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.

Thursday, November 2, 2017

TERRORISM IN USA: DIVERSITY VISA LOTTERY PROGRAM NOT THE CULPRIT

ICHEOKU says again the spur of the moment hysteric reaction to what the truck terrorist did in New York City is taking over America; forcing Americans to take their eyes off the ball and instead looking at a rather innocent immigration program, which has nothing to do with a criminal act carried out by a deranged fanatical and maniacal Islamist terrorist. To date, the DV lottery program has admitted close to 1.35 million people into the United States of America since its inception in 1990. 

None of these emigres has ever been involved in any act of terrorism in the last 27 years life of the program; except for the truck terrorist who struck in New York City yesterday. So, why blame a program this good and this beneficial to millions of former citizens of other parts of the world as well as to America, for the irascible act of just one lunatic. A program which has successfully admitted close to 1,350,000 (one million, three hundred and fifty thousand) beneficiaries into the United States of America and only one stray dog is now implicated. It is on record that many of these beneficiaries has done well for themselves as well as their families and also contributed and still contributing to the United States of America and has enriched and still enriching America is so many different ways. Some of them are lawyers, doctors, professors, engineers, police and firefighter, janitors, truck drivers, factory hands, service men and women etc; while some too have thrived in various other walks of life including businesses, and probably politics. 

Therefore it does not make sense and neither is it a rational thinking to now want to sacrifice this laudable program simply because one person out of the one million three hundred and fifty thousand admittances went astray. It is an overkill reaction and it is not a thought through cause and effect action. Reforming the program, if there are areas needing reformation, is a preferred fix; but to simply jettison the whole program because of the action of just one person, out of the over one million persons, does not make any sense at all. Such overkill is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater; and it defeats every sense of logical reaction and who we are as a welcoming people of America. Statistically speaking, it does not even register as a blip, because 1 out of 1,350,000 is rather non existent in statistical sampling. Even the proverbial taking a sledge hammer to a housefly does not even arise in this case because the bad actor is simply too microscopic and insignificant to the scheme of things in the Diversity Visa Lottery Program to register or become the reason for its abolition. 

ICHEOKU says American political leaders and security agencies should instead concentrate their energies towards solving the mindset which fuels such hatred that manifests in such dastardly actions. Islamist truck terrorist Sayfullo Saipov has been living in the United States of America for over seven years. The psychologist mass shooter of Fort Hood is a PhD and has been in America practically all his life to be serving in the military.  The Orlando Florida Pulse Nightclub mass murderer was even born in America and the San Bernardino terrorists duo lived in America long enough and before they turned their guns unto their co-workers. All these terrorists share one thing in common - they are all Muslim fanatics. It is instructive too that aside of the latest New York Islamist truck terrorist, that none of the other Islamist terrorists mentioned here came into America through the Diversity Visa Lottery program. Then ask yourself, what other thing else connected to this other terrorists has to be yanked away or abolished simply because they struck America? 

This is a case where one rotten apple must not be allowed to spoil the chances of the rest of the apples from being consumed as ordained. The solution is not to scrap the whole basket of apple or throw the basket or harvester of the apples away. The solution is to isolate and dispose the bad apple but allow the others the chance of serving their purpose. What Sayfullo Saipov did is reprehensible; but it was him and not the Diversity Visa Lottery program that did it. The DV Lottery also did not make him to do it and therefore the DV should not be punished for his act. It is akin to punishing gun manufacturers for making a gun which was used by a deranged gunman to murder some people. Such rash action should be discouraged because the DV Lottery has contributed to America in so many great ways and should continue to be sustained. Instead the qualifying credentials should be reviewed upwards towards isolating and weeding out potential Sayfullo Saipov like people and prevent them from coming to America. ICHEOKU says please America, let the Diversity Visa Lottery Program be; the truck murderer is an isolated case and does not represent the over one million plus people who have benefitted from the program. 

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