VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM AND OPPOSITION TO VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM IS NOTHING BUT THE QUICK SAND OF MINDLESSNESS By William Thorpe

I BEGIN: Every single argument Virginia Republicans wield cudgel like against Virginia society, they hypocritically endorse and affirm its existence as Operating Policy and Procedures in Virginia Prisons and, further as pseudo-Intellectual Administrative Philosophy concocted on anachronistic suppositions, that were idealistically still born in the quick sand of mindlessness. One of the more brazen and egregious examples of this is the outrage against the Covid-19, Lockdowns on the argument that the solitary confinement of people during the Covid Pandemic, harmed people on all levels, because solitary confinement of the human being goes against our very Biology. Then the vociferous protest of the Virginia Republican against the Covid Lockdown turned into the most raucous endorsement, defense and support of its use by the Virginia prison official in Virginia prisons. Then the more insidious of the Virginia Republican's behavior is the establishment of a cottage industry, underscoring and highlighting the failings and short comings of Virginia's Public Education, then turning right around and clamoring for vindictive and monstrously mindless prison sentences for economic crimes done by and perpetrated by the challenged and dysfunctional judgement of minds and hearts, subjected to and if we are to accept the Republican anti-Public Education polemic, created by public schools. If there ever was a par none mitigative force it is the anti-public schools polemic, by Republicans and their white-Evangelical foot soldier, but that's not the reality. Instead again we see the opportunity and exploitation of hypocrisy. In other words the Education provided in Virginia Public Schools is so, according to Republicans, corrupt and corrosive, yet as soon as a Virginia mind and heart displays its ills, by for example dealing drugs, that young ill formed mind is all of a sudden responsible. Then again the Virginia prisoner is imprisoned for a set period according to the due process of law. In other words there is the presumption that the Virginia prisoner will be released into "Free" Society. So what do we see the Virginia Republican, endorsing, supporting and defending? What we see is shameless support for the savagery, barbarity and dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner, by the Virginia Prison Official done extra-judicially of course. Because no one none of these fingers crossed behind their backs winking and nodding, giving approval to the antebellumnesque depraved professional behavior of the Virginia prison official will dare stand up in the space of Virginia's General Assembly and declare such will be the treatment of the Prisoner in The Commonwealth of Virginia as a matter of fact, we see the opposite. What we see is the pro forma, perfunctory kabuki theatre, which quite frankly is fraud and deceit perpetrated on the Virginia voter, under the guise of "oversight" by our Virginia politicians, specifically the Republican Legislator. Because when the executive Virginia prison official, presents themselves in the space of Virginia's General Assembly, to be held to account for any myriad number of objectionable professional behavior and practices, which for example, the state of Virginia Prisoners self-immolating, yup setting themselves on fire, should be the first grilling. Instead what we are subjected to is obsequious deference to the Virginia Prison Official, with one of those toothless, "on the one hand or on the other", soliloquies framed specifically for the obligatory clip on the local News for consumption by the Republican's rural constituents, representing Bonafide's on that perpetually exploited farcical "law and order", which by the way is the Virginia Republican politicians' sure fire route to winning elections. None of what I'm saying is insight, any critically thinking Virginian, is thoroughly and comprehensively aware of this unbefitting the aspirations of Virginia's circumstance of our human condition. The thing is how do we change it. Its simple if no one is omniscient, notwithstanding the late Arizona Senator John McCain's assertions, and I paraphrase, that we make our own history which I suppose requires omniscience, then its time this war on the Virginia prisoner is confronted with, that simple honesty of, the well fed amongst us cannot keep on supporting this intellectual-liberal fraud of mocking not merely the Social Contract and its constant Sisyphean squaring of the circle, but the fact that just as we challenge the clay feet sophistry of our ancients as petty charlatanism, along with recognizing that irony of Donald Trump's declaratory speech, announcing his quest for the U.S. Presidency, with the propaganda of Mexico not sending its best to the U.S, but and I paraphrase, deviants, which as I've noted its irony, because his critique accurately described the sort of initial European who set sail on those rat infested and leaky galleons, projecting European Monarch power seizing the patrimony of those they encountered. If we want a honest accounting of our human capital which actually means ourselves then, the Virginia prison official, has to come to terms with, one for example, as the current Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, former Wise County, Circuit Judge, Chadwick Dotson, that savagery and barbarism are always that whether done by a convicted Virginian occupying a Virginia prison cell or done by the Virginia prison official professionally, it is still sadism and notwithstanding the sophistry of personal and individual responsibility, The Commonwealth in its presumptions of Sovereignty commissions of savagery "is just that savagery".

