of churches and prisons, and his ministries have taken him through 44 countries on five continents.
Neill has been seen and heard many times on all of the international Christian television and radio media; he spent three months ministering in the "Underground Churches" of the former Soviet Union, where he was arrested three times by the Soviet Secret Police. He and his family lived for six months in mainland Communist China; recently he was invited to Havana, Cuba, where he met and talked with Fidel Castro; and he also conducted a speaking tour of the prisons of Israel at the invitation of the Ministry of the Police of Israel.
Gene and his wife Dorothy reside in Florida, from where they direct World-Wide Prison Ministries and other international Christian outreach programs.
Well this is going to be an interesting story to follow folks! |
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