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