Lets Get This Straight Commonwealth of Virginia: Building Prisons isn't Indicative of a Healthy Society But A Failed State By William Thorpe

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Former Virginia Governor, George Allen revealed he was just another pathetic bigot and supremacist when he dismissed the humanity of 20-year-old S.R. Sidarth on August 2006 by slurring him as "Macaca."

Then on October 14, 2022; Governor George Allen told Dwayne Yancey of Cardinalnews.org that the existence of a prison, Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's entry into the concentration camp business was one of his "monuments." Now let this sink in a Governor of a state declaring that building a state prison, for all practical purposes, a concentration camp was his monument, a monument? But then what should we really expect of a brain whose highest function is racially slurring a brown person? S.R. Sidarth.

Lets return to Dewayne Yancey's October 14, 2022 retelling of Governor George Allen of "macaca" infamy, former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore whom Virginias rejected in his pining to become Governor and current Attorney General Jason Miyares visit to the "monument" correctly known as Virginias concentration camp, Red Onion State Prison.

I applaud Dwayne Yancey's work because he made the point, those of us who labor to expose the rotten stench of Virginias criminal justice and imprisonment scheme make. Which is the extra-judicial reality of Virginia's criminal justice and imprisonment scheme requires media complicity and Dwayne Yancey in his October 14th, 2022 was a pom pom waving booster for those specific Republican reactionaries who ply injustice masquerading as criminal justice. Because there is nothing in Mr. Yancey's October14th work that educated and enlightened the Virgina tax payer that Red Onion State Prison is nothing more than a barbaric and savage concentration camp.

Virginias Federal Court District and the court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [which Virginia is within its jurisdiction] have their dockets full and filled with case after case, of claims and allegations from the Red Onion State Prison-Concentration Camp. Each case highlighting the above the law behavior of the Red Onion guard and official.  See listing. 

• Renoir v. Angelone 1999U.S. Dist. Lexis 24258
• Shelton v. Schilling 2005 U.S. Dist. Lexis 43186
• Acevedo v. Warner 2005 U.S. Dist. Lexis 32332
• Howard v. Ray 2010 U.S. Dist. Lexis 97698
• Donohue v. Ray 2011 U. S. Dist. Lexis 65225
• Abdul-Mateen v. Phipps 2012 U.S. Dist. Lexis 23216
• Blount v. Tate 2012 U.S. Dist. Lexis 135502
• Blount v. Phipps 2013 U.S. Dist. Lexis 31760
• Blount v. Miller 2015 U.S. Dist. Lexis 42941
• Donohue v. Lambert 2015 U.S. Dist. Lexis 176622

These listed cases are just a drop in the tsunami of lawsuits Virginias concentration camp/Red Onion has generated. Each case requiring tax payer funding to defend. The same tax payer funds, had Governor George Allen concerned himself with applying to the political-economic stability, and development thereby negating the statistical inexorability of emergence at the Red Onion concentration camp of prisoners who now fill its confines. History would laud George Allen as a full all-around redeemed brain, not one that will now in perpetuity, be mocked, scorned and reviled, a prison as monument? Monuments are the Taj Mahal, The Great Pyramids of Egypt, The Great Wall of China. Monument is perspicacity. Monument and monumental are the work by prisoners who dare to take malfeasant prison officials to court and struggle to hold them accountable to the same law that allows them the privilege and trust by and of the people of Virginia including the imprisoned to even work at a prison and it sure isn't the stunt of a desk, a chair placed on a street in an exploited in every way environment, the Blackwell part of the city of Richmond to sign an abolishment of parole in Virginia under a snake oil rubric. Fast forward to 2023, Virginians are again being sold a bill of crime as euphemism. When in 1995 then Governor George Allen fueled along with the complicity of the Richmond Times-Dispatch abolished parole under the euphemism to wit the current Governor Glenn Younkin has tossed the dog whistle and a 'la the other Intellectual-Liberal Governor in Florida, Ron Desantis grabbed a bull horn         which to quote the who in the salient insight, "here comes the new boss, same as the old boss." And the frazzled and harried Virginian has understandably forgotten that the Glenn Youngkin logic, personified in 1995 by Governor George Allen that abolishing parole solves the crime question which anticipated Governor Glenn Youngkin's Executive Order number three (2022), scapegoating the parole process that exist relatively for the geriatric Virginia prisoner, never and cannot solve because its the application of divide and keep divided.

