Former Attorney General Of Virginia, Jerry Kilgore Playing God With Virginia's Parole Process By Williiam Thorpe

Recent developments in The Commonwealth of Virginia over its Parole process are another reminder that injustices and travesties are not imposed on a people but are consequences of specific facts and symbiotic circumstances. In the mid 1990's, the then Governor of Virginia, George Allen, who revealed himself to be just another crass bigot and retrograde, along with Virginia Republicans, the complicity of Virginia's main stream legacy and corporate media, The Richmond-Times and Dispatch in particular and the foot soldier labors of Jerry Kilgore, abolished Parole as a component of Virginia's justice infrastructure. The summary abolishment of parole by Virginia Republicans wasn't a result of and based on newly realized and gleaned understandings of human psychology, sociology even a begrudging acceptance of political-economic realities. But it was in pursuit of petty speculative political power and their narrow selfish interests, which Jerry Kilgore became one of its beneficiaries by becoming Attorney General and for purposes of this work he has again exploited Virginia's Parole process. 

The Social Contract vis--vis the Society it creates and structures is about Control. Virginian society and its social contract is formulated on control. This is understood. Law and a society's justice infrastructure, as such Virginia's, is about control and the operative is its 'organized violence', meaning its law and justice infrastructure of which, the prison systems' apparatus including the parole process exist for its maintenance. So when Jerry Kilgore exploited Virginia's parole process by abolishing it in pursuit of his selfish, political interest, he exacerbated what historically already was a tenuous and unstable one. Parole as component of a justice system, should stand as an expression of societal humility. But when the imperative of control, inherent to social contract as an in itself fact is corrupted by the variegated expressions of self interests, as embodied by Jerry Kilgore's, supremacist delusions, it perverts the fundamental fact of the human condition, irrespective of society. Recently we learned that Jerry Kilgore in his current role as private attorney secured parole for Mr. Elbert Smith, who was formerly imprisoned at Virginia's Greensville Correctional Center. I stand in solidarity with Mr. Smith securing parole and I'm glad that Jerry Kilgore regained his commonsense and humanity with the recognition that parole is a vital and necessary component of Virginia's justice infrastructure. What this fact reveals and exposes is the rottenness and degree of failed stateness of The Commonwealth of Virginia as a Society and it indicts Virginia Republicans abolishment of parole not as a social good but as the short sighted supremacist delusion it is.

The problem with the playing God behavior of Jerry Kilgore as it pertains to Virginia's parole process is, it undermines the very notion of society and in extension, the human being. When Jerry Kilgore and his Republican cabal removed Parole from the justice infrastructure in the mid 1990's, the motivation was crassly idealistic, a base pursuit of self interest, for political authority in itself. Regardless of how it was packaged, it had nothing to do with issues of criminality and the simple proof of this is, Republicans are still speaking of crime. Meaning parole, its existence or none has had nothing to do with crime. By securing Mr. Smith's parole, former attorney general Jerry Kilgore is acknowledging that he has had a deeper and honestly mature understanding of parole as social and justice utility and we recognize and accept it as such. The only ask we have of him is that, he now exerts and expends his energies in all things examining, reviewing and consequently reforming Virginia's Justice infrastructure, including the prison and parole process.

By William Thorpe

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