A Prescription For Peace
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We can have peace in our lifetime if we all do our part.
This must be a partnership of every individual, non-profit organization, corporation, and government - all working together to bring the basic needs to all of humanity.
It is time for humanity to grow up. Our “Identity Crisis” is ridiculous. We run around like little spoiled brats sweeping our messes under the carpet rather than deal with them in a forthright manner. Turning a blind eye to problems like homelessness ends up costing more than facing the problem with housing, meals, and services that recycle lives and get them back on the road as productive members of society.
The debate between Socialism and Capitalism continues because of the merits of both systems. We hear the entrepreneur say, “I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps and was never given a thing...why should we give them anything?” We also hear those that have been helped by social programs say, “I reached out to the government for help during a time of crisis in my life and now, I own my own business.” The engine of capitalism cannot be refuted. It is what has driven the global economy. The benefits of socialism cannot be refuted either. That is why the debate is so compelling.
The overused phrase, “give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime” also has merits. We need to assume nothing during the education process that teaches men, women and children to “fish”. We need to understand that in today’s complicated world the process of teaching men women and children to fish is a process that may take time. Not everyone has the ability to fish while learning. The reason why we should help people that can’t pull themselves up by their own bootstraps is that it is the right thing to do. Helping people while they learn is more humane and costs less than sweeping them under the carpet.
Let’s put the debate of Capitalism and Socialism to rest. Turning a blind eye to people who have no ability to “fish” is no longer acceptable. A layer of socialism where we teach men, women and children to “fish” fueled by Capitalism for those who take personal responsibility and want all that capitalism provides can coexist and flourish.
Let’s move the debate forward to renewable systems that prepare and plan for the next thousand years.
This is the Prescription For Peace:
1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Health Care
4. Personal Safety
5. Education
6. Livelihood
7. Empower Women
All leading to HOPE
Thomas Jefferson wrote the words: “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
If we have the right to life then we have the right to three square meals a day, a roof over our head, access to quality health care, personal security, an education and a job. For how could we ever begin to experience liberty or pursue happiness without the basic needs being met.
“Our work will not be done until every man, woman, and child alive has three square meals a day, a roof over their head, access to quality health care, personal security, an education and a job.” - Michael Douglas Carlin
Michael Douglas Carlin
"Our work will not be finished until every man, woman, and child alive has three square meals a day, a roof over their heads, access to quality health care, personal security, an education and a job." - Michael Douglas CarlinIt all began with the book "A Prescription For Peace" continued with "Peaceful Protests" and is developed further in "Rise a Knight." What if a billion people took an oath never to discriminate against any human for any reason? The world would be a better place for all of us. Rise a Knight empowers people everywhere to live a life of service. In the pages of Carlin's books you will find essays about the nuts and bolts of how we can have peace on earth.You can follow Michael Carlin into Border Mexico in the documentary film, American Federale, about the only American ever to serve as a Mexican Federale. The film is available on iTunes, Amazon, and GooglePlay.Recently Carlin spent two years with former LAPD Homicide Detective Russell Poole investigating the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Russell, R.J. Bond, and Carlin wrote Tupac:187 an encyclopedia about the murders. Russell and Carlin continued to distill the information with the attempt to get law enforcement on board with reopening the cases. What they created can be seen in Chaos Merchants. Carlin set up a meeting through Sheriff Jim McDonnell for Russell to meet with a homicide investigator at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Poole and Carlin had uncovered some disturbing information related to the cases that implicated one or more of the Sheriff's in a related attempted murder. Poole felt that reopening the Tupac and Biggie cases would make the Sheriff's shine and avoid embarrassment. When Poole showed up to the meeting he was confronted by investigators into the attempted murder instead of just the promised homicide investigator interested in reopening the cases. Mysteriously Poole suffered a massive heart attack in the meeting and perished before he left the room. Learn what Poole and Carlin discovered in Chaos Merchants that cost Russell Poole his life.You can reach Michael Carlin at MichaelDouglasCarlin@gmail.com
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A Prescription For Peace - Michael Douglas Carlin
A Prescription For Peace
This book is for humanity.
If everyone does just a little
we will soon have a much better world.
By Michael Douglas Carlin
with contribution by
Published by Michael Douglas Carlin at Smashwords
© 2008, 2012, & 2016 Michael Douglas Carlin.
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Chapter One: Traffic in World Peace
Chapter Two: Nuts and Bolts of Peace
Chapter Three: Trip to Nicaragua
Chapter Four: Stone Cut Without Hands
Chapter Five: Red Ambulance
Chapter Six: Meaning of Life
Chapter Seven: Iron and Velvet Mace
Chapter Eight: Internet
Chapter Nine: Clean Water
Chapter Ten: Food
Chapter Eleven: Shelter
Chapter Twelve: Health Care
Chapter Thirteen: Education
Chapter Fourteen: Livelihood
Chapter Fifteen: Full Employment
Chapter Sixteen: Empower Women
Chapter Seventeen: Hope
Chapter Eighteen: Grandpa Dad
Chapter Nineteen: Duck Hunters
Chapter Twenty: Back in Bluefields
Chapter Twenty-One: Moving Forward
Other Works
FOREWORD
We can have peace in our lifetime if we all do our part.