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

THE JOHNNY COME LATELYISM TENDENCY OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA IS A RETROGRADE INDULGENCE By William Thorpe

"Johnny Come Lately" is colloquial for that tendency to assume that, nothing existed or nothing has ever been done, till the all knowing, all seeing, Johnny does it. A classic example of a Johnny Come Lately is the current President of The United States, Donald Trump, which I've termed, Johnny Come Latelyism and another form we see Johnny Come Latelyism is in the Sisyphean, "reinvention of the wheel" and irrespective of context, it is always a retrograde indulgence and we are seeing it rear its idealistic head in this push to reform Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, its Virginia Department of Corrections and Prison System. I begin: The Virginia Prison System is as everything else a part and expression of Virginia Society. It isn't insulated or excluded, despite the work and effort by the prison official and the Politician ally to suggest such. So if Prison is a part and expression of Society then "CHANGES", in Society under whatever term one is satisfied with, be it REFORM or REVOLUTION, impacts Prison. At this juncture I need to say this, everything in Society is POLITICS, because for obvious reasons we have been confused to think and act as if certain social facts are not within its ambit, hell even to those who feel the term," REFORM " is a sell out, because its within the parameters of the Two-Party System or politics and stand on the purity of "REVOLUTION", are either blissfully clueless or insidiously and willfully ignorant, because, CHANGE period, regardless of vernacular and characterization is POLITICS, hell have we forgotten von CLAUSEWITZ's encapsulation that something as crass as " WAR" still "IS POLITICS BY ANOTHER MEANS". So what are we talking about when we act like the conditions and circumstances necessitating our polemic of reform of The Virginia Department of Corrections isn't primarily and crassly POLITICS?. Which the consequences and results of this emerging antipathy towards grasping that politics is the driver of the mess that is the entire construct of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure is this Johnny Come Latelyism tendency as a retrograde indulgence and the only beneficiaries of Johnny Come Latelyism are the subjects of reform polemics. What is striking is Virginia is relatively in the vanguard of reform polemics Nationally and thats no small feat.

Yes, Virginia is in the vanguard of reform polemics Nationally. But thats not the point. I continue: Too many good people, since my imprisonment in 1980 Black and White Guys, stood up and are still standing up against this Virginia injustice machine, that takes off its mask and reveals drooling fangs every time it imposes an extra-judicial, an unlawful dictate through its Virginia prison official on the Virginia prisoner. Too many came into the Virginia prison system with relatively short sentences and in response and reaction to the savage and barbarous treatment of the Virginia prison official and their sadistic urges and impulses accumulate(d) vindictive and inordinate increases on the original sentence and people you know what, each and every act by those Virginia prisoners then and the Virginia prisoner now has its cause, its determinant, its basis in the extra-judicial and above the law behavior of the Virginia prison official and its excuse by the supposed "oversight" Virginia Politician, specifically, the Virginia Republican. I challenge anyone and I mean anyone to disprove, this, I respond with access the chronicles of claims and allegations against the Virginia prison official, by the Virginia prisoner, their Families and Estates held in the innumerable law libraries and study and encounter the allegations that are clearly unbefitting those embodying office of The Sovereign Commonwealth of Virginia, yet the prevailing narrative deployed in that identical Military at War, Psychological Operations manner, enabled by Virginia mainstream media, specifically The Richmond-Times and Dispatch, maligns and accuses the Virginia prisoner.

Another form of maligning the Virginia prisoner, is Johnny Come Latelyism and this indulgence is another instance of that adage, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", because those guilty of Johnny Come Latelyism are besides their mindlessness, good intended. What I mean by 'mindlessness', is simply this, they haven't factored in with its requisite seriousness, or given the appropriate thought to the fact that the Virginia Prisoner is first and foremost in the activist trenches and on the advocacy front lines, because all immediate reactions and responses by the Virginia prisoner to the lawless behavior and practices of the Virginia prison official constitute ACTIVISM and ADVOCACY, despite that always present violence from the prison official. I recall a 1998 incident at Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, where the "gun man", or officer with the gun shot a prisoner in the shower, in A-Building, with rubber bullets on the pretext that the prisoner was refusing to leave the shower. Now the shower is about the size of one of those porta pottys, with a steel gate and if a prisoner was actually refusing to be handcuffed and shackled to leave not just a shower stall, but anywhere at Red Onion they have their procedures, which summary rubber bulleting a prisoner sure as hell isn't it. I cite this anecdote, to underscore the fact that its dismaying when there is a level of sentiment bubbling and gurgling among some of those who advocate for us prisoners out there in the free world that the Virginia prison landscape was a zombie waste land of mutes without agency, simply at the bigoted whim and its sadistic fantasy. Yes the Virginia prison official embodies the bigoted whim, with sadistic fantasies that are dementedly acted and carried out, but Virginia prisoners haven't simply been, as one Mother of a Virginia prisoner recently put it, her son is not a "punching bag".

