Sister Sharon Roach

According to Prophetess Sister Sharon Roach, God showed her Americas’ future from 2009 to 2018. Her visions revealed that the U.S. economic crisis will worsen in the years 2012 and will introduce the dollar’s complete devaluation by 2013. The dollar’s death will cause panic in America’s streets. The U.S. will experience the greatest riots in history due to hyperinflation. In 2014, God will intervene to stop Satan’s plot from completely destroying America. These turbulent times will facilitate great change in the U.S. In 2016, an American leader will emerge and he will rebuild the U.S.  From 2017 to 2018, this will be a significant era for U.S. because this leader will lead the country into a celebrated time of prosperity. However, by 2018 world war 3 may have already commenced and the U.S. will enter the tribulation times.

John Paul Jackson

According to Prophet John Paul Jackson, God showed him the future of America and the world from 2008 to 2018. His visions revealed geophysical, terrorism, warfare, economic, political, Rioting, and religious activities.  Jackson’s geophysical visions revealed that there will be woes in 2012; jet streams will go wild and cause major weather shifts around the world; there will be droughts in some areas and water will become more expensive than oil and some cities will evacuate thousands because there is not enough water to meet their needs and Jesus will make rain in one city and no rain on another city.

Geophysical Actions: Coastal cities will experience earthquakes and there will be a major earthquake in the mid-west for first time in many years; a volcano will become active and erupt in the U.S. again; thunderstorms with softball size hail and 24 inches of rain will fall in 24 hours; there will be places with 3 feet of snow in 6 hours; tornados will hit with 350 mph winds in unusual places; A hurricane with 180 mph winds will have a diameter of 500 miles and have storm surges 150 miles inland; a blight will hit a type of hybrid seed as a strike of god; the storms will disrupt food harvest and a nation food shortage in food storage; there will be an epidemic that will kill many and it will start from another country and come to America.

There will be signs in the sun moon and stars as the prophet Joel spoke of; the bubble around our solar system will weaken and come in to cause a new form of skin disease; the magnetic field will shift and will form cracks that solar winds will effect weather patterns; this activity will also cause communication problems with plans and cell phones and cable T.V.

Terrorism and Warfare: Jackson’s terrorism and warfare visions reveal that a dirty nuclear bomb will explode in a port city in the United States; Israel will have devastating attacks that will involve nuclear material being released; Israel will respond with missile strikes and will eventually bomb Iran and this will cause fuel prices to rise again; Russia will enhance this tension in the Middle East by creating an oil crisis. Russia will try to take control of Ukraine and continue to give Iran weapons to further ignite the oil crisis because with conflict in the middle east oil will escalate because Russia need the oil to rebuild itself once again as a new mother Russia; when president Hosni Mubarak is no longer the leader of Egypt a new terrorist leadership will take his place and terrorisms will take a higher profile than before; Pakistan will become more terrorist oriented and become more of a harbinger of terrorist.

Economic: Jackson’s economic visions reveal that a bubble of hope in the economy, but it will be short lived and in that period there will be enough time for godly people to make the necessary adjustments, but it will not be a time to take on more debt; commercial paper and credit card problems is a domino that will fall as jobless ness increases and buildings lay empty; shopping malls will lay more than half empty and stores remain closed and strip malls also with this no one is leasing the buildings that the owner needs to service the debt of the building so this will make commercial paper problems also with lending institutions; there will be waves of economic stagflation, deflation, and hyperinflation, but God will guide those investors he can trust; the dollar will lose value and become on par with the paso; a new north American currency is going to be established similar to the euro, which may be called the Amero-Dollar; there will be reports of many new finical corruptions uncovered in the years that lie ahead; people will start to grow their own food in some cities and in 1 or 2 cities he saw men ripping up the streets to try to grow food.

Politics and Rioting: Jackson’s political visions revealed that Christians should pray for president Obama and his protection because there is a plan by Islamic militants to try to take his life to start riots as destabilization to divert attention from their nefarious activities; we will we will see the worst riots in history in America it will be race riots but more economic in nature, these riots will negatively impact many African American people living in the inner city.

Economic difficulty will cause mobs to roam the streets with a robin hood mentality of taking from the rich to give to the poor; there will be many new corruption reports at very high levels; terrorist activity will hit America again as a flaw in the border protection is discovered by our enemies; rural land will become more valuable as people leave the cities to seek the security of a urban lifestyle; social security and retirement accounts will become of little value; as the economic crisis continues America will bring home most of its troops to save finances; because of the economic severity America will cut much of its foreign aid to developing countries and the results of this is a growth of international dictators and Islam will multiply.

