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 south african wild wild west. Show all posts
Showing posts with label south african wild wild west. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

JACOB ZUMA, LICENCE TO KILL?

Hurray, it is open-season in South Africa and for South African police! Human-head hunters are wanted in South Africa, apply with your rifles and shotguns? Are you a poacher, human-poacher that is, Zuma's government needs you? Bounty-hunters also, wanted in South Africa! Job description, to help Zuma's government reduce the number of unwanted 'armed' blackmen of South Africa!
In Zuma's eyes, these folks are mere 'quarries' to be mowed down, using his newest weapon of vigilantism; and without recourse to judicial process or consideration of some rights to life which they may otherwise have as human beings? This is happening in Zuma's South Africa! What happened to the time-honored 'innocent until proved guilty' mantra of legal jurisprudence? Icheoku says, President Jacob Zuma erred by signing-off on this ploy by South African police, to hunt down and kill at sight, innocent South African men and women, who appear to be carrying weapons?
As the police in South Africa, who are just recently emerging from their apartheid-era mindset, have now been re-authorised and licensed to kill first and ask questions later, Icheoku asks who advised President Zuma on this policy? After the nightmarish experiences of apartheid and the brutality of the police, it is shocking indeed that a man involved in the struggle to free South Africa should engage in this second 'apartheid?' How does anyone determine who is armed from a distance of several feet? What modalities are in place to prevent abuse or extra-judicial excessiveness of the police; who might now go into hunting expedition to see how well a good shot they are or how many heads they can garner as trophy? What if the South African police start using these Africans for target/shooting practice? What if the person was just holding a toy gun or simply playing with one? This policy is stupid, thoughtless, tasteless and akin to what obtains in barbaric times of vigilantism. Which sane man would authorise his henchmen to just kill any armed person in his country? What if the person is armed but not dangerous?
In South Africa, it is now legal to just shoot at sight any "armed" South African, and term it 'provoked disposition;' as it is no longer required for there to be a 'threatening' posture or necessarily provoked 'aggression?' Simply put, here comes another form of repressive apartheid government, but this time, by a fellow African, on his people of South Africa? Icheoku condemns this new law as crude, despotic and thoughtless; and should be immediately reversed or not implemented.
Instead of addressing the root cause of the social collapse in South Africa, President Zuma is cutting and running, using the easier way out? In his warped calculations, may be a few African lives is worth the trade-off? Really; and you wonder whether the sacrifices of apartheid was worth the blood and bile it took, after-all? Is it a case of going from frying pot into the fire? Or from the devil into the deep end? President Zuma would rather act on the symptom of the disease than the disease itself? Instead of tackling the seething unemployment, solving the education problem by educating these folks, fulfilling the promise of new post apartheid-era which seems to have died still-birth, facing down the problem of hunger, HIV/AIDS and other debilitating diseases plaguing South Africans; and addressing the frustration increasingly being manifested in these social vices; these unfortunate folks of South Africa who are already down on their luck, will now also be mowed down on the authorisation of their black post-apartheid President Zuma? Icheoku says and screams that President Jacob Zuma may hear us, the problem of and in South Africa is sociological, and not amenable to any quick fix of killing some 'armed' black people?
Unfortunately, President Jacob Zuma is proving to be another Uncle Tom of South Africa, who will kill his folks just because some vested interests in the suburbs, says it is the right thing to do? Icheoku says, crime in South Africa pales in comparison to crimes in Mexico, Colombia, Russia, Afghanistan and such other crime-infested places of this world! So the question remains, why is it that it is only in South Africa that 'extermination' is being employed as a solution? President Zuma might as well feed these folks to the starving lions and hyenas at his country's national parks, instead of now planning to 'waste' bullets on their buck-eye shots? Just throw them over the fences into the dens and save your bullets; at least they will provide meals to these tourists magnets, a source of badly needed foreign revenue for your government?
What an unthinking man President Jacob Zuma is? Regrettably, African leaders have no love for their people, otherwise how can a sane person decree that the 'baby be thrown away with the bath-water?' Certainly, some of the record criminality in South Africa is a function of mental disease which some adequate care might help in resolving; but Zuma will not entertain this postulation, but instead is deploying his men to 'just finish them off' and even when they are retreating and no longer a threat to anyone? South Africa is now the new Texas of Africa! Icheoku says, African Union should put pressure on Zuma's government to drop this heinous law as the consequences will be too overreaching and will impact society adversely? In his uncanny words, President Zuma said, "we have an abnormal criminal problem, for that we have to explore extraordinary means;" to which Icheoku responds that human lives are involved here and should call for more effort at fixing what is broken, than just waste God's creatures because it is an easier solution?
Icheoku says, what is 50 murders a day for a country of about 48 million people when some cities in United States of America with less than 280,000 residents like City of Richmond California, averages about 100-plus murders each year; same goes with Oakland California's 100-plus murders each year as well as San Francisco California, which averages about 98 murders each year! Yet heavens have not fallen and the tourists have not stopped coming to the city by the bay; and sometimes they too get killed! But none of these cities nor State of California nor United States of America have ordered a 'shoot-at sight of its 'armed but not dangerous' citizens/residents? Crime is every society's aching underbelly and cannot be stamped out by killing-off suspects without judicial approval? What is needed is social services, education, employment and re-training to shift these 'dregs' of the society away from the only thing they know how to, crime! But to kill them like animals, since human-beings have right to life and without judicial authorisation, is simply wrong and does not belong to this modern times!