 As I've been making the point, the issue of Prison Reform and holding the prison official Accountable is primarily, Political. Because prison and imprisonment in Virginia as Nationally serves a core Social Contract function that has nothing to do with the "justice" myth and narrative which the Governing status quo, would rather leave undefined so subjects or the people of Virginia can fill in that proverbial blank, using their ignorance's and biases as that controlling "self-check", mechanism, that is fundamental and a priori to the political-economy and it's Social Contract. Historically, the Virginia prisoner has behaved as all natural entities when subjected to impunity. Over the course of The Commonwealth of Virginia applying its subordinating function in pursuit of its core interest, which it tried its maintenance with the tactic of secession and the eventual Civil War. Minds and Hearts have risen and clearly stated," not in our name", which the Virginia prisoner as subject has in constructive, destructive, positive and negative expressions also echoed. I say this to give value, to those Virginia prisoners, who cracked open the door on reform in Virginia in the case LANDMAN v. ROYSTER 333 F.Supp. 621, which was so comprehensive that Virginia's status quo couldn't even pull the stunt of appeal. Nonetheless The Supreme Court of The United States, couldn't leave The Old Dominion flailing, so it came to as we expect, status quo's defense, with a disclaimer in a subsequent ruling in COX v. COOK 420 U.S. 734, as cited in RUSSELL v. DIVISION OF CORRECTIONS 530 F.2d 969, stating that the determinations in the LANDMAN case are limited to the EASTERN DISTRICT of Virginia.

The meaning and consequence was unambiguous, Virginia prisoners in the Eastern District had the benefit and privilege of the reformative ruling of the LANDMAN v. ROYSTER case, while those in the Western District didn't, yup thats the idealistic and conditional nature of our Nations jurisprudence and we still see it today, in the same Courts ruling delegitimizing affirmative action in the Nations Colleges, Universities with the inevitable spill over into private businesses, yet The same Supreme Court that gave us the anti-affirmative ruling said its okay for the Military to continue using affirmative action. So the Court in one instance delegitimizes the history necessitating affirmative action, while in another instance it validates the same history it relatively and virtually mocked. I've went all into this affirmative action anecdote because its exemplary and illustrative of this social fact of prison, imprisonment, the reform motive and the accountability dialectic and its emergence in Johnny Come Latelyism. Now I continue: I understand the maxim and I paraphrase, if you can't or won't speak for yourself, someone else will and that is the work of my writing. What Johnny Come Latelyism idealistically but insidiously does is, it, thoughtlessly and naively, discounts and dismisses that very springboard it is leaping into its prerogatives of action from. I'm originally from Detroit, I came to Virginia ,Norfolk to be exact in 1980, when I was locked up on armed robbery. I was in Norfolk City Jail in 1980 when it was taken over by a number of guys. I entered the Virginia Department of Corrections at its Powhatan or State Farm Receiving Unit in August 1980.I lasted around 5 days in C-3, before an incident with prison officials during clothing exchange the Saturday of my first weekend, landed me in Solitary Confinement, till I was released back into C-3 after months in solitary because a multiday protest occurred on the main prison's General Population and they needed the cell or cage I was in to detain others. This multiday protest brought out The State Police and I think the National Guard. So here I was 20 years old in Virginia, experiencing Norfolk's SWAT team storm the 7th floor of the Jail, then in prison I m watching heavily armed elements of Virginia's Organized Violence encircling the prison's fences.

