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Since HB 1030 saw the light of the day, I've been exposing it as a fraud. HB 1030 appeared as the brain child of a couple of Virginia Prisoners, who were being denied Parole. Their idea for reforming Virginia's Parole Process, then, after going through the hands of certain Virginia Prison Reform Advocates ended up with the "opportunity" recognizing Virginia General Assembly member Delegate Tony Wilt (R) and his assistant Chad Funkhouser. Subsequently Delegate Tony Wilt didn't have any problem getting his Virginia General Assembly colleagues to recognize what a godsend the prospective parole reform idea was, because it presented every last one of them, from the reactionary-philistine to the enlightened Progressive, a Rorschach - Test opportunity affirmation of, for each their bonafides, to the burnishing of claims of wanting what's best after all for the Virginia demographic subject to the historicity of the imprisonment scheme, contrary to critics. So it wasn't a feat to have occurring in the General Assembly of The Commonwealth of Virginia in 2026 the "collusion" of it's various and disparate political factions unanimously saying "aye" to HB 1030. Which to any honest observer was proof enough of its fraudulent and corrupt nature and not of justness and being on the correct side of history. I mean we are talking about the same Virginia Republicans who in that same session were producing, sponsoring and advancing Bills targeting Virginia's imprisoned geriatrics for defacto to the grave imprisonment all of a sudden joining hands with Virginia Democrats and voting for a Bill presenting itself as means of release from imprisonment? Unless the quacks like a duck part has been a lie, then there is nothing honest and reformative about HB 1030.This incidental with the defenders of HB 1030, is instructive of a phenomenon that keeps on reappearing with any circumstance of the work of Reform. What happens is there isn't a clear and practical grasp of the fact that, reform, is actually about changing the human existence by improving circumstances and conditions. The tension that appears, which in this particular HB 1030 case, is its defenders have become unwilling to simply examine the law, against the prior and pre HB 1030 circumstance and ask the simple question: why are Virginia prisoners who are the intended beneficiaries of the law, saying it is fraudulent?. Because its defenders have become idealistically invested in the law at the expense of its practical existence in the real and profane world of the imprisoned Virginian. So for example emphasis is placed on the "work sheet", function of the law without pausing to recognize that all its metrics and data points for the most part hinge on approximations, abstractions and the dictatorship of "a" administrative process that is fundamentally weighted and tilted to whatever the interests of the Virginia prison official are and can contemporaneously be. Let's take the infraction metric and it's demerit function, which is extraordinarily consequential yet it doesn't currently comply with the least modicum of due process equal to its consequence. Nothing I'm outlining is insight. All that I point out are fundamental antagonisms of the imprisonment scheme, which is the natural foe of the Prisoner, which have required and necessitated the solidarity of ally and friends in its articulation. The very nature of Parole has been perverted from a status to be granted to its current, "why", should it be granted. This is the point we not only must make but amplify.
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 .
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