Officers of the Peace
TO: Police Officer Training Schools
FROM: Parents Political Cooperative for Healthy Climates
Thank you for listening to our mutual concern about escalating violence between our multicultural children
and your multigenerational peace and safety vocation.
We have a few communication suggestions
that our kids have taught us over the years
about more civil responses
and responsibly kind welcoming conjectures
and shared concerns about not-so-civilly uncooperative
and authoritarian
behaviors.
We would like to share our orthopraxis of active peacemaking
through less violent communications.
It is so important to begin and end each relationship
and probably each day
with please and thank you.
Also remember to reward You're Welcome
as always, in our shared civil lives.
We find that when we have chased a speeding stoned-out son or daughter down,
it helps to begin with
"Thank you so much for stopping."
With a genuine smile, if at all possible.
This generally provokes shock and awe about our unusual restraint.
Within this pocket of silence
we recommend planting a kind, but quick, follow-up
"Would you please be kind enough to show me your license
to drive your mind and body in this direction
at this speed
in this polarized habitat
of health risks
and systemic trauma opportunities?"
Usually, our kids are only too happy to share their victimized history,
such as it has become, to date.
When this is the case,
please do not forget to respond with gratitude,
"Thank you so much for sharing."
If our young offenders fail to respond with
"You're welcome"
Please do remind them that their mothers might have taught them
more gratitude for civil communication lives
and responsive roles for personal authority.
To remember "You're welcome" is everything
From economics of growing transactional trust
to politics of re-membering interdependent grace.
Sometimes translated as
Aloha
Namaste
Peace
but never Whatever...!
You're Welcome is our mantra of cooperative ecopolitical civic lives.
You're welcome
because we know you're doing the best you can,
bless your competitive little egocentric heart.
You're welcome
because we're all on this road together,
racing through lives
screaming for a more civil pace,
we are diversely enculturing mentors of welcome,
Namaste.
If not,
then try to recall, as we do, when authoritarian
military-industrialized Police Officers
might have been known as responsible Officers of Peace
with kind voices
and carrying big sticks.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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