Religion: Islam will force its way into school systems by demanding time to pray; Islam will work to take control of a large American city; it could be Detroit as they begin a multiplication project; Islam will continue to make threats to influence congressional decisions; Islam will initiate a plan to have a president by 2024; medical advances and organ transplants will make it possible for homosexual men to be in vitro fertilized and give caesarian birth; many churches will file for bankruptcy as payments to large buildings cannot be made; large ministries will disband from financial difficulty; house churches will begin to grow as a need for intimacy and spirituality with God increases; hidden sexual perversion will be exposed and the numbers will be shocking.

Pastor Lindsey Williams

According to pastor Lindsey Williams, who worked with the elite on the trans Alaskan oil pipe line for three years, he was shown the hidden plan to kill the U.S. dollar for the purpose of a global government. His account shows that by the end of 2012 the dollar will be dead this will lead to the greatest riots in U.S. history in the year 2013. The Mideast will erupt in apocalyptic violence because this was part of the plan by the global elites. The global elites seek to take away control of the Mideast oil from Muslim dictators. In other words, the elite plan on using the U.S. military to control Mideast resources. The elite will stabilize the economy worldwide with new global currencies, but America must first fall as a superpower.

Future Scenario

Finally, after researching eschatology along with the dreams and visions of the above prophets, this may happen in the near future and this may be the likely order of events. First, the mortgage crisis set off a global recession up to today and it was planned by bankers that gave bad loans to poor U.S. citizens for more debt.  The debt has gotten bigger and the 2011 Bilderberg meeting clearly shows that that they want to extend the recession up to 2012 and by the end of that year a financial crisis will hit New York City when Greece default of debt in 2012. The crisis in the Middle East will get worse when it involves Saudi Arabia and it will cause gas to hit $7 and gold $3000 in 2013. The feds will print more money and will cause hyperinflation and many banks will close in 2013.  Second, the Middle East crisis will impact Israel in 2013 into the years 2014 to 2015 when red moons appear as a sign of blood and war with Israel. The riots will calm in the years after 2015 into 2016 and America will adopt a new currency that amero.

And third, following the year 2018, the world will never be the same again and there will be a season of preparation before WW III commences as Russia and a coalition of Islamic nations seek to destroy the U.S. and Israel.  When the Third World War ends, the U.S. and Russia will be significantly weakened, while Israel increases in wealth, size, and military power and influence. The surrounding Arab nations will disappear, while Europe will replace the U.S. in power and influence. There will be a call for a global religion, economy, government, and military to prevent future wars. The Anti-Messiah will answer the call and he will deceive the whole world.

Sources:

• American in Prophecy; Sister Sharon Roach; 2009
• The Perfect Storm; John Paul Jackson; 2008.
• The Global Elites Interview; Lindsey Williams; 2011.
• Prophecy Blog; John Mcternan; 2012.

An Silk little league go with between two long time challenges originated into a chaotic melee last night as lovers assisting the successful side in a rush the area at the end.

They assaulted gamers and lovers in issues that evidently murdered at least 79 people.

The issues smashed out in the city of Interface Said after that municipality’s group won a unusual success over the viewing Ahly, a leader group from Cairo, by the ranking of 3-1.

Port Said “fans” swarmed the area soon after the game, as Ahly gamers and lovers ran for cover within the arena and into locker areas amongst chaos:

The battling quickly took on wide governmental overtones as The Islamic Brotherhood, which manages nearly half of the country’s parliament, held responsible thugs linked with ex-President Hosni Mubarak who are planning to destabilize the nation.

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Have you apparent the footage of the aberration in Cairo, area soccer fanatics stormed the fieldafter the bounded underdogs scoredan agitated over Egypt’s top club?

As of this writing, some 74 bodies are asleep and added than 1,000 afflicted in the deadliest soccer abandon in 15 years.

All because one aggregation kicked the brawl accomplished the goalie three times, while the advantaged aggregation kicked the brawl accomplished the goalie aloof once.

Criticizing the declared cessation bypolice, one amateur said, “People actuality are dying and no one is accomplishing a thing. It’s like a war? Is activity this cheap?”

Sadly, in the frenzied, sick, group-mob “mentality” of some, the acknowledgment would be yes.

