 The following is an excerpt from J. Neil Schulman's book 
 SELF CONTROL Not Gun Control, to be published Nov. 30,
 1995 by Synapse--Centurion.  Reproduction in computer file
 and message bases is permitted for informational purposes
 only. Copyright (c) 1995 by J. Neil Schulman.  All other
 rights reserved.


The following article appeared in _Out of Step_ Vol. 2, No. 15,
November, 1993.

                      THE BITER'S MANIFESTO


INTRODUCTION

     Great political changes used to be propelled by great
intellectual arguments.

     The American Declaration of Independence followed from
the writings of John Locke.

     The forging of the U.S. Constitution followed from the
Federalist Papers authored by James Madison and Alexander
Hamilton.

     The 1917 Russian Revolution followed Marx and Engels'
_Communist Manifesto_ and the voluminous writings of Lenin.
     Lengthy oratory also propelled great changes, from the
hours-long Lincoln-Douglas debates, to the tirades of Adolf
Hitler.

     Nowadays, great political changes are limited to the
ideas that can be crammed into eight-seconds on TV or radio news
known as the "sound bite."

     No longer is the main armament in revolution the broad
sword or the broadside: now it is the sound bite or, from now on,
the bite.

     He who has the most-used bite wins.

     To arm ourselves for this war, we must develop a surer
and greater bite capability than the enemy.

     As patriots, we must all defend the right to keep and
bear bites.

     We must form a Well-Regulated Militia of Biters.

     To that glorious purpose, this Manifesto is dedicated.

TYPES OF BITES

     In politics, a bite is a concise assertion that states
the conclusion of an argument.

     In dramatic television or film, a bite is called a "log-
line."  It's the one sentence that tells the story.

HOW YOU CAN BECOME A BITER:

     Write pithily, speak clearly.

WHAT IS THE BITERS BIBLE?

     The Biters Bible is _Bartlett's Familiar Quotations_.

WHAT IS THE BITERS HOW-TO BOOK?

     The best book on biting is _The Elements of Style_ by
Strunk and White, which tells you to "omit needless words."

WHO ARE THE BITER GURUS?

     Some world-class Biters are Aesop, William Shakespeare,
Patrick Henry, John Paul Jones, Edmund Burke, Lord Acton, Mark
Twain, George Orwell, Calvin Coolidge, Dorothy Parker, W.C.
Fields, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, W.S. Gilbert, Winston
Churchill, and the guru of them all, Anonymous.  

WHY ARE BITES IMPORTANT?

     Most people use bites as guiding lights.

DO BITES HAVE TO RHYME?

     No, but if you have the time, make your bites rhyme.

CONCLUSION                 

     To win the fight, better bite.

                                ***


                         THE NEW BOOK
                    from J. Neil Schulman!

                           Author of 
        STOPPING POWER: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns


                 SELF CONTROL Not Gun Control


   "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


Publisher: Synapse--Centurion
Price: $24.95 U.S.; $32.95 Canada
Publication Date: November 30, 1995
Approx. Shipping Date: Oct. 15, 1995
ISBN: 1-882639-05-7
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 95-74682

Full info is on J. Neil Schulman's World Wide Web Page at:  
http://www.pinsight.com/~zeus/jneil/ or download the file
SELFCONT.ZIP from GunTalk.

                     *** ORDER INFO ***

Synapse--Centurion Books is now accepting pre-printing wholesale 
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SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1995.  

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