WHY THE WORK OF REFORMING VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME IS FUNDAMENTALLY ABOUT UNDERSTANDING WORD MEANING By William Thorpe

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What if I made the point that there isn't an act People are and have been imprisoned in Virginia for that hasn't been once upon a time and currently, also performed, primarily in the interest of the Commonwealth of Virginia and its Social Contract? Of course, there will be those who will rise up decrying the effrontery and there will be those who will not only attest to the honesty and correctness of the statement, but will defend it with: and that's why we must reform the Accountability-Function of governance by subordinating the levers of State Organized-Violence to it, which Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the foot soldier, Prison Official are principals. The difference between the above-described positions is fundamentally, the grasp and cognition of word meaning. Yes, you're right to recognize that, the dynamic of corruption, or the above-the-lawism of impunity, in its crass form of the "tolerance" of the pursuit and realization of "interests", exerts its latent dictatorial role on our honesty, loyalty and allegiance to word meaning. Still, I respond with disagreements with facts, which are essentially word meanings, are a revelation of the underlying ignorance, which later on maturely emerges as "short sightedness". So, if Virginia Social Contracts' euphemisms, word salads, ill grasped word meanings are in fact the proverbial Windmills of Don Quixote appearing as unassailable and impregnable citadels, then our work of compelling the Accountability-Function of Virginia's governance is to stand on the simple ask that, if our lives as played out in the business of human existence are consequence, then it's time we applied correct definitions of word meaning. I BEGIN: No one disagrees with the word meaning of LAW. The issue or disagreement with it, is its application, with the debate over the application conveniently exploiting to what extent the various values or positions grasp its word meaning and in most cases the application is defaulted to that lack of meaning. So, for Exa analysis of Virginia's imprisonment scheme meaning its reform, goes no further than to what extent, its Creator, LAW is understood. At this juncture I want to use this bit of anecdote as illustration, Ahoto Taysir Mulazim (Harold Carpenter), who has since passed, used to be in the trenches with me in Virginia's Solitary Confinement Koncentration Kamps. He initially came to prison with, I think 5 years and in the course of protesting and resisting violations in Virginia's imprisonment scheme he accumulated additional time. When Ahoto was initially arrested and all of that in the City of Richmond, Virginia, the cops violated his rights as a juvenile by failing to have a Parent or Guardian, present. This wasn't unique to Ahoto, it was almost standard operating cop behavior, to violate parental and guardianship laws of certain Virginia demographic. This was addressed by Virginia's Appellate Courts in a case that came to be known as BAKER'S CLAIM. The result of Baker's Claim was hundreds, if not thousands of Virginia prisoners whose juvenile rights had been violated, were being released from prison. Of course, the status quo didn't like it, but that's not the point, I'm making. Here is the point, Ahoto was recognized as member of the Baker's Claim class. However, he was denied release because of the additional time he had accumulated protesting and resisting the violations of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Naturally he challenged the denial of release. The Judge hearing the case told Ahoto, that even though his initial imprisonment was illegal, the added sentences weren't as such he'd stay confined. Ahoto's, position was those other charges wouldn't have happened weren't for the illegal imprisonment.

