posted June 20, 2006 12:06 AM            

Posted: June 19, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
WorldNetDaily.com
Doug Powers

You wish the world could be completely peaceful, and so do I. There, now that we've got that out of the way, we can work our way back to the real world, almost, and talk about the upcoming World Peace Forum in Vancouver,Canada, which begins this Friday and runs through June 28.

Here's the basic description of the event from their website:

The mission of the Forum is to create a global culture of peace. This is how we propose to implement our mission:

Publish a World Peace Forum statement:

''Building a Culture of Peace and Sustainability,'' for the global community,

outlining what individuals, communities, cities, groups, and nations can do locally to create a culture of peace and sustainability.

Create an ongoing legacy of bi-annual World Peace Forums, in cities around the world, to refine, promote, and expand the culture of peace and sustainability.

Encourage communities and nations to plan for peace, for example, by inaugurating Departments of Peace at city, regional, and national levels of government.

Celebrate and protect diversity of culture locally and globally.

Make war abhorrent, peace popular, and the restoration and protection of our global ecosystems a priority.

This all has the makings of some bumper sticker slogans that are sure to be adorning hybrids everywhere in the coming year, but after that we're still stuck with vastly differing perspectives.

For example, I thought the U.S. did have a ''Department of Peace,'' and it's called the ''military.'' And who busted those would-be terrorists in Toronto before they fulfilled their sick dreams and killed who knows how many, perhaps including, heaven forbid, peace activists?

The world has yet to see a single tin pot wingnut or murderous thug brought down by a bumper sticker, picket sign or bed-in.

The peace activist also has an inability, or more accurately put, an unwillingness, to target the message to the proper market. Consider Yoko Ono, wife of John Lennon, peace activist, and "singer" whose shriek is the mating call of the Tinnitus Warbler.

In 2003, Ono rented a billboard in London, which read: ''Imagine all people living life in peace.'' Now that cashiers at Piccadilly Square gift shops and bellboys at The Conrad have read the message, is the world that much closer to eliminating the threat of war?

Why don't peace activists hold their events and display their billboards not in Canada, London or New York, but in places where they can preach to the sinners instead of the choir? How about Tehran, Beijing, Pyongyang, Mogadishu and in the backyards of drug cartels? Because pacifists are bright enough to realize it's incredibly dangerous to espouse pacifism outside walls heavily guarded by that which pacifists stand firmly opposed.

This is why peace forums will always be held in nations that, for the most part, have been historically smart enough to not base any policy whatsoever on the advice of the kind of people who go to peace forums.

When I was a kid, a rudimentary economic idea sprang to mind: If everybody worked for free, everything would be free. This brief flirtation with quasi-Marxist/Leninist/Idiotarian philosophy at the age of around ten exited my head at the speed at which it arrived.

Why? Because I realized how stupid it was at the same moment it occurred to me. Even then, I knew that if everything were free, nobody would work. Heck, it's hard enough to get some people to work even when everything is expensive.

Pacifism is a similar belief, because it's simply not possible in the real world. The simple truth is this: Thanks to wars, we're free to pursue pacifism.

Whenever I write about pacifism, I get letters from readers saying that pacifists have less to do with "world peace," and more to do with pushing communist, Marxist-Leninist, or some wacky off-shoot thereof, political agendas. If this is true, then those particular pacifists are among the biggest warmongers of them all, because totalitarian regimes spend "Paris Hilton on a shopping spree''-sized dollars on militarizing everything to the point where even their cats and dogs are goose-stepping to the tune of "It's hip to be Tiananmen Square."

posted June 20, 2006 12:40 AM              

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Celebrate and protect diversity of culture locally and globally.

Make war abhorrent, peace popular, and the restoration and protection of our global ecosystems a priority.

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Sorry is there something wrong with this?

If we didnt do this, there would be a lot more chaos and hate in the world.

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Why don't peace activists hold their events and display their billboards not in Canada, London or New York, but in places where they can preach to the sinners instead of the choir? How about Tehran, Beijing, Pyongyang, Mogadishu and in the backyards of drug cartels? Because pacifists are bright enough to realize it's incredibly dangerous to espouse pacifism outside walls heavily guarded by that which pacifists stand firmly opposed.

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Ok...more peace forums in areas of the world where there isn't peace is a good point.

posted June 20, 2006 12:59 AM            

It was the so called antiwar protesters who made this war in Iraq inevitable.

In fact, peaceniks are some of the most dangerous people in the world to peace.

Peaceniks think slogans and protests change the world reality.

All they do is embolden enemies and weaken the resolve of native nations to resist the evil while there is still time to resist.

When peaceniks get involved, there is almost always war..just a little later than it would have happened if an aggressor didn't back off. For that reason, there is war on the terms and at the time of the aggressors choosing. Those wars are far more destructive and kill a hell of a lot more people.

So, as the author of the article pointed out, why don't the peaceniks take their slogans, ribbons, bumper stickers and peace protests to Iran, to communist China, to communist North Korea, to Syria, to Sudan, to Congo and to Somalia.

posted June 20, 2006 03:14 PM            

LMAO.. that is so true.

I wonder if peaceniks apply that anti-war crap to everything? Would they stop a rape or murder from happening by any means necessary? What about the sentiment towards the terrorists that waged war on us?

Their rhetoric doesn't make sense and seems to apply to only certain groups of people.

Off topic...

God what stinks to high heaven? Damn, it smells like gutter stench.. is there a troll loose?

posted June 20, 2006 03:41 PM            

6 months of basic, intermediate and battalion unit training...and discipline with a couple of years of doing something useful for a change might even turn TP into an American.

Instead of the swamp gas we get now from a no brainer.

posted June 20, 2006 04:16 PM            

The line in particular that stuck in my memory:

Only a Saint, Pacifist or Fool
Believes in things like the Golden Rule.

Lots of layers in that statement & I`ll probably ponder it til the day I die.

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted June 20, 2006 10:45 PM              

I just got in so I'll explain later.