TWO FORMULATIONS OF SPEECH AS VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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There are those who hold the position that SPEECH isn't in the first class of Human Activity and that stuff we do with our limbs isn't and shouldn't be characterized as SPEECH, well I disagree, because SPEECH regardless, the vantage of interrogation is a priori and quintessential ACTIVITY. I BEGIN: The Commonwealth of Virginia is constituted on a proposition of Human Activity, as fundamentally that realization of the business of human existence and being as organizationally impelled. The Commonwealth of Virginia in this aspect isn't unique, because that is the general nature of life impelled. However considering the fact that my work and focus is on reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, my scrutiny is on Virginia's myriad and variegated expressions of its constituted Speech as business of human existence. When we speak of "beginnings", generally it induces misconceptions or a fun house mirror image distortion, because the actuality and its correctness that we assume definition, is not being described on the honesty that our words, only approximate a grasp of behavior that require quantum appreciation, as such what happens is a construct of suppositions, that we sub, un or consciously, due to that homeostatic impelling must now defend as absolute, which in fact is quite hilarious, buffoonish and revelatory of that human natural state of defensively weaponizing revelling in ignorance as hedge against the self-consciousness, or indictment, that our behavior and attitude belie and are at the expense of the awareness that our conclusions assume quantum vantage. So with this in mind, meaning, if a beginning is merely an approximate construct, then our applications of exactitude, certitude and the jurisprudential process of Law have to be tempered in accord, because what it tells us is the process of human business, preceding and antecedent is the accountability-function as proof of the Systemic critique. Those self-conscious revelers in the ignorance of opposing Virginia prison reform, formulate speech, that stands at odds with for example this, "THE VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT THE POLICE POWER OF THE COMMONWEALTH SHALL NEVER BE ABRIDGED. Va. Const. Art. IX sec.6.THE POLICE POWER IS BEST DESCRIBED AS THE COMMONWEALTH'S INHERENT POWER, AS A SOVEREIGN TO ENACT LAWS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, PEACE, MORALS, EDUCATION AND GOOD ORDER OF THE PEOPLE AND TO LEGISLATE SO AS TO INCREASE THE INDUSTRY OF THE STATE, DEVELOP IT'S RESOURCES AND ADD TO ITS WEALTH AND PROSPERITY" [quoted from ARCHER v.VA. BD.OF DENTISTRY 2026 Va App. Lexis 114].What this ARCHER quote again shows is if a formulation is approximate, meaning its substance and terms are always developing, becoming more clear and in focus implying a robustness of debate as process of reform, then everything about Virginia as constituted speech speaks to the substance of reform as revealed through the class of Virginians most embodying that constituted speech, which stands as LAW. What I'm saying is something more than the assertion that the Virginia prisoner is "subject of law", what I'm saying is the Virginia prisoner is the class most lawful. This isn't contradictory. If Virginia's constituted SPEECH is Law and the one class of Virginians most intimately proximate to it are Virginia prisoners, because it created them, then they are the most lawful.

