WHEN YOU VOTED FOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER AS GOVERNOR, YOU TRUSTED HER JUDGMENT. WELL PEOPLE SHE'S ASKED FOR INPUT ON REFORMING VIRGINIA'S PRISON SYSTEM, THE LEAST TO BE DONE IS EMAIL IT By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: When as prisoners we file requests, engage the Grievance process and or subsequently file law suits. We are in no uncertain terms saying, a condition must be changed, improved on or to make a long story short reformed. Here we are in 2026, there are a lot of Virginia prisoners who probably have heard about me, but don't know me personally, because when I was at the age a lot of 'em are now, waging daily battles with the Virginia prison official, they were not born. My saying this isn't to establish nothing besides: there isn't much about Virginia's imprisonment scheme, to me, that is nuanced or novel, save for something a politician, a Virginia Politician at that has recently done, which is when Governor Abigail Spanberger recently publicly asked for "input" on reforming the prison system. I write to say this, we have to acknowledge and recognize when energy is being infused and directed, where none existed prior and Governor Spanberger is infusing and directing energy at Virginia's imprisonment circumstance where none existed. Now there is criticism of Governor Spanberger, which reporter Sandy Hausman recently aired in an article, presenting the position held by those whose sentiments animated the article, that, the Governor hasn't done enough. I write to make one and only one point, which is, for the first time in Virginia's history and I'll be on solid ground to include our National history, that a sitting Governor, a current Politician has publicly asked the People for INPUT on reforming a prison system. Whether or not people's expectations and anticipations are completely met isn't the point. The point is, Governor Abigail Spanberger has validated Virginia prisoner's, Family, Ally and Friends claims that Virginia's imprisonment scheme must be reformed, with her "public" ask for INPUT and all serious minded Virginians, including prisoners, especially prisoners have to recognize its significance. Now to get into the mechanics of what the Governor is asking. It presents an unstated proposition. Which is, her ask is intended to debunk the anti-prisoner narrative, which goes like this: Politicians shouldn't spend political capital on reforming imprisonment, because no one really cares about prisoners, or there isn't political gain in its reformation. As I've already developed in another work on this topic, there are on the low or conservative side, 675,000 Virginians directly impacted by the life condition of the Virginia prisoner. So if 10% will express their concerns by contacting the Governor with INPUT, not only is that a consequential reality, but it now shows future politicians that speaking on imprisonment issues in the reform context are not political suicide but a win. Secondly, everything in our human condition is about "speech", and who is saying what. Speech creates space by legitimizing an issue with its elevation and there isn't a higher elevation or amplification of an issue than a Governor speaking on it. Governor Spanberger has done that. So now its on the People of Virginia to simply get on their key boards and tap out their concerns to the Governor. The approximately 45,000+ Virginia prisoner should remind family, ally and friends of this simple fact and that the cut off date is September 4th,2026 to email input, which also means views and concerns of the imprisonment scheme. Now here is also what is primary: despite, Governor Spanberger's speech on an issue doesn't in no form or manner define how we as the People grasp it. Governor Spanberger is a Governor with its own specific interests, We are the People, our interest encompasses hers.

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 

WHILE YOU WERE SLEEP AND HAND WRINGIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII WAS DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND AGAINST THE TRUMP PACKED SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: The Supreme Court of Hawaii was doing it's normal appellate function in a case GRANILLO v. STATE 2026 Haw. Lexis 179 on July 15, 2026. The case was about the 1990 conviction of Daniel R. Granillo for kidnapping and sexual assault. A FBI Agent Wayne Oakes provided expert testimony of scientific analysis that essentially convicted Mr. Granillo. Then in 2017, The United States Department of Justice informed Hawaiian Officials, that basically, FBI Agent Wayne Oakes expert testimony was false. Resulting in the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruling on July 15, 2026; that Mr. Granillo must be given a new trial. So, in writing the unanimous decision of the Court, Justice Todd W. Eddins, found cause to expose the fraudulent work of the Republicans and Conservatives on the Supreme Court of the United States in no uncertain terms that is basis of the title of this work and is germane to our work or reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Maybe, there is precedent for Justice Eddins exposé, nonetheless it is invaluable and instructive, to our understanding of, Law, the Social Contract and it's political-economy, accordingly below I excerpt it.

