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.

Friday, April 23, 2021

THROW THE GUY SOME BONE OF RECIPROCITY.

ICHEOKU says German Chancellor Angel Merkel reportedly helped broker the Russia withdrawal of its amassed troops from the border with Ukraine. She should be commended for doing this; and of course, for agreeing to it the Kremlin strongman also deserves commendation as well. By doing it, at least the rising tension in that part of the world which would have bode nobody any good has been deflated. 

Like a puppy which is intermittently rewarded with a treat each time it behaves well or complies to an instruction, Vladimir Putin deserves to be acknowledged for taking the first step towards deescalation. The West, especially the United States of America, should consider reviewing some of the sanctions which it recently imposed on Russia as a reciprocal gesture of their goodwill too. That way the message will be strongly reinforced that only good behavior from Kremlin will be rewarded and it will also encourage the continuing thawing of the now almost refrozen relationship between both parties. Please America, throw the dog some bone as Vladimir Putin deserves some credit.

LATEST WITHDRAWAL DATE FOR TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN: SIMPLY WISHFUL.

ICHEOKU says it would have been a very good thing if only it could, be at last, finally achieved.  But it will not happen because the same Deep State which installed Joe Biden in the White House are deeply invested in the weapons and war economy and Afghanistan is one heck of a profitable venture. They are used to their mouth watering omelette and they will not just stand idly by and watch Joe Biden kill the golden goose that lays the necessary eggs. The over twenty years running military adventure in Afghanistan is very good for business and the return on investment is profitably quite high too. So, suddenly drying up such a juicy source will not be tolerated by those fat cats who binge on American taxpayers money, spent on weapons and wars. Their appetite is greedily huge and they need to continuously feed it 

Joe Biden will not be the first White House resident to set such a benchmark date of complete and total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Recall that one other president even added the closure of Guantanamo Bay in his to do list, but he was not allowed to do any of them throughout his eight years in the White House. Even President Donald John Trump wanted to do it but even the generals he put in positions in the Pentagon bucked him on that. So, Joe Biden will not be an exception as he too will fail because the forces amassed against closing the Afghanistan money maker are far greater than just one man in the White House. It cuts across a very large swathe of American Deep Staters, including members of both Democratic Party and Republican Party, as well as the retired and serving military and security community. Moving against them will be a very uphill task for Joe Biden to successfully accomplish and they will use every means necessarily possible to force him to back down or they will actively frustrate it. 

Therefore the September 11th 2021, 9/11 anniversary, newly set date for the final return of American troops from Afghanistan will not be mission accomplished. As other previously similarly set dates came and passed, so will it also come and pass and American troops will still be stationed in Afghanistan. The Deep State will muscle Joe Biden into submission and force him into not fulfilling that promised withdrawal and in the alternative, to just dilly-dally and tarry along until he leaves office. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden will, some time very close to his September 11th 2021 set date, appear on television to tell Americans and the rest of the world that certain developments in Afghanistan has made it imperative that American troops extend their stay in the country. That his well intended decision to have all American troops withdrawn from Afghanistan has been frustrated by some unforeseen circumstances beyond his control and that in the interest of America's security, he has decided to defer the withdrawal date until further notice. 

The total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would have happened a very long time ago if indeed the Deep State and the Pentagon wanted it to happen, immediately following the killing of Osama Bin Laden when America would have declared a real "mission accomplished" and beat it out of the desolate parch of earth. In fact, Afghanistan has no viable utility to America as to warrant the expenditure of the humongous amount of American blood and treasure that went into it. So, the withdrawal decision is a good and commendable thing which time came a very long time ago, even though it has remained unfulfilled and hopefully this time will be different. If Joe Biden can pull it off, it will count favorably in his column as the fella who finally accomplished what many before him only dreamt they had achieved. It will bode well for his legacy and will definitely win him some converts, especially among military families who will be relieved from their wards' over extended stay in that part of the world has finally come to end.

