The Kentucky Party is for peace
by an Anonymous Kentuckian
The author didn't want to be identified if I modified this. It's edited for clarity and length. --editor
Article II (B), Bylaws of the Kentucky Party
The KYP is nonviolent and committed to nonviolence.
Kentucky Party members support our uniformed service members. What we're doing seems to particularly appeal to people who serve. As a Kentucky Party member, I'm for every US military veteran, law enforcement officer, and widow or widower who loses a loved one in the line of duty. I'm against liars, profiteers, and murderers of innocent American and Kentucky citizens.
No Kentucky combat veteran, widow or widower, or child or parent, is glad for war. Those who saw criminal deeds on the battlefield or in command know they could lose their freedom here in Kentucky if they told. Even the proudest, happy to have served and lost buddies, would rather not have the memories or the losses.
Peace is safety in home and family. Peace of mind comes from being loved and loving. Most people will agree everything becomes bearable, even hunger, disease, and dying, if someone stands by us. Every Kentuckian, cradle to grave, needs love. We want to love at least those who love us. Many are called by faith to also love people who don't love us---neighbors, enemies, and strangers here and abroad.
Kentuckians know the following facts
- War veterans and families are never taken care of like elected and appointed officials, military commanders, and their families.
- Most war can be completely avoided with honest diplomacy.
- Most wars were contrived for profit or power for a foreign or domestic minority.
- Some wars were started or fueled by what military strategists call "false flags." Contrived events cause bloodshed; blood generates outrage, desire for revenge, and swings the population where the liars want: to war.
- Wars make suppliers rich overnight, as long as the wars last, from bombs to bandages. Suppliers promote war.
- Wars exhaust national treasuries, sacrificing necessities at home for the fight against the enemy.
- Wars destroy trust. People fear being persecuted as "traitors" for questioning war, even when they have insider information.
How to end wars
Imagine everyone who publicly advocates war, votes for war, transfers domestic funds for war, disburses funds for war, cashes government checks sent to vendors for war, hides facts for war, and fails to report graft during war. Imagine if they knew all their children, grandchildren, and war-eligible family members would serve on the front lines as hot combat's "point of the spear," for the duration of every war. Offensive war would end if instigators suffered the consequences.
The Department of Defense has never passed an audit. It's just one of many government agencies spending on war. We need the Office of Inspector General to be strengthened and given power to come down hard on war-related fraud, waste, and abuse. Funds recaptured from war expenses should be devoted to the priorities in the US Constitution's Preamble.
We need Congress to close loopholes used by every President this century to usurp Congressional authority to declare war, starting with the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Peacetime US and Kentucky elected and appointed officials should invest all their working hours building relationships, unraveling problems, protecting citizens, helping disadvantaged, creating a healthy, stable, sound Commonwealth.
I'm for the Kentucky Party because it stands for everyone in Kentucky. Its position on nonviolence is grounded in Kentucky common sense, experience, and loyalty to kin and country.
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