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.

Monday, January 17, 2022

NOVAK DJOKOVIC IS THE ARCHITECT OF HIS DEPORTATION: DESERVES NO SYMPATHY.

ICHEOKU says the choice was his to make and he chose to be deported rather than conform to the laws of an independent, sovereign nation. He should have complied with the immigration laws of Australia by not lying on his visa application as required of any visiting foreign national. He should have also complied with a valid existing law on health and good order, which requires everyone entering Australia to get vaccinated against the coronavirus pandemic disease. But he held out and such obstinacy posed a health risk to Australian society and also had the potential of energizing anti vaccination protesters, especially among his fans and supporters alike.  

Novak Djokovic is just one individual, regardless of his fame and fortune, and therefore cannot be allowed to impose his selfish wishes on the government and people of Australia. Nobody asked him to come or not to come to Australia to participate in a tennis championship being held in the city of Melbourne. It was entirely his decision and he made it without regard to what is in the best health interest of Australians, who their government is trying to protect from the coronavirus pandemic with necessary vaccination requirement law. The law says if you must come to Australia, you must be vaccinated and he was not vaccinated and still refuses to be vaccinated 

Rules are rules; and the law on vaccination was not made specifically with him in mind or in anticipation that he will some day, after the law has come into force, decide to fly to Australia to participate in the Australian Open tennis tournament as a defending champion. He chose not to conform to existing laws and therefore deserves what he got, the removal. It is possible that the Serbian deliberately orchestrated the outcome; therefore nobody should feel pity for him or chest-beat that he was treated unfairly; or as some propagandists have since stretched it, that it was political. 

The Australian government only ensured that everybody entering into Australia conformed to their existing laws because nobody is above the law. If even a prime minister could be held to account, who then is a tennis player to demand or covet a differential treatment from the law. Good enough, he exhausted all available legal recourse in such a situation and was determined violative of existing laws by a court of competent jurisdiction before he was finally removed from the country. None of his rights as an illegal visitor to Australia were denied him and he was afforded due process by the justice system. 

He has now been deported and hopefully the dust which he tried to raise, with his ridiculous demand that he be treated differently, will now begin to settle; so that the Australian Open will begin. A new champion will definitely emerge and if Novak Djokovic feels like it, he can still challenge the new champion in a future Australian Open. But he is out of this 2022 championship for good and it was totally by his own making. It is possible too that he was not fully prepared to defend his championship and concocted the ruse to deflect from his real state of affair. ICHEOKU supports the Australian government's handling of the issue and says kudos to them for not yielding to the noisy pressure, mounted by a very few but very vocal apologists, to place Novak Djokovic above the law.

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