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Dear Marianne, thank you for reinstating your name on the Presidential Ballot; I enjoyed your video.

One of your most intelligent idea is proposing to balance the Armed-Forces Defence-Ministry, by complementing it with a Ministry-of-Peace, which is logical and reasonable (since there isn’t one).

However, as a standalone Ministry, in addition to all the other bureaucracy, it would raise the question of funding; who pays for it, and so-on? Tax-payers? Not on!

Solution: -- offer the Peacekeeper-project as an addition to be included in the existing curriculum of War-Strategy Studies. It would make better use of the expensive set-up for War-Games already in place, and its Public-appeal would make it irresistible – if the Armed Forces is serious about abolishing the insane, costly, and resource-depleting Arms Race, by setting an unprecedented example for all International Armed Forces to adopt.

Anyone objecting to your War-Resolution-Strategy, would reveal themselves as being not only bloody-minded aggressive, but equally uncaring about Earth’s fragile and finite environment!

This simple, no-extra-cost principle could be applied across-the-board, for problem-causing corporations to be accountable for, and to be held responsible in resolving humanity’s problems, by making it a mandatory part of all research.

Best regards, Peter

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I agree. Not only do other countries with recovery programs have far lower recidivism rates, they also experience less gun violence. It’s a virtuous cycle. #marianne2024

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Amen to that! The War on (people who use a few particular) Drugs does far more harm than good.

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I totally agree with setting up clinic's where people have access to there drug of choice and can be guided to the help they need for there dependency.

The next problem I see is the life style they are dependent on.

Those totally dependent on the lifestyle need a replacement lifestyle in the context of being trained business men and women with a dedicated teams they already have and start up money to invest in.They think because they have maimed and killed that they have no other way out from this delema.Not true!!

If drug's are legalized in the above format then there drug business is going to be

fucked, right !!! am I right or am I wrong..

We are all fucked if we don't hurry up and fix the problems the world and all that live on it are not addressed.That is the common denominator here and the solution to the drug lords delema.

Who gives a hoot what has happened in the past.We all face our own karma and that is something our soul can not escape.People need guidance to forgive themselves and realise they can be big players in the big picture of life on this planet.

Eg .There was a slave trader many years ago with the last name Newton.He was good at his choosin profession.

One day he had a spiritual experience which totally changed his whole life and he became a warrior for good etc etc.

He wrote the word's that later became the song-Amazing Grace.

Marianne Williamson and or team.

You get the drift....

Use anything I write and change it and sorry about the grammar etc

Love and lite...

And god speed

Garry Newton

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The same solution to addiction, homelessness, joblessness is to criminalize the human being with no heart to go to the root, government, to end the problem. It is a soft form of genocide

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Last May....I was staying in a state camp ground outside of Daytona Beach FL for two weeks. It was my first time down there since the Covic outbreak and I was glad to get away.

Camped next to me were seven men, ranging in age from 19 to 60. Half of them were sleeping in hammocks, some just curled up on the ground and two lucky ones- had small size tents to sleep in. Everyone was coughing, cursing and arguing about one thing or another. After having a few conversations with a few of them.... most were very close mouthed and seemed reluctant, almost ashamed to even look you in the eye.

I came to know their terrible plight. And that was that they were all from around the surrounding county and were recently released from jail after serving their time on drug charges. The one fellow who was more open to talk..... was approx. 32 , married but now separated and had a young child. His estranged wife would come around with her new boyfriend and her foul mouth that would even make a truck driver shutter... demanding money... which obviously he didn't have. He told me he still loved her... honestly I don't know why? Despite his rough appearance it was clear to me that this man had a good Heart. He related to me that even though he had prior construction and masonry experience absolutely no one would give him a job because of his drug conviction.

The only jobs that he could acquire was 'low skilled' and low paying ones like' Flag men' or Cleanup Work at different construction sites .

And those were payed with immigration wages of 2-3 dollars an hour... Take it or leave it. He took them all.... but that kind of money was just paying for his gas, his food and his part of the campsite rates. Seeing his circumstance up front and personal made me so Mad...I kept thinking, this is what America offers to it's own people in it's arrogance and greed. For some reason my heart just broke for him....I kept thinking that once I meet Jesus..... He's going to say to me, I met you in that campground in FL and you Knew Me.

I did little what I could for him in the way of food and rides.... but I was having a bit of a trial of my own. My motorcycle/sidecar broke down , had to have the starter replaced and what with the high cost of labor ...I had to cut my getaway short. On my drive back to PA , I thanked God for keeping me safe and planned on asking this fella that I knew who was working in the masonry business about possibly helping this 'down on his luck' guy out.....as he was always telling me they couldn't get nobody to stay on the job.. As the work was too physically demanding. Much to my disappointment, he said they would never be able to hire him because of his drug conviction... they all have to be vetted now? ............

WHAT THE FU....?

I watched all the Rich Bastard geriatric men and women that filled the grand hall of the Capital last night at Bidens State of the Union address and even that I know I sinned I prayed that their 'father of this world' would take them all home to Hell where they belong.

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I think what you say is true ... I also think that Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan all feared a well-educated population ... and I think both “The War on drugs “ and the creation of “Student Loans” were attempts at reducing the number of Americans that had a college education. College students created to much trouble for these Presidents.

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All wars increase whatever it is that is being fought against( resisted).

"What you resist persists."

Look at the Prohibition movement ( not at the Kennedy bootlegging haha ) ,the war on drugs, war on terrorism( ironic as terrorism was used in order to end terrorism).

There are a $group$ in this world that understands the human mind and ceaselessly through their corp media conglomerate trys to control beliefs.

People use drugs to try to relieve suffering (from their unconsciousness aka the ego mind), so the solution to the drug problem like all other problems is consciousnesses

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Ideas that work! GO Marianne!!

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THANKS, MARIANNE, FOR SHARING YOUR VIEWS ON THIS MOST IMPORTANT TOPIC. GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM DRUG ADDICTION.

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