Dorset Evening Echo editorial on NLP Wessex call to local businesses to sponsor Peace Corps
Monday, July 28, 1997
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Off to a flyer?
The Natural Law Party claims extensive scientific research confirms its theory that large groups of people engaged in yogic flying can help to prevent wars.
Yogic flying involves white-clothed participants bouncing cross-legged across huge mattresses. The slightly off-centre Natural Law Party believe passionately in the power of such a happening to influence events at the world's flash points.
It is of course, easy to mock, but we doubt many Dorset businesses will respond to the call by party activist and general election veteran Mark Griffiths for jobless people to be sponsored to form a peace corps. Nor can we yet envisage a day when yogic flyers will replace the United Nations' peace-keeping force in Bosnia or solve at a stroke the tragedy of Northern Ireland's sometimes incomprehensible divisions.
There is no doubt that the Natural Law Party brings a smile to many people's faces and that, in itself, can only be good for global peace and harmony. As for calming the world's trouble spots, while the party's concern and compassion are unquestioned, they have some way to go before winning the necessary credibility. Sceptics will say that the flyers are as yet better suited to summer spectaculars or "silly season" entertainment than international peace-keeping.
But are they? Given the persistence of many problems, the failure of conventional methods and the forlorn UN's current trials and tribulations, can we still be so sure?
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