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