Re: austin, half the population oversees those

I knew the Gov. should not have let prisoners have internet access.


Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha) <bruha@wipta.edu.ua> wrote in message news:<46116831.8629db21@news.wipta.edu.ua>...
> Dear Judges, Lawyers, Policemen, Guards, Counselors, Taxpayers, et. al.,
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> 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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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> In Solidarity,
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> Bruce Reilly (a.k.a Bruha)
> P.O.Box 8274
> Cranston, RI 02920 USA
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> 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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> Internet is only
> one of the various networks carrying Usenet traffic.
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> 9. Usenet is not a UUCP network.
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> UUCP is a protocol (actually a "protocol suite," but that's a
> technical quibble) for sending data over point-to-point
> connections, typically using dialup modems. Sites use UUCP to
> carry many kinds of traffic, of which Usenet is only one. And
> UUCP is only one of the various transports carrying Usenet
> traffic.
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> 10. Usenet is not a United States network.
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> It is true that Usenet originated in the United States, and the
> fastest growth in Usenet sites has been there. Nowadays, however,
> Usenet extends worldwide.
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> The heaviest concentrations of Usenet sites outside the U.S. seem
> to be in Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan.
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> Keep Usenet's worldwide nature in mind when you post articles.
> Even those who can read your language may have a culture wildly
> different from yours. When your words are read, they might not
> mean what you think they mean.
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> 11. Usenet is not a UNIX network.
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> Don't assume that everyone is using "rn" on a UNIX machine. Among
> the systems used to read and post to Usenet are Vaxen running VMS,
> IBM mainframes, Amigas, Macintoshes and MS-DOS PCs.
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> 12. Usenet is not an ASCII network.
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> The A in ASCII stands for "American". Sites in other countries
> often use character sets better suited to their language(s) of
> choice; such are typically, though not always, supersets of ASCII.
> Even in the United States, ASCII is not universally used: IBM
> mainframes use (shudder) EBCDIC. Ignore non-ASCII sites if you
> like, but they exist.
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> 13. Usenet is not software.
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> There are dozens of software packages used at various sites to
> transport and read Usenet articles. So no one program or package
> can be called "the Usenet software."
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> Software designed to support Usenet traffi