WHAT, PUBLIC SAFETY ? By William Thorpe

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Recently Governor Abigail Spanberger vetoed a Bill limiting how Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison could continue the industry of warehousing Interstate Prisoners. Now the Bill was one of those on the totem pole of issues, acts designed to seem proactive on an issue when the reality is anything but. Now Spanberger vetoed it with the invocation, and I paraphrase, that it compromised "Public Safety". This work isn't about the idealistic construct of the Bill, if the reader wants to get distracted with the curiosity of its nature, what I suggest is instead of wasting time giving a flip to its stated legislative rationale and history, find a knowledgeable Virginia prisoner of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and practices and discuss to what extent a substantive moratorium on holding out of state prisoners at any specific Virginia prison, is meaningful when the Virginia Prison Official can simply hold the prisoner in any of its other charnel places. What I want to focus on is the deployment and exploitation of "Public Safety", as a specific and particular tool of State organized-violence. I doubt that Governor Spanberger appreciates and welcomes the fact that she shares the dusty shelves of human history with Maximilien Robespierre, another adept at the deployment of "public safety". My point is Public Safety is simply that guised up old," in the eye of the beholder", that has as its animation, the rearing, prancing, snorting stead of INJUSTICE. Because, when there is that actuality of "process of law and not procedure of men", (and what I mean by procedure of men, is when that proverbial blindfold of law aka, justice is pulled down to see whom) then, public safety as designation becomes a redundancy. Because Public Safety as designation is only objective in the absence of that easy said than applied, Due Process of Law, which is when the accountability-function of governance is equally accessed by the People and not according to the arbitrariness of whims, capriciousness, selective scapegoating, presumptuousness and pretentiousness. Then public safety assumes its correct role as medium or means and not objective. Because for example as it concerns this work, the objective of prison reform in Virginia is holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable, which is simply according to the existing law. Now we can get all into the creation, genesis and whether the stated utility of the prospective law has democratically factored in the inevitable unforseen consequences and is the available process of law, meaning the existing Politics honest enough to contend with and accept that inexorable resolution. But the objective of prison reform in Virginia is that unconditional application of the accountability-function, which to couch any level of qualification, which we understand as conditions under that eye of the beholder, "Public Safety "framing is simply, dishonest, despite its time tried and well exploited gimmick, antithetical to that Constituted aspirations of the People laboring in that business of human existence. The Social Contract is a construct of unforseen consequences till it is made to come to terms with it. As such the Public Safety logic is a Chimera, a chameleon, a Stead subject to whoever holds the reins. So with the fact that we grasp the manner of its exploitation by Virginia's status quo who benefit from the cover it presents the perversion of the accountability-function of governance, it is then our work to challenge its narrative. We point out to the People that its ludicrous for Virginia's Government to claim focus on prisoner reentry to society while allowing the Prison Official to dehumanize the Prisoner.

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