THE POLITICIZATION OF CRIME By William Thorpe

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Yeah People its that season again, Yup in Virginia Elections are right around the corner and crime is back in vogue, meaning it has value as medium towards the end of attaining speculative political power. Now on the issue of criminality and the subsequent deviance, which has always presented itself as a universe of questions, arrayed as an entire range of aspects to be examined beginning with the primitive and its colloquial suppositions and then relatively revealing itself as a mirror reflecting the human condition. What we have come to understand is, its a denominator of interest and its shared nexus with, who benefits. So as we are witnessing in Virginia, those who care the least about the variegated levels and forms of criminality and its deviance are the ones exploiting or excavating value in it for their own specific sets of interest at the expense of its human cost, especially, the human cost. We have always observed and understood this, based on our levels of recognizing what is being played out, from the deliberate and purposeful criminalization of the general life of a type of Virginian and corollarial demographic as the politicization of crime. When we say "politicization of crime", we are speaking of a singular phenomenon, that is only concerned with exploiting crime for other purposes besides, amelioration and remedy. Understanding this distinction is necessary and valuable, because all crime are contextually political. In the sense that a politics is what defines and categorizes law, in otherwards the emergence of a society as for example the Commonwealth of Virginia upon that which it does for its survival or existence, or its political-economy, specifically the politics then establishes those means, forms and manners of interactions, relations and transactions as, Law, because it is the understanding of its techniques or culture. So Virginia, once had the political-economy of the chattel enslavement of Black People, subsequently it developed laws to secure and defend its practice of slavery and its politics reflected this to which as we understand that War as being politics by another name affirmed this with Virginia's Civil War treason.

Politicization of Crime, is the intellectual-liberalism of the exploitation of the generalized fear of and harm of a type of crime at the expense of the purpose and utility of the democratization of the rule of law and its process, in pursuit of attaining political power for certain specific reactionary goals. Critiquing this practice isnt a denial of the harm and destructiveness of crime, instead this critique and its exposure of the existence of the type and nature of the politics that shamelessly politicizes crime is highlighting that corrupting basis that births crime in the first place. Despite the fact that the Commonwealth of Virginia not only theorized against despotism, it practiced its synthesis or resolution by Waring against its antithesis the British King George lll as expressed in the Nations Revolutionary War. It's theorization was again the politicization of crime albeit, in its tyrannical form of an intolerable and corrupted Social Contract sets of relations with the British Colonial masters, which is the same exact dynamic we see at work by those who perennially exploit the criminality and deviance of a type of Virginian and demographic. The politics of politicizing crime and its exploitation is for all practical intent and purposes incapable of implementing those always necessary reforms of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure, the prison system and imprisonment scheme and notwithstanding such, if the center of the Social Contract must hold, if the systemic symptoms and effects of the politicization of crime are not to be pervasively encountered and experienced throughout the Virginia body politic, despite the various euphemisms given such symptoms as feeble and idealistic attempts at camouflaging their source and origins, the People of Virginia have to resoundingly reject the type and form of politics that only focuses on a type of crime at the expense of the crime that not only undermines the rule of law and its "equal under law" democratizing premise, but annihilates the requisite "faith and trust" in the due process terms of Virginia's Social Contract and 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