LUCA POWELL OF RICHMOND TIMES TOLD US THAT THE DEAD AND IMMORTAL HENRY "BOBILLY" GORHAM WAS INVOLVED IN A MECKLENBURG INCIDENT, WELL IT NEVER HAPPENED By William Thorpe

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In the recent Richmond Times piece: HENRY GORHAM JR.WHO FOUGHT DECADES FOR PAROLE DIES AT GREENSVILLE PRISON by Luca Powell, we are told that Henry "Bobilly" Gorham was sentenced to 40 years additional time in prison by a Richmond Judge for his involvement in a 1985 Mecklenburg escape incident that included the Briley Brothers. Then further in the Powell article giving a narrative of the odious and suspicious circumstances of the rescind of the 2021 vote by Virginia Parole Board members KEMBA PRADIA and TONYA CHAPMAN, to grant Henry "Bobilly" Gorham parole, we are introduced to the Mecklenburg incident as qualifier for the reversal of vote to parole Bobilly. I write to state this: The Mecklenburg escape of 6 Virginia death row prisoners happened on May 31st,1984 and they were Earl Clanton, Peterson, Lem Tuggle, Jones, Linwood and James Briley. The escape happened from Building-1, which held death row, solitary confinement and orientation. Bobilly wasn't in Building-1, on the night of the escape, May 31st,1984, he was in B-pod of Building-5. I, was in A-pod of Building-1, the night of the escape doing 30 days isolation or punitive solitary confinement.

There are a couple of disturbing, elements with Powell's article. Firstly on the surface it seems the article is conveying the fact, The Virginia Parole Board violated its own procedures and Bobilly's parole advocate Karen Morrison clearly says as much which is affirmed by the cavalier dismissal given the revelation by the current Chair of The Parole Board, Patricia West. Secondly the article treats Bobilly's cancer as if The Virginia Department of Corrections barbaric history of prisoner medical neglect isn't the one and only culprit responsible. Then the most disturbing thrust of Powell's work, which I started this work with, is the conflation and it's disqualifying inference with Mecklenburg's 1984 death row escape as apology and quasi justification for the rescinding of Bobilly's 2021 vote by the above named Board members, to grant parole. Fourthly Virginia's Parole Board is a legally constituted exercise of The Commonwealth's Political authority, hence assuming the necessary responsibilities and convention. As such Patricia West whether in her professional or the more dubious, private existence is without authority to opine on a suspect but "legal" action by parole board members, whether current or former. The comments by Ms. West in Luca Powell's article are crass heresay and doesn't in any form, manner shed light on and give and provide The People of Virginia, who are responsible for Henry "Bobilly" Gorham's death, its requisite accounting. Because the imprisonment and detention of Bobilly by The People of Virginia wasn't a sanction and authority of death. Simply put he wasn't sent to prison to die. There was nothing "natural causes" about Bobilly's death as Powell's deflective article summarily declares. The idea and its practice that a Virginian can be imprisoned under and by the authority of The People of The Commonwealth of Virginia and then killed due to extra-judicial and ad hoc practices by the Virginia prison official tasked with the imprisonment is outside of law and is murder. This is the circumstance of Henry Bobilly Gorham's death and our speech to Luca Powell and The Richmond Times is lend your prodigious voice to that of its investigation.

We call for an investigation into the handling of Bobilly's parole process, the type, nature and sort of information used by The Parole Board and the fact that there obviously was a collusion and conspiracy that resulted in Board members KEMBA PRADIA and TONYA CHAPMAN second guessing their initial judgement to grant Henry "Bobilly" Gorham parole. For one the reason given in the hearsay comments by Patricia West, for the parole vote reversal, [ his, "extensive criminal record "and that he needed a "longer period of stable adjustment"] is an insult to The People of Virginia, who are accountable for the corrupt convergence resulting in Bobilly's death. First of all and this provides us the opportunity to actually get at the parole debate. Parole as part of the criminal justice system is also an aspect of the pardon, clemency and commutation expressions of the Politics or Law and its terms of the Social Contract. So for example we all experienced Donald Trump authorize the reversals of the convictions and release from imprisonment of those who stormed the U.S Congress on January 6th, because their convictions and imprisonment ran counter and at odds with the politics he embodied, say what you will about it, it reveals and is testament to the nature of Law or the terms of a Social Contract. I've went into this to expose the fraud and corruption of the THOUGHT, wielded by The Virginia Parole Board, with its "extensive criminal record" and ."longer period of stable adjustment", verbiage when, vindictively, for reasons only known to them, they act contrary to the very reason of the existence of parole as a practical part of imprisonment. Bobiilly's case and situation present this and all that is corrupt with the process in all its odious impunity. When John Adams anticipated Lincolns' at Gettysburg, "of the people, by the people and for the people", with his fore runner, "a government of law and not of men", he clearly saw, envisioned and had in mind actions by minds and hearts of the Patricia West's of the world and the petty dictatorship of the, for example, The Virginia Parole Board. Because the only lesson our Virginia version of the Social Contract instructs the Human Condition is, disassembleged, distortion, reduction, perversion and duplicity.

