DACA WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND HAS TO END.

ICHEOKU says the fact of the matter is that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional; so the latest action taken by President Donald John Trump's administration to end it, is an effort to right one of the wrongs of the previous President Barack Obama's overreaching actions. It is a move to reinstate a Congressional power to legislate and make laws which was previously hijacked by President Barack Obama by the executive order which authorized DACA. The elected representatives of the people make laws while the executive enforce and implement the laws and therefore an encroached executive must be reined back in and this is what happened with the DACA rescission. President Donald John Trump merely acted to protect separation of powers.

It is the Constitution stupid. So if the people of America wants to allow any changes to be made to their immigration laws, they should say so through their elected representatives  who has the sole power to make laws including to change or amend already existing laws in the books. Sympathy or empathy does not and should not be allowed to override duly enacted laws and this is fundamentally what the latest action seems to reiterate as it redresses an existing malady. ICHEOKU says the President Donald John Trump government also acted in good faith and showed a magnanimous goodwill by not outrightly canceling the program, but allowed a six months window of grace during which the Congress can right the wrong with a legislation backing up the program or have themselves responsible for whatever becomes the fate of such Dreamers going forward thereafter; and thus  basically leaving the fates of Dreamers in the hands of Congress.

ICHEOKU agrees with Attorney General Jeff Sessions that in order to have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, that America cannot admit everyone who would wants to come and live in the United States of America. According to the AG, the decision to terminate DACA was not lightly reached but in the interest of constitutional laws governing the country, it is a painful pill that must be swallowed for the sake of upholding the laws of the land, regardless. DACA conflicts with existing Immigration Laws and only the Congress can make, amend or change already existing laws in the books and they can as well do so with what DACA intended to accomplish, but not otherwise. 

Ending DACA or sending the program back to Congress is a good policy and ICHEOKU hereby commends the government for being bold and courageous in keeping to the letters of the Constitutional separation of powers. Laws of the land are laws of the land and any changes thereto must be by the body duly authorized to vary or change or even repeal and replace them. The over eight hundred thousand beneficiaries thus far granted protection under DACA are actually victims of Barack Obama political machinations and has nothing on President Trump, who is merely acting to save laws guiding the United States of America. President Obama went outside the ambits of his powers as president by usurping legislative authority of the Congress through the backdoor of executive order and should therefore not be heard to now complain about cruelty or morality. 

There is nothing cruel in insisting that laws of the land including bar against executive overreach be maintained. Anyone looking for cruelty should ask President Obama why Libyan Moummar Gaddafi has to die or why Nigerian government was not allowed to purchase weapons with which to fight terrorists Boko Haram at the height of that insurgency, during the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan. This two examples is what being cruel indeed really looks like, as people died; and not just enforcing laws of the land which has not killed anyone. Therefore, former President Barack Obama looking for who is cruel should look into the mirror and he will see the face of cruelty starring back at him. Calling President Donald Trump cruel simply because he is trying to redress what President Obama screwed up is to say the least a bifurcated double speak, which is both baseless and fallacious. Let Congress do their job and if not, let the separation of power rule prevail. 

HELP TEXAS RECOVER: DONATE TODAY

 

ICHEOKU says everybody should try and be a good neighbor and help the great State of Texas pull through the devastation that was Hurricane Harvey and the storm left in its trail. Please help Texas get through this, make a donation to any of the relief funds including to the Red Cross. Salute.

North Korea IS BEGGING FOR WAR - NIKKI HALEY

HATE SPEECH LAW: A RESURRECTION OF DECREE 4 an article by BAYO OLUWASANMI

The Buhari government equates disagreement with its official position on issues as being synonymous with hate, and has failed to draw a line between divergence of opinions and hate speech. I have two predictions to make: before you're through with this piece, the federal and state governments of Nigeria may issue a decree against hate speech. The authorities, its agents, and some Nigerians would call for my head for circulating hate speech. 

