When I first arrived here at the super duper uber mega ultramax, we could watch the Ohio channel. It was a PBS station that broadcast the legislative sessions of the Ohio general assembly’ and the hearings of the Ohio Supreme Court.It’s probably not as fun as the monkeys at the zoo when you can throw peanuts to them, but you can’t really expect Ohio
government to compete with monkeys.
A documentary that aired on the Ohio channel presented the history of the Ohio Statehouse and how it was constructed. According to the documentary, construction was started, and restarted several times. Finally, it was constructed by prisoners, who were used as slave labor, In one of the more interesting interviews, one of the historians described how, when the state required prisoners with certain experiences like brick laying or carpentry or other professions, citizens with that needed experience would get arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned at an inordinate rate.
The historians who discussed this thought it humerus and chuckled at the the idea that governmental officials used the justice system to harvest free labor for purposes of building the state house. It was funny that Ohio citizens were railroaded and their lives were ruined so the the government could save money building its capital.
They also revealed that some workers died in the construction of the statehouse. They were, after all prisoners- and that meant they were slaves, so they worked long hours in substandard conditions and safety did not matter. So, sometimes prisoners slipped and fell to their deaths.
Since it was amusing that innocent people got shafted in the courts and sent to prison to fulfill the construction needs of the state, wouldn’t it be knee-slapping pee in your pants hilarious if some of those innocent people ended up plummeting to their deaths, during the building of the
of the Statehouse?Yeah, it does not get any funnier than a tyrannical state enslaving and killing its citizens.
Just in case I’m unclear, that’s sarcasm
It seems to me that this accepted, documented history of the Ohio statehouses construction points to a universal truth:
Mind over matter. The State doesn’t mind and you don’t matter.
The State of Ohio has a Constitution that describes a laundry list of rights that all Ohio citizens have.That Constitution was written by a guy named Thomas Worthington and his pals, who violated a U.S.treaty to steal peoples land who owned it so they could declare the sacred rights of those who stole it. I describe in detail that whole illegitimate process in a series of zines called Ohio.The are posted on the website. But what value is a constitution and declared rights when you have state that reserves the right to enslave you on a whim and hijack your life? All those so called rights and rules and laws are just fiction when the state decides it wants something.
And if it’s fiction some of the time, that means it’s always fiction all of the time for all of us.
The State doesn’t mind and you don’t matter.
That’s probably the reason the State of Ohio includes so many lofty ideas in its Constitution. It knows it will never be compelled to live up to them. It knows it will never be compelled to live up to them.For instance, not that it matters, but Article 1 Section 2 of the Ohio Constitution says we have the right to “abolish the
government.”Consider that Abolishing the government isn’t asking it to leave or petitioning it to leave. Abolishing the government implies telling it to leave. Making it leave.And that implies force.Violence.
We know that it must because no government would peacefully accept eviction, especially, one that has a long history of employing its troops to gun down its critics, like Ohio did at Kent State.
So that means the Ohio Constitution-not that it matters, invites the people of Ohio to use violence and overthrow the government “whenever they may deem it necessary.”I don’t know but that sounds like an invitation written by those who know they will never have to worry about it, an invitation written by a government who has Apache Attack helicopters and isn’t afraid to use them….a government who recognizes rights and breaks them at will.
The Ohio State House still stands, centuries after Ohio prison slaves built it.Isn’t that a tragedy?
This is anarchist prisoner Sean Swain from Ohio’s supermax facility.If you are listening…You Are The Resistance