1) Negotiate a worldwide trade embargo.
2) Coordinate the expulsion of all foreign U.S. diplomatic and military personnel and assets, in addition to the deportation of all U.S. citizens, including those holding dual citizenship.
3) Provide humanitarian aid when and where necessary.
4) Freeze all foreign U.S. assets.
5) Establish a minimum repayment requirement of all foreign debt owed.
6) Dispatch U.N. missions to the U.S. to ensure the continuation of civil rights and the rule of law.
7) Pass a U.N. resolution banning the manufacture, distribution, and use of all firearms within the U.S., excluding those assigned to U.N. personnel.
8) Negotiate the dismantlement of the U.S. education system and replace it with the Scottish model.
9) Negotiate the dismantlement of the U.S. political system and replace it with the Canadian parliamentary model.
10) Adjust the national budget to reflect the interests of the American public, using representative methodology.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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