ICHEOKU says no amount of time spent in Afghanistan will ever be enough to accomplish whatever "mission goals" that demanded it, because it is the Afghani society that is troubled and not necessarily the Talibans or any other terrorist groups operating there. If the society was functional enough, those terrorists groups will not find it such a conducive place for their operational base. But it is a permanently failed State and no amount of American presence there, no matter how elongated, will ever right their ship of State. It has everything to do with the brand of ultra conservative Islamism being practiced there, which is entirely anti Western civilization. This makes it difficult if not impossible to have a safe workable tradeoffs that will be acceptable to America and the mullahs in charge of the Islamic orthodoxy to warrant a safe  withdrawal. America wants a Western value based Afghanistan, but the mullahs of Kabul prefer the country's full return to their annihilistic Islamism and nothing else.

So, as long as the breeding madrassas which churn out millions of Islamist fanatics, who are completely brained and steeped in their brand of ancient Islamism, continue to thrive in Afghanistan, that long will Afghanistan be burrowing deeper into absolute Islamic orthodoxy. A matter made worse because nearly the entire population want it that way and majority always carries the vote. Whether America leaves on September 11th, 2021 or one hundred years later on September 11th, 2121, Afghanistan will still revert to their brand of extreme Islamism and also instal a Taliban government in Kabul. There is no other way around it. So, unless America is ready to completely annex Afghanistan as a territory or have an irrevocable permanent military base there built there to guard them in perpetuity, it will be better to cut the losses now and beat it. Afghanistan will never change or abandon its ideological extremism and will forever remain  an extremists infested parch of desolate earth. 

If Afghanistan's neighbors and other countries around that hemisphere are comfortable with it becoming a failed state in the event of American troops final withdrawal, so be it. If Afghanistan implodes, it is a crisis which America can watch from a afar and can always timely mount a response should America become threatened as a result. American troops were not in Afghanistan before September 11th, 2001 and they can always go back to kill off any terrorists should they ever threaten or dare strike at America again. America has been defending itself from so many foes including Russia, North Korea and Iran without American troops being stationed in those countries. So, the argument that terrorists from Afghanistan will strike at America again if the troops are withdrawn is simply a hogwash and not a reason to station them there indefinitely. But if not now, when? If not in September 11th 2021, when? Will September 11th, 2121 be any better? Just bring the troops home and September 11th, 2021 will be just fine.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

CAN WE PLEASE NOT MAKE VLADIMIR PUTIN MADDER: ENOUGH ALREADY.

ICHEOKU says the West should and must introduce a new approach in their dealing with Russia's Vladimir Putin as what is, seems not to be working so well or well enough. This is in order to avoid an un-bargained for sudden cataclysmic event which might prove very fatal to mankind. So yes, Vladimir Putin is a dictator but so also are China's Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. But the West is not threatening them as they seem to repeatedly often do with Vladimir Putin. Why is Vladimir Putin being singled out particularly in this manner as there should have been a one cap fits all approach to all dictators, but not one special cap for Vladimir and different caps for Jinping and Jong Un. 

At least, Vladimir Putin's Russia is somewhat free, with limited opposition and limited press freedom, unlike Xi Jinping China and Kim Jong Un's North Korea with absolutely zero freedom for the opposition and the press. In North Korea, such attempt is ruthless put down by feeding suspected non compliant people alive to purposely starved rabid wild dogs. China also ruthlessly puts them down and have now crushed democracy in Hong Kong and menacingly threatening to do the same in Taiwan. So why single Vladimir Putin out for a separate treatment. He is still European, a white man; and has more to gain with a peaceful Europe than an Europe devastated by fissile materials. He is apparently fully invested in the preservation of the white race and their continuous survival as a people. Therefore, he will be more amenable to reaching a detente with the West and such opening should be exploited for good. 

America and other Western European nations as well as Australia and New Zealand should explore some ways to meet Vladimir Putin half way and see how to provide him with some necessary accommodations in order to sooth his ego, towards achieving a more peaceful, non confrontational, co-existence with Russia's Vladimir Putin. The approach of the last two decades of constantly pillorying Vladimir Putin does not seem to have worked or at least worked as anticipated. He has been in power since 2000 and nothing seems to have changed in his operational behavioral pattern and mode of conduct. So, why continue on the same pathway that has led to no where with a change in his behavior; or must the West be so stubborn,  continuously powering along a pathway to no where, except of course their primary intention is not to reform Vladimir Putin but to continuously portray him in the light which he seems to now relish and glow.  