The reason I share this Ahoto anecdote, is to show how LAW as all things human existence and the ensuing Condition is about WORDS and to what extent we grasp and understand. Because when we don't, we are its victim. Virginia's Imprisonment Scheme is supposedly primarily structured on the Words found at VIRGINIA CODE 53.1, Titled as PRISONS AND OTHER METHODS OF CORRECTION. Now the title as all other words contained in it are Law. Because Virginia Prisons, Methods of Correction are and exist as a creation of law. What I'm saying is in itself an entire Universe of meaning, which is the function of Law, till we are able to say okay enough is enough submit to the actual and correct definition. When we don't do this then the double or even triple meaning begins to become a fact, which in turn is also structured on other "facts", which then begins to be accepted and engaged on the terms that it is Tradition, Heritage and Cultural. While doing everything it can to conceal and distort the fact that any and all moments are right and appropriate to challenge its existence and in turn call it to account. So for example Virginia's 53.1, dealing with prisons, begins with Section 53.1-1 DEFINITIONS and it goes on to describe: "As used in this title, unless the context requires a different meaning": [then it goes on to create or breathe legal air on to various terms, that can and will have life and death authority over the imprisoned and free human being by the meaning. Listed among the terms are] ["State Correctional Facility "means any Correctional Center or Correctional Field Unit used for the incarceration of adult offenders established and operated by the Department of Corrections, or operated pursuant to the Corrections Private Services Act (53.1-261 et seq) "State Correctional Facility" includes "penitentiary "whenever used in this title or other titles of the Code.] Now I excerpted this section to show this, what are the names of Red Onion, Wallens Ridge and Sussex all are State Prisons, however Virginia law as dictated in 53.1-1 says nothing about State Prisons instead it includes penitentiary. Now, there are those who'll say, well penitentiary is synonymous with prison. All of that can be true yet law isn't based on synonyms, unless in its definition it includes "and all synonyms". Here is an example people are still fighting over the appearance of commas in the 2d amendment to the Constitution of the United States, meaning, Law is word meaning and grammar. I'm going to these lengths in this work, to show how in a lot of ways we are sabotaged in our work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme due to our participation in the distortion, appropriation, acceptance of misleading word meaning and we see this pertinently in the construction of PAROLE in Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Fundamentally "Parole" is a definition of release from some sort of constraint. As such its process isn't to determine, WHY parole should be granted but why IT SHOULDN'T. Now this is simple word meaning, but we have allowed its reuse and misuse to transform it into its antonym, because we have historically related and reacted to the entire imprisonment scheme from a position of accepting that the dehumanization which we are subjected to is a self-fulfilling, self-affirming proof that as Virginia prisoners we are less than. Instead of it being an empirical articulation that the dehumanization professionally practiced by the Virginia prison official is a testament of their extra-judicial and crass above-the-lawism indulgences, that are defrauding the Constituted Aspirations of The People of Virginia. Everything applied as Virginia's imprisonment scheme is word meaning construct, from a Parole determinations formulating "a" Public Safety rationale to Governor Spanberger's recent "living" descriptive.

By William Thorpe

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 .

SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS PART IX By William Thorpe

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People I trust you are reading and studying some of the works I list in this series. As I'm always emphasizing we are "ruled" and subjects of a line of thinking that is truly alien and quite frankly antithetical to what you the People of Virginia commonly think and presume undergirds the judgement of those you vote as representation. And there isn't an area that is the testing ground of this convoluted line of thinking, than Prison and the Imprisonment scheme. Because in the administration of the American, viz Virginia's imprisonment scheme more than any other expression, is where we encounter this convoluted line of thinking in its most pure and undiluted duplicity and it is borne on the machinations of the IDEA INDUSTRY, who are liege Lords to the Politician and Legislator. It is vital that The People are privy to the product of the IDEA INDUSTRY, which I have been listing in this series, in order to get past the double talk and outright lies employed by those status quo functionaries, which in essence are most of the Politicians. Below, listed are titles of works, I ask we familiarize ourselves with:

