WHY THE WORK OF REFORMING VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME IS FUNDAMENTALLY ABOUT UNDERSTANDING WORD MEANING By William Thorpe

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What if I made the point that there isn't an act People are and have been imprisoned in Virginia for that hasn't been once upon a time and currently, also performed, primarily in the interest of the Commonwealth of Virginia and its Social Contract? Of course, there will be those who will rise up decrying the effrontery and there will be those who will not only attest to the honesty and correctness of the statement, but will defend it with: and that's why we must reform the Accountability-Function of governance by subordinating the levers of State Organized-Violence to it, which Virginia's imprisonment scheme and the foot soldier, Prison Official are principals. The difference between the above-described positions is fundamentally, the grasp and cognition of word meaning. Yes, you're right to recognize that, the dynamic of corruption, or the above-the-lawism of impunity, in its crass form of the "tolerance" of the pursuit and realization of "interests", exerts its latent dictatorial role on our honesty, loyalty and allegiance to word meaning. Still, I respond with disagreements with facts, which are essentially word meanings, are a revelation of the underlying ignorance, which later on maturely emerges as "short sightedness". So, if Virginia Social Contracts' euphemisms, word salads, ill grasped word meanings are in fact the proverbial Windmills of Don Quixote appearing as unassailable and impregnable citadels, then our work of compelling the Accountability-Function of Virginia's governance is to stand on the simple ask that, if our lives as played out in the business of human existence are consequence, then it's time we applied correct definitions of word meaning. I BEGIN: No one disagrees with the word meaning of LAW. The issue or disagreement with it, is its application, with the debate over the application conveniently exploiting to what extent the various values or positions grasp its word meaning and in most cases the application is defaulted to that lack of meaning. So, for Exa analysis of Virginia's imprisonment scheme meaning its reform, goes no further than to what extent, its Creator, LAW is understood. At this juncture I want to use this bit of anecdote as illustration, Ahoto Taysir Mulazim (Harold Carpenter), who has since passed, used to be in the trenches with me in Virginia's Solitary Confinement Koncentration Kamps. He initially came to prison with, I think 5 years and in the course of protesting and resisting violations in Virginia's imprisonment scheme he accumulated additional time. When Ahoto was initially arrested and all of that in the City of Richmond, Virginia, the cops violated his rights as a juvenile by failing to have a Parent or Guardian, present. This wasn't unique to Ahoto, it was almost standard operating cop behavior, to violate parental and guardianship laws of certain Virginia demographic. This was addressed by Virginia's Appellate Courts in a case that came to be known as BAKER'S CLAIM. The result of Baker's Claim was hundreds, if not thousands of Virginia prisoners whose juvenile rights had been violated, were being released from prison. Of course, the status quo didn't like it, but that's not the point, I'm making. Here is the point, Ahoto was recognized as member of the Baker's Claim class. However, he was denied release because of the additional time he had accumulated protesting and resisting the violations of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Naturally he challenged the denial of release. The Judge hearing the case told Ahoto, that even though his initial imprisonment was illegal, the added sentences weren't as such he'd stay confined. Ahoto's, position was those other charges wouldn't have happened weren't for the illegal imprisonment.

The reason I share this Ahoto anecdote, is to show how LAW as all things human existence and the ensuing Condition is about WORDS and to what extent we grasp and understand. Because when we don't, we are its victim. Virginia's Imprisonment Scheme is supposedly primarily structured on the Words found at VIRGINIA CODE 53.1, Titled as PRISONS AND OTHER METHODS OF CORRECTION. Now the title as all other words contained in it are Law. Because Virginia Prisons, Methods of Correction are and exist as a creation of law. What I'm saying is in itself an entire Universe of meaning, which is the function of Law, till we are able to say okay enough is enough submit to the actual and correct definition. When we don't do this then the double or even triple meaning begins to become a fact, which in turn is also structured on other "facts", which then begins to be accepted and engaged on the terms that it is Tradition, Heritage and Cultural. While doing everything it can to conceal and distort the fact that any and all moments are right and appropriate to challenge its existence and in turn call it to account. So for example Virginia's 53.1, dealing with prisons, begins with Section 53.1-1 DEFINITIONS and it goes on to describe: "As used in this title, unless the context requires a different meaning": [then it goes on to create or breathe legal air on to various terms, that can and will have life and death authority over the imprisoned and free human being by the meaning. Listed among the terms are] ["State Correctional Facility "means any Correctional Center or Correctional Field Unit used for the incarceration of adult offenders established and operated by the Department of Corrections, or operated pursuant to the Corrections Private Services Act (53.1-261 et seq) "State Correctional Facility" includes "penitentiary "whenever used in this title or other titles of the Code.] Now I excerpted this section to show this, what are the names of Red Onion, Wallens Ridge and Sussex all are State Prisons, however Virginia law as dictated in 53.1-1 says nothing about State Prisons instead it includes penitentiary. Now, there are those who'll say, well penitentiary is synonymous with prison. All of that can be true yet law isn't based on synonyms, unless in its definition it includes "and all synonyms". Here is an example people are still fighting over the appearance of commas in the 2d amendment to the Constitution of the United States, meaning, Law is word meaning and grammar. I'm going to these lengths in this work, to show how in a lot of ways we are sabotaged in our work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme due to our participation in the distortion, appropriation, acceptance of misleading word meaning and we see this pertinently in the construction of PAROLE in Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Fundamentally "Parole" is a definition of release from some sort of constraint. As such its process isn't to determine, WHY parole should be granted but why IT SHOULDN'T. Now this is simple word meaning, but we have allowed its reuse and misuse to transform it into its antonym, because we have historically related and reacted to the entire imprisonment scheme from a position of accepting that the dehumanization which we are subjected to is a self-fulfilling, self-affirming proof that as Virginia prisoners we are less than. Instead of it being an empirical articulation that the dehumanization professionally practiced by the Virginia prison official is a testament of their extra-judicial and crass above-the-lawism indulgences, that are defrauding the Constituted Aspirations of The People of Virginia. Everything applied as Virginia's imprisonment scheme is word meaning construct, from a Parole determinations formulating "a" Public Safety rationale to Governor Spanberger's recent "living" descriptive.

By William Thorpe

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 .

SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS PART IX By William Thorpe

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People I trust you are reading and studying some of the works I list in this series. As I'm always emphasizing we are "ruled" and subjects of a line of thinking that is truly alien and quite frankly antithetical to what you the People of Virginia commonly think and presume undergirds the judgement of those you vote as representation. And there isn't an area that is the testing ground of this convoluted line of thinking, than Prison and the Imprisonment scheme. Because in the administration of the American, viz Virginia's imprisonment scheme more than any other expression, is where we encounter this convoluted line of thinking in its most pure and undiluted duplicity and it is borne on the machinations of the IDEA INDUSTRY, who are liege Lords to the Politician and Legislator. It is vital that The People are privy to the product of the IDEA INDUSTRY, which I have been listing in this series, in order to get past the double talk and outright lies employed by those status quo functionaries, which in essence are most of the Politicians. Below, listed are titles of works, I ask we familiarize ourselves with:

UNION AND STATES RIGHTS: SECESSION, 150 YEARS AFTER SUMTER: SECESSION AND BREACH OF COMPACT: THE LAW OF NATURE MEETS THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION---45 AKRON L.REV. 405 by STEPHEN C. NERF REVISITING THE CRITIQUE OF THOSE WHO UPHELD THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT IN THE 1840's AND 50's---58 AM.J. LEGAL HIST. 290 by PETER KARSTEN [this is a craven essay and it also highlights the line of thinking that's anti prison reform] CONCEPTUALIZATION CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION AS ANTI-GOVERNMENT EXPRESSION: A SPEECH CENTERED THEORY OF COURT ACCESS---51 AM.U.L.REV. 835 by ROBERT L. TSAI [cited in POWELL v. ALEXANDER 391 F.3d 1, McCOY v. GOORD 255 F.SUPP.2d 233] EXTENDING GORE AND STATE FARM'S PROMISE OF FAIRNESS IN PUNISHMENT TO A CRIMINAL CONTEXT----58 DRAKE L.REV. 819 by RICARDO N. CARDOVA JUSTICE GORSUCH VIEWS ON PRECEDENT IN THE CONTEXT OF STATUTORY INTERPRETATION----70 ALA.L.REV.687 by HILLEL Y. LEVIN [please study this work with the construction or self-proclaimed logic of prison policy and its jurisprudence in defense by the Courts in mind with the framework of elevating prison reform issues in political campaigns] SALIM v. MITCHELL: A FIRST IN ACCOUNTABILITY FOR VICTIMS OF THE UNITED STATES TORTURE PROGRAM----18 SANTA CLARA J. INT'L. L. 214 by CAMILLA AMATO DIGNITY IN DETENTION: ADDRESSING GYNECOLOGICAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF PEOPLE DETAINED BY U.S. IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES----34 ANN.HEALTH L. 177 by GLYKERIA TEJI and SHIRA WISOTSKY THE ESSENCE OF HER WOMANHOOD: DEFINING THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF WOMEN PRISONERS AND THE EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS OF WOMEN GUARDS, INTRODUCTION----7 AM.U.J. GENDER SOC.POL'Y and L.1 by REBECCA JURADO RACE, POLITICS AND REDEMPTION: AN INVESTIGATION INTO VIRGINIA'S DEATH PENALTY REPEAL---25 LOY.J. PUB. INT.L.1 by MICHAEL L. RADELET [people this is a damn good, excellent and well presented work. It also exposes the fraudulent and hypocritical thought of Virginia Republicans, the author Michael Radelet should be commended and it also underscores the necessity for unconditional analysis in a reform movement. As a last word I want to also echo Mr. Radelet's reminder that backwards and reactionary Virginia Republicans will most definitely try to reinstate the death penalty in Virginia when they again become the legislature majority.] VULNERABILITY AND JUST DESERT: A THEORY OF SENTENCING AND MENTAL ILLNESS----103 J.CRIM.L. and CRIMINOLOGY 147 by E.LEA JOHNSTON The above listed are illustrations of the cogs of Society's engine. Contrary to the pablum we are fed on that extremely long handled spoon, its all about Control and it's Interest.

By William Thorpe

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 .

YES THE VALLEY JUSTICE COALITION SPEAKS UP FOR THE VIRGINIA PRISONER, BUT THE INDEFENSIBLE HB 1030 LAW ISN'T A HILL TO DIE ON By William Thorpe

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I'm fully aware that expending mental labor on the HB 1030 Law, is purely a distraction. However its critique and ensuing struggle with The Valley Justice Coalition is actually and truly part of the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme and holding the Virginia prison official accountable, because we all know where the prison official stands , but among ourselves as the People, which The Valley Justice Coalition is element, analytical resolution of grasp of the antagonism presented by Virginia's imprisonment scheme is a duty and obligation, is a must if we are to materialize the accountability-function of Virginia's governance. With this stated, I BEGIN: Yes, the Valley Justice Coalition was primarily instrumental in the crystallization of HB 1030 as Virginia law codified at VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-151.1. However, it was a misguided effort that has created as the law currently exist a fraud. Because HB 1030 embodies all that enables the inherent corrupt dynamic of not just the Parole process which the law purports to reform, but it's zeitgeist operative. The fact that a couple of Virginia prisoners birthed it's schematic isn't absolution nor does it in any way form, manner or fashion change and alter the irredeemable fact that the law is a fraud and an albatross around the already insufferably yoked necks of the Virginia prisoner. Pick whatever continuum chapter of injustice of our Human Condition and the immediate and proximate cause and reagent enabler are members of the target recipient of the injustice, so the fact that a couple of Virginia prisoners instigated a self-harm enterprise isn't news. Now I've been exposing HB 1030 as an insidious work, since its, emergence, fully clothed in the unanimous smirking and fingers crossed, wink, winky of the Virginia anti-prisoner formulation, notwithstanding the unanimity of the "ayes". Even though the Valley Justice Coalition has been an advocate for the Virginia prisoner, we have to challenge it, when it missteps. So as it currently stands nothing has changed in Virginia's status quo posture on the correct admission of what is Parole, it is still a gambit. There is a diametrical dichotomous dissonance of comprehension, from what the Constituted Aspirations of the People of Virginia grasp Parole to be from its Virginia Governmental vis a vis as applied Political exploitation and this dissonance is maintained by Virginia Parole jurisprudence, which when the Virginia prisoner victimized by the exploitation, goes to the Court house petitioning his case that the Parole Process is unconstitutionally depriving him of liberty or release without due process of law, encounters to the fullest. Parole exists as member of the tribe, of mechanisms created to release the Prisoner from imprisonment before term of the imposed sentence. Its kinsmen are Pardon, Clemency and Commutation. The operative is "release from imprisonment before term of sentence". In other words, the purpose of Parole is not to determine why the Prisoner should be released, but why he or she shouldn't. This inversion has a universe of reasons, with the primary and fundamental being that the Virginia demographic immediately subjected to the inversion, the Prisoner, Family, Ally and Friends didn't speak up against the sophistry that borne the inversion as such it was extremely easy for the anti-Prisoner formulant to sabotage, betray and subsequently undermine the reason a mechanism as Parole, with one and only one purpose, release from imprisonment would even exist. So, what the Valley Justice Coalition plus collaborators have, with HB 1030 done is continue the "why" should Parole be given inversion.

