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.

Friday, February 13, 2015

SUGE KNIGHT, SURGING TO PRISON?

Icheoku says it would appear that rap mogul, Marion Suge Knight, has finally been cornered; having played himself into the hands of a justice system which has been patently and eagerly waiting to snatch him and put him away and for a long time too. With his latest indictment for murder and other ancillary crimes, which the prosecutor described as very large stack of uncharged crimes”, the founder of Death Row records label, which once had under its sleeve, rap artists Tupac Shakur, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg, appears to be headed to the big house, where he would likely live out the rest of his life, under California's three strikes law, if convicted. 

A man who has had several running-ins and some very close calls with the law; and who instead of becoming sobered down and turning literally into a born-again, completely retired from his bad-boy machismo lifestyle/image, has continued barreling down that road to perdition. Now he is finally in an orange jumper suit and may have to wear it for the rest of his life. 

Surge Knight was indicted for murder and attempted murder resulting from vehicular run-over of two people - Terry Carter and Cle Bone Sloan near Universal Pictures Straight Outta Compton. He is currently locked up and awaiting trial, his bail application originally set for two million dollars having been revoked because he is a flight-risk. As a possible three-strike candidate under California sentencing law, he is looking at a mandatory life sentencing  if convicted. Suge had previously served five years in jail for assault and federal weapons violations; following his release in 2001, spent another 10 months behind bars for violating parole by hitting a Hollywood nightclub valet

icheoku laments that unfortunately some of our African American brothers do not learn from their experiences in order to understand that the justice system is always gunning for their black asses, desirous of catching and incarcerating them for good. With Suge Knight, it would appear that his ears were deafen by his mistaken believe of invincibility as a result of some rumored dirty work which he does for the FBI in African American communities? But now Icheoku and the rest of the watching world know that he is not after all what he thinks of himself - that cat with nine lives. That living a thug's life does not get anyone very far, especially in the American society where as a black-man you are a perpetual target of the justice system out to corner you and incarcerate you, thus solving another social menace problem or rather eyesore? 

Suge Knight is not above the law neither is he an untouchable underground boss as he erroneously previously thought of himself. A man who has severally ran afoul of the law but miraculously pulled a Houdini each time, has now finally spent his last luck and is currently playing guest to the law. Recall how Tupac was assassinated under questionable circumstance in a vehicle driven by Suge Knight in Las Vegas? Ditto was Lisa Left Eye Lopes suspicious one-victim accident death while traveling in La Ceiba Honduras in company of the same Suge Knight and a few others? But hey, like the saying goes kill by the sword, die by the sword, so the world is waiting to see how Mr Suge surges out of his present legal tango or otherwise, surge himself into the big house instead. Icheoku asks when are black Americans going to learn their lesson and modulate some of their lifestyles in order to help avoid all these pointy accusatory fingers which is laser-focused on them by a law which is skewed against them. 

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