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Montreal Police Officers Still Continue To Kill — With Impunity

Montreal Police Officers Still Continue To Kill — With Impunity

By N Oji Mzilikazi

24 November 2014

On November 11, 1987, Constable Allan Gosset shot and killed 19-year-old Anthony Griffin in the parking lot of Station 15 police station— upon his fleeing the police cruiser. The Black teen was unarmed.

As informed by the Augustus v. Gosset court transcript, Griffin was ordered to stop by Constable Gosset, and threatened with being shot. “Anthony immediately stopped and turned to face the respondent Gosset, shifting his weight from foot to foot; he did not stand perfectly still…At that instant, a gunshot hit Anthony in the head.”

Gosset blamed his killing of Griffin on the accidental firing of his gun…

 

 

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Branding, Pimping Bob Marley As Ganja Overlord

Branding, Pimping Bob Marley As Ganja Overlord

By N Oji Mzilikazi

November 23, 2014

Though Bob Marley has been the de-facto face of marijuana since 1973, when the album jacket of Bob Marley and The Wailers – Catch A fire, was of him smoking a phat spliff, Robert Nesta Marley must be turning in his grave to know that after a rich and lasting legacy of redemption songs, his heirs have teamed up with a U.S. private equity firm to create and market Marley Natural, a marijuana brand — that cannot but diminish his brilliance…

 

 

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Canada’s “Public” War On ISIS

Canada’s “Public” War On ISIS

By N Oji Mzilikazi

November 22, 2014

It is one thing for Canada to join the “Coalition of the Willing” to combat the threat of ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIL), and another to boast of its exploits.

Far from impressing Canadians as to the contribution and “greatness” of the Canadian military, exposing its military operations could only fuel animosity among sympathisers of ISIS and further encourage Canadian recruitment to ISIS.

Didn’t anyone in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government or the Canadian military read Al Qur’an, Sura II: 190 – 193 that scripturally bless Jihad — justifies Jihad in defence?

“Fight in the cause of God, those who fight you” — it commands, and that positions the aggrieved to be an unrelenting enemy and to pursue blowback at home. Especially, considering that an official war against ISIS has not been declared.

The Canadian military ought to just do their thing and be quiet about it — until…

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Kenneth Cole Pimping Haiti

Kenneth Cole Pimping Haiti

9 November 2014

Kenneth Cole recently “opened a boutique in Haiti that the designer says will bring commercial and humanitarian benefits to the poverty-stricken Caribbean country.”

Designer stores pander to the moneyed, and exert tremendous pressure on those without to be fashionable. The last thing Haiti needs is a Kenneth Cole store.

Haitians would be better served if Kenneth Cole had opened a factory in Haiti to produce some of his goods. Haiti needs industry, not predatory business and overpriced goods— to further distress the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

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Faith Is All I Have

Faith Is All I have

By N Oji Mzilikazi

I have faith
It buckles at times
Tested, sometimes I come up short
Yet faith is all I have.

I have faith
Wombs contented to weep
Hearts that are cold, tired
Desirous of wanting to sleep
Are going to seize hold
Become bold.

I have faith
That the core of goodness in man
Though beaten to the ground
Will rise, take a stand, decry wrong
Protect the weak from the throng
Knowing life is the price of the song.

I have faith
When darkness is present
Things seems hopeless
Light and love are going to find their way.

I have faith
It buckles at times
Tested, sometimes I come up short
Yet faith is all I have.

Copyright © 2014 byN Oji Mzilikazi,All Rights Reserved

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Update: Respecting The (Abusive) Power of Israel

By N Oji Mzilikazi

26 July 2014 updated August 18, 2014

The adage, “If you play with fire, you could get burn,” is totally apropos to the Israeli Gaza offensive.

Hamas intimately know that aggression against Israel is going to be met with swift and deadly retribution. Yet, unless it is tact to morally shame Israel in the eyes of the world, knowing that the military heavy-handedness by Israel Defence Force(IDF), always results in high numbers of Palestinian civilian deaths including children, and millions in damage to property, Hamas persists in the futile act of firing rockets into Israel, given Israel’s early-warning and Iron Dome defense systems.

Hamas has yet to understand that terrorists acts and/or waging war against Israel is lose-lose proposition.

Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, the 23-day bombardment of Gaza in 2008-2009, resulted in over 1,400 Palestinians killed, over 300 of them children, over 5,300 injured, over 1,600 of them children and approximately 20, 000 homes completely or partially destroyed, and 36 UN schools damaged.

More importantly, Hamas has yet to understand that Israel can never be morally shamed. The cliché, “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East,” along with the invocation of the Holocaust and charges of anti-Semitism as cards of trump ensure that Israeli “excesses” and wrongs are excused, and muted to no criticism of Israel come from her “friends.”

Thus we see many powerful governments holding the “Israel can do no wrong” position, and their ministers, politicians, and prominent persons in their society acting as de facto Israeli agents…