WE HOLD YOU GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN RESPONSIBLE FOR AUBREY McKAY's DEATH AT KONCENTRATION KAMP WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISON By William Thorpe

This is another chapter in The Commonwealth of Virginia's culture of death.

Let me say this first: Governor Glenn Youngkin read RADIO IQ SANDY HAUSMAN's 6/10/25 ARTICLE, STATE PROBES DEATH OF AN INMATE AT WALLENS RIDGE, because from prisoners self-immolating to Virginians under the custody of Virginia prison officials coming up dead with EMMETT TILL, like injuries, Virginia prisons under your watch should have the yellow tape of a crime scene highlighting the fact that your administration has enabled prison official impunity to the nth and obscene levels. Then came the incident and death of Aubrey McKay under the custody of Koncentration Kamp Wallens Ridge Officials, which Virginia's Journalist Sandy Hausman in her 6/10/25 Radio IQ exposé, yup the same one, that I started this work, asking that you as Chief Executive of The Old Dominion, give the necessary attention to. The death of Aubrey McKay is another shameless chapter in this practice of The House of Burgesses unwillingness to shake off the depravity of its "3/5ths" canker and blight and under your watch Governor Glenn Youngkin, you have allowed its fundamental impunity to continue its business as usual savagery. Yes we get it that expediency of exploiting the scapegoating of the Virginia prisoner for speculative political power and its presumptive distortions all at the expense of the aspirations of the People of Virginia.

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

VIRGINIA LABOR GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE SILENT AND ABSENT FROM THE WORK OF REFORMING VIRGINIA'S JUSTICE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PRISON SYSTEM By William Thorpe

By William Thorpe

Our ancients postulated that the examination of the simple and common act of buying and selling will explain a Nations history. A continuation of that analysis also reveals and further defines that a Nations stability and cohesion is also found and determined on the ACCOUNTABILITY of it's Political-Economy, or SOCIAL CONTRACT, meaning the terms of Labor or its mechanisms and means of Production. So when antagonisms begin to appear out of pedestrian contradictions, that are the terms of any normal and healthy Social Contract and its political-economy, it means one thing and one thing only, there isn't that requisite and honest accounting of the nature of Labor and the mechanisms of production. In other words Labor isn't fulfilling its obligations honestly, which also means, it has permitted perversions in its natural narrative. What I've just described is the state of our National political-economy. What I'm focused on is Virginia and the dereliction of its labor groups and organizations, their absence and silence in the work of prison reform in Virginia. Despite the fact my earlier thoughts on political-economy had a National characterization, it holds true for The Commonwealth of Virginia. If political-economy is the foundation that everything, the Social Contract, Society our human condition is built on and Labor is its art and dexterity and if its terms are antagonistic, meaning corrupted then the prognosis that Labor is diseased is unambiguously comprehensive. I begin with the event commonly known as BACON'S REBELLION as illumination. In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon,a Virginian chafed at the antagonistic terms of the political-economy that defined him, one thing led to another and he's immortalized in history with the event bearing his name.[ For study on BACON'S REBELLION, Ibram X. Kendi, gives his grasp in his book STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING on pp.53-54 Nancy Isenberg gives us hers in her work WHITE TRASH on pp.37-39 the reactionary author Alan Brinkley gives us his conclusions in his writings in THE UNFINISHED NATION: volume one on pp.33-34,56] Now what Nathaniel Bacon affirms are the Labor, accountability by revealing once again that the coercive powers or the Police powers of The State and its Organized-Violence exist to subordinate Labor, because even if Labor hesitates and is reluctant to acknowledge that simple fact, those profiting from and off Labor do.

.Regardless of the perversions that have been allowed, permitted and tolerated by Labor of it's natural narrative(s) to, like sediment throw off its equilibrium and irrespective of complicity, the fact remains that, without LABOR, there isn't Society, there isn't a Human Condition, in other words, if the human condition is a continuum of that......Jeffersonian, "all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,..."then the culprit is LABOR and that perversion, as I've pointed out, of its natural narrative. Europe, lost it's woods, forest and Jungles, in making the necessary paper to hammer away on this point, that LABOR, well tongue in cheek, so I won't have to "belabor" the point. Nonetheless what I must do is remind Virginia's LABOR groups and organizations that just because we are not speaking on their absence and silence on the fundamental question of reforming Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the Prison system, is not a pass nor do we absolve them of their unwillingness to embody their natural narrative.