UNION AND STATES RIGHTS: SECESSION, 150 YEARS AFTER SUMTER: SECESSION AND BREACH OF COMPACT: THE LAW OF NATURE MEETS THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION---45 AKRON L.REV. 405 by STEPHEN C. NERF REVISITING THE CRITIQUE OF THOSE WHO UPHELD THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT IN THE 1840's AND 50's---58 AM.J. LEGAL HIST. 290 by PETER KARSTEN [this is a craven essay and it also highlights the line of thinking that's anti prison reform] CONCEPTUALIZATION CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION AS ANTI-GOVERNMENT EXPRESSION: A SPEECH CENTERED THEORY OF COURT ACCESS---51 AM.U.L.REV. 835 by ROBERT L. TSAI [cited in POWELL v. ALEXANDER 391 F.3d 1, McCOY v. GOORD 255 F.SUPP.2d 233] EXTENDING GORE AND STATE FARM'S PROMISE OF FAIRNESS IN PUNISHMENT TO A CRIMINAL CONTEXT----58 DRAKE L.REV. 819 by RICARDO N. CARDOVA JUSTICE GORSUCH VIEWS ON PRECEDENT IN THE CONTEXT OF STATUTORY INTERPRETATION----70 ALA.L.REV.687 by HILLEL Y. LEVIN [please study this work with the construction or self-proclaimed logic of prison policy and its jurisprudence in defense by the Courts in mind with the framework of elevating prison reform issues in political campaigns] SALIM v. MITCHELL: A FIRST IN ACCOUNTABILITY FOR VICTIMS OF THE UNITED STATES TORTURE PROGRAM----18 SANTA CLARA J. INT'L. L. 214 by CAMILLA AMATO DIGNITY IN DETENTION: ADDRESSING GYNECOLOGICAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF PEOPLE DETAINED BY U.S. IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES----34 ANN.HEALTH L. 177 by GLYKERIA TEJI and SHIRA WISOTSKY THE ESSENCE OF HER WOMANHOOD: DEFINING THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF WOMEN PRISONERS AND THE EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS OF WOMEN GUARDS, INTRODUCTION----7 AM.U.J. GENDER SOC.POL'Y and L.1 by REBECCA JURADO RACE, POLITICS AND REDEMPTION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO VIRGINIA'S DEATH PENALTY REPEAL---25 LOY.J. PUB. INT.L.1 by MICHAEL L. RADELET [people this is a damn good, excellent and well presented work. It also exposes the fraudulent and hypocritical thought of Virginia Republicans, the author Michael Radelet should be commended and it also underscores the necessity for unconditional analysis in a reform movement. As a last word I want to also echo Mr. Radelet's reminder that backwards and reactionary Virginia Republicans will most definitely try to reinstate the death penalty in Virginia when they again become the legislature majority.] VULNERABILITY AND JUST DESERT: A THEORY OF SENTENCING AND MENTAL ILLNESS----103 J.CRIM.L. and CRIMINOLOGY 147 by E.LEA JOHNSTON The above listed are illustrations of the cogs of Society's engine. Contrary to the pablum we are fed on that extremely long handled spoon, its all about Control and it's Interest.

By William Thorpe

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 .

YES THE VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION SPEAKS UP FOR THE VIRGINIA PRISONER, BUT THE INDEFENSIBLE HB 1030 LAW ISN'T A HILL TO DIE ON By William Thorpe

