[As recorded for the Final Straw radio show, 9 August 2020] The Trump administration has been pushing for schools to mandatorily reopen in the Fall. Like everything else this fascist fuckweasel has advocated since the zombie apocalypse hit, his school reopening plans really have nothing to do with […]
Since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a number of protesters and rioters of the dumpster-fire and ski-mask variety have found themselves detained for noble acts that change the world– like toppling statues of racists or torching cop cars or inflicting necessary violence. No good deed, it […]
Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain has been held without a legal conviction or sentence since 1991 for the self-defense killing of a court official’s relative who broke into his home. In response to his public criticism of their criminal agenda, Ohio prison officials subjected Sean to a year-long regimen […]
Source: https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2019/01/16/on-slavery-nat-turner-john-brown-and-drones-a-statement-from-sean-swain/ In previous years, I have used the occasion of June 11 to roll out what I thought were pretty big ideas. In 2015, for example, I described how blastblog.noblogs.org had posted the home addresses of Ohio prison officials, including those who had orchestrated the torture regimen […]
Terrorism used to be defined as acts taken to instill fear in a population with the aim of coercing a change in social policy. In my lifetime, that definition has changed and “terrorism” now is defined as generally any action undertaken by humans in an effort to alter […]
Ohio’s prison system, in the ultimate irony, calls itself the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Most states have dropped the word “rehabilitation” from the titles of their respective prison systems, which says something about our social and political climate. The federal system doesn’t pay lip service to […]
I recently received a letter from a prisoner named Omar Gent who is serving 24 years in Colorado prison, convicted of a robbery. Omar is the founder of freeourbrothers.com. The situation he describes, and hopes to draw attention to, illustrates a pattern as to how the larger matrix […]
It just never ends. On February 16, Mailroom fart-goblin Ryan Applegate– whose personal war against all anarchist literature made him globally famous –sent me another notice of withholding. This notice indicated that what was being withheld is a CD. The notice does not indicate who sent the CD, […]
I recently sent the following email to WCI prison officials: Please be advised that I received disposition from Ms. Hill to a grievance I filed. That disposition asserts that WCI does not recognize the legal existence of the Army of the 12 Monkeys unincorporated association. Interesting. Not sure […]
Charlie Stephens is an English teacher at Tennyson High School in Hayward, California. He recently invited me to correspond with his class. I’d like to share with you my letter to his students: Dear Mr. Stephens’ Class: My name is Sean Swain and I’m writing to you from […]
Fart-goblin Ryan Applegate in the WCI mailroom is at it again. He has intercepted mail from anarchists– on the basis that they are anarchists. No other reason provided. No examples of any violation of any criteria cited. The only way for me to get around these illegalities and […]
After I first ran for Ohio Governor, do you know what the fascist fart-goblins of the Ohio General Assembly did? They passed a law that anyone in prison cannot take public office, which disqualifies me from becoming governor from prison. It disqualifies me even if the majority of […]
[From Final Straw radio show broadcast, 25Feb18] The Corrections Institution Inspection Committee works for the Ohio General Assembly, the Ohio legislature. It’s job is to act as a kind of watch-dog agency, keeping the Ohio prison system honest. I don’t want to turn this into a civics lesson, […]
I’m finally permitted to read my own book. Hope I don’t corrupt myself. Months and months ago, Little Black Cart sent me a copy of my book, ‘Last Act of the Circus Animals.’ They hoped to get my comments and revisions. I never got the book. I also […]
Monkeys versus fuckweasels in a knock-down, drag-out death-match to beat all death-matches… The Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption, in a legal battle with the Army of the 12 Monkeys that it must win at all costs, faces the potential loss of its plantation empire. At stake, inevitably, […]
Now at midnight all the agents and superhuman crew Go out and round up everyone who knows more than they do they’re gonna bring ’em to the factory where the heart-attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders, and then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles by […]
The U.S. currently faces a kind of “doomsday scenario,” one that is largely unseen by everyone except those who are trained to see it. This doomsday scenario is an economic and demographic one– so, based on that, you would think that a president with a Wharton business education, […]
[Segment from Final Straw radio show, aired 11Feb18] It sure seems like nobody’s taking hostages anymore. The last big, intentional hostage-event I can think of involved Chechen rebels who got gassed and shot by Russian military in a movie theater. Note to self: If taking hostages, don’t do […]
[Segment from Final Straw radio show, aired 04Feb18] Daniel Simpson is already home. He went home Tuesday. But, an experience he had a couple weeks ago is pretty illustrative, demonstrating how hateful, petty, and racist these prison fascists are. Before he went home on Tuesday, Daniel was one […]
The Constitution of the Army of the 12 Monkeys officially registers the Army of the 12 Monkeys as an “unincorporated association,” a non-profit that claims protection as an “animal enterprise” under federal statutes. The text of the Constitution of the Army of the 12 Monkeys follows, as it […]
[Segment for Final Straw radio show aired 18Feb18] I have written this segment as part of my commitment to serious journalism that tackles real issues. The following is my open letter to the U.S. Institute of Peace, a federal agency in Washington, D.C.: Dear U.S. Institute of Peace: […]
In documents sent to me from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Assistant Attorney General Sarah E. Pierce claims that the Ohio Secretary of State has registered the Army of the 12 Monkeys as an unincorporated association and has recognized me as the owner of the trademark name, “Army […]
If you receive this mass email, be advised that ODRC has violated agreement regarding my communications established at the end of hunger strike. I am now going dark. Next hunger-strike soon underway. Sean Swain DOC #A243-205
This past week the United States government was in the midst of a shutdown. The government was closed. Everybody in the media was talking about how catastrophic this is, that lawmakers cannot agree on a budget and also cannot agree on a “continuing resolution” that keeps the government […]
I like to think there were thousands of phone calls and emails to prison officials and to representatives and to other useless bureaucrats, but even if there were only dozens, they seem to have done the trick. Things are now happening. Whoever you five lunatics out there with […]
I’m being rehabilitated. The narrative is, I’m fucked up and need to be trained how to be a decent human being. I have to cultivate some kind of regard for others’ lives and develop citizenship skills. According to the narrative, this prison is where I learn that. I […]
Shortly before the publication of ‘Last Act of the Circus Animals,’ Little Black Cart sent a copy of the book to me. LBC had sent me prior publications without a hitch, and there existed no rational reason why the mailing of ‘Last Act’ would be any different. It […]
[As recorded for the Final Straw radio show broadcast on 21Jan18] I have a serious proposal to run past you, for a project that really has to happen. I’ve already gotten a pledge for the land and buildings to make it happen. My idea is called the Treaty […]
If we’re going to get me elected and return the area called Ohio to the First Nations tribes who still legally own it and dance naked around a bon-fire where the Ohio Statehouse used to be, we need to break through to mainstream media. Inexplicably, mainstream media has […]
[mass e-mail for posting, re-posting, tweeting, re-mailing] I’m looking for a few savage-cannibal collaborators… First, mailroom fuckweasels stole the Secretary of State’s mail to me that included the registration of the Army of the 12 Monkeys as an unincorporated association. It’s patently illegal to steal the mail. Second, […]
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