BEWARE OF DOGS!
It is a personal theory that whatever has an advantage
always accommodates it own disadvantage.
In some cases, the advantage nullifies the disadvantage
while in other case the reverse is the case.
Take the case of the child that is allowed by the parents
to be rude towards a neighbor that is considered a mutual family enemy. This definitely comes with a truck load of
advantages. But hardly do the parents realize
that the disadvantages are delivered in more than one truck load.
Let me explain.
Being rude is a behavior where encouraged could become a habit. So, a child being rude to a neighbor is just
a temporary attitude on display when the neighbor is available for target
practice. But at some point, that
temporary attitude might become a permanent habit that the parents would have
to live with all their lives. 
Now liken the above analogy to the activities of extremist
religious groups in northern Nigeria, originally sponsored by certain leaders
of states in that part of the Nigerian nation, under the guise to establish the
practice of Sharia law. I can bet that
never in the confines of their religiously zealous reasoning did these
masterminds of unsubstantiated hate ever thought that:
* wireless telephone companies’ masts and fiber cables
would be destroyed in their bid to stop the security forces from tracking their
moves which invariably hampers the extremist group’s communication needs (makes
me wonder if none of them ever watched Jack Bauer in "24" handle this kind of problem);
*that alongside churches, mosques would be burned;
*that men, women and children, irrespective of religious beliefs
would be killed;
*that indigenes of the state occupying public offices
like a nothern state justice commissioner would be butchered by the same extremists, leaving
us to wonder who will help implement the Sharia law;
*that night, social and business activities would be
hampered by curfews;
*and that the same leaders of the north would declare to
the world that their economy is dying without commensurate audacity to still
tell the world that businesses are closing up due to fear of insecurity of
which they are sponsors.
And as you must know, the list is not exhaustive.
In other words, if all you train your dog to do is bite!
Dog! Bite! Then it is advised to have some
dog bite medications available in your first aid box. Not because of the victims your dog might
make of passers-by but very much because some day you are going to become a
delicious menu to be savored by your own dog to which the shout of “down! Dog! Down!”
would practically sound like “French” to an “English” barking dog.
So, BEWARE OF DOGS!
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