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madeleine, if you opened the front door
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. your site administrator has removed them or they've expired). There are essentially four methods to accomplish this (examples assume you're using rn): 1. Assuming you know the article number(s) of the postings, just enter the article number from within that newsgroup. Voila! 2. Since you probably DON'T know the article number, once you are in the appropriate newsgroup, you can step backwards or forwards through the articles by using "P" (previous) and "N" (next). 3. So you don't know the article number, and you don't want to step backwards through 50+ articles - what now? As long as you remember something from the subject line of the article, you can use regular expressions to search backwards, using the command "?pattern?r", where pattern is the part you remember. For example, you read an article with the word "howdy" in the subject, then decide later you want to get back to that article. Just get into the right newsgroup, then enter "?howdy?r" and rn will search back through all the articles you've read to find the last one with "howdy" somewhere in the title. Not the right one? Enter "?", and rn will retrieve the next-to-last article with "howdy" in the title. 4. You can modify your .newsrc file so that articles are no longer marked as being read (this file usually resides in your home directory). This is especially valuable if you forgot the name of a particular posting, but you know it was in the last ?x? number articles. For example, if your .newsrc file reads: alt.bina |
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madeleine, if you opened the front door
What the hell does this have to do with fly tying? Ernie "Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha)" wrote in message ... 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. |
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madeleine, if you opened the front door
Ernie wrote:
What the hell does this have to do with fly tying? Ernie Who are we? We are the downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts, Dunno Ernie, you a convict? Steve (Descended from convicts (conceptualising #2/0 Clowser parting someone's hair) |
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madeleine, if you opened the front door
Bruha informs:
We are the downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the disenfranchised convicts, drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and unemployable. then, please, Bruha, get over to ROFF where you belong!! This is a Fly-tying group, and your incomprehensible rant is not really too appropriate. Tom |
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madeleine, if you opened the front door
He writes with excellent English for some poor, uneducated, criminal doesn't
he. Lou T |
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madeleine, if you opened the front door
"Lat705" wrote in message ... He writes with excellent English for some poor, uneducated, criminal doesn't he. Lou T He's probably a lowly, highly edukated CEO. Op |
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