ICHEOKU is emphatic that it is about time a different solution is put to the problem in order to bring Vladimir Putin closer than to continuously scare him off and eventually back him into a corner, where feeling trapped and left with no option he might spring like a cobra and ask out angrily and devastatingly. Although the West might think that they can win a full scale shooting war against Russia, which is debatable; but it will come at a very grave cost which the West might not be prepared to pay. This begs the question, why not explore the less expensive option, a way to achieve a more acceptable result which will forever free the world of the never ending phobia of Russia and what possibly Vladimir Putin is up to and might do if push ever comes to shove. 

But it seems that the continuous hot rhetorics and sanctions against Russia and Vladimir Putin is the agreed upon accepted template and the West latches unto it for a reason, to maximize an agenda. They want to continuously make out Vladimir Putin as the bogey man who the rest of the world must be wary of and in order to protect themselves from him, they need to continuously stockpile up weapons of war to defend themselves from Vladimir Putin's possible invasion of their territories. A signature of the military industrial complex, their tried and tested modus operandi, since fear always works. They love stoking it, so that they can continue plying their weapons sales and war trade. 

It might not end well for everyone should Vladimir Putin feel seriously threatened and forced to snap. His latest State of the Russian Nation address to his people seems to suggest that he is trending this way. He seems to be steadily getting very anxious and agitated, feeling about to be ensnared and being gradually boxed in. He has warned against the West crossing certain redlines but failed to describe which things constitute the deadlines which the West must not cross, thus making them his sole exclusive determination as what they are. Such open ended threat is ominous as nobody knows what in particular will trigger his reaction. It is a fluidly developing situation and it does not bode well for world peace. Mankind's survival is at stake as a reactionary Vladimir Putin will readily first explode those stockpiled nuclear weapons in his arsenal than succumb or marched out from Kremlin in handcuffs. 

But all these angst can easily end today if the West will allow Russia to be fully integrated into Europe as a bona fide member of the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization as well as other world and regional bodies as an accepted, equal and full partner. Thereafter, he could be made to conform with existing norms within those bodies which sustains peaceful neighborliness. With that, he can also be made to disarm since he will no longer feel threatened and the need to defend himself and protect his position. It is worth exploring and in fact, the West owe the world the duty of peace to explore this solution. ICHEOKU strongly believes that it is exactly what Vladimir Putin is waiting for and there is no harm in trying everything and anything that would ensure that nuclear bombs are not ever dropped again on the humanity which inhabit this world. Enough of the avoidable tensive world of confrontation against Russia and they Vladimir Putin. 

PANTAMI: A NIGERIA MINISTER IS A TERRORISTS SYMPATHIZER.

"We are happy whenever unbelievers are killed. September 11th was a good thing. I mourn Osama Bin Laden and Abubakar al Baghdadi. They are martyrs and my heroes. All those fighting are not terrorists, they are fighting for the cause. I will volunteer to fight jihad against the West." - Ali Isa Pantami, Nigeria's Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. 

ICHEOKU says these are some of the things said by this man who is currently serving in Nigeria's government as a Minister or as America would call it a Secretary. So, what is Washington DC waiting before sanctioning Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for providing safe territory for terrorists and terrorists sympathizers in his government? When will Joe Biden read the riots act to Muhamadu Buhari for parleying with terrorists sympathizers by allowing them to serve in his government. Better still, let the CIA just drone him and get it over with. Three thousand Americans lost their lives on 9/11. Never Again! #ResignNowPantami.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

DEREK CHAUVIN'S CONVICTION: AMERICA WAS SAVED BY THE BELL OF A CORRECT VERDICT.

ICHEOKU says no other outcome would have been accepted or sufficient to save America from disastrous riots which would have engulfed the country and possibly rocked its foundations. But the jury rose up to the occasion, did the right thing by returning the correct and right verdict of guilty. Now, America lives to fight another day in the never ending battle of racial discord afflicting America. ICHEOKU says the verdict is evident that never again would an OJ Simpson style of "not guilty" verdict or a Rodney King's type of police brutality and the "not guilty" verdict of the police officers involved be tolerated or accepted in America. 

