"The Moment Of Truth Has Arrived"
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Can you imagine, going to work on only two and a half hours sleep?
Can you imagine, the reason being that your neighbour had friends over and they insisted on playing bongo drums amplifying their guitars and screaming at the top of their voices “We will we will rock you!” 'til
3 o'clock in the morning? You look up and find your light fittings moving thru 180 degrees above the heads of yourself and your partner. It's at that moment you realize he and his friends are literally jumping off a stage he had built in his living room,in the apartment above you. Can you imagine how that feels?
Over a five and a half year period this happens every night,you are flooded thirteen times and never receive an apology. You complain to to local housing office, who tell you ,you live in an inner city estate, “so live with it!” You contact the police and ask for assistance over one hundred times and they do nothing but say, you are “over reacting”.You send emails to every member of parliament,only to be told protocol,they can't or wont do anything,sorry!
So record everything, you present the evidence to the powers that be and they say, it's not enough evidence, so you publish it all on the Internet. In other words you “Name and Shame” just like the Police do, just like the Newspapers do and what happens?
You get arrested nine times over eighteen months,you are paraded in front of magistrates and judges to be told that you are intolerant, your behaviour is unreasonable and because you can string more than a few sentences together you are pedantic. You lose your job, your health deteriorates to to point where, when you go to the toilet you shit blood !
You can't tell your story because you are told over and over that it is harassment. The videos that you took and the vicious racial abuse that you recorded are uploaded to the internet and they accuse you of harassing the person who has been harassing you for five and a half years. What is the final outcome you're wondering? They re-house him give him a beautiful new apartment and guess what they increase his benefits. The victim gets a criminal record, all he wanted to do was to live in peace. Can you believe this story? Is it fact or fiction?
20th January 2009
Obama's date with history.
Why is this story here? Obama and I are the same age, while the President was being inaugurated I was being terrorized by my neighbour David Ronald Seal
Barack Obama’s date with history drew near Tuesday as a transfixed nation and a frigid but jubilant capital readied to watch him become the 44th president of the United States – and the first African-American to hold the nation’s highest office.
Even in pre-dawn darkness, the city was abuzz with anticipation as hundreds of thousands surged toward Capitol Hill - a trek turned into the adventure of a lifetime by smothering security precautions that largely shut down access to official Washington. The Metro system was badly snarled after a 68-year-old woman was hit by a train, closing several downtown stations.
Thousands of flashes lit up the sky from the National Mall as many in the already massive crowd tried to capture the image of the sun coming up over the Capitol.
A city that prides itself on having seen and experienced just about everything had almost a palpable sense of stepping into the future – a new administration faced with daunting problems at virtually every turn, but which represents a cultural earthquake unthinkable just a generation ago.
Just before the stroke of noon, Obama will take the oath of office in one of the nation’s oldest and most venerated rituals and then outline his vision for the country in an inaugural address aides have promised will be uplifting but also direct in its acknowledgement of the dangers the face the country.
"In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now," Obama said Sunday at the concert at the Lincoln Memorial. "I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our fundamental resolve as a nation.
"But despite all of this — despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead — I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure — that the dream of our founders will live on in our time."
Incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said the president-elect was “calm” and that he was “excited and anxious to get to work.” As for the rest of the Obama team, Gibbs said the magnitude of what they were about to experience was sinking in. “I think it’ll hit us all sometime today - I’m not sure when,” he said.
Tuesday morning was spent honoring inaugural traditions. Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden began the day with a customary morning service at St. John's Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House.
“The problems are mighty and the solutions are not simple,” said the service's keynote speaker, Bishop T.D. Jakes, senior pastor at Potters House in DallasWindsor Village United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. "And everywhere you turn there will be a critic waiting to attack every decision that you make. But you are all fired up, sir, and you are ready to go. And this nation goes with you. God goes with you."
Also following tradition, Obama and his wife, Michelle went to the White House for coffee with President Bush and his wife, Laura, followed by a shared ride to the Capitol for the actual transfer of power. Michelle Obama brought a gift for the outgoing first lady in a white box decorated with a red ribbon.
Biden and his wife, Jill, also visited the White House prior to the inaugural ceremony. On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back, leaving him in a wheelchair for the inauguration.Minutes before noon, Obama will step forward on the West Front of the Capitol to lay his left hand on the same Bible that President Lincoln used at his first inauguration in 1861. The 35-word oath of office, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, has been uttered by every president since George Washington.
Obama's date with history.
Why is this story here? Obama and I are the same age, while the President was being inaugurated I was being terrorized by my neighbour David Ronald Seal
Barack Obama’s date with history drew near Tuesday as a transfixed nation and a frigid but jubilant capital readied to watch him become the 44th president of the United States – and the first African-American to hold the nation’s highest office.
Even in pre-dawn darkness, the city was abuzz with anticipation as hundreds of thousands surged toward Capitol Hill - a trek turned into the adventure of a lifetime by smothering security precautions that largely shut down access to official Washington. The Metro system was badly snarled after a 68-year-old woman was hit by a train, closing several downtown stations.
