Virginia It's Time To Exercise Your Referendum Rights Under Article 1 Section 2 Of The Constitution Of Virginia, To Put A Stop To Suicides, Forced Starvations At The State's Concentration Camps, By William Thorpe

The Virginia Supreme Court recently ruled in Williams v. Legere 77 Va. App. 422, "A referendum is an exercise by the voters of their traditional right through direct legislation to override the views of their elected representatives as to what serves the public interest". There isn't a more clear cut and divergent speech of what The People want from that declared in the confines of Virginia's General Assembly by the elected representatives, than on the issue of Virginia's prisons specifically and the justice infrastructure generally. (and when I say The People, I include Prisoners, those confined within the State and those its exported out of State under interstate compact and those released, but disenfranchised). Our ancients cogently and wisely have instructed that when the issue is, one encompassing, the fundamental authority of the State, it's assertion and exercise of police powers or 'organized violence', there cannot be a specific indictment but a general one.What this means is a distaste to act as if causality isn't within the historic confines of Social Contract. As an aside, the habit to ignore causality, is an inexorable operative of impunity. Not to get all into a history lesson. Prior to the civil war, 1861, the Nations prisons had a different character from the post war one that emerged, particularly after passage of The 13th amend.and it's nationalization of slavery. Pre civil war Black people weren't imprisoned and if they were, it was negligible, because the majority were chattel enslaved. It defeated the purpose of the enslavement to imprison an enslaved. But post defeat of the Confederacy and passage of the 13th amend. that purportedly outlawed slavery, prisons across the Nation saw an explosion of black prisoners, because imprisonment meant a return to what slavery meant, which was free unpaid work and the Nation needed free unpaid labor. On this character transformation of the American prisons, impunity and its above the law tendencies recreated the organic conditions of slavery which currently exist as the barbarity of prison. As it concerns Virginia, Republicans have revealed themselves to be nothing more than neo-confedrates, pining for Robert E. Lee coming down Monument Ave. so their idea of prison is just as their world view, reactionary with the requsite impunity of the prison official. Democrats on the other hand relatively and idealistically recognize that for the integrity of the Social Contract and it's maintenance as declared in Article 1 section 1, of The Constitution of Virginia a semblance of equality under law, as applied to the prison system and justice infrastructure is required. Nonetheless prisoners are politically scapegoated for access to speculative power, as such the social condition that births and creates them is maligned and exploited, thus imposing, subjecting and treating the "free" Virginian existing in those conditions just as if they were imprisoned. So this recognition for a referendum to finally bring accountability to the maladministration of The Virginia Department Of Corrections is for Virginians who understand and accept that equality under law and accountability of the prison official are a symbiosis of the self-interest necessary if they are not to be constantly and repeatedly exploited by the law and order, tough on crime machinations that breed the environment of deviance.

By William Thorpe

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