Belleview Florida Booze ONE more DAY!
Well here we go again- Belleview Florida NEEDS to sell Booze on ONE more day to keep up with the rest of the reprobate community around her! And now Booze has more friends to her credit: at least three city commissioners!
Well, let's see what selling Booze 6 days a week has gotten us before we have seven:
At that in the Lord' day
1. Money for soulless corporations and the folks that invest in them.
2. Drunks
3. Victims of Drunks.
4. Oh Yes! Did I mention MONEY?
I remember a few years ago when a man went to a few restaurants in Ocala and had a 'little' to drink in each one and then went home and was too impaired to operate a gun and too drunk to know that he should not try. He shot his wife by mistake.... In Summerfield, a few weeks ago, a drunk woman tried to cross the street at about 11pm and her son somehow got out there with her. They are both dead now. Then there are the folks who go to the bar and somehow need to get home. Oh, of course they are all responsible and these pool halls and bars never serve anyone who has a few too many, and no one ever leaves a restaurant or bar and gets in their car and harms anyone. I HAVE SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES that bar owners and pool hall owners allow folks to stagger out of their establishments and get in cars!
Then, there is the Manager of Pasta Faire. A few years ago, when I fought this issue before the city counsel, I went to that restaurant /bar and asked him to not support the ordinance change. In between mocking the Lord with mock religiosity, he answered a question for me. I asked him about folks who drank too much or left his place of business under the influence and KILLED someone. He said that was not his concern. Who's concern is it? Now that was only allowing the Drunks to rule 6 days a week. what we NEED according to our mayor and a few others is ONE MORE DAY set aside for the Emperor Booze? Sure. Would these, so called, fine businesses please step up and give one real reason other then lining their pockets for having to have ONE more day for the Mocker to rage? Belleview, it is bad enough that this beast is allowed to roam our streets, stealing virtue, corrupting morals dumbing the senses to all that is Holy, Good and Right. Ask the officers,"What good has this mocker done for America and Belleview?" Ask them about the wives beaten, the children neglected, the homes destroyed, the mangled bodies, the fights, molestations, rapes, debaucheries and other such benefits that Booze and its consumption has brought to our city and county! Call the Fire Department and ask them about house fires started by folks too clumsy with drink! And we NEED ONE MORE DAY? 6 days are not enough for the monster he wants 7! Of course. how else will we get the Villagers to come to Belleview unless we satisfy their uncontrolled appetite for Booze! Don't believe it? Go to the square in the Villages ANY NIGHT. Watch the brew flow, the booze ooze and the mocker rage as the people imagine a vain thing! That is, I am afraid, what some would have for Belleview. Small town charm laced with the cords of a deceitful Mocker. Woe unto them that put their neighbor's lips to a bottle the scripture says. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Belleview, is their a difference between those who serve the mocker and those who give him permission to serve it? Where are the Pastors? Are they as one " Pastor" in Belleview confessed to me, too busy frequenting these Bars/restaurants to have any Power with God to stand against them?
It was written in the paper that a commissioner was concerned that our ordinance would deter some restaurant chains from coming to Belleview. Good! We had a woman who attended church with us years ago who worked at one of these " restaurants that served Booze. She told us that her restaurant's policy was to offer everyone who came into their place a wine list. EVEN IF THE FOLKS WERE ALL OBVIOUSLY MINORS. I said no way , She said ,"Yes sir." EVEN IF THEY ARE MINORS! I said,"but you can't serve them!" She said her manager told her that was not the point, if they ordered the wine or booze they were to be asked for ID. I said then what was the sense? She said her stores policy was to get them used to the IDEA that when they did turn of age, they would know where to come to get it! ONE MORE DAY!
Belleview! Woe unto you for you will seek to sow to the wind, only to reap the whirlwind!
If you want to do something constructive and helpful to the People of Belleview and surrounding areas, ban the retail sale for consumption at all places. Don't give it ONE more day!
To quote an old preacher from years ago:
" Question: What have you no interest in Manhood, Don't you want to see men sober? Brutal, staggering men transformed into respectable citizens?
Answer: "No," said a saloonkeeper, "to hell with men. We are interested in our business, we have no interest in humanity."
The American Mongoose
The American mongoose is the open licensed sale of Booze. It eats the carpets off the floor and the clothes from off your back, your money out of the bank, and it eats up character, and it goes on until at last it leaves a stranded wreck in the home, a skeleton of what was once brightness and happiness. ....It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises health and causes disease. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery. Yes, it sends the husband home with a lie on his lips to his wife; and the boy home with a lie on his lips to his mother; and it causes the employee to lie to his employer. It degrades. It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend. . It spares neither youth nor old age. It is waiting with a dirty blanket for the baby to crawl into the world. It lies in wait for the unborn. "
Sure Belleview ONE MORE DAY of BOOZE IS ALL WE NEED TO MAKE THINGS BETTER in BELLEVIEW!
Wake up!
Pastor Michael Ernest Slattery
Freedom Baptist Church
352-362-2212
preachingfreedom@yahoo.com








