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A concept to make peace worldwide.	purplewings	03/09/05
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/161/story_16163_1.html I posted an interview from Beliefnet.com with Marianne Williamson, on the Spirituality Board today. It indicates an effort to legislate a Department of Peace. The suggestion being that terrorism is a disease that cannot be cut out by war or threats just as a doctor cannot cut out cancer once it has metabolized, so we must learn a better way to end it before it can get to that stage. Who would be part of the Department of Peace? The legislation as it has been offered by Congressman Dennis Kucinich calls for a peace academy as a complement to the military academy. At the military academy, we teach and learn the most advanced ways to wage war. At the peace academy, we would learn the most advanced ways to wage peace. Iraq is a tragic example of American effectiveness at waging war, i.e. destroying what we didn’t want in the first days of the war, but our inability in the days and months following to wage peace. Do you find this to have merit as far as Militarily or Politically? What about taxes or religious issues? I'd also like to have your answer on the Spirituality board, based on the Spiritual premise if you would. Thanks so much. PW
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tomder55		03/09/05
oh my God ! it's true !! I can't believe this one slipped by my radar ! its HR1673 sponsored by the big K and has 52 other sponsors . I especially like Sec. 109 creating an" Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution". Wonder if Jihadistan will go along with this ? Forget all the domestic Orwellian powers this bill would allow the Dept. of Peace ;it would also interfere ;and directly control certain military matters;namely any mission undertaken by the militarty that is deemed 'peace keeping '. The bill also overlaps the powers of this new super agency into the Dept. of Education ;the Dept. of State ; and the Dept. of Tresury .Indeed I'll wager that this gives the Dept. enough power that war could not be waged without the Dept.Heads approval ! [“The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall consult with the Secretary (of Peace) concerning nonviolent means of conflict resolution...prior to the initiation of any armed confilct between the United State and any other nation,” Section 112 ] Leave it o Denis K to come up with this . Mind you ;I think the military or more likely the Dept. of State should develop post war specialists to deal with reconstruction ,and I think U.S. NGOs like the Peace Corp does some outstanding work ;but lets not kid ourselves about intentions here. This bill is an attempt to take the decision making away from the Constituionally appointed means determining when to go to war ;and handing it over to an intractable buerocracy. We have something simular to that now .....it's called the U.N.

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