Pre-emptive Peace. Can you dig it? Discuss.

[caledesi]

[Fridays Child]

1. We are, as a group...

...dumbstruck.

[autorank]

2. Hmmm...a bit rash aren't we? Didn't Gorbie & Ronnie try that?

Got spanked by their handlers. How about pre-emptive talk of piece.

[dxstone]

3. I like the basic concept...

But it needs something more to sell it properly to the American public.
The addition of large breasts might help... if we could somehow put large jiggling breasts on world peace, and I mean millions of 'em, I think we'd have a winner...
That's the crux of the problem though... as long as some people live in constant want and deprivation, and some others are so incredibly spoiled that they have no idea they're living in heaven on earth, and just keep grabbing more and more and more...



Unfortunately, as long as it's all so insanely imbalanced and goofy and absurd, there will always be unending strife on this spinning sphere...



It's still a lovely dream, though... Kuchinich's Dept of Peace was a wonderful idea... whatever happened to that one? Sunk like a stone, didn't it?
No wonder Christ is never coming back... I sure as shit wouldn't...
D

[Fridays Child]

4. Yes, and we can give it the demure name of "Nursing Mothers for Peace"

The only context in which Americans are allowed to unabashedly adore the female breast.

[dxstone]

5. Well, I'll drink to that!

Yuk yuk!

:toast:

[Just Me]

6. The first thing that enters my mind: refusal to participate in the game.

A refusal to participate in the game that the corporateers and power-mongers are playing,...and DECIDEDLY playing our own game, in spite of them.

Just,...my first thought in response to your post.

[understandinglife]

7. We do. MNA May 2 2005....

.....is a day to reflect on all the preemptive actions We The People are going to take....


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[LWolf]

8. Sure.

I can dig it, and I take action by supporting the creation of the DOP.

Here ya go:

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Thursday, April 14 11:30 a.m.
Dennis Kucinich
Report From Washington

Creating a Culture of Peace

This September, legislation will be introduced to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace. This is an opportunity for a new discussion about the nature of violence in our society and in the world. It is a moment when we can consciously reflect on the type of thinking which leads to violence, and to war.

At a domestic level, the Department of Peace will address domestic violence, child abuse, spousal abuse, violence in the schools, gang violence, violence against gays, and police-community relations among many areas of interest. The Department will work with community groups and support programs in education which promote peace-building. Some schools have already begun teaching children principles of peace-sharing and mutuality. We have to have a belief in our capacity to create transformative change through renewing our commitment to peace and creating a new structure to fulfill a new mission. This is a domestic imperative as well as internationally urgent.

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A belief in the inevitability of war produces war. War is manifested as a self-fulfilling prophecy. In the case of Iraq a war arose from pure falsehood. But those falsehoods took root in a soil laced with fear. Those falsehoods were propagated in the media. Those falsehoods mushroomed as violent weeds in the garden of our humanity. We have reaped a bitter crop.

There is a better vision of humanity, and of our future. We reach it through understanding the interdependence and interconnectedness of all people. We reach it through compassion. We reach it through cooperation.

More:

http://www.kucinich.us/

And still more:

http://www.dopcampaign.org/