It is also a testament that violence induced fear always works in some situations to achieve a desired outcome, as those who make peaceful change impossible often times make violent change inevitable. Yes, black folks have been taking it by the chin and stoically for so long, but they have risen in unison to say not any more. They took to the streets last summer following the murder of George Floyd and America took notice. America became really afraid of the level of violence which black people were capable and able to unleash; and they do not want a repeat of that experience, not any more. The jurors are representatives of the American society and they took that specific knowledge with them into the jury room and came out, ten hours later, to say "Yes, we got it" by handing Derek Chauvin a guilty verdict on all the three counts charge. 

Their verdict is a strong message to all the police officers in America that their brutality will no longer be tolerated nor go unpunished. Hopefully, it will help moderate their interactions and encounters with the general public going forward, particularly black and colored people of America. Last summers George Floyd's death triggered riots cost 12 Americans their lives and caused $2 billion in property damages. This figures would have tripled had a wrong verdict been rendered in this case, triggering yet another riot. So, the juror somehow saved America much pain and agony, both in human toll as well as an otherwise cost overruns. Their guilty verdict was balmy and it helped soothe and calm down frayed nerves. ICHEOKU says America would have burned, but thankfully, it was spared the nightmare, saved by the bell of a right verdict. 

The case was an open and shut one anyway, as there was no better, more credible and stronger witness in the case than the video recording which captured Derek Chauvin in the act. The murder was captured on video and it took a long nine minutes to fully execute. The video could have easily successfully pass for a "res ipsa loquitur" and sufficient by itself to persuade the verdict. The rest of the presentations, witnesses and testimonies, were mere prosecutorial formalities, just extras and add-ons. Nobody is to blame for the verdict but Derek Chauvin himself, who arrogantly and intentionally murdered George Floyd in front of a recording video camera. The whole world watched the traumatizing gory spectacle as it unfolded and agreed in unison that the then Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. Thankfully, the jurors have concurred and the matter should now rest. 

ICHEOKU says kudos to the no nonsense Judge Peter Cahill for studiously managing the case to its very successful conclusion. He was exceptional in making sure that the case does not run off course or morph into a theater of absurdity. He avoided unnecessary delays by denying the defendant's motion to dismiss and refusing their motion for a change of venue, as according to him, even the residents of Mars, if any, were aware of the case and there is no safer place to move the trial to than in Minneapolis Minnesota. Boy that judge was right, he is simply magisterial and he is a very stand up umpire in the temple of justice. Neither the prosecutors nor the defense made any special impact on ICHEOKU, so no opinion about them. 

Now, as the nation awaits Derek Chauvin's sentencing, lets hope that the judge will be mindful by giving him a commensurate lengthy prison term, otherwise the bullet which was dodged now might ricochet to strike America following a slap on the wrist sentence. ICHEOKU says kudos to the jurors for saving America further pains from the George Floyd's saga, which hopefully now ends. May his soul continue to rest. 

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

DEREK CHAUVIN: IT IS NOW UP TO THE JUDGE.

ICHEOKU says after the verdict, now awaits the sentence. Judge Peter Cahill must also come through with justice for George Floyd, otherwise there may still be riots. The judge should at least meet the public's expectation half way by imposing at least half of the maximum allowed sentence for the highest convicted charge of second degree murder. 

40 years is the prescribed maximum sentence, so he should divided by 2 and give Derek Chuavin a 20 years sentence for everything since the three can run consecutively. At worst, the judge could settle for the ten years maximum sentence allowed for manslaughter; but in no other event must he make it lower than 10 years, otherwise the public anger might switch over against him. The George Floyd murder video is so horrible that only an animal is capable of so viciously, publicly, executing a fellow human being and very arrogantly too. Such a animal in human skin does not deserve pity. Therefore, the message sent by the public through the jurors needs to be strongly delivered by the judge to Derek Chauvin. #10YearsMinimumSentenceFor DerekChauvin


DEREK CHAUVIN: IT IS NOW HIS TURN TO BE HANDCUFFED.

