“Dear FBI, be sure to read my entire web sites to make sure I’m not a terrorist,” says Mark Perkel on his site www.overthrowthegovernment.org, which he describes as attention-getting rather than frankly revolutionary. “Can I actually overthrow the government?

No I can’t, for one simple reason. The government has already been overthrown. George W. Bush and his right wing Republican Bible thumping jesus freak cronies have already overthrown the government.” A message to Declan McCullagh’s Politech mailing list today says that Perkel was arrested returning to the US from a trip to Australia this morning and is being held without bail; the LA Sheriff’s Dept booking record is here. “Perkel is also the owner of the web-site behind BartCop.com, a daily political humour site which is sometimes

critical of the current federal administration. Updates of Perkel’s

situation will probably be posted first at , or

(on online chat forum) if the

police pull the plug on Perkel’s server,” says the poster to McCullagh’s list. It is not clear to what extent Perkel’s arrest relates to the political views he espouses, or teases us with.