This isn't a proto-Autobiographical work. The point however is engraving facts on our terms, that on all fronts of Virginia's status quo's deployment of its organized violence, within its justice infrastructure and prisons, Virginia Prisoners, Black, White, male and female, contrary to the revisionism of Johnny Come Latelyism,"Spoke", Yeah that same speech resistance to impunity, historically has always asserted, along with its consequence. Some martyred, others having physical and mental health failings with this salient point, that with the exception of those sentenced to die, when Virginia used the death penalty, no Virginia prisoner is sent to prison to die due to prison official machinations or lose their mind or contract a debilitating disease--yet, thats par course and the nature of the prison official's "orderly operations". At this juncture I resurrect AHOTO TAYSIR MULAZIM aka HAROLD CARPENTER. Ahoto passed on March 2, 2022 after The Virginia Department of Corrections kept him locked up for over 40 years and promptly upon his release in 2022, his nephew allegedly shot and killed him, the understanding is it was over an argument. Now here is the crux, his nephew might have been the one who shot and killed him, but the reality is the Virginia Department of Corrections and its prison official, killed Ahoto, just as they have killed and continue to kill Virginians they imprison. Ahoto was born on August 13, 1963 in Richmond, Virginia and he was from the same Neighborhood, Churchill, which Virginia Delegate Rae Cousins, eloquently spoke of in her 2024 TED TALK at GREENROCK CORRECTIONAL CENTER.I met Ahoto at C-Building [The Solitary Confinement Max security Unit] of The Virginia State Penitentiary aka The Wall. He had a weird funny name none of us had ever heard, this was in 1982 and we'd joke him over his name and he'd respond with he had a comb if I needed one. I had just started growing dreads, just as his name was alien to us, dreads were also alien to him and the rest of the fellows. Remember this was 1982 and not only were the average fellow, black or white ignorant to Reggae music and Bob Marley, but they were also ignorant to the entire Rastafarian cosmology, Marcus Garvey, Black Nationalism, Emperor Haile Selassie and Pan-Africanism. Yes there was deep knowledge and grasp of The Black Panthers, of course Frantz Fanon, George Jackson, The Nation of Islam, The Moors, The Five Percenters and of course, both Prince Hall and Albert Pike's Scottish Masonry. There was also recognition of the writings of my fellow Detroiter, Donald Goines, then Iceberg Slim, Charlie Avery Harris all precursors to the Urban Legend litreature monetization. I have went a bit into it like this to paint a bit of the formative culture of Ahoto, for one his Father named him based on his grasp of Black Self-Determination and the last thing the Virginia prison official then wanted was to contend with opposition to that impunity dynamic of "do as I say, not as I do". For a bit of context, let's remember that Virginia was Capital of The traitorous Confederacy. The Virginia State Penitentiary not only held Vice-President Aaron Burr but was in existence during the Civil War. Ahoto is illustrative of us, we are imprisoned at early ages, subjected to conditions and circumstances that breed resistance. There are too many names to be resurrected, for example, Malik Akbar Wakil aka Randolph Flueller aka Cup Cake, Rico Frederick Holiday aka Doc Holiday, Roscoe Lawson aka 'Scoe, Donald " Tree" Sutherland. Paul "Gum Gum" Coomer and lastly but not least, Joe Giarratano. All of these guys have passed and all spent inordinate amount of time not just in Virginia prisons but Solitary Confinement. For example Tree aka Don Sutherland and I were in Norfolk City jail together, in 1980.We were in The Wall, together, at Mecklenburg, State Farm's M-Building together, when I finally got released from long term solitary confinement in 1992, from State Farm's M-Building and I was sent to Augusta Correctional Center Tree was already there. These were exceptionally good people, who got maligned by the Virginia prison official because they resisted, meaning they, we had the temerity to require the Virginia prison official comply with their very own procedures and policies. What I'm saying is analogous to a patient in a hospital put in the position of having to require Nurses and Medical professionals do their job. Let me say this about Joe Giarratano, Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison had just opened in 1998 and Virginia brought him back from the Illinois Prison System where in typical Virginia fashion the holdover slave overseers had shipped him to. Joe and Ahoto were on the A-2 and 3 rec yard and I was on the A-4 and 5 rec-yard, we were yelling at each other over the wall and steel girder roof like enclosure, then I heard Joe yelling at the "gun man", prison official holding the gun, who was up in the A-1, 2, 3 gun window," that if you wanna shoot him, you'll have to shoot through me". What was going on was the gun man had issues with Ahoto and he wanted to fabricate a story, in order to shoot Ahoto and he thought, because Joe was White and Ahoto was Black, Joe would look the other way. But he was mistaken, we were all at Mecklenburg, Ahoto and I, we were in solitary confinement, Joe was on death row and on many occasions when the Mecklenburg officials would literally drag him on the floor from C-Pod of Building 1 (which was the death row-pod) we were the ones who would go to his aid by letting the Officials know that, no they couldn't mistreat him like that and this went for all of us. A many times Joe was my neighbor and I would be in solidarity with defending him. So his defense of Ahoto on that Red Onion rec yard was just our solidarity culture. Let me again stress this everyone I've listed in this work is dead. There are just as many alive who have the same solidarity cultural ethos and forthrightness and another motivator of this Johnny Come Latelyism work has been my encountering advocates and activist, who do speak for us, the Virginia prisoner and I'm as much a Virginia prisoner despite my exile to the Texas prison system because I'm still under the jurisdiction of The Commonwealth of Virginia, bad mouthing, speaking dismissively of these remaining guys who have literally bled in the trenches of activism against the Virginia injustice machine in Virginia's prison cages. I've heard guys character assassinated by those in the free world, without the grasp that in our human condition, there are no Saints, save the loyalty of purpose. As I bookend this work, I want to again resurrect the irrepressible Marie Deans, a voice for us, who I spoke of in length, in a work also on Elizabeth Alexander. Once again yes Virginia is in the vanguard of Prison reform polemic Nationally and there isn't higher work than our own critique for ourselves.

