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Democrat proposes Ministry of Love, uh, Peace
Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich proposes a Cabinet-level Department of Peace and Non-Violence. Its purpose would be to “make Martin Luther King’s ideal of non-violence the organizing principle of the nation,” and to “bring peace into the structure of everyday life.” He went on like that for a while. I watched, my jaw slightly ajar.
If you mentioned Kucinich’s proposal to a liberal woman, you know what she would say? She’d say: “What’s wrong with that?” Comments
These would be tax dollars well spent. Posted by: Wagner on October 14, 2003 12:01 AMHow about we compromise with a Department of Pacification and Preemptive Deterrence? Posted by: Thrasymachus on October 14, 2003 12:30 AMThe other one is “education.” Wasn’t it Lamar Alexander and both Bushes who wanted to be “The Education President” or some such thing? As if whether or not I force myself to sit down on my derrière and study my chemistry, algebra, history, or French chapter for this week until I know it “cold” as we used to say, or do my best with that English term paper that’s due on “A Tale of Two Cities” or “The Merchant of Venice” — as if any of that depends on some moronic bureaucrat in D.C. who’s only wasting tax-payers’ money getting paid to take up space! But leave it to foolish, clueless women voters every time to go into a trance of devotion to some idiot politician, usually a Dem, who says he wants to be the education president or some such thing — these women will vote for that guy come hell or high water, because he’s going to personally see to it — he or his policies — that their son or daughter will ace their high school courses, don’t you see. Posted by: Unadorned on October 14, 2003 1:36 AMMethinks that the Sixties and the Great Rebellion passed by too quickly for this poor soul. Visions of Woodstock still pass through his wee little head. Love beads, butterflies, and bell-bottoms and, you know, like WHOAA — like, a flower grows out of the ground, man! Posted by: Joel LeFevre on October 14, 2003 2:09 AMWe already have a US “Institute of Peace” - to which Daniel Pipes was recently appointed. Maybe they can handle “peace and nonviolence matters”. But of course doubly and thrice redundant bureaucratic organizations are always a good idea. Posted by: Wagner on October 14, 2003 8:36 AMWagner, I can’t tell from your two posts which side you’re on. Your first post sounds as if you support Kucinich. Your second sounds like sarcastic ridicule of him: “We already have a US “Institute of Peace” […]. But of course doubly and triply redundant bureaucratic organizations are always a good idea.” Unadorned- For the record, I think a “cabinet level department of peace and non-violence” is absolute garbage. My first post was a poor attempt at sarcasm. My second post was earnest in part: we do have an “institute of peace” - so maybe they can deal with the much needed and easy to implement (sarcasm) policy of “bringing peace into the structure of everyday life”. The “doubly and triply redundant” part was sarcasm too. Too much sarcasm I guess. Sorry to make you wade through it. Wagner, not at all. They were good posts. I can be a little tone-deaf to correspondents’ sarcasm at times — my fault! Posted by: Unadorned on October 14, 2003 1:03 PMWe already took the first PC step when we renamed the War Department the Department of Defense. And the Department of State is already the peace department. In the spirit of checks and balances, maybe we should have a “Peace At Any Price” Department. Rep. Kucinich seems like an awfully strange fellow to have achieved the mobilization of money and support it takes to get elected to Congress today. Posted by: Bill on October 14, 2003 1:45 PM |