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Phil Collins: Don't Get Me Started                      Questions that must be answered               Cat Stevens: Peace Train

All Created Equal
Shaping the Policies of Globalization

September 19, 2001

Enemy combatants, terrorists, patriots, dissidents, appeasers.... who are they, who defined them and how does law and force impact them?

 

Mass murder should never be left unchecked.  Anyone who participates in or has knowledge and is a party to such anti-social behavior should be held accountable.

Who could be proud of such an act?   Who could bring such unwarranted shame and oppression and persecution to their own people?  Why would we trust anyone who shows such disrespect for human life?

It is clearly the right of the American People, and the citizenry of at least 62 other nations, to seek justice for the demonstration of inhumanity perpetrated on September 11, 2001. 

It is, if nothing else, appropriate for the world to cooperate with and join in the effort to end the scourge of terrorism from the world.

But what is the root of  terroroism? What kind of despair and hopelessness leads to such ruthless acts?  Terrorism is yet one more facet of our world, and of human nature, that denies true leadership the opportunity to lead. 

The attention of our leaders must respond to this event. But what attention will be given to contextually understand the problems of all people, and work toward our common goals? It is our inability to solve problems that lead to such an aggression. What can we learn about peace from citizens in Rwanda or Ireland? What did it take from all to bring solutions into reality and peace to all?

Aggression, more often than not, is a desperate attempt to defend oneself.  Aggression and defense, each act and counteract are subjectively the same.  Think about it. When others think you are getting aggressive, what is real to you, on the inside, is pure and desperate self-defense. Or survival of your tribe. In the logical course of human events, the principles from which the desperation arises gets lost in the battle for domination.  Understandably, predictably, sadly, and sometimes, righteously.

We stand here today righteous in our willingness to do battle and seek justice.  We would not suggest an alternative.  The will of the people should and will be served.  And we will neither condone or oppose it.

We would like to suggest another possibility.   Request that we seize the moment for another opportunity.  Draw a new line in the sand, and call it accountability.

For, as there always is in cases like this, there is accountability on all sides, and much to understand.  We have weapons and rhetoric and heroes and villains… what we need is accountability and understanding.  The first war of the 21st Century is not the future.

It should be seen as a completion of the past, closing the door on the suffering of injustice and an outbreak of peace as citizens everywhere get involved as global citizens in solving the most desperate problems in our world.

It should be the opening of a new door as we approach this new world called globalization.

Ultimately, that is the real issue.  

Globalization must be more than a platform for resource exploitation and economic gains for the purpose of wealth accumulation and power.  Globalization must serve the human needs of people first.  All people.

Those wise people who created our Constitution and the framework for the future of democracy have once again provided us with the answer to what must be done in the challenges of globalization.  Their wisdom, when received without interpretation, define the principles that must be applied to make future aggressive defensiveness unnecessary.

When our fore founders declared “all men are created equal” with the “inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”  they did not say that these rights were unique to Americans. All people are created equal. Not all whites or male or Christian are created equal. Not all Americans are created equal, but under God all people are created equal. Are those values in our policies?

It’s the same reason why it is so relevant in the face of globalization.  We must acknowledge and be responsible for our power and influence.  It would be easy to demand that the world conform to our standards, and then accept no responsibility for the outcome while we reap the benefits.

But, we would be a truly powerful nation if we could sit down with the leaders of the world with grievances, and hear them with the willingness to understand and the desire to honor their inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  And a like request of them.

When you take away the rhetoric, the talk of hatred and false bravado, all that’s left is people.  People with the same desires, the same needs, the love of their children, their God… all around the world, people want the same things. The same as you and I.

And, so, the true challenge we face today is that of Shaping the Policies of Globalization such that the world is put on notice, from this day forward, that the needs of the global community as a whole must and will be met, that principles of equality and justice and truth will prevail for the good of us all.

Shaping the Policies of Globalization is more than laws and meetings and conversations… it will require a spiritual reawakening like never before seen in the history of people… to take on being accountable to one another for each other’s well being… with the guiding principal of every discussion and decision the golden rule… do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

 

Please also visit:
www.GlobalDCUnion.org
www.gdcu.org
www.planetarymix.com
www.fortheloveoftheworld.com

 

(C) Charles Rehn Jr IV  2002-2009 All Rights Reserved

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