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Let's be clear Governor Abigail Spanberger picked a cog in the status quo machinery of impunity to head VADOC or The Virginia Department of Corrections, because as a Democrat she is averse to the susceptibility euphemistic critique of "being soft on crime", and that's the whole point, for too long we have allowed, permitted and tolerated the existence of euphemistic narratives, that brazenly wink and nod their intent, while we act like, we don't know what's going on. Governor Spanberger chose a Virginia Prison Official, to become Director of VADOC who, during the period when imprisoned Virginians were self-immolating themselves, setting themselves on fire in protest of prison conditions and treatment, that he supported and defended its creation was collecting Virginia tax payer provided pay checks. Now, The Commonwealth of Virginia has been operating a Prison System for centuries and never have those it imprisoned resorted to self-immolation as speech in protest of conditions, till the watch of the previous Governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin and his henchman, former Director of VADOC, Chadwick Dotson and that's the team and "good ole boys club" Spanberger's pick to succeed Dotson, Joseph W. Walters, came from and labored under ensuring that it's (and by all and any standards) contra and antipathy to Virginia's rehabilitated and reformed Constitution continued, its philosophy and practice of dehumanizing the Virginia Prisoner. The question isn't whether Abigail Spanberger, knew and understood this, of course she did, because who didn't sit up and ponder why prisoners would set themselves on fire, but its why would she compromise the value sets, that for example drove over 70% of young Virginians to vote for her, thus enabling her triumph over the reactionary world view of the Virginia Republican? And its response is how I started this work, because, the Democratic Party has forever yielded and therefore tangoed with susceptibility to that euphemistic "being soft on crime" slur, which we The People are just as much complicit in permitting its formulation and existence as The Democratic Party. "Harm", by human to fellow human has always been an aspect of the human condition, if I'm to piggy back on the Biblical, wherever there are more than three, I'm with you and say wherever there are two people, the dialectic of "harm" is present, the question however is its resolution and its structure has developed along with the organization of the means and mechanisms of realizing the business of being human or that acquisition and its process of the necessities and wants of human existence. If "harm" is a destabilizer and interference of realizing the business of being human, then the means, mechanisms and process of its resolution is intended as its stabilizer, which is what Law or the terms and relations of the Social Contract, or that approximate cooperation, necessary for that business of being human, is enacted to satisfy. In contemporary Virginia Society and its Social Contract, crime exist as its result, meaning Law defines crime and the Virginia Department of Corrections is a mechanism of its process. So what then does the slur, "soft on crime" mean and why are Democrats susceptible to it, when Law exist not as a Democrat or Republican construct but as process of Virginia's democracy? and if Law when enacted exist as expression of collective will, isn't a after the fact summary redefinition then illegal, unlawful, extra-judicial and violative?
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982
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