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Slade Patrick Darrin sings his version of “A Peaceful Solution” accompanying himself on the piano playing his own arrangement. This would be an accomplishment of note to anyone’s credit and is particularly noteworthy because Slade Patrick Darrin is ten years old.

Some might question what perspective a ten year old could bring to the issues of war and peace.

I say to them that Slade Patrick Darrin proves by his actions that he knows the world is not just his private fantasy to exploit and ravage at will, that people and other living beings do not exist merely to serve his amusement and pleasure, and he does what he can to mitigate unnecessary pain and suffering not increase it.

These are credentials enough to have a worthy perspective on anything.

Since ten year old Slade Patrick Darrin proves to possess these credentials I must question the nature of those living being that do not. After all, what kind of being would destroy ecosystems that evolved into balance over millions of years and wage genocide upon the innocent inhabitants of those areas just to extract one or two substances and abandoned the remains as refuse?

What kind of being instigates death, destruction and war to the fatal misery of millions of people and countless forms of life to maintain an extravagant, ostentatious, excessive, wasteful and ultimately doomed lifestyle? Could you refer to a being that could do these things with forethought and planning without conscious, guilt or remorse as truly human?

Most importantly, would you want these beings to run the United States of America and control the most destructive military capacity in the history of the world?

Where in our current system of checks and balances exists the leverage to stop the mad course the United States of America now travels? Why haven’t the other branches of government stepped in to halt the insanity? Where is the worthy opposition to unprovoked aggression and mass killing?

You cannot know how thrilled I am that Slade Patrick Darrin chooses peace.

Visit the Slade Patrick Darrin YouTube Channel to see and hear more of his music.

* * * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

by Camm Linden (Slade’s parent)

Slade is a gentle soul and has always had a natural affinity for Peace. He finds the idea of fighting and war to settle conflicts very strange. After watching Willie with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, he announced that he would like to be a part of the Peace Project. He went straight to the piano and arranged his own version of “A Peaceful Solution.”

Slade has been playing piano concerts for Senior Homes and using the major part of his earnings to donate food and supplies to the local animal shelter and other animal-welfare related charities. He was very excited to think he could now use his music to foster Peace.

He is an avid conservator of the Earth. Slade will always be the first to remind others to stop running the water and flip off the light-switch. Around the house, he is the master of recycling.

Slade loves nature, animals, and people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds. He is fascinated with astronomy, can perform a good magic trick or two, excels at his schoolwork, and hopes to be a veterinarian someday.

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Patch Jones sings along to his 12-string guitar in this version of “A Peaceful Solution.” He contributes another voice to the chorus urging We The People of the United States of America to wake up.

Wake up America.

The United States has been stolen from We The People by a chronically immoral and antisocial group of individuals who have seized control of the government. This group, small in relation to the general population, are over-represented in prison systems, politics, law enforcement agencies, law firms and in the media.

Much is known about this personality disorder because it is the most studied of any personality disorder. Individuals with this disorder have proven incapable of rehabilitation and immune to the reformational effects of punishment.

Only two ways are known to be effective in bringing these individuals under control.

The first way is to confront these monsters with a bigger, stronger and tougher monster. This is an invitation to become even more charming, manipulative, intimidating and violent in controlling others than those we currently object to.

The other way of effectively dealing with them, because they are untreatable and no interventions have proved to be effective, is to deny them the power to manipulate you. This is something each individual can do who sincerely desires to stop the madness.

These individuals who some psychologists refer to as “intraspecies predators” lack creative ability. They are incapable of anticipating the consequences of their actions. If good people just simply stop participating in the madness then it will stop due to its own self-destructive nature.

We each possess the power and responsibility to lead a life that is not dependent upon violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. There are more of us who possess the qualities that allow a human being to live in social harmony than those who don’t.

All we need to do is embrace peace.

A comprehensive peaceful resolution would produce a peaceful revolution. By putting peace first in our daily lives we deny the psychopaths the leverage they need to manipulate us.

Yes, the name for these people is psychopath.

Once you understand the definition of the word psychopath and honestly appraise the actions of the current administration you will see the accuracy in this description. Once you fully understand the situation the way forward will be clear.

“A Peaceful Solution” can save America. “A Peaceful Solution” can take back America from the psychopaths. “A Peaceful Solution” is the only answer that doesn’t require becoming a psychopath in self-defense.

Patch Jones asks us to choose peace. It is the only choice with a future.

* * * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

Wars are a tribute to the wealthy and powerful, and their god, Mammon. Certainly, a nation must defend itself against a threatening aggressor, or an invading enemy, but it is rarely the case that this is what wars are about.