By William Thorpe

 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 . 

THE INFAMOUS VIRGINIA PAROLE REFORM HB 1030 CODIFIED AT VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-151.1 CONTRARY TO THE MINT JULEP HIGH OF ITS DEFENDERS IS ANOTHER "OLE VIRGINIA" By William Thorpe

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Since HB 1030 saw the light of the day, I've been exposing it as a fraud. HB 1030 appeared as the brain child of a couple of Virginia Prisoners, who were being denied Parole. Their idea for reforming Virginia's Parole Process, then, after going through the hands of certain Virginia Prison Reform Advocates ended up with the "opportunity" recognizing Virginia General Assembly member Delegate Tony Wilt (R) and his assistant Chad Funkhouser. Subsequently Delegate Tony Wilt didn't have any problem getting his Virginia General Assembly colleagues to recognize what a godsend the prospective parole reform idea was, because it presented every last one of them, from the reactionary-philistine to the enlightened Progressive, a Rorschach - Test opportunity affirmation of, for each their bonafides, to the burnishing of claims of wanting what's best after all for the Virginia demographic subject to the historicity of the imprisonment scheme, contrary to critics. So it wasn't a feat to have occurring in the General Assembly of The Commonwealth of Virginia in 2026 the "collusion" of it's various and disparate political factions unanimously saying "aye" to HB 1030. Which to any honest observer was proof enough of its fraudulent and corrupt nature and not of justness and being on the correct side of history. I mean we are talking about the same Virginia Republicans who in that same session were producing, sponsoring and advancing Bills targeting Virginia's imprisoned geriatrics for defacto to the grave imprisonment all of a sudden joining hands with Virginia Democrats and voting for a Bill presenting itself as means of release from imprisonment? Unless the quacks like a duck part has been a lie, then there is nothing honest and reformative about HB 1030.This incidental with the defenders of HB 1030, is instructive of a phenomenon that keeps on reappearing with any circumstance of the work of Reform. What happens is there isn't a clear and practical grasp of the fact that, reform, is actually about changing the human existence by improving circumstances and conditions. The tension that appears, which in this particular HB 1030 case, is its defenders have become unwilling to simply examine the law, against the prior and pre HB 1030 circumstance and ask the simple question: why are Virginia prisoners who are the intended beneficiaries of the law, saying it is fraudulent?. Because its defenders have become idealistically invested in the law at the expense of its practical existence in the real and profane world of the imprisoned Virginian. So for example emphasis is placed on the "work sheet", function of the law without pausing to recognize that all its metrics and data points for the most part hinge on approximations, abstractions and the dictatorship of "a" administrative process that is fundamentally weighted and tilted to whatever the interests of the Virginia prison official are and can contemporaneously be. Let's take the infraction metric and it's demerit function, which is extraordinarily consequential yet it doesn't currently comply with the least modicum of due process equal to its consequence. Nothing I'm outlining is insight. All that I point out are fundamental antagonisms of the imprisonment scheme, which is the natural foe of the Prisoner, which have required and necessitated the solidarity of ally and friends in its articulation. The very nature of Parole has been perverted from a status to be granted to its current, "why", should it be granted. This is the point we not only must make but amplify. 

By William Thorpe

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 .

SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS PART VIII By William Thorpe

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I've been using this SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS series to keep underscoring and emphasizing this one and simple point, which is: If we don't speak up for ourselves someone else will and it won't be in our interest. As such I've been listing for the FAMILY, ALLY and FRIEND of the Virginia Prisoner and in extension the National Prisoner, works by those dealing in the Idea Industry, who influence our Political leaders and Policy makers in ways the voter, who voted the Legislator into Power do not. So recently I was listening to the ravings by one of the White-Evangelical mouth pieces on one of the Republican propaganda Fronts, The American Family Radio and besides being a shill for neo-feudalism, White-Evangelical commentary on criminal justice issues have been an extraordinary reactionary impediment, exploiting the Politicians shameless quest for votes. So I subjected myself to the experience of what new depths can White-Evangelical hypocrisy reach and the menu offered up, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. Initially I wondered why White-Evangelicals would be up in arms over Restorative Justice, which has a right to its day in the Sun as all other Justice formulations, if that's what the People as Community appreciates as satisfying Society's needs. Anyway as I always approach the grasp of a point of view, I do it on the terms of the objection. So I seeked the basis for the White-Evangelical critique of Restorative Justice not on what Restorative Justice actually is but on what if anything in Christianity supports the claim that advocating and endorsing Restorative Justice is violative of and at odds with a Christian's, sincere and deeply held belief and what I encountered was that same ole same critique of fundamental human nature, which as I stated earlier, yup, hypocrisy. Because the mouth piece on the radio hadn't been but a couple of minutes into his apoplexy, when he uttered, Liberal and Blue States are soft on crime, with this Restorative Justice stuff, when the Bible teaches we should,(at this point, I'd rather paraphrase) obey the law of the land. Man talk about hadn't it been for the fact that I'm not surprised with the twisted logic of the mind stuck in the hapless morass of supremacy, which is the White-Evangelical's pathetic refuge, I'd have actually wondered. Because imagine the logic of critiquing a law (which aspects of Restorative Justice is law in some Communities across the Nation) on the grounds the Bible exhorts adherents to obey the law of the land, (but when that law is Restorative Justice damn it to hell because it's a purported Liberal Formulation, that to let White-Evangelical Christianity tell it is "soft on crime"?) and all of this is being stated with a straight face and its such logic that Politicians, especially Democrats are "terrified" of being its object? When not only is it, even on mere secular terms laughable and enfeebled but it cannot even find defense for its spectacle on its own Biblical terms. Anyway, the point I want to make with this ridiculous spectacle criticism of Restorative Justice from a White-Evangelical radio mouth piece, is simply this. The roadblocks that have perennially stood in the way of reform have as motive, which this criticism of Restorative Justice, shows is that fear the Supremacist have of losing privilege. Because when we listen closely to what the opponents of reform and in particular, as it concerns us, the Virginia imprisonment scheme are saying, it isn't that they don't understand reform, because they themselves are facts and results of reform, but they recognize that reform implies accountability for status that once upon a time was taken for granted and they more than anyone else understand the true function of the imprisonment scheme, as such are anti its reform.

