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, April 11, 2016

CLINTON'S EMAIL-GATE INVESTIGATION, OBAMA MUST BACK OFF.

Icheoku says President Barack Hussein Obama has nearly completed his two term of eight years presidency without any scandal so far. Icheoku prays and wishes the president well in hopefully riding out the remainder of his presidency without any scandal either; except that the Hillary Clinton's emailgate scandal is somewhat, increasingly, threatening to tarnish that unblemished record. Any attempt by the president to cover up for Hillary Clinton or in any way influence the outcome of the investigation might result in the biggest scandal of out time and might torpedo his presidency, the Nixon way. The whole world and Americans are watching and waiting and nothing else will provide the president's numerous critics and haters the opportunity to say I told you so than a president impeached for trying to pervert the cause of justice. 

To this effect therefore, Icheoku says the president must stay as far away as is humanly possible from entering or even nearing the fray and let the Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation do its job. If at the end of the day, they come up with any decision, the American people can live with it. But the president must not either by his body language or any other telegraphic message or suggestion or inference signal to the investigating authorities that he would rather Hillary Clinton is not found indictable, regardless of whatever trove of evidence that may be available to them, upon which Hillary Clinton could be indicted and possibly convicted. 

This is because when a president of the United States of America, the man who appointed the Attorney General, under whose jurisdiction, the Director of the FBI serves, suggests or seems to suggest that a person under their investigation did not commit the crime for which she is being investigated, such statement is indeed very far-reaching. It is capable of levying preemptive consequences on the investigation and thereby render useless whatever the eventual findings. If it were to find the former Secretary of State indictable, it  would conflict with the president's earlier position and no person appointed by the president would easily go against the wishes of such her appointor. If otherwise indictable and the appointees decide to save their jobs by not indicting, the findings will leak, resulting in a big scandal. If nothing was found, eyebrows of a possible influenced outcome will still be raised.

President Barack Obama would have cleverly stayed out by not offering an opinion; but by so stating his position, he has fully inserted himself in a matter still under investigation and such is inimical to fair administration of justice; both to the investigating authorities and the suspect. Either way there will be conflict - if she is indicted, it will be going against the president's wish and if she is not, it will be that the president influenced the decision. 

Icheoku is says listening to what the president said in the interview with Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace that "I continue to believe that she (Hillary Clinton) has not jeopardized America's national security;" the question then remains, would the president's judgment have been wrong if the FBI eventually comes up with indictable charge against Hillary Clinton? How could the president be so certain in his believe that Hillary Clinton did not jeopardize national security when investigation to determine that is still ongoing? Icheoku says the best practice would have been for the president to respond that the issue is still under investigation, hence he is handicapped to dabble into the matter by offering his opinion. But no, a president, rather anxious to burnish his former rival and former secretary of State decided to throw his weight into the matter and now Americans are wondering what is going on and if any official's arms is being twisted in favor of Hillary Clinton. 

Icheoku laments that the belated attempt to fix what he said fell flat because saying that there is carelessness on the part of Hillary Clinton in managing her emails is not enough. A person entrusted with such a high level security clearance cannot be careless in any way as to probably endanger the security of the nation in any form, including being careless with managing her official emails. Icheoku, like many Americans, are not buying it that a woman who engineered the killing of African King Moummer Gaddafi after he surrendered his nuclear weaponry program; paid compensation for the Lockerbie bombing; handed over the mastermind of the bombing; opened up his country for Western businesses, including his vast oil reserves and was making every effort to become a very good world citizen, is a resume of doing an outstanding job. 

Where then lies the trust and confidence among comity of nations, when a man who was misled into changing his old ways, believing in the veracity of assurances received from the West, was so betrayed? Which other rogue leader in the world, of whatever axis of evil, would ever again trust the West in reaching any understanding, with regard to conflicting issues, after the tragedy that was Moummer Gaddafi's fate in the hands of Secretary Hillary Clinton's State Department. Yet she did a great job according to the president? That Libya as we knew it previously is no more, courtesy of Hillary Clinton, is yet another bitter pill for the world to swallow. But the supervisor of the mayhem that is a failed Libya is being lauded by the president as doing an outstanding job. 

Icheoku says if the president is not trying to burnish Hillary Clinton's records, nothing else so qualifies. It was under Hillary Clinton's stewardship in the State Department that the laughable 'reset button' with Russia took place and Ukraine is a mess today as a result. The Arab Spring Revolution is still a spewing disaster in the Middle East and some parts of North Africa, including the birth of ISIS and it was also midwifed by the top American diplomat, Hillary Clinton, that did outstanding job, according to President Obama?

Icheoku says whatever the motive, if any, President Barack Obama must stay out of the ongoing Hillary Clinton's email-gate scandal investigation. Let the FBI complete their investigation and adjudge her accordingly - either or not indictable for mishandling classified information by using private email server for work related communication during her four long years as Secretary of State. Until then, the president must treasure and guard with all his sinew the remainder of his presidency, which he has almost completed without any scandal, and saving Hillary Clinton is not worth risking it being besmirched now with a scandal. 

America have enough scandals already and don't want another one; not after Iran-Contra gate; Watergate; White Water gate; MonicaLewinsky-gate and Weapons of Mass destruction gate. Americans are not ready to have yet another Emailgate scandal which a cover up or attempt thereat of the ongoing Hillary Clinton email scandal will foist. Let the tree fall where it is cut and if Hillary Clinton is indicted, so be it; but the president must and should butt out and stay out the ongoing investigation. That the president said he does not talk to the Attorney General or the FBI about pending and ongoing investigations is not enough; as the appearance of it suffices and the president must avoid this read or interpretation. Please Mr President, no more opinions on the ongoing email-gate scandal. Allow the FBI to do the deciding, whether or not Hillary Clinton breached national security by her conduct and action. 

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