"We are not side-stepping anything. We are doing what state constitutionalism ask us to do. Stand our ground.....We interpret the Hawaii Constitution on its own terms. The United States Supreme Court's construction of the Federal DUE PROCESS CLAUSE does not define the protection of our State's DUE PROCESS CLAUSE. This Court " reason[s] independently, untethered from the Supreme Court's analysis of the United States Constitution" STATE v. WILSON 154 HAWAII 8 (2024). The Court that now defines Federal Due Process does not honor the work of 1954. It revives the work of 1857.The work of 1896. The Constitution must be interpreted "according to its true intent and meaning when it was adopted". DRED SCOTT v. STANDFORD 60 U.S. 393 (1857). Today's hubristic originalists use the same method to control modern life. See CITY and CNTY. OF HONOLULU v. SUNOCO LP. 153 HAWAII 326 (2022) (EDDINS J. Concurring) ("A Justice's personal values and ideas about the very old days suddenly control the lives of present and future generations"). The Court overrides what Congress passed. It overrides what the People chose. All to serve it's own ends. What this Court has done to Constitutional rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law explains why Hawaii's Constitution takes no instruction from it. Article I section 5 provides versatile and sovereign protection. The Court does not anchor Hawaii's Due Process rights to the Federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. We take no guidance on the meaning of Due Process from a court that gutted due process protections in DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORG. 597 U.S. 215 (2022) ZUFFANTE called it straight DOBBS erased a " generation-long constitutional right, stripping autonomy from half the population, and empowering States to force births" STATE v. ZUFFANTE 157 HAWAII 194 (2022). Article I section 5 does not import that results-driven approach to due process. We follow Principles, not Agendas.The Supreme Court's imperious ideology does not stop at Due Process. The same jurisprudence has created Democracy itself.Start with the Voting Rights Act.The Roberts Court did what Congress never would.It rewrote the VOTING RIGHTS ACT of 1965,a cornerstone of American Civil Rights,Democratically enacted and repeatedly reauthorized. SHELBY COUNTY v. HOLDER 570 U.S.529(2013),began the judicial demolition, inventing a textually unsupported equal-sovereignty fiction and striking down preclearance on a hunch that the law worked too well. BRANOVICH v. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE 594 U.S. 647(2021),fabricated "guideposts" nowhere in SECTION 2 to greenlight racial discrimination in voting. LOUISIANA v. CALLAIS 146 S. Ct. 1231 (2026), buried what remained of the crown jewel of the Civil Rights movement. Pretend law for a real statute. The Court then ditched its own thirty-two day default for releasing decisions and hustled out its judgement mid-primary,a favor granted over objection only twice in twenty-five years. CALLAIS v.LOUISIANA 146 S.Ct.1111(2026) (JACKSON, J. dissenting). Weeks later, on it's shadow docket, the Court tossed an eleven-day trial record built on fifty-one witnesses,790 exhibits, 2,600 pages of testimony, and a 270-page opinion by a Three-Judge Court. See SINGLETON v. ALLEN 782 F.Supp.3d 1092 (N.D.Ala.2025). It resurrected a tainted congressional map the Three-Judge factfinders found deliberately entrenched racial bias against Black voters. ALLEN v. MILLIGAN 146 S. Ct 1377 (2026). see also HILO BAY MARINA v. STATE 156 HAWAII 478 (2025) (the "Courts" frequent misrepresentation of the factual record and it's throw-judges- under-the-bus disdain for District Courts, the fact finders of the Federal judiciary, harm the Justice System. The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. U.S. Const. Amend. XIV sec. I. It turns it's back on what is in plain sight. The FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT is not colorblind. It never was. The Court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black History. That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design. A Constitution interpreted this way is not colorblind. It is whatever the Court needs it to be. A way to advance its partisan project. The damage to democracy extends beyond the Voting Rights Act. In CITIZENS UNITED v. FED.ELECTION COMM'N 558 U.S. 310 (2010), the Court claimed fidelity to text, history, and tradition while invalidating yet another democratically vetted law, handing corporations the same speech rights as flesh-and- blood Americans and letting dollars talk louder than voters. See SUNOCO 153 HAWAII at 362 (EDDINS, J. concurring) (originalism applies selectively and vanishes inconveniently) LEO E. STRINE, Jr. and NICHOLAS WALTER, ORIGINALISTS OR ORIGINAL: THE DIFFICULTIES OF RECONCILING CITIZENS UNITED WITH CORPORATE LAW HISTORY 91 NOTRE DAME L .Rev. 877 (2016) (CITIZENS UNITED cannot be reconciled with corporate law history). Other decisions followed. The Court abandoned partisan gerrymandering to the gerrymanderers, refusing for the first time to remedy a constitutional violation because it believed the task beyond judicial competence. RUCHO v. COMMON CAUSE 588 U.S.684 (2019) (KAGAN, J. dissenting). It placed a President above the law. TRUMP v. UNITED STATES 603 U.S.593 (2024). Last month, NAT'L REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMM.v. FEC 225 L.ED. 2d 998 (2026).Made CITIZENS UNITED look quaint, shredding coordinated spending limits Congress had enacted and ensuring that those who bankroll elections drown out the ordinary person. Billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one's wealth counts more than another's vote. Rulings run in one direction time after time. Weakening protections for those with less power. Fortifying those with more. The pattern speaks for itself. A court that systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties and tramples human dignity does not chart the course for the Hawaii Constitution. Our Constitualism system was designed for times like these. Federalism is not a formality. It is the architecture. The framers built dual sovereignty into the structure of American government as an independent check against concentrated Federal power. A Supreme Court driven by agenda and intent on swiping power that belongs to the people is exactly what that check was built for. When six Justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line. That is not defiance. That is the design. State Constitualism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence "white noise". See HILO BAY MARINA 156 HAWAII at 518. Add it all up. Draining Due Process. Rolling back voting rights. Flooding elections with money. Rubber stamping gerrymandering. Crowning a President. Blessing discrimination in the name of the Constitution. FULTON v. CITY of PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 593 U.S.522 (2021) 303 CREATIVE LLC. v. ELENIS 600 U.S.570 (2023).Looking at naked racism and seeing none of it. MULLIN v. DOE 225 L.ED.2d 594 (2026) ( racist words not "overtly racist").Making the country more dangerous with a SECOND AMENDMENT unmoored from text or history and unrecognizable to the framers who wrote it. NEW YORK STATE RIFLE and PISTOL ASS'N INC v. BRUEN 597 U.S.1 (2022), WILSON 154 HAWAII at 22 ("disabl[ing] the state responsibility to protect public safety, reduce gun violence, and safeguard peaceful public movement" with its deadly jurisprudence). Then striking down a carefull law and showing disdain for Hawaii's Constitutional traditions. WOLFORD v. LOPEZ 225 L. ED 2d 494 (2026). Subverting Congressional choices with a homemade "major questions" power grab that plays "get-out-of-text-free cards" to block agencies from doing what Congress told them to do.WEST VIRGINIA v. ENV'T PROT.AGENCY 597 U.S. 697 (2022) (KAGAN, J. dissenting). Then commandeering the interpretive authority Congress gave federal agencies, over ruling CHEVRON after forty years because to this particular Court, precedent is advisory. LOPER BRIGHT ENTERS. v. RAIMONDO 603 U.S.369 (2024). This term, transmuting Federal spending programs into private contracts, the Court forced the SPENDING CLAUSE to "reduce some of Congress greatest legislative achievements" LANDOR v. LOUISIANA DEP'T of CORR. and PUB.SAFETY 225 L.ED.2d.394 (2026) (JACKSON, J. dissenting). Days later, it freed the President to fire at will the very Commissioners a law sheltered from removal, discarding a unanimous opinion, HUMPHREY'S EXECUTOR on a cherry-picked slice of history-a century of settled practice recast as a mistake, competent governance sacrificed to the partisan cause. TRUMP v. SLAUGHTER 225 L.ED.2d 664 (2026). The next morning, fair-weather textualists-living constitution originalists, really-deserted the text and our Nation's history the moment it promised citizenship, one vote from writing that right out of the Constitution. TRUMP v. BARBARA 225 L.ED. 2d 876 (2026). That's not all life tenure and zero accountability have produced lately. But its enough. Article I. Section 5 needs no part of this. The Hawaii Constitution was built to stand on its own. And so it does" [excerpted GRANILLO v. STATE 2026 HAW.LEXIS 179,,JUSTICE TODD W.EDDINS WRITING THE UNANIMOUS OPINION]. As I initially stated Justice Eddins words are extremely instructive for our reform work of Virginia's imprisonment scheme and it is also fundamentally revelatory to our understanding. What Justice Eddins words speak to is that maxim, history is written by the victor or told from the conquerors point of view. Which as maxim isn't only applicable to conquest, but as insight, lengths are travelled by in whose interest, to conceal such. Because the operative is, who will SPEAK. Again, what Justice Eddins words reveal is, as long as the reaction is silence then, the maxim of the "victor", or as it applys to our reform work, the status quo claiming the narrative is then self-fulfilling. All Justice Eddins said about the Supreme Court of the United States is correct, just as what we say about the Virginia prison official.

