Attacking The U.S. Postal Service Is A Violation of The U.S. Constitution and Why It Is A Criminal Justice Reform Issue By William Thorpe

Trump vs USPS published April 21, 2020 by J.D. Crowe politicalcartoons.com

 

"The Constitution of the United States of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establishing justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America 

Article 1 Section 8
The Congress shall have power........To establish Post Offices and post roads"

So why has the Republican Party, it's Evangelical lackey and Conservatives been hell-bent on violating Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution and it's establishment of Post Office's provision by destroying the Postal Service, despite claiming to be staunch defenders of the Constitution?

So here we are in 2020 with another Republican President Donal Trump with his party lemmings, Evangelical lackey and confusion of Conservatives Depriving the Postal system of $10 billion it needs to function..

Secondly to support the U.S. Postal Service is to stand with Criminal Justice Reform because if it is in a state's penological interest that prisoners have stable family support contact and association then the Postal service is the primary and dominant means of facilitating such. It is also in the family and friends of prisoner's interest that the postal service maintains its Constitutional mandated function. Because of the primary means of contact, it allows them to stabilize and support the prisoner during the imprisonment period and they must be on the forefront in opposing any attempts and efforts by Republicans, Evangelicals, and Conservatives in destroying the Postal Service.

The stupidity of Donald Trump's Anti-Postal Servies critique which is thinly jealousy of Amazon's Jeff Bezos shouldn't be basis for policy. Donald Trump doesn't have a clue about what is money as a macro-realization. Even if the postal service was rendering its services freely. Being deficit funded just as the department of defense and those other black holes, the Intelligence Agencies, it would simply be and can only be money being pumped into the economy as all other introductions of capital into the economy. A $1 million allocated to the Postal Services is no different from a $1 million given manufacturer of a Tomahawk missile that is only produced or manufactured to be destroyed yet it exist in function as $1 million pumped into the economy. 

Its high time we let idiots like Donald Trump and their simpelton Evangelical lackeys understand that the deficit jig and money as a mom and pops budget is up because money is a mature and anchor economy as the U.S. has nothing to do with that bank in the sky which we are taught our grandkids will owe what we deficit spend       I have one question        So what if you don't have any grandkids?

By William Thorpe

William Thorpe is at Eastham Unit in Texas in Solitary Confinement since 1996, Virginia exiled him in 2019 to Texas

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NPR's Michelle Martin, Accountability and the 4/16/18 South Carolina Incident

On 3/1/20 NPR's [National Public Radio] Michelle Martin allowed the whatever his name, Director of South Carolina's Department of Corrections to escape his accountability by continuing the mischaracterization of the 4/16/18 killing of 7 prisoners and 17 injured at South Carolina's Lee Correctional Institute as a simple matter of Gang activity.

Whether or not the immediate cause of the 4/16/18 violence was gang activity is besides the point. Had NPR's, Michelle Martin prepared for the 3/1/20 media event, which not only included the Director evading his accountability, but 3 hand-picked South Carolina, prisoners representing the purported reform of the South Carolina prison system. She would have held to account the irrelevant named Director for practices of South Carolina's Department of Corrections that not only are found to be unconstitutional hence illegal but on its face fostered the environment that enabled the death of 7 prisoners who were not sentenced to prison to die.

There is a specific reason why we typically find the prison systems of southern former Confederate Slaves holding states, especially those that scream the loudest of their Conservative values, of which South Carolina is one, violating the equality before the law underpinning of their social relations. Which is the extra-judicial existence of prison officials being above the law and the lack of accountability.

Gang activity isn't any more corrosive than the malfeasance of the prison official who having swore toe uphold the law behaves above it, and for NPR's Michelle Martin to interview the whatever his name, Director of South Carolina's prison system and not make this obvious point. Actually, ask who really is to blame for the death of those 7 prisoners during the 4/16/18 incident, is it the prisoners who killed fellow prisoners the Director of the prison system whose malfeasance fostered and enabled the killing of the journalist who failed to hold to account prison officials who have the legal and professional responsibility for the lives of prisoners.

By William Thorpe

Further Reading

South Carolina Prison Reform Proposal

Consumer Behavior and Thinking Aloud

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1.  JAILHOUSE LAWYERS MANUAL BY COLUMBIAN HUMAN LAW REVIEW
2. FEDERAL RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
3. FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
4. PRISONER SELF HELP LITIGATION MANUAL JOHN BOSTON PUBLISHED VIA ANY BOOK OUTLET
5. VIRGINIA PRACTICE SERIES     CRIMINAL PROCEDURE/CIVIL PROCEDURE see links also PUBLISHED BY WEST
6. FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE
7. BRENNEN CENTER FOR JUSTICE
8. GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL BY GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
9. HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION - https://hrcoalition.org/
10. NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT BY ACLU [AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION]
11. FINDLAW- https://statelaws.findlaw.com/
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14. PRISONER ADVOCACY - https://prisondivest.com/
15. PRISON LEGAL NEWS - https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/
16. SOCIAL WORKERS and ALLIES AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT - https://socialworkersasc.org/
17. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ~ 202-872-8600
18. WASHINGTON LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS & URBAN AFFAIRS- 202-775-0323 [For Prisoners] 
19. LIEFF CABRASER LAW FIRM [SAN FRAN, CA AND NASHVILLE, TN  
20. INNOCENCE PROJECT- 212-364-5340
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24. Open Oversight VA: is Virginia's only statewide police transparency database. We maintain data on over 200 police departments and sheriff's offices through public records aggregation, open-source intelligence research, community contributions, and, most of all, hundreds of regular Freedom of Information Act requests. Created in October 2022 and inspired by Open Oversight (created by Lucy Parsons Labs), we are an independent, decentralized, and fully autonomous collective run entirely by dedicated volunteer researchers, digital archivists, data enthusiasts, and others with a passion for police transparency through public records. It is dedicated to victims of police brutality, those brave enough to share their encounters with police officers, and every officer who "doesn't have a name." Now they do.
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