Wars are about money.

They are about fueling a corporate military machine, and they are about fueling automobiles, while oil companies rake in record profits. We all know the story. The silly diversion to an unprovoked attack of a country that was no threat to us. No WMDs found.

And so the endless war with Iraq rages on and on. Meanwhile the alleged key figure behind 911, remains free as a bird. At the same time, the drunken power mongers who lurk in the halls of governmental power, shred our Bill of Rights with their fascist Patriot Act, and transform America into something resembling Nazi German. And all this is done, in a so called attempt, to protect you and me from the dreaded terrorist.

I think, “A Peaceful Solution,” is a result of the frustration that the common person feels regarding something that was a great idea, but never happened.

That idea is freedom, and the American Dream.

The American Dream is something that we all have and that dream is different for each one of us. It is simply the freedom to fulfill, and live your own dream, whatever that may be.

So is there a peaceful solution to those who would destroy that dream for the sake of their own drunken lust for power, and their own greed?

For me, the song raises consciousness of the issue. Hopefully, as voices are added to the song, it becomes a voice that cannot be ignored.

I think that as long as the dream lives on, there is hope that a peaceful revolution will one day save America.

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Illinois State Senate Committee to Consider Ban
on Cruel Double-Deck Horse Transports

Illinois State Rep. Sacia trying to legalize horse slaughter, AGAIN!

Dear Humanitarian:

On Wednesday, May 14 the Illinois General Assembly’s Senate Agriculture and Conservation Committee will consider HB 4162, sponsored by State Senator John Cullerton (D). This bill, which successfully passed out of the House in February, amends the Humane Care for Animals Act so that “no person may transport any equidae in a vehicle or trailer containing 2 or more levels, one on top of the other.”

The bill is a result of a horrific accident involving horses in Illinois. A double-deck tractor trailer carrying 59 Belgian draft horses through Wadsworth, IL in October 2007 “blew through a stop light at Route 41 and Wadsworth Road and struck another vehicle,” according to local police on the scene of the accident. The severe crash resulted in more than five hours of suffering for the horses before authorities could free them from the mangled truck. Sadly, nine horses died on the scene, with another six dying later because of injuries they sustained.

Accidents such as this one are not uncommon. Only one year earlier, a double-deck truck hauling 41 horses to slaughter crashed on its way to the Cavel International facility in DeKalb, Ill. This tragic incident resulted in the death of 16 horses. Similar scenarios have occurred elsewhere in the United States.

Illinois has become the leader in protecting equines from abuse and neglect. Last year, the state’s General Assembly overwhelmingly passed legislation banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Unfortunately, although horses can no longer be slaughtered in Illinois, the middlemen working for Cavel - known as “killer buyers” - continue to buy horses across the country.

The horses are then shipped to Mexico and Canada for slaughter, often passing through Illinois en route to the Cavel plant in Canada or to plants in Mexico. The preferred method of transporting horses to slaughter remains the double-deck truck, a two-tiered trailer designed for other livestock such as cattle and hogs. Use of theses conveyances to transport horses is cruel and dangerous.

The State of Illinois has made clear its intolerance of the horse slaughter industry by shutting down its sole plant. H.B. 4162 will ensure the companies still buying horses and shipping them through Illinois to slaughter in Canada and Mexico can no longer use the horribly inhumane double-deckers to haul these animals.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Please contact members of the Senate Agriculture & Conservation Committee first thing Monday morning (see below for contact information), urging them to support HB 4162, sponsored by Senator Cullerton, and many of his colleagues. You may want to mention the following facts:

* Double-deck trailers are designed for livestock such as cattle and hogs, not horses.
* The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has “reviewed limited data within the scientific literature that suggest increased rates of injury associated with the use of double-decked conveyances for transporting horses.?
* According to the AVMA, “sources, such as the National Agriculture Safety Database and various manufacturers producing trailers specifically for horse transport recommend heights of 7 to 8 ft as being necessary for the safe and comfortable transport of horses (i.e., adequate headroom for the horses to stand comfortably with their heads in normal position); it appears difficult, if not impossible, to meet such recommendations via the use of currently configured double-deck trailers, particularly for taller horses.”
* The US Department of Agriculture is currently in the process of prohibiting the use of double-deckers entirely, as part of their Equine Transport to Slaughter policy.