I recognize how discordant this fact, that the imprisoned person is the most Lawful of all the Classes of Society and as it relates to this work, Virginia's Social Contract and that is exactly the point. Because it isn't that the Virginia socio-person isn't capable of understanding and attaining the cognition of the correctness of THE SPEECH FORMULATION constituting Virginia, but they're not called upon to grasp that SPEECH is the driver, despite the fact that it is the arbiter of daily existence as socio-person, in other words suppositionary definitions and determinants then surrogately present that fun house mirror image distortion of THAT ALL SO REAL SPEECH FORMULATION, which then enables that petty-tyranny expressed as, in this instance the impunity and above-the-lawism of the Virginia prison official and the general corruption of the system or Social Contract, which is subsequently critiqued as an inherency. Before I continue let me give you how BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY defines, LAWFUL: Not contrary to law permitted by law [and it continues under LEGAL and LEGAL is defined as Of or relating to law falling within the province of law. 2 Established, required, or permitted by law.3. Of or relating to law as opposed to equity].Now no one struggles with the fact that Society or the Social Contract is constituted Law, meaning everyone falls under the ambit of law, every aspect, fact, interaction and activity are artifacts of law, even when an act is at odds with it, the reason the act is at odds is because of Law and not because of its commission. What Law characterizes is context which is a primary denominator of the Human Condition and the business of existence. What I'm showing is despite the fact that we are not called upon to be as comprehensive in our daily grasp of the basic formulations of the Social Contract, which by the way, the process of formative education or critical analysis is intended to inculcate and should instinctually orient our daily speech, but due to the shortsightedness of reaction and its one-dimensional pursuit of value exploitation, under the analogous thought, that the less we as the socio-person critically think the easier or efficient it is to Capitalize our existence, its habit of taking stuff for granted as if definitions, descriptions, characterizations, contextualization are a result of...[Genesis 2:19 and 20]...when the fact is regardless of whatever the biblical Genesis and its kindred plays in ones existence, it doesn't absolve the responsibility of correctly understanding that the Commonwealth of Virginia is constituted SPEECH and the quality of it's human business of existence or the socio-person's is defacto dependent on understanding and cognition. So even as the individual Virginia socio-person might not ascribe to and will even react to certain attitudes and characterizations as viscerally vile and offensive, those vile and anathema attitudes are being perpetrated in their name. We see this rampantly present in the SPEECH of VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME. So even as it is generally accepted that, Due Process of Law Mandates of Virginia and United States Constitutions have a real and substantial anticipation and expectation, meaning the accused must have Legal Representation, see how Virginia's Governance handled this fact..."THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ARGUED IN BOUNDS THAT PROVIDING LAW LIBRARIES TO INMATES IS AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY, GIVEN THAT PRISON WRIT WRITERS ARE " ILLEQUIPPED. TO USE THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION".YET,IN GIARRATANO, VIRGINIA ARGUED THAT LAW LIBRARIES CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY BY THESE SAME PRISONERS". [excerpted from MURRAY v. GIARRATANO: A REMEDY REDUCED TO A MEANINGLESS RITUAL pub. in 39 Am.U.L.Rev.765 by GERALDINE SZOTT MOOHR. What I'm showing with these excerpts as representative of TWO FORMULATIONS OF SPEECH AS VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME, is simply that impunity and its above-the-lawism isn't specifically an administrative process of bureaucracy run wild, but its a dynamic of inattentiveness and a second guessing by the People of Virginia in whose name everything has its approximate beginnings. In other words authority is first and foremost a dictatorship irrespective of formulation, which the context of formulation is how revelatory is the mechanism of the dictatorship. What I'm stressing is, yes there is substantial meaning in the description of Virginia's constituted speech, which we encounter in ARCHER v. VA. BD. of DENTISTRY 2026 VA.APP.LEXIS 114 as long as We The People of Virginia recognize it as such, [and here is we find dictatorship], because how are we as the people grasping and understanding... "THE COMMONWEALTH'S INHERENT POWER AS SOVEREIGN"[?], because "sovereign" stands firstly as singular and as soon as there is interaction, meaning once we encounter another human who is also sovereign, now we have an association or a cognizable and contextualized social contract, the basis of the interaction or association is of less significance, it could even be fatal, what is relevant nonetheless is it was SPEECH or ACITIVITY and this is that granular or quantum grasp which in order to compel, reform and for the specific focus of this work, reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, we must appreciate and function within its clarity. Everything elucidated and instructed in ARCHER as the Sovereign Police Powers of The Commonwealth of Virginia are specific and substantial basis demanding and commanding reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, yet its opponents exist causing the one and only question on what Right? Because the current state and condition of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is absolutely incompatible with the contextualization of its Police Powers, that stands first and foremost on the incontrovertible fact that the imprisoned Virginian is a Human Being and Sovereign. Because negating this fundamental fact isn't denial or abrogation of the humanness of the imprisoned Virginian, but rather it only reveals the value of Virginia's Speech or Virginia's Social Contract isn't to be trusted. Virginia's Social Contract is corrupt, Virginia's Social Contract is merely a perverted Supremacist construct a step ahead of its inexorable and inevitable accounting and we see it, in formulations of Speech or Activity that can only be classified as schizophrenic. From the Speech of the Virginian Thomas Jefferson of the Declaration of Independence authorship, whose declarations conversed his hypocrisies back to him revealing the context of a "sound mind" is also the purview of a diseased one. What was the value of the enslaved Africans to Jefferson and his ilk, wasn't it the fact they were Human? Even as the Jeffersonian world view denied it ?.My contention is we see the same thing with the Virginia Prisoner treated as "subject" of Law, when the quintessential formulation of the Speech reveals and points to the irrefutable fact that if Virginia's Speech is Constituted Law then the only class of Virginian embodying it is the Prisoner.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

