Friday, November 9, 2018
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Criminals in the blue uniform: Your child may be next
everal years ago in 1996, Robert Jordan, a college graduate, took an exam to join the New London police in Connecticut, he passed with a score of 33 points, which is the equivalent of an IQ of 125. The point here is that Mr. Jordan was rejected from becoming a policeman in London, CT, and the reason, he was too intelligent to be a police.
Many years ago in Los Angeles, some police men were caught on Video tape savagely beating up Mr. Rodney King an African American gentleman. One would have thought that with Rodney King incident there would have been some lessons learned by these largely ignorant and poorly educated white men in the blue uniforms across the United States of American.
Then in February in February 1999, the unthinkable happened, an unarmed West African immigrant from Guinea, was brutally murdered in cold blood by officers of the New York City Police Department. Amadou Diallo was shot 41 one times. What evil and what hate will cause another man or men whose salaries are paid by the tax payers to senselessly gun down the people for whom they took an oath to serve and protect. The most disturbing thing about this was that the then Mayor of New York City sided with the killer cops. What this means to me and many others is that: city government forces are on the rampage to murder black males. This in itself is a very troubling assertion, what else could anyone make out of it, a murderer cop kills, and the city government is in support of him or her so long as the victim is black.
Many years went by and I very much wanted to forget about what happened to Amodou. I wanted to explain it away as just an unfortunate, isolated incident. No, it could not be isolated because we see the same pattern across the USA, I argue with myself. Still, I wanted to believe that it must be an isolated incident because anything else will upset my sense of balance and will destroy the little faith that I have in city government officials to always do the right thing.
Just as I thought I was getting over the Amadou's unjust killing then it happened again. Officers of the Inglewood, CA, Police Department were caught on tape beating and punching a slightly built African American male while in handcuffs. The arrested sixteen years, Donavon Jackson. This young man was clearly the weaker one against the strength of government forces. How does one justify punching an handcuffed frail looking young male, by officers who clearly look as if they were on some kind of steroids. Officer Jeremy Morse claimed and want us to believe that a powerless youth who was picked in of all places, gas filling station constitute a threat to his person. Officer Morse who was the one who slammed Donavon Jackson against the police vehicle, and then turned a young male, one fourth his size into a punching bag in what seems like a fit of rage, would like us to believe that the young man attacked him first. The officer's partner did not stop his criminal friend in the blue uniform, he went on to file false charges against the victim. These were people who have taken an oath "to serve and protect ....." so help them God. I saw on that Video tape how this young man was frightened beyond what I can describe, and for that matter we were told that Mr. Jackson aged, sixteen years has some types of learning disability. How cruel. Well, it is important that we are aware of what is going on in the various police departments in the USA. Tomorrow it may be your son.
When I saw the tape on the News on the Evening of July 6, 2002. I said to myself that something is absolutely wrong with the police systems in the United States. Something has to be wrong. You see these bullies in the blue uniform over and over take the law into their hands. They kill innocent people without any remorse and worst still they get away with committing murder time and time again. What is really troubling about all these is that good people all over the United States are standing up against all these police brutality in the minority communities all over the USA. These good people simple keep silent and looked away.
In the same week the Donavon incident happened in Inglewood, CA, another incident occurred on Oklahoma, a 50 year old African American male, Mr. Pete, was beaten to the ground by Oklahoma State police officers. All these types of things is all too real in the black communities and it makes people like me wonder what kind of people or should I say what kind of white people are enlisted in the police forces across the USA. The answer should not be too difficult to come by. I do not mind if mentally challenged individuals are the target of police recruitment all over the United States. Every one needs a chance in life, what worries me is really this: I can take and accept that these police men driving around in the neighborhoods across the USA, may be mentally deficient --- are they also suffering from paranoia. If a white male is paranoid about the African American communities, such male has no business being in any police force.
I will end by paraphrasing what Mrs. Diallo said on one of the interviews she had following after her son Amadou was killed. She said " one or two bullets she may be able to accept but 42 bullets, --- she said, no". What anger and what rage is waging war inside of these crazy white males in the police forces all over the USA, who by every account are poorly educated, that they most always over react to black people?
