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, December 14, 2008

CHINA, COMPLAIN AND BE DECLARED MENTAL!

If you open your mouth to complain, you are declared mad as one who have over-stepped his/her trained stoic acceptance of what is, as is! . In the Chinese city of Xintai, Shandong province, one automatically become a certified lunatic fit for housing in a state's mental institution if one opens his/her mouth to complain about how things are going wrong in the society. At such institutions, the so-declared loony is debriefed, re-programmed and forcibly medicated until such a time as the state determines that such a person is no longer a threat to the way things has always been! What a life for the citizens of Xintai?

Authorities in Xintai, a municipal region in eastern Shandong province China, had so far forced at least 18 people with grievances, ranging from police brutality to property disputes, into a local mental hospital according to reports. Sun Fawu, a 57-year-old retired miner from Dagouqiao village in Xintai, was force-fed drugs and injections during a more than 20-day stay at the Xintai Mental Health Hospital in October. He had campaigned for years to get compensation for spoiled farm land and housing stemming from coal mining near his village. Sun was released only after he signed a document saying he was mentally ill and "would not petition again". Lao Shi, an 84-year-old retiree from Tianbao township, was sent directly to hospital in 2006 after travelling to Beijing to complain about a local property dispute. The former public servant counted 18 petitioners in over two years there, a list corroborated by Wu Yuzhu, the hospital's director. The hospital also has its misgivings," Wu told the paper, saying that it was under pressure to take petitioners, some of whom would arrive escorted by police.
Checking petitioners into the hospital was in part a matter of hard-boiled economics, a local official said, given that cash-strapped local governments could ill-afford to chase petitioners to Beijing and other places. According to Chen Jianfa, assistant to the head of Quangou township in Xintai, "every time we have to send three or five people to Beijing, and pay their food and accommodation, it's not a matter of pennies; hence it is better to prevent their Beijing trip by confining them in a mental institution. If a petitioner slips through to Beijing, the head of both the local branch of the Communist Party and government get punished for the lapse.
Icheoku says, thanks to freedom of speech as guaranteed in the constitution otherwise so many of us would have been institutionalized by now. But to the Chinese authorities, how long are you going to keep the emotions of your 1.6billion citizens bottled up? Every human emotion need some venting of steam otherwise one day it will result to a forceful explosion leading to revolution. You cannot beat someone and at the same time demand that, that person do not cry. It amounts to approbating and re-probating and it brings out the worst vermin in any mankind. So Chinese authorities, allow your citizens to breathe some air of freedom to avoid the inevitable clash of citizens with their government in the near future; baring an immediate change of attitude. How can a rational citizen be declared a lunatic just because of a demand for some rights? Only in China is the answer found in Xintai, province of Shandong!
China: Complain About the Government; Get Institutionalized

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