VIRGINIA LABOR GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS ARE SILENT AND ABSENT FROM THE WORK OF REFORMING VIRGINIA'S JUSTICE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PRISON SYSTEM By William Thorpe

By William Thorpe

Our ancients postulated that the examination of the simple and common act of buying and selling will explain a Nations history. A continuation of that analysis also reveals and further defines that a Nations stability and cohesion is also found and determined on the ACCOUNTABILITY of it's Political-Economy, or SOCIAL CONTRACT, meaning the terms of Labor or its mechanisms and means of Production. So when antagonisms begin to appear out of pedestrian contradictions, that are the terms of any normal and healthy Social Contract and its political-economy, it means one thing and one thing only, there isn't that requisite and honest accounting of the nature of Labor and the mechanisms of production. In other words Labor isn't fulfilling its obligations honestly, which also means, it has permitted perversions in its natural narrative. What I've just described is the state of our National political-economy. What I'm focused on is Virginia and the dereliction of its labor groups and organizations, their absence and silence in the work of prison reform in Virginia. Despite the fact my earlier thoughts on political-economy had a National characterization, it holds true for The Commonwealth of Virginia. If political-economy is the foundation that everything, the Social Contract, Society our human condition is built on and Labor is its art and dexterity and if its terms are antagonistic, meaning corrupted then the prognosis that Labor is diseased is unambiguously comprehensive. I begin with the event commonly known as BACON'S REBELLION as illumination. In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon,a Virginian chafed at the antagonistic terms of the political-economy that defined him, one thing led to another and he's immortalized in history with the event bearing his name.[ For study on BACON'S REBELLION, Ibram X. Kendi, gives his grasp in his book STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING on pp.53-54 Nancy Isenberg gives us hers in her work WHITE TRASH on pp.37-39 the reactionary author Alan Brinkley gives us his conclusions in his writings in THE UNFINISHED NATION: volume one on pp.33-34,56] Now what Nathaniel Bacon affirms are the Labor, accountability by revealing once again that the coercive powers or the Police powers of The State and its Organized-Violence exist to subordinate Labor, because even if Labor hesitates and is reluctant to acknowledge that simple fact, those profiting from and off Labor do.

.Regardless of the perversions that have been allowed, permitted and tolerated by Labor of it's natural narrative(s) to, like sediment throw off its equilibrium and irrespective of complicity, the fact remains that, without LABOR, there isn't Society, there isn't a Human Condition, in other words, if the human condition is a continuum of that......Jeffersonian, "all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,..."then the culprit is LABOR and that perversion, as I've pointed out, of its natural narrative. Europe, lost it's woods, forest and Jungles, in making the necessary paper to hammer away on this point, that LABOR, well tongue in cheek, so I won't have to "belabor" the point. Nonetheless what I must do is remind Virginia's LABOR groups and organizations that just because we are not speaking on their absence and silence on the fundamental question of reforming Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and the Prison system, is not a pass nor do we absolve them of their unwillingness to embody their natural narrative.

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