Thousands of flashes lit up the sky from the National Mall as many in the already massive crowd tried to capture the image of the sun coming up over the Capitol.
A city that prides itself on having seen and experienced just about everything had almost a palpable sense of stepping into the future – a new administration faced with daunting problems at virtually every turn, but which represents a cultural earthquake unthinkable just a generation ago.
Just before the stroke of noon, Obama will take the oath of office in one of the nation’s oldest and most venerated rituals and then outline his vision for the country in an inaugural address aides have promised will be uplifting but also direct in its acknowledgement of the dangers the face the country.
"In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now," Obama said Sunday at the concert at the Lincoln Memorial. "I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our fundamental resolve as a nation.
"But despite all of this — despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead — I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure — that the dream of our founders will live on in our time."
Incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said the president-elect was “calm” and that he was “excited and anxious to get to work.” As for the rest of the Obama team, Gibbs said the magnitude of what they were about to experience was sinking in. “I think it’ll hit us all sometime today - I’m not sure when,” he said.
Tuesday morning was spent honoring inaugural traditions. Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden began the day with a customary morning service at St. John's Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House.
“The problems are mighty and the solutions are not simple,” said the service's keynote speaker, Bishop T.D. Jakes, senior pastor at Potters House in DallasWindsor Village United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. "And everywhere you turn there will be a critic waiting to attack every decision that you make. But you are all fired up, sir, and you are ready to go. And this nation goes with you. God goes with you."
Also following tradition, Obama and his wife, Michelle went to the White House for coffee with President Bush and his wife, Laura, followed by a shared ride to the Capitol for the actual transfer of power. Michelle Obama brought a gift for the outgoing first lady in a white box decorated with a red ribbon.
Biden and his wife, Jill, also visited the White House prior to the inaugural ceremony. On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney pulled a muscle in his back, leaving him in a wheelchair for the inauguration.Minutes before noon, Obama will step forward on the West Front of the Capitol to lay his left hand on the same Bible that President Lincoln used at his first inauguration in 1861. The 35-word oath of office, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, has been uttered by every president since George Washington.
The new president will then have lunch and later leave the Capitol to take part in the inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue toward his new home. After the swearing-in ceremony, Bush will take a helicopter to Andrews Air Force Base, where he'll make private remarks inside a hangar.
The Bushes then will fly to Midland, Texas, on a presidential aircraft that will be called Special Air Mission 28000 instead of Air Force One because Bush will no longer be president.
In Washington, the evening will be filled with 10 inaugural balls – and countless private events – that will cap a four-day period in which Washington has been taken over by celebrities, dignitaries and ordinary Americans of every hue who simply thought they would never live to see such a day.
Wednesday will bring cold, hard reality. Obama and his team face a transcendent economic crisis. He has promised immediate action to begin drawing down troops from Iraq and building up U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He must deal immediately with a fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israeli forces in Gaza. He must form a government – and though many of his Cabinet appointees will be confirmed Tuesday or in coming days, some still face potential hurdles, such as Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner.
For one last day, however, the man who styled his improbable presidential quest on the audacity of hope was allowed to bask in the glow of past triumphs and his hopes for the future.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said President Bush, following the practices of past presidents, left Obama a note in the top drawer of his desk in the Oval Office. The note speaks of a “fabulous new chapter" in the United States, Perino said – and wishes Obama well.
Shahbaz Alexis aka-"The Cat In That Hat"
The Bushes then will fly to Midland, Texas, on a presidential aircraft that will be called Special Air Mission 28000 instead of Air Force One because Bush will no longer be president.
In Washington, the evening will be filled with 10 inaugural balls – and countless private events – that will cap a four-day period in which Washington has been taken over by celebrities, dignitaries and ordinary Americans of every hue who simply thought they would never live to see such a day.
Wednesday will bring cold, hard reality. Obama and his team face a transcendent economic crisis. He has promised immediate action to begin drawing down troops from Iraq and building up U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He must deal immediately with a fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israeli forces in Gaza. He must form a government – and though many of his Cabinet appointees will be confirmed Tuesday or in coming days, some still face potential hurdles, such as Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner.
For one last day, however, the man who styled his improbable presidential quest on the audacity of hope was allowed to bask in the glow of past triumphs and his hopes for the future.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said President Bush, following the practices of past presidents, left Obama a note in the top drawer of his desk in the Oval Office. The note speaks of a “fabulous new chapter" in the United States, Perino said – and wishes Obama well.
Shahbaz Alexis Esq.aka-"The Cat In That Hat"
Victim Of Anti-Social Behaviour & Racism
Sept 2004- April 2009
Author Of The First Ever Practical BluePrint Of
"How To Overcome Anti-Social Behaviour."
Also The Following E-Books;
The Most Devastating Human Interest Story In Thirty Years
Anti-SocialBehaviour Is A Disease .
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