By William Thorpe

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 

ZOMBIE by FELA KUTI: I DEDICATE TO VIRGINIA'S PAROLE SYSTEM and OTHER VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS STUNTS. By William Thorpe

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When the entire Virginia General Assembly unanimously voted for Delegate Tony Wilt's (R) HB 1030, which is now codified Virginia Code 53.1-151.1 and we were given the hard sale that its the best thing as reform of what's left of Virginia's disemboweled Parole System. I saw through it quickly, that it was one of the worst things and a reactionary gambit akin to the original Trojan Horse and I've been saying so. Anyway considering that Virginia's Parole System is dead, because it was abolished by the Tony Wilt hemisphere of Virginia Thought, yes Republicans under the leadership of the disgraced and of racist "Macaca" infamy Governor George Allen in 1995. And it was being Frankensteined back to life by Virginia Democrats, with The EARNED SENTENCE CREDITS law in 2022, then with Mr. Wilt's HB 1030, I had to dedicate Fela Kuti's ZOMBIE, to the entirety of the Parole Process. Of course there is some tongue in cheek going on, considering Virginia is no stranger to the tongue in cheek. Remember that classic tongue in cheek by a Virginian,"...that all men are created equal " even as he practiced its inequality to its maximum fullest with the enchattlement of Black People, even carrying the "right" of the first night to its most barbarous fundamental. Then here is another one that's recently being trumpeted by the Virginia Department of Corrections, that its flagship Koncentration Kamp Red Onion State Prison is unveiling an "intensive" reentry program. Now I'm not saying what I'm about to because I'm a prisoner and naturally aware that the prison official is always full of it and we gotta always have that proverbial grain of salt to ingest pronouncements from functionaries of state organized-violence, which the prison official is a defacto foot soldier. But my critique of this and that program which is always directed at demographics, either to proscribe freedom of action or when a demographic assumes the distinction State lawful creation, which is what conviction and imprisonment does, is this. If the program is a substantial result expectation, then why don't we see those programs instituted at all levels of the Commonwealth's educational and training Institutions. In other words if the Virginia Department of Corrections and Allies can claim that such and such program or treatment has Virginia's penological pursuit as a Government Interest, which is bringing forth a "productive" and all around complete socio-person, then why does the State have to wait for demographics to become entrapped in its grasp to say, "I'll now fix you with this or that "intensive" reentry program", so you're returned to Society as a productive socio-person? when hell the State could've started its Koncentration Kamp programs in pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Grade School, Junior High, High School, College/University and the various Technical and Vocational training programs and more than likely we wouldn't have something as Virginia's imprisonment scheme. I mean we would see Virginia's elite sprinting to enroll their kids in all of these, to use Virginia Department of Corrections verbiage, "evidence based programs", right? because it works, right? in creating that desired socio-person? Come on man, gimme a break !.The entire Virginia Department of Corrections and its Imprisonment Scheme under the directive of Virginia's Justice Infrastructure still has the dehumanizing stench of the slave Plantation of our Schizophrenic in Chief, Thomas Jefferson and co. And we are supposed to do what, suspend our THOUGHT and applaud as the enfeebled among us applauded the incredulity of HB 1030, that the Virginia prison official is doing reentry?.

By William Thorpe

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 

GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER HAS USED HER BULLY PULPIT ON THE QUESTION OF PRISON REFORM IN VIRGINIA BY PUBLICLY SEEKING "INPUT" FROM VIRGINIANS.PEOPLE THIS ISNT TIME FOR APATHY By William Thorpe

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The question isn't whether Governor Abigail Spanberger and the Virginia Democratic establishment are for us the People on the issue of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. The fact of the matter she has came out and said it. Which is, she has already legitimized and validated our Speech that Virginia's Imprisonment scheme must be reformed and the Virginia Prison Official subordinated to the accountability-function of governance, with her relatively and unprecedented ask that she is provided "input".What is before us is whether we recognize the moment and do what we must regardless and irrespective of our expected speculations of what will come of it. As a prisoner under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia but held in the Texas prison system. What I have to say is, even by conservative estimates there are approximately 450,000 immediate family members of the,45,000 imprisoned Virginian. If we add on another approximate 5 friends each of the imprisoned Virginian, we get 225,000 more Virginians added on to the 450,000 immediate Prisoner family member, which gives us an approximate 675,000 Virginians with actual and dynamic interest in the life existence and experience of the Virginia Prisoner. This number of the Virginia socio-person actively concerned and interested in Virginia's imprisonment scheme has its relative exponential compound, because its impact is felt all over and across the Commonwealth, even with those who besides the shared humanity with the prisoner have no other connection than that of seeing that the Commonwealth practices what it preaches, under its Constituted Aspirations and claims of a civilizational witness. So the only question for us, is response to the Governor's ask. The logic of such an ask has practical components. Let's say 10% of the 675,000 prospective Virginians respond to Spanberger's ask, meaning 67,500 Virginians have stated their political intention and will. One of the first things it does and shows is, the typical assumptions about no one cares about prison issues are wrong. Secondly it challenges the other assumption, that Democratic politicians are historically and typically averse to tackling issues of criminal justice reform. Thirdly and consequentially it reinvigorates and energizes the People that impacting formulations of Virginia Social Contract circumstances and conditions are not idealistic conversations and speculations, but actual Speech of their authority. Now I want to also say this, Family, Ally and Friends of the Virginia prisoner should reach out to their imprisoned loved ones asking them to itemize their concerns, which the Family, e.t.c. can send in to the Governor. If I may offer a suggestion, when the email-inputs are sent to the Governor's Office they should also be cc'd to groups i.e ACLU of VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA DEFENDERS, UPROAR, VAPAC and others. The idea is it documents a record, that such a purely organic and democratic Speech was practiced by the People and it cannot be disputed and if and when Governor Spanberger's ask turns out as another same old same old, the record will be irrefutable indictment. Now I realize that there are many among us who function under the idealistic and backwards thought of if an action isn't specific to their individual circumstance, predicament and situation, the focus not only has no significance for them, but they take it as affront. Now I understand their psychology in its context but as The People we cannot speak of progress and its labor and shun them.