ICHEOKU says he handcuffed George Floyd and now it is his turn to be handcuffed by the society. Karma is ugly and it never forgets nor ever forgives. Justice served when cold is the best, so said the good old wise men of Sicily. George Floyd's spirit can now finally move on. Hopefully, Derek Chauvin will be placed in a protective custody during his time in the big house otherwise he might be served yet another form of justice from inside the high walled off nation. The type that will automatically transport him to where George Floyd will be waiting to welcome him with a clenched fist with which he will knock him out cold. What a despicable humanoid, an animal in human skin Derek Chauvin really is. He is a sad memory.

MURDERER!


DEREK CHAUVIN, GUILTY!

ICHEOKU says it was the right and correct verdict as not even the legendary Johnnie Cochran could have sprang him out of the jaws of a guilty verdict. He did it and he also had the necessary intent to do it, two riyal elements required for a finding of guilty. America was saved by the verdict as untold disastrous riots would have destroyed a lot. What a relief as former police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted for killing George Floyd.

ADEQUACY OF POLICE TRAINING IN AMERICA: DOUBTFUL AND QUESTIONABLE.

ICHEOKU says certain developments during the past few weeks necessitated this appraisal of police training in America, to see if it is in fact adequate and professionalized enough as should be expected.  Could a better trained police, with the right mindset and disposition, have avoided some of the incidents which occurred this past weeks. Could a reimagined police outfit act in a manner which would avoid the frequent triggering of public dissatisfaction against the police, expressed in riots, protests and vandalism. 

Other professionals in other fields of life are usually held to a higher standard and when they err in the execution of their profession, are held responsible for professional malpractice and misconduct because of a breach of the professionalism which they hold out to possess. So, why not police professionals too and why are they not held to the same standard of higher expectations, such that whenever they fail to live up to it, they are similarly held to account for breaching their professed professionalism. What causes the constant failure to act professionally by the police or is it the inadequacy of their training that is to blame or what?

On February 4th 2021, a police officer Darrian Jarrott was gunned down during a traffic stop on Interstate-10 highway in New Mexico by an AR-15 assault rifle wielding criminal Omar Felix Cueva. The whole incident was captured on the police officer's dash cam which ICHEOKU has viewed several times, trying to figure out what exactly led to what. In conclusion, ICHEOKU says that the police officer was partly at fault for at least not having a fighting chance when the confrontation  erupted. He was too lackadaisical and carefree in conducting the whole exercise and thus compromised his safety by being so cavalierly in dealing with the driver. 

First he made a traffic stop of a completely unknown driver in a truck, he proceeded to the passengers side of the vehicle where the driver informed him that he has a firearm which would have set off all red alert alarm in his head. But instead of ordering the driver to remain put inside his vehicle and rushed back to his squad car to call for backup, he asked the driver if he could take the firearm off him for his own safety. Then he watched the driver alight from his vehicle as he casually walked back to meet with the driver towards the tailgate of the pickup truck. At which time the mad criminal raised his assault rifle and point blankly shot and killed the officer from across the bed of the truck. 

Everything was captured on the cop's dashboard camera and it could have been prevented or at least the police officer would have had some time to react and space to return fire in defense of himself. But he was caught unawares and he put himself in that dire straits by the manner he conducted the traffic stop encounter with an unknown driver in a pick up white Chevy truck. Why would a well trained police officer conduct a traffic stop in this manner; of a completely unknown stranger who was driving a truck and whose background he does not know. 

What if he was an armed and dangerous wanted criminal, a murderer or violent rapist. Why did the police officer take matters concerning his safety for granted and not effectively police the driver while he was exiting his vehicle with the usual command of show me your hands, gradually open the door with your right hand and slowly alight from the vehicle. Why did the police officer put himself in the defenseless position he was in by walking back to his squad car in tandem with an unknown driver who has already admitted to having a firearm was coming out of his pickup truck. Where was the police officer's backup officers and why did he allow the driver to exit the pickup before he could have his eyes completely affixed on the driver. 

ICHEOKU has been pulled over before but the experience was definitely different from what was seen in the video out of New Mexico. So, is it possible that the officer was a new recruit with no real experience on how to properly protect himself while conducting a traffic stop. Even when he sighted the rifle, instead of reflectively beating a quick defensive retreat, he became transfixed, as he looked at the pointed barrel and it was seconds too late. A better trained and experienced police officer would have ducked and ran back towards the front of the pickup truck in a life saving lightening speed mad dash. But it is now Monday night quarterbacking as ICHEOKU is not particularly blaming the police officer for his death, but that his lack of sufficient alertness possibly due to inadequate police training could have contributed to his killing. 