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I'm fully aware that expending mental labor on the HB 1030 Law, is purely a distraction. However its critique and ensuing struggle with The Valley Justice Coalition is actually and truly part of the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme and holding the Virginia prison official accountable, because we all know where the prison official stands , but among ourselves as the People, which The Valley Justice Coalition is element, analytical resolution of grasp of the antagonism presented by Virginia's imprisonment scheme is a duty and obligation, is a must if we are to materialize the accountability-function of Virginia's governance. With this stated, I BEGIN: Yes, the Valley Justice Coalition was primarily instrumental in the crystallization of HB 1030 as Virginia law codified at VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-151.1. However, it was a misguided effort that has created as the law currently exist a fraud. Because HB 1030 embodies all that enables the inherent corrupt dynamic of not just the Parole process which the law purports to reform, but it's zeitgeist operative. The fact that a couple of Virginia prisoners birthed it's schematic isn't absolution nor does it in any way form, manner or fashion change and alter the irredeemable fact that the law is a fraud and an albatross around the already insufferably yoked necks of the Virginia prisoner. Pick whatever continuum chapter of injustice of our Human Condition and the immediate and proximate cause and reagent enabler are members of the target recipient of the injustice, so the fact that a couple of Virginia prisoners instigated a self-harm enterprise isn't news. Now I've been exposing HB 1030 as an insidious work, since its, emergence, fully clothed in the unanimous smirking and fingers crossed, wink, winky of the Virginia anti-prisoner formulation, notwithstanding the unanimity of the "ayes". Even though the Valley Justice Coalition has been an advocate for the Virginia prisoner, we have to challenge it, when it missteps. So as it currently stands nothing has changed in Virginia's status quo posture on the correct admission of what is Parole, it is still a gambit. There is a diametrical dichotomous dissonance of comprehension, from what the Constituted Aspirations of the People of Virginia grasp Parole to be from its Virginia Governmental vis a vis as applied Political exploitation and this dissonance is maintained by Virginia Parole jurisprudence, which when the Virginia prisoner victimized by the exploitation, goes to the Court house petitioning his case that the Parole Process is unconstitutionally depriving him of liberty or release without due process of law, encounters to the fullest. Parole exists as member of the tribe, of mechanisms created to release the Prisoner from imprisonment before term of the imposed sentence. Its kinsmen are Pardon, Clemency and Commutation. The operative is "release from imprisonment before term of sentence". In other words, the purpose of Parole is not to determine why the Prisoner should be released, but why he or she shouldn't. This inversion has a universe of reasons, with the primary and fundamental being that the Virginia demographic immediately subjected to the inversion, the Prisoner, Family, Ally and Friends didn't speak up against the sophistry that borne the inversion as such it was extremely easy for the anti-Prisoner formulant to sabotage, betray and subsequently undermine the reason a mechanism as Parole, with one and only one purpose, release from imprisonment would even exist. So, what the Valley Justice Coalition plus collaborators have, with HB 1030 done is continue the "why" should Parole be given inversion.

By William Thorpe

 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 . 

THE INFAMOUS VIRGINIA PAROLE REFORM HB 1030 CODIFIED AT VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-151.1 CONTRARY TO THE MINT JULEP HIGH OF ITS DEFENDERS IS ANOTHER "OLE VIRGINIA" By William Thorpe

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Since HB 1030 saw the light of the day, I've been exposing it as a fraud. HB 1030 appeared as the brain child of a couple of Virginia Prisoners, who were being denied Parole. Their idea for reforming Virginia's Parole Process, then, after going through the hands of certain Virginia Prison Reform Advocates ended up with the "opportunity" recognizing Virginia General Assembly member Delegate Tony Wilt (R) and his assistant Chad Funkhouser. Subsequently Delegate Tony Wilt didn't have any problem getting his Virginia General Assembly colleagues to recognize what a godsend the prospective parole reform idea was, because it presented every last one of them, from the reactionary-philistine to the enlightened Progressive, a Rorschach - Test opportunity affirmation of, for each their bonafides, to the burnishing of claims of wanting what's best after all for the Virginia demographic subject to the historicity of the imprisonment scheme, contrary to critics. So it wasn't a feat to have occurring in the General Assembly of The Commonwealth of Virginia in 2026 the "collusion" of it's various and disparate political factions unanimously saying "aye" to HB 1030. Which to any honest observer was proof enough of its fraudulent and corrupt nature and not of justness and being on the correct side of history. I mean we are talking about the same Virginia Republicans who in that same session were producing, sponsoring and advancing Bills targeting Virginia's imprisoned geriatrics for defacto to the grave imprisonment all of a sudden joining hands with Virginia Democrats and voting for a Bill presenting itself as means of release from imprisonment? Unless the quacks like a duck part has been a lie, then there is nothing honest and reformative about HB 1030.This incidental with the defenders of HB 1030, is instructive of a phenomenon that keeps on reappearing with any circumstance of the work of Reform. What happens is there isn't a clear and practical grasp of the fact that, reform, is actually about changing the human existence by improving circumstances and conditions. The tension that appears, which in this particular HB 1030 case, is its defenders have become unwilling to simply examine the law, against the prior and pre HB 1030 circumstance and ask the simple question: why are Virginia prisoners who are the intended beneficiaries of the law, saying it is fraudulent?. Because its defenders have become idealistically invested in the law at the expense of its practical existence in the real and profane world of the imprisoned Virginian. So for example emphasis is placed on the "work sheet", function of the law without pausing to recognize that all its metrics and data points for the most part hinge on approximations, abstractions and the dictatorship of "a" administrative process that is fundamentally weighted and tilted to whatever the interests of the Virginia prison official are and can contemporaneously be. Let's take the infraction metric and it's demerit function, which is extraordinarily consequential yet it doesn't currently comply with the least modicum of due process equal to its consequence. Nothing I'm outlining is insight. All that I point out are fundamental antagonisms of the imprisonment scheme, which is the natural foe of the Prisoner, which have required and necessitated the solidarity of ally and friends in its articulation. The very nature of Parole has been perverted from a status to be granted to its current, "why", should it be granted. This is the point we not only must make but amplify. 

