Monday, July 13, 2026

IF GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER TRULY THINKS THAT THE NEEDED REFORM OF VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME IS HER NEWLY CREATED COUNCIL ON CORRECTIONS, THEN SHE SHOULD PUSH TO MAKE IT AN ELECTED STRUCTURE By William Thorpe

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Once again, I'll say it, the issue of Reform of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure and its Prison System, is simple, its ACCOUNTABILITY and TRANSPARENCY. Which are the Keystones of all that is the Social Contract and Society. The more we get away from this simple fact, with the various nuances, clarifications, qualifications, conditions with all as filters, the more the inherent and intrinsic corruption of all materializations become objective unto itself, necessitating another gloss of the veneer of, nuances, clarifications, qualifications, conditions all as filters. Accountability, is a simple fidelity to the dictatorship of intention. What I mean is this, the one and only approximate truth of the Human Condition, is the business of human existence. From breathing air, drinking water, the intake of sources of energy, responding to the environment according to what is necessary and required and mastering the environment based on the ability of interrogation, in order to be optimally equipped to perform that instinct of survival. Nothing I have just stated is insight, nor am I being facetious, with its rudimentary simplicity or even snarky. All I'm doing is reminding us, that the "business" of existence, is the basis of it all with Accountability riding shotgun and whether we are able to perform this "business" to the best of our abilities depends on our approximate grasp and understanding of Accountability, where the operative and factor of Transparency, is also a formulary of Accountability or the Accountability-Function. Which brings us to the Commonwealth of Virginia, its Justice Infrastructure and Imprisonment Scheme, which no one will dare dispute that, that inherent and intrinsic corruption of all materializations viz Systems has from inception been its objective. Even post the Civil War, which we can characterize as presenting a clean slate or canvas, for a more redemptive, constructive and practical development of the business of human existence upon irrefutable facts of a being structured Social Contract, Virginia's Status Quo embodied by the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1871, couldn't restrain that inherent corruption, with this declaration in the case, RUFFIN v. COMMONWEALTH 62 VA.790 and I paraphrase, that the imprisoned Virginian is nothing more than a slave of the State, with nothing more than what the law out of its kindness accords him. Note that this logic was issued in 1871, on the heels and wake of the perdition also brought into existence by the word and construct "Slave", encapsulated in Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage. In other words the embodied corruption of Virginia's Social Contract pre Civil War, was so crystalized and incorrigibly ingrained in the minds and hearts of those Virginia Jurist, that they just couldn't let go of the malevolence presented by the word and construct "slave", that despite the apocalyptic carnage of the Civil War, they, just like the Biblical cast out Legion had to find a herd of swine to occupy, which then was the Virginia Prisoner. What this instructs despite the fact that since 1871, the RUFFFIN case has been cited 44 times and the 4th Circuit, which has jurisdiction over Virginia cases has on a number of occasions found opprobrium with the Commonwealth of Virginia for daring to resurrect the reprehensibleness of RUFFIN as defense in a number of cases, which show systemic corruption.

So, Governor Abigail Spanberger recently announced the formation of an entity, GOVERNOR'S PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL ON CORRECTIONS, she presumes as response to what she characterized as "longstanding" issues within the Virginia Department of Corrections or as I correctly describe, Virginia's Imprisonment Scheme. In other words the Council is her Virginia Prison Reform, synthesis. As I stated in the title to this work, well if that is what she thinks, then she should push for it to be an Elected entity, directly responsible to the Supreme Power, in the Commonwealth of Virginia Aka, THE PEOPLE. Because the longstanding issues she spoke of are not contradictions and antagonisms because of the lack of a Council whose existence will reflect the vagaries, whims and caprices of one individual, irrespective of Office and Title and that few with access. Now despite the fact that I strongly disagreed with her selection and choice of JOSEPH WALTERS as Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections and I wanted to see what one of our Virginia Women, our Sistahs would have done in the position, notwithstanding being ground breaking and historical. Still if the Accountability-Function of governance, isn't dependent on personality, but instead Process of Law and the educative instructive of Transparency as the "All Seeing Eye" of THE PEOPLE, then beyond other idealistic, superficiality and short of egregious disqualification, then personality is subordinated. As I started this work with, reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is simple because its all about Accountability and Transparency and there isn't a logic or the most malleable, insidious and manipulative sophistry that can defend asserting its conditionality, nor do I have to be Nietzschean, impart this to Governor Abigail Spanberger, when in that most basic and fundamental manner possible, that of a relatively realized full all around human, she not only understands it as a socio-person, but also professionally. So the point is simple all she as Governor have to do is exercise authority in pursuit of Reform and let the reactionaries emerge howling. Virginia for reasons, I'm unfamiliar with has a structure, that is viably practical of the Accountability-Function, when you think about it, is materially actually close to the People, than other systems, which is the Governorship is a one 4-Year term and done, which then allows a Governor to actually implement what in their and Party's world view develops that business of human existence, which the People can either give a thumbs up to by electing to continue the direction or repudiate it by electing a contrary and opposing world view. This dynamic isn't present in systems where the Governor is seeking reelection, as such the potential exercise of authority assumes and deteriorates into the objectification and crystallization of that ever present inherent and intrinsic systemic corruption, a performative theatrical spectacle of "values" as the People are yoked to a speculative narrative of "tradition" at the expense of what the Society and Social Contract clearly recognizes as hunger for progress. Virginia recently witnessed this, with Terry McAuliffe's Democratic world-view, given the thumbs up by The People seeking its continuation in the election of Ralph Northam who held comparative Democratic world-views. So yes Governor Spanberger has opportunity, to even if what Prison Reform at this juncture in the Commonwealth is emerging as, fertile space for the repudiation and refutation of "talking points", that have their genesis in the dictatorship of intent from the 1600's, she should Speak it. Because it provides the millions of Virginians who accept the practicality of Prisons, but are anti it's dehumanization it's work.

