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 britain in not an innocent bystander. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

MEGRAHI, BRITAIN SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY?

Britain placed its commercial interest above a long existing friendship with the United States of America when it released a known and convicted terrorist, who blew away so many Americans out of the sky over Lockerbie Scotland; and caused ever-lasting pain and suffering in many American house-holds. Icheoku says, Britain has no excuse whatsoever for the thoughtless act of releasing Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the 57-year-old former Libyan intelligence agent, responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people including 220 Americans aboard Pam Am Flight 103.
It does not matter whether it was on grounds of compassion or business-deals, it should not have taken place in view of the heinousness of the act for which he was convicted. Moreso Megrahi is not the only prisoner in Britain with a compassionate case as there are several thousands of prisoners wasting away in British prison system, whose story are as pathetic, if not worst than Megrahi's and they have not been set free or allowed to go home to die with their families? Had Megrahi died in British/Scottish prison, he would not have made the Guinness Book of World records as the first prisoner to die in prison in Britain, so why the hogwash balderdash? Did Megrahi allow those American kids, returning home on Christmas vacation to their families to get home and at least die with their families? No, but here is compassionate Britain, stabbing Americans at the back, setting free a man whose hands are dripping with several American lives? Icheoku says, no amount of explanation or any of it is good enough and the American government should strongly send a message of disdain to 10 Downing Street that this release is simply inexplicable and unacceptable, period!

Ironically, this terrorist-criminal is wearing American Nike, the product of the ingenuity of the same people who he hated so much, that he blew many of them up over Lockerbie-Scotland? Why would the terminally ill Megrahi be allowed to return home to die with his family when he denied others their right to return home to their own families? It is our firm position, all things considered and all excludables excluded, that Britain considered her commercial interest in the oil fields of Libya more important than the several hundreds of Americans who lost their lives in the tragedy of December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The British officials' insistence that the decision was "solely the Scottish" is a lie through the teeth as the foreign affairs of Britain is conducted by Downing Street and not Edinburgh or Glasgow. This criminality of Megrahi's mass murder, blowing up an American plane with Americans onboard, over British territory of Lockerbie rises to such 'foreign affairs', so British government should save the world their faceless denial of complicity, denying that they did not have a hand in Megrahi's free passage out of prison to Libya? Icheoku asks, if those 270 victims that perished were British, would Megrahi have been released?
It is our position that the British and the Libyan government sat down and bartered over the freedom of Megrahi and made it a condition precedent to a continuing business relationship/deals! As far as British business is concerned, it does not matter for 10 Downing Street that Megrahi murdered 270 innocent people; for them, it is not wrong, it is completely plausible and actually inoffensive? Their attempt to explain otherwise does not matter as no one is buying into such crap of trying to explain an inexplicable blunder which questions everything that had held together the friendship across the pond? What would Winston Churchill or even Tony Blair do; but for Gordon Brown, access to Libyan oil triumphs over whatever existing interest between London and Washington DC, including America's dead? This thoughtless and reckless act is condemnable and should be condemned; not only by the victims families but by all men and women of good morals? Why should a terrorist master-mind be shown compassion when he never gave anybody any chance at live nor compassion to reach home to spend Christmas with their loved ones?
At Britain positing that Scotland acted solely in releasing Megrahi, Icheoku asks, since when has such an international incident bordering on criminality become the local affairs of Scotland; and this is a Britain which did not even express any scintilla of objection to the decision to free Megrahi? Or is Scotland now an independent country with such an over-reaching and over-whelming powers to conduct its own foreign affairs including poking fingers into the eyes of United States of America, with Britain watching and not objecting? Why didn't Britain offer to transfer Megrahi to the United States, assuming their feeble hearts can't take it any longer to continue to keep a dying terrorist in their prison? If the Brits were afraid of Ghaddaffi, America is not as President Regan once proved to Tripoli by sending a missile right into his bedroom. Icheoku says, not only did Megrahi's ill-advised release gave comfort to terrorists around the world, it also shows that terrorists now have a new partner in Britain; which has by this very act, provided a shoulder for them to lean on in their time of need? What a buffoonery of a decision for a man who spilled so much American young blood to be turned loose a free man? Maybe Megrahi should equally be knighted by their Queen or receive somewhat medal for killing so many innocent Americans over Lockerbie? Icheoku agrees completely, totally and into-to that this release of Megrahi, indeed, makes mockery of the grief of the families who lost their own loved ones on December 21, 1988.
British feeble attempt at denying complicity and involvement in rubbishing American-dead, have been put to rest with the Libyan leader Moummar Gadhafi singling out for thanks, Brown, Queen Elizabeth of Britain and Prince Andrew, for in his own words, "encouraging the Scottish government to take this historic and courageous decision, despite the obstacles." So who is now the lying chicken if not Britain, trying to deny the obvious? To make matters worse, Britain is bare-facedly lying that 'London and Tripoli did not reach any deal'? This is incredulous and incredulity fused in one! And assuming for the sake of argument that we yield to Britain that they were not involved in the release of Megrahi, as they are desperately trying to pull a wool over the eyes of the world to believe, Icheoku asks, under what authority then did Prime Minister Gordon Brown write to Moummar Gaddafi, instructing him to 'treat Megrahi's return as a purely private domestic family affairs and not to celebrate it? So now, you know the Brits are not coming through in their explanation, possibly once again lying through their teeth? If according to the Brits, a high-profile return in Tripoli would cause pain and suffering to the families of the victims, Icheoku asks, how about the hellish agony which the release by itself caused, especially coming from Britain, our supposed staunchest ally? Why didn't Britain nip whatever 'high-profile return' by not releasing this criminal-terrorist in the first place; instead of now purportedly addressing the symptoms and not the cause of the disease? And these Libyans, with the tacit support and approval of the British, are now celebrating an evil man who took away the lives of so many innocents?
In summation, Icheoku says, it is a 'pay to play' deal that made Britain to stab America's interest at the back with the release of Megrahi; as their $900 million dollars oil exploration deal between their BP PLC and Libya's National Oil Co were at stake; and they considered such a paltry $900 million dollars sufficient enough to sell-out on the American Lockerbie-dead? Is this a Judas Iscariot's move or what? E tu Britain! And Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, confirmed as much when he said that 'Megrahi's release was a constant point of discussion during trade talks with Britain.' Therefore, the case of complicity of Britain in the release of Megrahi is conclusively proved beyond any reasonable doubt; and Britain stands convicted in the courts of American public opinion. They are guilty as charged! Guilty! Guilty!