PETA Was Loud, Vociferous And Aggressive When Michael Vick Was Accused Of Abusing Dogs. Well The Virginia Department Of Corrections Is Accused Of Worse By William Thorpe

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In response to the recent news, that a Virginia prisoner had stabbed a prison dog, PETA said and I paraphrase, something to the effect that Virginia prison officials should protect their dogs. No one will argue against caring for and protecting, not only dogs but the responsibility of owning pets and animals in general. PETA, does good work but that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't at times become transiently idealistic and this is one of those times where it has. This alleged dog stabbing incident isn't one of those "if Mohammed can't go to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Mohammed" aphorisms, where someone is just hell bent on harming a dog. For too long our leaders have played that three card Monte game of, who is responsible, who is accountable, what does transparency within the formulation and application of governance and governing mean and the reality is its all enabled and permitted by complicity and as it relates to the issue of a Virginia prisoner harming a prison dog, while in prison, PETA is complicit. For whatever reasons certain Virginia prison officials have decided that it made perfect sense to introduce rabid attack dogs inside the self contained and highly structured-controlled environment of the Virginia prison. Secondly according to Virginia prison operating procedure and policies those dogs would be unleashed on prisoners confined in closet sized cells, outside exercise cages and the floor of prison housing for any number of reasons and even when the deployment of the dog violated the prison and Departments operating procedure, the office of The Attorney General of Virginia would find a way to justify and defend the use despite the violation. Now PETA is well aware that The Virginia Department of Corrections uses dogs inside the confines of its prisons, against prisoners, not only as perimeter patrols of the prisons, but inside the prison, as I've already indicated even inside cells, on prisoners held in the cells. As such PETA with its singular focus on the abuse of dogs should've anticipated that deploying dogs on prisoners held in cells was a recipe for disaster along with the added fact that a majority of the prisoners those prison dogs would confront are Black people, considering Virginia's racist history of using attack dogs on and against. The point is PETA is yet to challenge the Virginia prison officials logic on use of dogs inside prisons. Just because an unelected person, engaged in one of the human conditions most speculative endeavor, that of running a prison summarily decides to dictate governmental action, that of using attack dogs on prisoners whose flesh are ripped by the drooling and snarling fangs of those dogs, shouldn't be of limits to interrogations by PETA. Michael Vick experienced to the fullest PETA's ability to exact accountability, well The Virginia Department of Corrections is worse.

By William Thorpe

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