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

Sunday, July 12, 2026

STOP SELLING US OUT By William Thorpe

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There is nothing complicated about reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, its simple, TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY. Nonetheless just as everything else in life, the simple becomes the complicated, not because of its details. I'm not putting this together to state the obvious, but, we keep on being subjected to trends and tendencies which are nothing more than results of assumptions and these assumptions that I speak of are, the let's do something to look good politics of supposed reform that we are again being subjected to as Virginia prisoners and under the Commonwealth's Jurisdiction, by politics of contempt. Let's get into it: The tens of thousands of Virginia Prisoners are not the ones causing actual harm within Virginia Society. Abigail Spanberger didn't become Governor because she told the People of Virginia that Virginia Prisoners are the source of why you're treading the water of Virginia Society and in some cases drowning, instead she correctly identified that Society's problem is Affordability and not a single Virginia prisoner, currently or historically has had anything to do with Affordability as a macro formulation of Virginia's Political-Economy. As a matter of fact the Virginia prisoner stands as proof of its bane as a contradiction and failing of Virginia's Political-Economy. Have some Virginia Prisoners been the cause of harm, real harm to individuals and families in Virginia Society, yes and no one not even the imprisoned dispute or deny those facts and events. But a Society or the Social Contract isn't analyzed or critiqued on the behavior of its members who are it's least impactful, such indulgences are nothing more than scapegoatism, revealing something else. Did Abigail Spanberger inherit a mess, of course she did and it just wasn't with the Commonwealth's Justice System, because, again a Society's Justice System isn't a beacon of civilization instead is evidence of its lack. For those scratching their heads as to what the hell am I talking about. Civilization means that stable set of relations refining the development of the business of human existence. This stability is presented in a couple of contexts, meaning to varying components of Society or the Social Contract. So, to the owners or possessors of the means of production or producing the necessary quality of human existence, politics professes, stability. But to the rest of the People who are the Labor or Workers actually producing quality for human existence from the to be ascribed value quantity, politics presents, Law and Order or to put it bluntly, "Organized-Violence", which the Justice System is function. Which illustrates what is Civilization. The law and order construct of civilization, only expresses, that this is what the status quo or as I described as owners or possessors of the means of production have settled on as being the most efficient way and means to accomplish and maintain their hierarchy within the business of human existence. It doesn't mean that law and order to the human condition is like water and blood to human life. Law and Order as we experience it is a stick, a club or simply put the status quo sees Labor or the Workers, meaning all of the rest of Society who do not own means of production as brute beast, who only respond to aversion or pain, requiring the stick or club to beat them to labor in transforming quantity to quality or producing value. To conclude on this, contrary to colloquialism, law and order has nothing to do with accountability, despite being aspect. Accountability is a principle that has varying degrees of speech. Among the People, ourselves, our every single interaction isn't policed, by the organized-violence of the State, we hold ourselves accountable.

Recently Governor Abigail Spanberger has made controversial moves on the Transparency and Accountability front of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Before I continue let me say this: I like and respect Abigail Spanberger. Winning modern American elections is no simple feat regardless of gender and being a Woman doesn't make it any easier. Even the Great Frederick Douglas, born into chattel slavery, having an intimate experience with discrimination and oppression, still had issues with Women assertions for Political Rights. So yes its a monumental achievement that Abigail Spanberger is Virginia's first Female Governor and most importantly, I'm always in Solidarity with our egalitarian and non- reactionary Women and Sistahs succeeding. With that said let's get to work of critiquing Governor Spanbergers' recent moves on the question of Prison Reform in Virginia. Governor Spanberger is a former United States Intelligence Officer, so there isn't much I have to say by way of insight into the sort of machinations that goes into reforming anything about a Society, which Prison and its Justice Infrastructure is medium that Abigail Spanberger hasn't had that dialectical cause and effect birds eye view of its macro-deductive analytic grasp. So what her controversial moves on Prison reform, instead speculatively speaks to is she isn't taking anything of it seriousl, because for one its an inherited mess, with roots in the Virginia of the 1600's as chartered Company and Colony and she only has a 4 year term, so why tackle something steeped in every single American Contradiction and Antagonism marker?.On top of it the Politics of it all are susceptible to the pro forma superficiality of window dressing, so why should she say, you know what, the roots of systemic injustice might run deep and uprooting em then salting its debased and profaned earth is exactly what I'll do, because if my presence is historic, then History is exactly what I will make. Well this is saying that is exactly what as Virginia's Historic Governor, Abigail Spanberger should do. Governor Spanberger doesn't need a tutorial on the genesis and utility of Virginia's imprisonment scheme that has nothing to do with whatever deceptive and diversionary claims of "Justice" it mantles around itself, yet her recent moves say she needs it. Telling us with citations provided by the Virginia Prison Official that X amount of Y incidents are down is disingenuous. If those metrics are true expressions of the accountability-function of governance, then the Virginia Prison official would be telling us that the "reasons" for the metrics are diligently being ameliorated and not only would we learn that from Virginia's Government, but Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner would stand besides Governor Spanberger as she declared to the Commonwealth that the infamy of dehumanizing the Virginia Prisoner by the Virginia Prison official will not from henceforth be tolerated. Instead what we are getting is the continuity of the professional practice that the prisoner, is less than Human. Because if the Prison Official working in The Prison and for that duration is as confined as the Prisoner, experiencing the environment as the Prisoner and there is recognition that the consequence

By William Thorpe

Friday, July 10, 2026

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ON PRISON REFORM IS MAKING THE SAME HISTORICAL ERROR IT MADE WHEN IT BOUGHT AND SOLD ENSLAVED BLACK PEOPLE, DURING CHATTEL ENSLAVEMENT By William Thorpe

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Any claim, accusation and indictment that arises as evidence of the variegated interplay, interactions and dynamics of our Human Condition, despite the real, intimate and immediate harm are illuminance of what it means to wrestle structure of utility from our inchoate intentions. In so many words, yes in our work of the business of human existence, much harm will be its wake. I'm not advancing the idealistic, "the ends justifies means". But what I'm saying is the all so real harm of inchoate intentions, becomes something else entirely, when its wake, consequence or effect is unmitigatedly made apparent and the hypocrisy of cutting off the nose to spite the face, is still practiced as formulation: of tradition, culture, norms, genteel civility. When the inappropriateness of its existence upon the indictment of unworthiness as mechanism for the realization of that one and only, development of the business of human existence, stands naked and revealed as INJUSTICE, and it's don't subject nor impose the experience on me and mine. At this developed juncture of our grasp of fundamental contradictions and antagonisms, where no matter the sophistication or crassness of the sledgehammer of empiricism, the only relevant conclusion is "the Emperor has no clothes", or to put it as it should, "no one is drinking the Kool-Aid anymore". Still we encounter activity or Speech, that is so idealistic, anachronistic, so hypocritical, so devoid of where are lessons learned and the inexorable practical redemption, that the only conclusion to be reached is, incorrigibility. Government and governance is simply and purely that, whether its critiqued as Monarchical, Fascist, Authoritarian, Theocratic or the most nonsensical, Capitalist, Communist-Socialist, the only distinction is proximity to its formulating speech or Social Contract. So if the only relevant active, is proximity, because from the Monarchical to the Communist-Socialist, the operative is the same exact and identical Speech: Organized-Violence. Then on what terms is anything critiqued? Save on the realization of mature intention and the development of the business of human existence without the distortions of Flags and Banners. Under which every critique and proscription of behavior of the socio-person achieves and attains the maturity of legitimacy. So when Georgetown University submitted to the necessary Accountability-Function of it's historical error of participating in the buying and selling of enslaved Black People, the error wasn't to American soil, but it was to that Flagless and Soilless Business of Human Existence. The Nations imprisonment schemes, which Georgetown's Law Journal critiques is understood as a continuum of that historical "error" of buying and selling humans and merely publishing a normative view by the imprisoned is a "wink and nod".

