Brother Shareef is All of Us !!

I read about Shareef Alim and find myself even more incensed at the continued assault on we the people.
I just returned from the Gulf and saw devastation that compares with that of bombs hitting Fallujah or Baghdad.
I see black brothers and sisters who still have not gotten help from this nation's governments. I see Vietnamese brothers and sisters who still have not received help. This all fits a systematic pattern of overt racism perpetrated by George W. Bush and his rogue government.
It's now clear these people not only could care less, they plan on a genocidal path of cleansing this nation of the impoverished and the poor. They don't like the poor except to fight their imperialistic wars of occupation and aggression. They scorn the poor as weak and without power.
It's time to stand up and the case of Brother Shareef Alim is the time to do so in this area. If we allow Shareef to be tossed aside by this governmental stooge of a judge, we allow our very souls to be tossed aside. We allow ourselves to be tossed aside.
I urge all who can do so to join Brother Shareef in his hunger strike. I begin to wonder when we will have enough of this abuse that we will begin to risk all that we have to fight back.
Shareef is us. His loss of freedom is our loss of freedom. His pain is our pain. I have heard of brothers and sisters all across this nation who have bravely stood up in opposition of the tyranny and they have been jailed, beaten and forgotten while we the people quiver in fear that we might be next.
The school teacher who called this President comparable to Hitler was right and he had to fight to defend his words even as a white man. Ward Churchill eloquently told us the chickens will come home to roost in this nation and he was right but he has to fight to keep his job.
Professors and teachers and concerned patriots like Shareef are being made examples of to keep us from standing up.
So when they came for Shareef and we say nothing and we do nothing will there be anybody left to speak out when they come for us?
Thoreau imprisoned for his defiance against the government tyranny in his day, asked Benjamin Franklin why he wasn't in the cell with him when Franklin asked why Thoreau was behind bars. I wonder why I'm not in the cell with Shareef.
I wonder why just protesting the arrest of our brother doesn't seem enough.
Peace and solidarity
Terry