THE PAPAL ASSAULT, AN AFFRONT ON GOD'S OWN INSTITUTION!

What an irony of life that on the day Christians all over the world are waiting in exhilarated anticipation for the commemoration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, that a raving mad daughter of Eve decided to attack our Lord's representative, Christ ambassador, bishop of Rome and head of the world catholic community, Pope Benedict XVI? The attacker sprung herself up from the mid-row of gathered parishioners inside the Vatican's basilica of St. Peter; and like a viper launched herself at a pope in a procession, yanking him to the ground. Icheoku says, any human-being who dared in this manner to wrestle God and publicly bring dishonor and disgrace to his alter-ego here on earth has engaged in a fight too many and which he or she cannot win. This raving lunatic of a woman has therefore beaten more than she can chew and for the long haul, except she quickly seeks forgiveness and atones for her sin!

The inexplicable security breach inside Saint Peter's basilica once again points to the sometimes near uselessness of these security-details? The woman who attacked and assaulted the pope could easily have been armed and dangerous; that by now may be the whole world catholic community would be in mourning; but peradventure God intervened and it was just a mere close-call of some indignity? It would be recalled that it was just three weeks ago that the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi was himself a victim of a porous and lacklustre security-detail; which allowed another mad Italian to draw blood from his mouth, breaking his nose and cracking his two teeth? Now, another world high-up resident of and pope of Rome, was himself, a victim of poor security; which left him helpless as he was wrestled to the grounds, with his ornate robes and in full regalia and before his gathered parishioners! Icheoku asks, Italians, whuz-up with your security or would you guys use some further and additional training? It is shameful that these two life-threatening incidents could simultaneously happen in Italy without any of the attacker, being stopped or even dispatched to the world beyond before they could score their cheap disgusting point?

But who is this crazed-out woman who would dare where angels trembled, and jumped on the pope; wrestling wrestle him to the grounds, inside the bowels of St. Peter's Basilica; the cornerstone of Christendom? Icheoku says, any human-being at all, capable of such unprovoked act of aggression on the man of God, is not deserving of the freedom which he or she enjoys and should be confined in a cold lunatic asylum for a long time. Icheoku watched the video of the jump and felt that she was either possessed of a demonic spirit or was under some influence of something; to have sprung the way she did and as resilient as she was until she saw the pope laying down on the marble floor of the basilica?

Now the Italians want to once again explain it away that she is not of a sound mind? Icheoku says, if she is not of a sound mind, what was she doing inside the basilica and within such a close proximity of the pope, as to become unstoppable from launching an attack which made its target? How did she get there and how were those gathered congregants screened before exposing the pope to them in such unsecured location? if the authorities knew she was unstable, why didn't they confine her in a lunatic asylum before she could visit harm on anybody, including the pope? A popular aphorism says, once beaten twice shy; and fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me; so the Italians instead of owning up and admitting their shortfalls are now scape-goating mental illness? Instead of manning up for their inadequacies and incompetence, which led to these two security lapses, they are busy, explaining how demented these attackers are? Once again, the Italian security-details have failed in their primary assigned duty of protecting their dignitaries; a failure of security which calls for an immediate overhaul of the system as a matter of utmost urgency, before any tragic consequence results therefrom as a result?

How could a woman jump barriers and knock down the pope with supposed security details watching and haplessly could not intervene? What then were they doing? A woman dressed in a red hooded sweat shirt vaulted over wooden barriers that cordoned off the basilica's main aisle and rushed and jumped the pope? Icheoku asks, could it be possible that this supposedly 'deranged' woman was acting out the biblical tale of the woman with the issue of blood; and that her faith forced her into the mad dash for the papal garment with hope of getting some healing; and accidentally pulled down the pope in the process? May be after-all, there was no malice aforethought in this supposed attack? Anyway, who knows the true intention of this woman until investigations are fully carried out, unravelling the motivation for this outrage. To further explore this angle of a possible miracle-seeking woman and her expectation that once she touched the pope's garment that her ailments will be cured; let us recall that during last 2008 Christmas Eve service, that another woman similarly made for the pope but was stopped by an alert security, who regrettably were caught off guard this time around. Coincidentally too, the last year's woman wore a red hooded sweat shirt similar to this attacker; which possibly could mean that it was the same woman who did not succeed last year that saw another opportunity this year and took it successfully? Also in 2007, another 'mentally' challenged man jumped a security barrier and grabbed the back of the pope's open car before being swarmed by security guards. This was another instance where contact was made with the pope or his popes-mobile, begging the question why was the security not very attentive on their subject of protection; and always acting after the fact?

Could this incident possibly mean that the pope was too exposed and his security too lax for these attackers to have landed their targets? Icheoku says, not when the pope is in the midst of his trusted flocks, who should do no harm but stay fixated at the sight of their God's representative on earth? And recourse should be had in the bible verse 'is Saul also among the prophets' and "among the twelve apostles was Judas?' Who knows that a green snake was lying in wait for an opportunity to strike? Icheoku's concludes that all the protection forces including the Swiss Guards, Vatican police and Italian police once again failed in their service to the pope and the Italian people; and should therefore be investigated and repositioned. Luckily enough, the pope proved that he was not too old to rise up after a fall; and harped on the derivative moral lesson that it is not falling down that is the issue but being able to rise up again after such fall. Icheoku says, well-done Pope Benedict XVI for your gallantry and for taking one for Jesus; "viva il papa!"