I was recently asked what I'd do if I was the supreme leader of my
country and I had carte blanche. Well, if you're going to fantasize you might
as well go the whole hog. So I thought about what I'd do if I was world
leader.
I’d order mammoth research into the drug and psychiatric industries and
I’d get rid of all guns. Yes, all guns that shoot real live bullets. Every
single last one of them. People could go to counseling if it was traumatic.
They’d get over it. I’d get rid of all armaments and shut down all military
industrial interests. No more war. Anybody who had a snit about territory or
religion or power would have to learn how to debate well. If it was traumatic
they could go to counseling. They’d
get over it.
I'd decree that the Vatican is no longer an independent state, that it is
part of Italy and must declare its earnings for the past hundred years. The
backtax it would owe would be used to create an organization to provide social
security benefits for people who have been demolished by austerity measures,
globally.
The pope and all the bishops around the world would be forced to adhere
to their vow of poverty and stripped of all their wealth. They’d all have to
take a truth drug so they couldn’t lie. Those assets and that money would be
put into a global proactive investigation to unearth all pedophile priests past
and present and defrock them, to pay settlements to all legitimate victims who
came forward.
The Vatican would be investigated by a team of the best experts in the
world to unearth its connections to the Mafia and other thugs in organized
crime. It would be stripped of any excess wealth and some of that money would
be used to create organizations in different countries that provided job
opportunities at decent salaries, and education for people who needed it to be
able to do decent jobs. These benefits and jobs wouldn’t only be for Third
World underprivileged but for anybody who has slipped through the cracks.
Some of the money would go towards counseling organizations so that
everybody who wanted it would have a chance to know what it is to get decent
parenting, unconditional love and sane, practical guidance and teaching, so
they could learn about self esteem and entitlement and how to live the good
life.
Some of the money of course would have to go to preserving the beautiful
buildings of the Vatican City. I know, it seems like a waste, but I’m sure there’d
be more than enough. If there wasn’t, it wouldn’t matter because the Vatican
coffers would be emptied and all the corrupt leaders in the world who are still
alive would have to cough up the money they got by abusing their power. Since
Berlusconi is still around, there’d be plenty from his bloated fortune.
Relatives who are living off fortunes of dead corrupt officials and politicians
would have to cough up too.
Whilst I’m on the subject of corruption, some of the money from corrupt
leaders would be used to investigate bankers who would be charged with crimes
if they committed them. Their wealth would be added to the pile used to educate
and empower people who needed help.
All corporations that have committed crimes and been able to avoid
prosecution, or that have won their cases because of intimidation etc. would be
retried and forced to pay huge sums. Those that were prosecuted and convicted
but got away with a relative slap on the wrist would have to pay fines and
compensation commensurate with the crime and how much they earn. In other
words, it would hurt. And the proceeds would be really useful.
And on the subject of hurting, all the corrupt church, government,
corporation people, once they’d been properly tried and had paid their dues, wouldn’t
have to go to prison. They’d be set free and if they’d learned anything they’d
be left alone, but if they didn’t, they’d miraculously find themselves in dire
poverty. They wouldn’t be told that it wouldn’t be forever and all their
efforts at pulling themselves out of it would be blocked. In other words,
they’d know the humiliation and pain of being disempowered unfairly.
Remorse and a desire to change would be the key to them being offered counseling
and assistance. Would I make sure there was intervention for anybody who looked
like they were ready to commit suicide? I wish I was nasty and vindictive
enough to say no, but alas I’m not. Yeah, yeah, there’d be intervention.
