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From: a.k.a Bruha (bruha_at_ytudf.ak.us)
Date: 11/27/03

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    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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