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.

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

GHISLAINE MAXWELL AND KIM PORTER TRIAL: BOTH WOMEN WILL BE CONVICTED.

ICHEOKU says both women did what they are accused of and charged with, and for which the jury in both cases are now deliberating their fate. The outcome in both cases is, to a logical assessment, certain; and both women will be convicted of their respective crimes, with the only exception being in what degree. This is where intent will play a huge role in either reducing or increasing the penalty each woman will be exposed to following their assured conviction. 

While Ghislaine Maxwell will get the maximum allowed penalty because she intended to achieve the outcome which resulted, playing the Lolita Madam and procuring young girls for sexual exploitation and gratification of Jeffrey Epson and his fellow revelers' the  former Minnesota police officer Kim Porter did not intend the outcome which resulted as she did not set out on that fateful day on training a newbie police officer, intending to shoot and kill the deceased. It was an accident and although otherwise avoidable, especially for an experienced police officer like her with over twenty years experience, stuff does sometimes happen. 

However, police is a stressful job and regardless of all their training, they are still human beings and we are not infallible. We make mistakes and we do cause and get involved in accidents. It happened in the heat of the moment and accompanying real time video of the incident aids her case very much. She meant to only taser the victim but mistook her gun for her taser and her reaction immediately following the discharging of the weapon couldn't have been a staged act, because it happened while the stress of the incident was still going on. 

But since death resulted, she will still be held responsible for causing it, hence the lower end of culpability, most likely manslaughter, to whatever degree applicable in Minnesota. She will do some time in the big house but for how long, ICHEOKU cannot definitively say. Also there was no gun found on the victim which could have caused a case of self defense to come to her rescue as being the only time killing of another person is ever justified and excused. 

It is sad that Daunte Wright acted a fool by resisting an arrest and it is also sad that Officer Kim Porter acted like a freshly minted rookie by mistaking her normal service gun for her normal service taser. It was carelessness on her part, bordering on negligence and recklessness; and it coming from a very experienced police officer like her will weigh heavily against her in the jury deliberation. But whatever weight it might exert, it cannot outweigh her lack of intent and she will get a light sentence. 

As for the spoiled English brat heiress of the Maxwell publishing family, she will get the maximum allowable sentence and will likely die in prison. She is as guilty as sin; and the jury will not waste much time in deliberating her case. She is the living Jeffrey Epson and whatever sentence the coward avoided by taking his life will now, by necessary implication, be transferred to his enabler and co-participant Ghislaine Maxwell. 

ICHEOKU says it is a safe bet to make that decisions in both cases will not survive Christmas and they will likely come down by Thursday December 23rd. The jury will like to be free so that they can go home to be with their families and spend the holiday together for Christmas. This imperative will persuade their speedy deliberations, and for such clear cut cases, it will make it much easier. The jury watch continues and hopefully they will also get it right like the jury in Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases.

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