By William Thorpe

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

I CHALLENGE GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER TO CORRECT THIS FRAUD AND DISINGENUOUS DEED BY THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS By William Thorpe

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Every single Politician of every persuasion across the Nation claims to keep a keen eye out for fraud and wasteful spending. This work isn't critique one way or the other, but the fraud and disingenuous claim is factual and not opinion. The Commonwealth of Virginia's Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison along with its Sister Kamp Wallens Ridge State Prison have perpetrated a fraud on the People of the Commonwealth, beginning in 2011,with a specific program that presented itself under all the typical language exploited by State Organized Violence when it is committing fraud and being disingenuous. This program commencing in 2011 oriented itself around SOLITARY CONFINEMENT as a specific and particular unto itself type of imprisonment of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Solitary Confinement in Virginia or in the general imprisonment context isn't, novel. The creation of The Penitentiary itself in the Nation was an exploitation of solitary confinement and the subsequent criticism by the Supreme Court of The United States, in the case IN RE MEDLEY 134 U.S.160 that, and I paraphrase that it was an infamous condition, that drove its imprisoned victims insane. So when the Virginia Department of Corrections decided it would go all out and in on a Solitary Confinement regime at its major Koncentration Kamps in 2011 it was well aware of the conventional definitive and accepted consensus on its type and nature of imprisonment, yet it went on ahead and implemented it as a comprehensive condition of imprisonment in Virginia and that is also the fundamental and primary definition of fraud. [see Black's Law: Fraud, 1.A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment. Fraud is usually a tort, but in some cases (esp. when the conduct is willful) it may be a crime].When Virginia Department Prison Officials and Executives decided to implement a comprehensive Solitary Confinement regime disingenuously titled SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM, they were well aware that it was anything but and whatever logic were presented to Representatives of the Virginia People at the General Assembly were patently misrepresentations and disinformation towards the implementation. The fraudulent applications of the Virginia Prison Official doesn't in anyway form or manner absolve Virginia oversight Legislators from responsibility and tacit complity, from the harm wrought on the various demographics and classes of People of the Commonwealth by the fraud of the STEP DOWN PROGRAM, which besides the human cost, which the Supreme Court of The U.S identified in its March 3, 1890 IN RE MEDLEY ruling and findings, the STEP DOWN PROGRAM has been a prima facie example of wasteful spending, as in how the State is having to defend it in Court.

Let's take a step back, to understand how we got to this place that Virginia Government Officials in the form of Prison Officials foisted fraud and disingenuous narratives on the People of Virginia. So during the tenure of Ed Murray as Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, from 1986--1994, Virginia Officials realized that new prisons would be needed, as such Director Murray laid the ground work for what became Virginia's building spree of Prisons, particularly SUSSEX I and II, then RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISONS. The building of the Prisons occurred under the Republican Administration of the racist Governor George Allen of Macaca infamy, which as preposterous and weird as it sounds, later claimed that Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison was his "monument".But that's an aside from the issue of fraud and disingenuous narratives. So prior to the construction of the aforementioned prisons, Virginia had an early entry into the SUPER- MAX Prison business way back in 1977 with a Prison called MECKLENBURG TREATMENT CENTER, then later changed to CORRECTIONAL CENTER. The TREATMENT CENTER moniker was a result of the then prevailing speculations and assumptions that Prisoners designated and described by the Commonwealth of Virginia via The Department of Corrections as "trouble-makers" or "worst of the worst" would be "treated" under Solitary Confinement conditions, not unlike its resurrected familiar at RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISONS in 2011 under fraudulent and disingenuous narratives as SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. It was as if detaining an imprisoned Virginian under SOLITARY CONFINEMENT conditions was like giving someone Tylenol or Advil, because they had a headache. This is what was being done in the name of the People of Virginia in 1977 and again was resurrected in 2011 by Virginia Department of Corrections apparatchiks. The thing is just as Virginia Department of Corrections apparatchiks are now wasting Virginia taxpayer money in Court Room after Court Room fighting claims by Virginia Prisoners that the Solitary Confinement regime of the SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN is everything that is wrong with the Human Condition, so where Prisoners detained in MECKLENBURG'S SOLITARY CONFINEMENT PHASE PROGRAM then also fighting the same comparative Program, [see BROWN v. LANDON], even to the point of Prisoners then taking over Buildings, holding Prison Officials hostage in 1984 to draw attention to the savagery and barbarity of MECKLENBURG'S imprisonment condition. Which resulted not only in the PHASE PROGRAM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime being discontinued, but the Virginia Legislature demanding a comprehensive study of what could have gone so catastrophically wrong with MECKLENBURG. The task fell to Virginia's legislative Investigative arm, the JLARC (JOINT LEGISLATIVE AUDIT AND REVIEW COMMISSION), who submitted their findings in a Report in 1985,which among many conclusions, determined that Virginia should never ever again, place and congregate all of the so-called "worst of the worst" prisoners at one Prison. But in 1998 Governor George Allen of Macaca infamy, I guess seeing tributes to himself as RAMESES II and his Red Onion State Prison Koncentration Kamp "monument", along with the then Director of The Virginia Department of Corrections, Ron Angelone, who I can only describe as another Rudy Guliani saw fit to ignore the JLARC's advisement and made a Public Relations spectacle of not only promoting the notion of a Virginia "worst of the worst" ( who it turned out most were old scores being settled, vindictively) prisoner being confined at Red Onion State Prison and its other sisters, but the Virginia public was told that these Prisons would be called "STATE PRISONS", in anticipation of the Koncentration Kamp heritage.

As I stated earlier, the practice of detaining Prisoners in Solitary Confinement is a General one. The Virginia Department of Corrections has always used it, notwithstanding whether it's specific and comprehensive as in MECKLENBURG'S PHASE PROGRAM or RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. Regardless of how its packaged along with euphemistic moniker, it is basically the same beast, a type of imprisonment and confinement that quickly disintegrates into every single base expression of that axiom and maxim, "absolute power corrupts absolutely". Because you have a situation where the prison officials tasked with the organized violence of its circumstance, having the proximity of absolute power during specific interactions with the prisoner, whether its allowing the prisoner showers, outside exercise, meal serving and all the various opportunities i.e strip search procedures, the prison official has to deny and deprive the prisoner a duty, by lying that the prisoner failed to comply with whatever cockamamie instruction command or directive. Are intrinsically realizing and recognizing its corrupting impact on them, yet are, according to the labor dynamic of the business of human existence, subordinate to its performance to receive a pay check and its much more easier and opportunistic (and God or the Devil has nothing to do with it, but is the same sort of initial human behavior displayed by the prisoner resulting in criminal adjudication as cause for the initial imprisonment, which makes the case for accountability of the Virginia prison official) for them to transfer the impotence of their existence onto the Prisoners going through the harm of solitary confinement, in all sorts of base ways, than challenge their supervisors on the character of the ask. Which then poses another question for Society and the Social Contract, where you have socio-persons employed in a job that is corrupting by all metrics, induced into cowardice, evidenced in the inability to question the ethics and overarching morality of the job, and are overtly and implicitly influenced and instructed by their superiors and peer pressure to indulge and engage in the corrupt and criminal behavior, of dehumanizing the Prisoner, because regardless, it is still illegal and against Virginia law for the Prison Official to violate the existence of the Virginia prisoner, considering that the Virginia prisoner is the very embodiment of Virginia law, because it created him. And we see this clearly in the Solitary Confinement type of imprisonment. The character of the fraud and disingenuous narrative foisted on the People of Virginia by Virginia Department of Corrections bureaucrats in 2011, which Governor Abigail Spanberger can summarily correct, is this, regardless of reason and logic of incentive, the SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime of THE STEP DOWN PROGRAM at RED ONION and WALLENS RIDGE STATE PRISONS is premised on a fabrication. Red Onion State Prison opened in 1998 with the Operational model of a General Population, general Solitary Confinement which was relatively indeterminate,(but it wasn't a specific type of imprisonment as THE STEP DOWN PROGRAM of 2011,whose ambition was to keep certain Prisoners in its type of imprisonment in perpetuity), then there was an in between type of housing for prisoners who were not given the full movement of General Population prisoners, yet were not subject to the deprivations of the solitary confined. The detention of these three classes of Prisoners were what Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons opened with in 1998 and 1999 respectively. So, between 1998 and 1999, nothing changed and I emphasize that materially nothing changed from the opening of those two Koncentration Kamps, to the 2011 implementation of SOLITARY CONFINEMENT as a specific unto itself Virginia imprisonment scheme, but a money-making gambit.

