WELL FOLKS AN EN BANC RULING BY THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE 5TH CIRCUIT DECLARES THAT THERE ISN'T A "CONSTITUTIONAL" RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER AND HOW DOES IT IMPACT OUR WORK OF VIRGINIA PRISON REFORM By William Thorpe

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You know its easy to simply write off the Judges of the 5th Circuit as hapless philistines, caught up in the rip-tide of their idealistic reaction and presumptions, but that would merely be mirroring their intention. On the other hand what their presumptions, which we see in full and complete display, in the matter of STERLING v. CITY OF JACKSON 2026 U.S APP. LEXIS 27560 enable is that neatly ribbon tied, Klieg light lit packaging of all that is bane to our Human Condition with the instruction, that grasping the dialectic is key as the one and only necessary beacon illuminating our path forward. Because without appreciating the dialectic, which despite existence of epochal insidious machinations devoted to its distortions and denial, we would lack that clearly defined and unambiguously uncontrovertible and unimpeachable vantage from which to expose the strawmanesque opposition to our work of Prison Reform. So in accord we recognize the dialectical utility of bigotry in all its reactionary shapes. I BEGIN: On September 4, 2026 an en banc sitting of Judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, affirmed a lower Courts dismissal of claims, presented in Federal Suit by People of The City of Jackson, Mississippi, of STATE-CREATED DANGER, ENDANGERING BODILY INTEGRITY, (and I paraphrase) by providing, "exposing" them to contaminated, polluted and toxic water and their GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS SUBSEQUENTLY LYING TO THEM ABOUT THE HARMFUL NATURE OF THE WATER. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, which is the primary lattice and framework of THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES and THE UNIVERSE OF ITS STATUTES, declares: "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT,THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS THAT AMONG THESE,ARE LIFE,.....",and as such as the above quoted words were being penned, already existing clothed in violation, (see the chattel enslavement of Black People, by penman, Thomas Jefferson) are we finding and encountering its modern and contemporary co-conspirators, continuing the violation in the matter of STERLING v. CITY OF JACKSON 2026 U.S APP.LEXIS 27560,with the pathetically confounding logic that can only be critiqued as fatuous sophistry, that LIFE and the ALIVE STATE and QUALITY can be arrived at, achieved and maintained with "contaminated" and harmful water? Not only do we have the "unalienable rights", directive of LIFE, of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, but we have, the proscriptions of amendments to The Constitution, specifically, The Fifth and Fourteenth, stating " No person shall be.....deprived of life....",Again affirming the requisite a priori of LIFE. Yet those en banc Judges of the 5th Circuit apparently like dervishes, like Saint Teresa obedient to no one but the ecstatic consumption of their idealistic presumptions, which even as their own numbers halfheartedly break ranks to dissent,(see DISSENT OF HAYNES,STEWART, HIGGINSON, DOUGLAS and RAMIREZ),as if in a fleeting moment of lucidity, where the dissent, reveals: "I start with what the en banc majority opinion omits. If one were to read only the en banc majority opinion they could be forgiven for misunderstanding Plaintiffs allegations." [People read the entirety of the Opinion and Dissent, you will begin to see what this work of Reform and achieving the Accountability-Function of governance is. Because in Virginia Prisons we are confronted with the same condition the "Free" People of Jackson are faced with].

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 .