ONE OF OUR ANCIENTS INSTRUCTED, "THE GREAT ARE ONLY GREAT, BECAUSE WE KNEEL, LET US RISE" AND THAT IS OUR RESPONSE TO THE IMPUNITY OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL By William Thorpe

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Recently VAPAC (Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee) gave air to a piece of work titled: FOOD FOR THOUGHT, it was a structure tying Professor Chenoweth's analysis or should I correctly say observations, that nonviolent movements typically succeed with the actions and participation of 3.5% of a community or population, with our work of holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable and the subsequent reform of Virginia's Prison System. I WANT TO GET INTO IT A BIT: Holding the Virginia prison official accountable and the subsequent reform of Virginia's prison system isn't some pie in the sky talk, because just as the harm done to the Virginia prisoner, by the impunity of the Virginia prison official are exceedingly and supra real, as a matter of fact, the most conclusive deed done in the name of the People of The Commonwealth of Virginia, so is the work of its reform absolutely real and must always be seen and characterized as such. So with this understanding, it is clear that the only thing we are up against is ourselves, meaning our appreciation of what is practical and how we hold ourselves accountable to its realization. Professor Chenoweth's recognition that the momentum and participatory force of 3.5% of a population, focused on change and its ensuing course correction is a critical threshold of the necessary viable activity, for example it translates into 304,000+ of a population as Virginia's 8.7 million, which for all practical purposes, when tallied as reflective of the organic perception of Virginians expressing an encompassing and comprehensive grasp that the governance they're subjected to has nothing to do with "We The People.....", is the defacto honest polity. The work of holding the Virginia prison official and its motive force of 3.5% of population participation isn't dissimilar from that, defacto honest polity reflective of that requisite organic perception and grasp, that Virginia's governance has strayed away from whatever inclinations it had," Of We The People....", to the mature and specific recognition that for example the Virginia prison official cannot hide behind the gambit shibboleth of "public safety "while executing an administration of dehumanizing the Human Being in the form of the imprisoned Virginian. Whatever cognition Society as polity can have of " just punishment ", dehumanization sure as hell doesn't have and present any logic, because not only is it tautological and crass negation but, dehumanization itself claims and implies a presupposed affirmation of Human Life, then the prison official does what, negates it and we are supposed to accept such as what? The work of holding the professional behavior of the Virginia prison official accountable has nothing to do with acknowledging any of the prison official's self-serving narrative, which the people of Virginia understandably accord their Government's assertions and pronouncements, but it must be based on the most draconian and stern scrutiny the People can muster, because save for dehumanization as function and purpose of imprisonment, the prison official and specifically, the Virginia prison official, is incapable of articulating a philosophy and its professional behavior, notwithstanding a lexicon in its defense, that isn't feeble and pathetically idealistic.

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