THE POSITION AND STANCE OF VICTIMS RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS AND ADVOCACY IS UNDERSTANDABLE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM UNTOUCHABLE NOR CRITIQUE AND ANALYSIS PROOF By William Thorpe

I was studying the state of prison and criminal justice reform across the land and the work of Governor JB Pritzker of Illinois, along with the Illinois Democratic Party, Reform Advocates and the enlightened People of Illinois stood out. Yes Virginia Democrats under the leadership of Governor Ralph Northam, Reform Advocates and the enlightened People of Virginia also acquitted themselves, with the herculean work of abolishing the death penalty, reform on the margins of imprisonment, the apportionment of imprisoned Virginians as electoral constituencies back to the jurisdictions of initial arrest and other reforms. Now the reason JB Pritzker and the Illinois efforts are noteworthy, is primarily because of the opposition from Illinois Republicans and their Victims Rights Organizations allies, created roadblocks and the subsequent idealistic laws enacted as a result. Yes Virginia Republicans are equally as reactionary as their Illinois brethren and are also allied with victims rights advocacy in opposing any "perfection of the unity of the people" as expressed as holding the Virginia prison official accountable and reform of an imprisonment circumstance and condition, that quite frankly under any vantage of scrutiny has nothing to do with euphemistic "justice" as repair of the all too real harm to victims, which weren't Victims Rights Advocacy so enthralled and enslaved to the distortion and its misrepresentation of crass revenge and petty vindictiveness as "justice", would easily see it as such and recognize why our ancients instructed that the rule of law and its repair of harm shouldn't become a descent into the idealistic morass of revenge and vindictiveness as a "justice" surrogacy. I BEGIN: The issue or question isn't whether crimes are not committed by the legitimately adjudicated, convicted, imprisoned and sanctioned Virginian, whether harm isn't meted to fellow human and social personhood, it is and accordingly anticipated by terms of the Social Contract. But that's where the current speech of Victims Rights advocacy, irrespective of presence of mind, transforms into the exploitation of harm for a specific political-economy and its agenda that perpetrates a more cataclysmic and general criminality on the socio-personhood as function of the Social Contract, which then trickles down as consequence into that tragic and heinous singular existence or topical criminality, that is then viscerally scapegoated by the status quo embodiments of the Social Contract as a perpetual self-serving font narrative for their sustenance and maintenance and its dynamic continuum of the next inevitable crime. This work isn't conclusive nor presumptuously intended to be. What this work intends is to state that, the work of Victims Rights advocacy has to recognize that, there are other portals of critique for victims rights, besides the entrapment of vindictiveness. A point of observation, isn't our circumstance as the Human Condition a result of our prescience and ability to prepare?, Which in the context of crime, simply implies that our Leaders must present analysis of why certain conditions breed it, which victims rights advocacy must then speak to its amelioration.

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