By William Thorpe

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 .

JUST AS SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ENDORSED, SUPPORTED AND DEFENDED CHATTEL ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE, VIRGINIA'S MENTAL HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT IS COMPLICIT IN THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL'S DEHUMANIZATION OF THE IMPRISONED VIRGINIAN By William Thorpe

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During one of the U.S Senate's recent idealistic hearings on "wokeness", a former Chairman of the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, immortalized this rejoinder and I paraphrase, that he had read and studied Marxism, so did that make him a Marxist?. I begin this work with it as illustration, to show how everything is about, who is saying what and at what point in time, because Justness, in its presence as Accountability, in the business of human existence as the Human Condition, is about ferreting out "interest". What I mean by interest is simply that revelation of to what extent will the always present latent and inherent corruption of a system be tolerated. I titled this work with the reminder of the role Southern Evangelical Christianity played in the political-economy of chattel slavery and I need not quote this or that in it's defense, because the indictment is well established and fully developed, not just on the terms of their very own faith and tenets, but their historic inability to repudiate the behavior, which segues into the other half of the title, which is: VIRGINIA'S MENTAL HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT IS COMPLICIT IN THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL'S DEHUMANIZATION OF THE IMPRISONED VIRGINIAN. I BEGIN: Whereas Southern Evangelical Christianity's complicity with the chattel enslavement of Black People has been comprehensively derided and exposed for what it pathetically was, Virginia's Mental Health Establishment hasn't been subjected to an equally comparative examination of its behavior and participation in the dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner. Which stands as example of that, who is saying what and at what point in time, which isn't critique of inability, but, it speaks to the mechanics of Virginia's Social Contract benefitting from that adage of hiding something in plain sight, which in turn speaks to the narrative dynamic of what is needed to maintain and ensure the orderly function of the business of human existence. In other words Society "tolerates", that which isn't being exposed as patently antagonistic and forever the Mental Health Establishment, whether locally or Nationally has exploited that tolerance. Because we cannot talk about and endeavor to hold the Prison Official accountable and subordinate him to the accountability-function of governance and ignore the role the Mental Health establishment plays in the imprisonment scheme. In 2019, I put together some work, titled, WHEN NOTED "EXPRESS INDIFFERENCE": RED ONION STATE PRISON,MENTAL HEALTH and IT'S PRACTICE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, the work was published on January 10, 2019.I showed how a number of Court rulings starting with the Supreme Court of The United States, as far back as 1890, had indicted the Mental Health impact on imprisonment. What is salient is this: the Imprisoned Human Being, is purely a creation of law, nothing more nothing less. However there is that tendency, where we see the effect of again, tolerance of how that fact is glossed over and People naturally begin to accept the narrative from the beneficiaries of the imprisonment scheme, that the prisoner is something else and one of the co-conspirators in the transformation of the legal circumstance of the prisoner into an ad hoc extra-judicial circumstance are the Mental Health Establishment. Who overtly and covertly provide cover for the prison officials dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner, which wasn't and isn't part of the Prison Sentence, but due to our silence, we don't point it out, by exposing the complicity.

By William Thorpe

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 .

YES VIRGINIA'S MENTAL HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT, AS ALL IT'S OTHER MAJOR VECTORS, IS EQUALLY CULPABLE AS THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL By William Thorpe

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If political-economy is the foundation, the super structure of the business of human existence, then the Mental Health of the human being and the socio-person are the eyes, seeing which way is forward. If the imprisonment schemes of modern Social Contracts, exist primarily to keep and maintain control of Labor or the human worker hierarchically proximate to the business of qualifying quality from quantity necessary for human existence, which is aspect of the political-economy formulation, then, as I've already stated, mental health are the eyes grounding, which way is forward. So considering that this is fundamental insight, clearly grasped and understood by the Government element, which the Prison Official is cog. Accordingly for purpose of our work, the Virginia Prison Official, then the claim of ignorance typically exploited as qualified immunity, to evade accountability, has no bearing on our work. Because where the orthodoxy of conventional analysis and critique of Virginia's Social Contract primarily exist to excuse by serving up idealistic justifications for its contradictory and antagonistic narratives. Our work of holding the Virginia Prison official accountable and subordinate to the will and intention of the Virginia People, has a more practical purpose than defending a construct that has origin in the Imperial Conquest Speech of post-1400's. As such where conventional analysis apologizes, ours is committed to showing, for example that the anti-People, subjugative, neo-feudalistic nature of the accountability-function of Virginia's governance has every aspect of Establishment complicity. Which means our work isn't a mere parroting of narratives that excuse and obfuscate instead of revealing culpability. I BEGIN: Virginia's imprisonment scheme is incapable of repudiating and shedding off its State organized-violence function in the Social Contract, as such it cannot deny nor shrug off the direct effect and impact it has on the mental health of the Virginia prisoner, which the prisoner wasn't imprisoned to have it tampered with (Before I continue, the deleterious effects of the post-1400 as a mental health dynamic is extensively documented in all of its alienating character emergence, and Secondly, this is where we find that Virginia's imprisonment scheme, despite enveloping and encloaking itself under the DUE PROCESS OF LAW approximation, is nothing more than another ad hoc suppositionary enterprise taking advantage of the fact its subordinate demographics are summarily unable of compelling, contradiction synthesis, manifested in as I've stated the imprisoned's mental health being extra-judicially tampered with). But besides that, the more insidious factor is our obliviousness to the existence of willing complicit participants as Virginia's Mental Health Establishment. The Virginia Prison Official is never short or bereft of apologetic narratives. For one the work is dehumanization, as such the professional behavior is fundamentally dishonest requiring opacity. Just as the work of Administratively exterminating the human being or the political-economy formulation of chattel enslavement of the human being are never honest in its disclosure and are descriptively opaque. However, besides the idea and fundamental submission to the sacrosanctity of Human Life, the socio-person and Professional socio-person who embody the Establishment, as Virginia's Mental Health, expect and anticipate "Respect". In the context, that they're participating in the progressive development of the business of human existence. Well, our work is to remind them that complicity isn't respectability.

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 .