At the last meeting of the National Economic Council in Abuja, the Buhari led federal government and the various state governments proposed a new law which would categorize hate speech as “terrorism.” It was agreed at the meeting that a special court be established for the arrest and prosecution of purveyors of hate speeches. To be sure, the hate speech law is fueled by withering criticisms of Nigerians against propaganda, lies, unrest, crisis, chaos, unfulfilled promises and socioeconomic problems that continue to plague Buhari administration. It's no surprise that the government would dress criticisms as “hate speech” in order to silence its harshest critics. 

As former military head of state, President Muhammadu Buhari was widely unpopular for his Decree 4, a draconian piece of legislation that allowed the government to imprison any journalist who embarrassed the country's military leaders – a nebulous charge that was frequently invoked to muzzle the press and civil society during the 18-month rule of Buhari, now a professed “converted democrat.” Buhari, as a former military man, showed little tolerance for dissenting voices the last time he was in power as a dictator. 

He has “a career of gross abuses of power and blatant rights of the Nigerian citizenry.” He clamped down on the press with the infamous Decree 4, he closed down newspapers, arrested and jailed many journalists, such as Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian newspaper, over stories that were factual. He told Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not; if his regime didn't like it, the writer would go to jail. 

Tai Solarin, Nigeria's moral power house, social critic, crusader, and humanist extraordinaire, was the only one bold enough to dare Buhari and the only one left to speak for the voiceless. As he stood at Dugbe market junction in Ibadan, distributing leaflets detailing the various atrocities of Buhari, he was arrested and jailed. In prison, he was denied his traditional agbo that has proved effective in the treatment of his asthma. Three youths were executed on the orders of Buhari under the retroactive Decree 20. The names of the three youths should jolt your memory: Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29), and Bartholomew Owoh (26). 

When he dislodged President Shehu Shagari from power, he kept him in an executive mansion while his Igbo vice-president Alex Ekwueme was locked up in Kirikiri prison. Buhari ordered the arrest of septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. Chief Ajasin was arraigned and tried before the Buhari Kangaroo Tribunal. Chief Ajasin was acquitted. He re-arrested and retried Ajasin. Again the tribunal acquitted him of all charges of  corruption. He refused to release Ajasin, instead he was detained indefinitely. Ambrose Ali was tried for an underdeveloped plot of land and was jailed 75 years with heavy torture that led to his blindness and death. Jim Nwobodo and Lateef Kayode Jakande were jailed 100 years for stealing nothing. 

There is no need for new laws against hate speech. We have enough laws to deal with hate speech crimes: sections 59-60, 373-381 of the Criminal Code (applicable to the southern states) and sections 391-40, 417-418 of the Penal Code (applicable in the northern states). The Cyber Crime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 enacted by the National Assembly deals with the use of social media to promote bigotry and hatred in society. Sections 24 and 26 of the Act provide for the following: 

“24. (1): Any person who knowingly or intentionally sends a message or other matter by means of computer systems or network that – (a) is grossly offensive, pornographic or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character or causes any message or matter to be so sent; or (b) he knows to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to another or causes such a message to be sent: commits an offense under this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of not more than N7,000,000.00 or imprisonment for a term of not more than 3 years or to both such fine and imprisonment. (2) Any person who knowingly or intentionally transmits or causes the transmission of any communication through a computer system or network – (a) totally threaten or harass another person, where such communication places another person in fear of death, violence or bodily harm or to another person. Violation of this Act will attract imprisonment for a term of 10 years and/or a minimum fine of N25,000,000.00.” 

The hate speech law will restrict or abridge free speech of Nigerians. It's a law based on viewpoint, an egregious form of content discrimination which is presumptively unconstitutional. The Constitution does not entrust freedom of speech to the government's benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society. It cannot be stressed enough that speeches that governments or their agents view as offensive are protected not just against outright prohibition, but also against lesser restrictions. 

