WHEN THE CATS' AWAY By William Thorpe

The completion of the adage is.....THE MICE WILL PLAY and the CAT, is the People of Virginia and of course the MICE are the Virginia Department of Corrections. Why is this adage apt, because it concisely fits the behavior of the Virginia Prison Official. The People of Virginia regardless of reasons and assumptions have neglected their responsibilities, which as it applys to this work, is paying attention to and understanding what is being done in their name by the Virginia Department of Corrections and its prison official. First of all let's all be clear on this the Virginia Prisoner is not an enemy combatant, or member of an opposing army nor an insurgent, despite the fatuous verbiage of "war on crime" deployed and exploited by political shortsightedness. The Virginia prisoner is simply a human being, a Virginia citizen processed under Virginia's Justice and Legal infrastructure and imprisoned. In other words just as The Supreme Court of The United States, deployed the formulation, "significant and atypical hardship" as due process distinction in prison conditions, Constitutional DUE PROCESS adjudication, every single Virginian can excpect to experience imprisonment under Virginia's Justice Infrastructure not as an extraordinary occurrence but as part of, again under The Nations highest Court jurisprudence, the ordinary incidents of life. So in other words if any Virginian can experience Virginia's imprisonment scheme then, the mere pedestrian fact of imprisonment doesn't then cause and assume diametric transformation of citizen into an enemy combatant, which currently is the conventional wisdom applied viz, imprisonment in Virginia. Whether or not the Virginia prison official is a corrupt and malfeasant embodiment is an argument laid out in the various lawsuits, claims, allegations efforts by Virginia prisoners petitioning government. What this work is concerned with is the point and position that, the Commonwealth of Virginia is a lawless construct without The People understanding and filling their role as The People, final arbiter of all things Human Condition, Social Contract and Society. There's nothing complicated and disingenuous about the recognition that imprisonment in Virginia wasn't originally and historically constructed in pursuit of "Justice", however we are where we are with it and it cannot have one foot in antebellum Plantationesque presumptions and its intellectual-liberalism, while the other is playing footsie in modernity, the democratization of the rule of law and in communion and association with the civilizing aspirations of Human progress. Imprisonment in Virginia is the effect of imposition of sentence for a set period and within that set period are all sorts of mechanisms acknowledging and recognizing that the imprisonment could have been a travesty of justice for any number of reasons, because there is nothing that's infallible. The Virginia prison official is one tasked with operating under law and not above it, yet due to the Rip Van Winkle aspect of The Virginia People's attention, the Virginia prison official has relatively sneered, smirked and become pretentious in observing those Social Contract privileges of relationships with 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