HOLDING VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME ACCOUNTABLE IS A HELLUVA LOT MORE THAN COMPLAINTS TO THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS By William Thorpe

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Everything that I write is intended to convey some insight into the above-the-lawism circumstance of Virginia prison official's impunity. Along with underscoring the simple fact that yes, the prison official might be the immediate perpetrator. But when the nature and existence of the impunity is systemic and a helluva lot of effort and ingenuity has went into its concealment and mystification by its beneficiaries, then it is incumbent on us to state such. And stating such also means showing how the dehumanization of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, which is our focus, is a result of a lot of unaccountability from vectors and sectors of Virginia's Social Contract, which understandably and excusably, a majority of Family, Ally and Friend of the Virginia Prisoner, haven't considered. Not because of incapability, but the Social Contract or Virginia Society and governance is purposefully and deliberately structured to obscure it, as a continuum of the STAR CHAMBER dynamic of repression. Listed are cases that touch on the dynamic of the STAR CHAMBER, despite ignoring its logic in the imprisonment scheme.[FARETTA v. CAL 422 U.S 806, IN RE OLIVER 333 U.S. 257, UNITED STATES v. ELLIS 2026 U.S App. LEXIS 21344 and WALTERS v. DALE (IN FLINT WATER CASES) 53 F.4th 176] I cite these case to show that even as they denounce and point out the evils of the STAR CHAMBER, they conveniently ignore that its logic is very much alive and well in the repression meted by the prison official on a daily basis to the American prisoner, which for purposes of our work, the Virginia prisoner. Which is to say if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, of course its a duck. I BEGIN: I spoke of vectors and sectors of Virginia's Social Contract that are equally culpable with the dehumanization regime of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. With this work, I will focus on the lack of accountability of Virginia's Mental Health Establishment. Mental Health throughout the history of our human condition has endured and been subjected to all sorts of characterizations. Which for purpose of this work I will categorize as the idealism of ignorance and the enlightenment of materialistic investigation. The one constant is the Patient, who is buffeted whither hither with the event. Another occurring fact is the ongoing battle for supremacy between the two categories, that has nothing to do with the actual live human being patient and the mental health event, but everything to do with whatever motive force and logic driving the external acknowledgement, as phenomenon of the mental health event. So for example we have Ronald Wilson Reagan, upon assuming the U.S. Presidency in 1980, treating mental health patients as flotsam and effluent by ejecting them out of Mental health Hospitals and Institutions, to the schizophrenic performative piety of certain Religious faith sectors who are unwilling to recognize the enlightenment of the materialist investigation into the mental health event and phenomena and all battling with the materialist investigation of the mental health, which naturally results in exposing the inherent corruption that is latent in the business of human existence, when the governance of the accountability-function is undermined. Which is what we see as Virginia's Mental Health Establishment on the issue and question of reforming the imprisonment scheme. The issue is, Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia prisoner cannot just call out the Virginia prison official on the violations of mental health without pointing the finger at Virginia's Mental Health Establishment, who are responsible.

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 .

HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE IS MORE THAN VOTING IN POLITICIANS WHO WILL PERFORM OVERSIGHT, BUT HOW COMPREHENSIVE AN UNDERSTANDING WE HAVE OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT By William Thorpe

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So, in response to work titled, THE SAVAGERY AND BARBARISM OF THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM HAS PRODUCED GIANTS IN OPPOSITION...... which I assume came from a mind and heart sharing and having affinity with the savagery and barbarism, this was and I paraphrase stated, what did the work have to do with Virginia prisoners committing suicide. Now do I think that a Virginia prison official under a pseudonym, made the comment as a distraction from the fact that the imprisonment scheme, Virginia's or Nationally, is pure unadulterated savagery and barbarism, is besides the point. But what the comment does is present opportunity for focus on and a highlight of an aspect we seemingly and virtually fail to consider and even when it nibbles at the back of our mind, we take it for granted. What I'm talking about is the degree to which we are practically ignorant of the THOUGHT or construct of the SOCIAL CONTRACT or THE SYSTEM. Now let's just take it on face value that the commentator speaking of prisoner suicide is actually oblivious to the connection savagery and barbarism has on also inducing suicide, which the Supreme Court of The United States in 1890, in a moment of honesty and unbiased reasoning, noted in the case IN RE MEDLEY 134 U.S 160, that prisoners in solitary confinement and I quote, "committed suicide". This is what Jurist of the highest Court in the land said in 1890 and not even the most vile and incorrigible Prison Official will dare argue that solitary confinement isn't a savage and barbaric condition, but my focus is on more than stating the obvious. What I ask of us in this work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, is we have to actually grasp the construct of Virginia's Social Contract, in order to recognize that the accountability-function of governance is much more than legislative action, because for one a Supreme Court whether a States' or Federal can null and void legislative action, which the only Accountability available is that of the fundamental grasp of the People, which essentially is to what extent the People are capable of activating that "Speech", of the Emperor has no clothes. In other words, when the dynamic of governance stands gloriously naked and to a degree the Supreme Court of Hawaii in the case GRANILLO v. STATE 2026 HAW.LEXIS 179, in the writings of Justice Todd W. Eddins, has given us its schematic. Which simply is the activity of speech exposing. So, let's take the circumstance of Virginia prisoner suicide. For starters seldom do we see energetic speech from Family, Ally and Friends, cutting through the distractive and distortive noise of Virginia public discourse. Because complicity resulting in the suicides, isn't just due to the professional presence of the Virginia Prison Official as cause, but the very construct of Virginia's Social Contract and its lattice aspect, the gradient dehumanization of the socio-person. We see this in how the functionaries of Virginia's Social Contract, the Media, treat the fact of the prisoner suicide. Initially the media coverage, insidiously diminishes or down plays the suicide fact, then it matures to dismissing it with stunts as directing attention to and emphasizing whatever alleged convictions resulted in the imprisonment of the dead prisoner. This sort of media treatment is a result of bias enboldenment, serving a specific function, that of detouring fissure causing status quo criticism, which simply is the prisoner wasn't sent to prison to commit suicide. Then we have the silence from the Virginia Mental Health profession as complicity.

By William Thorpe

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 .