The Buhari government equates disagreement with its official position on issues as being synonymous with hate, and has failed to draw a line between divergence of opinions and hate speech. The call for restructure, call for devolution of power, call for a new constitution, agitation for creation of Oduduwa and Biafra Republics, debate on the unfinished business on Nigeria's unity, discussions where the country is headed and similar hot button issues that have lately engaged Nigerians like never before, no doubt, question the legitimacy and relevance of the “government of change.” 

I see the campaign mounted by the government for hate speech law as a deflection or diversion from serious national issues that cry for urgent solutions, viz: restructure, job creation, creation of state and local government police, a leaner and effective federal government, healthcare, education, housing, judicial reforms, creation of corruption courts, internal security, and many more. The idea that the Buhari administration wants to restrict or abbreviate speech expressing ideas that are critical of his regime as offensive and criminal, strikes at the heart of freedom of speech. I believe the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express the thought that we hate. Hate speech law is resurrection of Decree 4. It won't fly!

HOUSTON FLOOD: WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE!

ICHEOKU says may the good Lord provide them the strength to power through this crisis IJN.

NORTH KOREA: TOTAL ANNIHILATION AWAITS YOU - MATTIS

ICHEOKU says once again the diminutive midget of Pyongyang has been advised to heed the resolution of the United Nations firm stand against his continuing provocations; and that the total wiping out of his North Korea is now an option should he force the hands of the United States of American military. 

In a statement by the Defense Secretary Jim Maddog Mattis over its latest nuclear test, the secretary said “Our commitment among the allies are ironclad. Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam, or our allies will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. We are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely North Korea, but as I said, we have many options to do so.” ICHEOKU says does not really know the joker that guy has, but whatever it is will likely very soon be forced out. The world including ICHEOKU is waiting and watching.

GREGORY WAYNE ABBOTT: ABLY LEADING THE LONE STAR STATE OF TEXAS

ICHEOKU says one of the things that washed up to national and international attention with the Hurricane Harvey induced great flood of Texas, is the governor of Texas, who many did not know before now is wheelchair bound. ICHEOKU is particularly impressed that a man with such a physical constraint could rise to become the governor of such a masochistic state, where everything is about toughness, a are you tough enough state and he is doing a great job leading the state. To even win the governorship election of such a big State as Texas is a big deal without more. This speaks volume about the governor's tenacity; and that as opposed to physical strength, that mental strength is the key and Governor Gregory Wayne Abbott has that in abundance.

ICHEOKU has nothing more to say except to wish the governor well and pray that he will find the strength to help his big state power through their recovery from the destruction that was wrought by the cataclysmic flood which swept through the state. His strength and accomplishments is a good encouraging testament to all physically challenged persons that anything and everything is possible once you put your mind in it. ICHEOKU hopes that the governor will continue to showcase his special ability governing Texas from his wheelchair, as such a can-do attitude is what everyone needs in order to survive and thrive. What an inspiration by an able man who the State of Texas has in Governor Gregory Wayne Abbott. May the good Lord continue to guide and protect him as he governs. 

THE TEXAS FLOOD OF BIBLICAL PROPORTION.

ICHEOKU says our thoughts and prayers are with the people of the great State of Texas as they face down the biggest storm of the century that has drenched their cities. Texans are tough people and they shall overcome. If Noah had nearly as half as what is presently at disposal in Texas battling the hardship of this storm, probably some more people would have survived that flood. But it is Divine and nobody questions a Divine will and so what was willed would have still have come to pass. Stay strong Texas.

HOUSTON FLOOD: OUR HEARTS ARE WITH THOSE RESILIENT TEXANS.

ICHEOKU says Hurricane Harvey has since left but its aftermath lingers on in flooding which is threatening to overwhelm those in the cities visited by the now departed hurricane turned storm in Southeast Texas including Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston etc. ICHEOKU wishes them God's protection as they battle the worst flooding in recorded Texas history. 

MAYWEATHER DEFEATS MCGREGOR: REMAINS UNBEATEN.

