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
This is a person who needs to enter a Miss America contest so she can blather about working for “peace in the world”. We’ve heard it before and we’re not interested. We’re only interested in sincerity and results!
We already have a “Department of Peace”.
It’s called the Department of Defense.
I could get on board with a Department of Free Beer and Pork Rinds. ;-)
It’s about time! Oceania has had a Department of Peace for 35 years.
Well, maybe it was the Ministry of Peace ...
Then Denounce Antifa and Black Lives Matter you lying bitch!
We have a dept of peace—it’s the defense dept.
I want a Department of Chik-Fil-A, & In & Out Burger
Let’s replace the Dept of Defense with the Dept of Peace, and immediately see the whole world devolve into a chaotic world full of wars, minor to major, and eventually, the U.S. would also be destroyed.
Why is it that there are so many idiots in government, who think the opposite of what should happen?
Indiana Senator Vance Hartke proposed this in 1970 and planned to model it after the Peace Corp. The idea went no where and Hartke, a far left liberal was defeated by RINO Dick Lugar in the 1976 Senate Election.
We actually have a Department of Peace. It goes by the name of the Department of Defense. The American GI is the greatest peacemaker the world has ever known.
We do have a “Department of Peace’’ Ms(or gender neutral proun;insert here) Williamson. It’s the US Military. It’s worked pretty well at getting rid of the dirt bags of the world.
“Who controls the past controls the future’’.
I propose a Dept. of Eliminating Departments. 17 Intelligence Agencies? That’s insane!
The list of departments to eliminate is over 300, and could be as many as 500.
What a colossally stupid idea. Department of Peace.
I want to go back to when the United States won every war it was in.
That was before the Department of War became the Department of Defense.
I like the sound of “The Department of War”.
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