Hock Shop

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His mother said it was the worse thing a parent can endure, but she did appreciate the Governor calling and telling her about Texas's first posthumous pardon. Her son, Tim Cole, was sentenced to a 25 year prison term for a 1985 rape, evidence later produced showed he did not commit the crime. He died of asthma, in prison, after 13 years in 1999. It took 10 years for the officials to act. Each time he had a pardon hearing, the officials told him just to admit to the crime. He told his mother, he would serve the full sentence before admitting to a crime he did not commit and being labeled a sex criminal. So, after being denied parole, the evidence which cleared him of the crime was produced, after his death. Tim Cole was in hock to the State of Texas. The hock shop or pawn shop has always been a matter of history. You take an article to the shop, they give you pennies on the dollar, but you are desperate for money and you, willingly, let them take advantage of you...your camera, watch, ring, gun. Something you can get along without until you can redeem it. It is the best place in the world for thieves to get money for their crimes. My Aunt, Mary, was secretary to the owner of a pawn shop here in this city for many years. She said, “the police were supposed to check items brought in for pawn, but they never did”. The pawn shop was the best racket in town. One ex-mayor of this city, made a fortune in the pawn shop business. He, like the other liberal politicians (each with his own racket), lives in the most exclusive gated community of this city; basking in luxury at the expense of desperate people. One of my blind friends, Catherine, desperate for money to bury her parents asked him to come to her house and loan her money on some of her possessions. She said, “he robbed me, he even took my photograph, made when I was a small child because it was in a very expensive frame with bubbled glass”. She said, “I have no one to blame but me, I was desperate for money to bury my father. My mothers ring was worth more than he paid me for all of my possessions including antique furniture handed down from my grandparents which I prized almost more than life”.

In the Bible, in the Old Testament, in the Book of Judges, we find seven mountains and seven valley's. It is a rare person who stays on the mountain all the time. We all have our valley's...the troubles of the valley's...the absolutes of life...good and evil, health and sickness, needy and greedy, failures and fortunes...no one escaping the world, the flesh, the devil. Most funerals employ the Words of the 23rd Psalm for comfort Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psa 23:4). Any time that God asks a question, he always gives an answer “LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. [He that] backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not. [He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved. (Psa. 15:1-5).

Charles Hadyn Spurgeon, Prince of Preachers, in his book, has one entire chapter on tombstones. He speaks of the epitaph carved in stone pertaining to the troubles of mankind. Few escape, don't confuse celebrity with accomplishment, don't confuse popularity with political ambition. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (1 Peter 5:8). If only our lives could just be mountaintop experiences. I have been on the Matterhorn in Switzerland, Sugarloaf in Rio, looked down on Hong Kong from Victoria Peak, it takes struggle to get to the top of any mountain. Caleb, (whose name means dog), one of the twelve spies sent by Moses to check out the promise land, at age 80, said, “I will take a mountain” (Present day Hebron). At age 80, my mountain climbing and claiming days are over. If only I could encourage young people to get out of the valley's of doubt, despair, dependency, despondency, and invest in a life of discipline, denial, and decency. You have one life to live, don't spend it in the hock shop trying to retrieve things. Phony boloney politicians and the people who support hypocrisy in the Democrat political party are willingly bringing the wrath of God upon themselves. 52% of all Black babies are aborted (1452 each day). Planned Parenthood and the Rockefeller foundation promoting Eugenics are seeking to accomplish what Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg of the Supreme Court calls “population control”. A large sign in one town states, “Black babies, the most endangered species”. Reverend Jesse Jackson, was pro-life until he needed money from the Democrats. He like most Black preachers had rather be in hock to Democrat money than a pro-life testimony for God. Another slice of the Democrat vote, on which they can always depend, is the Jewish vote. How can Jews support gun control after experiencing their lack of defense in the Holocaust? Certainly, the Jews of Israel have not given up their weapons...certainly not when surrounded by millions who want to eliminate the entire race from the face of the earth. Jews are in hock to the Democrat party because of the money involved in the business world (entertainment, media, corporations). In the catapult, the Democrat party has placed Islamic Extremists and dejected Black Civil Rights Leaders ready to go over the wall of the American Republic. It is not just ACORN or the Congressional Black Caucus, or other Democrat political organizations that are in hock to the Democrat party and their endless funds such as the nearly 1 billion given to President Obama for his Political Campaign, but teachers, preachers, and even jobless workers who should know better. Don't they know that it is a satanic nightmare that people can be used to control other people...Marxism in Russia and China...Janet Reno at Waco Texas. There is a singularity of purpose in the duality of spattered Civil Rights Workers and Muslim Extremists. We simply cannot afford to redeem our country from the hock shop of American Liberals.

When I was a student in Memphis, I attended a Black Baptist Church. The Pastor; Dr. Brewster, told me the Black Church is bathed in a “wash-pot” of hypocrisy. In predominant Voodoo villages I visited on the West Coast of Africa, in spite of poverty, Black children were the delight of the society. Today, the Supreme Court is making a decision on gun control. Jewish children in Chicago need as much protection as Jewish children in Haifa.

When you walk through a storm
Keep your chin up high
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark.

Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown. Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never walk alone.