The 2011 resurrection at Koncentration Kamps Red Onion and Wallens Ridge State Prisons of the reprobate and indefensible MECKLENBURG style PHASE PROGRAM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime under its new moniker SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM, was Fraud on the People of Virginia upon a disingenuous narrative and Governor Abigail Spanberger has authority to summarily correct it. Along with a comprehensive investigation by Virginia's General Assembly into the entire creation genealogy of the SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. What the People of Virginia can do if the Governor and the General Assembly are unwilling to act is make this a Central issue on all fronts, by harnessing and applying their ingenuity, creativity and tactical industriousness. Now let me say this, historically a lot of egregious deeds have been done in the name of the People of Virginia. The egregiousness of the STEP DOWN PROGRAM, within modern times is without equal and comparison and instead of having me a Prisoner one of its initial first three Prisoners at Red Onion subjected to its regime speak to you about it. I'd rather you the Virginia People get everything about it using your position as the "Supreme Power", because Virginia is politically a COMMONWEALTH, meaning that "We The People" actually is the People and not a conditional and relative privilege, to learn why those Prison bureaucrats and apparatchiks thought they really could again get away with another fraud on We The People. As I've stated previously Virginia had a general practice of solitary confinement, under which the prisoner was reviewed every 90 days for possible release even though release wasn't certain at Red Onion. So for example let's use my situation as example. I was placed in solitary confinement in 1996 after a hostage incident at Virginia's Nottoway Correctional Center, this detention was the historical general solitary confinement sort, which was still Solitary Confinement without end, but it didn't present itself as an unto itself Virginia imprisonment. Even though I was sent to Mecklenburg prison, which once upon a time had a unto itself Solitary Confinement regime, but by 1996 had long since discontinued it as the savage and barbarous PHASE PROGRAM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT regime. Then when Red Onion opened in 1998 I was one of the first to open its A-Building, where I was tossed naked in A-301.So from 1996 through 2011 I was detained under the general solitary confinement regime. If prison officials wanted to release me from solitary confinement they could have, because process already existed. Nothing had changed in my circumstance since the Nottoway incident of 1996 which had been adjudicated in court and I was given an additional 30 year sentence. So when those responsible for the fraudulent STEP DOWN PROGRAM decided to implement it and decided that even though nothing had changed in my circumstance since my initial placement in solitary confinement in 1996 that my presence and existence under this being constructed unto itself type of Virginia imprisonment that would be Solitary Confinement in perpetuity was necessary only makes a mockery of the very same law they exploited in structuring the SEGREGATION REDUCTION STEP DOWN PROGRAM. Which the People of Virginia have been spending millions of Dollars, defending the fraud in Court and paying out hundreds of thousands of Dollars in settlements to Prisoners who have successfully sued the State because of the actions of those corrupt Virginia Prison Officials and their disingenuous narrative which their complicit allies in Virginia's General Assembly allowed to stand in creating the STEP DOWN PROGRAM, at the expense and in compromise of oversight, entailing transparency and the Accountability-Function of governance, which the People anticipate is done.

By William Thorpe

Monday, July 6, 2026

OURSELVES, OUR AGENCY ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND VALUED RESOURCE IN THIS WORK OF REFORMING VIRGINIA'S IMPRISONMENT SCHEME AND HOLDING THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE By Wililiam Thorpe

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The Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee (VAPAC) was birthed on the simple premise, that for every single imprisoned person in Virginia there exist at least to a factor of 10 persons who have a direct, immediate and intimate concern of the treatment and well-being, the conditions and circumstances of Virginia's imprisonment scheme imposes on the Prisoner. As such, the first and preeminent identified circumstance is that of the malfeasance and above-the-lawism of the Virginia Prison Official, to which the response, resolution and expectation, is the commonsense of holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable. Because, it isn't that we envision a Prison Condition where the Prison Official is a paragon of virtue, on the contrary we anticipate criminality by the Prison Official, because the Prison Official is relatively human. But what we defacto stand for is a dynamic mechanism of holding the Virginia Prison official accountable. So the work of VAPAC is a synthesizing presence, where The People, whether Family, Ally and Friend of the Virginia Prisoner, will value that their very own individual experiences are not isolated nor alienated deductions, but correct instinctive insights into that which is done in their name, as People of the Commonwealth by the same People they voted for to exercise, sagacity and judiciousness. Still, (and now I say this as a Prisoner under Virginia's Jurisdiction, despite being held in exile in the Texas prison system) the fact is our Families, Allies and Friends who conscientiously and fastidiously speak and advocate for US, still do so within our imaginative bounds. What I mean is, Virginia's Government in its form of the Justice Infrastructure and its Virginia Department of Corrections, isn't concerned with its effected Injustices, because even among free members of Virginia Society, harm and Injustices to the socio-person are not only anticipated, expected but accepted as part of that crass "cost benefit analysis". What I'm saying is besides the existence of process for the harmed to seek redress, the very idea of harm and Injustice from the actions of Virginia's Government are downplayed and minimized in all sorts of ways that say it loud and clear that the socio-person should not only expect harm and Injustice from Government, but, and when it does occur its no big deal. This work isn't about getting all into that analysis of those Social Contract terms, despite the fact that its existence is felt, like the gravitational effects of a yet to be discovered lurking Star. So the imaginative bounds of seeking redress of the criminality of the Virginia Prison official by the Virginia Prisoner are defined by the dictates of Law chuted in a narrow and designed to be relatively impotent, manner in it's ability to defacto achieve accountability. However despite the fact that the free Virginia socio-person is also defined by law, albeit in a more expansive manner. So considering the capabilities contemporary technology avails to the average Family, Ally and Friend of the Virginia prisoner, the work of structuring and organizing the obligatory Speech which is the mechanism of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, shouldn't be limited to the typical. But just as VAPAC premised its structure on the factor of 10 of concerned, persons of the character and nature of Virginia's imprisonment scheme, which unit self is imaginative, not as a novel construct but recourse.

