REFORMING THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND THE BANKRUPTCY OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS OF VIRGINIA'S STATUS QUO By William Thorpe

Were anyone to objectively study Governor Glenn Youngkin's expressed reasons for his recent veto of the Bill attempting to reform The Virginia Department of Corrections solitary confinement practices, the first thing the critique will use as standard and basis is The Constitution of Virginia, which is authority under the constitution of State Rights as applied upon the supremacy of Federalism and The 9th and 10th Amendments to The United States Constitution. In other words, the formulation of The Virginia Constitution as it defines The Social Contract we are subject to, is contradictory and at the same time antagonistic which then subsequently reveals and emphasizes the relic bankruptcy of ideas of the status quo embodied by those who will presume leadership over us, not of us but over us. Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed the bill attempting to reform Virginia's use of solitary confinement, not as expression and affirmation of some newly gleaned understanding with its enabling obligation of realizing a more developed Virginian as implicit aspiration of the Virginia Constitution, but as another oblivious episodic exercise in this seemingly perpetual and systemic insanity of the status quo's inability which is more like an unwillingness to cast of Virginia's antebellum ideas. Solitary Confinement, is antithetical to being human and that is not a perspective but fact, considering that the human being is intrinsically social. Government and governance isn't a mere crass dictatorship of suppositions, stuck in a simplistic loop of speculations as espoused by, John Locke, in his, FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS OF CAROLINA'S, through Thomas Jefferson and his NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, or George-Louis Leclerc and his HISTOIRE NATURELLE, with all of this mess animating, Albert Priddy in the role of Superintendent of The State Colony at Lynchburg, Virginia along with the infamous activities of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and Dean Harvey Ernest Jordan, to where current prison officials of The Virginia Department of Corrections are shameless legates of those retrograde governing practices, which as defunct and repudiated those ideas are, we find ourselves confronted with Governor Glenn Youngkin endorsing and resurrecting them as "positively progressive" and necessary facts for The Commonwealth with his veto of reform of the use of solitary confinement in Virginia. This unwillingness to acknowledge that reforming The Virginia Department of Corrections is necessary reminds me of the sort of corruption presented by the "idea" that religion particularly evangelicals and Catholics are deprived of speech, when the fact of the matter is religious speech is dictatorial. How do we debate with...."and God said"? Religious speech declares that there is nothing to understand, everything is, you either have faith and accept. Now speech as we understand it, is what can motivate a Governor Youngkin to veto reform of a social fact, a social fact that is at odds with being human. A social fact that requires transparency and accountability as we challenge the fact that it is corrupt and extra-judicial.

By William Thorpe

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