YES FOR OUR WORK OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA WE NEED CRITIQUE AMONG OURSELVES By William Thorpe

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The reason the work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable and its concurrent reform of imprisonment in Virginia, is herculean is because we have to shed ourselves of all the backwards thinking and concepts that have determined our idea of self and in extension how we see and are with the terms we are on and the relationship we have with The Commonwealth's Social Contract. How many Virginia families with members Imprisoned have thoughtlessly supported, endorsed and defended the savage and barbaric behavior of the Virginia prison official of meticulously and comprehensively dehumanizing their imprisoned family member by voting for Politicians who implicitly and explicitly provided cover for the Virginia prison official by philosophizing, justification for the dehumanization of the Virginia prisoner? Still though we don't indict the people of Virginia for their thoughtlessness, what we will indict over is the unwillingness and reluctance by the people to accept that the only responsibility as duty is to pay attention, because as soon as we start paying attention we are 99% of the way to realizing Prison Reform. Because during the political debates and discourses of "who wants to assume leadership of the People", we can correctly frame questions as is needed to expose all those multitudes of flies in the ointment of all that is being done in the name of THE PEOPLE, because without the people there is no system, there is no one to be violated, there is no one to be subjected to hypocrisies, there is no one to be ruled, subjugated, controlled, there is no one for the feeble, small and idealistic minds to preen for, in so many words if no one is buying into the contradictory and antagonistic b.s, there is no need for the narratives as set in stone constructs of Virginia's Social Contract, then because we are paying attention we can honestly to the best of our ability exercise equality under law and its unity of the people. Currently the impunity of the Virginia prison official has two tracks, (1) the individual prison official's inherent disposition to savagery, sadism and masochism, then (2) the inherent systemic and structural corruption that is the system proper. Forever indicating and pointing out the impunity has been the work of reform advocacy. I think its time I addressed this point, there is that existing critique that the analysis and its speech of reform is diametrically opposite that of revolution and as a matter of fact the speech of reform is in service of and in collaboration with the status quo and if the strategy of reform is honest, with the clarity of doing the peoples work, the speech will be that of revolution. Well whether or not I'm in agreement or disagreement with either formulation is besides the point, the only aspect and element that is relevant in any Social Contract and for purposes of prison reform in Virginia, is the realization of the accountability-function. Meaning to what extent is our critique and analysis correct, practical in exposing and identifying contradictions and antagonisms, because those dehumanizing factors of the Virginia prisoner are not simply limited to just the petty-tyrannical savage urge fulfillment of the Virginia prison official, but are fundamental aspects of the entirety of Virginia's Social Contract as such any work of holding the Virginia prison official accountable is actually the work of demanding that the Commonwealth democratizes its articulated Constituted aspirations and we can only realize it by paying attention and self-critique.

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