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, August 24, 2016

PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT DUTERTE GIVES UNITED NATIONS THE MIDDLE FINGER?

Icheoku says he ran and won the election as Philippines president, promising to take the fight to drug dealers and criminals; and the people accepted his message and voted him into power. Few months following his  being sworn in, the fiery militant president of Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has studiously been carrying out his election promise.  Thus far, 1,800 "criminals" in Philippines have been killed and just within only seven weeks of his being in power. Icheoku says the world once had a butcher of Baghdad; but whether the same scenario will play out in Manilla is too early to conclude. 

Icheoku says possibly the situation in Philippines is that bad with the society being incrementally laid waste by the activities of these nefarious men and women of the underground opiate business. But whether it calls for such a drastic and draconian solution of extra judicial summary executions is debatable; admitted many of his current critics are not at the tip of the sword of the devastating effects of drugs in the Philippines society to second guess his motive.  Possibly he means well and is acting purely altruistic and in what he considers the best interest of his people like every patriotic president, elected to protect his people, would. Killing of these "criminals" might not be the best civilized approach all things considered; but who is the world to judge what is best for the Philippines, especially their very peculiar challenges dealing with effects of drugs in their society considered. 

Icheoku says considering the motives of drug dealers which is purely profit and easy money, without regard to the far reaching consequences of their products which have wasted so many lives and rendered many others unlivable, may be they rightly deserved to be treated like lepers of society that has to be completely annihilated. What use is drugs in any society other than to damage the society's fabric, rendering so many citizens mentally useless, homicidal and maniacal. Therefore there is really nothing wrong with fighting this fire with fire; and treating the purveyors of illicit drugs as enemies of state and invaders that has to be squashed. Like vermin of the society, their complete eradication might be in order and so, President Rodrigo Duterte should be encouraged rather than the current chastisement for adopting the seemingly extreme measure to try and rid Philippines of these "criminals." 

Icheoku says provided the real "criminals" are identified, isolated and specifically targeted; and that innocent people are not targeted and randomly chosen for elimination, then all is good and dandy. William Shakespeare in one of his plays Measure for Measure, aptly analogized similar situations that one does not take a knife to a gun fight. If the intention of those drug dealers is to kill Philippines citizens, which their illicit products do anyway, the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte as the defender in chief of the people, reserves every right to fight to protect his victimized people. Whatever action, including putting fear of God in these heartless "criminals" with his unorthodox crime fighting initiative, should be applauded rather than condemned. 

Therefore the recent condemnation of his "kill the "criminals" campaign by the United Nations was uncalled for. President Rodrigo Duterte's ire was well earned when told the UN to mind their own business and to butt out of a purely internal affairs of the Philippines. 

In his reaction, President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to pull Philippines out of the United Nations and to form a parallel organization with China and African countries. According to the president, the United Nations is seemingly heavily biased in their selective watchdog duties as they kept blind eye to the carnage in Syria and Iraq but are rushing off to condemn his own attempt at eradication of criminals similar to those "terrorists" being killed in the two mentioned countries. President Duterte reasoned, where is the justicialities in the killings of those being killed in the two conflict countries; yet the same United Nations has not called the countries engaged in those killings but found time to butt into his actions in the Philippines. Why is compliance to human rights obligations subjective and not universally enforced? 

He maintained that it is not only Philippines or other small countries that is under obligation to comply to international obligations and illegal killings. In President Rodrigo Détente's own words, he said: "May be we will just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you are that rude, son of a bitch, we will just leave you. Look at the iconic boy that was taken out from the rubble and he was made to sit in the ambulance and we saw it. Why is it that United States is not doing anything? I do not read you. Anybody in that stupid body complaining about the stench there of death? I don't give a sit about them. They are the ones interfering. Why are you Americans killing the black people there; shooting them down when they are already on the ground? Answer that question, because even if it's just one or two or three, it is still human rights violations." 

The president ended his retort by stating that the United Nations' threat to try him for crimes against humanity does not faze him and that he is not afraid of sacrificing his life and presidency for his people. Icheoku says exactly the stuff a leader is made of - ability to make up his mind, make decisions in the best interest of the people, take actions and defend against being bullied around, especially by holier than thou peoples, organizations and countries. Icheoku says let President Rodrigo Duterte be Duterte; and since he has the support of the Philippines people, should be allowed to fight drug epidemic in the Philippines as he sees fit and proper. Funny enough, none of those condemning him said anything against or in condemnation of those drug dealers. But hey, it is the way of the world and hypocritical Pharisees are everywhere.

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