Word To President-Elect Trump

CONGRATULATIONS! Now comes the serious part.

As you make your plans over the next few months prior to taking office, I hope you'll keep firmly in mind that you don't "drain the swamp" by putting swamp creatures into positions of power and responsibility, and especially not the very same swamp creatures who held power and responsibility while the swamp grew. As you consider people for your cabinet you must eschew everyone aligned or associated with the policies of the status quo which we just rejected.

We elected you to execute that rejection. We want no more welfare state, and no more warfare state.

We want no more militarized police departments and no more "Total Information Awareness" surveillance state. We want no more secret courts making secret rulings and creating secret law.

Let me put it in a way that should really resonate: George Bush and Barack Obama got elected on promises of a humbler foreign policy, governmental transparency, cessation of aggressive war-making and strict adherence to the Constitution, and then broke all those promises. We have refused to elect another of their ilk, and elected you instead, in the expectation that you will keep those promises.

THERE ARE OTHER THINGS we expect from you as well, of course, based on other positions you took in your campaign. But our biggest expectation from you is that you will actually represent declared Republican ideals of small government, the primacy of individual liberty as the purpose of the state, and scrupulous adherence to the Constitution which career politicians seem able to honor only in their words and never in their deeds.

You will never accomplish this by surrounding yourself with people who played any kind of role in the federal government over the last sixteen years, at least, or any that rooted for any of the bad and foolish things done during those years. Those are the folks responsible for what you have been elected to fix.

 This means no Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich. It means no Mike Rogers, and no Pete Hoekstra-- or anyone like any of these folks. It means no neo-cons, no big-government types, no "terrorism" floggers and no "made" men or women of any kind in any office of trust and power.

By picking you, the American people just un-made the "made" thing. Please keep this firmly in mind going forward.

BUT NOT TO WORRY! You have plenty of good "un-made" people to pick from. Let me suggest a few: For State think about Pat Buchanan. For Defense there's James H. Webb, Jr.  For Treasury, Ron Paul (or David Stockman if Paul declines due to age). For CIA Director there's Philip Giraldi. For Homeland Security, ABOLISH THIS HYDRA.

How about Larry Klayman or Andrew Napolitano for Attorney General? Maybe Fred Smith, Jr. of CEI to head the EPA (or his associate Myron Ebell, who I am happy to see is in charge of that transition area for you already)? Consider John Taylor Gatto for the Department of Education.

I'll post more suggestions now and then. Check here regularly.

I know your own people will have lists for you, too, but be wary on that front. Too many of "your people" have ended up being "their people" over the past year-- that is, swamp creatures.

Keep your eyes clear and your bs detector on full power. Focus on what you promised-- draining the swamp. You can do it. The people will stand with you as you do it-- if you do it.

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SHARP-EYED WARRIOR Katie Hamborsky shared this link with me after my day-after-election-day early post of this article. It's a "suggestion box" for president-elect Trump.

As Katie says, it would be a good thing if a lot of us post suggestions recommending that Mr. Trump get up to speed on CtC's revelations. After all, he should be very interested in the liberating truth about the tax, both because it's the truth about the law, which he is about to become oath-bound to faithfully execute, and because unlike most other office holders, whose main earnings are subject to the tax anyway, Trump's main earnings are not, giving him a huge personal stake in the proper application of the tax.