I’m confused. Granted, I’m not the human bondage experts that you guys are, so maybe you can help me. Yesterday, I was only allowed out with half of my range. That means either (1) the prisoners on the other half of the range are too dangerous to be […]
I should begin with a disclaimer: I’m no fan of the prison industrial complex. I’m no bigger fan of the fuckweasels who cannot find real jobs and get stuck operating the prison industrial complex. While I have done everything in my power to get away from them, they […]
[from Final Straw radio show broadcast 14Jan18] The crazy bastard currently occupying the White House really is, in some respects, an evil genius. Consider the way he has promoted this idea of “fake news.” What he has done– and done successfully –is to equate, on one hand, so-called […]
If you’re really attached to the swivelization program, I have some bad news. It’s not just that I’m running for governor in Ohio while the FBI has me under perpetual investigation. It’s also not that I plan to abolish the State of Ohio and restore the land to […]
Everyone is focusing on the role of “Russian hackers” to influence the 2016 election. It would seem that the intelligence services feel far more comfortable in thinking that faceless and nameless foreign hackers exerted influence over the U.S. election process and contaminated the purity of American duh-mocracy. But […]
In late November, after Warren Corruptional mailroom fuckweasels stole my incoming mail from the Secretary of State (you know, because the Ohio Secretary of State is on a terror watch list… or he’s a gang leader…?) I wrote up a lawsuit, “The Army of the 12 Monkeys versus […]
I’m currently running for Ohio Governor from prison. My campaign pledge is to abolish the State of Ohio, recognizing the Treaty of Greenville that set aside this area as “unceded Indian Territory.” I plan to invite the First Nations back, hand them the national guard armaments, declare the […]
Let’s talk about happiness. Some famous dead guy included the “pursuit of happiness” as one of our “unalienable rights” described in the U.S. Constitution, right up there with life and liberty. It would seem that, at least to that famous dead guy, we live and we have the […]
The Army of the 12 Monkeys, a registered unincorporated association and animal enterprise has Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain as an Authorized Agent. A sociopath named Trevor Matthew Clark, ODRC Counsel, has stolen mail from the Ohio Secretary of State to the Army of the 12 Monkeys’ Authorized Agent, […]
After the not guilty verdicts in the Chicago Conspiracy trial in 1969, one of the jurors was interviewed– an older white woman who admitted she voted for Nixon. Explaining her not guilty verdict, she said simply that this was the first time she was afraid of her government. […]
The situation in Palestine proves democracy ain’t what it used to be. Of course, as any anarchist can tell you, democracy has never been “what it used to be.” As the self-appointed spokesperson for democracy, the United States promotes the false idea that Israel is the only “successful […]
There’s a relationship between fear and authority. Consider, from the time that we’re born, we’re programmed to fear those who claim some kind of authority over us. Fear is first instilled in us by our parents, and we fear them even if they’re not violent. Think about that […]
Susie stepped in it. There is no rewind button. So, here’s how we got here: I sent out legal documents to register the Army of the 12 Monkeys and to get recognition of my ownership over the trade name. When the Secretary of State sent the forms back, […]
Hapless Harry Burchell started working for the Nazi control state seemingly with the best of intentions. When he first took on the job as librarian at Warren Corruptional, I was a law clerk in the law library and Burchell seemed like the ideal boss. He indicated that his […]
Here’s how the grievance process works. You start with an Informal Complaint form, which is on the JPay kiosk. You get 15 minutes to type it on a keyboard where none of the keys indicate what letters they are, so unless you memorized the standard keyboard, you type […]
In October, I sent out forms to register the Army of the 12 Monkeys as an unincorporated association. Secretary of State Jon Husted had a statutory obligation to complete that registration, which includes the return service of the documents that I sent to him. Jon Husted’s statutory duties […]
For as smart as we are, we humans aren’t very bright sometimes. We do stupid things. And sometimes the stupidest things we do seem to us to be the most brilliant… while we’re doing them. I would suggest that, more often than not, the stupidest things that we […]
Some background for all the kids who may have missed last week’s episode: There’s a long history of ODRC Legal Counsel Trevor Clark terrorizing me. His involvement in burning my life down began in 2008 when the ODRC realized that a zine produced by The Conditions Factory was […]
It just keeps getting better and better. First, the mailroom stole mail to me from the Secretary of State– official government mail to the Authorized Agent of a registered animal enterprise –committing a whole host of state and federal crimes, one of which carries a terrorism specification. Then, […]
Recently, in a civil action filed against the ODRC by a prisoner who was assaulted by staff here at WCI, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office disclosed a number of documents. Included in that discovery was the “Safety Data Sheets” for the pepper spray used by ODRC staff. Since […]
According to sources inside the fascist police state prison complex who spoke on the condition of their anonymity, I am currently under investigation by the Fascist Bozos of Intimidation because of the publication of ‘Last Act of the Circus Animals.’ Of course, I’ve been under investigation for years, […]
In case you missed the several years of my ramblings, I’m in the custody of an agency that calls itself the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Of course, anyone with any sense who has seen this shit-show in action knows that it’s really the Oppressive Department of […]
Foreword… I wrote the following in 2012 while being subjected to torture at Mansfield Correctional’s “Special Management Unit,” the state’s former death row. It was posted to seanswain.org in November 2014 and I am transcribing it for posting in other forums now, since we have experienced an even […]
In Ohio prisons, pretty much everyone is in a gang whether they’re in a gang or not. If you’re an Ohio prisoner and you’re not in a gang, prison administratos will put you in one. And if there’s no gang for you, they’ll just create a new one. […]
We are through the looking glass. Down the rabbit hole. In 2012, prison fascists and the Federal Bozos of Intimidation decided that I was Monkey #4 of the Army of the 12 Monkeys. They didn’t consult me. Didn’t get my consent for turning me into a monkey. They […]
Well, we’re back to another holiday season. We have somehow survived another Thanksgiving, which, given the actual conduct of the pilgrims and their kids, ought to be called “ThanksTAKING” rather than “Thanksgiving,” or, even more accurately, should be called, “We’re Going to Take All Your Shit and Then […]
Americans, by and large, are terrible at math. We hate it. Anything to do with numbers is tedious and a little bit intimidating, so we normally avoid numbers and the disciplines that are based on them. Likewise, we don’t like politics. For a nation forged by violent revolution, […]
Last Act of the Circus Animals, which Sean Swain co-wrote with a fellow prisoner, Travis Washington, is now in print, published by Little Black Cart in Berkeley. Last Act was one of the most re-copied and re-distributed zines in the last decade since its first printing in zine […]
Great news: Last Act of the Circus Animals is now available for sale by Little Black Cart publishers, wherever good books are stolen. And since I like cheese puffs, and I’d like to be able to afford to buy cheese puffs, I have to convince all of you […]
[As recorded for the Final Straw Radio Show online on the Channel Zero Network] Everything I’m about to tell you is absolutely true, except for the parts I made up. According to the Associated Press, Lebanon, Ohio– the area surrounding this prison –is dealing with a serious monkey […]
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