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, June 11, 2014

LESBIANS FACING VICTIMISATION IN THE UK, FOR BEING BLACK?

Icheoku says but for racism, isn't it very obvious to any observer, that the victim here pictured front, of the British Home Office threat of deportation and lack of protection from apparent persecution, Ms Aderonke Apata, is one proud lesbian? Take a good look at her and you will conclude that God did not make any one lesbian better or more than this woman. She is not just your ordinary closeted lesbian by night and straight chic by day person who is not proud of who she is; no, she is proud of her sexuality and she is living it fully, out and in the open. All the British Home Office could do is to help but not to further hurt or fetter her lifestyle and permit her to live in the gay-friendly and more tolerant United Kingdom and save her from an assured persecution in her country of birth, Nigeria, a well known anti-gay country. 

Ms Apata is seeking asylum in the United Kingdom from her gay-phobed country Nigeria and she ought and deserves and should get it on grounds of persecution for simply being GAY. Icheoku says such victimisation of a person because of their sexual preferences is a known act of human rights violation, for which the British government has severally intervened in the past, continues to intervene and should therefore intervene in this case. Icheoku emphasises that failure by the British authorities to intervene in Ms Apata's case and grant her a protective asylum cannot be explained away in any other way except to say that the victim's nationality and/or skin color most probably dealt her a back hand. Look at her - she can easily pass for a man and Hilary Swank's 'Boys don't cry' comes into view for crying out loud? Her physique alone ordinarily should have supplied all the answers needed by the British Home Office to prove her case that she is not only sexually attracted to same sexes, but that she is one heck of a protective and assertive Dyke with a Harley. Icheoku prays that the officers involved with her asylum petition should trade their prejudiced eye-glasses and start seeing a lesbian that needs protection from existential persecution instead of a black woman telling stories just to remain in the UK? 

Icheoku laments that many human rights violation issues throughout the world are often times taken up with the seriousness it deserves if and when it impacts the "right" skin color type? It would appear and it is regrettable indeed that some "wrong" skin type people are not often considered or treated as "real humans" or "human enough" to deserve expedited and concerted human rights protection? Icheoku admonishes that the British Home Office should therefore prove this school of thought wrong by considering Ms Apata's petition for asylum based on existential threat to openly gay people in Nigeria; which evidently is within the public domain and they should not and must stop pretending that Aderonke Apata is not atypical LESBIAN. Icheoku therefore calls on the British Home Office to do right for and by this gendered female and extend to her all the protections available to people with her peculiarities, who are being persecuted just for who they are, including granting her a protective asylum in the United Kingdom. Ms. Apata is not a criminal, she is not a public charge and she has not done anything that tinges the conscience other than gayly express herself. Icheoku maintains that coming out of the closet is not a crime except you are in Nigeria and other Mullah-controlled enclaves of this world; and her coming out has already cost her and her family dearly and the British government should not make it any worse. Ms Aderonke Apata has already lost several family members including her brother to anti-gay violence in Nigeria and should not be further exposed to such hatred and rancour and possible lynching by forcibly sending her back in shackles to Nigeria. She has suffered enough and should be spared further suffering including torture. 

Icheoku says like many freedom-loving peoples of this world, Ms. Apata wants FREEDOM. Ms Apata 'wants the sanctuary of United Kingdom to protect her from persecution; she wants to be protected from her persecutors in Nigeria, a known anti-gay country. Tired of hiding behind the mask of a false identity of a straight woman and overly discomforted by the confines of the closet, Ms Apata has since come out and Ms. Apata wants to remain outside. Ms Apata want to openly remain who she is - a proud homosexual lesbian, whose home country is notoriously anti-gay and from where she escaped to the United Kingdom. Ms Apata wants to remain in the United Kingdom, free to be who she is and sending her back to an assured long prison term or even a certain death in Nigeria for simply expressing who is actually is, would be a gross violation of her rights including her right to life. Icheoku says protecting this lesbian from this assured egregious bodily harm is not too much to ask for, especially from a United Kingdom government that is known as being pro-minority rights as well as a huge defender of human rights, anywhere and everywhere. Icheoku says Ms Apata is already exposed and over-exposing her further by deporting her to a certain discomfiture, grave bodily harm if not death in Nigeria, simply because of her mere sexual preferences will be inhumane, callous and a decision arising from a cold unbeating heart. Contemplating this absurdity is bone-chilling enough not to imagine its implementation and therefore SHOULD not be the so decided.

Icheoku says therefore the British Home Office should grant Ms Aderonke Apata a protective asylum to enable her live her life unmolested and unpersecuted from her country Nigeria, that has passed one of the toughest anti-gay discriminatory laws known to mankind. To the British authorities, please Icheoku urges you not to make Ms Apata another mere statistic of gays killed in the world including Nigeria simply for the "SIN" of who they are; and unfortunately, like every other gay man or woman out there, Ms Apata did not have a choice in making her same-sex gender preference gene. Finally believing that the spokeswoman of the British Home Office was speaking on behalf of the British government and on its position on gay rights and safety throughout the world, Icheoku says no time is ever better or any occasion more appropriate to demonstrate that the British authorities "do not remove anyone at the risk of persecution for their sexuality from the United Kingdom." Now is the time to demonstrate this your government's commitment and on the matter of Ms Aderonke Apata, Icheoku says put your money where your mouth is. Do it and do it NOW, let Ms Apata stay in the United Kingdom.

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