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Re: Department of Peace, Homeland Security Name Alternative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark)
Tue Nov 19 06:23:05 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:19:28 -0800
From: Mark <Tetworld@highstream.net>
To: Mark Lupisella <mark.lupisella@gsfc.nasa.gov>, <peace-announce@mit.edu>
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on 11/18/02 11:25 PM, Mark Lupisella at mark.lupisella@gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:
> Hi all. Just wanted to clarify that as per the below email, CNN
> asked viewers to respond with alternative names to Homeland Security
> since close to 80% thought it was not a good name. I found this
> striking and thought it had to be signalling something. Anyway, I'm
> working with a congressman (Dennis Kucinich D-OH) who has proposed a
> bill calling for the establishment of a Department of Peace (40+
> co-sponsors), so I'm suggesting we write CNN with this as an
> alternative name - after all, the pursuit of peace is the pursuit of
> security. this could get aired if lots of folks suggest it and the
> bill could get good visibility. This is the kind of thing we need to
> counter balance all the war talk.
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> You may want to take a second to read the rest below.
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> Thanks for any interest.
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> Mark
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> At 12:21 AM -0500 11/19/02, Aimee L Smith wrote:
>> A friend of my family sent this along. If you are
>> particularly interested in working on this, please let me know
>> or contact Mark directly. In short, there is a letter
>> writing campaign to cnn to suggest "Dept of Peace" and a
>> much needed campaign to get an international treaty against
>> the militarization of space.
>>
>> hope = resistance,
>>
>> Aimee
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>> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:42:00 -0500
>> To: alsmith@MIT.EDU
>> From: Mark Lupisella <mark.lupisella@gsfc.nasa.gov>
>> Subject: Department of Peace, Homeland Security Name Alternative
>>
>>
>> Hi Aimee. left a phone message about this. Not sure about your
>> email, so trying this one. Trying to connect to various networks on
>> this, so if you or other you know might be interested, send around,
>> or some version you're comfortable with. An email to CNN suggesting
>> this alternative name and noting the Kucinich bill may get it aired
>> and get visibility on the bill. I assume you're connected to a broad
>> network of folks that might be interested in helping out on this.
>>
>> Also want to talk to you about the Space Preservation Treaty which is
>> an effort to ban all space-based weapons - submitted to Canadian
>> Foriegn Minister and Prime Minister for a treaty conference as they
>> did with Landmines. It's a stretch, but folks I'm working with are
>> pretty well connected and making progress and a letter writing
>> campaign from Americans to the Canadian Prime and Foreign Minister
>> will make a difference. They're saying they need to know there's
>> some support in the US. Kucinich has also introduced a companion
>> bill to this treaty and will be pushing the treaty conference idea in
>> Canada when he goes there soon to talk to a large group - sponsored
>> by previous Defense Minister of Canada and others.
>>
>> www.horizonsproject.org and www.peaceinspace.com (for the institute
>> that's been working closely with Kucinich and many others -
>> especially in Canada - on the treaty conference idea.
>>
>> Talk soon.
>>
>> Mark
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>> This is the email I sent to CNN and other peace groups I've been
>> working with. Send emails to cnn@cnn.com.
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>> Lou Dobbs invited suggestions from viewers for Homeland Security
>> Dep't name alternatives since there was a survey saying something
>> like 80% think it's not a good name. I found that striking.
>>
>> Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has proposed a bill with 40+ co-sponsors for a
>> Department of Peace. That's an alternative many would like to see.
>> "Homeland Peace" could be the dominant theme of such a department
>> while still acknowledging the broader global web of causality that
>> contributes to global and homeland security since the two are
>> obviously related. This bill deserves media attention regardless,
>> given the dominating war talk and tenuous geopolitical climate we
>> find ourselves in.
>>
>> Another alternative is the Department of Defense. "Homeland
>> security" is literally their job, and I'm concerned that this hasn't
>> been raised more publicly. The National Security Advisor's Office
>> and related offices are also supposed to satisfy a broader
>> coordinating and synthesizing function. This was touched on early
>> on, but quickly dropped as a public criticism. DoD, the NSA office
>> and related Executive Branch Offices are perfectly capable of more
>> broadly coordinating as needed. That's what they're supposed to do.
>> DoD is the most powerful, most well funded Gov't organization by an
>> order of magnitude. For there to be such a hard push for a new large
>> expensive Gov't agency raises the suspicion that certain political
>> factions do not want to reflect on the failings of the DoD and the
>> Exec Branch and want instead to further leverage this highly
>> emotionally charged attack to expand military related spending and
>> the military industrial complex in general.
>>
>> Perhaps a Department of Peace could do a better job.
>>
>> The U.S. spends roughly 5 times as much as any other single nation
>> spends on defense, or over 1/3 rd of total global military
>> expenditures.
>>
>> The U.S. spends over 50 times as much money on the military as all
>> its potential "rogue" state enemies combined (Iran, Iraq, Libya,
>> Syria, North Korea, and Cuba).
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>> The U.S. spends roughly twice what all its NATO allies spend on defense.
>>
>> Perhaps a Department of Peace could do a better job.
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>> Email address: Mark.Lupisella@gsfc.nasa.gov
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>> Business phone: 301-286-2918
>> Business fax: 301-286-2325
>>
>> Business address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
>> Code 584
>> Greenbelt Rd.
>> Greenbelt, MD 20771
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> Email address: Mark.Lupisella@gsfc.nasa.gov
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> Business phone: 301-286-2918
> Business fax: 301-286-2325
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> Business address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
> Code 584
> Greenbelt Rd.
> Greenbelt, MD 20771
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> I like the dept. of peace concept--real security comes through peace
check out a possible model for the new department...at:
http://www.tetworld.org
The Tetworld Center for Peace Through Strategic Global Gaming
mark
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