[AmericanMade1776]

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

[Savage Beast]

Say, is this anything like the Ministry of Truth?

[ladtx]

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>

[The_Victor]

Department of Peas

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

[jtminton]

This sure is an easy way to get the names of all the kooks in Congress in one, easy to reference place.

[P.O.E.]

"Do it to Julia!"

Just practicing.

[BB2]

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......

[highlandbreeze]

You can't be serious?

[centurion316]

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)

[Zeppo]

Don't we already have a State Department to sell out US interests? Wouldn't a Department of Peace be redundant?