The work, and I should rather say, our work of Prison Reform anticipates that Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner focus on this simple truism, that holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable, begins and ends with the organized nature of Speech. I do need to emphasize and stress this with how I speak on Speech. Speech to make a long story short, is the organized, concerted and committed activity of The People asserting a specific and necessary point of view, that is organic, responsible and determinative of the Progress of their existence. At times, this point of view will be in accord with pre-existing acceptances and understanding within Virginia Society, because it furthers the interest of whoever is in the status quo. At others, especially when it concerns holding accountable activities of Virginia Government expressed by the Prison Official, the Peoples point of view will not only be in diametric opposition to the status quo's narrative, but it will take on a confrontational one, not because the People, Family, Ally and Friends standing on the Speech of holding the Virginia Prison official accountable are in a confrontational stance, but the stylized archaic and idealistic formulations of governance is yet to mature to that practical recognition [even though such has always been apparent] and acceptance that interrogation of the Accountability-Function of the Constituted Aspirations of the People by the People isn't a zero sum game where a status quo loses "something", just because the People are arrayed in rank and file on the order that "equality under Law and its Process" isn't mere aspiration, but a material fact, as the all so material realization of the "Business of Human Existence". So the point is, there isn't any other aspect of Society and the Social Contract that lays bare every single contradiction and antagonism of Virginia's business of human existence, than the imprisonment scheme. Because even as all Virginians are approximate creations of Virginia law, the Virginia Prisoner is its defacto creation, as such is the most lawful. Now I don't have to go all into every single analytic minutia of the correctness of how the Virginia prisoner is the most lawful of Virginia's classes, save to state that if it rings odd it is so, because in order for Virginia's Government as governance to apply its regime of dehumanizing the prisoner, it has to not merely violate its own established laws, but negate and contradict its very existence. Which brings us full circle to our work of demanding the affirmation of the Accountability-Function. The last thing Virginia Politicians, specifically Republicans want to be concerned with is the Intellectual-liberalism consequence of their approach towards oversight of the Virginia Prison official. Which reveals their actual relationship with the Law, despite their adroitness at deceiving those susceptible for the usual reasons, that they are its defenders. We know that the only aspects of law they defend are those vestiges and remnants of its feudal and antebellum task master, that furthers the opportunity of whatever interest they presume, which is what births our reform work in opposition. Reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme is that comprehensive acknowledgement and its operative requirement that THE PEOPLE are fully involved with the direction the underlying philosophy embraces, based on the unconditional refutation of dehumanization as any sort of self styled penological construct. Our obligation is simple and straightforward we refute with each and every opportunity the status quo narrative that is wretchedly mired in the philosophy of dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner, exposing it in all its guise.

By William Thorpe

Sunday, July 5, 2026

SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS PART V By William Thorpe

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This is Part V in this STRUCTURED-ON IDEAS series. I have been providing Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner [which by the way as I'm always careful to remind us isn't only for the Virginia Prisoner, but also the Federal and National Prisoner]. My underlying basis remains unchanged, which is to remind, Family, Ally and Friends of the Imprisoned, that Society or the Social Contract is an entity structured on ideas, ideas that are conceived in the brains of fellow humans and considering that no one and I emphasize, no one, NOT even GOD [that is if one is a believer] has all the answers. As such the only guarantor that the concerned life existence is able to confront and ablate, the obvious and inevitable idealistic formulations presented as incontrovertible facts, by the IDEA INDUSTRY, is to first and foremost recognize and acknowledge that notwithstanding the voters electoral activity, purveyors and components of the IDEA INDUSTRY are hard at work influencing the elected Legislature or Policy maker, along with Judges and other branches of the Administrative State be it on the Federal or State level. So what I'm saying is that simple, if you can't, won't or don't speak for yourself or your aggregate life experience then someone else most definitely will and we won't like what is said nor will it be in our interest. Before I provide another grouping of lists of works. I want to explain that I want to use an item from that typical forum where that battle of ideas are waged daily, to illustrate examples of these structures of constructs that are how we actually "create" ourselves, which is the Jurisprudence of law. I will be using a case decided on April 18,2024 by the Supreme Court of Virginia, VASQUEZ v. DOTSON 303 VA. 97, to make certain basic points. A brief intro to the VASQUEZ, case. Virginia Democrats when in control of Virginia's Government, in 2020 to their credit and benefit of the People of Virginia passed certain laws reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme and conditions. Which relatively modified the corrupt schemes plyed on the Virginia People by Republicans in 1995 with the abolishment of Parole. I characterize it correctly as corrupt, because besides its idealistic political-theological opportunism, but the same Virginia Republicans who, along with the complicity of Virginia's mainstream and corporate media and the other usual collaborators, after foisting it as an end all and cure all of "crime", on the tired of it all Virginia citizenry, were the same ones as soon as losing their bid, like Jerry Kilgore for Statewide office, exploited their bureaucratic knowledge of, Virginia governance which, as a matter of fact are the intellectual property of the People of Virginia, with securing parolesque or Parole-like release of prisoners, whom along with the Macaca infamy branded in perpetuity George Allen had scapegoated to repress and suppress the People of the Commonwealth with their neo-antebellumnesque designs. What the VASQUEZ case dealt with, was as soon as republicans under Glenn Youngkin and Jason Miyares seized control of Virginia governance in 2022 , their priorities were to repeal those prison reforms Democrats had provided the Virginia people and when they were stymied in their efforts, they set upon a tack of undermining the reforms with the active and overt help of the Virginia Prison Official, which exposed clearly where their allegiances lay. So the VASQUEZ case took on the illegal activities of Republican governance and Virginia Department of Corrections collusion to subvert the clear and unambiguous language of the law, [Va .Code 53.1-202.3 and 53.1-202.3 (B).

