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No one denies or disputes that the issue and question of the Virginia Prison Official is that of Accountability, whether is its realization and pursuit or lack and of all the issues and questions we deal with and encounter as an inherent factor of our Human Condition, Accountability should be the least as issue, because whether it is thesis or antithesis, the dynamic of its presence and existence is synonymous with the genomic blocks of our lives as an ever present quadratic. Yet as objective of the Social Contract and its terms, it is bane and a nemesis. If Justice is the "fair administration of law" and if "fair and fairness" are again, a necessary quadratic for the existence and survival of the Human Being, because it doesn't take much to realize and recognize that we'll brain ourselves out of existence were fair and fairness not material fixtures and participant in our objective socialization and relations, which euphemistically is the accountability-function of objectivity, the glue holding and maintaining that equilibrium of purpose as The People, which again is ever present in our one on one individual interactions, so its resolution then, as a "For Itself" fact stands as our mature recognition that it is a necessary development for that aspirational materialization of our Social Contract embodied existence. I want to highlight how we undermine and regardless of intent, sabotage the pursuit of accountability. Recently 60 Minutes, an Investigative Feature of CBS News canned a feature interrogating the practices and conditions at El Salvador's CECOT described Mega Prison, where The Trump Administration had exported Venezuelans. The 60 Minutes Story which despite being censored in The U.S. was publicized in Canada. The feature was a collaboration with Human Rights Watch and the work of Students at The University of California-Berkeley's Digital Lab. The significance this story has to this work is it illustrates an aspect of, accountability, that even as it purports to pursue it in one form and level, it negates it as a general principle, and that typically is characterized as hypocrisy. I BEGIN: There is nothing about El Salvador's CECOT Prison, that in principle and in relative practice isn't in existence as condition and circumstance in Virginia's Level 4, 5 and 6 Prisons and Virginia isn't out on a limb, but all State Prison Systems, including The Federal Bureau of Prisons are El Salvador's CECOT, in one form or another. I'm not contra any focus on El Salvador's CECOT and its value to the current National political speech and analysis. My vantage is simple, critique of CECOT, shouldn't exist as another typical idealistic exercise as exception when it isn't, but is a fact of the principle. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH did an exposé on Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison (Super-Max) when it opened in 1998, as it also exposed Indiana's Super-Max conditions and imprisonment circumstances. But we don't have to rely only on HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, UC-BERKELEY Students or 60 Minutes, all we have to do is, not even a hard study, but merely peruse our Law Books, chronicling what the American Prisoner has said and had to say about prison conditions and imprisonment circumstances. Yes conditions at El Salvador's CECOT are abject, but when we talk about accountability and Human Rights Standards, the critique isn't mere analysis of "worse", because analysis and its accountability-function isn't to apologize for and excuse the general principle, but, critique exist and is intended to "resolve", because there are always "reasons" to be exploited and corrupted justifications.
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
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