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cypriene, for ourselves even when stuck
Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,
We are here. Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here. Who are we? We are the downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts, drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable. We are the children of poverty, financial and spiritual. We have and will have children of our own, grandchildren too. We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking many tongues. We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war against ourselves. And who are you? You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime? You who watch as budgets are cut in education and health care while you militarize a police force? Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons, helicopters, tanks, robots ... the testosterone is oozing through the streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten the belt, spartan conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts. And what is there to show for it? Unemployent stays low because half the population oversees those "out of the workforce", the dregs, the rabble, the enemy? Please tell me there is a deeper reason. Do you feel safer? More humane? More like a cohesive society with a shared sense of purpose, who can identify Us and Them? Do you live in a gated community or gentrified neighborhood? By the way, have you read the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution - or do you only know the first phrases? It's about time we got together. Please know that I have yet to meet a convict who wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a prostitute, or a violent individual. Most of us still have hope for ourselves even when stuck in the darkest dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s. Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling order. Many of us have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of being, an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to, and many of use wouldn't escape if you opened the front door. Did you know that approximately 10 million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, on parole or once were in those categories? Each of those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors ... and so closer and closer does the We interface with the You. Don't you think it's time we talked? Are you ready? Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim and painful future? Do you have the heart to face monumental failures while bravely struggling beyond where we are now? I know that some of you are, and that some of us are, and this is what gives me hope. You need our insights just as we need your structure. It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment for our sickness, is yet to begin. In Solidarity, Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha) P.O.Box 8274 Cranston, RI 02920 USA P.S. - I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media campaign to promote this cause. Ideas are welcome. Collaboration is prayed. --------------------------------------- Subject: What is a mail-server/list-server? Mail servers are a family of programs that answer email automatically. These programs are also called list servers (or listserv, from the original BITNET LISTSERV list management program) when the automatically maintain mailing lists, or info-servers or netlibs if they permit automatic software retrieval). Most mail servers will tell you all about themselves if you send them a message with no Subject: and the one-line body help (without the indentation, of course!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Should one write USENET or Usenet? The A News documents (18 Dec 1980) and Internet RFCs 850/1036 used "USENET". Most newer documents use Usenet (including Henry Spencer's upcoming revision of RFC 1036 and the Nutshell Handbook on UUCP and Usenet) because it is not an acronym. Thus, "Usenet" should now be considered the correct capitalization. -- Christian_Paulus has a French translation of ''Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Usenet''. This translation (posted in fr.news.divers monthly) is available at: ftp://ftp.fdn.fr/pub/FDN/Faq/usenet-faq.fr or on the World Wide Web: http://www.fdn.fr/fdn/doc-misc/usenet-faq.fr.html ++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:00:21 GMT Message-ID: From: (Ma |
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