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.

Friday, July 12, 2013

DEAD MAN CONVICTED, IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA !


Icheoku says when the world thought they have heard the last bizarre thing out of Vladimir Putin's mother Russia, here comes the screaming news that a dead man was convicted of a crime allegedly committed while he lived. A Russia that has seen one man named Vladimir Putin switching seats from being a President to becoming a Prime Minister and then becoming a President again; and practically dictating terms of existence for anyone who calls Russia his country or home or wants to make it a residence. A man whose mood dictates what goes up or down in Russia and who was able to command a sitting president to stoop down to a prime minister's position while he took over the reins of power. 

Now to add to his resume as a man who decides everything in Russia and further boost his profile as the man with political vice hold on Russia, Putin's government has convicted a dead man of a crime allegedly committed while he lived. Needless to add that the dead-convict was not availed the opportunity to defend himself. Icheoku asks where was the rule of Natural Justice of 'Audi alter em patem' (let the accused be heard) observed in this case? Icheoku queries further, what happened to the doctrine of Res Nullus which deems a non living person none existent for purposes of rights and recriminations? Where is the dead man's body to attach the judgment as a criminal conviction requires a body to suffer the penalty? How does Vladimir Putin's Russia intend to enforce this judgment since there is no body to confine or are they going to top their already bizarre conviction by exhuming the dead man's body and sending it to prison? 

That the conviction was summarily dismissed post pronouncement is irrelevant and does not excuse the wastage of judicial time and resources which were expended for a return on investment of a mere mockery of the law. Whatever symbolic message this conviction intended to send pales in comparison to the damage it caused the rule of law. It trifled the law because one of the cardinal rule of law and order which is enforcement cannot attach in this case. What is the good exercise in wasting time and resources of the court to produce an outcome which is so ridiculous and laughable; and which only diminishes the law since the judgment cannot be practically carried out or enforced? Icheoku says the trial and conviction of dead-man, lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, crossed the last threshold of absurdity and nothing, no moral lesson whatsoever, justifies it or excuses such macabre judicial exercise and pronouncement. The only outcome is that to the vocabulary of dead man walking, living dead, the un-dead etc, will now be added dead man convicted thanks to Putin's Russia. Icheoku says members of the punk band Pussy Riot are still in prison in Russia just for artistically expressing themselves.

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