Also Virginia along with other sister States have State generated or Government versions of the IDEA INDUSTRY, that is produced by the Attorney General of the State and in Virginia its called OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. These so-called Opinions just as products of the broader IDEA INDUSTRY are ideology dressed up as understandings of what the Law says that all Administrative heads and Legislators can submit questions for quasi explanations and elaborations of questions of law, which in actuality are hints seeking collusion. So we see this clearly with what the Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, Harold Clarke put into effect by asking Jason Miyares the Commonwealth's Attorney General of the newly minted Republican Administration of Governor Glenn Youngkin on April 18, 2022,about the legality of the 53.1-202.3 law reforming the Earned Sentence Credits scheme. Harold Clarke's gambit was he is kindred to the reactionaries of the Republican Administration of Youngkin, so by purporting to seek guidance from Jason Miyares he was telegraphing to the Youngkin administration that he'd do his part in undermining the 53.1-202.3 law, to which Miyares promptly responded on April 25,2022, effectively telling Clarke that he should ignore the law and it is this violation that Mr. Jose Isais Garcia Vasquez challenged in the case VASQUEZ v. DOTSON 303 VA., 97 which People Mr. Vasquez won and the Supreme Court of Virginia ordered his release from Prison. Now this is what I want to share from the case as illustration and example of how the structure of the Virginia citizenry's life existence isn't actually based and just defined by the proactive behavior of electoral behavior but by what the Citizenry isn't aware of. In so many words and we see this principle in the Biology and Physics of existence, where a major part of our DNA structure exist in our ignorance's of its function. We see the same thing where what is designated, Dark Matter, occupies most of Space to our ignorance of its function. So in the VASQUEZ Case the Supreme Court of Virginia gave us this Jurisprudence and I'll excerpt it...."Under Virginia law," [c]riminal punishment serves a number of purposes, including INCAPCITATION,DETERRENCE and RETRIBUTION "[all caps are my emphasis]... Walker v. Commonwealth, 302 VA.304, see also Woodard v. Commonwealth 287 VA.276 Wilbon v. Saunders 170 VA.153.With these purposes in mind, Virginia's Sentencing Guidelines seek " to ensure the imposition of APPROPRIATE and JUST Criminal Penalties....especially for the effective INCAPACITATION of violent criminal offenders "Code sec.17.1-801 in support of these goals the General Assembly has provided various "tools for REHABILITATION of criminals", Peyton v. Commonwealth 208 VA.503 premised on the belief that REHABILITATION THAT IS TRULY EFFECTIVE reduces recidivism. [again all caps are my emphasis]. Legislating within this penological context, the General Assembly in 2020 increased the availability of Earned Sentence Credits "as an incentive for good behavior and rehabilitative activity while incarcerated" Prease 302 VA at 379,888 S.E.2d at 759. Accepting this as the DECLARED purpose of the Legislation, the Parties ask us to choose between their disparate views on whether the legislature intended Enhanced Sentence Credits to apply to criminals convicted of conspiring to commit murder. In addressing this question, however we ask "not what the legislature intended to enact, but what is the meaning of that which it did enact." People as I indicated all of the words that I fully capitalized from the portion of the Vasquez case are my emphasis, which I highlight to make this point. When the deciding Judges in the Vasquez case use and quote words as, INCAPACITATION, DETERRENCE, RETRIBUTION, APPROPRIATE, JUST and DECLARED.

Why am I focusing on the vocabulary applied by Virginia Supreme Court Judges in a open and shut Habeas case, in the context of Society or the Social Contract is Structured on and a composite of IDEAS. Because beyond the classic definition and understanding that language or vocabulary are conceptual tools, vocabulary is in fact Technological, encompassing thesis, antithesis and the approximate synthesis which to put it simply is sword and plowshare, interchangeably. So with this established, I want to focus on the vocabulary imbued in the VASQUEZ case. So words or vocabulary in legal processes can in themselves create law where none existed or deny its presence despite its existence and that is why the Social Contract or the existence of the socio-person is much more an establishment of IDEAS than the heavy lifting of that initial electoral activity. This brings me to the why of this series which I started 4 parts ago. Because to put it bluntly everything that are obstacles, welcoming portals or incentives and disincentives are what we either struggle, fight or War against. Which is the insight von Clausewitz postulated and Chaka Zulu with his practice stated and I paraphrase that, War is Politics by another name or means and the fact is its successful application is subsequently based on to what extent one is aware of the supporting, determining and animating IDEA of the activity. So when Virginia Judges state that criminal punishment in Virginia is intended to accomplish any number of anticipations, which despite being formulated on legislative action voted in by Representatives of the People, and the very idea of "representation" itself characterizes how inadequate and anticipatory of its accompanying latent corruption, as means of dealing with systemic forces unleashed, its very terms is incapable of not only resolving but reconciling. Then add on and combine a structural ignorance of the very voters. We can easily see how that aphorism, "in the land of the blind the one-eyed is King", not only fits but as that other simplification of determining an entire history of a political-economy by observation and grasp of its daily occurrence of "buying and selling", only reinforces the pure unbridled farcical nature of the injustices of what ignorance of whatever the IDEAS dictating those applied terms of the Social Contract are. For Family, Ally and Friends of the Imprisoned listed are the Part V of this continuity of the STRUCTURED-ON IDEAS series. THE CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY OF ARREST BY AGE 28 YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES BY DISABILITY STATUS RACE/ETHNICITY, AND GENDER----107 AM. J. PUB.HEALTH 1977 by ERIN J .McCAULEY THE FAILURE OF FAULT UNDER SEC.1983 MUNICIPAL LIABILITY FOR STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT----84 CORNELL L.REV.1503 by MARK R. BROWN [cited in N.N v. MADISON METRO. SCH. DIST. 670 F. SUPP 2d 927] THE PINNACLE OF PRECEDENT: THE NEED FOR CONSISTENCY IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW----59 AKRON L.REV. 499 by ELIZ SLABAUGH DEEPLY ROOTED IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND TRADITION: THE U.S.SUPREME COURTS ABYSMAL TRACK RECORD ON RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY----15 ALA C.R. and C.L.L REV.45 by ZAMIR BEN-DAN [cited in HARM v. NAT'L ASS'N OF EMERGENCY MED TECHNICIANS 2025 U.S. DIST. LEXIS 60232] JUDICIAL CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES? LESSONS FROM ISLAMIC CRIMINAL LAW FOR CURING THE ILLS OF MASS INCARCERATION----25 IND.INTL. and COMP .L .REV.385 by MOHAMMED A. ARAFA and JONATHAN G. BURN SECTION 1983 LITIGATION: THE MAZE, THE MUD AND THE MADNESS----23 WM. and MARY BILL OF RTS.J. 913 by KAREN M. BLUM [cited in 4 cases] WHO WILL SUPERVISE THE SUPERVISORS? ESTABLISHING LIABILITY FOR FAILURE TO TRAIN, SUPERVISE OR DISCIPLINE SUBORDINATE IN A POST-IQBAL/CONNICK WORLD----47 HARV. C. R-C.L. L REV.273 by ROSALIE BERGER LEVINSON People Read, Study and vote accordingly.

By William Thorpe

Saturday, July 4, 2026

Fredrick Douglas stated in 1852: "WHAT TO the SLAVE IS YOUR FORTH OF JULY", SO IN 2026 WE ANALYZE IT BY vapac

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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? — Summary

Frederick Douglass delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti‑Slavery Society. He begins by acknowledging the revolutionary ideals of the Founders — courage, resistance to tyranny, and the promise of liberty — but immediately turns the celebration inside out.

Douglass argues that Independence Day is a national ritual of hypocrisy so long as millions remain enslaved. The holiday’s symbols — liberty bells, flags, patriotic oratory — become grotesque when measured against the lived reality of Black people in America.

He indicts the nation for:

Legalized violence against enslaved people
Theft of labor and the economic engine of slavery
Religious institutions that bless bondage
Courts and legislatures that codify racial domination
A public conscience that refuses to see the humanity of the enslaved

Douglass insists that the slave knows America better than the patriot does: the slave sees the country not as an ideal but as a machine of law, built to extract labor and deny personhood.

