ONE OF THE INSIDIOUS AND UNDEMOCRATIC WAYS VIRGINIA'S LEGISLATURE HAS CEDED THE DEMOCRATIC WILL AND RULE OF LAW TO THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.... By William Thorpe

When government doesn't want to do something or when government isn't guided by the common sense of knowledge and understanding, but instead expresses the amorphous, "values", which is euphemism for the illiteracy of zealotry and ideological dogma as guide, it gives us that maxim, 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely', revealing that natural human propensity towards corruption. What I mean by corruption is this, the Virginia legislature has a clear understanding of its purpose and function, just as individuals we have ours and when we undermine it, that is corruption, because we have deliberately impeded the intent of function and that is what the Virginia legislature has done with its purpose and function relative to (as it concerns this work) The Virginia Department of Corrections by imposing conditions on its legislative ability to reform The Department by permitting veto of the reform through the trick of having The Department "approve" of the reform under the logic that it doesn't increase or add on to the Department's budget. Prisoners are imprisoned because of court or legal process of a conviction of violating a criminal statute which in most cases has nothing to do with the character of the convicted prisoner. But corruption is squarely an indictment of character, it sabotages humanness, it kills the essence of the human condition, by specifically betraying intrinsic "faith" in Virginia society and its Social Contract. Because as "We The People "we see through the tricks and gambits executed by our leaders pursuing the double standard of law and how others, as in this case the prison official, being above it and no amount of scapegoating the prisoner can conceal the fact, to quote George Orwell in Animal Farm, "some animals are more equal than others" as truism undermining the rule of law and no amount of the cruelty of state organized violence redeems the betrayal of social trust and the Virginia status quo understands it even more comprehensively than I can state it. What the Virginia status quo has settled on is the logic of cost benefit analysis. In other words, if governance is simply reduced to maintaining control. Then it doesn't make sense to invest in The People. Corruption thrives in the absence of scrutiny and that is what the Virginia legislature has bet on. That as it concerns prison issues no one cares, which speaks to the ignorance of our legislature, because as any cursory study of the human condition will show, justice and its perversion, its corruption has always expedited reform on the reluctant status quo. See, The Bastille prison of France which was relatively vacant of prisoners yet it has become an embodying symbol of injustice, a corruption of justice and The Social Contract and a reminder that the logic of the cost benefit analysis is always indictment.

By William Thorpe

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