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.

Showing posts with label a wheel-chair bound deportee. Show all posts
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Friday, May 15, 2009

DEMJANJUK (IVAN THE TERRIBLE), NEVER TOO OLD FOR JUSTICE?

A wheel chair-confined octogenarian invalid and suspected Nazi war criminal, John Demjanjuk 89, was deported to Germany to face his past. He was boarded in a wheelchair onto a jet that flew him to Germany to be tried for his alleged role in the murders of Jews and others at a Nazi death camp during World War II. The deportation came on the heels of four days of the U.S. Supreme Court refusal to consider his request to block his deportation order and about 3 1/2 years after he was last ordered deported? Icheoku says, the long grinding wheel of justice has finally come screeching to a halt for Mr. Demjanjuk; an example of someone never being too old for justice?

Born in Ukraine, Demjanjuk is wanted on a Munich arrest warrant that accuses him of 29,000 counts of accessory to murder as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Demjanjuk denies the Germany's accusations, saying he was held by the Germans as a Soviet prisoner of war and was never a camp guard? But Rabbi Marvin Hier, a founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center which tracks holocaust perpetrators, said Demjanjuk deserves to be punished and his will probably be the last trial of someone accused of Nazi war crimes? According to him, "His work at the Sobibor death camp was to push men, women and children into the gas chamber. He had no mercy, no pity and no remorse for the families whose lives he was destroying." Icheoku says, could this be a case of vendetta, an eye for an eye according to the venerate law of Moses?
The case dates to 1977 when the United States Justice Department moved to revoke Demjanjuk's U.S. citizenship, based on information that he hid his past as a Nazi death camp guard. Demjanjuk was previously tried in Israel in 1988, accused of being the notorious "Ivan the Terrible" at the Treblinka death camp in Poland. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a conviction which was later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court. A U.S. judge however revoked his citizenship in 2002 based on U.S. Justice Department evidence showing he concealed his service at Sobibor and other Nazi-run death and forced-labor camps. An immigration judge ruled in 2005 that he could be deported to Germany, Poland or Ukraine; following which, Munich prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for him in March. Appeals followed until the Supreme court agreed with the deportation order.

Icheoku says, based on humanitarian grounds and empathy for his very advanced age of 89 years, Mr. Demjanjuk would have been spared deportation for whatever intransigence he may or may not have committed. The alleged Nazi-war criminal has very little time left here on earth and should have been allowed to live out whatever is left of his miserable life in his Seven Hills, Cleveland, Ohio, United States home. Sending him to Germany is being sent to a "foreign" country, accused of long gone crimes? What is done is done, and forgiveness is human. His now being dislocated from his equally aged wife of many years and the rest of his family is avoidable and could have been avoided. The man is just too old now to even feel the weight of whatever justice that might be meted to him as a result of his past alleged criminal activities. Instead, let his conscience deal with him and let God be the final arbiter.