The Department of Peace

[BrandonJ1780]

I'm a poli sci guy, so I thought I'd throw out this latest gem of a bill--
Congress is looking at a Cabinet-level position for the Department of Peace, and "a Peace Academy modeled on our service academies." Thought it was a joke, but guess not.
The story: http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2007/04/department-of-peace.html
The actual bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-808
Be sure to grab your favorite dictator and sing Kumbayah on "Peace Day"--it's Sec. 401, at the bottom.

 

[MasterBates]

I weep for the future...

 

[Herc_Dude]

I remember hearing about that back when I was in college. I remember Dennis Kucinich was pushing it hard when he was "running" for president. I find it interesting that we went from the Department of War to the Department of Defense ... then the Department of Peace? ... I see a regression. Peace at all costs? Sounds very dangerous to me ... how about just calling it the Department of Appeasement instead?

 

[BrandonJ1780]

The Dept. of Peace sounds nuts enough, but it's the "Peace Academy" idea that gets me---way too Starship Trooper-like (movie version); by that, I mean...just weird.

 

[Brett327]

It will never happen. Pay it no mind.

Brett

 

[pennst8]

I weep for the future...

You're under arrest for thoughtcrime.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

 

[HeyJoe]

You're under arrest for thoughtcrime.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

And stealing a signature line from A4s

Regardless, i thought this was a farce until I checked the official govt site and it's there in all its Utopian glory. Thank goodness the president has veto power. This would make a fine movie farce. I could just see every move by SECDEF, Secy of State, NSC, DOE, NSA, and CIA (to name a few) opposed by this "entity". Kinda like Peace Corps on steroids. I note that if enacted, "they" would take care of reconstruction efforts post conflict sooo, I guess they would be a nonviolent solution to Iraq...that's really going to work.

 

[BlackBearHockey]

It will never happen. Pay it no mind.

Brett

On this one I'd have to never say never. At my school, you can major in Peace Studies, taking classes such as PAX 360: Conflict Resolution: a relational approach to working through conflict, PAX 451: Mediation, its premises, practices and policies, and my favorite: PAX 351: This Sacred Earth: ecology and spirituality. The worst part about this is this is the department of peace studies is the most active academic department on campus. They have a wide spread newsletter, they garner more of the budget to bring in hippie lecturers than every other department, and we get to have school sanctioned "spiritual" days where there is a hemp craft stand, an area to build sculptures with sticks from mother earth, and I can't remember exactly what it was called but I'm sure there was an area for vaginal cleansing as well.

 

[nittany03]

Keep in mind that this bill is sponsored by the former "boy mayor" who drove the city of Cleveland into default, and made it a national laughingstock in the 1970s.

 

[Herc_Dude]

Keep in mind that this bill is sponsored by the former "boy mayor" who drove the city of Cleveland into default, and made it a national laughingstock in the 1970s.

Never trust a man who doesn't eat red meat...

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

The Dept. of Peace sounds nuts enough, but it's the "Peace Academy" idea that gets me---way too Starship Trooper-like (movie version); by that, I mean...just weird.

A peace academy? Like these guys?

 

[PropStop]

I wonder what drill instructors at the peace academy would be like...