By William Thorpe

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 .

SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS PART VIII By William Thorpe

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I've been using this SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS series to keep underscoring and emphasizing this one and simple point, which is: If we don't speak up for ourselves someone else will and it won't be in our interest. As such I've been listing for the FAMILY, ALLY and FRIEND of the Virginia Prisoner and in extension the National Prisoner, works by those dealing in the Idea Industry, who influence our Political leaders and Policy makers in ways the voter, who voted the Legislator into Power do not. So recently I was listening to the ravings by one of the White-Evangelical mouth pieces on one of the Republican propaganda Fronts, The American Family Radio and besides being a shill for neo-feudalism, White-Evangelical commentary on criminal justice issues have been an extraordinary reactionary impediment, exploiting the Politicians shameless quest for votes. So I subjected myself to the experience of what new depths can White-Evangelical hypocrisy reach and the menu offered up, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. Initially I wondered why White-Evangelicals would be up in arms over Restorative Justice, which has a right to its day in the Sun as all other Justice formulations, if that's what the People as Community appreciates as satisfying Society's needs. Anyway as I always approach the grasp of a point of view, I do it on the terms of the objection. So I seeked the basis for the White-Evangelical critique of Restorative Justice not on what Restorative Justice actually is but on what if anything in Christianity supports the claim that advocating and endorsing Restorative Justice is violative of and at odds with a Christian's, sincere and deeply held belief and what I encountered was that same ole same critique of fundamental human nature, which as I stated earlier, yup, hypocrisy. Because the mouth piece on the radio hadn't been but a couple of minutes into his apoplexy, when he uttered, Liberal and Blue States are soft on crime, with this Restorative Justice stuff, when the Bible teaches we should,(at this point, I'd rather paraphrase) obey the law of the land. Man talk about hadn't it been for the fact that I'm not surprised with the twisted logic of the mind stuck in the hapless morass of supremacy, which is the White-Evangelical's pathetic refuge, I'd have actually wondered. Because imagine the logic of critiquing a law (which aspects of Restorative Justice is law in some Communities across the Nation) on the grounds the Bible exhorts adherents to obey the law of the land, (but when that law is Restorative Justice damn it to hell because it's a purported Liberal Formulation, that to let White-Evangelical Christianity tell it is "soft on crime"?) and all of this is being stated with a straight face and its such logic that Politicians, especially Democrats are "terrified" of being its object? When not only is it, even on mere secular terms laughable and enfeebled but it cannot even find defense for its spectacle on its own Biblical terms. Anyway, the point I want to make with this ridiculous spectacle criticism of Restorative Justice from a White-Evangelical radio mouth piece, is simply this. The roadblocks that have perennially stood in the way of reform have as motive, which this criticism of Restorative Justice, shows is that fear the Supremacist have of losing privilege. Because when we listen closely to what the opponents of reform and in particular, as it concerns us, the Virginia imprisonment scheme are saying, it isn't that they don't understand reform, because they themselves are facts and results of reform, but they recognize that reform implies accountability for status that once upon a time was taken for granted and they more than anyone else understand the true function of the imprisonment scheme, as such are anti its reform.

By William Thorpe

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 .