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

I DEDICATE THIS SONG, CRAZY BALDHEAD by BOB MARLEY TO THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND ITS ENABLER POLITICIAN ALLIES By William Thorpe

Crazy Baldhead / Running Away (Live At The Rainbow 4th June 1977)

Recently Henry "Bobilly" Gorham Jr. died imprisoned under the jurisdiction and custody of The Commonwealth of Virginia and its Department of Corrections. The death was accounted for as "natural causes". I begin: No Black Person, not the Uncle Toms, and collaborators in these United States or anywhere in the World, dies of "natural causes", not since Arabs, Persians and Europeans decided that subjugating and exploiting Black People would be the basis of their political-economy and the re-creating of their existence. No amount of Thomas Sowell's intellectual-liberalism and its sophistic apologies, distorts this. This work isn't about mocking Thomas Sowell and his in-perpetuity servility, rather its to declare to those Virginia reactionaries and their war on the Virginia Prisoner, that HENRY "BOBILLY" GORHAM, MALIK AKBAR "CUP CAKE"WAKIL, AHOTO TAYSIR MULAZIM, RICO FREDERICK "DOC" HOLIDAY, ROSCOE "SCOE" LAWSON. DONALD "TREE" SUTHERLAND and all THE LEGENDS are IMMORTAL on their own terms, which is what will always be breathed on. BAYETE and AVE! MORITURI TE SALUTANT.

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

They Buried His Freedom. Help Us Bury Bo Billy with Dignity

 

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THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA AND THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION'S WESTERN REGION By William Thorpe

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The issue isn't what Region The Virginia Department of Corrections detains prisoners at. If ex-coal miners want to resurrect their existence by feeding at the Public Trough with working in Prisons. Our work must be on vigorously holding their operational philosophy and the subsequent job performance ACCOUNTABLE, not on their terms but that of THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA. There isn't any debate to be had and argument to be made about and over the fact that the operational philosophy and job performance of the Virginia Prison Official at The Virginia Department of Correction's Western Region is simply savage and barbarous, all one has to do is check out its voluminous chronicles at Virginia's various Courts. The accounts are so egregious that The Richmond-Times and Dispatch, a publication that typically turns a blind eye to Virginia Prison Official criminality has had to begrudgingly publicize certain accounts and prisoner claims. So we hold our Political, Legislative, Business, Labor, Educational and Religious Leaders and Institutions comprehensively and totally responsible for the impunity of The Virginia Prison Official of the Western Region. The basis is simple, Virginia's Institutional Leadership tout the States' positives as conducive and progressive for Human development which is true but what is also true is, its Prison Officials are stuck in the antebellum mind set of pre-Civil War and behave it. As such, that same energy directed towards selling the State's positives must be equally spent on civilizing the professional performance of the Virginia Prison official.

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

VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR DANNY DIGGS, YORK COUNTY--SAID, PAROLE WASN'T WORKING, IMPLYING THATS WHY IT WAS ABOLISHED.I RESPOND: IS IMPRISONMENT WORKING? By William Thorpe

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When Virginia's JAMES MADISON penned THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES and THE FEDERALIST PAPERS, he didn't say because Leadership and Political Order under The British King George III was tyrannical and despotic, so the anticipatory and newly emerging United States would be ANARCHISTIC, instead he stated, The Constitution or Supreme Law was "In order to form a MORE perfect union".[my emphasis].Indicating the simple recognition, that, governance and political order, which the organized violence or the police powers and coercive authority of a State as expressed in its Justice Infrastructure, which imprisonment is fact, is always a work in progress. In other words there isn't a "final solution", to anything, besides the commonsense of always improving on the social good. This wasn't Madison's ingenuity, but simple practicality and honesty. Which Virginia's Leadership from inception, including Madison himself not only have compromised and perverted continuing with Brown v. Board of Education along with a host of other issues, including matters of imprisonment and criminal justice, since the Supremacy of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 post Civil War, but have abandoned and replaced it with the same whimsies of King George III and his prime minister George Grenville that eventually caused James Madison to pen THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

AND Virginia Republican State Senator Danny Diggs is continuing the corruption of those whimsies. Before I continue I must say this, Senator Danny Diggs, as the rest of his Republican ilk, locally and Nationally are quick to lecture us on issues and matters of Law and Justice while their leader, who happens to be the current President of The United States is an unapologetic felon and we haven't heard of Danny Diggs or any other Virginia Republican mouth piece dare say one word on it, yet Virginia Republicans are quite prim and pat to castigate and scapegoat the Virginia prisoner, exhibiting a level of intellectual-liberalism and its hapless hypocrisy that James Madison, himself a past master at duplicity, supremacism and hypocrisy would've been agaped mouthed. I begin: Virginia Republican State Senator Danny Diggs is reported to have recently said this on the issue of repeal of the abolishment of parole in Virginia, "maybe a study on a better version of parole than what we had before because we went from an unworking version to nothing". Okay, when James Madison penned Our National Constitution, he wasn't under the delusion and illusion that the political-economy and order under King George III, wasn't working because as soon as "something" comes into existence, its FOR and AGAINST, meaning there are beneficiaries and losers.

