No one likes the rule breaker. Virginia's prison cages are full of those who summarily responded to personal violations (which is their sovereign right) but as members of the social contract, such right is transferred and surrendered to the collective as laws of the Commonwealth. No one likes the thief, even as Jesus Christ ascribed value to "the thief in the night" (Matthew 24:43-44). I begin with this, let me add one more anecdote, the Nations founding Fathers, specifically, the 56, who signed the Declaration of Independence with oath, ["And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor"]. beginning with John Hancock to Georgia's, George Walton. All, of em, every last one were petty crass criminals, traitors from the vantage and position of Great Britain, who they rebelled against and there is nothing more fundamental a crime than the relativity of treason which is what the 56 declarators of the Nations Independence committed, but to quote James Clavell in SHOGUN, "there is no excuse for rebellion.....there's one if you win" [pp.1147] and the 56 signers of The Declaration of Independence won. As such exist eternally as historic paragons of virtue, totems of quintessential self-determination. These anecdotes stand as reminder and basis of why Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the prison system requires reform as the sunflower follows the arc of the Sun. Because reactionaries as Jason Miyares in his role as attorney general of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for whatever reason would rather we forget and gloss over the fact, deviance and criminality or rule breaking are organic facts of the dialectic of the human condition. A couple of days ago, Jason Miyares sent the entire Virginia General Assembly a polical tract in pursuit of the typical tough on crime scapegoating of the Virginia prisoner. To excerpt some of what attorney general Jason Miyares sent, "Recent history of Earned Sentence Credit Legislation prior to 2020, as then set forth in Code sec.53.1-202.3,The Commonwealth maintained as part of its sentence credit system a longstanding truth-in-sentencing rule whereby all inmates sentenced to serve on felonies would serve at least 85% of their sentences......Although the sentence credit system, as amended excludes many violent felonies. It alarmingly permits inmates to earn the enhanced earned sentence credits......"(Jason Miyares) Notwithstanding the disinformation of Jason Miyares, tract. What I want to focus on is, what social contract dynamic is animating Jason Miyares? Because for example there are real reasons, why the likes of William Wilberforce, Frederick Douglas to name a couple opposed chattel slavery or why Cesare Beccaria critiqued crime and punishment. There are reasons why participant administrators in the modern American prison experiment as Robert W. Dumond write it's exposé or why prison jurisprudence is a mockery of The United States Constitution and Virginia law. Virginia's scheme of awarding "good time" or credits applicable to a prison sentence are affirmative recognition by the people, yes the Commonwealth that even Solomonic wisdom factors in the nuance of causality. But the Miyares of Virginia would rather dictate to the Mother of the convicted and in extension the victim of crime what is Justice at the expense of its distortion.
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit
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