ATTENTION FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF VIRGINIA PRISONERS By William Thorpe

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I'm on record for being critical of Virginia Law School's and Legal Scholars for their apathy and neglect in critiquing the Professional Behavior and Practices of the Virginia Prison Official and its implicit analysis of Virginia's Social Contract and I stand unopposed in the criticism. Nonetheless Legal elements representing interstate Legal Academia have produced extensive work critiquing the Politics of Imprisonment, which includes Virginia's. Listed below are a listing of Titles, Journals the works are published in which can be accessed either on the Net or Legal Clinics and authors. What Families and Friends of the Virginia prisoner can do is share this list with them and by the way this list is relevant to all Prisoners across the Nation for those who want to attain that necessary and deep understanding of the Social Contract basis of the Justice Infrastructure and Imprisonment scheme. Also I ask that Prisoner Families and Friends read and study these works because it isn't just about us Prisoners in these cages. BELOW IS THE LIST.

INVOLVING INCARCERATED PEOPLE IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS pub.in 59 U.Rich.L.Rev. 787 by DANNY ZEMEL DUE PROCESS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: IT'S TIME TO OVERRULE SANDIN AND REVISE WILKINSON pub.in 101 Neb. L. Rev. 487 by RUSSELL E. LOVELL II CRUEL, UNUSUAL, AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL: AN ORIGINALIST ARGUMENT FOR ENDING LONG TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT pub.in 56 Am.Crim.L.Rev.1759 by MERIN CHERIAN BEYOND CRUEL AND UNUSUAL: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND DIGNITARY INTERESTS pub.in 68 Ala.L.Rev.1117 by SHELBY CALAMBOKIDIS [who knew Univ. of Alabama had a Law Journal also its cited in APODACA v. RAEMISCH 586 U.S.931] CACERAL INTENT pub.in 27 Mich. J- Race and L.323 by DANIELLE C. JEFFERIS THE UNKNOWNS OF THE KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENT: REVISITING THE DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE STANDARDS IN PRISONER HEALTHCARE pub.in 115 J. Crim. L. and Criminology 715 by MALINA J. SIMARD-HALM ANATOMY OF LEGAL IMMUNITY: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IN PRISON HEALTH CARE pub. in 28 Quinnipiac Health L. J. 177 by AJOKE M.ADETULA THE OBVIOUS VIOLATION EXCEPTION TO QUALIFIED IMMUNITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY pub.in 99 Wash. L .Rev.725 by BAILEY D. BARNES THE PUZZLE OF PRISONERS AND RIGHTS:AN ESSAY IN HONOR OF FRANK JOHNSON pub.in 71 Ala. L. Rev. 665 by JUDITH RESNIK LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE AS DEATH WITHOUT DIGNITY pub. in 72 Ala. L. Rev.327 by BRITTANY L. DEUTCH [cited in DORSEY v. SMITH 975 N.W.2d 356] TAKING CORRIGIBILITY SERIOUSLY pub. in 28 Berkeley J. Crim. L 35 by DORA W.KLEIN EXCESSIVE SENTENCING REVIEW: EIGHTH AMENDMENT SUBSTANCE AND PROCEDURE pub.in 132 Yale L .J. F. 75 by MATT KELLNER INSIDE AMERICA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: THE SUPREME COURT ON THE RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED AND THE INCARCERATED: KEYNOTE ARTICLE: THE MODEST EFFECT OF MINNECI v. POLLARD ON INMATE LITIGANTS pub.in 46 Akron L. Rev. 287 by ALEXANDER VOLOKH SOUND PRINCIPLES, UNDESIRABLE OUTCOMES: JUSTICE SCALIA'S PARADOXICAL EIGHTH AMENDMENT JURISPRUDENCE pub.in 50 Akron L. Rev. 301 by MIRKO BAGARIC and SANDEEP GOPALAN PREGNANT IN CAPTIVITY: ANALYZING THE TREATMENT OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN AMERICAN PRISONS AND IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTERS pub.in 71 Ala. L .Rev. 867 by WESLEY SMITHART WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: PROMISE AMID PERIL, PREA'S EFFORTS TO REGULATE AN END TO PRISON RAPE pub.in 57Am.Crim. L. Rev. 1599 by BRENDA V. SMITH 

