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, June 27, 2020

BLACK LIVES MATTER HAVE USED UP THEIR GOODWILL, TIME TO END THE MADNESS.

ICHEOKU says everybody supported the Black Lives Matter protests for the gruesome murder of George Floyd on a Minneapolis Street in Minnesota. It is nearly one month now since George Floyd was killed and the protest is still going on. They have sent their message and the nation have heard them. It is now time the protests ended as the nation cannot afford the continuing destruction, fear and uneasiness which they have enveloped the country in. 

A protest which should have ordinarily ended with the burial of George Floyd but which was hijacked by some extremists who are now looting, burning, defacing and pulling down national cultural symbols including the statues of former presidents and emancipation war heroes. Nobody bargained for the destructions of our national art treasures now taking place throughout the country nor the attempt at erasing our history and heritage which the Black Lives Matter is carrying out now. Therefore, this criminal activities must end now or be forcefully brought to an end because they are no longer legitimate peaceful protests. What they are doing now amounts to hooliganism, vandalism and lawlessness. 

America cannot continue to be held hostage for enemy forces which is no longer well intentioned nor well meaning for the cohesive integrity of the country. They have exhausted the goodwill flowing from George Floyd's murder and now is time for them to pack it up, move on and free our streets from their atrocious mayhem. They should no longer be tolerated nor welcomed on the streets of American cities because they have lost their moral authority as a protest group by destroying statues, looting and burning down things. They veered off course of constitutionally enshrined right to peaceful protest and have now become a continuing nuisance which should be abated forthwith. 

Why are they destroying structures and statues which are part of the foundational history of America. If they don't like them, how about the majority who cherishes them as part of their national treasures. Their right to 1st Amendment does not exclude other people's similarly vested right; and above all, such right does not include the destruction of public properties as no such right is envisaged under the constitution. Enough of the madness. 

By the destructions, looting and burning, BLM has morphed into an anarchist group, wrecking havoc on America and such lawlessness cannot and should not be accommodated or tolerated any more, no matter the subterfuge. By these rascality, they are telegraphing to American people that they are not a peace envoy, they do not come in peace. They are destroyers of America's history and peradventure American's way of life. Yes, they are burning these statues because according to them, they remind them of what once was which cause a lot of pain to their people. 

But such pain can only meaningfully go away by resolving their current situation and not through vandalism. Meaningful programs to ameliorate their situation, including economic and educational programs, is the right approach. But definitely not destroying livelihoods, properties and lives as took place in Seattle's CHOP territory where the group refused first aid for a shooting victim who later died. 

Which sane American watching all the anarchy on our streets will, in all sincerity, vote to empower the madness by electing anyone president who supports this group or who the group has endorsed. Will the Italians whose Columbus statues are being torn down and burnt vote for a presidential candidate who has refused to condemn the madness being exhibited by this people? Will any Christian vote for a presidential candidate who does not see anything horrible and horrifying on the attack on churches and holy places, including defacing churches and destroying Christian statues of a Catholic saint who was recently beatified by the current Pope Francis, Saint Junipero Sierra. How could any Catholic or a Christian for that matter vote to institute such desecration of Holy places and objects by people who also called for the removal of Baby Jesus and stained church windows depicting the Holy Family. It is just another example of their attack against the church and God as they want to rid the society of churches and anything that suggests a Higher Power. 

They are attacking everything cultural to America, American flag, American way of life, the believe in God and the sanctity of the family. Baby killers and abortionists who forced homosexual way of life on Americans and are anti human recreation. It is no longer about black lives mattering because some criminal elements have hijacked the once peaceful protest to ferment trouble and hide behind it to implement their long sort agenda remake of America. It is a continuation of what they started a long time ago when they destroyed the institution of marriage by incorporating homosexuality as an acceptable way of life. So, after destroying the historical statues, what is next? But the nation must not wait to find out and every decent American must rise up now to confront the affront on American values and society at large. It is time now to stop all the protests and destructions going on in America, enough of the brigandage. 

How can any sane society stand idly by and continue to watch and tolerate a group of trouble makers besiege the country, loot, burn, break, tear down and destroy priceless works of art as if they are a victorious army in occupation of a conquered territory, all in the name of protest. Whatever right of speech they are expressing definitely does not include the destruction of public properties. Why destroy priceless artworks because of the history behind them. Such history is permanently etched in the mind that even if all the statues were to be pulled down, the memory of what happened will never be erased from the minds of the people. Imagine the craftsmen who wrought the artwork who are all dead and their only connection to the living is now being destroyed and it is ok by some people? Unless these thugs have conquered America, they have no privilege of destroying Americans properties, period. 

Black Lives Matter must understand that nobody is impressed and nothing is achieved by their destroying of these things. Instead, their vandalism will only argument a stereotype of violence usually associated with black people. It will thus further alienate them from the general American society as not only white people will be wary of them, but so shall the Japanese, Chinese, Hispanics, Mexicans and every other group of people in America. It is a bad image to create of a people by the people and they must realize this and come to a heel. 

The relationships among other races in America with black people cannot be improved when black people are destroying things dear to them, including their religious symbols and historical heroes. Imagine the horror felt by Catholic watching the statue of Saint Junipero Sierra being torn down or the Episcopalians watching St John's church being defaced and set on fire. How would Black Lives Matter feel if it was Martin Luther King statue that was pulled down and set on fire or it was Barack Obama statue that was defaced, pulled down and set on fire, afterall many white people see Obama as the worst president ever. 

ICHEOKU strongly doubts if such scenes as are being daily and nightly played out on national television will endear black people in the hearts and minds of other races, both in America and the world in general. Such images will only permanently ingrain resentment and hatred of black people in their minds, as black people will be seen as destructive. Nobody wants such people who can destroy with such ease and glee in their neighborhood and instead of bringing the much sort after rapprochement, it will create further alienation and distrust. It will further damage whatever standing black people otherwise hitherto had in the eyes of those whose destroyed cultural or religious statues meant something very special or important. It is history being destroyed and nobody ever wishes their history to go away just like that, as they are permanently attached to the people as their connection to their past. It is part of who they are as a people and without which, they are not complete or whole. Enough of the destruction. It is time to rein in the vagrancy. 

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