𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞.
By vapac
𝐕𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐂'𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐊
In any society exist two halves,the positive and negative parts on any issue.Yes there is apathy within both polarities, but apathy is also a vote for or against an issue albeit a latent vote. So on the issue of the Commonwealth's criminal justice and it's subsequent pursuit of imprisonment. The responsibility, first of all let me state this if the people, the Virginia tax payer, the constituent doesn't like and rejects the inevitable indictment of complicity and responsibility for the destruction of that expressed and contextual-inviolable inalienability of humanness subjected to the Virginia prisoner. Illustrated in the above listed cases, it has no one to blame but it self, specifically its ignorance.With this stated, the two existing halves of Virginia's society are halves on any issue because one-half is always wrong regardless of intent and imperative. This isn't a simple finger pointing at either of Virginia's major Political Parties. No one, no one social fact and institution has a monopoly on the correct analytical grasp of any one issue at any given moment. We wouldn't need and require government and due process of law if individually we knew the correct and just response to the experience of existence. So naturally, especially on the question of Virginia's criminal justice, the responsibility lies with the people of Virginia and to the extent of the honesty and humility of analysis. What I'm saying is there is nothing new or novel about human behavior and social relationships. Where we anticipate and pursue progress is with response and its on that account the Virginia tax payer exhibits that proverbial head in the sand ostrich neurosis. Virginia's prison system isn't working and its conveyed in this quote from a Spotsylvania, Virginia man, Richard DaSilva who served 17 years in its prisons: "I tap danced for them all the way", upon his recent release. The first obligation and responsibility of society is to understand, even the biblical god upon indictment of the snitching Adam on Eve understood and accepted context because we are told in Genesis 3:21 "And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them". What makes this act fundamental is it comes after the biblical god had indicted Adam and whoever "his wife" was to the extent it took the redemptive utterance of " Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"for absolution.
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright. Unit.
Now for you the reader. A truth is Social Contract, the next is as human beings in society our humanness is used against us, specifically our ignorance. Not stupidity but ignorance. Which one of our ancestors encapsulated as, [and I paraphrase], tyranny is secreting the workings or applications of society/government from the people ensuring their ignorance thereby exploiting it. This isn't limited to the Occidental world but the Orient, see The Tao Teh King by Lao-Tse. So what we have in the matter of King v. Riley, is first of all if The State of South Carolina only sentenced those killed prisoners to a sentence in prison, not to die, but to be imprisoned and life happened and they were killed, just as life happened resulting in whatever basis for their convictions and the subsequent imprisonment, what terms and nature of social contract then is The State of South Carolina misapplying by exploiting the humanness of its citizens? The answer is simple, keep the people ignorant. Why is this King v. Riley case relevant to the people of The Commonwealth of Virginia? Virginia, along with Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina are subject to the same construction of laws The King case has breathed into existence because they are in the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals and the construction of law in the King v. Riley case is simply an egregious disdain for humanity.
Regardless of how the estate of the dead prisoner in King v. Riley presented it, the fundamental issue was his brother had died in custody of South Carolina's prison system and as such it was harm that had to be answered. Logically the estate could've responded within the dicta of freedom of action, instead it limited its action to that which maintained the integrity of social contract. As I've already indicated the estate went to court and to make it short the courts complied with the States ask for a dismissal. Meaning The State of South Carolina even as it proclaims unqualified defense of human life could be complicit in the killing of a multiplicity of persons in its care and supervision, yet callously plead non responsibility under a logic and rubric that exposes the fact when we get right down to it, that Law and its application are sophistry dependent on ignorance of the people and not necessarily aversion of organized violence. Another thing, the rubric exploited by the State of South Carolina compromises, betrays and tramples all over the very reason it participated as a colony in rebellion and the subsequent success over its colonial master, Great Britain. By assuming a dictatorship as sovereign, the same relationship it rebelled against. And we see its antithetical nature independent of subject in cases as King v. Riley with its assertion of qualified immunity. First of all the application of qualified immunity undermines the no one is above law or equality before law integrity of social contract and its grounds is sophistry. Qualified Immunity allows "officials" to plead ignorance and whatever they're accused of violating as not being developed law at the time of its violation. So in the case of King v. Riley, a salient point was an official of The South Carolina Department of Corrections, Sergeant Dewaun McKan of the Kirkland Facility confirmed that in the killings of the four prisoners by two prisoners on April 7, 2017 he violated prison policies by failing to comply with security procedures. To which appellate judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit actually ruled that his security violations irrespective of four dead persons didn't violate the US Constitution and the infamy of the ruling was the seemingly gleeful quote..... "Yet the [US] Constitution does not " obviously "require he [Sgt McKan] look in the cells to mitigate the risk of inmate-on-inmate violence" (King v. Riley 2023 US App. Lexis 20191). What the dead of King v. Riley ask of us and instruct is travesties are being done in our name.
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright. Unit.
This work isn't intended to get all into the pros, cons and utility of the formula but to simply point out an inconsistency with the logic of the formula and its use by Virginia's mainstream and corporate media of which The Richmond Times-Dispatch presumes leadership.
The inconsistency is this, there is deviation when the coverage is of the Virginia Department of Corrections. So instead of the public being informed as when the subject is a prisoner that VADOC, as Department is a serial offender and violator with tens of thousands of claims against it, that VADOC as a State agency uses taxpayer money contesting and challenging claims of violations without accountability, because Richmond Times-Dispatch and its Sisters are derelict (I don't want to suggest complicity even though I'd be on solid ground) in pointing that fact to the public, that as part of the Executive branch of Virginia's government and the fact Virginia Code 53.1 was changed to allow the Selected or rather unelected Director of Corrections complete speculation and experimentation over running the Department and treatment of prisoners, which in turn presents the myriad violations taxpayers fund its adjudication and because the Director of Corrections is an expression of political ideology the response therefore is political action by voting against it and such political action can only be taken if the electorate are educated by Virginia's media. Virginia's media have sued, taken legal action against the Commonwealth when it was in their particular interest, see: Richmond News Papers Inc. v. Virginia 448 US 555 (1980) and Richmond News Papers Inc. v. Commonwealth 222 va. 574 in defending the Freedom of The Press and it was socially good still the concurrent harm their obsequiousness to for example VADOC's 2/16/2022 press release declaring its expectation that the media self-censors thus sacrificing Virginians at the altar of VADOC's pursuit of barbarity due to an inability, an unwillingness to begin from the most basic and simplest of propositions: that no one, especially prison officials and VADOC who are sworn to abide, obey and comply with law are above it.
We are not in 2023 indicting Richmond Times-Dispatch and its Sisters for their active participation at worst and at least complicity in the savagery of the Commonwealths past, because redemption is the ability to correct.
By William Thorpe
I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright. Unit.