This must be a partnership of every individual, non-profit organization, corporation, and government - all working together to bring the basic needs to all of humanity.
It is time for humanity to grow up. Our Identity Crisis
is ridiculous. We run around like little spoiled brats sweeping our messes under the carpet rather than deal with them in a forthright manner. Turning a blind eye to problems like homelessness ends up costing more than facing the problem with housing, meals, and services that recycle lives and get them back on the road as productive members of society.
The debate between Socialism and Capitalism continues because of the merits of both systems. We hear the entrepreneur say, I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps and was never given a thing…why should we give them anything?
We also hear those that have been helped by social programs say, I reached out to the government for help during a time of crisis in my life and now, I own my own business.
The engine of capitalism cannot be refuted. It is what has driven the global economy. The benefits of socialism cannot be refuted either. That is why the debate is so compelling.
The overused phrase, give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime
also has merits. We need to assume nothing during the education process that teaches men, women and children to fish
. We need to understand that in today’s complicated world the process of teaching men women and children to fish is a process that may take time. Not everyone has the ability to fish while learning. The reason why we should help people that can’t pull themselves up by their own bootstraps is that it is the right thing to do. Helping people while they learn is more humane and costs less than sweeping them under the carpet.
Let’s put the debate of Capitalism and Socialism to rest. Turning a blind eye to people who have no ability to fish
is no longer acceptable. A layer of socialism where we teach men, women and children to fish
fueled by Capitalism for those who take personal responsibility and want all that capitalism provides can coexist and flourish.
Let’s move the debate forward to renewable systems that prepare and plan for the next thousand years.
This is the Prescription For Peace:
1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Health Care
4. Personal Safety
5. Education
6. Livelihood
7. Empower Women
All leading to HOPE
Thomas Jefferson wrote the words: We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
If we have the right to life then we have the right to three square meals a day, a roof over our head, access to quality health care, personal security, an education and a job. For how could we ever begin to experience liberty or pursue happiness without the basic needs being met.
Our work will not be done until every man, woman, and child alive has three square meals a day, a roof over their head, access to quality health care, personal security, an education and a job.
- Michael Douglas Carlin
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to every drop of precious blood that has been spilled in the cause of peace. So many men, women and children have dreamed of a day where peace ruled the world. So many sacrificed their lives and limbs believing that their actions would one day lead to peace. Was that collective sacrifice in vain? I think most of humanity thinks peace will forever be elusive. I have come to believe that peace can be achieved. I hope you will forgive my course and cumbersome language as I outline what I believe can be a path toward a thousand years of World Peace. I am not alone in this belief. I have learned from many people along the way. The most influential man in my life has been my fellow Knight of Malta and Supreme Commander of our order, Sir Edward. He has demonstrated through his example many of the principles contained within the pages of this book. I met him when his hair was brown and he was a young man caught up in the wiles of Hollywood. I witnessed his transformation from drugged out movie producer to full time humanitarian. His life change encompassed devoting his entire life to those less fortunate. Not that he wasn’t always a humanitarian, but that remained a single facet that occasionally rose to help those in need dating back to his teenage years. That facet rose in his life to crowd out the many other facets and through his lifetime spent doing relief work in the most serious conflict areas and natural disasters of our lifetimes. In some of the most dangerous places he developed a philosophy that he shared with me. That philosophy is contained within the pages of the first book, A Prescription For Peace.
I became a lightning rod for all things peace
upon publication of that book. I also learned so many things from my very unique perspective while I was sitting at the intersection of so many amazing people and perspectives. Much of what I am about to share with you is how I reconciled so many passionate people who seem to have agendas that are at a cross purpose. As I hope you will see there are puzzle pieces that fit neatly together even though at first glance the patterns appear to be incongruent. What seems so unfathomable actually comes together quite nicely. People from so many backgrounds with varying belief systems are all a part of ushering in the era of World Peace.
We have come to understand so much about our home, Mother Earth. There are plates that are constantly moving that create pressure. When that pressure gets built up enough there are radical shifts that create earthquakes and tsunamis. I experienced a number of earthquakes having grown up in Los Angeles. Sir Edward spent eight months in the aftermath of the Indonesia/Sri Lanka Tsunami. The plates will not stop moving anytime soon. Also, hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, floods, fires and other natural disasters will keep humanity on our toes even after war has gone out of favor. The need to prepare for many life changing events is part of the fabric of being human. Peace doesn’t mean that we stop the Earth from changing.
Peace doesn’t mean that we all speak one common language and have a single culture. Peace is simply the absence of armed conflict. Peace is the absence of war. Peace doesn’t mean that we no longer disagree; peace means that we solve disagreements civilly. Peace does not mean the weak become the slaves of the strong. Peace comes from equal standing under the law without any citizens being above the law or any being excluded from full protection of the law. Peace also does not leave those behind that have fallen upon hard times. Peace provides them with the means to get back on their feet without being enabled to feed off of the system – experiencing luxuries that have not been earned.
SALUTE!
MICHAEL DOUGLAS CARLIN
CHAPTER ONE
TRAFFIC IN WORLD PEACE
In America, the law is King. For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be