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

VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM AND OPPOSITION TO VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM IS NOTHING BUT THE QUICK SAND OF MINDLESSNESS By William Thorpe

I BEGIN: Every single argument Virginia Republicans wield cudgel like against Virginia society, they hypocritically endorse and affirm its existence as Operating Policy and Procedures in Virginia Prisons and, further as pseudo-Intellectual Administrative Philosophy concocted on anachronistic suppositions, that were idealistically still born in the quick sand of mindlessness. One of the more brazen and egregious examples of this is the outrage against the Covid-19, Lockdowns on the argument that the solitary confinement of people during the Covid Pandemic, harmed people on all levels, because solitary confinement of the human being goes against our very Biology. Then the vociferous protest of the Virginia Republican against the Covid Lockdown turned into the most raucous endorsement, defense and support of its use by the Virginia prison official in Virginia prisons. Then the more insidious of the Virginia Republican's behavior is the establishment of a cottage industry, underscoring and highlighting the failings and short comings of Virginia's Public Education, then turning right around and clamoring for vindictive and monstrously mindless prison sentences for economic crimes done by and perpetrated by the challenged and dysfunctional judgement of minds and hearts, subjected to and if we are to accept the Republican anti-Public Education polemic, created by public schools. If there ever was a par none mitigative force it is the anti-public schools polemic, by Republicans and their white-Evangelical foot soldier, but that's not the reality. Instead again we see the opportunity and exploitation of hypocrisy. In other words the Education provided in Virginia Public Schools is so, according to Republicans, corrupt and corrosive, yet as soon as a Virginia mind and heart displays its ills, by for example dealing drugs, that young ill formed mind is all of a sudden responsible. Then again the Virginia prisoner is imprisoned for a set period according to the due process of law. In other words there is the presumption that the Virginia prisoner will be released into "Free" Society. So what do we see the Virginia Republican, endorsing, supporting and defending? What we see is shameless support for the savagery, barbarity and dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner, by the Virginia Prison Official done extra-judicially of course. Because no one none of these fingers crossed behind their backs winking and nodding, giving approval to the antebellumnesque depraved professional behavior of the Virginia prison official will dare stand up in the space of Virginia's General Assembly and declare such will be the treatment of the Prisoner in The Commonwealth of Virginia as a matter of fact, we see the opposite. What we see is the pro forma, perfunctory kabuki theatre, which quite frankly is fraud and deceit perpetrated on the Virginia voter, under the guise of "oversight" by our Virginia politicians, specifically the Republican Legislator. Because when the executive Virginia prison official, presents themselves in the space of Virginia's General Assembly, to be held to account for any myriad number of objectionable professional behavior and practices, which for example, the state of Virginia Prisoners self-immolating, yup setting themselves on fire, should be the first grilling. Instead what we are subjected to is obsequious deference to the Virginia Prison Official, with one of those toothless, "on the one hand or on the other", soliloquies framed specifically for the obligatory clip on the local News for consumption by the Republican's rural constituents, representing Bonafide's on that perpetually exploited farcical "law and order", which by the way is the Virginia Republican politicians' sure fire route to winning elections. None of what I'm saying is insight, any critically thinking Virginian, is thoroughly and comprehensively aware of this unbefitting the aspirations of Virginia's circumstance of our human condition. The thing is how do we change it. Its simple if no one is omniscient, notwithstanding the late Arizona Senator John McCain's assertions, and I paraphrase, that we make our own history which I suppose requires omniscience, then its time this war on the Virginia prisoner is confronted with, that simple honesty of, the well fed amongst us cannot keep on supporting this intellectual-liberal fraud of mocking not merely the Social Contract and its constant Sisyphean squaring of the circle, but the fact that just as we challenge the clay feet sophistry of our ancients as petty charlatanism, along with recognizing that irony of Donald Trump's declaratory speech, announcing his quest for the U.S. Presidency, with the propaganda of Mexico not sending its best to the U.S, but and I paraphrase, deviants, which as I've noted its irony, because his critique accurately described the sort of initial European who set sail on those rat infested and leaky galleons, projecting European Monarch power seizing the patrimony of those they encountered. If we want a honest accounting of our human capital which actually means ourselves then, the Virginia prison official, has to come to terms with, one for example, as the current Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, former Wise County, Circuit Judge, Chadwick Dotson, that savagery and barbarism are always that whether done by a convicted Virginian occupying a Virginia prison cell or done by the Virginia prison official professionally, it is still sadism and notwithstanding the sophistry of personal and individual responsibility, The Commonwealth in its presumptions of Sovereignty commissions of savagery "is just that savagery".

