Originally appeared on The Final Straw Radio

Imagine for just a moment that you’re a state terrorist. It’s your job every so often to torture those who expose your criminal agenda. Would you be scared if someone complained to your state terrorist boss who is giving you orders? What if they contacted a friend of yours who works on the legislative oversight committee? Would that bother you? If you were a state terrorist who tortured those who expose your crimes, would you care if one of your victims hired an attorney to challenge you in courts that already have a history of looking the other way? What about if peope maintained a website urging others to address your crimes through strict nonviolence?

Imagine you’re a state terrorist. Consider whether any of that would bother you, whether it would even give you pause. Now, walk a mile in that state terrorist’s shoes. Imagine what your worst nightmare would look like.

Now… BE that. I think that’s a reasonable message. I don’t see anything wrong. But, state terrorists do. Recently, the state terrorists who tortured me (and then called me violent for surviving it) blocked all of my outgoing communications. Now I’m on total black-site status. No outgoing communication.

It should really come as no surprise since I was sent to Ohio’s super-duper-max for telling the truth about prison officials’ crimes. Then they blocked my phone communication to pull the plug on my Final Straw radio segments. Then they intercepted my emails to friends and to counsel. To stop my expansion onto YouTube, they blocked my video visits.

When my attorney challenged these shenanigans, a federal judge decided I was a “unique security threat” for folowing all of the rules, and she allowed state terrorists to ban my video for life… without so much as an accusation of misconduct. The judge carved out special exceptions that never existed before. So, I knew it was just a matter of time before state terrorists saw that as a green light to foreclose on all of my communications mediums.

And here we are. State terrorists aren’t very bright, it seems. They assume that if they just blocked all of my personal communications, I would be perfectly silenced. They thought that, without me, seanswain.org would pull the plug. They thought that people would tune in to The Final Straw and hear white noise.

They thought wrong. You may have noticed that my voice sounds different than usual. And next week when the next segment gets called in, you may notice that my
voice sounds different again.

Each week, a new S— S—- will call in a new segment. There’s no way to know how many S— S—-s there are, but one thing is for sure: the more that the state terrorists try to crush the truth, the more of us there are. For every S— S—- they silence, ten emerge.

But we need your help. Right now, state terrorists can zero-in on the Final Straw phone number and shut us down. So, we need listeners out there who will contact the Final Straw and volunteer their phone numbers, so that we can continue calling new numbers, and the listeners will call-forward our calls to the Final Straw. We’ll only use the number once, so state terrorists will never zero-in.

A new S— S—- will call a new number every week. State terrorists can never shut us down.

I guess this segment is now officially an underground broadcast.

Everyone involved on this end must remain anonymous in order to avoid
state terror.

They can’t get us all, you know. They really can’t. So, to those who run Ohio’s torture complex: I know you’re out there. I know you’re listening. You know how dangerous this is. Each phone call, each segment, everyone out there is being challenged to imagine a world without fences and concertina wire… a world without “order” maintained with pepper spray and billy clubs and perimeter trucks that roll slowly around the edges of our lives… They are being challenged to imagine a world without YOU.

I know you’re scared. I can feel it. You know that world is coming. It’s inevitable. The future belongs to us and you can’t stop it. We outnumber you. This is anarchist prisoner S— S—- from somewhere inside the American torture complex. If you’re listening, you ARE the resistance…