Living in the past My Sun-Times acquaintance Bill Zweckerwas abstinent an Oscar altercation with myself and the Trib’s Michael Phillips aback the allocution angry to the acutely disproportionate allotment of nominated performances from 2011 films set in the past.

In some cases, it’s a dramatized adaptation of a real-life figure. Meryl Streep arena Margaret Thatcher, Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, Brad Pitt as BillyBeane about 10 years ago. In added instances, it’s actual fiction, from Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in “The Help” toJean Dujardin in “The Artist” to Brad Pitt in “Tree of Life.” (To name aloof some examples.)

Thanks to a voting activity thatmakes the Iowa caucuses attending efficient, there are nine Best Picture nominees this year. Only one, “The Descendants” is set in present day. Alike “modern” filmssuch as “Moneyball” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” focus on contest of a decade ago.

At aboriginal bloom that ability assume unusual, but it stands to acumen that so abounding Oscar-nominated movies are from a altered era. With a accomplished advanced history of theworld to draw upon, filmmakers generally burrow into the accomplished for actual — abnormally for the added austere book acceptable to accretion the Academy’s attention.

Your activity blur or your romanticcomedy, your gross-out hard-R antic or your big-budget thriller? Probably activity to be set in the actuality and now, if not the future. But the nominated films and performances are about consistently bedeviled by characters and films from canicule gone by.

In 2005, for example, the avant-garde allegory “Crash” won for Best Picture (instantly acceptable one of the best abhorred winners of all time), but the added nominees were “Capote,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “Munich” and “Brokeback Mountain” — all set decades earlier.

Last year, the Best Picture action above bottomward to two contenders, anniversary cogent a august adaptation of real-life events: the 21st aeon Facebook adventure “The Social Network” vs. the actual old-school“The King’s Speech,” with the closing prevailing.

But alike “The Social Network” was a attending back. The aperture scenes booty abode way aback in 2003.

Footage from local television stations showed crowds rushing onto the field and a fire burning in the stands as police forces stood by following Al-Masry’s 3-1 home victory yesterday against Al-Ahly. Seventy-four people were killed and Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said 47 had been arrested, Al- Jazeera television reported.

The violence reflects frustration over the country’s political situation since Mubarak’s ouster, according to Tamir Sorek, a sociology professor at the University of Florida who specializes in Middle Eastern sports and politics. Sorek said Al-Ahly’s fan base has been historically politicized, with populist and nationalist tendencies.

“This is not a simple case of violence in a soccer game,” Sorek said in a telephone interview. “It is a reflection of general frustration in some segments of Egyptian society from the current regime.”

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom & Justice party, which holds the largest bloc in parliament, condemned the violence in a statement, saying the riot “aims to block the peaceful democratic transition of power through internal parties who still have strong relations with the former regime.”

Seeking Power Transfer

Seven weeks of elections have failed to placate activists seeking to have the interim ruling military council transfer power to a civilian government. Parliament convened for the first time on Jan. 23 amid speculation of tension between the Muslim Brotherhood’s party and the ruling generals.

The Egyptian Soccer Federation said on its website that it has indefinitely suspended all league matches. Three helicopters were sent to transport injured players and fans to Cairo and the military council formed a committee to investigate the incident and declared three days of mourning, Al-Jazeera said.

“I am very shocked and saddened to learn this evening that a large number of football supporters have died or been injured following a match in Port Said, Egypt,” Sepp Blatter, president of the world soccer governing body, FIFA, said in a statement. “This is a black day for football. Such a catastrophic situation is unimaginable and should not happen.”

Spectators Storm Field

Cairo-based Al-Ahly, one of Egypt’s most popular teams, is second in the Egyptian league. Al-Masry, which is located on the Mediterranean coast, is fourth. Video footage on the Nile News website shows Al-Ahly players rushing for their dressing room when the field was stormed by spectators after the final whistle, with some having to fight to get past fans.

Al-Ahly goalkeeper coach Ahmed Naji was quoted by Nile News as saying the team’s locker room had turned into a morgue and that a fan died in the room from injuries.

“Players are devastated over the fan that died in the room, and there were 1,000 injured fans on the corridors leading to the changing room,” Naji said.

After the riots in Port Said, officials suspended a game in Cairo between Zamalek and Ismaily. Fans of Zamalek, one of Al- Ahly’s biggest rivals, responded by shooting fireworks into the stands and setting fire to the Cairo Stadium, according to the Telegraph.

