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Department of Peace , Sponsored by Democrats
the Department of Peace ^ | march 11, 2004

Posted on 03/11/2004 6:32:20 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

Co-Sponsors to Date (for a list of organizational endorsements, click here)

U.S. House of Representatives- there are currently 50 co-sponsors

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Sanders, Bernard (I-VT)

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Scott, Bobby (D-VA, 3rd)

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McDermott, Jim (D-WA, 7th)

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Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)

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Rahall, Nick (D-WV, 3rd)

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Baldwin , Tammy (D-WI, 2nd)

(Excerpt) Read more at dopcampaign.org ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: baghdadjim; flowerpower; markudall; peacedept; peaceniks; udall
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE LEGISLATION

-Hold peace as an organizing principle in our society;

-Endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights;

-Strengthen non-military means of peacemaking;

-Work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed conflict, use field-tested programs, and develop new structures in non-violent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict;

-Address matters both domestic and international in scope;

-Submit to the President recommendations for reductions in weapons of mass destruction, and make annual reports to the President on the sale of arms from the United States to other nations, with analysis of the impact of such sales on the defense of the United States and how such sales effect peace;

-Encourage the development of initiatives from local communities, religious groups, and nongovernmental organizations;

-Facilitate the development of peace summits at which parties to a conflict may gather under carefully prepared conditions to promote non-violent communication and mutually beneficial solutions;

-Develop new programs that relate to the societal challenges of school violence, guns, racial or ethnic violence, violence against gays and lesbians, and police-community relations disputes;

-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local, regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas;

-Provide for the training of all United States personnel who administer postconflict reconstruction and demobilization in war-torn societies;

-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local, regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas; http://www.dopcampaign.org/campaign_oview.htm

1 posted on 03/11/2004 6:32:20 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776
Say, is this anything like the Ministry of Truth?
2 posted on 03/11/2004 6:35:17 AM PST by Savage Beast (Whom will the terrorists vote for? Not George W. Bush--that's for sure! ~Happy2BMe)
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To: AmericanMade1776
I think we are in dire need of a Department of Silly Walks also. Maybe I can get Ralph Hall to go along with it. < /sarcasm>
3 posted on 03/11/2004 6:35:41 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Department of Peas

Isn't that just sweet. They can be in charge of planting sunflowers on top of missile silos.

4 posted on 03/11/2004 6:37:32 AM PST by The_Victor
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To: ladtx
My recommendation for the Secretary of the Department of Silly Walks:


5 posted on 03/11/2004 6:37:47 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: ladtx
THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE

How about a Dept.of Rainbows, or Dept. of Unicorns?

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE?

6 posted on 03/11/2004 6:37:59 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Savage Beast
Say, is this anything like the Ministry of Truth?

I was thinking Ministry of Peace and Nightwatch from the Babylon 5 series.

7 posted on 03/11/2004 6:39:03 AM PST by Ophiucus
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To: AmericanMade1776
This sure is an easy way to get the names of all the kooks in Congress in one, easy to reference place.
8 posted on 03/11/2004 6:42:33 AM PST by jtminton
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To: AmericanMade1776
"Do it to Julia!"

Just practicing.
9 posted on 03/11/2004 6:44:32 AM PST by P.O.E. (Enjoy every sandwich)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Let's all chant together now.... "oooohhhhhmmmmmmmm"......oooooooohhhhhhmmmmmm".

Now isn't that better, can't you feel the love energy returning to us from the terrorist groups? Everything is all better now! Aren't we good people? Aaahhhhhhh......

10 posted on 03/11/2004 6:46:48 AM PST by BB2
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To: AmericanMade1776
You can't be serious?
11 posted on 03/11/2004 6:47:10 AM PST by highlandbreeze (BUSH/CHENEY '04)
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To: AmericanMade1776
The usual suspects. The same bunch who consistently turn a blind eye to the systematic genocide visited upon the world by leftist tyrants, to wit: Soviet Union, Red China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, El Salvador, Afghan Taliban, Iraq, Iran.

In the face of all of this, ask any of them what country is the source of all evil in the world. Their answer: The United States of America (especially when led by a Republican)
12 posted on 03/11/2004 6:49:35 AM PST by centurion316
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To: The_Victor
Department of Peas

No doubt run by the 'Pod People'.

13 posted on 03/11/2004 7:00:06 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: centurion316
Without looking I am guessing that all of these are members of the PROGRESSIVE CAUCAS.

COMMUNISTS MEMBERS under another name.
14 posted on 03/11/2004 7:07:20 AM PST by The Bat Lady (Lighting the fires of Liberty, one heart at a time!)
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To: ladtx
"-Strengthen non-military means of peacemaking; "

Translated from libspeak:

Cut the balls off the U.S. military.

Gotta remind these idiots of one of their idols' (Mao) favorite sayings.....

"peace comes out of the barrel of a gun"

15 posted on 03/11/2004 7:12:19 AM PST by kahoutek ((A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged))
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To: AmericanMade1776
Don't we already have a State Department to sell out US interests? Wouldn't a Department of Peace be redundant?
16 posted on 03/11/2004 7:52:52 AM PST by Zeppo
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To: Zeppo; All
If I am not mistaken The Department of Peace was his idea


17 posted on 03/11/2004 7:56:59 AM PST by Kaslin (It is now more important then ever that we re-elect President Bush)
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To: All

18 posted on 03/11/2004 8:24:40 AM PST by JoJo Gunn (Intellectuals exist only if you believe they do. ©)
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To: highlandbreeze
I just posted the site, it seems like it is real.
19 posted on 03/11/2004 4:46:00 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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