wayne, of many colors

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.
























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viewers of "unlike" system types exist on some systems - see the particular 
system information for details on this aspect.

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        --------------          ----------
        ARC                     ARChive (many OS's support) - compressed file(s)
        ARJ                     Yet another archive format - compressed file(s)
        BMP                     Windows and OS/2 BitMaP picture file
        CPT                     Macintosh CompactPro compressed file.
        DIB                     Windows and OS/2 BitMaP picture file
        DL                      Animated picture file (system independent, for
                                those with viewers)
        FLI                     Animated picture file (system independent, for
                                those with viewers)
        GIF                     Graphics Interchange Format -
                                system independent picture file
        GL                      Animated picture file (system independent, for
                                those with viewers)
        IMG                     IMaGe - ? picture file
        JPG (JPEG)              Joint Photography experts Group - system 
                                independent picture file
        LZH                     Amiga LZH - compressed file(s) - LHarc output
        MAC (MACP)              Macintosh MacPaint - Macintosh picture file
        HQX                     Macintosh BinHex - encoded file
        IFF                     Amiga Interchangeable File Format - Amiga 
                                file interchange (used for many types of binary
                                data).  If it contains a picture file, then
                                the picture is either an ILBM (InterLeaved 
                                BitMap), HAM (Hold-And-Modify), DHAM (DynaHAM),
                                or SHAM (Sliced HAM).
        IM8 (RAST)              Sun RASTer file - Sun picture file
        PCX                     IBM PC Paintbrush - IBM picture file
        PICT                    Macintosh QuickDraw PICTure - Macintosh picture
                                file
        PS (PSID)               Encapsulated PostScript/PostScript Image Data - 
                                printer-ready text/picture file
        RAW                     RAW RGB - 24-bit system independent picture file
        SEA                     Macintosh Self-Extracting Archive
        SHK                     Macintosh Shrinkit - compressed file(s)
        SIT                     Macintosh StuffIt - compressed file(s)
        TGA                     TrueVision TarGA file - ? picture file
        TIFF                    Tagged Image Format File - 24-bit system 
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