GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

JOE HORN, THE TEXAS VIGILANTE!


You are looking at a fat pig? A bloody murderer? A vampire seeking some crimson delight? A blood thirsty vermin? Whatever you call him, 61 year old Joe Horn (pictured here left) was sitting alone in his home in Pasadena Texas during the afternoon of November 14th, 2007 when he heard breaking glass in his neighbor's house and then saw two men burglarizing the neighbor's property. Joe's next move was to call 911 to try and get police to come and take care of the situation. The police didn't arrive in time though, and Joe went outside and shot and killed the burglars. Joe Horn was not taken into custody after the shooting and a Harris County grand jury later cleared him of the shootings.

Police initially identified the dead men in Horn's yard as 38-year-old Miguel Antonio DeJesus (left) and Diego Ortiz, 30, (right) both of Houston of Afro Latino descent. However, DeJesus was actually an alias of Hernando Riascos Torres, 38. They were carrying a sack with more than $2,000 cash and jewelry taken from the home. Both were convicted criminals from Colombia who had entered the country illegally, and were members of an organized burglary ring in Houston. Police found a Puerto Rican identification card on Ortiz while Torres had three identification cards from Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, and had been previously sent to prison for dealing cocaine and was deported in 1999.

To see how divided people were regarding this shooting incident, Icheoku has published two differing comments about this shooting. According to one of the comments, "He didn't shoot them in the legs, to make sure they did not run away, or hold them at gunpoint until police arrived. No, he was judge, jury and executioner." The other commentary, quoted one Texan as saying "In my mind, Joe Horn is a HERO. Plain and simple. God bless this man for being an upstanding citizen and protecting himself, his home, and his neighborhood from criminals. He warned these criminals. "You move and your dead." They moved. Joe shot them. Good job".
Now read the transcript of the 911 call of Joe Horn's killing;
before, during and after killing two burglars in Texas and judge for yourself on which side of the divide you are on. Here's a link to the transcript http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5538780 and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926577/posts
The incident may prove a test for a new law recently passed in Texas which expands the right of citizens to use deadly force. Under Texas law, people may use deadly force to protect their own property or to stop arson, burglary, robbery, theft or criminal mischief at night. But the legislator who authored the "castle doctrine" bill told the Chronicle it was never intended to apply to a neighbor's property, to prompt a "'Law West of the Pecos' mentality or action," said Republican Sen. Jeff Wentworth. "You're supposed to be able to defend your own home, your own family, in your house, your place of business or your motor vehicle." The castle doctrine, passed in September 2007 in Texas, was recently expanded precisely because the citizens of Texas were tired of rampant crime. This new law allows citizens to use deadly force in protecting their home or neighbor's home from criminals. It is no longer required that you attempt to flee first.

A plain clothes police detective responding to the 911 call had arrived at the scene before the shooting and witnessed the escalation and shootings, while remaining in his car. His report on the incident indicated that the men who were killed "received gunfire from the rear.
Icheoku
here now comments as follows: - unfortunately the law is an ass and Joe Horn walked! The expanded Texas castle doctrine allowed Joe Horn, an apparent murderer to escape prosecution because he "was protecting his neighbour's home from criminals". He shot those burglars in the back while they were fleeing as reported by a percipient witness, the plain clothes police detective; which would have made it a cold blooded killing but for the castle doctrine. Also we are talking about Texas, a gun ho State where killing is glorified instead of vilified. We are talking about Texas, the State with the highest capital murder executions in the Union. We are talking about Texas where a man was dragged behind a truck in chains until his body completely dismembered. And if you still do not know Texas, we are talking about the State that gave the world, President George W. Bush! Joe Horn deserved some form of punishment for the cold blooded murders of these two burglars, especially after listening to his conversation with the 911 telephone operator! it would appear this is a guy who was desperate to knock some people off the face of this earth. First, it was not his property that was burglarized but a neighbours! Secondly, those burglars were already fleeing! Third, a 911 telephone operator had emphatically urged him not to take the laws into his hands but he ignored all the pleas and did it anyway! Now two people are dead and Joe Horn is cleared of the shootings by the grand jury. Question, if those burglars were whites, would the outcome have been different? If Joe Horn was not a pure "Texan", would the furry been more hellish? Judge for yourself! But at last, this is America and in Texas justice is sometimes very subjective!

1 comment:

  1. Was it really necessary to shoot to kill unarmed burglers who were already fleeing the scene of the crime? Granted that they deserved some king of punishment, however, it was not the duty of "fast draw Joe" to make that decision, he was just trigger happy. The details of the 911 conversation showed that he just wanted to let off some shots no matter what happened. This will open a spate of rash shootings in Texas, mark my words.
    No body seems to notice the discrepancy between the time the burglary and took place and what the Texas law said about citizens rights to use deadly force. the law only justifies the use of deadly force if the crime is committed at night, the burglary incident tiik place during the day.
    Well, Texas had always had a history of being quick on the draw, I guess they just re-introduced it.

    Bob

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