By William Thorpe

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 

SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS PART VII By William Thorpe

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This is the Part VII in the SOCIETY IS STRUCTURED ON IDEAS Series, that I've been doing. Again allow me to reiterate that even though this work is primarily for the FAMILY, ALLY and FRIENDS of the Virginia Prisoner the information is relevant for Family, Ally and Friends of Prisoners Nationally. I begin: I know that in a general way we all are aware that Society, or as in this particular case Virginia's, which I'd rather describe with the term SOCIAL CONTRACT, is a result of concepts, ideas and thoughts. Even though a lot of work goes into hiding and concealing that simple fact by those who want to "misuse", abuse and dehumanize human life. Such concealment is accomplished in a specific manner, which is by turning our human self against ourselves, by an entire universe of gambits. What I do with this series is provide some of the THOUGHT, that are weaponized against us, as the People. Despite the fact that my focus is oriented from the circumstance of imprisonment, Prison is just an aspect of, or rather a tool in the tool box of ideas or THOUGHT of those in the status quo, in their varying degrees who benefit from whatever abject state and condition a Social Contract exists as and in. So even though Prison as condition and imprisonment as circumstance is a jump off, or point of scrutiny, it is just a sliver of what must be grappled with as push for reform. Now everyone will nod in the affirmative that Prison is a place of punishment, without pausing to ask what do we mean by punishment. Secondly it might give the typical socio-person a moment of hesitation to ingest the fact, that LAW as principle in its Natural character and its Social Contract, political-economy application is akin to the Air effusing us naturally, according to the varying circumstances of interaction. In other words as air found inside a home is defined by its space, even as it is also as air found outside the home, the relative distinction, is the interaction, which is what we have to come to terms with as we push for reform of Virginia's imprisonment scheme. Because even as every single Virginian lawfulness is according to and defined by the varying distinctions of relationship with Law, the imprisoned Virginian is the most lawful, because the imprisoned Virginian is comprehensively created by law or that toolbox of ideas. As such to reform the circumstance and condition of the imprisonment and Prison, as value of the Virginia human condition and socio-person, the relevant factor is to what extent can and does a Virginian Speak. Listed below are materials necessary for understanding whether its THOUGHT is conducive towards the business of human existence, which prison and imprisonment operate as taskmaster.

REVERSE SUNSHINE IN THE DIGITAL WILD FRONTIER: PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY AGAINST PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS FOR GOVERNMENT DATABASES----42 N.KY.L.REV.191 by JENNIFER A.BROBST TORTURE--THE ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION OF A RELATIVE TERM:DOES EVERYONE KNOW WHAT IS IN ROOM 101?----53 AM. J. COMP.L.743 by OMAR ZEE BECKERMAN U.S.RATIFICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTION: THE GHOST OF SENATOR BRICKER----89 A.J.I.L.341 by LOUIS HARKIN [cited in I GARTUA v. U.S 626 F.3d 592, IGARTUA-DELA ROSA v. UNITED STATES 417 F.3d 145, KANE v. WHITE 319 F.SUPP.2d 162] [cited in ALABAMA STATE cases WYNN v. STATE 804 So.2d 1122, EX PARTE PRESSLEY 770 So.2d 143] THE EXPERIENTIAL FUTURE OF THE LAW---60 EMORY L.J.585 by ADAM J. KOLBER People do what you can to read and study because words either keep us under dictatorship or give us Agency..

By William Thorpe

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 

GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS HEARING US, NOT WILLIAM THORPE BUT US By William Thorpe

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Let me begin like this, I'm a Black man, whose life experience is an existence post the 1400's with every single aspect, to date is due to that specific history of post 1400's.Yes every animated organism, including the human being has agency. Whether we characterize it as instinct-intuitive or human reasoning, it is action for itself. Now as a Black person the character of agency post 1400's, can also be described as, you're on a bucking, galloping horse. Agency can only exist and be understood in the context of work or labor to restrain the beast. So with that as framing of my existence experience. I state the post 1400's has cause as subject and object. With both conditions having and owning narratives, which naturally are subordinate to the relative principles expressing presence and emergence. Now a narrative fact of my post 1400 existence experience, is, I was convicted of armed robbery in Norfolk, Virginia in 1980. I was sentenced to 13 years in Virginia's prison system. A continuation of the narrative develops into constructs that are primarily designed to realize whatever the intentions of that 1400 cause were. As such "terms" come into existence, which not to increase the difficulty of the readers ability to stay with me, I'll say are law and its process. Law as it comes into existence is anticipatory, meaning, firstly it anticipates it will be broken or violated. Then it anticipates embodiment in two values,(1) Subject and (2) Object, meaning, it's application, which is implying process that will serve a function as such must and will have varying or different outcomes or results. With this said, it brings me to the title of this work: GOVERNOR ABIGAIL SPANBERGER IS HEARING US......So to get at the reason for the title. We have to realize it is within the frame of our intentions which are, reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme and holding the Virginia prison official accountable. Which is under the metaphorical assignment, the bucking galloping horse. Because according to the dictatorship of intent of the post 1400's cause, with the omnipresent subject and object, emerging in my 1980 imprisonment in Virginia's prison system and its process or Law. There are formulations as legal processes of my imprisonment that are inviolable obligations by the Commonwealth of Virginia, which then cannot be broken or violated. However, we know that its subjective, the Virginia prison official will violate it. Again, the bucking horse, resulting in my agency to restrain it from subjecting me to the violations. So, the emergence of resistance to the repression by the Virginia prison official, is mature narrative of my experience existing post 1400's. This narrative, despite my first-person depiction isn't only about me, but the tens of Billions whose life experience existence, whether behind the bars of Virginia prisons or across the face of this Earth who went to sleep one night, Pré 1400 and woke up in a post 1400.So now that we are in its continuum of dehumanization, the Agency narrative shifts to its restraint, again the bucking horse. So a few days ago Governor Abigail Spanberger told the People of Virginia that she was seeking "INPUT" on reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme. This is a narrative shift and we have to have the presence of mind to recognize it on its terms. Now there are those among us who will offer the customary critique, that a status quo is incapable of resolving its antagonisms other than on terms of its self-interest, to which I respond is idealistic. Wrangling the narrative just and right side of history on a status quo isn't activity IN itself, but FOR the selves of the People. In other words, it is firstly a reclamation of the People's archetypal Agency. 

