Media Release
Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain Runs for Governor
as a Write- in Candidate from Ohio’s SuperMax Facility,
Invites a Million Carpetbaggers to Hijack Election
Sean estimates that he received approximately (8) eight votes in 2010, the last time he ran for governor from prison. Back then, Sean Swain had a hard time convincing voters they should “abolish” the state of Ohio, electing Swain with an anarchist mandate to forcibly disassemble the State once and for all. But Swain says a lot has changed since 2010 and he believes a sizable groundswell is coming around to his way of thinking– that the government, and the corporations whose interests the government serves, are the real enemies to be resisted and eliminated.
Swain points to the Occupy Movement, which was pre-figured in his 2007 work Last Act of the Circus Animals, and it’s violent disbandment by the government’s agents of control as proof that many are imagining “a different future.” Swain believes he has the plan for getting there. If elected Ohio governor Swain promises to:
* Decommission the Ohio National Guard
* Empty Ohio’s prisons and turn them into squats
* Recognize Native American land rights as set forth by the Treaty of Greenville
* Arm the tribes with national guard weaponry, to include tanks and attack helicopters,
* Refuse to sign any budget causing the government to shut down, and
* Sign an Executive Order making it legal to assassinate him if he remains in office longer than 90 days.
That’s Swains agenda for his first day in office. Once the Ohio government collapses, Swain suggests that the “Ohio Autonomous Zone” will become a foci of revolutionary operations, exporting it’s government-less agenda into the surrounding area and bringing down the global system of capital in the process.He claims he plans to spend his time “living in a yurt and foraging for food” after resigning from office by “dancing naked around the bonfire set where the Statehouse used to be.” He points out that Ohio prisoners’ slave-labor built the Statehouse and it is only appropriate that Ohio prisoners would burn it down, signalling the end of “hierarchy and swivelization” two mistakes we won’t soon make again.
Acknowledging the difficulty in getting enough Ohioans to write-in his name on the ballot, Swain has developed a plan he calls the “Million Molotov March.” His campaign has called on anarchists, revolutionaries, and those disillusioned by the current system to migrate to Ohio, establish residency, and register to vote. By estimate, if he can get one million people to migrate to Ohio, he can get the votes to win the election and dismantle the State once and for all.
This kind of electoral carpet-bagging is not illegal and nothing prevents it, so long as the “million molotovs” meet Ohio’s residency requirements.
“I don’t want you to install me into office,”Swain has written. “I want you to load me into the chamber and fire me into the brain-pan of the State.”
Since Swain’s last run, Ohio legislature tried to ban third-party candidates in gubernatorial elections but that legislation was thrown out as unconstitutional by a federal court, paving the way for Sean’s current run and his plan to “hijack just one election.”
Swain denies a secret plan to persuade the internet hacktivist group Anonymous to break into Ohio’s elections system and steal the vote. He also denies rumors that he is attempting to lure a million anti-state rebels to Ohio in a plan to forego elections and simply resort to an insurrection, although he admits “if you had a million die-hard anarchists down with abolishing the State, you could probably cut out the middleman and get straight to lighting cop cars on fire.” When asked for assurances that an insurrection was not his true plan, Swain said simply:
“That would be completely unswivelized”
Questions? Contacts / References
seanswain.org / FB free sean swain /243205sean@gmail.com
Sean Swain for Ohio Governor 2014 Campaign Manager
Mike Lucas @ mlucas17@kent.edu