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, September 6, 2017

DACA WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND HAS TO END.

ICHEOKU says the fact of the matter is that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional; so the latest action taken by President Donald John Trump's administration to end it, is an effort to right one of the wrongs of the previous President Barack Obama's overreaching actions. It is a move to reinstate a Congressional power to legislate and make laws which was previously hijacked by President Barack Obama by the executive order which authorized DACA. The elected representatives of the people make laws while the executive enforce and implement the laws and therefore an encroached executive must be reined back in and this is what happened with the DACA rescission. President Donald John Trump merely acted to protect separation of powers.

It is the Constitution stupid. So if the people of America wants to allow any changes to be made to their immigration laws, they should say so through their elected representatives  who has the sole power to make laws including to change or amend already existing laws in the books. Sympathy or empathy does not and should not be allowed to override duly enacted laws and this is fundamentally what the latest action seems to reiterate as it redresses an existing malady. ICHEOKU says the President Donald John Trump government also acted in good faith and showed a magnanimous goodwill by not outrightly canceling the program, but allowed a six months window of grace during which the Congress can right the wrong with a legislation backing up the program or have themselves responsible for whatever becomes the fate of such Dreamers going forward thereafter; and thus  basically leaving the fates of Dreamers in the hands of Congress.

ICHEOKU agrees with Attorney General Jeff Sessions that in order to have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, that America cannot admit everyone who would wants to come and live in the United States of America. According to the AG, the decision to terminate DACA was not lightly reached but in the interest of constitutional laws governing the country, it is a painful pill that must be swallowed for the sake of upholding the laws of the land, regardless. DACA conflicts with existing Immigration Laws and only the Congress can make, amend or change already existing laws in the books and they can as well do so with what DACA intended to accomplish, but not otherwise. 

Ending DACA or sending the program back to Congress is a good policy and ICHEOKU hereby commends the government for being bold and courageous in keeping to the letters of the Constitutional separation of powers. Laws of the land are laws of the land and any changes thereto must be by the body duly authorized to vary or change or even repeal and replace them. The over eight hundred thousand beneficiaries thus far granted protection under DACA are actually victims of Barack Obama political machinations and has nothing on President Trump, who is merely acting to save laws guiding the United States of America. President Obama went outside the ambits of his powers as president by usurping legislative authority of the Congress through the backdoor of executive order and should therefore not be heard to now complain about cruelty or morality. 

There is nothing cruel in insisting that laws of the land including bar against executive overreach be maintained. Anyone looking for cruelty should ask President Obama why Libyan Moummar Gaddafi has to die or why Nigerian government was not allowed to purchase weapons with which to fight terrorists Boko Haram at the height of that insurgency, during the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan. This two examples is what being cruel indeed really looks like, as people died; and not just enforcing laws of the land which has not killed anyone. Therefore, former President Barack Obama looking for who is cruel should look into the mirror and he will see the face of cruelty starring back at him. Calling President Donald Trump cruel simply because he is trying to redress what President Obama screwed up is to say the least a bifurcated double speak, which is both baseless and fallacious. Let Congress do their job and if not, let the separation of power rule prevail. 

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