A bold new idea from our liberal friends in the government....
So they want this new Cabinet level department, dedicated to "dedicated to peacemaking and the study of conditions that are conducive to both domestic and international peace." What exactly does the State Department do again?
(6) create and establish a Peace Academy, which shall--
(A) be modeled after the military service academies;
(B) provide a 4-year course of instruction in peace education, after which graduates will be required to serve 5 years in public service in programs dedicated to domestic or international nonviolent conflict resolution;
They'll call it Peace Point or something.
I mean, common, seriously. Do these congressmen (and congresswomen, Michigan included) really think this will help? Would the secretary be required to wear a raggdy tied-eyed tee shirt and sing Kum-Bay-Yah at the opening of all his meetings?
This stems from the idea that the Department of Defense (formerly the Department of War) is a war-hungry institution that needs to be balanced out. We don't need a department of peace and non-violence, we have hollywood and the U.N., which pretty much get the same point accross without spending another couple billions of dollars....
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5 comments:
wow.
thats some crazy stuff!
Visualize whirled peas!!!!
I can just see it now - the Peace Point White Doves!
One foul in basketball and you are suspended. No football team, because it is too violent. In baseball, you have to pitch easy enough for everyone to hit - we can't have anyone feeling bad about themselves, or it may evoke jealousy and hatred, and create conflict.
Well, if they come to Michigan, we'll make sure they all have iPods, so they can listen to ocean sounds and Enya so as to create that peaceful carma...
I, for one, rather like this idea. The government wastes money on far worse things than teaching citizens about the conditions that bring about peace and having them do service towards it. There is something huge to be said about working towards understanding and creating conditions where wars do not need to be faught. This could also be something that fights the violence in our culture--something we see again is so desperately needed in the wake of today's Virginia Tech shooting.
shalom, brothas.
the solution to government waste is not to spend more money, elise. the solution is to fight the things that you deem wasteful. Rationalizing MORE waste in answer to wastefulness is just silly.
I just dont understand what this is supposed to accomplish. we already have a State Department for diplomacy , along with the UN (no laughing!). we have the Peace Corps and Army Corps of Engineers to build crap for other countries. I just feel that ANOTHER govt organization is just redundant and superfluous. How 'bout we just make the stuff we have better?
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