Additionally, State Representative Jim Sacia (R) - the leading opponent in the Illinois legislature to ending horse slaughter - is still working to undermine the will of the people of Illinois and the Illinois General Assembly. Several months ago he introduced a bill that would legalize horse slaughter again and despite its unpopularity he continues to push for its consideration by the House Drivers Education and Safety Committee (which already rejected his misguided proposal once this year). Please remind each member of the committee (see below for contact information) that the Illinois General Assembly banned horse slaughter by an overwhelming majority just last year, and urge them to reject any bill or amendment offered by Representative Sacia, AGAIN!

* Representative Sacia is telling his colleagues that since the Illinois ban, horse abuse and neglect have increased even though he has NO evidence to support this claim. He is giving them false information presented by the “Horse Welfare Coalition” which was founded and is currently run by the slaughterhouses themselves.
* Make sure each office knows that ending horse slaughter has only been good for the horses and the state ban is important. There is no evidence that abuse and neglect increase, but there is documentation from Illinois that abuse decreased after the plant was temporarily closed several years ago.

If you have any questions, please contact Chris Heyde of AWI at (703) 836-4300. Be sure to bookmark http://www.awionline.org/legislation/horse_slaughter/whats_new.htm for updates on this hearing and other horse slaughter campaign information.

Please share this eAlert with friends, family and coworkers, and urge them to weigh in with the Illinois state legislature to ensure that horses continue to receive the protection they deserve. As always, thank you for your help!

Sincerely,
Chris Heyde
Deputy Director of Government and Legal Affairs
www.awionline.org
www.compassionindex.org

Illinois General Assembly
House Drivers Education & Safety Committee

Please contact the members of this committee and ask them to oppose HB 4489 or any other measure sponsored by Representative Jim Sacia to legalize the slaughter of horses in Illinois. For a full list of the Committee, click here:

http://www.ilga.gov/house/committees/members.asp?CommitteeID=531&GA=95

Illinois General Assembly
Senate Agriculture & Conservation Committee

Please contact the members of this committee and ask them to support HB 4162, sponsored by Senator John Cullerton, to ban the transport of horses on double-deck trailers. For a full list of the Committee, click here: http://www.ilga.gov/senate/committees/members.asp?CommitteeID=379

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Peter Theis offers us another version of “A Peaceful Solution” in his own unique style. He displays a strong commitment to the purpose of arriving at a peaceful resolution and participating in a peaceful revolution.

Part of this commitment shows in his willingness to work from a place that acknowledges the degree to which we have all been manipulated. Peter Theis invites us to discover this in our own exploration of education rather than just telling us how it is from an authoritarian viewpoint.

For many people, learning about how even our thinking has been controlled by those who would be our masters leads to an infuriated frustration erupting in violent retribution. Notice how such a rebellion produces conditions ripe for those who would be our masters to invoke the need for increased oppression.

If this becomes our only resort then we fall into the same patterns that produced our current disastrous situation. This indicates the need to look beyond the current social relations and power structures to apprehend the mindset that created the apparent inevitability of such conditions in the first place.

To take this exercise seriously is to discover that we ourselves often harbor exactly the mindset that produced our current snafu. It is only by discovering and resolving our personal destructive, hateful and violent mindsets that true peace will be allowed to grow.

Today We The People of the United States have worked ourselves into a state that even Orwell and Huxley did not envision. Routine analysis of personal body fluids are now commonly accepted privacy invasions unimagined by even the most grim of past futurists.

The totalitarian governments we were warned about in the past were pale and simple things compared to the complex interlocking controls now in place. And yet we still individually each retain the power to wake up and take control of our own lives.

We can choose peace.

By choosing peace in all things,, on all paths, in any event we disarm those who would control us. By arriving at this peaceful resolution we prepare ourselves to reject violent means regardless of how expedient they seem at the time. By joining the peaceful revolution we secure our future even as we witness the failure of the plans of those who choose conflict.

By choosing peace we can save America.

By saving America in this way we also save the world, we save every existing life form, and we save the environments that create positive conditions for our survival and growth.

Peter Theis offers some excellent advice and clues about where to look for answers. He provides this with no expectations and as freely as he shares his music. If you can honor this open effort to make a positive difference then you owe it to yourself to become as completely informed as possible.

And if you have the time, check out his band, Los Topes (Speed Bumps).

* * * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

What I feel we need to do in order to make our world a peaceful place to live is to FIRST, recognize we are all being manipulated and controlled; SECOND, inform ourselves and dialog with others; THIRD, organize toward making healthy positive actions that are focused on the SOURCES of the problems, not the symptoms.