WE ARE NOT THE ONES DELEGITIMIZING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL, THE INHERENT CORRUPTION OF THE CONSTRUCT IS IT'S REAGENT By William Thorpe

There is only one acknowledgement to be realized: Which is the Virginia Prison Official's subordination to the Peoples intention of the Accountability-Function of governance. I BEGIN: I will spare us the enterprise of critiquing the sham Speech, meaning the activity of Virginia's Social Contract prior to the emergence of RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 VA.790 and simply stipulate, that the fatuous work of those 1871 Virginia Supreme Court Jurist examination of Virginia's Bill of Rights in RUFFIN clearly orients the corrupt inherency of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, which the Virginia prison official continues its embodiment. Whether or not I'm correct in characterizing the 1871 work of Virginia's Supreme Court in RUFFIN as fatuous isn't up to any honest debate and here is the basic fact, can a human or socio-person step outside of history? Of course not and simply having to state it shows how low it's bar of reason. Well that is exactly what those Virginia Jurist in 1871 ask us to accept, with their Bill of Rights excluding the Virginia prisoner jurisprudence and it's with that work does the inherent corruption of Virginia's imprisonment scheme stand pathetically laid bare and naked. Because you cannot say that human/socio-person's behavior is a construct of "law", then turn right around and "simply" proclaim that that creation of a construct of law, is all of a sudden outside of law and then introduce an arbiter, a summary dispensation of, to quote RUFFIN....."[S]such as the law in its benignity accords to them." This people is sophistry, a revelation of what law meant to and was understood by the Virginia Jurist of 1871, who naturally were either full members of the Commonwealth's elite or its support functionaries. Of course none of this Bi-Polarism of THOUGHT is novel, we encounter it over and over, time and time again. From the Virginia prison official's professional instinct of dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner, meaning seeing the prisoner as less than, while still expecting that the Virginia prisoner exhibit that most quintessential of humanness, which is the ability to comprehend, by exercising ability and capacity to understand, which in the context of the imprisonment scheme is prison rules, procedures, programs e.t.c, meaning the prisoner isn't less than, after all. To that other classic example of theorizing on Man's Liberty even as the practice of subjugation was reaching new dimensions with the creation of HOMO CHATTEL. Our human condition is replete with example after example of that inherent corruption as dialectical nemesis, when we are intent on holding it accountable. But when we are not we experience it as Southern enslavers accusing and "blaming" Northern Abolitionists for "instigating" ideas of freedom in the heads of the enslaved or the Virginia prison official having no refuge for the corrupt professional behavior of above-the-lawism, grasping the strawman logic that the People's intention and will of subordination to the accountability-function of governance is delegitimizing's delegitmization of the Virginia prison official is a fait accompli, revealed to the Virginia prisoner with every interaction with the Virginia prison official. All one has to do is peruse the chronicles upon chronicles of Court claims stating the sort of quite frankly disqualifying Virginia prison official behavior which Virginia law at Virginia code 19.2-83.6 and Virginia code 15.2-1707 are intended to respond to. When the prison official lies, contrives an infraction on a prisoner, denies a duty it's delegitimizing.

By William Thorpe

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 .

KIMBERLY SNODGRASS YOU SHOULDN'T BE THANKING ME, INSTEAD IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, US, THE VIRGINIA PRISONER THANK YOU AND ALL OUR WOMEN WHO IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ARE IN OUR LIVES By William Thorpe

I started the day, today 8/19/26 listening to a call in Radio Show on Houston, Texas KPFT and the topic was on masculinity, something about how men are "dominating and putting women in their place". When I was growing up the term for that sort of thinking was "chauvinism", now its misogyny, both describe, what our ancients said, and I paraphrase, that philosophers have described the World, now its on us to change it. Because as I was listening to the various voices, female and male expressing ill formed, idiotic, backwards, with the thoughtful and enlightening thinking sprinkled in between, it captured that world description, minus the change it part. Even though I was able to reflect on when I have also been demeaning and derisive towards females as a cultural normalcy, I still, then recognized distinction, that yes I demeaned or insulted a specific female, even a clique of females, still I knew that WOMAN was to be respected and accorded dignity. Of course, my level of the respect and acknowledgement of dignity, reflected and was an expression of, what I then knew. I say all of this to say, the attitudes and perspectives I was hearing coming through my headphones this morning were to put it simply, alien. Especially when I juxtapose what I know about the typical Woman in the life of the American Prisoner, which to be specific, for purpose of this work, the Virginian Woman in the life of the Virginia Prisoner, against the ridiculous caricaturization of females, on the airwaves of Texas this morning. Before I begin, when I talk about the Woman in the life of the American prisoner. Let's take the legendary champion Women Basketball Player, MAYA MOORE, who is now Maya Moore-Iorns and if you're not familiar with her story, please take the time to delve. Because Maya Moore was an exceptional basketball player. She won Championship after Championship at the University of Connecticut and she continued winning when she turned pro with the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA, whatever descriptive you can come up for her won't be enough. Then she gave it all up, she quit everything to devote and dedicate herself, the totality of her humanness, towards the work of freeing, JONATHAN IORNS a Missouri Prisoner, who she had come to the realization was falsely imprisoned. So Maya Moore did what the human being focused on a task does. As an end note to her story, not only did she accomplish her intention, but her last name is now, IORNS and they have to my knowledge a child. The behavior of Woman in the American Imprisonment Scheme isn't limited to Maya Moore as anecdote, but stories abound in all sorts of ways that speak to the incalculable strength of WOMAN to the American prisoner and this brings me to Virginia and KIMBERLY SNODGRASS. Recently Kim thanked me and,even though I understand where she's coming from, I still can't let it stand like that. Kimberly Snodgrass is a Mother who is dealing with the hell of having a Son imprisoned, while still having the mental, spiritual and emotional capacity to speak for us the Virginia Prisoner and she isn't by herself. From Stacey Thorpe, Michelle Griffin, Natasha White ,Fatimah Muwahhid, Dawn Bryant, Gaye Gardner to name just a pin drop of all our Virginia Women, who in small and large ways, with unfathomable strength, do what their humanness ask of them, not withstanding the tremendous obstacles thrown,tossed at them.The dehumanization they're subjected to because they dare say, Virginia prison official perform your duties lawfully. WE THANK YOU. 