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

WHAT IF VIRGINIA JURYS STARTED BEHAVING AS VIRGINIA'S PAROLE BOARD AND SAID, DUE TO IDEOLOGICAL REASONS IT WON'T CONVICT, WHICH IS WHAT THE PAROLE BOARD CLAIMS, WHEN IT REFUSES TO GRANT PAROLE By William Thorpe

Look people, "GOVERNMENT IS OF,BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE" and nothing spells "people" more than "People of The Jury" right and what makes us "people" are, "Problems" because we find approximate and relative solutions to problems, till a more mature and constructive solution emerges. Now there aren't more problems than the recreated events and perspectives a typical Virginia jury is confronted with in its course of life and is expected to satisfy and bring to life, that Constitutional mandate of Due Process of Law before seizure of ones, Life, Liberty and Property and people from all demographics of Virginia Society find themselves delving into generalities and particulars, that are so alien and diametrically at odds with their own lives and existence, of their fellow Virginians as they sit in judgement and they do it, to a myriad of outcomes with the constant of second guessing. It's naive to assume that there isn't antipathy towards the Commonwealth's Attorney and what the Office represents from some of those on the jury, yet rarely do we encounter the speech from a Virginia jury member articulating antipathy and its ideological formulations as obstacle to the performance of their "Government is of, by and for The People", duty, which we can conclusively state isn't because of the appx.$30 Virginia jury per Diem. Now let's contrast that," Government is of, by and for the people" jury duty, with the "Government is of, by and for the people", job of The Virginia Parole Board, first of all members of the Virginia Parole Board are exceptionally and extraordinarily well paid, some to the tune of $197,000+.Secondly the position is a partisan one or political appointment by whoever the Virginia Governor is at the time, meaning of course its patronage, but that in itself isn't contentious or corrupt, but its a fact we must be aware of. Thirdly and here is where we get into the fundamental and intrinsic corruption of Virginia's parole system.

Virginia Parole is a speculative and subjective process directed at an objective anticipation. So to say it as the Courts have said it, "Virginia law give rise to a limited interest in consideration for parole, but not in parole release" THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, which Virginia is under it's Jurisdiction, pretty much validated the speculative nature of Virginia's parole gimmick in the case BURNETTE v. FAHEY 687 F.3d 171, what however is important about the outcome of the case, is Judge GREGORY'S dissent or his disagreement with his fellow Judges who ruled against Virginia Prisoners. Now the reason I characterized the case as I have is the conclusion reached by those Fourth Circuit Judges in the BURNETTE case isn't surprising when they are getting their cue from the gambits of Virginia law makers or politicians in Virginia Parole Law, see: VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-134 through 165.1.Now here is where I reiterate, that politics is law and to reform anything, there has to be a command of the status quo politics. Secondly politics and it's undergirding law is narrative and the corrupted sophistry. So if Virginia's parole scheme is a corrupt sophism, meaning a dictatorship of ideology that despite, etymology is devoid of ideas and the subsequent anticipation, then it is farcical, yeah that classic veneer of enlightenment, progress and civilization, while the maggoty underbelly seethes, writhes and squirms. Only the insidious and delusional will defend adjudicative certitude as such to maintain a modicum of intellectual honesty or that recognition that yes the human condition can sanction without the hubris of "judgement", and in pursuit of," the center must hold "integrity of the Social Contract, our enlightened ancients devised those release valves of, Parole, Probation Pardons, Clemencies and Commutations as a re-ignition of that necessary "faith", which The Schizophrenic in Chief, Thomas Jefferson attested to in the Declaration of Independence....." all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed".So it was with this understanding that Parole and its progeny are intended to pacify. But when the animating motive of the politicization of the parole mitigant is the reactionary's short sightedness which consequently is at the expense of the process and enlightenment of the Social Contract.

