Governor Glenn Youngkin's Dismissal of Harold Clarke, Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections is Admission That Republicans Same Ole Same Ole Exploitation of Virginia's Prisoners Isn't Working By William Thorpe

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It's without argument that Virginia's reactionaries regardless of political party have historically seized speculative political power by exploiting the accused, the convicted and prisoner of Virginia's criminal justice system and its present incarnation in Glenn Youngkin and his Republicans Cartelesque cabal are no different. The antagonism presented by social deviancy, malbehavior and criminal violations is a value of the human social dialectic, anticipating response and in a healthy society the response labors towards social assessment. In other words it's one thing for one 16 yr. old out of 100K to get caught up in the criminal justice system, that's an anomaly or an outlier, but when that one teenager is generationally compounded, it then becomes systemic and if the response is the same ole same ole, another devoid of social assessment then we can only conclude that the same ole same ole, is deliberate, purposeful, serving an interest that we see revealed in the classic refrain of vote for me because I'm tough on crime. The historicity of the tough on crime on phenomenon is well documented and I won't waste the readers time with another recount, but as it relates to this work Glenn Youngkin and his Republican Cartelesque cabal seized its refrain during the 2022 elections. The question isn't whether Youngkin's electoral success was due to its bigotry, but what is indisputable is Youngkin attempted to exploit its appeal to his reactionary base as mechanism and means of solidifying his Republican Cartelesque cabal's seizure of speculative political power in Virginia and in 2023 due to a one after the other sequence of developments attesting to the level of cognitive maturity of The Virginia Tax Payer, it backfired and the nail in the Republican coffin was The Supreme Court of Virginia's rejection and repudiation of the petty dictatorial presumptions of his co- conspirator Attorney General Jason Miyares work to undo prison reforms demanded by The Virginia Tax Payer and done during Democratic Party control of the Legislature. Harold Clarke as Director of Virginia's prison system presided over an entire gamut of prison official misdeeds, violations and evils and he was rewarded and lauded by both Republicans, Democrats and most importantly Virginia's corporate and status quo media. Virginia prisoners have been dying and violated under conditions Harold Clarke and his designees created for over a generation and not once were eyes batted at the charnel house existence of Virginia's concentration camps, till this group of Youngkin Republicans realized that Virginia isn't as gullible to that same ole same ole narrative of crime this and prisoner that because the memory is fresh of that 1995 scam by another Republican Governor, George Allen who abolished parole as gambit to provide former South West Virginia coal miners with jobs confining black, brown and poor white bodies from Virginia's cities.

The cover Glenn Youngkin expected he'd have by repeating that tried, tired and well-worn gambit, of exploiting the Virginia prisoner and the criminal justice system existed but it hasn't been enough to lull these mature and wide awake Virginians who are saying enough is enough with the ad nauseum scape goating of their loved ones under the law and order rubric that only works when it serves the interests of reactionaries and as soon as it begins to smell as a liability, it's foot soldiers as Harold Clarke are conveniently dismissed. Scores of Virginia prisoners died under the tenure of Harold Clarke, hundreds were abused by denial of outside exercises, food, medical care, showers, which are all violations of law. The ACLU of Virginia, Solitary Watch, Human Rights Watch, to name a few along with The Federal Court system and in a limited manner, Virginia State Courts all have to one degree and another documented horrendous assaults on the Virginia prisoner by the Virginia prison official, under Harold Clarke's leadership. But as soon as Youngkin and his Republican Cartelesque cabal sensed that Harold Clarke was an albatross around their 2023 electoral presumptions, he was dismissed. So, we are expected to say thank you our Honorable Governor? Nah, Gov. Youngkin this aint that Virginia. We understand that if we are to achieve our just society, including the social assessment necessary for justice and accountability, no narrative eludes interrogation.

William Thorpe

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