ICHEOKU says Floyd Money Mayweather lived up to his billings as the best pound for pound fighter ever to walk in the ring of pugilism. He TKOed Conor McGregor in the tenth round and remains unbeaten in his 50 career fights. ICHEOKU says congratulations Flyod.

NO MORE NATION BUILDING, JUST KILLING THE BAD GUYS.

ICHEOKU says the United States of America mandate to its military engaged overseas particularly Afghanistan is stop cuddling the bad guys, just whack them. ICHEOKU says certainly a c-change in the rules of engagement and it will certainly make it easier for our warriors who will risk less of their lives and limbs in battle fields. President Donald John Trump is definitely leading as said and providing the leadership our military needs as their Commander in Chief. Way to go.

WHAT HAPPENED a book of distortions by HILLARY CLINTON

ICHEOKU says defeated former Democratic Party's presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote a soon to publish book about her abysmal outing in the last election. A presidential candidate who lost to a novitiate, blowhard politician and current president of the united states of America Donald John Trump. In it she gave an account of her peculiar facts of what happened that torpedoed her presidential dream cum run. 

Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton, millions of Americans as well as other world citizens lived through the last election and do not need any further alternative facts from a serial liar and exaggerator extraordinary, as to what they witnessed. Their verdict is that the book is a complete regurgitate, a hogwash, a distortion of consequential facts and that nobody needs any extra lecturing from Hillary Clinton, a woman who lives in a permanent state of denial and whose penchant for exaggerating stories is phenomenal about what actually happened. 

WHAT HAPPENED is that there was an election campaign which she lousily waged as she arrogantly thought that she was merely waiting for her presidential coronation and did not need to work as hard to earn it. She carried herself throughout the campaign circle as a lady president in wait, without doing the heavy lifting that any presidential campaign requires. She  stonewalled American people and the Media on so many issues, including her HIllaryGate Email scandal and series of corruption. She did not campaign in or rather neglected the Ross Belt region and she had no answer on anything including her manifesto and mission creed. The only thing she campaigned on was hatred for Trump and she mightily urged Americans, especially her supporters to hate Donald John Trump, her then opponent. ICHEOKU says this is the synopsis of WHAT HAPPENED and not the tales by the moonlight she wants gullible cooled drinkers to waste their money on, by purchasing and reading her latest crappy book, WHAT HAPPENED. 

Anyway, an indictment which is probably coming down the pike of the Justice Department very soon, might be what it will take to finally shake Hillary Clinton up from her lingering comatose nightmare, from which she has never recovered since the night of November 8, 2016; leading to some concerned citizens and sympathizers alike to query whether the election loss has also impacted her faculties. ICHEOKU says will read the book just out of curiosity and to verify how much she lied or tried to alter the story of the last election campaign. However, ICHEOKU will not spend a dime buying the book, as enriching the Clintons any further and in any way, is rather scandalous. ICHEOKU will not be contributing further to the Clinton Family crime funds which buying this book entails. Yes indeed, something happened, but it was not what Hillary Clinton said happened. WHAT HAPPENED is that Hillary Clinton lost an election which was hers to grab but she fumbled; and her failure has technically, permanently retired her from politics. Adios Amiga Hillary!

THEY SWARMED AND ANTIFA FLED

ICHEOKU says thanks to American Bikers, the much anticipated protest in Phoenix rally-styled speech did not materialize. May be we should have more of these Bikers in every rally. Kudos to the real bad ass men with steely balls.

PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP SPEAKS IN PHOENIX

PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP'S AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY ADDRESS

BOSTON AND CHARLOTTESVILLE SHOWS, WHAT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

ICHEOKU says it is due to one thing and one thing only, the police did their job in one city while they chose to stand idly by and do nothing in the other city. This is what ended up being the major difference from the charade that was Virginia and the good job put up in Massachusetts. But in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in its city of Charlottesville, somebody in authority made the conscious decision not to allow the police to do their job; to protect a group of people who were legally doing what they were authorized to do by the Constitution of the United States of America and for which they obtained required necessary permit to do. They allowed a bunch of trouble making rabble rousers to crash the party and with it the mayhem that was witnessed in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

So, anyone drawing a comparative analysis between the two cities protests must be mindful of the political undertones that was in place in both places, which sabotaged one protest rally and made monsters of some people and the other one which followed a textbook detail of how to police a lawful event and avoid unnecessary tension in the land. ICHEOKU has no dog in the fight and could care less what any pinhead hater wants to say, but categorically rejects the current umbrage against the President of the United States of America Donald John Trump as being responsible for what went down in Charlottesville, because he is not. 