EXPANDING ACCESS TO MEDICATIONS FOR OPIOD USE DISORDER IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM BEYOND PRISONS AND JAILS pub.in 62 Am. Crim. L. Rev.1213 by JOSEPH K. LONGLEY.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

WHY DO CONSERVATIVES AND REACTIONARIES HAVE THIS CRAVEN FEAR OF THE "SYSTEMIC" CRITIQUE By William Thorpe

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Of course my analysis of it is within the context of Virginia Prison Reform, but it extends to the very soul of the Conservative Thought. I BEGIN: I was checking out the 4/15/26 BREAKFAST CLUB Morning Show on Houston's FM 93 The Beat and some Internet influencer with a British accent was being interviewed, because she's promoting her book. What she was peddling was that pull yourself up by your bootstraps, simplicity, but with the niche of speaking to Women. From the way the interview was playing out I assume she's one of those controversial shock artist, whose gimmick is the "stop whining "pouncing on the frazzled among the People, which amounts to stop blaming a system and handle your business. Now as I was listening to her and of course the perpetually confused Charlemagne Tha God and his clueless left or right arm DJ Envy, what kept looping in my head is that Snarky, "the semi-literate is way more dangerous than the stone cold illiterate", because at least the illiterate accepts their illiteracy as such will listen, but the semi-literate, well they think they got it as such you can't tell 'em nothing. Because listening to that Woman on The Breakfast Club go full throttle in dismissing the systemic critique along with Charlemagne and DJ Envy spicing it up, it just revealed how idealistic and strained the anti-systemic critique has pretzeled itself into. Okay so who has denied and when has the individual responsibility or having agency of humanness been critiqued as fraudulent? Yet it is the quintessential go to strawman punching bag strung up by Conservatism in its conscience and second guessing dilemma of contradictions, because that is the only logical conclusion we can reach, as we confront its insidious work of perverting the victims agency against themselves into that singular devolution of the entire historicity of the systemic existence of the Human Condition into "its your fault".Regardless of the philosophical context, meaning purpose or utility of the assumptive and presumptive applicative existence of the "pull yourself up by your bootstrap" theologic mantra. The human being doesn't have to be lied to about the character and structure of, what is the Human Condition, which is what the anti-systemic critique labors mightly at, when all one has to do is say wait a minute, why is it wrong for me as an individual to factor in and understand the determinative role the "system" or specifically the Social Contract plays in my development as a socio-person, yet despite the fact my relationship with society or the Social Contract is comprehensively, completely and thoroughly on "systemic" terms, I shouldn't delve into the mathematics of its political-economy, into its status quo mythologies, into its ignorance's, into its self-serving exploitive gambits and finally I shouldn't recognize by questioning or critiquing how it even perceives my humanness and on what terms?.If the systemic critique is anathema as Conservatism parrots with every opportunity why then should there be submission to the systemic existence of Law?, why then does the State assert legitimacy on the logic of for example the Commonwealth of Virginia as a constitution of the People or better put, the "systemic" or system-integrity of the Peoples Will. But as soon as for example the victim of "red lining" asserts its effects, Conservatism appears on its piggy hind legs of Animal Farm yelling verboten!.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

