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, October 31, 2017

TERROR STRIKES NEW YORK AGAIN AS TRUCK PLOWS INTO PEOPLE.

ICHEOKU says eight people were killed and eleven others wounded when Uzbek born Islamist terrorist and a Green Card holder resident of the United States of America, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, deliberately plowed a rented truck into pedestrians and bicyclists on a bike path along Hudson River, Lower Manhattan New York City. What Europe and Britain has been dealing with across the Atlantic Ocean has finally caught up with Americans and now, we have to walk the streets fearing that another one of his kind might be pursuing us in a rented truck, car or even machete. 

How to guard against such lunacy nobody really knows and it was the same method the Charlottesville mad man used, during the last summer General Lee statue protest, to kill one innocent lady. Terrorist Sayfullo Saipov is a seven year old resident of the United States of America and came here legally; having won a Visa Green Card Lottery from his home country Uzbekistan to migrate to America. He did not enter America illegally, so a border wall or extreme vetting could not have prevented this attack. He has been in America for long enough, seven years, and should have become assimilated and done away with his old fanatical proclivities; but he did not. He used a rented truck which he obtained legally and except for his long beards, there is no way anyone would have raised eyebrows about a Middle Eastern looking American resident who just rented a truck and paid for it, after tendering necessary required identification cards and possibly a credit card. It is definitely a new dimension to this global Islamist terrorism.

Terrorism is a scourge of society and increasingly becoming very difficult to police because it is no longer beard wearing Middle Eastern looking men that are terrorists. The Las Vegas mass murderer did not wear beards nor looked Middle Eastern; he was a white man to the core and in every aspect, including being very rich. The Charlottesville terrorist too is not Middle Eastern looking nor did he wear any facial hair; he too is a 100% white male who just had demons urging him to do bad thing. Before them was Timothy McVeigh and a host of other domestic terrorists who did not fit the profile of THE TERRORIST; and this is the challenge facing law enforcement agencies in tracking these bad guys and proactively nipping their nefarious plan in the bud. 

It is rather unfortunate that every now and then, people are killed and others would loss their loved ones just because one fanatic lunatic decided to do something as drastic as mow down innocent tourists who were just minding their own business. May be it is about time a new approach to fighting terrorism is devised, including employing  psychological campaign to try and dissuade these would be bad actors from carrying out their bad intention. Some of their imams have to step up their game; fully aware that Americans interpret these attackers as Muslim actors and any time vengeance is exerted, it is targeted at any Muslim, regardless of sect of individual idiosyncrasy. Muslims should see these terrorists as giving their religion a bad name and try to take there religion back. 

As with everything touching and affecting New York City, there is always some international dimension to it. The Islamist terrorist attacks on 9/11 at the World Trade Center affected virtually every country in the world as each lost at least one of her citizen in the attack. This 10/31 truck attack also has international implication as five visiting Argentines were killed, with the sixth hospitalized. ICHEOKU says if only these terrorists know that America is a mix pot of different peoples from all over the world, may be they should be more circumspect and avoid attacking America, as they may also kill their own country men and women in the process. It is indeed regrettable that this problem is seemingly looking intractable and learning to accept it as a new normal is really quite difficult if not an unacceptable option. 

ICHEOKU encourages law enforcement officials to continue trying their best to keep the world which call America home, safe and secure in the land of the free and home of the brave. We shall never cower and we shall never allow fear to paralyze us; we are Americans and we live our lives heads up and chest out and no amount of terrorists attacks will change what is. Lastly, political correctness should be banished in the ongoing effort to contain and defeat these Islamist terrorists. It was very unfortunate that New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neil was initially reluctant and actually refused to initially name the terrorist. ENOUGH of these 'lets not make them mad' niceties, because we are mad and they too should be madder than they already are. If a man cannot feel free and safe in his home, what then is the use of having a home; your bastion and your castle. May the souls of those killed rest and may ACLU and all those human rights weasels not find their voice or feet trying to defend this lout.  

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