The president, as the father of the nation had to admonish both sides of the political fringed spectrums to cut the crap and be of better behavior. Anyone expecting him to have taken sides is mistaken, because as a president of all Americans, he is supposed to be impartial in all issues and matters involving the citizens of the nation. He did not start racial divisions in America, they preceded his presidency and they will still be around long after he completes his term or terms in office. When two children are engaged in a fight, any responsible parents have to first stop the fight, listen to their stories, before apportioning blame accordingly. The president spoke well on Monday when he said that both sides behaved badly; and again, the president was right on Tuesday when he called out the Nazis for their bad behavior after finding out the facts of what happened and once again, the president did not misspeak when on Wednesday he reiterated that there is always two parties to a conflict. 

ICHEOKU therefore calls on everybody to move on from the current Charlottesville nonsense and refocus on how to solve the multitude of problems facing the nation; instead of expending useful manpower dribbling about nothingness. Enough of the divisions and enough of the finger pointing at the White House; moreso, now that Steven Bannon has gone, once again a show of proof by the president that he is not beholden to any nationalists movement nor have been taken hostage by any white separatist group including the KKK. Americans should therefore move forward and allow the president a chance and the opportunity to do what he needs to do to help Make America Great Again.

CHARLOTTESVILLE MELEE: AN AVOIDABLE DISPLAY OF AMERICAN UNDERBELLY.

ICHEOKU says all anybody can do now is to second guess what indeed actually went wrong in Charlottesville, the usual Monday night quarterbacking; and there is a lot of finger pointing to go around and at so many different directions. ICHEOKU refuses to accept and is not buying the narrative that it was strictly a one sided madness that went uncontrollably too far, too quickly; because it is not. It takes two to tango; every coin comes with two sides and there are always two tales to a story. 

Yes, the original protesters, with permit, were protesting against something dear to their heart, the planned removal of a statue which they do not want to see removed; and they have the right to express themselves freely and without let. Suddenly, another group came to challenge their right to freely express themselves, resulting in the disturbances that was seen in Charlottesville Virginia; needless to add that these rabble rousers did not have permit to simultaneously stage a protest. They took the laws into their hands and got away with it, as the police stood idly by, hands akimbo, and watched as the disruption and protection took a horrible dimension. Did the nationalist have right to do what they did, you bet they did; and included in that right is the additional right not to be disturbed or molested as they carried on with their protest. So query, if they did and had necessary permit as required, why then did the police, paid with public money into which these white nationalists also contribute by way of taxes, not provide them with much needed protection and allowed the meddlesome interlopers to disrupt an otherwise peaceful march. 

This is the issue that should be investigated and not all these ruse being thrown up in the name of racism, because it is not the underlying factor in the Charlottesville incident. It is on record that the opposite end of the political spectrum has been carrying on all manners of protest since last November 9, 2016 when President Donald John Trump won the presidency of the United States of America. Hillary Clinton, a sore loser, instead of conceding election as any sport would do and urge support for the new president,  half heartedily did and immediately turned around to urge resistance to the new president and it has been one trouble after another from the far left ever since. It created so may reverse hate groups including the Alt-Left anarchists who has been agitating ever since. The same people have disrupted several conservative events and speeches including Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos aborted speeches in University of California Berkeley. They  even nearly burnt down part of the school to make sure they caused enough terror to cause the university to revoke already granted permits to host the event that had them as speakers. The same group of leftist mad dogs went to San Jose to stir another trouble, yet they were not railed in. 