First he did everything wrong in the manner he handled the traffic stop, as police officer do not normally leave the driver's side of a vehicle unattended to while they approach the passenger's side. Second, they do not allow a driver to exit the vehicle without being totally in charge and completely focused on the driver. He had no complete visual on the driver to ensure that he had no pointed weapon in his hands, which of course proved fatal as he had one and it ended the officer's life. 

There are several commands which precedes the exiting of a driver from a traffic stopped vehicle which the police officer did not implement, which if he had done would have made a whole lot of difference. If his training was adequate and he was not a newbie, them he unreasonably exposed himself to the danger which took his life.  He let his guard and it proved a very costly mistake. May his soul now rest.

The other case which ICHEOKU wants to discuss pertaining to this topic, the adequacy of police training in America, is the latest shooting and killing of an unarmed black man in Brooklyn Minnesota. A white police officer Kimberly Potter shot and killed Duante Wright and claimed that she mistook her gun for a taser; and this police woman has been with the Brooklyn police department for more than 25 years, but wants people to believe her tall tale. She is an experienced police officer by all standards imagined and must have pulled her gun and taser several times in the past.  She is therefore well acquainted with the feel of the butt of gun and taser or at least is affixed with it, assuming she sincerely believed her own sect of peculiar facts.  

She must also have fired both weapons and is aware how their triggers respond including difference in their heaviness or weight. A matter made worse because she was even on a training drive beat of a new police recruit when they made the traffic stop leading to the killing too Daunte Wright. So, to believe her explanation is to accept that she herself was not a properly trained police officer as that is the only other thing which could possibly explain the gravity of her mistake, assuming she indeed made a mistake. 

It is therefore evident from the circumstances that there is no adequate training or continuing education or assessment retraining going on at various police departments where police officers are constantly updated and upgraded in the knowledge of their profession's best practices. It is also possible that she was simply overworked, tired and not functioning at the highest level of required alertness when she discharged her weapon killing the young black man. 

It is unfortunate that another black man has to die in the hands of a white police officer because of lack of proper diligence in the handling of a police gun. It might also be a willful indifference on her part with regard to a black person's life that made her not to be overly conscious of which of her two weapons she actually pulled out and fired. All these suggests that some of these police officers are not well prepared through adequate training, both mentally and psychologically, for the duty which they are asked to discharge. 

Any well trained and experienced police officer should automatically, like a clock work, know which holster he or she puts the gun and taser and which side of the harness the teargas, handcuffs and baton are. It is just like having the mouth, the nose, the eyes and the ears and nobody mistakenly puts food in the eyes or hurriedly puts eye drop into the nose or a vaporizer into their eyes. Certain things come to us sort of naturally because of their repetitiveness and a police officer of 25 years experience should have become so acquainted with her weapons not to just mistakenly shoot somebody to death with her gun which she allegedly mistook for her taser. 

Therefore, it is about time police academies in America rejig their training to ensure that every officer they graduate understands the burden of the badge they were. They are professionals just like other professionals in the country and they cannot be allowed to make mistakes which ordinary lay persons might be excused for. The message needs to be continuously driven into the men and women in blue that there will be consequences for their unprofessional behavior and that they will be held accountable for any poor judgment on their part in conducting their duties especially those resulting in death or which caused serious bodily harm to any member of the public which they swore an oath to serve and protect. 

Most of these cases that result in the shooting deaths of people in America by the police or the killing of police officers as well in America are somewhat otherwise avoidable deaths. Every effort should be made to prevent such deaths whenever possible as the ensuing resignations of such involved officers is no longer enough. Proactive measures to prevent deaths from occurring is better than the after the fact blame game including destructive riots and protests which always follow. The police should exercise additional caution and restraint before they pull the trigger, except in a life and death threatening situation when they have no meaningful alternative. 

The police should also protect themselves better and always be on alert non stop while on clock in order to prevent suffering such fate as befell the officer in New Mexico. Enough of the never ending police grabbing news headlines about police killings and police being killed in America. An extended training and continuing training and retraining of police officers might help in mitigating this ugly never ending damaging police tale in America which is now a readily recurring decimal. 

