Justification for Piece

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
November 4, 2005

MEMORANDUM FOR POTUS, THE CABINET, AND THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

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FROM:

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      Senior Executive Consultants to the Office of the President

SUBJECT:

      Piece Initiative

It is clear that the messages of Democracy, Capitalism, Western Culture in general and American culture in particular are failing to reach and/or influence critical demographics in the Middle East and in other “at risk” countries around the world. We do not need to cover in detail the situations in those countries in this memorandum, in particular those where we are engaged militarily and politically, as you hear about them at the briefings every morning.

Additionally, the political exposure for detaining suspected terrorists, insurgents, and members of organizations that may be supporting them is becoming untenable, and the recent revelations in the press have made the situation more acute.

How then do we fight years of dogmatic indoctrination for the hearts and minds of young men in those countries?

Given that these young men - like their contemporaries in any part of the world, it must be said - are not interested in politics or economics except where their passions are aroused by radicalism, we must ask ourselves: how can we craft a message of the greatness of Western Capitalism that will be convincing to these young men? Is there a call that young men will heed across cultural, social, and religious boundaries?

Finally, and most importantly, can we reach them in a convincing manner before they become active in an organization that is hostile to America, her allies, and Western Culture?

We believe that the answer is yes.

We believe we can do this by bringing to bear one resource that we have not utilized to date, the gleaming star of American Capitalism:

Las Vegas.

Here then, is a proposal for what we call The Piece Initiative.

We should subtly initiate and promote a program by which we award “at risk” young men all-expenses paid trips to Las Vegas to avail themselves of any and all recreations and diversions legally available in that city. While we believe that many will avail themselves of Las Vegas’ gambling casinos, restaurants, fine music, stage shows and theatre entertainment, we believe that that the oldest entertainment industry will be the one that will make this effort successful.

‘Why?’ you may ask. Simply put, we believe that at heart, all men are men of piece.

Young men, in the throes of volcanic hormonal surges, are particularly passionate about piece; passionate enough to do almost anything – acts of violence, lie, cheat, steal, work, attend to personal grooming, spend all of their money - in the name of piece.

Instead of young men listening to messages of hate and violence about a satanic United States from violencemongers, why can’t these young men be exposed to tails of joy and fulfillment by our Prince of Piece, POTUS?

From a planning perspective, we should allow this to grow organically, utilizing embedded agents to identify and discreetly invite target individuals to meetings in small groups. At these meetings, we will reveal that they are invited to go on a Piece Mission to Las Vegas, at the US Government’s expense.

Those that decide to go, will be secreted to an airfield and placed on a lavishly appointed executive jet, and flown to Las Vegas, where they will be taken to a hotel on the Strip, and from there be allowed a supervised visit to the city and the surrounding areas. They will be allowed pocket money for gambling, drinks, etc., but local travel and larger financial transactions should be handled by the US supervisors (or, Piecemakers, as we’ve taken to referring to them).

At the end of the trip, the visitors should be sent back to their home countries with some pocket money and arrangements made to meet with the small group again soon. They should also be encouraged to invite friends and family to subsequent meetings, and engage in planning subsequent trips. Private discussion of the events should be expected, and it is expected that those channels will be the primary means of spreading our message of piece.

At some point, we may consider leveraging publicity for the International Day of Piece (aka Piece Day), but this should be evaluated after out initiative is underway.

We have anticipated that there may be some resistance by current owners of Piece establishments in Nevada to doing business with the Federal Government, so we have taken the liberty of acquiring one through some of our business partners.

Casa de Arbusto is currently run by third parties, but we anticipate governmental oversight to come under a new Office, comprised jointly of staff from the Department of the Interior, Homeland Security, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Justice. Hopefully, the current composition of the House and Senate can rush through legislation to this effect, before the ’06 elections.

We must be perfectly clear here: those that have planned or perpetrated acts of terrorism and violence, and those that are responsible for those acts against US Service personnel, US civilians, or civilian non-combatant citizens of other nations should be captured and brought to justice. The Piece Initative is not a free pass for criminals.

In conclusion, we believe that in bringing piece to young men in troubled parts of the world, showing them the benefits of free trade and giving them opportunity to experience it for themselves, that this will sway them to becoming advocates for piece and the American Way.

All we are saying is give piece a chance.