GOVERNOR SPANBERGER HAS A COUPLE OF PREACHERS ON HER VIRGINIA PAROLE BOARD: WE NEED TO DO A DEEP DIVE ON WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME By William Thorpe

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First of all let me establish that personally I don't have an issue or problem with Religious representatives in any governance and administrative role and positions in the Commonwealth of Virginia's Social Contract, because Religion is as any other institutional establishment expressed as value, terms and relationship of Virginia's Social Contract, notwithstanding whatever presumptions institutions of the Social Contract orient their inherent identity, they're no more than aspects of the sum and whole. With this said, let's get into, this here we go again formulation of Virginia's imprisonment scheme's recognition that Parole isn't a step child but an integral dynamic. Various narratives have in pursuit of their specific and particular intentions played footsie with Virginia's Paroling dynamic, from Virginia Republicans under Governor George Allen of the racist "macaca" infamy, who abolished it in 1995, then Virginia Democrats unable to assert that there is nothing about the Commonwealth's Justice Formulation that is absolute as such Parole, Pardons, Commutations and all its various terms are necessary because we are dealing with the human condition and being, have allowed a vacuum to persist, which reactionaries and their shortsightedness have filled with their stagnancy. Yes Religion as institution does lay claim to an idea that irrespective of its revelation, which is relatively upon the biases of its human medium, is at times beacon and at others, bane to humanity, with the responsibility as focus of the consequences being on us as humanity to point out when it is straying a field, becoming something that is antagonistic as such must be opposed and resisted. From the Pennsylvania Quakers and their polemic on the Nations imprisonment scheme, which as a matter of fact realized the entity, "Penitentiary" through, the role Religion, in its Christian and Black Muslim aspects played as embodied in Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the continuing work of perfecting the unity of the people and not to gloss over the Biblical defiance expressed by Nat Turner and John Brown, Religion has been that two-sided coin at War with itself in this work of human development, maturity and realization, speaking for us the people, then to us, at us and finally against us with everything dependent on us the People, our ability to understand and question. Which is where we are with this presence of two Religious persons, Reverend Tyrone Nelson, Pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and Bishop Kevin White of Covenant Church in Portsmouth, on this newly constituted Virginia Parole Board under the Democratic Administration of Governor Abigail Spanberger. I BEGIN:As much as Virginia's Government embodied in the Parole Board places the onus on the Virginia prisoner or imprisoned Virginian, the reality is we have to have clarity, meaning we have to accept and come to terms with certain fundamental realities of Virginia's imprisonment scheme which Parole is component. Because Virginia's imprisonment scheme is constructed and erected on the still smoldering embers of the charnel plantations of Virginia's political-economic exploitation of the chattel enslavement of Black People and the Indentured servitude of a type of White Virginian. None of this is indictment, but what it ask is, we have to firstly come to terms with the fact that none of this has been confronted in a legitimate and practical manner on the logic that no one is flotsam.

