Kucinich and the Politics of Nonviolence. In Thursday night’s Democratic presidential candidates’ debate (yes, I watched it — masochism, I guess), Rep. Dennis Kucinich suddenly declared himself a libertarian.
No, he didn’t use the L-word. But he announced his plan, should he be elected, to create a “Department of Peace” to bring about a “transformation of our society” by “making non-violence an organizing principle.”
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Since nobody with Kucinich’s reverence for nonviolence could possibly want to increase “violent action or the threat of such action,” he plainly couldn’t seriously be calling for his projects to be governmentally enforced. He must instead be trying to persuade people to implement these programs voluntarily. [LewRockwell.com]
A tongue-in-cheek look at the philosophical implications of Dennis Kucinich’s claimed interest in non-violence.
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