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

THE JOHNNY COME LATELYISM TENDENCY OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA IS A RETROGRADE INDULGENCE By William Thorpe

"Johnny Come Lately" is colloquial for that tendency to assume that, nothing existed or nothing has ever been done, till the all knowing, all seeing, Johnny does it. A classic example of a Johnny Come Lately is the current President of The United States, Donald Trump, which I've termed, Johnny Come Latelyism and another form we see Johnny Come Latelyism is in the Sisyphean, "reinvention of the wheel" and irrespective of context, it is always a retrograde indulgence and we are seeing it rear its idealistic head in this push to reform Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, its Virginia Department of Corrections and Prison System. I begin: The Virginia Prison System is as everything else a part and expression of Virginia Society. It isn't insulated or excluded, despite the work and effort by the prison official and the Politician ally to suggest such. So if Prison is a part and expression of Society then "CHANGES", in Society under whatever term one is satisfied with, be it REFORM or REVOLUTION, impacts Prison. At this juncture I need to say this, everything in Society is POLITICS, because for obvious reasons we have been confused to think and act as if certain social facts are not within its ambit, hell even to those who feel the term," REFORM " is a sell out, because its within the parameters of the Two-Party System or politics and stand on the purity of "REVOLUTION", are either blissfully clueless or insidiously and willfully ignorant, because, CHANGE period, regardless of vernacular and characterization is POLITICS, hell have we forgotten von CLAUSEWITZ's encapsulation that something as crass as " WAR" still "IS POLITICS BY ANOTHER MEANS". So what are we talking about when we act like the conditions and circumstances necessitating our polemic of reform of The Virginia Department of Corrections isn't primarily and crassly POLITICS?. Which the consequences and results of this emerging antipathy towards grasping that politics is the driver of the mess that is the entire construct of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure is this Johnny Come Latelyism tendency as a retrograde indulgence and the only beneficiaries of Johnny Come Latelyism are the subjects of reform polemics. What is striking is Virginia is relatively in the vanguard of reform polemics Nationally and thats no small feat.

Yes, Virginia is in the vanguard of reform polemics Nationally. But thats not the point. I continue: Too many good people, since my imprisonment in 1980 Black and White Guys, stood up and are still standing up against this Virginia injustice machine, that takes off its mask and reveals drooling fangs every time it imposes an extra-judicial, an unlawful dictate through its Virginia prison official on the Virginia prisoner. Too many came into the Virginia prison system with relatively short sentences and in response and reaction to the savage and barbarous treatment of the Virginia prison official and their sadistic urges and impulses accumulate(d) vindictive and inordinate increases on the original sentence and people you know what, each and every act by those Virginia prisoners then and the Virginia prisoner now has its cause, its determinant, its basis in the extra-judicial and above the law behavior of the Virginia prison official and its excuse by the supposed "oversight" Virginia Politician, specifically, the Virginia Republican. I challenge anyone and I mean anyone to disprove, this, I respond with access the chronicles of claims and allegations against the Virginia prison official, by the Virginia prisoner, their Families and Estates held in the innumerable law libraries and study and encounter the allegations that are clearly unbefitting those embodying office of The Sovereign Commonwealth of Virginia, yet the prevailing narrative deployed in that identical Military at War, Psychological Operations manner, enabled by Virginia mainstream media, specifically The Richmond-Times and Dispatch, maligns and accuses the Virginia prisoner.