This is what I mean by, Virginia's Imprisonment scheme is constructed and erected on the still smoldering embers of the charnel plantations of Virginia's political-economic exploitation of the chattel enslavement of Black People and the indentured servitude of a type of White Virginian. First of all the literal characterization of the words stand unopposed. Virginia's imprisonment scheme as it currently exist was a direct and intentional effort to undo what all the artillery and rifle shells along with saber slashes of the Civil War resulting in Lee's Appomattox surrender had settled in blood and gore. The ink wasn't dry to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of The United States and its conditional abolishment of slavery, when the traitorous losing Confederacy, which Virginia held its Presidency, expressed their incorrigibility and psychotic affinity for slavery with the prompt, exploitation of the condition for its continued existence......"except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction", with enactment of thinly veiled and concealed laws to entrap the newly freed from slavery Black People and return them to the labor, purpose of slavery. So Prison and Imprisonment across the former slave holding Confederate States, including Virginia assumed a new purpose and character as it took on a new pathway, which was conviction of violation of any of the "Black Codes" that were popping up like popcorn. Before I continue, to those who will see this talk of "slavery" and retreat to that tired and dishonest specious and spurious commentary of "all of this slavery this slavery that was in the past, in history", well besides stating the obvious which is, the existence of all of life is in history, the present or now is only a potential with the realization and substance firmly in history. Secondly the argument that slavery or any other issue is without merit, because it's of history only reveals, "exploitation", impunity and the accountability aversion which are typical of the asocial and corrupt. Thirdly as I write human beings are being slaughtered between Israel and its opponents, because of what, a narrative of history, a history that its presumptions accord ten fold the duration of American and Virginian chattel slavery and what is funny is the same minds and hearts who scurry like roaches when the kitchen switch is flipped, in declaring that the slavery critique should be abandoned are the same ones who without any hint of irony, most vociferously and violently defend and are in support of whatever logic claimed by the warring parties in the Israel and Palestine speech. Fourthly what do they think birthdays, National Independence, Anniversaries, commemorations and lastly but not least, the very thing that makes us as humans, human, our memory and memories are about? To get back to this analytical deep dive on the presence and existence of Religious representatives on the Virginia Parole Board. What I'm outlining isn't to be taken as a final word on anything. Instead I anticipate that this topic is seen as what it actually is, a Godsend opportunity to hold Virginia's imprisonment scheme accountable and its dynamics subordinate to the People of the Commonwealth, with the necessary discussion it presents. I continue: Despite the fact that I haven't presented a comprehensive account of the current dynamic of Virginia's imprisonment scheme as birthed post-Civil War, the necessary records are available for the curious.

For thousands of years the human condition and its various Social Contract expressions existed without nothing we will recognize as the postindustrial construct of Prison. Not to digress into why industrialization emerged in the embrace of the idea of Prison and its evolutionary development to our current notion, what matters to this work of critiquing the presence of Religious representatives on Virginia's Parole Board, which by the way isn't novel and that all the more demands our current scrutiny, is the fact Prison is a fairly and relatively new institution. Even Colonial Virginia despite the fact it was populated by the socio-person and human being, who over thousands of years as Homosapien has remained with the same propensities and dispositions for deviance along with what we currently catalog as criminality, didn't see fit nor necessity compel, Prison as we again currently recognize it. So what this tells us and this is contrary to that porous sophistry produced by the current class of reactionaries on the Supreme Court of The United States, that there are class of disputes that require a logic and formulation that is set in stone, which in practice is nothing more than the speech of the dictatorship of conservatism and its exploitation and deployment of political supremacy to aver, distort and hold onto a world view whose window has long past sped past the vista. Because this is exactly where we find ourselves with Virginia's tango with the Parole component of its imprisonment scheme under the assumption that what ails it, why it has an antagonistic existence with the People of The Commonwealth and the Imprisoned Virginian is it lacks the Religious world view and it's discernment. The circumstance however with Virginia's Parole dynamic has nothing to do with who dispenses it, but everything to do with the unambiguous understanding that it exist as an affirmative anticipation. To understand this we have to see Virginia's imprisonment construct as it is a Frankenstein creation while denying that Frankenstein is being shocked into animation. Because if Virginia's imprisonment scheme was structured to exploit the conditionality of the abolishment of slavery done under the wink and nod of purveyors of impunity, in other words those who fundamentally denied that the enslaved were Human, which we have the words of Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy's President as proof, that the...."inequality of the white and black races" was "stamped from the beginning", then imprisonment is another dimension of this "stamped from the beginning", dehumanization and no one will suggest with a straight face that Virginia's operational philosophy of its imprisonment scheme and that of the Virginia Prison official isn't dehumanization regardless of its defensive logic. The victorious Allies didn't reject the Nazi defense of "following orders" during the accountability proceedings at Nuremberg, instead they rejected it under the simple recognition that the condition of humanness, the unqualified recognition of Human Life precedes orders. The Allies understood what orders are to a soldier, hell, they were soldiers, what they rejected in the Nazis was their conditionalizing Human Life, the Allies weren't without their own hypocrisies and contradictions, but what their existence at Nuremberg in that moment in time and History tells and reveals (not that we needed anymore confirmation),is, Human Life is the denominator and its recognition is the arbiter of accountability. So what the presence of Religious representatives on Virginia's Parole board points to is, what side of the coin are we being presented with, because we cannot become real and honest about Parole as component of Virginia's imprisonment scheme if the structural basis isn't restructured, with accounting and isn't that the work of Religion?

