THE PARANOIA GAME

                    by J. Neil Schulman


     Are there secret cabals controlling the world?  Are seemingly
unrelated news events connected in unknown ways?  Is everything
happening according to an unknown plan which we are powerless to
discover?

     If you believe any of the above, then you're ready to play ...

                      THE PARANOIA GAME!

     The rules are simple.  You take a recent news event ... then
come up with a bizarre explanation for it.  If your explanation
involves simple political intrigue, it's worth 5 points.  If you
can add in an odd twist, that's another 5 points.  And if you can
make the event dependent on another seemingly unrelated news event,
you get the big 25 points.

     Note: UFO's, Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Oklahoma City bombing, and
anything to do with with the JFK assassination are overdone, and
aren't a worthy challenge.

     Ready?  Here are the first five topics:


     Topic 1: : The Rabin Assassination:

For 5 points: The Rabin Assassination was due to a plot by Shimon
Peres to become Prime Minister of Israel and discredit the
conservative Likud Party.

For 10 points: The Rabin Assassination was due to a plot by Handgun
Control, Inc., to start a Tel Aviv branch office.

For 25 points: The Rabin Assassination was a direct result of the
recent Quebecois vote on secession from Canada.


     Topic 2: Colin Powell:

For 5 points: Colin Powell will run for the White House in 1996 to
make sure that conservatives are locked out of control of the
Republican Party;

For 10 points: After being elected president, Colin Power will
reveal his lifelong membership in the Nation of Islam;

For 25 points: Colin Powell is behind the murders of Nicole Brown
Simpson and Ronald Goldman.


     Topic 3: The movie _Showgirls_:

For 5 points: The critics trashed the movie _Showgirls_ to discredit
Paul Verhoeven before he directs his next scheduled picture, Robert
A. Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_;

For 10 points: The "word" went out to critics that they must trash
_Showgirls_ solely to teach a lesson to an MGM/UA executive, who
welched on his marker in a high-stakes poker game during filming.

For 25 points: _Showgirls_ was produced solely to launder money going
to U.N. operatives suppressing anti-federal militia organizations in
Nye County, Nevada.


     Topic 4: The Million Man March

     For 5 points: The Million Man March is the first step in the
Crips becoming a national political party;

     For 10 points: The water supply at the Million Man March was
spiked with a genetically-engineered substance which will alter the
DNA of African American so that the next generation of blacks will
produce world chess champions;

     For 25 points: While a million African American men were safely
out of the way in Washington D.C., African American women were in
secret training sessions on certain undocumented features of
Windows 95.


     Topic 5: The War On Drugs

     For 5 points: Drugs are illegal in the United States to create
an easily manipulated underclass which will riot on the command of
the CIA;

     For 10 points: The Democratic and Republican parties are controlled
by rival drug cartels;

     For 25 points: The Federal Reserve System has tied the price of the
dollar on world markets to the value of one ounce of cocaine paste since
1914.


     Answers must be in the form of an essay.

     Scoring: There will be no open scoring, but you will know you
have won 5 points if you mysteriously lose your job and your credit
rating is destroyed; you've won 10 points if, after being arrested
for a warrant on unpaid traffic tickets, you suddenly start hearing
voices telling you to kill your co-workers; you've won the 25 point
bonus if your death is described in your local newspaper as a freak
hunting accident.

     Have fun!

                                  ***

"Schulman interestingly and insightfully raises a number of
liberty-related issues that we ignore at the nation's peril.
His ideas are precisely those that helped make our country
the destination of those seeking liberty.  The book's title
says it all: personal responsibility, not laws and prohibitions,
is the mark of a civil society."
     Professor Walter E. Williams, Chairman Department of Economics
     George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia

SELF CONTROL Not Gun Control
by J. Neil Schulman
Publisher: Synapse--Centurion
$24.95 U.S.; $32.95 Canada
ISBN: 1-882639-05-7

 PLEASE encourage all gun rights activists to ask the manager or
 assistant manager of their local chain bookstore -- Barnes & Noble/
 Bookstar/BookStop/B. Dalton, Waldenbooks/Borders, Crown, etc. -- about
 when they are getting in SELF CONTROL Not Gun Control.  This will be an
 enormous help in getting the chains to order the book.
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