He closes by arguing that slavery is not only immoral but unsustainable, and that the forces of justice — moral, political, and global — are already moving against it.

Two Verbatim Lines (allowed)

“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.” “You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

These two lines are the speech’s core: the enslaved person is constituted by law, stripped of rights, and forced to witness a celebration of freedoms they are denied.

Key Themes for Meme Extraction / Pamphlet Use

1. America’s Self‑Contradiction

The nation celebrates liberty while enforcing bondage. Douglass frames this contradiction as structural, not accidental.

2. Law as the Engine of Slavery

Douglass emphasizes that slavery is not a social accident — it is legislated, protected, and enforced by courts, Congress, and the Constitution.

3. The Slave as the Nation’s Mirror

The enslaved person reveals the truth of America’s political identity: a republic that speaks freedom while practicing domination.

4. Moral Clarity

Douglass refuses to soften the indictment. He names slavery as cruel, barbaric, and shameful, and insists that no patriotic ritual can cover it.

5. Hope Through Struggle

Despite the brutality, Douglass argues that abolition is inevitable because slavery contradicts every principle the nation claims to honor

By vapac

Friday, July 3, 2026

THE ENGLISH TRADITION AND COMMON LAW THAT CHEIF JUSTICE ROBERTS AND HIS CONSERVATIVE CABAL NEED A TUTORIAL ON By vapac

THE CORE CONTRADICTION

The Supreme Court of the United States routinely grounds its constitutional reasoning in English common law, the Glorious Revolution settlement, and the anti‑absolutist tradition that shaped the Founders.

But that tradition is explicitly built on the idea that:

No ruler is above the law.
The King can commit a crime.
And the people may hold him to account.

The trial of Charles I in 1649 is the founding case for this principle.

So when the modern Court suggests that a president, acting in his “official duties,” may be immune from criminal prosecution, it is in direct tension with the very legal tradition it claims to inherit.

1. What English constitutional history actually says

A. Charles I was put on trial for abusing the powers of his office

The charge against Charles I was not personal misconduct.
It was official misconduct:

waging war against Parliament
violating the rights of English subjects
governing without consent
using state power for personal and factional ends

The indictment literally says he acted:

“against the liberty, peace, and safety of the people of this nation.”

This is the opposite of the idea that “official acts” are immune.

B. The trial established a new constitutional rule

The court declared:

“The King is not a person, but an office;
and the office is accountable to the people.”

This is the birth of the modern idea that public power is a trust, not a personal shield.

C. The Glorious Revolution (1688) reaffirmed it

The Bill of Rights 1689 codified that the monarch:

cannot suspend laws
cannot dispense with laws
cannot levy taxes without consent
cannot maintain standing armies without consent

These are criminal abuses of office, not private acts.

The entire English constitutional tradition is built on the idea that official power is the most dangerous kind of power — and therefore the most accountable.

2. What the U.S. Founders took from this tradition

The Founders explicitly cited:

the trial of Charles I
the Bill of Rights 1689
the anti‑absolutist common‑law tradition

They believed:

The President is not a king.
The President is accountable to law.

Hamilton in Federalist 69:

“The President would be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.”

Madison in the Convention debates:

“No man is above justice.”

The Founders rejected the idea of an immune executive.

3. So how does the modern Supreme Court justify immunity?

The Court’s recent reasoning rests on two moves:

A. Reframing “official acts” as categorically protected

The Court argues that if an act is:

within the “outer perimeter” of presidential duties,
even if abusive,
even if criminal in effect,

then prosecution may be barred.

This is not an English common‑law principle.
It is a 20th‑century invention (mostly from civil immunity cases like Nixon v. Fitzgerald).

B. Treating the presidency as a structurally fragile office

The Court claims that allowing prosecution for official acts would:

chill presidential decision‑making
invite political retaliation
destabilize the executive branch

This is the exact argument Charles I made in 1649:

“A King cannot be tried by any earthly power.”

Parliament rejected it.

The Founders rejected it.

The Court is now reviving it.

4. The historical tension in one sentence

English constitutional history says:
“Official power is the most accountable power.”

The modern Court says:
“Official power may be the least accountable power.”

These two positions cannot be reconciled.

If the Supreme Court wants to stand in the English common‑law tradition, it cannot claim that a president acting in his official capacity is immune from criminal law — because the entire tradition begins with the execution of a king for crimes committed in the performance of his office.

And the kicker:

If Charles I could be tried for abusing public power, the idea that a modern president cannot be is not “tradition” — it is a break from tradition.

By vapac

Monday, June 29, 2026

THE LEVELLERS: A 1600's ENGLISH POLITICAL MOVEMENT REACTIONARIES AND ANTI-ACCOUNTABILITY FORCES DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW SPOKE AND WHOSE SPEECH ANTICIPATED OURS: VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION OF GOVERNANCE By William Thorpe

You see People I embark on these journeys of pointing out this fundamental antagonism, which is when we state that the experiences we exist as Life has a systemic basis, the Status Quo reaction is you are wrong and every situation is an isolated unto itself occurrence. But as soon as the same Status Quo goes about with actions it defines as validating and legitimizing its speech, as celebrations, commemorations and Jurisprudence, it never fails to do so on conditions and qualifications of a systemic definition. So we encounter purported "unimpeachable" articulations as TRADITIONS and rarely do we say wait a minute if what is deemed a Social Good is attributed TRADITIONAL, meaning on a systemic claim, then why aren't Social Ills attributed TRADITIONAL with the systemic edification and glorification?. Well this is what the Leveller Movement of 1600 England was developing its fundamental assertion, a simple common sense of We, [the Human Condition] are all in this, on this Planet together and the less lies, sophistry and deception we weaponize against ourselves, the better off we are at the business of human existence. Because it sure isn't news that the proverbial Center has never held, instead it's Us, We the People our acceptance, which is at once, Prosecutor, Judge and Executioner. I BEGIN: The Russian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his work "Gulag Archipelago", formulated and I paraphrase that lies goes hand in hand with state violence as critique of Soviet Socialism under the Russian Communist Party, then he emigrated to the United States and the rude awakening that lies and state violence also has it's American visage as it's more originally human conditional than the unoriginal and idealistic regurgitated Formica of J.D. Vance's, 'blood and soil' Americana. So who were the Levellers, whose Speech we inherit, anticipating ours with our work of Virginia Prison reform and holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable that I have to remind us of their speech with evoking a Solzhenitsyn and our opportunistic Vice-Prez J.D. Vance ?.The Levellers were a movement whose Speech challenged the governance of the English Monarchy exacting the ultimate accountability-function along with confronting the dictatorial presumptions and above-the-lawism of Cromwell's Army. Which is the same thing we are doing in Virginia with Prison reform. Making the simple basic and fundamental case that the Virginia prison official is accountable to the People, just as the English King Charles I of the 1640's was accountable to the People, for crimes in his Official capacity as King and this also flies in the face of what those reactionaries of the Supreme Court of the United States ruled a few years ago that Donald Trump cannot be held to account for crimes in the performance of his Official Duties. What is glaring about this Trump ruling is those reactionaries are always giving us pronouncements about Histories, Traditions of Jurisprudence that must be tethered to and found in English Common Law. Well English Common Law specifically and commonsensically had the courage to process a King, convict him and subsequently sanction him, and as much as we are hectored at by the reactionaries with their talk of textualists this and originalist that, the framers of our American Constitution knew all about the Levellers and the Charles I incident and specifically said No One, will be above the law in these United States, till John Roberts and his cabal channelled Roger Taney and tangoed into infamy.

