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.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT: LET'S HARDEN OUR SCHOOLS.

ICHEOKU says any one arguing against the proposal by the president to fortify our schools and make it nearly impregnable is doing so only to score some cheap gotcha points. The White House is hardened; the Congress is hardened; military fortes are hardened; our airports are hardened; the banks are hardened; the stores and malls are hardened; even the various homes of our celebrities are hardened. So why not our children's schools?

The question which non of these anti-gun activists, majority of who are protected by gun totting security guards, are not answering is why not also make the gathering place of our young children and leaders of tomorrow, safe enough and fully protected from the savagery that is mass shootings? Why not also defend their place of learning like we depend and protect other areas of our common interest. What value do we actually place on our children not to want to protect them accordingly from harm. Like President Donald John Trump rightly articulated, those cowards who go about shooting up our schools and killing innocent children will not dare if they knew they will also be fired at and possibly killed in the process. These animals are terrorists who are afraid of being confronted and are always looking for easy targets of opportunity; hence they creep in and waylay innocent school children who are unarmed, defenseless and cannot fight back. 

How often do those crazy bastards go shooting their way inside an airport or prison or military formations or police stations or at government offices. The only reason they do not try it is that they know what the ruthless consequences of their action will be and most times, as we are finding out from Nikolas Cruz, the Florida High School shooter, is that they do not want to die. They are cowards and they have no liver; but simply acting out their fantasies and inexplicable machismo by attacking soft targets with defenseless children. They can be checkmated with fortifying the schools to make them harder if not impenetrable and hence frustrate their murderous mania. It will not take too much to build up the required defenses and only a prioritizing of our issues is required to mission accomplish on this. Such fortification can be funded through government and private sector participation where the government cannot afford to fully fund it. 

If the government cannot do it, every home owner within every school district should be made to come up with the much needed funds with which to make our schools safer and more difficult for these animals to prey upon. 

It will not cost too much when compared to the lives lost as a result of inaction.We can start by fencing the schools, installing metal detectors at all entry points of schools and hiring armed guards to patrol the schools in a their security vehicles; and holed up in their offices when not on patrol, until summoned either by gun shots fired or call for help. They will be there to distract the attacker by engaging him while waiting for the police to arrive. Also such a security details should be fully uniformed in order to avoid their being mistaken as the attacker by the arriving police. The solution to end this scourge is simple and it is also affordable; and it should therefore be implemented immediately. Our children are our best and most valuable assets and they should be protected with all we have and can summon. We should do it now and we should do it right. Let's harden the gaddam schools now and make our children safe and as a correlation guarantee the future of our civilization.

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