T H E ° P E R I S C O P E
"Run Silent. Think Deep."
Fri Jan 9 13:33:21 2004
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Subject: THE PERISCOPE ~ Vol 2004, Issue 03
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:09:57 -0500
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T H E ° P E R I S C O P E
"Run Silent. Think Deep."

Welcome to THE PERISCOPE, a pithily patriotic if politically
pixilated publication of Private Arena. Where the perspective is
contra-collectivist, laissez faire, self-governing. And the
politics? Slightly to the right of Ghengis Kahn. Children and
bed-wetting liberals may read with adult supervision only.

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ISSUE DATE: Friday, January 09, 2004

~~~ UP SCOPE!!!
Skulking close to the surface, we took a look around, and
here's what we found ...

~~~ THE OBSTACLE OF AN ARMED CITIZENRY
>From the American Rifleman (August 2002): "It seems that in
1960, 15 years after the end of World War II, Robert Menard,
then a commander aboard the USS Constellation, took part in
a meeting between U.S. Navy personnel and members of the
Japanese Defense Forces. Most of the attendees at the
meeting were World War II veterans. One American took the
opportunity to inquire why, after Pearl Harbor -- with the U.S.
Pacific Fleet crippled and the mainland defenses in what must
have been obvious disarray -- the Japanese had not simply
invaded the U.S. West Coast. Menard recalled the response
of the Japanese commander: "You are right," he conceded.
"We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We
knew that probably every second home in your country
contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had
state championships for private citizens shooting military
rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand."

~~~ HOW THE SECRET SERVICE PROTECTS BUSH
FROM FREE SPEECH
[Members Only] "When President Bush travels around the
United States, the Secret Service ... orders local police to set
up "free speech zones" or "protest zones" ... keeping
protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of
media covering the event ... last year, seven protesters were
arrested when Bush came to a rally at the USF Sun Dome.
They had refused to be cordoned off into a protest zone
hundreds of yards from the entrance to the Dome." Private
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~~~ HOW GOVERNMENTS MANIPULATE THE GOLD
MARKET
[Members Only] "... It is now becoming a well-known ‘secret’
that governments are trying to manage the gold price by
actively intervening in the gold market ... to distort the free-
market process by forcing a lower gold price, thus hindering
yet again the market-message that the dollar is in trouble and
that people should be stocking up with gold for the tough
times ahead. And the government did it without using one
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~~~ SIGNS OF DICTATORSHIP ABOUND IN WASHINGTON
"... The telltale signs of dictatorship and fascism abound in
this city on the Potomac. Some of the signs-concrete
barricades and 8-foot walls around monuments-are apparent.
Others, like video cameras, although more subtle, are every
bit as ubiquitous. For those who have never visited
Washington, DC, or who traveled here during better times, the
city that is suppose to represent the aspirations of the
American people is now a hollow shell of its former self ...
[with] ... chain link fences, concrete Jersey barriers, menacing
black Secret Service SUVs, squad cars, and security "men in
black" armed to the teeth." http://www.prisonplanet.com

~~~ SHEEPLE OF THE WEEK AWARD
"... Their flags are bigger than their cars ... They think that ...
Rush Limbaugh is an intellectual ... They love FOX news and
Wal-mart and reality TV ... But most of all, they love George
Bush. In fact, they have it so bad for Shrub the Lesser that
were he to personally come to their homes, defecate on their
patio furniture ... and then ask them to bend over and bark like
a dog, they would do so willingly. Gratefully, even. Later they
would whisper about the incident in hushed and reverent
tones. "The President moves in mysterious ways," they would
say ... Yes, we've all seen them. Perhaps we even know some
of them personally ... And now they have their own award. The
Fallout Shelter proudly presents: The Sheeple of the Week
Award." Cast your vote at
http://falloutshelternews.com/Sheeple.html.

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~~~ JAPAN MOVES AHEAD WITH NATIONAL ID SYSTEM
File under "News You May Have Missed." From August 25,
2003: "A national computerized ID system that was criticized
for its big-brother overtones when launched last year became
fully operational Monday, allowing Japan's 126 million citizens
to cut through red tape with an 11-digit number. The online
database, which contains every citizen's name, address,
birthdate and sex, is the centerpiece of a government initiative
to speed administrative procedures such as filing change-of-
address forms and applying for passports ... Some Japanese
initially chafed at the idea of being assigned a number, and
others complained that it smacked of the kind of surveillance
carried out by Japan's pre World War II authoritarian
government ..."
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=
Technology&storyId=775977

~~~ REMEMBER, EVERYTHING HITLER DID WAS LEGAL!
Gun registration. Gun control. Suppression of dissent. Jailing
of protesters. State regulation of the media. Secret courts.
Dossiers on private citizens. Wait a minute? This isn't 1939 ...
it's 2004! Holy Rip Van Winkle ... I musta' been sleeping!

