STOP SELLING US OUT By William Thorpe

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There is nothing complicated about reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, its simple, TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY. Nonetheless just as everything else in life, the simple becomes the complicated, not because of its details. I'm not putting this together to state the obvious, but, we keep on being subjected to trends and tendencies which are nothing more than results of assumptions and these assumptions that I speak of are, the let's do something to look good politics of supposed reform that we are again being subjected to as Virginia prisoners and under the Commonwealth's Jurisdiction, by politics of contempt. Let's get into it: The tens of thousands of Virginia Prisoners are not the ones causing actual harm within Virginia Society. Abigail Spanberger didn't become Governor because she told the People of Virginia that Virginia Prisoners are the source of why you're treading the water of Virginia Society and in some cases drowning, instead she correctly identified that Society's problem is Affordability and not a single Virginia prisoner, currently or historically has had anything to do with Affordability as a macro formulation of Virginia's Political-Economy. As a matter of fact the Virginia prisoner stands as proof of its bane as a contradiction and failing of Virginia's Political-Economy. Have some Virginia Prisoners been the cause of harm, real harm to individuals and families in Virginia Society, yes and no one not even the imprisoned dispute or deny those facts and events. But a Society or the Social Contract isn't analyzed or critiqued on the behavior of its members who are it's least impactful, such indulgences are nothing more than scapegoatism, revealing something else. Did Abigail Spanberger inherit a mess, of course she did and it just wasn't with the Commonwealth's Justice System, because, again a Society's Justice System isn't a beacon of civilization instead is evidence of its lack. For those scratching their heads as to what the hell am I talking about. Civilization means that stable set of relations refining the development of the business of human existence. This stability is presented in a couple of contexts, meaning to varying components of Society or the Social Contract. So, to the owners or possessors of the means of production or producing the necessary quality of human existence, politics professes, stability. But to the rest of the People who are the Labor or Workers actually producing quality for human existence from the to be ascribed value quantity, politics presents, Law and Order or to put it bluntly, "Organized-Violence", which the Justice System is function. Which illustrates what is Civilization. The law and order construct of civilization, only expresses, that this is what the status quo or as I described as owners or possessors of the means of production have settled on as being the most efficient way and means to accomplish and maintain their hierarchy within the business of human existence. It doesn't mean that law and order to the human condition is like water and blood to human life. Law and Order as we experience it is a stick, a club or simply put the status quo sees Labor or the Workers, meaning all of the rest of Society who do not own means of production as brute beast, who only respond to aversion or pain, requiring the stick or club to beat them to labor in transforming quantity to quality or producing value. To conclude on this, contrary to colloquialism, law and order has nothing to do with accountability, despite being aspect. Accountability is a principle that has varying degrees of speech. Among the People, ourselves, our every single interaction isn't policed, by the organized-violence of the State, we hold ourselves accountable.

Recently Governor Abigail Spanberger has made controversial moves on the Transparency and Accountability front of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Before I continue let me say this: I like and respect Abigail Spanberger. Winning modern American elections is no simple feat regardless of gender and being a Woman doesn't make it any easier. Even the Great Frederick Douglas, born into chattel slavery, having an intimate experience with discrimination and oppression, still had issues with Women assertions for Political Rights. So yes its a monumental achievement that Abigail Spanberger is Virginia's first Female Governor and most importantly, I'm always in Solidarity with our egalitarian and non- reactionary Women and Sistahs succeeding. With that said let's get to work of critiquing Governor Spanbergers' recent moves on the question of Prison Reform in Virginia. Governor Spanberger is a former United States Intelligence Officer, so there isn't much I have to say by way of insight into the sort of machinations that goes into reforming anything about a Society, which Prison and its Justice Infrastructure is medium that Abigail Spanberger hasn't had that dialectical cause and effect birds eye view of its macro-deductive analytic grasp. So what her controversial moves on Prison reform, instead speculatively speaks to is she isn't taking anything of it seriousl, because for one its an inherited mess, with roots in the Virginia of the 1600's as chartered Company and Colony and she only has a 4 year term, so why tackle something steeped in every single American Contradiction and Antagonism marker?.On top of it the Politics of it all are susceptible to the pro forma superficiality of window dressing, so why should she say, you know what, the roots of systemic injustice might run deep and uprooting em then salting its debased and profaned earth is exactly what I'll do, because if my presence is historic, then History is exactly what I will make. Well this is saying that is exactly what as Virginia's Historic Governor, Abigail Spanberger should do. Governor Spanberger doesn't need a tutorial on the genesis and utility of Virginia's imprisonment scheme that has nothing to do with whatever deceptive and diversionary claims of "Justice" it mantles around itself, yet her recent moves say she needs it. Telling us with citations provided by the Virginia Prison Official that X amount of Y incidents are down is disingenuous. If those metrics are true expressions of the accountability-function of governance, then the Virginia Prison official would be telling us that the "reasons" for the metrics are diligently being ameliorated and not only would we learn that from Virginia's Government, but Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia Prisoner would stand besides Governor Spanberger as she declared to the Commonwealth that the infamy of dehumanizing the Virginia Prisoner by the Virginia Prison official will not from henceforth be tolerated. Instead what we are getting is the continuity of the professional practice that the prisoner, is less than Human. Because if the Prison Official working in The Prison and for that duration is as confined as the Prisoner, experiencing the environment as the Prisoner and there is recognition that the consequence

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