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.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

NEW YORK DOORMEN FIRED FOR NOT AIDING ASIAN WOMAN: IT WAS WRONG.

ICHEOKU says the two doormen do not owe the 65 year old Asian woman, victim of the vicious attack by a deranged man in New York, the duty to come to her aid or to rescue her from her attacker because they did not put her in the jeopardy. They are also not law enforcement agents whose duty is to "protect and serve" the public which would have imposed on them the duty to aid a member of the public in peril and rescue her. 

Therefore, it is wrong for The Brodsky Organization, the owners of building at 360 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York City, to fire the doormen who were on duty during the attack for not rushing to the aid and rescue of the victim. The attack took place outside their building, on a public sidewalk, where their duty to open and close doors at 360 West 43rd Street did not extend to. Further, the victim is not a child, whose child status would have otherwise imposed a mandatory duty to rescue a child in danger on the doormen. Lastly, there was no special relationship between the doormen and the victim.

It is in the same New York City Long Island that a doorman, Ralph Body, was fired from his job for being too nice and too accommodating; and was upbraided for going far and beyond his duties in being too kind to tenants and passersby in building 27 at 27th Street. So what if the two doormen were aware of what happened to Ralph Body, afterall they all belong to the same Trade Union and decided to mind their business as they did not want to be similarly fired for being "too nice and too accommodating", this time to a total stranger. What crime did they commit and what wrong did they do in performing their duty, which was to open and close doors at building 360 West 43rd Manhattan New York City, that should warrant their dismissal from their job. Even the police warn the public against self help and not to resist criminals when they strike but to call the police. They also tell bankers that in case of bank robbers to always give them all the money they want and try to stay alive. 

But here in New York City, the owners of a building are now telling us that they expected their employees to become vigilantes and to engage in violent self help being guardians of the surrounding streets and sidewalks near their building; and to physically intervene whenever they see someone in peril around their building. ICHEOKU is emphatic that had the two doormen intervened in the attack, the building management would have still fired them for veering off their duty post to intervene in matters outside their primary responsibility. Had they intervened and the attacker later sued them, would the owners of the building have accepted responsibility that the two doormen were their agents, acting within their authorized duty or quickly denied their action as a frolic and therefore not vicariously liable for it. 

What if the accused attacker had a concealed weapon, afterall he murdered his own biological mother, went to prison for 12 years before being paroled, and then visited the vicious attack on the victim. What if in the course of their intervention the attacker had killed the two doormen or injured them or the doormen had even killed or injured the attacker, whose responsibility will that be? Would the management not have blamed them for courting their fate by going outside their prescribed duty to intervene in a matter which does not concern them nor their job as doormen. 

The doormen did exactly what was reasonably expected of them to do in the circumstance: they immediately called 911, rushed out to help the victim and flagged down a passing police patrol vehicle to report the attack and also waited to give statements while the emergency vehicle arrived and took the victim to the hospital. This is exactly what doing something by the book which was expected of them really looks like and they should not have been fired for doing right by the woman and their employers as it was not their responsibility to fight off the attacker. 

Even in carjacking situation, the police advise against resisting or fighting the car jacker, so why should this case be any different or was it because the victim is Asian and belongs to the class of protected endangered species of America who everybody must aid in situations as this. What other thing could possibly justify the unreasonable expectations placed on the doormen that led to their firing if not some peculiar consideration due to the current political atmosphere in America where Asians are being accorded some special protection. 

In fact it is the two doormen that are actually being victimized in this matter and their Trade Union must not put up with it. They should proceed to the court immediately and have the management company reinstate the their two members back to their duty post. They did nothing wrong and there is nothing in what they did to warrant or justify their firing. They should not be singled out and punished for what a mad man did on the street side walk outside their area of authority. No rational person watching how viciously that huge beastly man attacked the woman would voluntarily put themselves in harms way by intervening in the attack. The attacker is massive and his history, although not known at the time of the attack, adds impetus to why no rational person would have intervened. If he had the heart to do that to a woman, after killing his own mother, imagine what he could possibly do to others including two intervening doormen. 

There was no other emergency protocol in the circumstance which they failed to observe, short of what they did and they also locked their building to protect their tenants from possible harm. The Brodsky Organization was wrong in firing the two doormen and they should get their jobs back and in any other event, be paid handsomely for wrongful termination of employment. Where there is no duty owed to an individual there is no expectation of help or intervention to save the individual from danger or harm. Therefore the two doormen were not wrong in failing to fight off the attacker of the Asian woman in front of their building. It may be morally wrong or somewhat viewed as a breach of Good Samaritan aiding a victim, but that only applies when an aiding bystander puts the victim in more harm. Also, it was not as if the victim sought shelter in their building and they pushed her away and into her peril. They were innocent observers of a crime and that should not cost them their jobs. 

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