Another form of maligning the Virginia prisoner, is Johnny Come Latelyism and this indulgence is another instance of that adage, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", because those guilty of Johnny Come Latelyism are besides their mindlessness, good intended. What I mean by 'mindlessness', is simply this, they haven't factored in with its requisite seriousness, or given the appropriate thought to the fact that the Virginia Prisoner is first and foremost in the activist trenches and on the advocacy front lines, because all immediate reactions and responses by the Virginia prisoner to the lawless behavior and practices of the Virginia prison official constitute ACTIVISM and ADVOCACY, despite that always present violence from the prison official. I recall a 1998 incident at Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, where the "gun man", or officer with the gun shot a prisoner in the shower, in A-Building, with rubber bullets on the pretext that the prisoner was refusing to leave the shower. Now the shower is about the size of one of those porta pottys, with a steel gate and if a prisoner was actually refusing to be handcuffed and shackled to leave not just a shower stall, but anywhere at Red Onion they have their procedures, which summary rubber bulleting a prisoner sure as hell isn't it. I cite this anecdote, to underscore the fact that its dismaying when there is a level of sentiment bubbling and gurgling among some of those who advocate for us prisoners out there in the free world that the Virginia prison landscape was a zombie waste land of mutes without agency, simply at the bigoted whim and its sadistic fantasy. Yes the Virginia prison official embodies the bigoted whim, with sadistic fantasies that are dementedly acted and carried out, but Virginia prisoners haven't simply been, as one Mother of a Virginia prisoner recently put it, her son is not a "punching bag".

 As I've been making the point, the issue of Prison Reform and holding the prison official Accountable is primarily, Political. Because prison and imprisonment in Virginia as Nationally serves a core Social Contract function that has nothing to do with the "justice" myth and narrative which the Governing status quo, would rather leave undefined so subjects or the people of Virginia can fill in that proverbial blank, using their ignorance's and biases as that controlling "self-check", mechanism, that is fundamental and a priori to the political-economy and it's Social Contract. Historically, the Virginia prisoner has behaved as all natural entities when subjected to impunity. Over the course of The Commonwealth of Virginia applying its subordinating function in pursuit of its core interest, which it tried its maintenance with the tactic of secession and the eventual Civil War. Minds and Hearts have risen and clearly stated," not in our name", which the Virginia prisoner as subject has in constructive, destructive, positive and negative expressions also echoed. I say this to give value, to those Virginia prisoners, who cracked open the door on reform in Virginia in the case LANDMAN v. ROYSTER 333 F.Supp. 621, which was so comprehensive that Virginia's status quo couldn't even pull the stunt of appeal. Nonetheless The Supreme Court of The United States, couldn't leave The Old Dominion flailing, so it came to as we expect, status quo's defense, with a disclaimer in a subsequent ruling in COX v. COOK 420 U.S. 734, as cited in RUSSELL v. DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS 530 F.2d 969, stating that the determinations in the LANDMAN case are limited to the EASTERN DISTRICT of Virginia.

The meaning and consequence was unambiguous, Virginia prisoners in the Eastern District had the benefit and privilege of the reformative ruling of the LANDMAN v. ROYSTER case, while those in the Western District didn't, yup thats the idealistic and conditional nature of our Nations jurisprudence and we still see it today, in the same Courts ruling delegitimizing affirmative action in the Nations Colleges, Universities with the inevitable spill over into private businesses, yet The same Supreme Court that gave us the anti-affirmative ruling said its okay for the Military to continue using affirmative action. So the Court in one instance delegitimizes the history necessitating affirmative action, while in another instance it validates the same history it relatively and virtually mocked. I've went all into this affirmative action anecdote because its exemplary and illustrative of this social fact of prison, imprisonment, the reform motive and the accountability dialectic and its emergence in Johnny Come Latelyism. Now I continue: I understand the maxim and I paraphrase, if you can't or won't speak for yourself, someone else will and that is the work of my writing. What Johnny Come Latelyism idealistically but insidiously does is, it, thoughtlessly and naively, discounts and dismisses that very springboard it is leaping into its prerogatives of action from. I'm originally from Detroit, I came to Virginia ,Norfolk to be exact in 1980, when I was locked up on armed robbery. I was in Norfolk City Jail in 1980 when it was taken over by a number of guys. I entered the Virginia Department of Corrections at its Powhatan or State Farm Receiving Unit in August 1980.I lasted around 5 days in C-3, before an incident with prison officials during clothing exchange the Saturday of my first weekend, landed me in Solitary Confinement, till I was released back into C-3 after months in solitary because a multiday protest occurred on the main prison's General Population and they needed the cell or cage I was in to detain others. This multiday protest brought out The State Police and I think the National Guard. So here I was 20 years old in Virginia, experiencing Norfolk's SWAT team storm the 7th floor of the Jail, then in prison I m watching heavily armed elements of Virginia's Organized Violence encircling the prison's fences.