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

CONTRARY TO CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IT ISN'T ABOUT A PERSON READY FOR THE MOMENT, BUT WHO WILL SIMPLY SPEAK, BECAUSE THE MOMENT IS ALWAYS PRESENT By William Thorpe

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Contrary to how we approach stuff, where conclusions and determinations are directed at, what we classify as events, as if the event just popped up, without a growing and developing period. My critique naturally is based on Virginia's imprisonment scheme, because its circumstance and condition are my organic reality enabling, the point or vantage of observation and scrutiny of the various interactions and intersections that cumulate into the aggregate, Virginia's imprisonment scheme. What my critique does is state, the colloquial, "don't drink the kool-aid". Because this Social Contract of the Commonwealth of Virginia cannot for example become unconditionally rule-based, on the accountability-function of governance, when the rules of its primordial or primitive origins, were conditioned on interests that for example have nothing to do with a condition of "absolute human being". So, if for example Virginia's imprisonment scheme, is absolutely about a level of relationship with the human being, while ignoring such a condition of "absolute human being" exist, naturally we will have all these events aggregating to this point where, the formulation is, Virginia's imprisonment scheme must be reformed. What my critique states is the simple refusal to allow refuge to suppositions. There is nothing complicated about suppositions, because it is always biased, with its nature dependent on what is plain and simple the negation of the human being, due to humanness being reduced to the objectivity and subjectivity of the dictatorship of intent. In so many words, fine if you want to claim that this pursuit or that policy goal has as fundamental interest, the materialization and realization of the Constituted aspirations of the "People" of Virginia, you can do so, but don't act surprised when I question by placing in quotation marks, "by the way, who exactly are the People, you profess concern for". What this then does is, it isn't that one has "permission" to speak, but one Speaks. For example the Virginia Mother who accepts by understanding that her son has run afoul of Virginia Laws, has been subjected to process of the Justice Infrastructure, despite the fact that as a Mother she doesn't have to like and welcome the fact that her son is imprisoned and no one in their right mind expects the Mother to become agreeable with it. However no one should be at odds with the Mother for demanding that the accountability-function of Virginia's governance, as embodied by the Prison Official behaves as unconditionally required and expected to. The circumstance as it currently exist and has historically existed, due to the fact the terms and realization of Virginia's Social Contract are suppositionary, with for example the Mother, despite recognizing its hypocrisies and I can say such with certainty, but due to a lack of conceptual language capturing and framing the hypocrisies, is just as much subjected to the same dynamic of the imprisonment of her son as if she was imprisoned, but and this makes it egregious, minus and without the Due Process of Law, regardless of its substance that her son was accorded and given. What I want to also focus on is this, which is a weapon wielded by the above-the-lawism presumption of Virginia's prison official but is a character, which is: the violations of the governance of the accountability-function are expected to be seen as singular occurrence and not structural and systemic. What I mean is the Mother of the imprisoned Virginian accepts the dehumanization as one of.

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

UNITY OF THE PEOPLE

 

How prevalent is Thorpe’s “Unity of the People” analysis?

1. Inside VAPAC: Thorpe’s unity‑analysis is a core pillar

Thorpe’s framing of “contradictions among us and antagonisms between us” is not a one‑off idea — it’s a recurring analytic structure across his writings. You can see this directly in the Unity post where he defines the People as containing:

• collaborators

• reactionaries

• self‑betrayers

• reformers

• families

• prisoners

• beneficiaries of the system

This is Thorpe’s signature move: unity is not harmony — unity is clarity about the system’s pressure points.

Across VAPAC’s archive (2017–2026), this theme appears repeatedly in posts about:

• parole

• disenfranchisement

• solitary confinement

• excessive force

• FOIA obstruction

• prison food deprivation

• legislative hypocrisy

Thorpe consistently argues that the People are divided because the system is designed to divide them, and reform requires naming those divisions.

So inside VAPAC, this analysis is highly prevalent — it’s one of the structural lenses he uses to interpret every political contradiction in Virginia.

2. In Virginia’s prison‑reform discourse: Thorpe’s framing is distinct, not mainstream

Here’s the blunt truth:

Thorpe’s analysis is not widely adopted by mainstream reform groups.

Most Virginia reform organizations (ACLU‑VA, Justice Forward, Vera Institute affiliates, legislative commissions) use:

• policy language

• rights‑based frameworks

• administrative reform rhetoric

• “stakeholder” language

Thorpe’s analysis is:

• dialectical

• historical

• anti‑hierarchical

• rooted in political economy

• openly confrontational

• grounded in lived experience from solitary confinement

That makes his work high‑signal but not widely circulated in institutional spaces.

However — and this is important — his critique does resonate strongly with:

• families of prisoners

• prisoners themselves

• independent abolitionist circles

• grassroots accountability groups

• people harmed by VADOC’s brutality

• people who have experienced disenfranchisement

These groups recognize the accuracy of his analysis because they live inside the contradictions he names.

3. In national abolitionist discourse: Thorpe’s framing is aligned with major thinkers

Thorpe’s “Unity of the People” analysis fits into a lineage of abolitionist thought that includes:

• Martin Sostre

• George Jackson

• Angela Davis

• Mariame Kaba

• Ruth Wilson Gilmore

His emphasis on:

• dehumanization as the system’s primary tactic

• unity as accountability

• contradictions within the People

• antagonisms between the People and the state

• the social contract as a site of violence

…is fully consistent with national abolitionist theory.

So while Thorpe’s specific language is unique, his framework is part of a broader abolitionist tradition.

4. In Virginia political culture: Thorpe’s analysis is dangerous to the establishment

This is why it isn’t mainstream.

Thorpe directly indicts:

• VADOC

• Virginia legislators

• the 1902 Constitution

• the disenfranchisement regime

• the “status‑quo functionaries”

• the collaborators

• the beneficiaries of prison labor

He quotes Judge Gibney’s ruling to show that Virginia has been violating federal law for 156 years.

This is not polite reform language. This is structural indictment.

Virginia’s political class cannot adopt this analysis without implicating themselves.