Currently Virginia's Parole Board is blatantly and brazenly saying to the Virginia tax payer who pays their six figure pay check, that as inconceivably as it sounds, their "ideology" takes precedence over the expected unconditionality of their job performance. I paraphrase comments by Patricia West, chair of The Virginia Parole Board, that she will never agree to grant parole to cases where individuals have committed serious violent crimes, which quite frankly is fraud, because she is being paid to do a job according to Virginia law and not her whim and caprice and as a matter of fact there are a number of Virginia prisoners convicted for doing the same thing, the Virginia Parole Board is doing, which is collecting a paycheck, while refusing to do the job they swore as officials of the Sovereign Commonwealth of Virginia to the best of their ability perform. Once again imagine a Virginia Juror displaying the Patricia West indulgence? The other aspect to the Virginia Parole process is the mockery it makes of certain fundamental truths of Virginia and The U.S. Constitution. So constitutionally, no one should be tried for the same charge twice, because its a "Double Jeopardy", but the Virginia prisoner is double jeopardized, like this, let's say there is a prison rule infraction, which after the prison hearing and punishment the rule infraction is processed by the Commonwealth Attorney for that County as a violation of Virginia's law, the prisoner is subsequently convicted and again punished. Now on the surface you would say thats a classic situation of double jeopardy, but our Nations Court system says, no. The initial prison rule infraction and subsequent hearing is CLASSIFIED AND DEFINED as an ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS as opposed to the Commonwealth Attorney's Court process. Okay let's concede the logic of the Administrative and a Court proper process, now here is where the mockery of the constitutional prohibitions against being double jeopardized comes in, which is also an end run, because the prisoner is harmed and impacted by the effect both processes have on his parole prospects. However, what I want to stress again are the fact that all of these are political questions that require the electoral process. The question of Parole in Virginia is part of the war being waged against Virginia prisoners and it has nothing to do with how to repair harm to the Virginia victim of crime.

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

HALF A DOZEN YEARS AND COUNTING, IN EXILE IN THE TEXAS PRISON SYSTEM FROM VIRGINIA By William Thorpe

William Thorpe

You know six years ago on May 29, 2019 Virginia shackled me, handcuffed me so tightly with chains around the waist, that one of the transporting officials on the plane with me had to loosen the handcuffs just enough for me to snack on some trail mix, well that was six years ago to the day and half a dozen years since, its another May 29th, 2025 and my exile by Virginia's Government to the Texas prison system is ongoing. There is another aspect to Virginia exiling me to Texas that I haven't spoken on, till now, which is my Mother had just died on May 19th, 2019 ten days before Virginia bundled me on the Governor's plane, for exile. Anyway as I noted in one of my works, titled, JUST AS VIRGINIA SLAVE OWNERS.....my experience and circumstance isn't unique, Virginia just can't get out the way of its ancestral habit and practice of presumptions and its futility of dictatorship. So the facts are simple, since my imprisonment under Virginia's jurisdiction, my speech has been clear, I'm imprisoned because of and under law as such the system and the prison official embodying it are compelled and obligated to follow and be under it's process as we all are and its this simple fact that Virginia and it's prison official is violently resentful and apoplectic of. The contradiction isn't whether Virginia is just and right to apply law as fundamental terms of the Social Contract, because it is, which irrespective of form of dictatorship has process that despite its relative violability, in it's consciousness of itself cannot dismiss the unconditionality of reform, yet what we see is Virginia and its prison official doing the opposite and as preposterous as it sounds, waging war on the prisoner, which is that classic totem of the snake devouring its tail. So I'm held in the Texas prison system, when I was exiled from Virginia, I was in solitary confinement at Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, where I had been since its opening in 1998.

