Posted on 12/17/2012 2:50:15 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Dem renews call for 'Department of Peace' after Conn. shooting By Pete Kasperowicz - 12/17/12 02:57 PM ET
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) on Monday afternoon resumed his call for a federal "Department of Peace," which he said is needed to counteract a "cultural matrix" in the United States that produces violence.
"On a global level, this type of thinking justified war and brings the slaughter of innocents. Nationally, it sows seeds for murder," he said on the House floor.
"Yet war abroad and violence at home are not inevitable. We have it within our power to recreate America today."
"Let us create an organized, structured approach to become architects of a new culture of peace in our homes and our schools and our workplaces," he added. "This is what the Department of Peace is about. Let us establish in America, where national security and peace at home includes jobs, housing, physical and mental healthcare, education, retirement security for all."
Kucinich, who is leaving the House at the end of the 112th Congress, has introduced legislation calling for the creation of a Department of Peace, a bill that has more than five dozen Democrats as co-sponsors.
Del. Gregorio Sablan (D), a delegate for the Northern Mariana Islands, also took to the floor Friday afternoon to offer condolences to the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and also to argue in favor of stricter gun-control laws in light of the shooting.
"But merely to offer condolences feels meaningless to me, unless we also act to save other children and families and communities from a repetition of this same terrible tragedy," he said. "We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous, or deranged or deluded that they can snuff out the life of innocents on a whim."
Sablan acknowledged the Second Amendment right to bear arms, but said that amendment should not be seen as something that prevents action.
"If our talk does not take guns out of the hands of people who would murder children, then our condolences today are just empty words," he said.
I was thinking more along the lines of pin-headed asshat or misshapen-headed LIB degenerate or freedom-hating anti-American loser or...
These anti-Freedom creeps are relentless.
down the hall from the Dept of STFU, of which I am the head.
I’m watching Terra Nova right now. I expect to see Dennis riding into a scene on an Allosaur any minute.
Peace? just medicate the entire population.
DOPE... The Department of Peace Eternal.
We don’t need anymore damn Department of........ With our bloated federal budget, time to slash departments out.
” How do you recognize those who might be the future murderers?”
Easy...those would be Christians, conservatives, tea party, homeschoolers, preppers and gun owners. You know, terrorist types.
Department of Peace, or Department of Pacification, Dennis? Please be clear.
They could use some of that ammo the Department of Justice has been squirreling away.
Uruguay doesn’t sound too bad either.
You can get instant dual citizenship in Nevis and St. Kitts for a couple hundred grand.
Closer to home, you have Canada.
Maybe we can have another We Are the World benefit with the current cream of the crop artists, ya know rappers, hip hoppers, melodic death metal bands, and such. Elton will re-write for us one of his tunes for the occasion, Paul McCartney will sing “Live and Let Die”.
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