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And now I’m energized again with hope. And a burning desire to help my well-intentioned (albeit criminally-disordered, lying, addicted) President. After I email New President, I am going to contact every corporate leader and Wall Street entrepreneur I can and I will implore them – implore in the strongest language! – to put aside their misguided concerns with money, status, deal-making and power and to start thinking of the needs of all Americans. Then I shall contact the heads of pharmaceutical corporations, medical insurance providers and the AMA, and insist that they do the right thing as well. I will not neglect to contact each and every member of Congress to insist – insist! – that they forthwith reverse course on the War on Drugs, Iraq, detention, accountability for war crimes, Afghanistan, and the drone killings in Pakistan. I intend also to contact the heads of major media outlets to rather bluntly make them aware that until they adopt a more Greenwaldian model of journalistic courage and truth-telling, they are simply not meeting their obligations to Americans and to the Open Society. Perhaps they simply do not understand this!
This is going to be great.