I was one of the initial ten guys, from Virginia's original Super-Max, (the now closed) Mecklenburg Correctional Center, who opened up Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison (which is hard at work resurrecting all the evils of Mecklenburg). My current detention in solitary confinement (which I still am in Texas) started after a August 8th-9th,1996 hostage incident at Virginia's Nottoway Correctional Center. Now what I want to use this six years of exile in Texas to illustrate, is, first of all, the administrating philosophy of the Nations prisons are relatively alike and identical, which shouldn't be news to anyone who pays attention with nominal grasp to the fact that one of the hallmarks of The Constitution Of The United States is its reduction of a full person to....."three fifths....",at Article I. Because the fundamental terms of Social Contract, in the Nations and of course Virginia (which was a driver in that demented..."three fifths...."formulation) is political-economy. In other words, Virginia as well as the Nations' Justice Infrastructure and imprisonment scheme was all about the motive and formulations of the demented...."three fifths....", so despite its revisionism and "public safety" calibrated narrative, the Nations prisons and imprisonment schemes are haplessly mired in that which anticipates the Speech of reform, just as that dialectic of the....."three fifths" anticipated the Civil War. I'm also using this half-dozen years and counting of Texas exile to resurrect one of the irrefutable polemics of our ancients, that simply observes the generality of injustice irrespective of specific experience, which as irrefutable principles go, only affirms or proves it. In the work, that I documented my 2019 exile, titled: The Exile of William Thorpe from Virginia to Texas, An Extraordinary Act, I stated, this which I excerpt, "The question my exile poses besides the obvious Governmental abuse with its deceptive security threat basis which is nothing more than cover for petty and crass extra judicial vindictiveness for the Virginia Justice System is simple and it isn't limited to my circumstance. Besides regardless of the " legality". Of the exile, it's motive details an extra judicial act and its execution underscores an intrinsic aspect of our human condition which in a nutshell is: irrespective of the backdrop of law, there isn't a just and democratic accounting of its misuse. People will apply their petty tyrannical impulses, which in this instance prison officials under cover of law but in unlawful ways." I've excerpted this bit of a passage referencing my exile in 2019 and to buttress it, is what is playing out Nationally, in 2025 where, Law, when once upon a time was deployed in its subordinating dynamic,[see the Constitutional, Article I, "three fifths" formulation] against those falling under and subject to its rubric, yes that specific marginalized, is now weaponized against "All", even allies of its misuse, in other words all Americans are now subject to the brazen impunity deployed against the prisoner by the prison official. People who are not imprisoned have this irrational or better yet cognitive dissonance, that " prison" exist outside of law, which is a deliberate construct and concoction of the prison official and their infrastructure-allies, an endeavor that has nothing to do with the speculations of repairing the harm caused by a crime or that generic, "justice", but pursuing and permitting the industrialization of the professional prison official as a career employment. Here is an illustrative anecdote, historically, the prison official was called a " prison guard", then in the early 1990's, young incoming prisoners started using the acronym, CO (for correctional officer), but Virginia main stream or corporate media still referred to the prison official as prison guard, notwithstanding the fact Virginia's mainstream media rarely had any critically insightful exposé about the Virginia prison official for its readers and consumers, as a matter of fact the media has been the prison official's staunchest ally and enabler in disseminating the propaganda and narrative that the Virginia prison official is irreproachable and above law. Yet in 1996 or 1997,Ron Angelone, the then Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections found it existential and vital to the Virginia prison official's narrative that Virginia's mainstream media referred to them as Correctional Officers. The point is that colloquial prison guard was being industrialized, but the glibly glossed over is this, a title does not a job make, so the Virginia prison official got their Correctional Officer, title without a job to go along with it, save for that antebellumnesque continuum of savagery, barbarity and gratuitous violence, a holdover from their progenitor, which naturally has nothing to do with Virginia law concerning imprisonment. Well this six year mark of my exile clearly paints the work of reform of the prison official and the requisite accountability.

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

SPEECH AND PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA IV By William Thorpe

In the earlier installments of this work, I presented that Virginia hasn't had to account for much of its Justice Infrastructure and its imprisonment scheme despite the fact that based on the value of investment in it, as being the sector receiving the most funding, implying it is the highest accomplishment of the People of Virginia, to which I acknowledged some would say I'm being facetious. Nonetheless the fact stands, the People of Virginia accept that of all the Agencies of Virginia's Government The Virginia Department of Corrections eats up the Lion's share of their treasure or Productivity, meaning its duty is the most valued and it is where we find intrinsic corruption, it is where we also find that incredulous contradiction of created by Law, yet violating it in principle and in deed, meaning if Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its imprisonment scheme stands as the quintessential value of the People of Virginia and it's behavior and job performance is intrinsically corrupt then there is only one inference, considering that the People of Virginia in whose name The Virginia Department of Corrections and the prison official exist, are comprehensively and anecdotally aware of its charnel work. There isn't anything originally insightful about this understanding, because The Social Contract and the Human Condition are made by people, for US. However there really is insight to be gleaned because with observation, understanding and cognition comes that proverbial "loss of innocence", meaning that intrinsic corruption of the Virginia Prison Official, the impunity and lack of accountability to The People and their relative complicity is a Virginia responsibility. What do I mean? prison official impunity doesn't practically mean an eternal evasion of accounting. So, for example, the Virginia prison official provides ahumanistic medical and mental care to the Virginia prisoner and those members of Virginia Society who specialize and are experts in medicine and mental health are fully aware and cognizant of the crimes and violations committed by the Virginia prison official in the failings of health care to prisoners they imprison. So, its abjectly incomprehensible and why should Virginia society accept the averted gaze and silence from the medical community on the malevolence of the Virginia prison official's failings in providing necessary health care to the prisoner? The standing and respect the medical community has is based on the simple proposition that Healthcare providers as a whole are ethical and ethics is simply calling out wrong regardless of perpetrator.

