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"KUCINICH | Oh yes. What it does is -- the level of
security creates a mentality of caution, and an
underlying sense of fear. And when that's there, it
has a way of affecting consciousness, like a virus can
adversely affect a healthy organism. So, when members
vote, you know all of us make decisions that are
affected by the conditions under which we live and
work --and our political, the socio-political reality
at
Capital Hill has been reconstructed. It is a reality
which is socially affirmed. We have circumstances that
are not conducive to healthy decision-making in a
democratic society. In addition to that, members are
not told why. There is no discussion of these things.
It just happens."


"Number one is the
equation of conventional to nuclear weapons,
and loose talk of a prerogative for a first strike.
There is incautiousness. The report is riddled with a
fundamental incautiousness about the dangers of the
use of nuclear weapons. And the release of the
report - which I have no doubt came from the
Administration itself - was still another attempt to
heighten
the level of fear in the country and make it
impossible for people to be able to make rational
decisions as
to what their own interest might be."

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Well, the purpose of a Department of Peace
and the motivating factors involve a desire to
make nonviolence an organizing principle in our
society for domestic as well as international policy,
and
on an international level to seek to make war archaic.
On a domestic level, to deal with issues such as
child abuse, spousal abuse, domestic violence in the
home, community relations challenges, racial
violence, anything that exemplifies a lack of ability
to deal with human relations, would be dealt with by
the Department of Peace. And it's a cabinet level
position, which would raise the whole issue of
non-violence and conflict resolution to serious level
of discussion in society.

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