The Lone Dissenter's (Rep. Barbara Lee) Views on National Defense

Rep. Lee's Website ^ | 11/14/01 | Rep. Barbara Lee (D) Calif.

[San Jacinto]

Here is where Rep. Lee (Democrat) Calif.--the only member of either the House or the Senate to vote against the use of force against the WTC/Pentagon terrorists--has to say about National Defense:

Our defense budget can and should be more efficient and must be re-designed for the twenty-first century, post-Cold War world. To be secure in this world, we must educate our children, house the homeless, and feed the hungry. We must work to promote peace and attack fundamental threats to global security such as AIDS and other profound health threats. These are national security issues, and they must be addressed as such.

[San Jacinto]

Straight from her website.

[hillary's_fat_a**]

What? No mention about 40-acres and a mule Lexus?

[SEA]

Unfortunately, the web site for that female Robert Mugabe is down. Maybe we FREEP'ed her. I say--FREEP the creep. I think SHE is a national security risk.

[relee]

To be secure in this world, we must educate our children, house the homeless, and feed the hungry

It is easier to educate our children, house the homeless, and feed the hungry when they are still alive. What a moron!

[dennisw]

It works fine:

http://www.house.gov/lee/issues.html

[StoneColdGOP]

Christ, what a fool.

[San Jacinto]

My link does not seem to work, but you can access the site through The Drudge Report right now. At least I did.

[dougherty]

What's the saying? You are either with us or against us. Barbara Lee needs to be stripped of her citizenship.

[SEA]

BTW--bet she supports "reparations" from all of us to descendants of slaves. Hey, first things first, you know.

[martian_22]

Commies is as commies does.

F.G.

[Deb]

Nothing Barbara Lee does or says would surprise me.

Anyone who would abandon the US for Cuba is not a real American. She could only get elected in a district like Oakland, courtesy of fellow Marxist Ron Dellums. Two commie peas in a pod.

[umgud]

She is a reflection of her district. Oakland BTW, is not a very nice place, especially at night.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

She would rather use the money to explore Mars.

Oh thats her Texas sister.

[boycott]

Let's send her over to negotiate with bin Laden.

[San Jacinto]

She would rather use the money to explore Mars. Oh thats her Texas sister.

Har! Sheila Jackson Lee and Barbara Lee must be related.

For those who don't remember, Sheila was the one who claimed any country like the U.S. that could land men on Mars could afford whatever socialist crap she was pushing for that day.

[CounterCounterCulture]

We must work to promote peace and attack fundamental threats to global security such as AIDS and other profound health threats.

Fool! AIDS is NO threat to global security; bombs and hijacked planes are a threat to global security.

[jf55510]

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Joins in Introducing Legislation to Create U.S. Department of Peace


Washington, DC - Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, joined Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and other members of Congress today to introduce legislation that would establish the United States Department of Peace, a Cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the Federal government dedicated to peacemaking and the study of conditions that are conducive to both domestic and international peace.

The mission of the Department would be to hold peace as an organizing principle; endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights; strengthen non-military means of peacemaking; promote the development of human potential; work to create peace, prevent violence, avoid armed conflict and develop new structures in nonviolent dispute resolution; and take a proactive, strategic approach in the development of policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict and structured mediation of conflict.

"Domestic and International violence demands continued engagement and commitment to peace, and this legislation places the peacemaker at the table," said Lee. "The Bay Area has historically been at the forefront of the peace and justice movement, and the creation of the U.S. Department of Peace will give our local peace organizations such as the MLK Freedom Center the support of a Cabinet-level Federal agency."

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Center in Oakland is dedicated to providing programs and employment opportunities in non-violence, conflict resolution, environmental education and ecological restoration with a specific focus on under-served youth and at-risk youth in the Bay Area.

"Just as we have trained soldiers to wage war in the past, we must begin to raise up a new generation of leaders committed to peace and justice," said Lee. "The establishment of this new Federal agency will provide us with the tools and resources necessary to move towards peace in our communities and worldwide.

The Department of Peace would create and establish a Peace Academy, modeled after the military service academies, which will provide a 4 year concentration in peace education. Graduates will be required to serve 5 years in public service in programs dedicated to domestic or international non-violent conflict resolution.

"We confront new challenges every day in the quest for peace, and this proposal places that quest on an equal footing with the weapons of war," said Lee. "Peace is not some elusive pipedream, but a matter of national and international security."

This is from the traitors website.

[Quicksilver]

She is past the far left edge of realiity.

[Quicksilver]

Her "Department of Peace" and "peace education" would be behavior modification and thought control: a very terrifying prospect.

[goldstategop]

She must be the only Leftist Democrat who was not mugged by reality. She must be one of the 10% who is living in denial. Heck I feel sorry for Barbara Lee and so do 90% of the American people - even the rest of the Congressional Black Caucus which is as Left on the Democrats as you can get voted to back President Bush. Lee doesn't seem to grasp there are evil people out there who would have and want to destroy Americans. All the social programs in the world won't convert their likes into pacifists. The only response is the sword.