PUBLIC SAFETY IS THE LAST EUPHEMISTIC REFUGE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF REACTION By William Thorpe

Virginia Politics and its Political-Economy, advances on and is based on two imperatives (1) Exploitation and (2) Domination. The purpose and historical-reason for Virginia as Colony was to garner wealth for its investors by exploiting its heralded resources. To accomplish the exploitation, the environment had to be dominated or controlled meaning Public Safety. Let us fast forward to Governor Glenn Youngkin's recent veto of a number of prison and criminal justice reform bills, under the sophistry and euphemistic excuse of Public Safety. The fact the bills made it to Governor Glenn Youngkin to summarily encounter the dictatorial reaction of his veto, was indicative enough of their significance to the Virginia voter who had stated, the want of the reforms, by laboring mightily to elect Democratic Representatives who would accomplish such, to which Youngkin spit in their collective faces with his veto. Only a scofflaw would ignore the fact, that Virginia's prison system, its Department of Corrections and the entire justice infrastructure demands and needs reform. Progress or Justice isn't a zero sum endeavor, where one value subjectively triumphs or wins over whatever is considered the other. Because were that the case, Virginia as Commonwealth, as entity wouldn't even exist, because its progress contrary to myth, which are no more than conventional lies hasn't been borne on any value, any morality save that of development and the interactive equitable space carved within the compelling tensions of its Social Contract struggles and that always requires the correcting honesty of reform. To dismiss this fact with veto, as Governor Youngkin indulged in, is and has always been the historical Achilles vulnerability of the dictator and its presumptions. There is nothing settled with Virginia's ideas of justice. There isn't any "Black Letter",anything, especially when the subjective of The Governor cannot and will not set aside arrogance and recognize that, if progress is development without monopolistic and farcical claims to ideological supremacy, then the only recognizable facts are what we know to be idealistic and impractical because of their failures, i.e Virginia Republicans in 1995 abolished parole as the end all to the instance of crime, yet in 2024 not only are we told that crime is the major issue, implying abolishing parole was a failure, but again, Republicans who claimed to know it all in 1995 with their parole stunt are again telling us they know better with veto of ideas that haven't even been tried. Therefore, the reformation of an impracticality is the pursuit of good governance,which is also a recognition of the adage, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome, which is what Governor Glenn Youngkin ask of us with his vetoes.What is striking and revelatory of the vetoes is the unapologeticness, because besides exploiting the Public Safety gambit,Youngkin makes no bones that his veto is ideological and it has nothing to do with what's in the developmental interest of Virginia.What's in the developmental interest of Virginia, what is progressive for Virginia is the recognized and practical honesty, that imprisoned Virginians whose condition, the vetoed reforms were intended to address will return to society and subjecting them to the gratuitous barbarism of Virginia's current imprisonment scheme is indefensible and cannot even be justified on the opportunity metric of cost benefit analysis.

By William Thorpe

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