A New Way - Peace and Prosperity Are Our Right
This is the fourth of a series of articles exploring the creation of
The Independence Party
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It seems the time is growing short once again for the opportunity to promise peace any time soon to our children and our grandchildren. I know what you are thinking, ... when has peace ever been a priority in America, certainly not since after World War II. When it had seemed we ran out of the big fights, we created some smaller ones in Grenada, and Panama, and Somalia, ... just to keep the "saw sharpened" so we'd have it to use when we needed it, as in the case of Iraq, ... twice, ... and Iran, ... next perhaps.
Let me begin by saying that the Cold War, those many years of practicing for our own demise in the hallways of our schools, with our heads bent between our knees, kissing our asses goodbye, ... the Cold War was, at least from the vantage point of children in America, a peaceful time. Actually, the 1963 murder of our President, John Kennedy, was the beginning of the endless violence we have experienced in the last forty-four years. It is imperative for our children's and our grandchildren's sense of safety that we disavow our society's addiction to the violence of war, and violence as a solution to any international or interpersonal differences. Whether that would fall into the realm of a Public Health concern, or an International Peace concern, ... is, in the end, of no particular consequence whatsoever, to me, nor should it be to the law-makers in our Nation. It should be an objective of EVERY Congress, and EVERY President, and EVERY Supreme Court, that for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to ever become a practical promise to every life of every citizen in the Nation, we MUST invest in the notion, ... in the promise, that PEACE is a promise to every citizen under the Constitution of the United States of America.
The Independence Party
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It seems the time is growing short once again for the opportunity to promise peace any time soon to our children and our grandchildren. I know what you are thinking, ... when has peace ever been a priority in America, certainly not since after World War II. When it had seemed we ran out of the big fights, we created some smaller ones in Grenada, and Panama, and Somalia, ... just to keep the "saw sharpened" so we'd have it to use when we needed it, as in the case of Iraq, ... twice, ... and Iran, ... next perhaps.
Let me begin by saying that the Cold War, those many years of practicing for our own demise in the hallways of our schools, with our heads bent between our knees, kissing our asses goodbye, ... the Cold War was, at least from the vantage point of children in America, a peaceful time. Actually, the 1963 murder of our President, John Kennedy, was the beginning of the endless violence we have experienced in the last forty-four years. It is imperative for our children's and our grandchildren's sense of safety that we disavow our society's addiction to the violence of war, and violence as a solution to any international or interpersonal differences. Whether that would fall into the realm of a Public Health concern, or an International Peace concern, ... is, in the end, of no particular consequence whatsoever, to me, nor should it be to the law-makers in our Nation. It should be an objective of EVERY Congress, and EVERY President, and EVERY Supreme Court, that for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to ever become a practical promise to every life of every citizen in the Nation, we MUST invest in the notion, ... in the promise, that PEACE is a promise to every citizen under the Constitution of the United States of America.
There should always, and forever, be a United States Department of Peace created under the next President in order that the attainment and maintenance of Peace, ... the sheer practical conviction on the part of our Nation that We the People are intended and committed to live in Peace forever and always as a part of the Community of Nations as defined under the United Nations Charter, might have a chance to become a reality at last. More importantly, the commitment of the greatest nation currently on the earth to the assurance of Peace as a critical pursuit of Mankind, is in the end, the essence of the true meaning of the purpose of the United States of America Declaration of Independence.
This critical new Cabinet-Level Department of Peace must be enacted and staffed before Peace itself will ever have the chance to be reborn in the World, and certainly at American hands. This suggestion has been endorsed for many years by US Representative Dennis Kucinich, and was first suggested, it is widely believed, by renowned International Peace Advocate and Spiritual leader, Marianne Williamson.
posted by TheIndependenceParty at Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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