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.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN CHARGED, FINALLY AT LAST?

Icheoku is not salivating nor celebrating the belated filing of charges against the murderer George Zimmerman by the state of Florida, which like pulling a tooth, they reluctantly did due to overwhelming pressure. It is the right thing to do under the circumstances of an unwarranted taking of the life of another by an overzealous and armed thug, who despite being told to back off proceeded to kill an unarmed black boy anyway.  Now the nation and the world await to see the reasonableness or lack of it of the Florida jury which shall sit over this case. 

Icheoku says but for the protests, marching and crying out loud, may be Trayvon Martin would have remained just another statistic of murdered inconsequential black American young man; afterall his body was already tagged as 'John Doe' despite being clearly identifiable. Unfortunately it took all the uproar to provoke the conscience or lack of it of those fellas in Florida to understand that this slaughter is one too many and like Al Sharpton said, "we used to accept as fate-given certain things, but we choose not to accept them any more."  Thankfully the current filing of charges against George Zimmerman proves that marching and shouting until justice is done is very effective; but that is not to say that there are no other several thousands of Trayvon Martins of America whose death were swept under the carpet as if they were none issue; afterall they were just ordinarily black young men of America? 

Icheoku says with the charges now filed, here comes the heavy lifting of trying to find a jury of his peers that will dispassionately render justice to both the murderer George Zimmerman and the victim Trayvon Martin. But whatever the jurors of Florida decide, they should remember that injustice to one is injustice to all and that the lid gingerly atop the keg of gunpowder in Florida could be easily blown off depending on how they applied their justice in this case. The evidence is so overwhelming that short of the murderer being exculpated by the Florida infamous "Stand your ground Law", this case does not need much forensic work to establish his guilt and responsibility for the crime of murder. Icheoku hopes that the jury would return a verdict of guilty as charged against the murderer George Zimmerman and in that way find justice for both parties and ensure peace reigns in Florida. 

Now comes the many what ifs of this case which are rather so numerous that they may never be completely answered in full. What if there was no media blitz on this case or the ever partial and biased White-controlled American media decided to black out the story as usual? What if there were no galvanizing  of wounded souls who lead and participated in all the outpouring of grieve, marching and protesting this unjustifiable homicide with calls to render justice to Trayvon Martin? What if Trayvon Martins case did not touch the raw emotions of righteous Americans who trooped out to demand justice? What if there is no black American president and a black American Attorney General to push the case? What if there were no high profile Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to lend their face and voice to this injustice; an injustice so touchy that even Uncle Tom Bill Cosby saw for the first time that things are not right between White majority and  black minority of America? What if the investigating prosecutor came up short of filing charges in this case and so many other what ifs? But finally, what if the soon to be convened jury finds George Zimmerman not guilty and decides he walks a free man? Icheoku does not want to contemplate how America will react to such possible verdict but will volunteers that Rodney King's Los Angeles 1982 melee might be a child's play. 

There is simply something that rubs humanity wrongly when apparent injustice is done to whoever irrespective of the color of the skin or the depth of the pocket as in this Trayvon Martin's case whose circumstance is so touchy and so captivating that humans were moved. Tryavon Martin's brutal execution or rather lynching by gun by the barbarian murderer George Zimmerman, especially after being told by the police to back off and the cry for help of the unarmed helpless boy who was shot in the back, would make even a jury composed of KKK people return a verdict of guilty except they also do not have a beating heart inside of them. Anyway, the nation as well as the world is glued to this story and shall not rest until it is concluded one way or the other; but whatever happens, at least the formerly pampered murderer George Zimmerman has been arrested and would be charged for the murder of Trayvon Martin? However this development was based on what we were told as no sighting of George Zimmerman's mugshot has been made anywhere yet or may be he is still enjoying that personal cozy relationship with the police down there in Florida which made them let him walk in the first place. Also boycotting Florida over this obscene "Stand your Ground" law should be considered as an option no one wants to be killed just for straying into a wrong neighborhood of Whites Only? 

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