Saturday, March 31, 2018
US Visa Policy and US Visa Racketeering in Nigeria and Ghana
US Visa Policy and US Visa Racketeering in Nigeria and Ghana
By
Michael O. Folorunso
For those who do not travel much and those who just do not know what Visa is. Visa is the entry permit document which is issued by a destination country to allow travelers entry. The purpose of entry could be as varied as there entry options. A traveler’s entry could be as: 1) Visitor, 2) Business 3) Students and it might even be as a migrant worker etc.
In the year that I came to the United States, it was relatively straight forward to obtain the US Visa, all you have to do is, go to any US embassy/Consulate in the country of your residence. This was 1979, everything was relatively simple. Once you were at the embassy, you then proceeded to apply for your Visa based your intended purpose of traveling. The Embassy will review your documents and grant you or deny you an entry permit (Visa) into the United States. Once a determination to grant you a visa has been made, you would then proceed to pay the Visa fee. These were the good old days a friend once told me, my response to him, was that is the way it should or better definitely not worse.
Of course, the emergent of the internet as preferred medium for worldwide communications has changed the way people do business. It has become relatively easy for people to hook up with one another. I get connected to the world over the internet through my Yahoo Messenger and some other instant messaging portals. What I learned during some of these IMs will surely astound all of you. I have had a rare opportunity to learn how visa is now granted in Nigeria and in Ghana. Every two weeks or so someone from these two countries would IMS me, of course because I am curious as to why anyone would IMS someone they did not know, I would chat with them long enough to know what it was that they needed. In most cases they were soliciting for money so they could get visa to come to the United States. They were mostly ladies, young and educated, educated up to the University level. During chatting period I would learn how much they needed for the Visa, in all the cases each ladies said the same amount. It was $500 for a one entry visa, and $5,500 for a five year multiple entry Visa. This outrageous amount which they often asked for, gave me a sense of been a very luck person. During my days as a student both at the State University of New York Institute of Technology, Rome, NY and Case Western Reserve University, I did a bit of traveling mostly to the UK and Nigeria. Because I traveled frequently, I was offered a five/seven year multiple entry visa. If my memory will serve me well, I can not remember ever paying more than $70 for the visa. In a way I feel very sad for all these young African who are so desperate about traveling overseas that they can not even recognize that they are been unnecessarily exploited.
What is troubling here is not the misplaced desire of these young women seeking to travel out of Nigeria and Ghana. To me it is the fact that a super power Nation, the United States is now selling access to people wanting to come to the US. The US is helping in no small measure to exploit these poor citizens of West African countries. I take issue with the United States, Britain, Switzerland and many more who are subverting our culture clandestinely. They have found a dubious way to exploit individuals who are seeking to travel out from these host countries. The United States along with Britain are actively helping to corrupt our women and exploit the desperation of these young women to travel out. In many cases I am told that these young women were sexually exploited all for the opportunity to get visa out of Nigeria to the US.
One will think that in the era of 9/11 the US would have learned a lesson or two. The US it seems to me is perpetrating Visa racketeering in the countries of West Africa. The question is why? What is the purpose? Why are these Western countries victimizing these poor African men and women all because these young, mostly naïve, mostly Nigerians and Ghanians have desires to travel outside of their home countries.
Every right thinking Nigerian must recognize that these Western Nations are at war with our sense of well being, they are at war with our value of decency and fairness. They have within their very narrow self interests gone over the line of moral codes and ethics. They have chosen to work with a very small cabal to abuse our people. We the people of Nigeria must not fold our arms we must fight back. I challenge the PRONACO, and all the other NGOs to recognize the harm that these Western Nations are doing to our people. The people must rise up and demonstrate against all these abuses. The people must march everyday to their Embassies and sustain peaceful demonstrations until the problem of Visa Racketeering is stopped. The governments of these countries are also with their rights as the host countries to petition these evil foreign nations to stop these abuses of our people immediately. Enough is enough.
Michael O. Folorunso
Dallas, Texas, USA
http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS6387.htm
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