Monday, April 19, 2021

KAMALA HARRIS AND MEGHAN MARKLE: TWO OVER ENTITLED QUEENS.

Like Meghan Markle who wanted to be a real life princess but loathes the responsibilities which come with it, it seems that Kamala Harris only wants the perks which come with the office which she occupies in White House but is not ready for the duties which come with it. 

It is over four weeks now since Joe Biden appointed her the Immigration Tsarina in charge of the Southern border illegal immigration boondoggle, but it appears that she is not ready to do the heavy lifting required in tackling the problem. She also seemed to have shirk the responsibility and have buck passed it back to the Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and you wonder whether she did not know that the Homeland Secretary's office was in existence when Joe Biden asked her to do the job. 

But no, it is such a dirty, mean, low life job not befitting her Queenly status and she turned it down without even visiting the ground zero for a first hand assessment. ICHEOKU says is there a problem in the contraption which the Deep State clobbered together and foist on the nation? Only time will tell. 

DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS WRONG: DEREK CHAUVIN HAD INTENT.

ICHEOKU says former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin will be convicted, period. There is no other acceptable alternative to his conviction. There is a disturbing video and there is also the wishes of Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA collaborators that he should be convicted as a tradeoff to their destroying Minneapolis, its surrounding cities and more other cities throughout America. 

His conviction will be a far less price to pay in exchange, so he will be thrown to the dogs in order to keep them quiet. The defense counsel raising the issue of his lack of intent to commit murder is sort of silly because although Derek Chauvin did not have the mens rea when he began the kneeling, but he formed it automatically when he heard George Floyd say "I can't breathe" and continued to kneel on his neck. So, the two necessary elements for a guilty verdict are present: the required intent to murder George Floyd and the act of murdering George Floyd. The verdict: GUILTY!

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT MINISTER IS A JIHADIST TERRORISTS SYMPATHIZER.

ICHEOKU says his name is Ali Isa Patanmi and he is the currently serving Minister in charge of Nigeria's Communications  and Digital Economy Ministry. 

What a shame of Nigeria and another incontrovertible evidence that jihadists have permeated the government of Muhammadu Buhari, the reason Boko Haram and other jihadists organizations, including the murderous Fulani herders, are having a field day in Nigeria, kidnapping, raping, maiming, killing, looting and burning; just because they have government insiders supplying them logistics and giving them feedbacks. 

Has Joe Biden has not heard about this or not been briefed by his security team that the government of Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is harboring a terrorists sympathizer who celebrated the World Trade Center terrorists attack in New York which killed more than 3,000 people, majority of who were American citizens. What is the CIA even waiting for before they drone Muhammadu Buhari's Communication Minister, Ali Isa Pantami, for his well established  support of Islamist terrorists. 

The minister is unabashedly an Islamist jihadist and terrorists sympathizer. He prayed for Taliban to achieve victory in Afghanistan. He prayed for Al Qaeda to defeat the West in their global campaign of terror and he also prayed for ISIS to defeat America in Iraq and Syria. He mourned when Osama Bin Laden and al-Baghdadi were killed and prayed for them to find an everlasting peace in heaven. He is also an itinerant Islamic preacher and once vowed to be a suicide bomber and jihadist himself, fighting the infidels. 

This is the type of person Muhaamaud Buhari of Nigeria tolerates in his government and you wonder why American government under Joe Biden has not read the riots act to him. That a jihadist who hates America is publicly serving in a Nigerian government which America and the rest of the Western governments supports and deals with is simply abominable, to say the least. So, when will the order go out from the White House to Aso Rock that this fella, as with anybody who supports terrorism, cannot be allowed to continue to serve in Nigerian government. #ResignPantamiOrBeFired.  

JENNIFER LOPEZ: SIMPLY TOO OLD TO EXPECT TOO MUCH IN LOVE.

ICHEOKU says she missed her opportunity at a "happily ever after" when she walked away from Puff Diddy following the December 1999 New York night club shooting incident. Since then she has been restless in love, even though "love don't cost a thing", jumping from one man to another in search of the elusive happiness and affection. Those men who she has been with who we publicly know are Ojani Noa, P. Diddy, Chris Judd, Ben Afflect, Marc Anthony, Drake and then Rodriguez, her latest break up. How will she explain her unlucky in love experience to her daughter is always the question in many people's mind.