This isn't a proto-Autobiographical work. The point however is engraving facts on our terms, that on all fronts of Virginia's status quo's deployment of its organized violence, within its justice infrastructure and prisons, Virginia Prisoners, Black, White, male and female, contrary to the revisionism of Johnny Come Latelyism,"Spoke", Yeah that same speech resistance to impunity, historically has always asserted, along with its consequence. Some martyred, others having physical and mental health failings with this salient point, that with the exception of those sentenced to die, when Virginia used the death penalty, no Virginia prisoner is sent to prison to die due to prison official machinations or lose their mind or contract a debilitating disease--yet, thats par course and the nature of the prison official's "orderly operations". At this juncture I resurrect AHOTO TAYSIR MULAZIM aka HAROLD CARPENTER. Ahoto passed on March 2, 2022 after The Virginia Department of Corrections kept him locked up for over 40 years and promptly upon his release in 2022, his nephew allegedly shot and killed him, the understanding is it was over an argument. Now here is the crux, his nephew might have been the one who shot and killed him, but the reality is the Virginia Department of Corrections and its prison official, killed Ahoto, just as they have killed and continue to kill Virginians they imprison. Ahoto was born on August 13, 1963 in Richmond, Virginia and he was from the same Neighborhood, Churchill, which Virginia Delegate Rae Cousins, eloquently spoke of in her 2024 TED TALK at GREENROCK CORRECTIONAL CENTER.I met Ahoto at C-Building [The Solitary Confinement Max security Unit] of The Virginia State Penitentiary aka The Wall. He had a weird funny name none of us had ever heard, this was in 1982 and we'd joke him over his name and he'd respond with he had a comb if I needed one. I had just started growing dreads, just as his name was alien to us, dreads were also alien to him and the rest of the fellows. Remember this was 1982 and not only were the average fellow, black or white ignorant to Reggae music and Bob Marley, but they were also ignorant to the entire Rastafarian cosmology, Marcus Garvey, Black Nationalism, Emperor Haile Selassie and Pan-Africanism. Yes there was deep knowledge and grasp of The Black Panthers, of course Frantz Fanon, George Jackson, The Nation of Islam, The Moors, The Five Percenters and of course, both Prince Hall and Albert Pike's Scottish Masonry. There was also recognition of the writings of my fellow Detroiter, Donald Goines, then Iceberg Slim, Charlie Avery Harris all precursors to the Urban Legend litreature monetization. I have went a bit into it like this to paint a bit of the formative culture of Ahoto, for one his Father named him based on his grasp of Black Self-Determination and the last thing the Virginia prison official then wanted was to contend with opposition to that impunity dynamic of "do as I say, not as I do". For a bit of context, let's remember that Virginia was Capital of The traitorous Confederacy. The Virginia State Penitentiary not only held Vice-President Aaron Burr but was in existence during the Civil War. Ahoto is illustrative of us, we are imprisoned at early ages, subjected to conditions and circumstances that breed resistance. There are too many names to be resurrected, for example, Malik Akbar Wakil aka Randolph Flueller aka Cup Cake, Rico Frederick Holiday aka Doc Holiday, Roscoe Lawson aka 'Scoe, Donald " Tree" Sutherland. Paul "Gum Gum" Coomer and lastly but not least, Joe Giarratano. All of these guys have passed and all spent inordinate amount of time not just in Virginia prisons but Solitary Confinement. For example Tree aka Don Sutherland and I were in Norfolk City jail together, in 1980.We were in The Wall, together, at Mecklenburg, State Farm's M-Building together, when I finally got released from long term solitary confinement in 1992, from State Farm's M-Building and I was sent to Augusta Correctional Center Tree was already there. These were exceptionally good people, who got maligned by the Virginia prison official because they resisted, meaning they, we had the temerity to require the Virginia prison official comply with their very own procedures and policies. What I'm saying is analogous to a patient in a hospital put in the position of having to require Nurses and Medical professionals do their job. Let me say this about Joe Giarratano, Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison had just opened in 1998 and Virginia brought him back from the Illinois Prison System where in typical Virginia fashion the holdover slave overseers had shipped him to. Joe and Ahoto were on the A-2 and 3 rec yard and I was on the A-4 and 5 rec-yard, we were yelling at each other over the wall and steel girder roof like enclosure, then I heard Joe yelling at the "gun man", prison official holding the gun, who was up in the A-1, 2, 3 gun window," that if you wanna shoot him, you'll have to shoot through me". What was going on was the gun man had issues with Ahoto and he wanted to fabricate a story, in order to shoot Ahoto and he thought, because Joe was White and Ahoto was Black, Joe would look the other way. But he was mistaken, we were all at Mecklenburg, Ahoto and I, we were in solitary confinement, Joe was on death row and on many occasions when the Mecklenburg officials would literally drag him on the floor from C-Pod of Building 1 (which was the death row-pod) we were the ones who would go to his aid by letting the Officials know that, no they couldn't mistreat him like that and this went for all of us. A many times Joe was my neighbor and I would be in solidarity with defending him. So his defense of Ahoto on that Red Onion rec yard was just our solidarity culture. Let me again stress this everyone I've listed in this work is dead. There are just as many alive who have the same solidarity cultural ethos and forthrightness and another motivator of this Johnny Come Latelyism work has been my encountering advocates and activist, who do speak for us, the Virginia prisoner and I'm as much a Virginia prisoner despite my exile to the Texas prison system because I'm still under the jurisdiction of The Commonwealth of Virginia, bad mouthing, speaking dismissively of these remaining guys who have literally bled in the trenches of activism against the Virginia injustice machine in Virginia's prison cages. I've heard guys character assassinated by those in the free world, without the grasp that in our human condition, there are no Saints, save the loyalty of purpose. As I bookend this work, I want to again resurrect the irrepressible Marie Deans, a voice for us, who I spoke of in length, in a work also on Elizabeth Alexander. Once again yes Virginia is in the vanguard of Prison reform polemic Nationally and there isn't higher work than our own critique for ourselves.