“These two teams have a 100-year-old rivalry between them,” Sorek said. “The fact that the fans of Zamalek joined the protest means that this is a national frustration, not at the level of just the soccer team.”

Riots occurred among the prisoners who use guns made ​​knives, on Wednesday, January 4 yesterday. The new keeper managed to control the situation after the riots lasted several hours.

“In addition to killing 31 prisoners, this incident also led to 13 other prisoners were injured,” said Mexican authorities told the Associated Press, Thursday (01/05/2012).

Police still do not know what the exact cause of this unrest. But they suspect it is not separated from the role of drug cartels operating in Tamaulipas.

The group is known to control the drug cartels smuggling routes along the Mexican border with the United States (U.S.). Often, competition between cartel spread up into the prison, in which members of the cartel also builds strength.

In the Tamaulipas prison riot is not the first time that happened. October last year, 20 prisoners were reportedly killed in the riots. While in July, 17 detainees were also reportedly killed in prison riot preformance Ciudad Juarez.

More than 46 thousand people have died in Mexico in the fight against drug cartels launched by President Felipe Calderon since 2006. Until now, the cartels still continue to provide fierce resistance against government forces.

Aerial photo of Bellingham, Washington, in 1907.  Wikimedia (Public Domain).

According to newspaper accounts, the riot began with the pursuit and beating of two immigrant men, escalated to the destruction of a boardinghouse where East Indian workers resided, and culminated with a round up of East Indians from homes and workplaces.  The crowd drove the immigrants to the train station and to the tideflats.  A number of immigrants sought shelter in the police station.  The headlines of The Reveille, Bellingham’s morning paper, proclaimed:

Mob Raids Hindus And Drives Them From City

Crowd Numbering 500 Drags Dusky Orientals From Their Homes

While Police Strive in Vain to Restore Order Men Escort Dusky Sons of India to City Limits and Easterners Scurry Panic-Stricken and Half-Clothed Through the Streets

Labor Trouble and Insolence Are Causes

See photo of original headline here.

We may never know what truly transpired that night, for the press coverage of the events tells us more about the racism of the media than about the events.  The Bellingham newspapers, The Reveille and The Herald, by failing to inform the public, contributed to the ignorance of all.  The citizens of Bellingham could not tell a Hindu from their own hindquarters.  The 200 immigrant workmen driven out of town were almost entirely Sikhs. 

The press failed to ascertain who the immigrants were.  The Morning Times of nearby Seattle published the following words in its reaction to the events: “When men who require meat to eat and real beds to sleep in are ousted from their employment to make room for vegetarians … it is rather difficult to say at what limit indignation ceases to be righteous.”  Note to American readers–Sikhs are not required to be vegetarians by their religion.

The misidentification of the mob’s victims by the press leads us to question the account of the of membership of the mob itself.  Most accounts of the riot identify the mob as working men or working-class men or workmen, who were motivated to put the immigrants out of town because the immigrants were willing to work for especially low wages.  Some later writers have suggested the mob drew its membership from the AFL union hall because of the affiliation between that union and the Japanese-Korean Exclusion League.  Nevertheless, Werter D. Dodd, the Kipling-quoting reptile who edited The Bellingham Herald, mentions boys and even “a schoolboy” as participants.  Despite property damage and a few injuries, no rioters were ever prosecuted.  The police did nothing.  

Werter D. Dodd wrote, “For good or ill, Bellingham has probably solved for herself the Hindu problem just as she solved the Chinese problem several years ago.”  Thus, he used the riot to promote the town.  Other newspapers throughout the United States picked up the story.  Editorial pages poured out racist swill about Hindus into the troughs of the uninformed public.  Because the exclusion of East Indians from Bellingham was achieved without loss of life, excessive property damage, or legal proceedings, it became a model for what racists could do in a small town in America.

On the 100th anniversary of the riot, the Bellingham Herald published an apology for its coverage.

Sources and Further Reading

“1907 Bellingham Riots.” Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project (http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/bham_intro.htm).

Dodd, Werter D. ”The Hindu in the Northwest” (1907). The Bellingham Riot Collection of the South Asian American Digital Archive (http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/collection/bellingham-riot/items).

Lieb, Emily.  ”White workingmen attack Bellingham’s East Indian millworkers on September 4, 1907.” (http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=8039).

Koritala, Srirajasekhar,  ”A historical perspective of Americans of Asian Indian origin (1790-1997).”  (http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/h_es/h_es_korit_histical.htm).