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982

PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA REQUIRES SHEDDING OUR INABILITY TO CONFRONT CONTEXT By William Thorpe

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Some years ago, a Judge in Northern Virginia, who was a World War II veteran said this and I paraphrase to someone convicted and was about to be sentenced, that the convicted was the most violent person he had ever encountered. If my memory serves me right the accused was convicted of stabbing someone over 70 times !,of course it was a display of violence, but that is where we begin to cut our noses off to spite our face, because the issue and question isn't about the deed or act. Okay let's get at it, the Judge was a World War II veteran !!! come on the man had been in a war that birthed and witnessed the utter transformation of human behavior, Kids, were being crucified in the Ukraine, human beings were herded into enclosures and gassed as process of extermination, so many incendiary devices were used that the very air people breathed incinerated their lungs, perdition itself walked on two legs. There wasn't an aspect, facet and expression of human behavior and capacity that wasn't on full revelatory display, violence became just a pro forma default. I can indulge in the construct of superfluousness and become as that Northern Virginia Judge who had no problem in pronouncing the commission of an over the 70 times stabbing of a human by another human as being the most violent act he had ever encountered but I'll be disingenuous.

I started this work with the title PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA REQUIRES SHEDDING OUR INABILITY TO CONFRONT CONTEXT, because without the honest grasp of context what we end up doing is maintaining and supporting the sisyphean toil of warring with the quixotic windmills of the specific emergence at the expense of the systemic environment that permits, allows and enables specificity in the first place. The thing is the attitude and propensity to expend labor on the specific as it relates to the issue of crime and deviance, which necessitates the prison reform formulation has value for a segment of Virginia's population. In other words people make a living off maintaining the narrative of ignoring the systemic cause of the specific deed, or to state it, the beneficiaries of the status quo narrative of criminality and its opposition to reform see the relationship as the individuation of criminality irrespective of its heinousness as a culling of the herd albeit, a controlling mechanism that ensures that primary and fundamental focus on the business of being human, which is labor or work because without work or labor the necessary circumstances and conditions for human existence are nonexistent. Here is the contradiction that matures into antagonisms that exposes the human condition of idiocy, regardless of reason. Because as soon as we accept that humanity is capable of "behavior", period without gradation then our interaction and the subsequent relations stands on "context" and it is with context that we find that we have clay feet or that idealistic protection of that metaphorical "sacred bulls" or its other colloquial feint, "boys will be boys", with the flip side being context or mitigation is rarely, seldom or never given to the subjects and objects of the status quo narrative. Or in its other expression the subjects of the controlling motive and its various mechanisms are defacto less than, "other" and practically dehumanized, because if the very presence and existence of the human condition is context based or contextual and if there is wilful and deliberate intent and effort to ignore, overlook and deny, context then humanness itself is dehumanized. This brings me back to that World War II veteran Northern Virginia Judge, who had no problem in pronouncing the convicted before him as the most violent person he had ever encountered. In human affairs we get the place and purpose of hyperbole, but hyperbole is left to the circumstances of our everyday interactions and leadership and those with its bully pulpit, which a judgeship is category shouldn't indulge in it's undisciplined suppositionary speech, because it has far reaching consequences of distortional proportions, because the quintessential value of our human condition as expressed in the various social contracts, is that perfection of the unity of the people which reform or encompassing and utilitarian speech is basis. Yes "speech" distortions whether deliberate and insidious or colloquial ignorances can and will for a period serve exploitive ends of inducing disunity among the people while constantly struggling to stay a step ahead of the inevitable and inexorable reckoning and accountability. A quick example of this is the Confederate monument to Lee on Richmond's Monument Avenue and its encounter with the inevitable reckoning because it's existence was speech of disunity, which is the same space occupied by Virginia's anti-prison reform status quo and their short sightedness. There is nothing contradictory with the people of Virginia pursuing the repair of harm, what our speech of reform asserts is, Context.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982