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

WHAT IF VIRGINIA JURYS STARTED BEHAVING AS VIRGINIA'S PAROLE BOARD AND SAID, DUE TO IDEOLOGICAL REASONS IT WON'T CONVICT, WHICH IS WHAT THE PAROLE BOARD CLAIMS, WHEN IT REFUSES TO GRANT PAROLE By William Thorpe

Look people, "GOVERNMENT IS OF,BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE" and nothing spells "people" more than "People of The Jury" right and what makes us "people" are, "Problems" because we find approximate and relative solutions to problems, till a more mature and constructive solution emerges. Now there aren't more problems than the recreated events and perspectives a typical Virginia jury is confronted with in its course of life and is expected to satisfy and bring to life, that Constitutional mandate of Due Process of Law before seizure of ones, Life, Liberty and Property and people from all demographics of Virginia Society find themselves delving into generalities and particulars, that are so alien and diametrically at odds with their own lives and existence, of their fellow Virginians as they sit in judgement and they do it, to a myriad of outcomes with the constant of second guessing. It's naive to assume that there isn't antipathy towards the Commonwealth's Attorney and what the Office represents from some of those on the jury, yet rarely do we encounter the speech from a Virginia jury member articulating antipathy and its ideological formulations as obstacle to the performance of their "Government is of, by and for The People", duty, which we can conclusively state isn't because of the appx.$30 Virginia jury per Diem. Now let's contrast that," Government is of, by and for the people" jury duty, with the "Government is of, by and for the people", job of The Virginia Parole Board, first of all members of the Virginia Parole Board are exceptionally and extraordinarily well paid, some to the tune of $197,000+.Secondly the position is a partisan one or political appointment by whoever the Virginia Governor is at the time, meaning of course its patronage, but that in itself isn't contentious or corrupt, but its a fact we must be aware of. Thirdly and here is where we get into the fundamental and intrinsic corruption of Virginia's parole system.

