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.