VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS AND THE POLITICS OF IMPRISONMENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH by William Thorpe

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That thing of, "if you can't speak for yourself, someone else will "and its almost a given that, it won't be in your interest, doesn't just apply to the usual suspects, meaning those perennially defined by the exploitive status quo narrative, that means prisoners and the dynamic and history that produces and creates us, but also major Political Partys, like The Democratic Party of Virginia or as I'll use it in this work, Virginia Democrats. Because forever Virginia Democrats have allowed others to define them on issues of imprisonment in The Commonwealth by speaking not necessarily for them but on them and naturally, you guessed it disadvantaging not merely card carrying Democrats, but the entire Social Contract and its integrity because anything and I underscore and emphasize, anything that undermines the faith and trust in the narrative of Virginia's Social Contract, which the maladministration of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and imprisonment typically highlights, only metastasizes that inevitable rot. I begin: Virginia Democrats notwithstanding the impactful work they, gave the Commonwealth under the leadership of Governor Ralph Northam, by way of certain reforms of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and imprisonment scheme, seem to be regressing to their habit of allowing others to frame their intentions and define them in ridiculous and frivolous ways as it relates to and concerns imprisonment in the Commonwealth.

Contrary to the propaganda of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, it isn't about justice or punishment or even rehabilitation and as a latest example and simple proof of this is the focus and efforts of Jason Miyares in his position as Attorney General, to scrap a Virginia law that has not only incentivized Virginia prisoner constructive behavior, but ensured that 64.5% of released prisoners didn't reoffend. The law in question was one demanded by the Virginia citizenry, who at least are not burdened with the truth that Virginia's imprisonment scheme is an undeniable, cataclysmic, catastrophic and unmitigated disaster, evidenced by the spectacle and an incredulous one at that of the attorney general denouncing a law that is creating stable citizen behavior of released imprisoned Virginians. Virginia Democrats were pliant accomplices in the Republican speculative work of abolishing parole in the Commonwealth in 1995 which by employing Republican logic, metric and sophistry has been a complete failure, because they still beat the crime drum, expecting us to forget and ignore that abolishing parole was sold as a end all. No one expects a end all, when the question is human behavior and the focus of this work isn't to indulge in its speculation. What I'm getting at is reminding Virginia Democrats that they have a lot and much to say on the terms of Virginia's Social Contract within its imprisonment scheme.

The Politics of Imprisonment in Virginia is simple, its on Virginia Republican terms, meaning they exploit the malbehavior of criminality and deviance and the obvious harm on victims to speculative political power, while braining Virginia Democrats over the head with the invective and slur, "soft on crime", therefore rendering Democrats reform polemic impotent. What is fascinating about this, or rather what the politics of imprisonment reveals is the fear Virginia Democrats harbor over crime as their Achilles heel. Because the opposite is true, Republicans are the ones who support and enable the criminality of impunity by the Virginia prison official. But what Republicans have been able to effectively do is recharacterize what should be considered as crime, what the People of Virginia should focus on as impacting, again the Republican definition of Public Safety, in other words its that classic distraction by the matador with the red cape to the Bull, while concealing the plunging sword. Because the criminality perpetrated by the Virginia prison official destroys faith and trust in Virginia's Social Contract.

First of all Republicans and the Virginia Republican would rather care less about crime, save for the fact its a convenient tool and mechanism to extract votes from the people of Virginia to accomplish their one and only intent, which is crass social recognition and plunder of the accompanying accoutrements of political leadership, because their stated raison d'tre, disqualifies them from any practical and honest contribution to that Madisonian concept and aspiration of a "more perfect union", which is what reform of and introspective examination of aspects of The Social Contract ask of The People, particularly within the apparatus of the Justice Infrastructure and the imprisonment scheme and we already know this, as such we hold The Democratic Party, who at least professes to have an inkling that even if ones "thought" only goes as far as the venality of political vanity, meaning that unwillingness to care about The People, still there has to be some sort of consideration of the subjects and basis of the exploitation, responsible for going along with the distortive narrative on criminal issues lobbed by Virginia Republicans who really have not a care on what is in the best interest 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