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.

Monday, December 29, 2014

ISMAAIYI BRINSLEY, HAS THE RADICALIZATION FINALLY BEGUN?

Icheoku asks has the predicted end result of the continuing distrust between blacks and American justice system, including skewed  policing, the unintended consequences of radicalizing the disenfranchised, disillusioned and despondent blacks of America, finally began? Why would a young man, apparently middle class and probably living the American dream, judging from his good looks and the fact that he shops at high ender Louis Vuitton, decided to end his life in a murder-suicide and in this manner? What so radicalized Ismaaiyi Brinsley that he chose to bring his life to such an abrupt tragic end after taking that of two New York police officers Weinjian Liu and Rafael Ramos; who although were not directly implicated in the recent police incidents in America but whom the killer probably saw as representing the institution that has been waging war of repression against blacks? 

Icheoku says in his mind,  Ismaaiyi was probably not shooting Officers Liu and Ramos, but was shooting what he termed "two racist pigs" representing the police institution which he considers an enemy and as far as he is concerned a police man is a police man, period. But unfortunately pundits and analysts are pivoting away from asking the tough question what made this guy to loose it? Why did he become so incensed that living didn't matter to him any more and he went out this way? What pushed him over the cliff. Icheoku believes that in some quarters of the American society many are hailing him as a hero and silently wishing they are or that there could be other more brave Ismaaiyis out there to finally force a more sensible approach to black policing in America; assuming the language of vengeful force is what would finally bring everything to a head and force a solution? 

Admitted that an eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind, but is it not about time Americans agree that something is not right and then sit down to address the root cause of the existing mistrust, instead of just sweeping it under the carpet and trying to explain it as a mad man gone rogue sort of occurrence?  An injustice to one is an injustice to all and the worst treatment a person can ever mete out to another human is to treat him as if he does not matter or treat his concerns and complaints as if they are not that important to matter. Police everywhere are perceived as the same racist pigs, so any act of aggression on any police anywhere is seen as avenging a wrongful police brutality somewhere? Icheoku says it is also possible that Ismaaiyi as well as many of his admirers did not see him as a cop killer, but a knight in shinning armor coming to save the day by avenging so many police inflicted pains and deaths and brutalities of past several decades culminating in these past few recent months?  

Icheoku laments that it is the same mindset that fuels those suicide bombers in the Middle East that informed this two New York police officers' killer's, as one begin to imagine what would have happened had Ismaaiyi adorned a suicide vest instead of just a hand gun and walked into a precinct? What if this  cop-killer is just but one of so many of such people thinking and planning an attack or about embarking on such murderous mission to get at the police? But whatever be the case, this is a new development when a black man goes on a murder-suicicde in the name of avenging blacks killed, who are not even related to him, except that they both share the same skin pigmentation.  As with many of these police on black brutality, black Americans are not asking that those police officers be willy-nilly convicted; no, they are asking that they do not simply walk away as if the life they took don't matter; at least they should be prosecuted and if the jury of their peer sets them free, so be it; but at least something was seen to be done. It is somewhat palliating, admitted it does not change the fact of what happened or brought the taken life back? 

Police brutality on black Americans' avenger, Ismaayi Brinsley, assassinated two New York police officers and later took his own life, as according to him, living a life which 'don't matter' is not worth living at all? According to the last message he left before embarking on the horrendous act of "retaliation", he said "they kill one of our own, we kill two of their own"; living no one in doubt as to what triggered his sort of vendetta attack on the two New York Police officers. In his mind, Brinsley was merely avenging what he saw as a continuing pattern of police killing of black Americans without any consequence? Imagine in a spate of few months three blacks were killed by white police officers and nothing was done to the injustice and these killed had families who grieved and mourned their loss? Then you add the Fruitvale Oscar Grant, Rodney King, Garner, Brown and the little child playing with his toy gun who was murdered by the police without even being first asked to drop his weapon? Then a pattern emerges that seem to suggest that there is a grandiose plan to continually decimate the black American population? 

It would appear that those they cannot lock away to rot in prison, they kill and this disillusion is what is fueling the emotive sentiments that is almost boiling over and which led to the New York police murders. Icheoku says American people, especially the white people, should understand that the anger and hurt and the feeling that they don't matter existing in the black community is real and there is actual basis for that. But instead of trying to understand the root cause of this seething anger towards resolving it, a whole group of people are dismissively treated and regarded as angry black people? Icheoku says Yes, black people are angry but there is a reason for their anger and something is making them this horn-mad angry at what their life has become in America. Icheoku says with the Brinsley murders, may be it is a awake up call for we as Americans to begin to talk to one another towards building a more wholesome society where every American, regardless of color, would feel at home; and then we will have a more united country than all these feelings of black lives don't matter which triggered the madness that was the murder of two New York police officers. To their families as well as those left behind by Ismaaiyi brinsley, Icheoku extends our condolences; as we reiterate that an eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind and they could be other ways to resolve our differences rather becoming this disagreeable. It is a painful day in America to see two police officer killed and their killer allegedly committed suicide, admitted stories abound that he was shot execution style by charging police officers inside the train station. But Icheoku does not know nor has insider information to conclusively agree. What a day of pain and mourning. May their souls rest in peace.

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