Proposed new agency concentrates on peace
Reflecting on the March 22 story about the tragic school shooting recently at the Red Lake Reservation, we are reminded once again of the urgent need to establish a U.S. Department of Peace. We need to much more seriously address the underlying causes of the problems of violence that we face today.
The Department of Peace will include a best-practices template for the amelioration of violence among America's youth. The department would implement measurably effective intervention for issues such as school and gang violence, domestic violence, reduced prison incarceration rates and international conflicts, to name only a few issues.
I believe we are at the place, historically, that Dr. Martin Luther King spoke of. It is no longer a matter of violence versus nonviolence. It is a matter of nonviolence versus nonexistence. I urge every citizen to act now, before another child loses its life to violence, to visit www.thepeacealliance.org for a more detailed description of the plans for the Department of Peace, and to contact your congressional representative to support the bill to establish the department when it is re-introduced in the House session on Sept. 12.
Mayme Putzel
Thomasville
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This is exactly the kind of c-r-a-p that is wrong with this county. Programs and government spending with little common sense. Unplug the violent video games, stop cramming our minds with violent images in movies and televisions, put locks on all guns, and parents stay involved in their kid's lives. Do those things and you don't need a multibillion dollar Department of Peace.
Posted on April 4, 2005 11:41 AM
Great idea. Then the next time we're attacked by an enemy that wants to kill us and destroy our way of life we can "peace" them into loving us back.
Yeah, that should work...we can love them into submission, and all sing Koomba-Ba-Ya afterwards.
What a simple world you must live in.
Posted on April 4, 2005 5:59 PM