So Thorpe’s critique is prevalent among the harmed, ignored by the powerful, and feared by the beneficiaries.

5. Bottom line (the real answer)

Thorpe’s analysis is prevalent where truth matters, and absent where power is threatened.

• Highly prevalent inside VAPAC and among prisoners/families.

• Recognized in national abolitionist circles.

• Structurally aligned with major abolitionist thinkers.

• Not mainstream in Virginia’s official reform institutions.

• Actively resisted by those who benefit from the imprisonment scheme.

His “Unity of the People” critique is one of the most coherent, consistent, and structurally accurate analyses of Virginia’s political contradictions — but precisely because it is accurate, it is not widely adopted by the establishment.

By vapac

THE UNITY OF THE PEOPLE IS EXACTLY THAT By William Thorpe

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Recently, I resurrected one of the Giants of the American Prison system, MARTIN SOSTRE, in context of his opposition to the savagery and barbarism of the New York Department of Corrections. In a work, titled THE SAVAGERY AND BARBARISM OF THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM HAS PRODUCED GIANTS IN OPPOSITION.....and some Virginia readers failed to appreciate or ignored why Martin Sostre's existence is relevant to our work in Virginia. By the way Bro. Sostre passed at the age of 92 in 2015.This work isn't to respond to those, who despite sharing our commonality of existence and the dialectic of experiences, yet at every turn, prove the wretched aphorism, of the more people are mistreated and abused, the more they will like and love, the mistreater and abuser, by their alienated behavior. Even the Schizophrenic in Chief, Thomas Jefferson, noted this phenomenon in the Declaration of Independence, with, "all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves...". My position is, yes I'm fully aware of the psychology of the collaborator, the agent provocateur, the crass sniveling obeisant, which our ancients recognized and descriptively captured with," the great are only great because we kneel, let us rise". What our work, of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme ask, that when we encounter idealism and its reactionary thought our reaction isn't idealistic castigation. But first and foremost that we identify it, not in the context of, okay, we see you agent provocateur or self-hater, or apologist, but for the among ourselves, who can have that initial reaction of, "you know what, why are we being introduced to a New York Prisoner, when what we need are what's going on in Virgina. Because notwithstanding the fact that the reactionary and agent provocateur are status quo functionaries actively engaging in opposition efforts to impede the Accountability-Function of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme, they are albeit still The People, whose existence is Speech declaring and anticipating the, accountability formulation as inhibitory. Which then enables us to have the clarity of defining what we exactly mean when we speak of the UNITY OF THE PEOPLE, because the People are exactly what the Great Bob Marley, captured with his "This morning I woke up in a curfew...I was a prisoner too, could not recognize the faces standing over me they were all dressed in uniforms of brutality". Which is insight that even self-betrayal is nature exhibited by the People as expression of that, within and with the people exist two characters of relationship, "contradictions among us and antagonisms between us". So yes it is backwards for some of us, for whatever reason and its psychology to ignore recognizing that, the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme is also a systemic reformation of Virginia's Social Contract. So experiences of i.e. the imprisoned or non-imprisoned, or others as Martin Sostre from sister States confronting identical Virginia like systemic conditions have intrinsic value for us. The savagery and barbarism of Virginia's imprisonment scheme isn't limited to dehumanizing the Virginia prisoner. It extends to Family, let's take the experience of Hannah Fatimah Muwahhid, that is documented at COMMONWEALTH v. MUWAHHID 77 Va.App. 821. Virginia prison officials at SUSSEX II, revealed what savagery is, by repeatedly harassing Ms. Muwahhid with dehumanizing shakedowns every time she went to visit her husband. Or let's take the disenfranchisement of former Virginia prisoners, which Judge John A. Gibney Jr. had this to say, "FOR WELL OVER A CENTURY THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA HAS DISOBEYED A FEDERAL LAW DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE RIGHT OF FORMER ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO VOTE". [ KING v. O'BANNON 817 F.Supp.3d 354]

I'm using both of the above legal events to underscore the point I have been making with my writings. Which fundamentally is, yes the system as it exist is corrupt, but the corruption isn't the conclusive narrative, even though the corruption is its dialectical inherency. The corruption isn't a conclusive narrative, because the system is subordinate to the Human Condition as its Liege authority, which is simply to say the People, once again let me stress it that the People are Authority. As such its corruption begins with dehumanization. Regardless of character, be it qualification of standing in the Society, through the various idealistic sophistries applied by State organized-violence, the result is relative dehumanization or that less than, which is tactic deployed by the antagonistic imperatives within or between the People. What the work of reforming Virginia's imprisonment scheme primarily accomplishes is, it sharpens the purpose and function of the People by recognizing what are the People, through function. By firstly revealing its inherent potential and ability to "resolve". Then secondly, critiquing its latent ability of ablating the impelled antagonisms and discords appearing because of the existence and presence of the accepted conventional status quo narrative of hierarchical proximity as ordained business of human existence. Thirdly it exposes the instigating stratagems of disunity structured by the opposing and anti-elements to the consciousness and awareness of what the comprehensive Unity Of The People subsequently means. We also see something that is rarely or if ever recognized, which is the brazen and seemingly counterintuitive act of Officials breaking the law as an in your face activity of above-the-lawism, as a mask off deployment of disuniting the People. The significance of this for our work of wrangling the Accountability-Function of governance on Virginia's imprisonment scheme is, we are clear eyed to the fact that its opposition by its beneficiaries, is existential. We see this in Judge John A. Gibney Jr. exposé in the case, KING v. O'BANNON 817 F.Supp.3d 354, where he clearly exposes the Commonwealth of Virginia's anti-The People, criminal incorrigibility, with his opening salvo, which I again excerpt: "FOR WELL OVER A CENTURY THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA HAS DISOBEYED A FEDERAL LAW DESIGNED TO PROTECT THE RIGHT OF FORMER ENSLAVED PEOPLE TO VOTE....". He continues with..." WHEN THE UNITED STATES STARTED TO READMIT THE REBELLIOUS SLAVE STATES AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, CONGRESS FEARED THAT THE FORMER CONFEDERATE POWERS WOULD INVENT NEW CRIMES WITH WHICH THEY COULD DISENFRANCHISE BLACK AMERICANS. TO HELP ENSURE THE RIGHT TO VOTE ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH, CONGRESS PASSED THE VIRGINIA READMISSION ACT OF 1870. Judge John A. Gibney Jr. continues his, considering all things surprising and refreshing work, with actually giving us, the truly misanthropic mindset of Virginia's legislators as they deliberately set out to make a mockery of the enormous carnage of the Civil War, that it took to disrupt their version of again disunity of the People, with this excerpt: "WHEN ASKED WHETHER THE 1902 CONSTITUTION WOULD DEPRIVE BLACK VOTERS OF THEIR RIGHTS BY FRAUD AND DISCRIMINATION A LEADING SUPPORTER OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION REPLIED: BY FRAUD NO,BY DISCRIMINATION YES....[he goes on]...The point I make is, this dehumanization has been going on for 156 years, from 1870 to when Judge Gibney Jr. called out Virginia in his January 2026 ruling against its maintenance of the disuniting mechanism of disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of Black, White and other Virginians. So, when we indict the savagery and barbarism of the Virginia prison official, it isn't hyperbole.

