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.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

OJ SIMPSON - THEY FINALLY GOT HIM!


Orephtal James Simpson 61 was found guilty Friday October 3, 2008 of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room! Sentencing scheduled for December 5, 2008 could get him life behind bars. The previously famous Hall of Fame Football star was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and 10 other charges for gathering up five men a year ago and storming into a room at a hotel-casino, where the group seized several game balls, plaques and photos. According to the prosecution, two of his accomplices were armed and one of them alleged that Simpson asked him to bring a gun. The verdict came 13 years to the day Simpson was acquitted in the alleged murdering of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her paramour Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. According to OJ Simpson's defense attorney, the police officers in this case saw his present arrest as an opportunity to "get" him and avenge his acquittal to which Icheoku concurs.
According to the prosecutors, Simpson's ownership of the memorabilia was irrelevant since it was still a crime to try to take things by force. To this Icheoku rebuts and states that ownership is crucial as that intent to retrieve something belonging to him rather than rob another of his property should defeat the charge of armed robbery. OJ Simpson went into the hotel room not to rob anyone but to retrieve what he reasonably believed was his property. The imperative controlling intent heretofore is that which preceded the entry into the hotel room. The primary question here should have been, did OJ go into the room to retrieve his item or did he set out to rob someone of his thing?

Some other questions implicated in this case include: -the role of the Memorabilia dealer Thomas Riccio, who arranged and secretly recorded the hotel-room confrontation, said he netted $210,000 from the media for the tapes. Also, so soon after the Sept. 13, 2007, incident, one of the alleged victims, sports-memorabilia dealer Alfred Beardsley, was calling news outlets, and the other, Bruce Fromong, spoke of getting "big money" from the case. Finally some investigating Las Vegas police officers were heard in a recording chuckling over Simpson's misfortune and crowing that if Los Angeles couldn't "get" him, they would.

According to defense attorney Yale Galanter, being stupid and being frustrated is not being a criminal and Icheoku also agrees with this learned thought. Continuing, the learned counsel said, this case has taken on a life of its own because of Mr. Simpson's involvement. Every cooperator, every person who had a gun, every person who had an ulterior motive, every person who signed a book deal, every person who got paid money, the police, the district attorney's office, is only interested in one thing: Mr. Simpson." A motion to admit bail pending post judgment proceedings was denied by presiding Judge Jackie Glass who also refused to give the lawyers extended time to file a motion for new trial, which under Nevada law must be filed within seven days. The attorneys said they needed time to submit a voluminous record.

Icheoku says, such a day as this recalls nostalgically the legal prowess of Johnnie Cochran who would have made a mince meat of the prosecution in this case. The evidence does not weightily support the verdict. At least there was no legal armed robbery! Also the defense decision to proceed with the trial before a female judge was a mistake. A female judge no matter her level of impartiality will always have behind her mind the infamous murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman for which majority of Americans were very sympathetic. After-all we are all humans before our various vocations and callings so to pretend otherwise will be foolhardy! Lastly, some available evidence of prosecution's motive, especially the spoken words of the investigating police to the effect that if Los Angeles could not get him, they will in Las Vegas; the set-up and all the money made from the incident is highly suggestive of entrapment. Why these issues were not vigorously pursued is not known to Icheoku at the present time and if it means appealing to the highest court in the land, so be it, provided justice was seen to be done!

However OJ Simpson seemed to have chaperoned his present fate. OJ seems to have serious aversion for black people and would rather entrust his fate totally in the hands of white defense counsel, white prosecution, white "victims", white witnesses, all white jurors and a white judge. Who was left there to get your back, OJ? OJ Simpson married a white bimbo who he allegedly murdered but whose death he was found not guilty of. OJ Simpson is currently dating another white blonde. Now he has been convicted of all twelve counts charge and will likely be spending his golden years behind bars. Even his engaging Johnnie Cochran during the Nicole murder trial was an after-thought as OJ had retained Attorney Shapiro prior, who was pushing him to accept a plea deal before Johnnie extricated him from the jaws of the Law. OJ, Icheoku will like to ask you, what do you regret most now? Is it your abandoning your black-folks because of your success or your decision not to learn from history that you are a marked man? Many a reasonable person would have gone into a monastery, so to speak, or disappeared from sight after your ordeals and the out-cry which followed. Even Michael Jackson after his child-molestations acquittal, disappeared to a Middle Eastern Emirate until passion cooled down and since his return has kept low. But that is not for you as you are OJ Simpson - the Juice! Where has your debauchery led you today? Your fate is such a tragic one that you make the ancient Greeks green with envy - they are not alone! However since what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, have we seen the final process in this case or is the defense prepared to pursue justice up to Washington DC? So Now What? Good-luck, Mr. Tragic Fate!

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