It is on record that while all these leftist protests were going on, the nationalists did not bother them nor interfered to disrupt them and they had their way freely. ICHEOKU says why is it then that it is okay to treat the two groups differently and in America that is supposed to respect the fundamental rights of all of her citizens equally, regardless of how opprobrious they might be. Why is it then that the far left can enjoy their protected speech but the far right cannot? Why is it then that the far left is allowed to enjoy their freedom of speech to protest unmolested, but the far right is not allowed to also enjoy their own protest without being molested. No matter how reprehensible their protest action may be, provided they kept it within the law, it is nobody's business deciding what can be allowed or not. It is for the law enforcement agencies, led by the police, to determine when they went over and beyond their authorized permissible scope. It is not the opposing viewpoint agitators that has the right to decide this and this is where the injustice reared its head; because had there been no disruption or attempt thereto, those white nationalists would have peacefully carried out their rally and nobody would be talking about a rally that went awry including an avoidable death of a young woman. 

Justice denied one is justice denied all, because if the nationalist are deprived their right to free speech today, whose turn will it be tomorrow, anybody's. What if it was the nationalists that interfered to disrupt other peoples rights to freely exercise a constitutionally guaranteed freedom, will the reaction have been the same? It is therefore unjust to selectively decide who enjoys what right, as guaranteed under the constitution and this is the real bone in the Charlottesville meat. There should be freedom for both sides, as freedom for one person should tantamount to freedom for everyone, including the bad and ugly of the society. Where does this censorship start and end? What if these nationalists did not like to hear all the horrible names the alt Left protesters have been calling President Trump and decided to take the matter into their hands to stop it? President Donald John Trump was called so many unprintable names including Hitler, but he did not and never gassed six million Jews. Yet it is okay by these leftist anarchists to use such name on a man who merely won an election against all odds and despite all roadblocks. 

So why is the name calling of the president acceptable but the name calling of others, including the Jews, not acceptable. It does not make sense and only the conspiracy of parties of interest who want to stop the president or make his presidency difficult, find this double standards acceptable. The universal fairness test would have remained sacrosanct: does the constitutional protection of freedom of speech cover the white nationalists speech which they wanted to freely exercise? If yes, then those anarchists who muzzled their speech and prevented them from doing what they were constitutionally authorized to do and duly obtained permit to do, should be the culpable party here and not those who were merely victims of a reverse hate. This is the pertinent issue here and hopefully both sides will learn to tolerate each other because if they don't, and the authorities continue to carry on with their bias against one side, they might push that side underground and into a reactionary forces which America does not want now. 

Thousands of Timothy McVeigh's clones are not what any sensible and rational America would rather trade for allowing mere speech, no matter how hateful and hurtful and even reprehensible. ICHEOKU says let both sides be allowed to freely air their grievances as there are a lot between them. It is their legitimate right of free speech to say whatever they want within codified limitations and they should freely exercise same without any hindrance whatsoever. The alternative is not a palatable option and this should guide everyone's action going forward in the current debate on racism in America. 

Lastly blaming President Donald John Trump for what went down in Charlottesville is a distasteful brain freeze garbage because racism has always been a way of life in America, long before Trump became president and it will continue long after he leaves office. He neither engineered nor in any way was party to what happened or should President Barack Obama be held responsible for the murders of the five Dallas police officers by a Black Live Matter's nut job? In the same vein, should Bernie Sanders be held responsible for the lunatic who shot up a Republican's golf practice session? It is about time all these guilty by imaginary association ended. Lastly, President Donald John Trump was right in pointing out that it takes two to a dispute because nobody ever quarrels with him or herself. ICHEOKU will even go a step further in actually blaming the alt Left who went seeking for trouble where the alt Right were merely doing their thing as the party responsible who should be held to account for the near crisis which erupted in Charlottesville. They are not speech police and cannot and should not be allowed to pick and choose which speech qualifies as acceptable speech and which one does not. Enough of this needless storm in a tea pot.