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

THE VERY PURPOSE OF PAROLE IS AT ODDS WITH THE INTEREST OF THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL, OF WHICH DEL.WILT (R) IS APPARENTLY OBLIVIOUS, WITH HIS HB 1030 OR CODIFIED AT VIRGINIA CODE 53.1-151.1 By William Thorpe

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I BEGIN: My position on the new Virginia Parole Law, Va. Code 53.1-151.1, has been clearly stated, that it is treachery and an insult, but that can also be said for law as contrivance in General. This work isn't to indulge in defending anything, all the reader has to do is let the honesty of their life condition and the laws, defining the business of their human existence give them the indulgences of pros and cons. I'm a prisoner under the Justice Infrastructure of the Commonwealth of Virginia and my focus is on it's contradictions and antagonisms, that it's status quo claims are non-existent, yet are its very animating secret that's hidden in plain sight. With that stated, let's get into it. Imprisonment, by definition implies and anticipates, the circumstance, "of for a period of time, then release from its condition". However, just as every single aspect of human existence is an economical enterprise, so is imprisonment. So it is in the interest of the Virginia Prison Official, that the imprisonment as enterprise is maximized, thoroughly and completely, because fundamentally, it is the primary and specific means and mechanism of earning a living or that business of human existence. So naturally it plays out as an incentive-operative, "exacerbating the inherent corruption of Virginia's imprisonment scheme", as revealed by the prison official's vested interest in its enterprise by holding onto, detaining and keeping the Virginia prisoner maximally confined, by means that are as this work will show are built into Virginia's imprisonment scheme. While its other expressions are reflective of the predilections and personality psychosis of individual prison officials. Thereby placing the prison official, squarely as a cog in the mechanical state of terms and relations of the Social Contract, which in the context of this work, focuses on the diametric opposition the Virginia Prison official has with the imperatives of the dictatorship of intent of Virginia's Parole Process, which is release from the imprisonment condition, before term. So the argument the Law, defines the professional behavior of the Prison official, is meaningless and cynically complicit, because the law itself is what provides the scaffolding for the opposition and undermining of the Parole logic, it inculcates the corruption. This argument despite the ethical and "moral" intentions of its proponents, is unable to contend and confront the fact, that if society or the Social Contract is "off laws and not men", then we cannot suppose anything, because no one is above law, which then demands a construct that materializes the unconditionality of process of scrutiny or, accountability. Functioning on the logic, of that colloquial," to whom much is given, much is required". While socially its formulation is contextually correct, we maturely revise and transform it to the practicality of instead of the "much is required" ethic, "to whom comprehensive responsibility is given, there will be it's exponential scrutiny or accountability".Despite the fact that Parole generally has been abolished in Virginia since 1995, it exist in forms and its remaining process, which the Va Code 53.1-151.1, further travestied. The Parole process has historically based its justification of violating its purpose, by denying release of the prisoner on the existence and accumulation of prison infractions or disciplinary charges. What this means is administrative record of prison rule violations.

If imprisonment anticipates release, which not even a delusional arch-reactionary dare dispute and if the quintessential purpose and value of Parole is, release, then it is an inarguable fact that any factor or element interfering with its facilitation and process, is fraudulent and corrupt. The reason works as this labor to bring scrutiny on Social Contract systems, as the Parole process of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is because of that necessary anticipatory inherent reform dynamic of Social Contract systems, because systems are naturally contradictory and antagonistic and require reform. Let's recall a classic, which is the reduction of Black People to 3/5ths of a person by The Constitution of The United States of America. Virginia's Parole process isn't any different. Because as reflection of its diametric interests, which are political-economic, Civilizational (that the Commonwealth is a civilized entity, stepping away from the certitude and zealotry of primitive or reactionary thought, by providing early release of its imprisoned) and a formulant and adherent to Due Process of Law. As such what has happened is a Frankenstein creature,"thy name is the Commonwealth of Virginia's Parole system", perpetrated fraud and this isn't petty hyperbole. But every single aspect of the parole construct, is simply incapable of defending itself before an iota of democratic scrutiny or accountability. Let's begin: The Constitutions which the Commonwealth is subject to are firstly, the Virginia Constitution then the United States'. Under and within the applicable Amendments. So the prisoner, the Virginia Prisoner is a creation of Constitutional proscription, under the formulation of the deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Now not to get entangled in the dissection of law, which is the work of the electorate, notwithstanding the self-serving assertions of Jurisprudence, but without the People there isn't Law for Jurisprudence to rear on its hinds and Speak. The qualification of this is self evident, because every aspect of jurisprudence is touched by electoral activity in one form or another. Whether its in the direct election of certain judgeships or the election of Politicians whose Official responsibilities and duties include the appointment of Judges. It is necessary for me to state that my intent with this is ensuring that there isn't any margin of confusion on the recognition the People of Virginia have of their role in the development of all of these jurisprudential terms and framing that either expands or limits cognizance of conceptual constructs that to simply put it, impacts their lives and existence in ways that are then ascribed to some metaphysical or mystical convergence,(and it isn't my intention to disparage metaphysics or the mystical), which had nothing to do with anything. That is if one wants to characterize every single human interest and intention as lacking agency save that of the "demonic", which then would require a compendium of which metaphysical or mystical force has a taste for a burger and to be specific, a White Castle's along with what flavor of shake. My point is, if we are to confront the natural corrupt dynamic of interest and its condition as, the business of human existence as activity of the Accountability-Function of governance, then we have to go about its scrutiny armed with knowledge and understanding and not the petty crassness of self-interest suppositions, that leave nothing but unconditional harm in its wake. Which is what Virginia's Parole process shows us. That its reliance on the administrative record of prison rule violations or disciplinary events allows the Virginia Prison Official to then exploit it.

