Posted on 07/28/2019 2:56:26 PM PDT by SMGFan
Establish a U.S. Department of Peace
A U.S. Department of Peace is a major step in dismantling America's systemically entrenched culture of violence. I want to talk to you about waging peace.
From millions of chronically traumatized children to mass incarceration to family separation at the border, the United States has no more serious problem than the problem of violence itself.
And yet, even as the current administration starves the international peace-building capacities of the State Department, we have no federal platform from which to seriously wage peace domestically.
We need both.
Through support of my candidacy for president of the United States, you can help alter the course of our nation and model peace for our world.When I become president, I will establish a U.S. Department of Peace.
This campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace is the first step in dismantling our systemically entrenched perpetuation of violence. And it is critical.
Our current administration actively cuts peace-building programs that are statistically proven to increase the incidence of peace and reduce conflict, despite their efficacy. These programs represent expanded economic opportunities for women, expanded educational opportunities for children, reduction of violence against women, and the amelioration of unnecessary human suffering wherever possible.
We should see large groups of desperate people as a national security risk. In doing right by our fellow human beings, we will pave the way to a better world.
I believe Americans are ready to do the right thing.
This is why I will make peace-creation a signature of my presidency. Sign today if you agree that there should be a US Department of Peace.
Our country's priorities are clearly reflected in our budget. The Defense Department has a military budget of $718 billion – almost larger than that of all other nations combined – while our State Department budget – including all peace-creation agencies – is $40 billion. The independent U.S. Institute of Peace has a budget of only $36.8 million.
As president, I will make the relationship between the State Department and the Department of Defense a robust partnership. And I will build up the peace-building agencies within the State Department in a major way.
Domestically, we need to similarly disrupt patterns of violence. Join me in support for building a U.S. Department of Peace to address issues of peace-building here at home – trauma-informed education, community wrap-around services, restorative justice, conflict resolution, mindfulness in the schools, violence prevention programs, and more.
When I am president, the world will know that America's greatest ally is humanity itself. Let us restore our position as a moral leader both here and abroad. Far more Americans love than hate, but we must display our love with a renewed commitment and serious conviction. Together, we can and we will.
With love for all, Marianne
A Department of Peace sounds like a Soviet style term for the department tasked with eliminating dissenters from the social order they want to impose.
OK, I get it now.
Dennis Kucinich called for that when he was running for president.
That’s what we need, another government agency........./s
Ministry of Love
The Ministry of Love (Newspeak: Miniluv) serves as Oceania's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty to Big Brother through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing. The Ministry of Love building has no windows and is surrounded by barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, hidden machine-gun nests, and guards armed with "jointed truncheons". Referred to as "the place where there is no darkness", its interior lights are never turned off. It is arguably the most powerful ministry, controlling the will of the population. The Thought Police are a part of Miniluv.
The Ministry of Love, like the other ministries, is misnamed, since it is largely responsible for the practice and infliction of misery, fear, suffering and torture. In a sense, however, the name is apt, since its ultimate purpose is to instill love of Big Brother—the only form of love permitted in Oceania—in the minds of thoughtcriminals as part of the process of reverting them to orthodox thought. This is typical of the language of Newspeak, in which words and names frequently contain both an idea and its opposite; the orthodox party member is nonetheless able to resolve these contradictions through the disciplined use of doublethink.
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.
Or a Department of Rainbows.
Ugh! Give peace a chance, a brave new world thought for a teenager. Diplomacy over war machines, sure, sure. What happens when no one pays their taxes? Diplomacy? Department of Peace = Paying tribute and bend over here it comes again.
And we can sing Kumbaya when the muslims/Chinese/Russians come to break down our door.
“”If you want peace, prepare for war.”
Parabellum!
Departments are Money for DC suburbs.
A Dept. of Toenail Clipping and Pedicures should be instituted this Fall.
It sounds like a rebranding of the brownshirts that Obama proposed before his installation.
^ this.
But when Christ returns that will be dealt with ... but as He asked: will He find faith on the earth?
Here in the Wsst people who’ve known about the Gospel all their lives are actively turning against it, and it is that knowledge which they’ve refused to retain which places them at risk from a Romans 1:18-32 Process.
When it already looks like Romans 1:18-32 is going on.
If all anyone can do in an era like this is cling to the Lord, then cling ... without compromise ... He always preserves a remnant.
She should work for the Clinton Foundation.
The Useful Idiots never really stray far from what their master intended, even after the Soviet Union is gone they are still its cold dead hands grabbing for our throats.
On whose behalf, Muslim Brotherhood etc, hardly seems to matter to them.
Only if I get to be Kubaya Czar
President Dwight D. Eisenhower "Waging Peace" "Waging Peace" Interview, 1965 (HD)
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