I'm not suggesting idealistically, that individually our Healthcare providers exist as Saints, hell even God doesn't exist as a Saint, but collectively as a organized entity, their existence, because of the distilled, germane,. quality of purpose, has an ethical responsibility and determination.What this means, yes the Virginia prison official can evade specific opprobrium and accountability in the impunity of their above the law activities and presumptions within the concertina razor wire confines and prefab concrete of Virginia's Koncentration Kamps and even make a mockery of accountability by employing that tired gambit of "immunity", but in " History ", where accountability is forever and eternal, the criticisms, objections, indictments and conclusions of the Healthcare collective and organizations will stand as witness and sentinels, clarions attesting to the fact that professionals didn't cower in the complicity of silence, when the Virginia prison official profaned and perverted the unconditionality of the Hippocratic Oath of their Profession. Yet snap back to reality, the Virginia Healthcare community is none of what their organizational ethics and responsibilities, as it relates specifically and particularly to Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its imprisonment scheme ask of them, in other words all that I've said about the ethical responsibility of Virginia's Healthcare community, presenting a robust and uncompromising defense of the " unconditionality "of their Hippocratic Oath, is what they should according to their very own anticipations and that is a fundamental polemical aspect of PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA. Because just as in 1995, during the Administration of the disgraced, racist ex-governor of Virginia, George Allen of macaca infamy and the construction of Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, a group of conscientious Virginia scientist authored objections and protestations to the construction of the Koncentration Kamp on the grounds that it was on a Earthquake zone and the fact it was also on a former Coal mine therefore increasing the cataclysm of an earthquake, to which the racism addled brain of George Allen scoffed, but what did we just learn just recently happened in Tennessee on the approximate earthquake zone Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, sits on? you guessed it an earthquake.

So, what the behavior of those Scientists, Seismologist and Geologist during the Administration of macaca infamy Allen tells us and teaches is what ethics looks like. The opportunist among us who exploit law and order for their own short sighted gains are incapable of recognizing that accountability is inevitable and inexorable. When those retrograde and holdover Virginians amongst us, labored to erect totems and monuments to the quick sand of supremacy, they never anticipated that the neck of George Floyd, would be that inexorability and inevitability of accountability that would again give them the speech that supremacism regardless of volume of sand drained from glass cannot exist with the naturalism of Progress. So we see the same thing with the exploitation of criminality, the convicted and imprisoned. Accepting the short sightedness that the prisoner is outside of history along with its concurrent ethics, isn't sanction on the prisoner but a betrayal of that organizational ethics which purports to assert, forthrightness and progress. So when the Virginia healthcare community is silent, unlike those Geologist who called out ex-governor Allen on the placement of Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, they are the ones who lose face, standing and respect in the Community, because even the most unsophisticated and inattentive amongst us recognizes that for whatever reason the Healthcare Community is feckless and incapable of joining their voice to the SPEECH OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA. That legend, EQUAL UNDER LAW isn't an operative of the individual but our catholic faith and trust in The Social Contract, which Virginians no less than James Madison proclaimed and I paraphrase that our Nation is one of laws and not of men, conveying the understanding that law and if the Society it underpins is to stand, must be applicable to all regardless of circumstance. Consequently we find reform, specifically that of the Virginia prison system, presenting and posing the same and exact question. Healthcare accessibility for the Virginia prisoner shouldn't be based on that imprisoned Virginian's relationship with law and the unconditionality of the Hippocratic Oath says as much. Nevertheless that colloquial misconstruction of "justice", and its hypocritical vindictiveness that is unwilling of entertaining the fallibility of adjudication, our Virginia professionals under the guidance of their organizational ethics must be ones to remind our citizenry especially the harmed by crime, that as " justice of imprisonment " , is pursed, what is being done in the name of The People of Virginia to the convicted and imprisoned isn't again criminality, but this time done by the victim of crime as member of The People of Virginia.

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