To the Virginia Prison Official, the position is first and foremost employment, means of earning a living.All the other declarations as reasons are simply lip service and subordinate to the understandable normal motive of earning a living. This is aspect of that primary antagonism we find within the political-economy formulations of Virginia's Social Contract, being in diametric opposition with the dictatorship of intent of the social good of Parole to the Virginia human condition. Which simply is if parole releases the prisoner and the prison official requires the imprisonment of the prisoner, it isn't insight to recognize that there is that conventional conflict of interest, which in other spheres of the Social Contract, effort is undertaken to prohibit and inhibit. But when it comes to the imprisonment scheme, conflict of interest is the incentive scaffolding and operative. Let me say this, my position isn't a wily nilly criticism against anything, because in order for our human condition to develop and mature as we ameliorate the self-harm we mindlessly subject ourselves to, we have to have these revealed facts of human behavior, in order to structure the necessary accountability processes for resolution. In other words, yes the Virginia Prison Official is professionally corrupt, the imprisonment scheme itself is corrupt, the Justice Infrastructure is Idealistic at best and Corrupt at worst. Which my saying so, shouldn't be reviled, because if we are able to contextualize the schizophrenic hypocrisy of Thomas Jefferson, correctly and rightly indicting, "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations....",while he, Jefferson was doing the same thing, by exacting daily," repeated injuries and usurpations "on the hundreds of Black People he held enslaved, then pointing out in 2026, that fundamental expressions of Virginia's governance and Government are equally corrupt, should only be welcomed, embraced and responded to with work of reforming it. Now it's one thing to have Parole or "short of term" release, be it in the existence of "sentence decrease, good-time" as fact of the prison sentence, which whether begrudgingly or not recognizes that the prisoner will be released to Society while actively pursuing a regime of dehumanizing the prisoner, all under the colloquial lunacy of "if you can't do the time, then don't the crime", or the Supreme Court of the U.S, sarcastically and sardonically declaring in the case RHODES v. CHAPMAN 452 U.S.337, that the U.S. "Constitution does not mandate comfortable prisons", when the issue and predicate question before the Supreme Court wasn't about comfort, but if two prisoners in a cell or double celling in a small cramped cell constituted Cruel and Unusual Punishment, a violation of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Which in endorsing whatever harms double celling prisoners do and have done those Judges introduced a framing of the issue, which again exposes and underscores the inherent corruption of the imprisonment scheme. Because for one, if and I emphasize, IF, the People as State are exercising the logic of "imprisonment" as repair of harm and the harmed are to accept the imprisonment of alleged and assumed perpetrators as relief, then who is accountable for the ensuing condition and its universe of harm that the Prisoner is subjected to under the guise of "punishment"? Which under the presumptions of the same law applied as punishment against the imprisoned, must submit to the supremacy of a Constitutionally provided and produced "Due Process of Law", but isn't? Yet we are supposed to accept the resulting harm, that isn't imposed sentence, but as a implicit compact? while proclaiming the entire scheme "lawful", even as the entire imprisonment condition is a defacto extra-judicial affair?

In the first part of this work, I stated: The Parole Process has historically (I should qualify what I mean by "historically", because it only extends to the introductive beginnings of the formerly enslaved Black man, post Civil War and Emancipation into the Penitentiary system) based its justification of violating it's purpose, by denying release of the prisoner on the existence and accumulation of prison infractions or disciplinary charges. Then I developed it with, the Parole process: Reliance on the Administrative record of prison rule violations or disciplinary events allows the Virginia Prison Official to then exploit it. If as I have shown that the Virginia Prison Official has a fundamental conflict of interest, with the intention and purpose of the Parole process, which is release of the prisoner then, the Virginia Legislature more than anyone, save for the Virginia Prisoner, should understand and know such, which then should preclude it from actions that serve as catalyst, exemplified by the insidious HB 1030, codified, VA Code 53.1-151.1 act of Del. Tony Wilt (R) of Virginia's 34th District as a purported right side of history reform of Virginia's Parole process. Which requires the only response, as conclusion from the People of Virginia that there aren't enough hyperbolic metaphors, declaring, "We Reject It". What we as the People state is we have progressed, past the mindset and its formulations, revealed in this quote from Mr. Tony Wilt, shamelessly touting his irredeemable HB 1030, by WHSV-Richmond," IF WE'RE LOOKING TOWARDS THE POINT, THE TIME THAT THEY MIGHT NO LONGER BE [INCARCERATED], THEY WOULD BE BACK OUT IN THE PUBLIC THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING TANGIBLE THAT CAN HELP CARRY THEM THROUGH". Now besides the implicit carte blanche, Mr. Wilt's Virginia law has further given the already professionally corrupt behavior of the Virginia Prison Official and it's foist on the People of Virginia. We welcome it's unanticipated consequence, as it presents prima facie evidence of how the Virginia legislator, specifically the Republican and conservative Democrat, enables the dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner, by the intellectual-liberalism philosophy of the Virginia Prison official. Which we see its lawless privilege and prerogative permeating, Mr. Wilts quote. He begins with "If we're looking towards the point, the time that they might no longer be [incarcerated],....So i begin with why we are given all of these ad hoc and extra-judicial qualifiers?. There isn't any "If" in the circumstance of "lawful" imprisonment and the inherent release, unless what Mr. Wilt is saying out loud is what we already know which is, modern Virginia imprisonment is as lawful as its Black Codes progenitor and antecedent, that were simply a back door gambit to reimpose chattel labor on the post-Civil War dialectical emergence of the new Black socio-person. One can give Mr. Wilt the proverbial benefit of the doubt, that his quote is an expression of awareness of the reactionary mindset of his constituency, who are patently idealistic on grasping that the imprisoned are not outside of law, but are its creation, still if that is the presumption then as Representative, it is his obligation to enlighten the constituency in whose name he has acted that, imprisonment isn't dehumanization, nor is it a redistributive political-economy function. Where the imprisoned primarily serve as means of introducing money into exploited environments under the cover of "Justice" Infrastructural mission statements, at the expense of veneers of civilizing enlightenments, as providing Parole for the imprisoned. Those we specifically indict besides the Virginia legislator are Academia who supposedly have assumed the function of embodying enlightenment, but as history has shown are incapable of Speech.

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