Who says you can't
fight city hall?
if you do, remember the scout moto
"BE - PREPARED"
We live in America, right? We have our FREEDOMs, right? One of many is FREEDOM OF SPEECH, right? I know for a fact it's true. At least that's what I fought for. That's what my Brother-in-law and thousands of others died for!
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Let me begin where I left off. Every true believer knows and believes in God, Jesus, and every true believer knows and believes Satan exists, right? Right. God, Jesus is good, He loves us all and wants us to come to heaven to be with Him forever where He can care for us. Satan wants us to believe that the only love we need is for ourselves first, no one else matters and life is for our fun and enjoyment. He wants us to believe there is no Hell with fire for nonbelievers and his followers.
When I came home and became involved in the community, everyone was willing to work with me and thought I was a great guy. They thought my work with the young people was wonderful and they commended me for it.
The Lord is pretty smart, He knows what He is talking about in His word. Luke 14:28-30 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? This goes along with the Scout Motto, Be Prepared.
I stopped by this newsstand to pick up something and on my way to the store, I couldn't help seeing children standing at the magazine stand. As I passed by I saw the kids looking at dirty magazines they put inside other magazines so no one would know what they were doing. These magazines were out in plain site for everyone to see, no matter how young or old a person may be, they were there to see. They had these pocketbooks that would make anyone blush except a pedophile, they would enjoy them. One of these books told how a so-called father was having sex with his young son and how he would share him with other pedophiles, it even had illustrations drawn with the story.
Now keep in mind that this place was located in the middle of schools, the YMCA, churches and where children played. It didn't make any difference to them who they sold these books and magazines to, all that mattered to them was making money. ( 1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. ) This place didn't care about the children or anyone that might come in, all they cared about was making money off their dirty books and magazines. There was big money selling pornography then and more so in these days.
Most people would say what they do is their business, not mine, but the children were my business, I was on business for the children and the Lord. Here is what the Bible says: Ecclesiastes 9:10 ( Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. ) This scripture is talking about the work you do for the Lord. When you are working for the Lord and His children you don't do it halfway, you do it with all your might. So that is what I did.
I thought about it, I prayed about what I should do. The Bible says: Matthew 5:9 (Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.) So I tried to do it in a peaceful way. I went to the counter and asked for the manager. I tried to talk to him in a nice way and I said, "Sir, and I explained my situation to him and asked if they would please make some kind of petition to put his adult magazines and books behind and put a sign up that said, Adults Only, then I left the store.
I went back sometime later to see if they had done what I asked and sure enough, they paid no attention to what the children were doing or about making a petition to protect the children. They just flat didn't care. Satan stood back and laughed, who do you think you are coming against me, your nobody. You can't do anything about it.
So I took the next step, I went to the city council about it. And they just shrugged me off and thought that would be the end of it. Wrong, at our next board meeting I brought the whole thing up to them and told them about what I did so far. Hank Harkey, who was an attorney at the time said let me go talk to them, meaning the city council.
He did and after talking to them he came to me and asked me what I would do if he asked me not to bring the subject up again and forget about it. I said I would go home, pray about it and ask the Lord what I should do. He said OK then, that's all I wanted to know, I resign from the board.
It threw me for a loop. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Don't get me wrong, Hank is a good man and at the time he was thinking about his political career. I don't know exactly what went on at his meeting with the city council, but whatever it was put a fear in him. Whatever it didn't stop us, we felt the children in our community would be worth our battle.
The next thing I did was go to a City Council Meeting. I knew the newspaper reporter would be there along with others from the community. At the meeting, I sat among other people who were there to see what was going on and had things to say. After the council was finished conducting their business, they opened the floor to allow the visitors to come forward to speak what was on their mind.
It was finally my turn to speak.
This is not our City Council in Portsmouth, but this picture shows how the seating is. The councilmen sitting at the roundtable, the person who has something to say standing in front of the City Council and everyone else sitting behind the person speaking.
They knew why I was there for and they had everything worked out as to what they were going to say. They asked me if what I was asking was in a city ordinance. I didn't know, I wasn't up on this stuff and they knew it. They ask if I knew any other city that had a ruling on it and if it had been in effect for a year or so. How would I know? I think it was the Mayor who said if I could find one to bring it back to them to look at and they would go from there.
I got busy looking for what they asked for. It took me some time to find it, but I did.
I contacted a Coalition I heard about in Columbus who were fighting against pornography too, but they were involved in a big way. They were working with a group in Cincinnati that was working with people all around the country who were fighting child pornography. I was invited to attend one of their seminar on child pornography and pornography. When I arrived, there were somewhere around 1000 retired FBI men, police officers, attorneys, judges, organizations, and people who were in the fight.
About halfway through the talks and speakers, we took a break to see the displays they had set up for us. They had these large rooms set up with these large tables covered with child pornography. One room was for the ladies and one was for the men. You wouldn't believe the pictures, booklets, fliers and stuff with children having sex with adults, each other, old men and women, it was mindboggling. It was enough to make you cry, and some of us did. The women came out of their room weeping and crying like a family member close to them died. I was like a nightmare.
Once everyone calmed down and got themselves together again, he was able to start the meeting up again. They talked about snuff-films, how children were abducted and taken to other countries and sold as sex slaves. If you're not familiar with snuff-films, they are films that people are killed in during a performance. I will stop right here about the seminar except for this, I had a talk with one of the attorneys at the seminar about the situation in our area. I told him about our fight with our City Council. I asked him how much trouble I would be in if I asked a question that mentioned a certain name serving on our City Council and he said, no, all you would be doing is asking a question.
So without mentioning any names, since they were in a hurry to go home for their Christmas break, I said I have only one question, is so and so that owns this newsstand the same one who serves on City Council? All at once they all stopped stretching, yawning, sit straight up in their seats and started yelling objection, out of order and one of them yelled, you're in trouble now. Of course, I knew I did nothing wrong because I already spoke to the attorney at the seminar. So I said, all I did was ask a question. They already knew the answer was yes, but they wouldn't answer the question.
It took all these months, work, money, meetings, and manpower to get done what should have been taken care of the first time I approached the business and asked for a favor, which was to make a partition, put the adult books behind it and put up a sign saying, "ADULTS ONLY."
You would think the City Council would be true to the community instead of the porn dealers. If it were me on the Council I would have voted to take this person off the board or the council and force them to comply.
Our children are worth more than all the money in the world. They played right into Satan's hand. After they were caught with their pants and skirts down, so to speak, Stan just sat back and got a good laugh. How people can put our children on the table and role the dice for money, I will never know.
Something good came out of all this later. The store went out of business, the community found out what kind of City Council we had that was running our city and some, I think, was taken off the council. They all had to know. I came to a conclusion that no matter the choice we adults make, the children are always the ones who suffer.
I found out, the hard way, what the city councilman meant when he said, "You're in trouble now." It wasn't that I would be in trouble for mentioning the city councilman's name, he meant that my life in this community was in trouble, and he was right. It has been a rough old row to hoe since then.
after city hall
then what?
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Who does this joker think he is?
What makes him think he can get by with what he did? LOL
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And now more of his story.
This guy kills me.
Does this guy know who he is messing with? I will show him.
A young man leaves home as a volunteer to serve his country and dies, if need be, for our freedon and safety. He climbs on a Grey Hound Bus, looks out the bus window, smiles at his mom and dad and waves good buy not knowing if he will ever see them or his family again.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
This store makes money from selling porn to kids like the one on the Right. This guy gets the money, this little boy gets in trouble.