If you doubt we are all being manipulated and controlled, or you just don’t know where to begin to inform yourself, or you are informed and want to learn more, I have some links I highly recommend looking into. First, if you have not read John Taylor Gatto’s book “The Underground History of American Education,” I highly recommend it. You can read it for free here:

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm

That book shows how supremely wealthy and powerful people like the Rockefellers and Morgans and Rothschilds, etc, put more money into education than governments did! Why? So that they could program people to not think critically and to quickly respond to authority — sit fixed in your desk, don’t speak unless you raise your hand, listen to the teacher who, like a general speaking to his soldiers, tells you what and how to think and believe.

Then, when you get out in the work world, the same process is repeated, and when you come home after work, you’ve got the TV to continue the programming. Not to mention how the “web” of the internet is watching us all like Orwell’s “Big Brother.” So, if you haven’t read Orwell’s book “1984″ or Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” or you haven’t read them recently, read them again. And again.

Second, I would recommend looking at the information on these websites:

freedocumentaries.org
democracynow.org
infowars.org
zcommunications.org/zmag

Like Paulo Freire talked about in his book “Pedagogy Of The Oppressed,” perhaps the most effective way to generate peace in our world is through DIALOG. When we are watching TV our brains are at essentially the same wavelengths as when we are sleeping — we are in a subconscious state — and therefore, literally, we are being programmed.

Watch people who watch TV, they look hypnotized because they ARE hypnotized. This is not any kind of dialog at all, this is a monologue. So, in order for us to really see and understand what’s going on, we have to look each other in the eyes and talk about what really matters with open minds and hearts.

Turn off the TV and start talking with each other. And always listen, never assume, question everything, and look for the most healthy ways of being.

Once are well informed and begin to dialog, we can then act move beyond the divisions that are conquering us so that we can unite and activate our creative imaginations toward creating a peaceful world.

We have all we need to achieve these things and more.

Peace!

Peter Theis

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Emmanuel, also known on YouTube as ParadiseEarth1, gives us a simple and direct video of “A Peaceful Solution” using a simple acoustic guitar accompaniment. His revised lyrics move the later part of the song into the past tense.

He imagines a time when we will look back and remember a peaceful bloodless revolution that saved America. Emmanuel sings that “We’ve saved America” and the starting point was “an aspiration from our hearts.”

In his statement Emmanuel mentions meeting other people who share his realization that our current system demands conflict which produces needless death, pain and suffering.

Only by reaching out and seeking like minded individuals will we be able to effect meaning change. Finding this community equates to finding our strength. We need only to recognize that most of the people on this planet would rather live in peace.

The few who would rather use bullying tactics than pull their own weight are merely freeloaders. However, these freeloaders are also the most violent and deadly remorseless beings in existence.

We have all met with bullies in our lives. All it takes is for a group of people to stand up against them together. This display of unity alone dissuades bullies from pursuing their predatory behavior.

Further, as production and transportation costs increase during global climate changes, we must band together for mutual benefit. In this situation freeloading behavior cannot be tolerated. Bullies will be quickly shunned and ostracized from groups of people who all individually contribute to the general well being of the group.

These groups will find it convenient and practical to network with similar groups and from these alliances a new system will be created. I say this not as wishful thinking but to recognize and acknowledge the necessary requirements of future human organization.

Those who think that things can continue as they always have will discover these assumptions unsupported by reality. Things physically cannot continue as they always have.

The human race can no longer afford the wastefulness of extractive exploitation of resources and the destruction of lifestyles in harmony with the environment. The time when the peaceful resolution manifests is at hand.

The peaceful revolution has begun and you can be part of it. Be part of the peaceful revolution and live to see a future worth living.

A Peaceful Solution — By: Willie & Amy Nelson. Revised Contribution By
ParadiseEarth1.

There is a peaceful solution.
Called a peace revolution.
Take back America.

It’s a war and we’re in it,
And I know we can win it.
Take back America.

It is a dream an aspiration from our hearts
Wake up believing a time and place to start

So get ready to receive it,
Walk the dream never quit it
Take back America

Senseless war is now over
Lessons learned for the better
Took back America

It is a dream an aspiration from our hearts
Wake up believing a time and place to start

There was a peaceful solution
A bloodless revolution
That saved America
We’ve saved America

* * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

This is privilege to be able to contribute to this worthwhile project, an essential step to providing future generation with a harmonious environment as humanity head towards fulfilling our destiny – thank you for the opportunity.

My hope is rising each time I meet people who by now have realized that the way the current system have evolved will always end up with certain degree of conflict, and the best way to avoid the next major war that could be terminal fought with 21st armaments rely on our capacity as thinking species to finally view ourselves as one unit sharing a small fragile planet with limited natural resources.

This capacity of realizing peaceful and loving consciousness will ultimately be the Peaceful Solution that will bring everlasting peace and harmony to all.

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