Danny Diggs is quoted as saying which I excerpted "because we went from an unworking version to nothing", [speaking of parole].Now, I'm not a student or consumer of Senator Danny Diggs Thought, as such what I must go on are his affiliations, which is, he's a Republican and Republicans since they defended The Union during the Civil War, haven't requited themselves sensibly on their own historical terms, beginning with their betrayal of themselves and all those who fought and died in defense of The Union, with the infernal, reprehensible and craven COMPROMISE OF 1877 which we can accurately characterize as, (despite the Republican passage of The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to The Constitution of The United States on 1865 and 1868 respectively), making a mockery not only of The Civil War, but The 1776 Revolution itself. Furthermore, besides the only positive of removing The United States off the gold and silver standard by the Republican President Richard Nixon, Republicans have pretty much stood for being insidious and reactionary. So we are not surprised that a Virginia Republican Senator would give us that " Parole "as part of and historical fact of the Justice Infrastructure was fraudulent and "unworking".

Even the aptitude of Niccolo Machiavelli wouldn't dare declare that something steeped in crass subjectivity, purposefully constructed on subjectivity was and is an absolute failure as Danny Diggs critique of Virginia's Parole process, Pré 1995 primly pronounces. Maybe what Danny Diggs needs is a truncated primer on Virginia's imprisonment scheme and its relative exploitation of Parole as mitigation. Prior to The Civil War, circa 1861 mass imprisonment wasn't a social fact in Virginia, but post and after the Civil War, with the liberation and change in the political status of the formerly enslaved African, henceforth Black person, Virginia along with its traitorous sister Confederate States, seized on the newly minted 13th Amendment and its continuing slavery loophole, "except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted", to backdoor the former enslaved back into slavery. Consequently, conscientious minds and hearts understanding and recognizing the insidiousness of this backdoor imposition of slavery, labored to reform this novel social and political fact.

Now Senator Danny Diggs is functionally literate and capable of expressing, conveying his world view, to garner a majority of the York County vote, meaning he has enough command to know that his characterization of Virginia's parole process pre its 1995 abolishment is as patently misleading as the spurious rationale given by its abolisher, the racist and disgraced ex-Governor of Virginia George Allen and trumpeted by the propaganda bull horn of The Republican Party of Virginia, The Richmond-Times and Dispatch News Paper. For one Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, despite the why shouldn't Parole be given raison d'tre as never and I emphasize, fulfilled its mitigating function and Senator Danny Diggs is well aware of this and if somehow he's been victimized by his Party's work dumbing down the Virginia mind with its revisionist and reductive educational gambits, then he doesn't have to look far.

I asked in the title to this work, is imprisonment working? If the typically stated reasons for its pursuits are actually that, because every thing about it, in Virginia and Nationally howls nah ! And that something else is the driver of the practice. Bear with me reader as I use my knowledge of imprisonment to flesh out the parameters which Senator Danny Diggs and any other Senator should orient questions on criminality and deviancy, from assuming their pronouncements in the General Assembly actually fall within the "what is to be done" ambit. I have been imprisoned under Virginia's jurisdiction since February 1980.In 1982 Virginia prison officials came to the solitary confinement building of the now demolished Virginia State Penitentiary, C-BUILDING, where I was detained, soliciting volunteers to go to a new prison that was being opened, then it was called Brunswick Correctional Center,(I think its been leased out to one of those private prison profiteers and its now called Lawrenceville). The point I make since my imprisonment in 1980, there hasn't been any new or novel emergence of the Human being, it's still the same old Homosapiens, the same ole millennia old brain, without digressing. Since I've been in the custody of The Virginia Department of Corrections, Brunswick, Buckingham, Augusta, Nottoway, Luneburg, Coffeewood, Greensville, Indiancreek, Keen Mountain, Red Onion, Wallensridge, Sussex I and II, Pocahontas, River North, Fluvanna, Dillwyn, and a number of camps have all been built. So Senator Danny Diggs what exactly is going on in Virginia Society and terms of its Social Contract that is necessitating the scale economy of prison construction ?Because as a legislator in the Commonwealth of Virginia , you are accountable to The People and please .spare us that theologic "absence of school prayer "explanatory sophistry conventionally deployed by conservative viz Republican machinations as that proverbial ring in the nose of the metaphorical, stand in for The People, Bull, used to induce docility and control. Because we ain't buying it. The problem with Virginia's parole process, historically, isn't that it was given to the Virginia prisoner as Republican foot soldiers and their disgraced leader George Allen gave us the lie during the 1995 process of its abolishment, which Senator Danny Diggs unseemingly, continues its propagation, but it wasn't given to the Virginia prisoner. What addled brain would think that Virginia, a State that was in the vanguard of renaming the practice of slavery with "imprisonment" would use the process of parole as its reform minded proponents intended?. Parole in Virginia was and has always been a box to be checked by Virginia's status quo as Bonafide's of the Commonwealth's civilization.

By Wiiliam 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