Wessex
Call for Local Businesses to Support Peace Corps
Expansion of NATO not answer to problems of National Security
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(Editorial
Comment by Dorset Evening Echo on NLP Peace Corps
initiative in Dorset - click here)
(Two years on - NLP Helsinki summit offers three-point proposal to resolve conflict in Chechnya)
Wessex News Release
July 1997
Representing Hampshire and Isle of Wight, local man William Trend has just returned from the 4th International Convention of Natural Law Parties held this year in Bonn, Germany 17th - 21st July. Over 1000 delegates from over 60 countries, including Russia and other members of the former Soviet Union, attended.
The major theme of the conference was security in Europe and the potential for increased tension and continental destabilisation as a result of the proposed expansion of NATO to include the former Soviet satellite states of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
Announced at the convention was an initiative by Lt Colonel Gunter Chasse, a former German Army Officer with over 40 years military service, to establish a Vedic (consciousness based) Peace Corps of 500 Yogic Flyers in each of the 16 German states including Berlin itself. The groups are to be formed by young unemployed and will be funded by local businesses to whom appeals are currently being made.
An issue for every region of Europe
Although such groups are vital in Germany because of its central location in Europe similar initiatives are about to get underway in all European States, according to Mr Treend. Presentations on this issue were made at the NATO summit meeting in Madrid earlier in the month to NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel, and Hungarian President Gyula Horn.
Mr Treend is now seeking set up the same type of project locally.
N o Country is safe
"The lack of coherence in the collective consciousness of Europe is creating a highly unstable situation despite the end of the cold war, and the expansion of NATO is likely to create further tension in relations with Russia. The proposed expansion will increase the ratio of NATO to Russian troops from 2.8 to 1 to 3.7 to 1 feeding further feelings of insecurity within Russia and encouraging it to revert back to reliance on Nuclear strategies. Instability within Russia itself means that control of Russian defence systems is no longer under proper political control. In these circumstances no country is safe and we cannot afford to take any provocative actions," says Mr Treend.
Reports earlier this year confirmed that Russia came within three minutes of launching a nuclear attack on the west in January 1995 due to a break down in communications within the Russian Military command.
(click
here for TIME magazine
report on this dangerous
incident)
New solutions have to be found
"History is littered with shattered military alliances. Defence strategies which are based on fear and exclusion create their own new tensions ultimately leading to the unleashing of negative and destructive forces. We can no longer rely on this approach when today’s weapons are so powerful. We have to find new solutions," adds Mr Treend.
"Fortunately, extensive scientific research published in some of the world’s leading scientific journals has confirmed the ability of large groups of Yogic Flyers to dissolve tensions both locally and internationally producing falls in crime levels, improvements in international relations and other positive indicators of social stability and progress.
"For the first time we now have the means to guarantee the security of every country based on the positive effects of creating coherence in the collective consciousness of each nation, rather than creating fear and destructive tendencies in neighbouring states."
Appeal to local businesses
As a result of these initiatives the Natural Law Party in Wessex is now launching an appeal to local businesses to sponsor young unemployed people to participate in creating a Vedic Peace Corps of Yogic Flyers in the region to ensure that British national security is maintained on a basis which is both reliable and unprovocative.
(What leading scientists have said
about Yogic Flying)
At this stage it is not too late to cancel the expansion of NATO and adopt a more positive approach because the proposal still has to be ratified by the 16 member NATO parliaments including the US Senate.
The Natural Law Party argues that ratification should not proceed when a more cost effective solution is available and when financial resources are desperately needed in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for social and economic development. NATO accession would require substantial military expenditure in these countries to ensure equipment compatibility with existing members.
(Editorial
Comment by Dorset Evening Echo on NLP Peace Corps
initiative in Dorset - click here)
(Two years on - NLP Helsinki summit
offers three-point proposal to resolve conflict in
Chechnya)
(Lebed:
Russia Missing Scores of Nuclear Bombs)
(Russia
May Have 'Lost' Nuclear Bombs)