Jenny From The Block's biggest problem is that she is still expecting too much from the men who still come around her, forgetting that she is no longer a spring chicken. As a 51 year old severely overused woman, mother and even old enough to be a grandmother,  she should be grateful that some men still find her good enough to date. These men should  be forgiven if their eyes once in a while stray or they even periodically go out of the way to get some elsewhere; provided they later return home back to her. But instead of being mindful of the fact that nature has played a fast one on her as it does with every mortal, she still expects exclusive love from famous people dating her, despite their being much sort after by much younger and much more beautiful women without children, as additional unwanted attention divider. Put in another way, Jennifer Lopez should rather be grateful that some of these men still finds her attractive amidst the cutthroat competition out there with so many under 25 luscious damsels. 

She is no longer what she used to be thirty or twenty years ago when she was the it, the hottest chic around, who every man who could wanted to have beside them. So, her present "I am good enough to be your only love" and "it is just me or nothing" or "I will not share you with anyone"  attitude will not serve her very well. The temptation out there is simply too much that it will be very difficult for her to find a rich and famous, high net worth, able man, whose eyes will not be darting around or even publicly flirting with much younger women from time to time. Her all or nothing posture will not work and if she insists, she will either have to remain single and lonely for a long time or she will eventually have to settle for a less famous man who is not as rich as those she likes to date. It is a fact of life that circumstances sometimes dictates conscience and wise people adjust accordingly by settling for the available if their desirable is not available.

But what is even the derivative value in dating such a spent bullet, who so many men have been through that she could easily pass for an "In and Out" burger joint. She has had her moment in  the sun and yes, she was the it when it lasted; but not anymore. She is now too old to stay very competitive in the dating field, particularly with the type of men she would rather date and tolerate. Fifty one years for anybody is old and for a woman still in the dating field, it becomes one heck of an inhibitor. At her age and the lengthy history of men who have been through her, she is literary like a left over food which should be otherwise sour by now if not for refrigeration. But she is rich and medical and physical sciences and of course good nutrition and healthy habits have kept her looking better than she would otherwise be, but that has not diminished the fact that is a 51 year old mother of two, some of whose mates are already grandmas.

ICHEOKU says she is simply too old to still be too choosey. How many grandmothers are still out there, wagging their tail feathers, expecting a rich and famous man to look at them. What Jennifer Lopez really needs is no longer another man, but a psychiatric evaluation to figure out why she goes through men with the frequency she does; and then follow it up with a psychological counseling on how to curb her libidinous inclinations that drives her insatiable desire for men. In some other cultures, only a pensioner/widower will be looking at her way by now, so she is indeed lucky that she is still getting propositions. She should therefore learn how to make necessary accommodations for her men to sometimes use their wandering eyes and if they stray a little, just pretend as if she did not know about it. 

This is only a commonsensical solution and our mothers and grandmothers deployed it to achieve their long lasting marital experience. Men sometimes do stray and it will be foolhardy to expect a man to become an enoch just because you said so, admitted some men are very loyal when they love and really care about someone. Women, too. ICHEOKU says would have suggested that she pack it up with men and quit trying, but since she likes men as is obviously evident, she should learn to adjust her expectations accordingly in order to help her secure a lasting companionship. But hey, it is only Jennifer Lopez that will rightly advise Jennifer Lopez going forward and hopefully she will advise herself properly and also listen to her advise. Until then, best of luck to her. 

Sunday, April 18, 2021

PRINCE PHILLIP SIGNS OFF FOREVER.

ICHEOKU says Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II took his final bow and makes exits from this world. He had a wonderful long life. Adieu Prince.

FROM DUST HE CAME AND TO DUST HE NOW RETURNS.

ICHEOKU says he journeyed through earth as so many could only dream of. It is now ended and back to his maker he now returns. What a wonderful long life he lived. Rest on Prince Phillip. 

PRINCE PHILLIP'S FUNERAL: REST ON PRINCE!

ICHEOKU says so long Prince Phillip!