Virginia Parole is a speculative and subjective process directed at an objective anticipation. So to say it as the Courts have said it, "Virginia law give rise to a limited interest in consideration for parole, but not in parole release" THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, which Virginia is under it's Jurisdiction, pretty much validated the speculative nature of Virginia's parole gimmick in the case BURNETTE v. FAHEY 687 F.3d 171, what however is important about the outcome of the case, is Judge GREGORY'S dissent or his disagreement with his fellow Judges who ruled against Virginia Prisoners. Now the reason I characterized the case as I have is the conclusion reached by those Fourth Circuit Judges in the BURNETTE case isn't surprising when they are getting their cue from the gambits of Virginia law makers or politicians in Virginia Parole Law, see: VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-134 through 165.1.Now here is where I reiterate, that politics is law and to reform anything, there has to be a command of the status quo politics. Secondly politics and it's undergirding law is narrative and the corrupted sophistry. So if Virginia's parole scheme is a corrupt sophism, meaning a dictatorship of ideology that despite, etymology is devoid of ideas and the subsequent anticipation, then it is farcical, yeah that classic veneer of enlightenment, progress and civilization, while the maggoty underbelly seethes, writhes and squirms. Only the insidious and delusional will defend adjudicative certitude as such to maintain a modicum of intellectual honesty or that recognition that yes the human condition can sanction without the hubris of "judgement", and in pursuit of," the center must hold "integrity of the Social Contract, our enlightened ancients devised those release valves of, Parole, Probation Pardons, Clemencies and Commutations as a re-ignition of that necessary "faith", which The Schizophrenic in Chief, Thomas Jefferson attested to in the Declaration of Independence....." all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed".So it was with this understanding that Parole and its progeny are intended to pacify. But when the animating motive of the politicization of the parole mitigant is the reactionary's short sightedness which consequently is at the expense of the process and enlightenment of the Social Contract.

Currently Virginia's Parole Board is blatantly and brazenly saying to the Virginia tax payer who pays their six figure pay check, that as inconceivably as it sounds, their "ideology" takes precedence over the expected unconditionality of their job performance. I paraphrase comments by Patricia West, chair of The Virginia Parole Board, that she will never agree to grant parole to cases where individuals have committed serious violent crimes, which quite frankly is fraud, because she is being paid to do a job according to Virginia law and not her whim and caprice and as a matter of fact there are a number of Virginia prisoners convicted for doing the same thing, the Virginia Parole Board is doing, which is collecting a paycheck, while refusing to do the job they swore as officials of the Sovereign Commonwealth of Virginia to the best of their ability perform. Once again imagine a Virginia Juror displaying the Patricia West indulgence? The other aspect to the Virginia Parole process is the mockery it makes of certain fundamental truths of Virginia and The U.S. Constitution. So constitutionally, no one should be tried for the same charge twice, because its a "Double Jeopardy", but the Virginia prisoner is double jeopardized, like this, let's say there is a prison rule infraction, which after the prison hearing and punishment the rule infraction is processed by the Commonwealth Attorney for that County as a violation of Virginia's law, the prisoner is subsequently convicted and again punished. Now on the surface you would say thats a classic situation of double jeopardy, but our Nations Court system says, no. The initial prison rule infraction and subsequent hearing is CLASSIFIED AND DEFINED as an ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS as opposed to the Commonwealth Attorney's Court process. Okay let's concede the logic of the Administrative and a Court proper process, now here is where the mockery of the constitutional prohibitions against being double jeopardized comes in, which is also an end run, because the prisoner is harmed and impacted by the effect both processes have on his parole prospects. However, what I want to stress again are the fact that all of these are political questions that require the electoral process. The question of Parole in Virginia is part of the war being waged against Virginia prisoners and it has nothing to do with how to repair harm to the Virginia victim of crime.

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