People let this sink in, the English as back as the 1640's understood that for there to be Community, Society had to be that of law and not men, meaning establishing the supremacy of the accountability-function as evidenced, by the processing, conviction and execution of a King, King Charles I. This in no way form of fashion absolves the English motive from the chaos and dehumanization they wrought in pursuit of and on the course of the practice of a political-economy of destruction and nihilism. Still from the vortex of that maelstrom the Levellers were birthed, with their Speech, unconditional, unapologetic and in no uncertain terms, defiantly stating 'equality under law and its authority is a from and off the People, bottom up organic fact'. There is much I can say about their work, which is to mean there is much, which, to endorse Frantz Fanon's instructions, we must not only learn from others but refine their discoveries and lessons. Accordingly with the Levellers, I can firmly defend the comparison of their work, to that for a brief bright American moment, pregnant with the right side up birth of a new scientific Human Condition: The Reconstruction of the post-Civil War period, a Dialectical Historical Materialist emergence of the formerly enslaved Black Person, on objective non-idealistic terms with The American Social Contract expression of the Human Condition. So let's remind ourselves that even as the Levellers supernovaed, due to reactionary persecution not unlike the practiced terroristic opposition from the kindred of William H. Holcombe, his "Africanization of The South", to Reconstruction, the dynamism of the Levellers still bequeathed and gave us inheritance in the Opposition to Arbitrary Power and its State Organized-violence and the imprisonment application. That sovereignty notwithstanding its monarchical presumptions is still an entity of the People, the Collective or the People as a Commonwealth and not above them. We also learn from the Levellers, that Community Oversight [and not the farcical theatre of the Virginia Politician ally of the Virginia Prison Official], that Prison governance as a delegated power, must be continuously reviewed by the Communities most impacted. Black, Poor and Rural communities who are imprisoned at higher rates. That the Punishment aspect of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure i.e. sentencing schemes, parole and Virginia Department of Corrections Operating Procedures e.t.c should have direct and recurring Public input not just Technocratic speculations under the even more dubious frame of Evidence-Based. What we also mean by Accountability-Function is Virginia Department of Corrections Policies must be visible and the Department is responsive to the People, not just their allies on Budget Committees and the law and order rhetoric diversions. That the Virginia Prisoner must be accorded meaningful Due Process and Review outside of the self-serving interest of the Virginia Department of Corrections. What this also means is a return to allowing the Virginia Prisoner actual Legal Representation for disciplinary infractions as was the practice during the 1970's under LANDMAN v .ROYSTER 333 F.SUPP. 621, also Solitary Confinement Classifications. The Accountability-Function also means the end to the existence of the two-tier system of legal framing in Virginia where free Citizens have Rights and the Imprisoned has "procedure". The argument for this is prima facie and basic. Of all legal classes in Virginia Society, the Virginia Prisoner is the most lawful because the Virginia prisoner exist as a complete creation of law and if law is the supreme arbiter then to exclude its comprehensive creation as being outside of its ambit, under a less than imposition of capricious procedure mocks and negate whatever claim to existence law has. Accountability-Function, means transparency.

This transparency, requires a repeal of certain current Virginia laws that effectively continues the ad hoc work of the English "Star Chamber", where torture and cruelty were simply meted to those whose Speech the State and its dictatorship intent feared. By shielding the machinations of the Virginia Department of Corrections and Virginia's Justice Infrastructure from Public access. So for example the Virginia citizenry in whose name all this Star Chamberesque malevolent activities are done, viz Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison, have to relatively discover what some of these Virginia Department of Corrections Policies and Procedures are i.e Use of Force from Court cases filed by Virginia Prisoners. This also reveals and exposes the spurious asserted logic by those Virginia prison official allies who legislate those shield laws obstructing Public access to the Prison Official's philosophical construct, their true intent, which is disdain for the People who vote them into those positions of legislating. Because during Court proceedings those Policies and Procedures are to a relative degree exposed and interrogated, showing that the quasi-logic of obstructing public access is just that petit-obstruction. To which we can also infer, that apart, from the disdain the Virginia Politician has for the constituency that wants to exercise its civic obligations by scrutinizing the Virginia Prison Official's professional philosophy, its other motive in obstructing Public access is a diabolical effort at concealing the tepid and timid efforts of legislative oversights, that effectively has the People of the Commonwealth complicit with the Prison Official's, savagery, barbarism and dehumanizing régime of the Virginia Prisoner. The Accountability-Function also means the Publics access to Data as a Constitutional Right, meaning access to metrics on Virginia Imprisonment Conditions. The facts are whether or not the Virginia Prison Official and allies are capable of understanding that no amount of sophistry, obfuscation, lies and distortions conceal what occurs in Virginia Prisons in the name of the People, from forced out of state transfers of certain Prisoners away from family, in violation of the Departments Mission Statement, to Class and Racialized abuse of Black, Brown and Rural White Prisoners. The People of the Commonwealth are well aware and the only thing accomplished by the Gross Negligent theater of emasculated oversight, is the People's loss of faith in the Social Contract and that cynical conspiratorial reinforcement that the human condition is inherently corrupt so why should there be any exerted Speech of Reform. To which in the 1600's the English Leveller Movement, when confronted with these same Contradictions and Antagonisms, "Spoke", that the Accountability-Function of governance isn't aspirational pablum but without its equality, what we have is nothing more than applied Corruption and Opportunity and we have Theology for that. To the People of the Commonwealth our Speech of Virginia Prison Reform and holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable is clear, to anthologize it, We State: FROM STAR CHAMBER TO SUPERMAX:HOW ARBITRARY POWER SURVIVED THE FALL OF CHARLES I AND FOUND A HOME IN VIRGINIA'S DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. THE AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE VS.THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE:WHY VIRGINIA'S PRISON BUREAUCRACY FAILS EVERY ACCOUNTABILITY-FUNCTION TEST. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY BEHIND THE WALLS:WHAT THE LEVELLERS WOULD AND WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH DEMAND OF VIRGINIA PRISON OVERSIGHT. A COMMONWEALTH OF EQUALS? EQUAL JUSTICE AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF VIRGINIA IMPRISONMENT. WHAT COUNTS AS A RIGHT? LIMITS ON STATE POWER AND THE LEGAL BLACK HOLE OF VIRGINIA PRISON POLICY. So People what I've done is present lines of thought

By William Thorpe

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