All sources last accessed December 29, 2011.

Dear Caroline,

The trip from our village in Ireland to Chicago was long and rough, but worth it as I found that Chicago is filled with experiences that you will never know until you have seen and felt them for yourself. The contrast of village life to the big city is too great to describe in words. There are many tall buildings, with peculiar air shafts right down their center, built for people to live in called tenements. They house many people and come with an indoor toilet and running water. There are some tenements, even whole neighborhoods that house ethnic groups that discriminate others groups from living with them. Aside from that, some tenements that are usually overcrowded and require residence to share space and toilets become more affordable.

There are also these people who help you get jobs when times are tough and even give contracts to residence of their ward and do many other favors for you. All they ask in return is for you to vote in their favor. With the money you earn from the jobs they make available you could shop downtown in department stores, like Marchiel Fields, Sears, and Robuck. The stores have unbelievable prices compared to local liquor stores, because the abundance of goods stocked there they can cut their prices down.

I used to work in a factory where the amount of income I made depended on the amount of products I completed, called piecework. I got little pay and the hours went with no end, from 6am in the morning, to usually 7 or 8 at night fall, working in dark and damp rooms with temperatures rising to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. But, now I work with Carnegie Steel doing work that requires me to complete one portion of the labor divided into separate tasks, called division of labor. I am paid by the hour with wages less than I earned in my first job, but the working conditions are an improvement.

Lately there have been strikes and riots all over the town, after some factory employers cut the wages of their employees. I’ve heard that workers have joined labor unions like the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and the Wobblies, to stand up against unfair treatment from their employers. Recent strikes have caused a lot of destruction more than improvement. One recent strike that happened at Carnegie Steel, started from a wage cut called by Henrey Frick, Andrew Carnegie’s partner at my company. Many died when Frick called in a private police force to stop the rioting, which caused an uproar that almost got Frick assassinated. I for one would not want to support either side because of the violence and destruction they cause, so I do my work in silence.

Aside from the many occurrences that have made me doubt my stay here, I have come to enjoy life in the many amusements of city life. There are parks and ponds where we can take leisure walks around, and the city ball park where we can watch baseball games in the big stadium. But, my wish is for us to go the city theater to watch a play together, when you have made up your mind weather to stay or come live with me in the city.

                        Sincerely, William Storm

Several European cities, including Athens and London, faced with violent riots fueled by discontent with the high level of youth unemployment and austerity measures. High rate of unemployment among youth is one of the factors that triggered the “Arab spring” in countries where protesters rioted against government authority.

The unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, but many experts dispute this figure, preferring another indicator, which includes persons who have renounced even to seek employment and those who want to work full time but are required to work part-time, and whose value is 16.2 percent.

I am not attempting to undermine or come across as anti-establishment, on the contrary I wholeheartedly support the direction in which Cameron states he wants to go, where hard work is rewarded and crime and layabout behaviour is frowned upon. The big community is the best proposal, although in my opinion unrealistic, to be born from the joint Government. Although doomed to failure due to the undercurrent and minority of ALL age-groups, classes and regions, who want to hark back to tribal war games, which we saw originate in Tottenham , which we lead us to nowhere but countrywide fear of our own cities which we should be proud to say we come from.

On the evening of June 15th, 2011 I was walking home from a meeting I had at a local hospital. It was about 8:15 pm and I knew that our team, the Vancouver Canucks, had just lost at home in the last of a seven game series that saw the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup going to the Boston Bruins. It had been an emotional couple of weeks for Vancouver and, while disappointed we had lost, I was glad that it was all finally over.

As I neared home I noticed the crowds in the street were still out in great numbers which surprised me. Following previous losses in the series people would disperse quite quickly and by nine o’clock or so things would be relatively quiet and the streets nearly empty. Where I live is quite close to the main area of celebration near Granville Street and as I got closer the crowd thickened. Near the front door of my building about a hundred or so people were oddly milling about watched by four Vancouver Police officers who formed a line across the alley at the side of my building.

As I opened the door to my building another tenant came through with me. She looked at me briefly and said exactly what I felt. There was something in the air that just felt bad. The crowd had seemed restless as if waiting for something. There was no laughter or cheers and no sense at all of celebration understandably, but why was everyone still here, and what were they waiting for?