Mr. Dwayne Yancey shares: "For [Governor] Allen and [Attorney General] Kilgore (the twin brother of House Majority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Scott County), Red Onion and its counterpart, Wallens Ridge, aren't simply a necessary function of public safety, they're a source of jobs in a part of Virginia where jobs have been hard to come by.".... "here were 400 permanent jobs for each prison."

Notwithstanding the above, as soon as a function of justice as perogative of the organized violence of the state sees a primary function of itself, meaning its status quo subject, that provision, production and creation of "jobs" is a function of prison, which as retold by Dwayne Yancey, that the Red Onion concentration camp provides 400 jobs for the economically depressed Southwest Virginia       such a society is well on its way to failed state reality. Listed below are examples of the finding of the Supreme Court of the United States of the purpose and Character of, the concentration camp indicative of the failed state: 

• Fedorenko v. United States 449 US 490
• Negusie v. Holder 555 US 511
• United States v. Geiser 527 F.3d 288
• United States v. Friedrich 402 F. 3d 842
• Hammer v. Ins 195 F. 3d 836
• United States v. Szehinsky 277 f. 3d 331
• United States v. Demjanjuk 367 F.3d 623
• United States v. Hansel 439 F. 3d 850
• United States v. Mandycz 447 F.3d 951

The Supreme Court of Virginia on September 2. 2021 in the case Taylor v. Northam 300 VA. 230. What makes Taylor v. Northam germane to this work is the irony. Helen Marie Taylor et al are the plaintiffs challenging Governor Ralph Northam's authority in having the statue of Robert E. Lee or the Lee Monument removed. Theirs, the plaintiffs position is a rectionary, retrograde one sharing the same font as Governor George Allen of "Macaca" infamy declaring the Red Onion State Prison - concentration camp as one of his monuments. 

The Supreme Court of Virginia centuries removed from it's Ruffin v. Commonwealth flaing, reminded us why our ancients demanded that the sun justify its existence before the court of dialectics, with this declaration to Helen Marie Taylor et al: 

Permanent monuments displayed on public property typically represent government speech.....The Lee Monument does not express in words a particular message beyond the word "Lee" inscribed upon it, but like other monuments on government land, it "play[s] an important role in defining the identity that [the government] projects to it's [own] residents and to the outside world." The authorized presence of the Lee monument on public property is indisputably government speech made on behalf of the commonwealth."

"Public policy is defined as "[T]he collective rules, principles, or approaches to problems that affect the [c]ommonwealth or [that] promote the general good," and it more particularly pertains to "principles and standards regarded by the legislature or by the courts as being of fundamental concern to the state and the whole society" Blacks Law Dictionary 1487 (11th ed 2019). Also "Public policy acts to restrain persons from lawfully performing acts that have "a tendency to be injurious to the public welfare"....

All excerpted from Taylor v. Northam, 300 VA.230

"Public policy acts to restrain persons from lawfully performing acts that have "a tendency to be injurious to the public welfare" and George Allen's monument, the Red Onion State Prison - concentration camp, is public policy but it has been and is injurious to the public welfare. 

By William Thorpe

Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system, I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit. 

Fixing Virginia's Prison System Requires Reforming Our Biases, Prejudices and Senator Jennifer Boysko By William Thorpe

During 2022 Virginia State Senator Jennifer Boysko (D) visited 4 Virginia Prisons because as she told the BlueVirginia.US [The] "Need to address some of the challenges."

Let me at this juncture say who I am. My name is William Thorpe and the Virginia Department of Corrections exiled me on May 29th, 2019 to the Texas prison system. Prior to the exile I had been in solitary confinement at Mecklenburg Correctional Center, Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons since 1996 after a hostage incident at Nottoway Correctional Center and I'm still solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit of the Texas prison system. 