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 

WHEN YOU VOTED FOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER AS GOVERNOR, YOU TRUSTED HER JUDGMENT. WELL PEOPLE SHE'S ASKED FOR INPUT ON REFORMING VIRGINIA'S PRISON SYSTEM, THE LEAST TO BE DONE IS EMAIL IT By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: When as prisoners we file requests, engage the Grievance process and or subsequently file law suits. We are in no uncertain terms saying, a condition must be changed, improved on or to make a long story short reformed. Here we are in 2026, there are a lot of Virginia prisoners who probably have heard about me, but don't know me personally, because when I was at the age a lot of 'em are now, waging daily battles with the Virginia prison official, they were not born. My saying this isn't to establish nothing besides: there isn't much about Virginia's imprisonment scheme, to me, that is nuanced or novel, save for something a politician, a Virginia Politician at that has recently done, which is when Governor Abigail Spanberger recently publicly asked for "input" on reforming the prison system. I write to say this, we have to acknowledge and recognize when energy is being infused and directed, where none existed prior and Governor Spanberger is infusing and directing energy at Virginia's imprisonment circumstance where none existed. Now there is criticism of Governor Spanberger, which reporter Sandy Hausman recently aired in an article, presenting the position held by those whose sentiments animated the article, that, the Governor hasn't done enough. I write to make one and only one point, which is, for the first time in Virginia's history and I'll be on solid ground to include our National history, that a sitting Governor, a current Politician has publicly asked the People for INPUT on reforming a prison system. Whether or not people's expectations and anticipations are completely met isn't the point. The point is, Governor Abigail Spanberger has validated Virginia prisoner's, Family, Ally and Friends claims that Virginia's imprisonment scheme must be reformed, with her "public" ask for INPUT and all serious minded Virginians, including prisoners, especially prisoners have to recognize its significance. Now to get into the mechanics of what the Governor is asking. It presents an unstated proposition. Which is, her ask is intended to debunk the anti-prisoner narrative, which goes like this: Politicians shouldn't spend political capital on reforming imprisonment, because no one really cares about prisoners, or there isn't political gain in its reformation. As I've already developed in another work on this topic, there are on the low or conservative side, 675,000 Virginians directly impacted by the life condition of the Virginia prisoner. So if 10% will express their concerns by contacting the Governor with INPUT, not only is that a consequential reality, but it now shows future politicians that speaking on imprisonment issues in the reform context are not political suicide but a win. Secondly, everything in our human condition is about "speech", and who is saying what. Speech creates space by legitimizing an issue with its elevation and there isn't a higher elevation or amplification of an issue than a Governor speaking on it. Governor Spanberger has done that. So now its on the People of Virginia to simply get on their key boards and tap out their concerns to the Governor. The approximately 45,000+ Virginia prisoner should remind family, ally and friends of this simple fact and that the cut off date is September 4th,2026 to email input, which also means views and concerns of the imprisonment scheme. Now here is also what is primary: despite, Governor Spanberger's speech on an issue doesn't in no form or manner define how we as the People grasp it. Governor Spanberger is a Governor with its own specific interests, We are the People, our interest encompasses hers.

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 

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEP AND HAND WRINGIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII WAS DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND AGAINST THE TRUMP PACKED SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: The Supreme Court of Hawaii was doing it's normal appellate function in a case GRANILLO v. STATE 2026 Haw. Lexis 179 on July 15, 2026. The case was about the 1990 conviction of Daniel R. Granillo for kidnapping and sexual assault. A FBI Agent Wayne Oakes provided expert testimony of scientific analysis that essentially convicted Mr. Granillo. Then in 2017, The United States Department of Justice informed Hawaiian Officials, that basically, FBI Agent Wayne Oakes expert testimony was false. Resulting in the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruling on July 15, 2026; that Mr. Granillo must be given a new trial. So, in writing the unanimous decision of the Court, Justice Todd W. Eddins, found cause to expose the fraudulent work of the Republicans and Conservatives on the Supreme Court of the United States in no uncertain terms that is basis of the title of this work and is germane to our work or reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Maybe, there is precedent for Justice Eddins exposé, nonetheless it is invaluable and instructive, to our understanding of, Law, the Social Contract and it's political-economy, accordingly below I excerpt it.

