What I Would Like to See in the Year 2003 

It looks as though 2003 will be a gloomy year. War with Iraq. Escalating government intrusiveness into our lives. That's what looks to be in store. But I am an optimist, so here is what I would really like to see.

I'm hoping that early on in the year that President Bush starts planning on making some key personnel changes in his administration. And I am hoping that in the middle of his planning the country goes on Major League Super Neon Red Alert and that the president is whisked away to a secure facility where he will remain incommunicado for at least a week. The president won't know what is going on in the outside world and we won't know what is going on with him.

I'm hoping, that as he is whisked away to this secure facility, the president leaves behind, with an aide, his list of personnel changes with orders for those personnel changes to be implemented immediately. I'm hoping that somehow the list of personnel changes gets mixed up with the Government Watch list, a list of entertainers scheduled to visit the White House and just a list of people who are granted access to the White House.

And then I hope, that because of the mix-up, for a minimum of a beautiful seven days the following occurs:

Noelle Bush is named to head the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Hans Herman Hoppe is put in charge of long-term government planning.

Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles are named co-commissioners of the IRS.

Justin Raimondo is named to head the Defense Department, the 9-11 investigation and is also named United States Ambassador to Israel.

Thomas DiLorenzo is named official White House historian.

John deLaubenfels is named Attorney General and named Chairman of the Committee on Slave Reparations.

Ozzie Osbourne is named White House communications director.

Rob M. is put in charge of the campaign for voter registration.

Other things I would like to see in 2003:

I would like to see blowback from the Bush Administration's Total Information Awareness program, whereby, certain curious credit card expenditures and internet surfing of Condoleezza Rice result in further contradictory rumors that A. She is sleeping with the president and B. She is a lipstick lesbian. White House advisor Karl Rove finally decides that the only way to improve her image is with an arranged marriage between her and Michael Jackson.

I would like to see Milton "I have no apologies for it." Friedman make a public apology to all wage earners for his role in the creation and implementation of income tax withholding.

I would like to see a discovery that in actuality Alan Greenspan does not have a dead fish personality, but in fact has been in a semi-coma all these years and that he wakes up out of it and is heavily influenced by his own article when in 1966 he wrote:

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value...This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."

He then proceeds to put the United States on a 100% gold standard.

I would like to see Daniel Ellsberg hired to help Henry Kissinger re-design his Ultimate Full Disclosure web site.

I would like to see Saddam Hussein choke on a chicken bone, collapse, die and ruin George Bush's plan to grab Iraqi oil. In an attempt to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Hussein and influence who will be chosen as the new "democratic" leader of Iraq , I would like to see an intense back room international power struggle go on for decades between The United States, Russia, Great Britain, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, India and France. During this multi-decade power struggle, I would like to see the power vacuum remain in Iraq, where no leader is ever chosen and Iraq evolves into a model anarcho-capitalist country, whereby, it's wealth and freedom are un-matched by any other country on the planet. Its no tax, no regulation, no government society becomes a haven for over-taxed, over-regulated and spied upon average Americans.

Finally, I would like to see the ever unpredictable Ted Turner realize the error of his ways when he announced his donation of a billion dollars to the United Nations, regret the error and donate two billion dollars to STR. Note: This may not happen right away, so we will continue to appreciate your support in 2003. We aren't counting on Ted Turner, we are counting on you.

May you all have a healthy, happy, prosperous year, filled chock to the brim with freedom!

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