Unless I am being spoofed, several hundred readers wrote me in as their selection for President. I am honored. Some asked if I were elected by write-ins and not instantly assassinated, who would I appoint?
An easy question to answer.
Nomi Prins would be Secretary of the Treasury, and
Pam Martens would be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
Lew Rockwell would be the chairman of the Federal
Reserve.
Michael Hudson would be chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisors.
Harvey Silverglate would be Attorney General.
Glenn Greenwald would be Deputy Attorney
General.
Dean Booth and Larry Stratton would be White House
legal counsels.
Willie Nelson would be Secretary of
Agriculture.
Jeffrey St. Clair would be head of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
Elizabeth Warren would have whatever post she
wants.
Cynthia McKinney would be Secretary of
State.
The CIA would be headed by Ray McGovern and Philip
Giraldi.
The FBI would be headed by Sibel
Edmonds.
Homeland Security would be abolished.
David Ray Griffin and Richard Gage would head the
9/11 investigation.
Bradley Manning would be in charge of closing down
the torture prisons.
Julian Assange and John Pilger would be heads of the
Public Broadcasting Corporation.
Gerald Celente would be White House Press
Secretary.
John Williams (shadowstats.com) would be in charge of federal
statistics.
Key members of the Bush and Obama regimes from the
president down, and every neoconservative would be handed over to the war crimes
tribunal for trial.
The Republicans on the Supreme Court would be
impeached and removed from office.
Brooksley Born would be in charge of all federal
financial regulatory agencies.
Major General Antonio Mario Taguba would be
Secretary of Defense.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson would be Deputy Secretary of
State.
Ron Unz would be chief of staff of the White
House.
Norman Finkelstein would be US Ambassador to
Israel.
Noam Chomsky would be US Ambassador to the
UN.
David M. Walker would be Director of the Office of
Management and Budget.
The Israel Lobby would have to register as a foreign
agent.
I could go on. There are two or three hundred
appointments to fill, but I think the picture is clear. It would be an
administration that represented Americans, not special interests and foreigners,
and an administration that put the country back in order.
But, of course, it is all a dream. No one who
actually cares about our country is permitted to serve in public
office.
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