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Here we go again: The word coming out of, The Virginia Department Of Corrections, Red Onion State Prison or as its correctly known, Virginia's Concentration Camp. Yup a concentration camp, like those used by the British for those rebellious South African Boers, or when the Germans practiced it's use on those Namibian tribes men, before deploying it during World War II. I give this background to state: Virginia's Red Onion State Prison is just as vile, barbaric and malevolent as the above cited antecedents on all accounts. So the recent word out of Red Onion is, prisoners in its cages are attempting self immolation as protest of the extra judicial treatment meted, in the usual form of racism, abuses and all the other stunts Virginia prison officials malfeasantly and unoriginally do. To get all into critiquing the extra judicial impulses of the Virginia prison official, is to indulge in that game of complicity. I say complicity because who amongst the Virginia polity isn't aware of the savagery of the Virginia prison official? Hell even fetuses in the womb experience recoil from its shocking accounts, not because of the depravity of the deed, but because the perpetrators are Virginia Government Officials, PRISON OFFICIALS, who have swore to uphold and comply with LAW, yet are its par none violators. So no, my focus isn't to simply give another recount of the prison officials misdeeds and savagery or for the umpteenth, denounce the blight on humanities push for progress and civilization, the existence of Red Onion State Prison, as Virginia's concentration camp which by the way a former Virginia Governor dementedly declared was "his monument", another proof of how Red Onion State Prison only perverts. My focus is to remind us, WE THE PEOPLE, that all that is compromised by our elected and political leaders, which we see played out and by the way isnt limited to the barbarity of the prison system and JUSTICE INFRASTRUCTURE are results of our failure to realize the absolute value of our speech. SPEECH is everything, silence is speech, activity is speech, agency of our humanness is quintessential speech.What I'm saying isn't novel insight nor do I presume it. I just want to remind, all the Mothers,Wives, Sisters, Fathers, Brothers, Children, families, friends of Virginia prisoners. I also speak to those harmed, victims of alleged crimes and deviant behavior, because the conventional narrative is the speech and interest of those harmed by criminality and deviant behavior are at odds with that of the alleged perpetrator, convicted and imprisoned and the fact of the matter is, its false and an exploited insidious dichotomy, because without the speech of the victim of crime presented for itself within the full panoply of the social contract, what we have are politicians compounding the harm by exploiting the event, when what the crime victim demands is, it shouldn't have happened. We can't get at those basic and fundamental facts if what we accept are sanctimony and hypocritical speech from our elected political leaders and representatives.Virginia's Social Contract or the Politics is a fact of SPEECH. Every aspect of Virginia's establishment is speech. All shortcomings and governmental failures, i.e the savagery of the prison official are results of speech. My point is this, we have the resources to hold the Virginia prison official accountable. So, for example, when you call into those myriad talk shows, exposing the savagery of the prison official and the host attempts to dismiss you with that silly flip of prison isn't this or that, remind them, that THE PRISON OFFICIAL SHOULDN'T BREAK LAW EITHER.
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982
