The Department of Peace, Love and Understanding

UPDATE: Needless to say, there is a great deal of blogospheric backwash on this…umm, situation. Do read Right Wing Nuthouse for an even better takedown. For example, he suggests Al Sharpton for the Department of Free Speech.

He also seems to think these people are on drugs. I think they ought to get off the street variety and find a good psychiatric pharmacologist before they do any more damage with their random slams into the American body politic.

Beyond the fringe, beyond the pale, and beyond rational thinking into some new realm of being.

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Charlottesvillain’s post from last week alerted me to this newest stupidity concocted by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the sheer ignorance of history and humanity these lotus eaters display.

They must dream up new legislation by reading old John Lennon lyrics and smoking peace pipes. They’re smoking something, that’s for sure - and they’re using flames from the burning Constitution to puff on their corn cobs.

Get this:

H.R. 808: Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act

HR 808 IH

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 808

To establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 5, 2007

Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. ANDREWS, Ms. BALDWIN, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Ms. CARSON, Mr. CLAY, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. FARR, Mr. FILNER, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Ms. LEE, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. NADLER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SHERMAN, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. WATERS, Ms. WATSON, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. WU, and Mr. WYNN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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A BILL

To establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence.

Yep. A cabinet level position, no less, with hundreds of minions to carry out the further undermining of our country. These people must be on drugs…or are burnt-out cases from their adolescence - a mindset they seem to have carried into adulthood and are now trying to foist on an already overburdened citizenry.

Can you imagine what this devil’s spawn will end up costing us in the way of funding. Don’t we have enough malignant federal governmental micromanagement in our lives?
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Charlottesvillain has actually drilled down to some of the slimier levels and has come up for air to let us know how really bad this stuff is:

If I recall correctly, this was a plank in the platform of the ill fated Kucinich Presidential campaign of 2004. With the Democrats now in control of the legislature, they are moving ahead.

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For those looking for a distillation, imagine a governmental agency responsible for advising on non-confrontational foreign policy options, establishing and enforcing new gun control measures, designing school curriculum, establishing and enforcing new legislation governing “hate crimes” and violence against animals, and my favorite, establishing a “Peace Academy,” a four-year institution of higher learning modeled on our service academies. (Wait, doesn’t the Ivy League already have like six of those?)

I wonder if they consulted with Cindy Sheehan on this idea? It sounds like one of her rants. Or maybe they did it in consultation with CAIR and Tehran. Those guys must be doubled over laughing.

If you have the bad luck to live in a blue district, I suggest that you contact your representative on this piece of sedition. And if you have the true misfortune to be represented by one of the sponsors of the bill (see above), send emails, call on the phone, and alert whatever knowledgeable friends you have about this cockamamie idea.

This is so Wilsonian even Woodrow would cringe at the idea. Our constitution is being eroded methodically by the most ignorant and unwise group of politicians to come down the pike since the League of Nations.