What I want to say is this. Here are some issues concerning Virginia's prison experiment and imprisonment scheme that have had media air as Senator Jennifer Boysko visited Virgina prisons in 2022.

• Will Virgina end long-term solitary confinement.
• NPR uncovered secret execution tapes from Virginia. More remain hidden
• Inmate challenge use of strip searches in state prison
• Governor [Youngkin] recommends change to parole board bill wants prosecutors to be allowed to weigh in on release decisions.
• Senator Joe Morrissey: "Perhaps I was wrong" to allow private management of state prisons. 
• Virginia Solitary Confinement Reform bill passes but without key piece sought by advocates.
• Virginia coalition says Bill language to "end" Solitary Confinement runs risk of expanding it. 

Now let me say this, do I applaud Senator Boysko walking through Virginias prisons and talking to selected prisoners, do I recognize that she states the obvious? The point however begins with, what is the social contract/compact with the commonwealth? Harold Clarke, the Director of Virginia's Department of Corrections told Boysko's colleagues that 54% of Virginia prisoners would violently reoffend were they released and it was utilized as point to disenfranchise millions of Virginians who voted for reform of Virginias imprisonment scheme in the form of earned sentence credits, Which Governor Glen Younkin and his retrograde Republicans who are perennially scared of their shadows cast from the rising sun of progress in Virginia had to impede. I say to Senator Boysko, you want to talk, gather families of prisoners and victims of crime and their families, together and lets talk the hard truths.

By William Thorpe

The Third Sunday In May Is Virginia Prisoners Day

As we at VAPAC [Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee] continue the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable it is necessary it is established that the prisoner as narrative exist independent of that colloquial supposition, which the petty tyranny of the above the law attitude of a faction of Virginia politics exploits. The Virginia Prisoners Day is a principle declaring that the Virginia prisoner is not a scape goat, a distraction and diversion to be blamed for Virginia's historic and systemic injustices. 

For This 2023, May The 21st Inaugural Virginia Prisoners Day: We State

The Commonwealth of Virginia historically has had a schizophrenic cognizance of human life. See the Virginia Thomas Jefferson's pronouncements in the United States declaration of Independence, "That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness......" even as he held enslaved hundreds of black men and women in direct contravention of his pronouncements. even as he serially raped the enslaved Sally Hemmings whom he deprived of her created equality, endowed unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

On April 17th 1861; Virginia became the 8th state whose political-economic needs and wants were structured on enslaving human beings, specifically black men and women to declare war against the united states in pursuit of its practice of enslaving human beings, a pursuit that violated the all men are created equal dicta. Again on the Virginian Thomas Jefferson imploring the witness of a "candid world" in the declaration of Independence even as he prejudiced the "candid world" by the enslavement of millions of black people.

Again in 1871, the Commonwealth of Virginia despite the repudiation of the contradiction of Dred Scott in blood and Catholic perdition of the civil war and despite the emergence of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution still pursued its rabid intoxication with enslaving human beings if not as the former social fact it would under the travesty of law and order. So in November 1871 we find the Supreme Court of Virginia dementedly declaring in the case Ruffin v. Commonwealth 62 VA. 790

"The Bill of Rights is a declaration of general principles to govern a society of freeman, and not of convicted felons and civily dead. Such men have some rights it is true, such as the law in its benignity accords to them, but not the rights of freemen. They are slaves of the state undergoing punishment for heinous crimes committed against the laws of the land. While in this state of penal servitude, they must be subject to the regulations of the institutions of which they are inmates, and the laws of the state to whom their service is due in expiation of their crimes."

What the 1871 Supreme Court of Virginia revealed is that continuum of schizophrenic cognizance of what is the Virginia prisoner we see displayed since 2021, for example by Harold Clarke Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections with his 54%  of Virginia prisoners would violently re-offend were they released       A declaration that remains unchallenged by Virginia's media.

As we mark May 21, 2023 as Virginia Prisoners Day we ask all life loving persons to join in underscoring the fact: As a society we are not redeemed when the prison official is unaccountable and above the law;

#VaPrisonersDay #MayVAThirdSunday

In Strength and Solidarity We Stand

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