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.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

STRAUSS-KAHN WALKS FREE, A CASE OF JUSTICE MISSED?


Admitted that the veracity for truth of the African immigrant who Monica Lewinskyed Dominique Strauss Kahn is practically none existent; but since when has that reason alone become the sole ground and only basis for discontinuing or dismissing carte-blanche an entire gamut of a criminal proceedings against an accused defendant? The prosecutor in this case should not act in a way suggestive or that could draw the inference that he was by necessary implication, doing the job of the defense for them.


It is the defense's responsibility to attack the character of the accuser and should have been the party moving to have the case dismissed based on lack of probable cause but not the prosecutor. If the accuser and principal witness for the prosecution is not a credible person, the onus lies on the defense to establish that her allegation in this case is not believable and therefore should not be believed. Nothing in law however precludes the prosecutor from bringing such a motion to dismiss at any time suo-moto in exercise of its discretionary powers of nolle prosequi. However Icheoku believes that justice would have been better served, at least on the appearance, if the prosecutor had proceeded with this case until such a time the defense moved for its dismissal; with no objection coming from the prosecutors. That way, the watching public, not versed in the intricacies, fine-lines and workings of the judicial process will be more persuaded that the case was not cavalierly dismissed just because of the caliber of person being accused and the little lass from the dark continent of Africa who is accusing him of sexual assault.

Icheoku had previously written extensively on this case and the glaring lack of credibility of the accuser, whose account of what allegedly transpired in that hotel suite was at best a concocted story of a woman of easy virtue whose "Client No. 9" did not fulfill their pre-rendering of service bargain and then decided to claim sexual violations. It was our position then and it still remains our position now that her account of what happened between DSK and her fell flat of a typical without of consent sexual assault. Our only additional comment now that the case has been dismissed is that the prosecutor should have been mindful of the old standing rule of fairness which says that "justice must not only be done but must be seen to be manifestly done by the watching public!" But in this case they have their hands on their heads with dropped jaws and mouths wide open, wondering in awe how this French rapist and sexual deviant Dominique Strauss Kahn walked free despite mountain of forensic evidence which fixed him to the alleged crime scene and the very act complained of.

Also DSK's veracity for truth which is highly suspect was not questioned but glossed over by the prosecutor. He initially denied any encounter with the "dirty-Diana" African immigrant hotel maid until his seminal fluid was extracted from the rug where the BJ service-provider had spat it out. Icheoku notes that this case was not the first time an accuser or prosecution's principal witness ever lied about an account of what allegedly happened or is someone with a chequered history of tall-tales, yet the accused was prosecuted to the fullest - only to be set free or convicted by a jury of his/her peers. The late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, was once unjustly prosecuted for child molestation despite a plethora of evidence of incredulousness of the "victim's" mother and prosecution's chief witness. The only difference this time is that the accused is a white Frenchie and was accused by a black African immigrant; so what if she was privileged of acquainting herself with DSK's highly priced white phallus?

In judicial proceedings where a hostile or incredulous witness suddenly surprises the prosecution, the natural reaction for the prosecutor is to proceed with the case as if nothing happened to jolt the trial only to rehabilitate such witness later in the course of the proceedings. Also the prosecution could have tried to separate Nafissatou Diallo's past penchant for lying from her truthfulness in the present case, emphasising that "truth can sometimes also come from imbeciles or liars."  Anyway since the case against DSK has now been summarily dismissed without any opportunity whatsoever to either establish his guilt or innocence through a trial for the crime of sexual assault charged and for which Dominique Straus Kahn lost his job at the IMF; Icheoku asks, isn't appropriate that he should get his job back or same returned back to him with full apologies tendered for embarrassing such a highly placed white Frenchman? And for Nafissatou Diallo, Icheoku says next time you do your part-time side job, servicing guests if your employers or former employers, please collect the money up front before going down on your knees to polish their knobs. Who says KING MONEY does not talk anymore and Dominique Strauss Kahn got a sack load of it and with it he purchased the finest criminal defense lawyers in New York and like the bulldogs they are, they extricated DSK from an assured prison gate. 

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