17 years ago almost to the day a riot had broken out in the city after the Canucks lost in another Stanley Cup final that ran seven games, that time to the New York Rangers. It took police over six hours to bring things under control and caused about a million dollars in damage. It was a great embarrassment to the city but the police had learned many things from it that they effectively put in place during our hosting of the 2010 Winter Olympics which went off without a hitch. Nobody thought we would ever see a repeat of that awfulness of 1994’s.

The riot began about five or six blocks from where I live when the windows of a Bank of Montreal branch were smashed in followed quickly by the overturning and burning of two vehicles belonging to an electrical contractor. Next to go up in flames were two police cruisers. This action all centred around Library Square (at the intersection of Homer and Georgia Streets) where the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had erected a giant TV screen so that crowds of fans could watch the game. In all it has been estimated that about 100,000 people were there, spread out from where I live to the CBC screen.

The mayhem and violence spread like wild fire. Just three blocks up the street from where it all started every ground floor window of the Hudson’s Bay Company department store was smashed in and at the ground floor level rioters looted the place streaming out with arms full of merchandise. Across the street the doors to London Drug’s big flagship store were smashed open and thousands of dollars worth of electronic and computer equipment flowed out into the street. As some on-scene videos show a few brave souls attempted to stop the crowds but one man at least received a horrible beating for his efforts.

Close by citizens linked arms and formed a protective zone around an injured man who was being worked on by paramedics and protected by police. Other videos are emerging showing the bravery and courage of anonymous people who, in the midst of total chaos and anarchy, nonetheless stepped forward and tried to do the right thing.

From my suite I began hearing the bang of tear gas canisters being fired to control the crowds. Going over to a neighbour’s suite that faced the street I watched as rioters pulled the dumpsters from the alley at the side of our building into the middle of the street, poured gasoline inside them, and lit them on fire. As these as the flames and smoke of these fires raged Dantesque amongst the darkening summer sky I wondered, who on earth brings gasoline to a hockey celebration?

A few people as it turns out. Apparently working together, some had come prepared to start a riot whether the Canucks lost or won. They carried with them cans of gasoline, hammers for smashing windows, and other implements of of potentially lethal destruction. They wore masks and hoodies to hide their faces from the thousands of cell phone cameras they knew would be collecting all the images of this ghastly event that they could. One person even drove his own vehicle down from suburbia to be overturned and burned. His girlfriend, thoroughly shaken and disgusted by his plan, promptly told of his intentions to the local media.

Unlike the riot of 1994, which lasted six hours, this one was brought under control in just three ending it at about midnight. Swiftly the social network sites got busy and people were asked to upload their photos of the riot to help police identify those most responsible. The Vancouver Police’s own site actually crashed early the next day from the sheer volume of material that was sent to them. Another site amazingily organized about a thousand people who came out and started to help city crews with the enormous clean up job. City workers handed them brooms and shovels and by the time I hit the street about 6:30 am the huge mess was largely gone.

What remained were expanses of plywood covering the sites of broken windows. Around the Hudson’s Bay Company there were dozens of them, A sign on one 24/7 store read ‘Sorry, closed because of tear gas’. This somehow moved me more than most of what I saw for some reason. It was a very pleasant day and soon the streets were again filled with people but this time they came armed with felt pens and not hammers.

Onto all those vast expanses of plywood they began to write; messages of thanks to the VPD for the job they’d done, others proclaimed their love for the city, and still others apologized, saying this isn’t the real Vancouver and that true Canucks fans didn’t do this. By the time I did another tour around 1:00 pm the walls were almost full of such messages.

One day later and those plywood expanses are full with barely an open space left to write on. At the corner of Georgia and Granville Streets just by the City Centre Sky Train station, a lone VPD patrol car is parked under a canopy. It is covered with post-it notes of thanks from grateful citizens.

I love my city and I still feel a deep sadness over what happened but all these messages and notes keep me filled with hope. While sad and disgusted by the handful of idiots who started this riot and the hundreds more who willingly joined in I can also feel my love for this city being returned by so many others and with this kind of collective expression of love I have faith that my city will one day regain the respect of the world.

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Three and a half months on and just following the London riot I can see that all these expressions of love, caring, and true City pride have fulfilled their intent; they have healed us. The riot is seldom discussed anymore beyond measured responses by and in the media as public inquiries proceed. There is no furious anger at the perpetrators now or even shortly following the event. Our civic outpouring of sadness and our subsequent bonding as a city made and make all that unnecessary. It is an amazing lesson in the power of love over violence and hate and it proves above all that as a community we have truly come of age.