"We are not side-stepping anything. We are doing what state constitutionalism ask us to do. Stand our ground.....We interpret the Hawaii Constitution on its own terms. The United States Supreme Court's construction of the Federal DUE PROCESS CLAUSE does not define the protection of our State's DUE PROCESS CLAUSE. This Court " reason[s] independently, untethered from the Supreme Court's analysis of the United States Constitution" STATE v. WILSON 154 HAWAII 8 (2024). The Court that now defines Federal Due Process does not honor the work of 1954. It revives the work of 1857.The work of 1896. The Constitution must be interpreted "according to its true intent and meaning when it was adopted". DRED SCOTT v. STANDFORD 60 U.S. 393 (1857). Today's hubristic originalists use the same method to control modern life. See CITY and CNTY. OF HONOLULU v. SUNOCO LP. 153 HAWAII 326 (2022) (EDDINS J. Concurring) ("A Justice's personal values and ideas about the very old days suddenly control the lives of present and future generations"). The Court overrides what Congress passed. It overrides what the People chose. All to serve it's own ends. What this Court has done to Constitutional rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law explains why Hawaii's Constitution takes no instruction from it. Article I section 5 provides versatile and sovereign protection. The Court does not anchor Hawaii's Due Process rights to the Federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. We take no guidance on the meaning of Due Process from a court that gutted due process protections in DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORG. 597 U.S. 215 (2022) ZUFFANTE called it straight DOBBS erased a " generation-long constitutional right, stripping autonomy from half the population, and empowering States to force births" STATE v. ZUFFANTE 157 HAWAII 194 (2022). Article I section 5 does not import that results-driven approach to due process. We follow Principles, not Agendas.The Supreme Court's imperious ideology does not stop at Due Process. The same jurisprudence has created Democracy itself.Start with the Voting Rights Act.The Roberts Court did what Congress never would.It rewrote the VOTING RIGHTS ACT of 1965,a cornerstone of American Civil Rights,Democratically enacted and repeatedly reauthorized. SHELBY COUNTY v. HOLDER 570 U.S.529(2013),began the judicial demolition, inventing a textually unsupported equal-sovereignty fiction and striking down preclearance on a hunch that the law worked too well. BRANOVICH v. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 594 U.S. 647(2021),fabricated "guideposts" nowhere in SECTION 2 to greenlight racial discrimination in voting. LOUISIANA v. CALLAIS 146 S. Ct. 1231 (2026), buried what remained of the crown jewel of the Civil Rights movement. Pretend law for a real statute. The Court then ditched its own thirty-two day default for releasing decisions and hustled out its judgement mid-primary,a favor granted over objection only twice in twenty-five years. CALLAIS v.LOUISIANA 146 S.Ct.1111(2026) (JACKSON, J. dissenting). Weeks later, on it's shadow docket, the Court tossed an eleven-day trial record built on fifty-one witnesses,790 exhibits, 2,600 pages of testimony, and a 270-page opinion by a Three-Judge Court. See SINGLETON v. ALLEN 782 F.Supp.3d 1092 (N.D.Ala.2025). It resurrected a tainted congressional map the Three-Judge factfinders found deliberately entrenched racial bias against Black voters. ALLEN v. MILLIGAN 146 S. Ct 1377 (2026). see also HILO BAY MARINA v. STATE 156 HAWAII 478 (2025) (the "Courts" frequent misrepresentation of the factual record and it's throw-judges- under-the-bus disdain for District Courts, the fact finders of the Federal judiciary, harm the Justice System. The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV sec. I. It turns it's back on what is in plain sight. The FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT is not colorblind. It never was. The Court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black History. That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design. A Constitution interpreted this way is not colorblind. It is whatever the Court needs it to be. A way to advance its partisan project. The damage to democracy extends beyond the Voting Rights Act. In CITIZENS UNITED v. FED.ELECTION COMM'N 558 U.S. 310 (2010), the Court claimed fidelity to text, history, and tradition while invalidating yet another democratically vetted law, handing corporations the same speech rights as flesh-and- blood Americans and letting dollars talk louder than voters. See SUNOCO 153 HAWAII at 362 (EDDINS, J. concurring) (originalism applies selectively and vanishes inconveniently) LEO E. STRINE, Jr. and NICHOLAS WALTER, ORIGINALISTS OR ORIGINAL: THE DIFFICULTIES OF RECONCILING CITIZENS UNITED WITH CORPORATE LAW HISTORY 91 NOTRE DAME L .Rev. 877 (2016) (CITIZENS UNITED cannot be reconciled with corporate law history). Other decisions followed. The Court abandoned partisan gerrymandering to the gerrymanderers, refusing for the first time to remedy a constitutional violation because it believed the task beyond judicial competence. RUCHO v. COMMON CAUSE 588 U.S.684 (2019) (KAGAN, J. dissenting). It placed a President above the law. TRUMP v. UNITED STATES 603 U.S.593 (2024). Last month, NAT'L REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMM.v. FEC 225 L.ED. 2d 998 (2026).Made CITIZENS UNITED look quaint, shredding coordinated spending limits Congress had enacted and ensuring that those who bankroll elections drown out the ordinary person. Billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one's wealth counts more than another's vote. Rulings run in one direction time after time. Weakening protections for those with less power. Fortifying those with more. The pattern speaks for itself. A court that systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties and tramples human dignity does not chart the course for the Hawaii Constitution. Our Constitualism system was designed for times like these. Federalism is not a formality. It is the architecture. The framers built dual sovereignty into the structure of American government as an independent check against concentrated Federal power. A Supreme Court driven by agenda and intent on swiping power that belongs to the people is exactly what that check was built for. When six Justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line. That is not defiance. That is the design. State Constitualism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence "white noise". See HILO BAY MARINA 156 HAWAII at 518. Add it all up. Draining Due Process. Rolling back voting rights. Flooding elections with money. Rubber stamping gerrymandering. Crowning a President. Blessing discrimination in the name of the Constitution. FULTON v. CITY of PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 593 U.S.522 (2021) 303 CREATIVE LLC. v. ELENIS 600 U.S.570 (2023).Looking at naked racism and seeing none of it. MULLIN v. DOE 225 L.ED.2d 594 (2026) ( racist words not "overtly racist").Making the country more dangerous with a SECOND AMENDMENT unmoored from text or history and unrecognizable to the framers who wrote it. NEW YORK STATE RIFLE and PISTOL ASS'N INC v. BRUEN 597 U.S.1 (2022), WILSON 154 HAWAII at 22 ("disabl[ing] the state responsibility to protect public safety, reduce gun violence, and safeguard peaceful public movement" with its deadly jurisprudence). Then striking down a carefull law and showing disdain for Hawaii's Constitutional traditions. WOLFORD v. LOPEZ 225 L. ED 2d 494 (2026). Subverting Congressional choices with a homemade "major questions" power grab that plays "get-out-of-text-free cards" to block agencies from doing what Congress told them to do.WEST VIRGINIA v. ENV'T PROT.AGENCY 597 U.S. 697 (2022) (KAGAN, J. dissenting). Then commandeering the interpretive authority Congress gave federal agencies, over ruling CHEVRON after forty years because to this particular Court, precedent is advisory. LOPER BRIGHT ENTERS. v. RAIMONDO 603 U.S.369 (2024). This term, transmuting Federal spending programs into private contracts, the Court forced the SPENDING CLAUSE to "reduce some of Congress greatest legislative achievements" LANDOR v. LOUISIANA DEP'T of CORR. and PUB.SAFETY 225 L.ED.2d.394 (2026) (JACKSON, J. dissenting). Days later, it freed the President to fire at will the very Commissioners a law sheltered from removal, discarding a unanimous opinion, HUMPHREY'S EXECUTOR on a cherry-picked slice of history-a century of settled practice recast as a mistake, competent governance sacrificed to the partisan cause. TRUMP v. SLAUGHTER 225 L.ED.2d 664 (2026). The next morning, fair-weather textualists-living constitution originalists, really-deserted the text and our Nation's history the moment it promised citizenship, one vote from writing that right out of the Constitution. TRUMP v. BARBARA 225 L.ED. 2d 876 (2026). That's not all life tenure and zero accountability have produced lately. But its enough. Article I. Section 5 needs no part of this. The Hawaii Constitution was built to stand on its own. And so it does" [excerpted GRANILLO v. STATE 2026 HAW.LEXIS 179,,JUSTICE TODD W.EDDINS WRITING THE UNANIMOUS OPINION]. As I initially stated Justice Eddins words are extremely instructive for our reform work of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and it is also fundamentally revelatory to our understanding. What Justice Eddins words speak to is that maxim, history is written by the victor or told from the conquerors point of view. Which as maxim isn't only applicable to conquest, but as insight, lengths are travelled by in whose interest, to conceal such. Because the operative is, who will SPEAK. Again, what Justice Eddins words reveal is, as long as the reaction is silence then, the maxim of the "victor", or as it applys to our reform work, the status quo claiming the narrative is then self-fulfilling. All Justice Eddins said about the Supreme Court of the United States is correct, just as what we say about the Virginia prison official.

By William Thorpe

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