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.



Joe Blow
of ballot stuffing, forgery, bias, murder, and any other crimes
you can think of. Point out that Joe Blow has a well-known,
long-standing personal vendetta against you and spent 8-12 hours
per day trying to sabotage your vote.

Something that can also work is to blame the outcome on the
incompetence of the vote taker. Sometimes this works even if YOU
are the vote-taker; accuse yourself of incompetence and demand that
someone volunteer to collect votes for the also demanded revote of
blah.blah.

Finally, conclude your message by including a line such as:
"Because that bigot Joe Blow's dictatorial ballot-stuffing
forgeries have killed blah.blah, you are morally obligated to
support alt.blah.blah. If you don't, you are just as guilty as Joe
Blow. P.S. everyone please mail to root@somewhere demanding a
revote of blah.blah due to Joe Blow's meddling"

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8. I followed all your steps, and my propagation is close to .01%. Now
what should I do?

You should post one more time to alt.config saying "FINE! DON'T CARRY
ALT.BLAH.BLAH. SEE IF I CARE, YOU $%^W&@ @#(*$^&@ DICTATORIAL
POND WATER SCUM!" You may substitute whichever expletives seem
appropriate. To emphasize that this message is a spontaneous outburst,
you should add few typos caused by your fingers slamming on the
keyboard: "FINEW! DON"T SCARRI ALT>BLAH>BLAH!!!! SEE IF I GIVE A
FLYING W@$&# ABOUT YUO O|T YOUR @#)$ SITES! JUST CRAW<: BACK TUI
WHEREVEER IT IS TYOU DICTATORTEIAL BIGOTED SYS AMDIN SCUMM HANG
TYOUT AND LAUG|HJT AT YOUR HOOLWO VICTORY>"!"!!"

With that final message, you can sit back and relax, safe in the
knowledge that you have set a new record low fo

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