Tom Perriello's ideologies espouse the Machiavellian principle in which "the end justifies the means." In essence, unethical, morally reprehensible, criminal and contemptuous behaviour is justified in order to, in Perriello's words, "expand the use of force to advance key values." Of course, the values Perriello speaks of are American "values." Perriello's belief that such noble key "values" are at the foundation of