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.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

SHAHBAZ BHATTI MURDER, INTOLERANT PAKISTAN CONTINUES TO KILL CHRISTIANS!


Icheoku asks when will Western Christian civilization finally answer the Islamic world's challenge for the crash of civilizations? When will the Western world stop observing the biblical '70 times 70' injunction turning the other cheek, when their way of life and religious beliefs are constantly being attacked each day by the Islamic world? When will Westerners begin to also "assassinate infidels non-Christians", who are living amongst them and openly practicing their religion and worshiping according to their beliefs? When will Western Christian civilization start to enact and enforce their own blasphemy laws, making it a "death-penalty offense by stoning" to say anything against Jesus Christ, the Papacy or even Christianity?

These questions have become imperative, eliciting immediate answers, in view of the latest dastardly murder in Islamabad, of the only Christian serving in the government of Pakistan, Shahbaz Bhatti, the Minorities Affairs Minister.  Icheoku says Bhatti's murder was made more gruesome as it took place just within the driveway of his mother's house, whom he had just visited and was leaving for a government meeting when three assassins laying in wait, emptied their high velocity bullets into him shattering his car's windows and piercing its body. The result, another high profile murder of a Christian government official, following shortly in the heels of the murder of the governor of Penshawar, Salman Taseer just a few short weeks ago.  Icheoku asks when will enough be enough with these senseless killings going on unabated in Pakistan as it continuously seems like the government is either not doing enough to stem it or are indifferent to the plight of minorities in Pakistan, being too afraid to confront those Islamic extremists.

The other mind-boggling question with this latest assassination is that it could have been prevented were the government in Islamabad proactive enough and functional; afterall there were several threats preceding the assassination and the slain official even requested for bullet-proof vehicle which was never honored? So any investigating process into the murder must include ferreting an answer to why a bullet-proof vehicle was not provided to the slain official when it was requested, the security imperative considered. Also who tipped off those assassins on Bhatti's movement and his where-about at the time they struck or was it his driver this time? Icheoku is aware that the government of Asif Ali Zardari is very weak and that they are not completely in charge in Pakistan; but for them not to do something about the situation in Pakistan is to embolden these fanatics who will stop at nothing but to continue to terrorize the people of Pakistan, killing and maiming them at their whim. Icheoku asks whatever happened to reciprocity such that whenever these animals kill someone for insulting Islam, some other people could also kill some of them for also insulting Christianity or the pope?

The 42 year old Roman Catholic Bhatti seem to have foreseen his death; but said in a prerecorded video that he was not afraid of those terrorists trying to silence everyone. According to him, he was ready to die for his beliefs and principles that religious minorities in Pakistan should be free to practice their beliefs just like in other civilized societies of the world. Strangely enough, they got him as al-Querida and Pakistan Taliban have since claimed responsibility for the killing of the "infidel Christian?"

Further is it a safe argument to make that Shahbaz Bhatti "deliberately" brought about his end by asking his police and paramilitary guards not to accompany him as he visited his aging widowed mother? Except that it could also be argued that Bhatti possibly got spooked by security guards when a guard assigned to the slain governor of Penshawar Taseer was the one who killed the man he was supposed to protect? Icheoku hopes that Shahbaz Bhatti's killing will not finally make it possible for "the Taliban to impose their radical philosophy on Pakistan and threaten or kill whoever stands against their radical philosophy" as predicted by the now slain minister. May the religious soul of Shahbaz Bhatti now rest in peace with the Lord as does every soul that dies in the Lord. Shahbaz Bhatti has fought the good fight and died heads-high, holding his beliefs in tact. He did not cower in the face of deadly threats nor tried to deny Jesus like Peter but he stood up straight like a real man proclaiming salvation in Christ. Icheoku says may all those other believers and peoples of faith coming after him, have the courage to continue the fight for freedom of all those oppressed religious minorities of Pakistan. Adieu Bhatti.

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