such reference's to the Bible come from Dennis easily.
They go back to his years as a choir boy in a church, largely black, the community that trained his glorious, unbelievable, beautiful voice,where he still returns to the little house he bought his parents with his "first long-pants job."
I once asked him how, living among corporate greed and accepted corporate crime, he has kept from straying. His white teeth gleamed. He told about his "mentor."
This ancient black lady from his childhood calls him every morning to remind him, "Have you said your Golden Rule?"
We need a President who would face Enron like Dennis faced the Cleveland bankers. We can gladly welcome a philosopher, musician, a poet: the man the Gandhi family and the Dali Lama supported for President, facts the media never reported, a man about whom main street media, owned body and soul by corporate America, made a pact to see his name in print only if the reference was negative. Unable to find negatives, they took the next best route to keep their dishonorable pact. They used the simple system of leaving his name out of print.
When door belling, the slowest possible advertising, finally awoke voters to recognize his name and the last states to caucus voted for Kucinich overwhelmingly, his media ignored them. They were carefully omitted from the daily news reports, ignored on radio and TV.
Even when Granny D, a women in her 70s, walked from Florida to San Francisco posting his name, then led a crowd of a thousand across the Golden Gate Bridge, not one photo or word of the unbelievable trek appeared in the news.
When I, as a crippled 83 year old, pushed my walker 3 miles in a rally, photographers all lined up to take pictures, then yanked each others' cameras off sight when they saw my Kucinich sign.
If this growing control of press doesn't frighten you, it should. Control of press is a tool for those who peddle fear and turn it into a murder and terror.
The question that should be asked now is, "Who are the terrorists." One answer is "Who has the WMDs?" U. S. not only has them, but is using every one of them, supposedly to stop the Iraqis from using the ones they don't have! That is what I call pretzelized logic.
Three hundred years ago, our First Congress established a Department of War: But General Washington, having lead men into battle, was intent on a Department for Peace.
Dennis Kucinich, Congressman, brilliant scholar, biblical student, poet, musician, voice for the disinherited, for the suffering and the masses, the man who listens to an ancient each morning reminding him of The Golden Rule carries General Washington's banner for a Department of Peace.
My friend, Dennis Kucinich, will present the bill for the DOP to Congress, September 6. 2005. Join us.
"Let us declare our intent for peace. Let us work to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our own society. Let us recommit ourselves to the slow and painstaking work of statecraft, which sees peace, not war, as being inevitable. Let us work for a world where someday war becomes archaic."
Dennis Kucinich,
Emily Horswill, Lynnwood, Wa. emhorswill@earthlink.com
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