{"id":841,"date":"2008-10-24T23:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2008-10-24T23:00:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T03:00:33","slug":"the-department-of-peace-non-violence-this-is-a-joke-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/the-department-of-peace-non-violence-this-is-a-joke-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Peace &#038; Non-Violence??? This is a Joke right???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim over at <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/content\/2008\/10\/24\/a-new-cabinet-level-department-under-obama-administration.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wizbang<\/a> points out this post at <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NzdiNjQyM2EyYzY2OWM2ZTc3OTYwY2NlN2NkNGI1MDk=\" target=\"_blank\">The Corner<\/a> which points us to <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c110:H.R.808:\" target=\"_blank\">HR-808<\/a> which is a the &#8220;Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Peace and Nonviolence is new cabinet level department Democrats are proposing it would include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Office of Peace Education and Training<\/li>\n<li> Office of Domestic Peace Activities<\/li>\n<li> Office of International Peace Activities<\/li>\n<li> Office of Technology for Peace<\/li>\n<li> Office of Arms Control and Disarmament<\/li>\n<li> Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution<\/li>\n<li> Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WTF??? Never mind the fact that this sounds like something lifted from a bad George Orwell novel it&#8217;s going to be disgustingly expensive and oppressive.<\/p>\n<p>God help us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim over at Wizbang points out this post at The Corner which points us to HR-808 which is a the &#8220;Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act&#8221;. The Department of Peace and Nonviolence is new cabinet level department Democrats are proposing it would include: Office of Peace Education and Training Office of Domestic Peace Activities Office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,254,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-democrats","8":"tag-department-of-peace-and-nonviolence-act","9":"tag-hr-808","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2851,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/weekend-briefing\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":0},"title":"Weekend Briefing &#8211; Saturday, October 10, 2009","author":"Jeff","date":"October 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to be tied up with family all weekend but here's a collection of must read links: CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009 - Associated Press Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus - Associated Press A Nobel for Obama - New York Sun Barack\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afghanistan&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Afghanistan","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/afghanistan\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2842,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/09\/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-for-what\/","url_meta":{"origin":841,"position":1},"title":"Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize&#8230; For What?","author":"Jeff","date":"October 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to start off by saying Congratulations Mr. President... 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