~~~ THEY TOLD THE TRUTH
"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was
considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men
afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that
all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." --
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791)

~~~ DOWN SCOPE!!!: Mission accomplished ... for now. Until
next time, drive on the right. And keep your toner dry.

Wishing You A Prosperous & Protected Life,

Your Friends in the Private Arena
http://www.privatearena.com

~~~ A POIGNANT PARTING P.S.
The PERISCOPE is purveyed aperiodically with a panoramic if
passingly paranoid perspective on the persistently prevailing
pandemic privacy predations of the Potomac Politburo, with a
particularly peevish penchant to expose the pernicious
proclivities of predominantly parasitic politicians to pervert our
precious and precarious republic into a palpably pervasive
police presence under the pretense of protecting the People,
with pertinent pointers to prepare the perspicacious Pilgrim
against the potentially perilous pitfalls of Patriot imprudence.

~~~ HUMOR IN A JOCULAR VEIN
(... with a tip of the hat to MAD Magazine)

MAD POLITICIAN DISEASE

Capitol Hill outbreak traced to tainted campaign contributions

Federal authorities said on Friday it could take weeks or
months to trace the source of contamination for the U.S.
Congressman diagnosed with the nation's first case of Mad
Politician Disease.

According to experts, interrogation of the partisan committee
that counseled the tainted member of Congress, who was
quarantined at an unknown location for security reasons on
Dec. 9, will be crucial to determining how many public
servants have been exposed to Mad Politician Disease and as
well as projecting how far disease may have spread. The
illness, a degenerative and debilitating ailment known as
conscientious spongiform encephalopathy, causes politicians
to accept any money thrown their way, forgoing any and all
ethical considerations. The incubation period is believed be as
long as 1.5 two-year terms, and can most commonly be
traced back to a single exposure to a corrupt contribution.

Since the contamination of the corrupted Congressman was
discovered late in his second term, epidemiologists from the
CDC believe he was probably infected by accepting tainted
contributions at an early state in his career -- contributions
that could have also been accepted by other unsuspecting
elected officials or facilitated by aides acting as carriers who
may have moved on to other officials’ staffs or committee
posts within the Capitol building.

Continued delay in pinpointing the source of the corrupt
contribution would most likely bolster the growing number of
calls for a national system to track political funding. But as a
practical matter, regardless of whether the source of the
dubious donation is found, federal officials are coming under
increasing pressure to step up regulation and testing.
According to at least one senior source on the Hill, this will
possibly include ear tagging, a measure that has remained on
the books but hasn’t been enforced since Reconstruction.

Regulators already face calls to eliminate all oil and tobacco
monies from the political food supply, and insurance and
pharmaceutical-linked contributions are sure to be next in the
wake of Medicare legislation giveaways. Grassroots groups
indicate escalating demands might include mandatory testing
of brain cells from U.S. Representatives that demonstrate
symptoms of nervous conditions when questioned at citizen
forums, or, as was the case with the "Downer" politician in
Washington, an inability to stand for anything other than the
National Anthem.

If we're lucky, we could know something within a matter of a
day or two," said Dr. Depak Phillips, Dean of the University of
Virginia's School of Politics in a conference call with reporters
on Monday. "Hopefully, this will speed the momentum for a
national identification system, enabling us to isolate the
corrupted campaign consultants responsible for the first
recognized outbreak of Mad Politician Disease in the U.S. But
Phillips also cautioned, "Even if the dirty dollars of Consultant
One can be found, it is not necessarily going to be possible to
figure out who bought the lunch that led to its infection.
Imagine yourself a politician and trying to remember what
money you accepted 4 years ago. That's not really the kind of
thing these people keep accurate records on."

Through a Bush administration spokesperson, the White
House claimed the Mad Politician Scare is an isolated
incident inflated for political purposes by the enemies of
freedom, and predicted the source will eventually be traced to
a batch of bad PAC money originating from an non-profit
animal rights group based in Canada.

Will Durst thinks the term non-profit animal rights group is
redundant.
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Press Release
AMERICAN PATRIOT PARTY HEADQUARTERS
Pensacola, Florida 1/09/04

The APP is really taking off. The American Patriot
Party is proud to announce the creation of the Alabama
Patriot Party by AL Chairman (pro-tem) Sam Payne and the creation of the
Tennessee Patriot Party TN Chairman (pro-tem) Matt Mosteller. If you wish
to help them organize or just want to give them congratulations, their
email address is al.chair@patriotparty.us and tn.chair@patriotparty.us
respectively.
The Alabama Chapter website is located at
http://www.patriotparty.us/state/al/index.htm. The Tennessee
Chapter website is located at
http://www.patriotparty.us/state/tn/index.htm
Thank You Matt and Sam for being true Patriots and welcome aboard.

We are growing so fast that we are almost unable to keep pace at the
National HQ. So we have created the new positions of Regional directors. Go
to http://www.patriotparty.us/state/

Brian Nichols
National Chairman
Co-Founder of the American Patriot Party
http://www.patriotparty.us

John Adams Oct. 11, 1798 (Address to the military)

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or
gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale
goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government ofany other."