Author Archives: Sean Swain

Anarchist Prisoner Four Days Refusing Food

In response to ODRC cancelling Sean Swain’s scheduled video visits on flimsy pretext, he has been on Hunger Strike since Monday morning. (read more on that here.) Last night he refused the 9th consecutive meal, which makes the hunger strike official. This means a prison official came to talk to him, and told him that they were moving him to the hole to “monitor his health and protect his safety” while on hunger strike. Sean called bullshit on that, arguing that sending him to the hole is about coercing him to eat, and further restricting his communication with the outside world. He knows they don’t give a shit about his health and safety.He said “if you’re going to coerce me to eat under threat of going to the hole, I’ll take a tray.” They said “it’s not coercion.” He said “bullshit. Give me a tray.”Then he flushed the tray down the toilet.

So according to OSP policy, Sean won’t officially be on hunger strike until he skips another nine meals, but according to reality, he hasn’t eaten since Monday.

Sean needs support right now. Rick Kerger, his lawyer is filing a restraining order preventing the ODRC from cancelling future video visits. There are three things you can do.

1. Call OSP Warden Forshay and demand that he meet with Sean in good faith and negotiate a reversal of the ODRC policy of fucking with Sean on flimsy pretexts. 330-743-0700. Ext. 2006.

2. Write Sean a letter, or even better, request a video visit yourself. The first step is getting approved as a visitor, using this form. The more communication we send Sean’s way, the more of their time they’ll have to waste fucking with him. Sean often says “they’ll get tired of killing me before I get tired of dying.” Let’s make sure he’s right.

Sean’s address:
Sean Swain
OSP 243-205
878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd
Youngstown OH 44505

3. Call ODRC Investigator Paul Schumacher, who cancelled Sean’s video visits, and say whatever you want to his voicemail. 614-728-1152 See suggested scripts Sean wrote below.

(Ring… Ring… Ring…)
“Hello?”
“May I speak to Investigator Paul Schumacher, please?”
“This is.”
“Hey, Sherlock Paulie SuperGenius, I KNOW WHO DID IT.” (Click.)
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(Ring… Ring… Ring… )
“Hello?”
“Investigator Paul Schumaker?”
“Yes?”
“Sherlock Paulie SuperGenius… Is it true that senior staff– Gestapo Gary, Trainwreck Trevor, and the rest of you comic book villains– play naked Twister on Thursday nights?” (Click.)
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Be creative, use all your favorite prank phone calls. Or, just screech like an angry monkey. Sean is more afraid of letting them walk all over him than he is of pissing them off and bringing retribution down on his head, so have at!

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OSP Starvation Travel-Log

NOTE: Paulie Super Genius can be reached at 614-728-1152.
Though he has been instructed to pass the buck to Tommy “Beer Pong” Miller, who you can reach at:
Phone: 614-644-7233.
Email: thomas.miller@ohioattorneygeneral.gov
Fax: 614-578-9963
Mail / visit: 150 East Gay Street, 16th Floor, Columbus OH 43215-6001
OSP STARVATION TRAVEL-LOG, TUESDAY, DAY TWO
Policy circus continues. I could use a pizza.
You recall, 10:30 to 11:30 am on Saturday, policy changed regarding kiosk access. We could no longer use the kiosk twice per day once. Somebody typed up a notice posted next to the machines was used as justification for obstructing my communication to you and to Rick Kerger.
Here it is, Tuesday morning. I asked when we are scheduled kiosk visit for the day. The policy, which I am mailing to you, since I took one of the copies taped to the wall, says, “EACH INMATE IS ALLOWED ONE 20 MINUTE SESSION PER DAY ON THE JPAY KIOSK.”
Pretty clear. Unambiguous.
So, today, block officers tell me we “aren’t going by that,” which means that this policy was only policy long enough to prevent me from communicating with you and with legal counsel about fascist illegalities. Now, on Tuesday, when I invoke this same policy, they tell me this policy wasn’t written by ANYONE. The warden knew nothing about it. Deputy Warden McDonough knew nothing about it. Unit Manager Jackson, Case Manager Franklin– everyone working here has complete amnesia. And yet, I’m holding this piece of paper in my fuckin’ hand.
It’s a COSMIC MYSTERY. Continue reading →

Anarchist Prisoner Begins Dumb Hunger Strike (Sigh)

In response to cancellation of video visits with Ben Turk, anarchist prisoner Sean Swain announced a hungerstrike, commencing Monday, February 2, continuing until fuckweasels and JPay profiteers end their ideological harassment and repression of his video communication.
As soon as he made the announcement, he immediately regretted it because, in his words, “Hungerstrikes are stupid and reformist, but it’s the only leverage I have, so fuck it.” He added that he can stand to lose a few pounds anyway, especially given the unhealthy pile of food he has planned on Superbowl Sunday.
He has vowed to refuse solid foods until state terrorists and corporate profiteers refrain from the ongoing, childish attacks on his communication, even though, “Hungerstrikes are dumb. Fuck Gandhi. But I’m unarmed and vastly outnumbered (sigh). It’s not like I have other options.”
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JPay, Fuckweasels Target Sean Swain to Prevent Truth from Reaching the Public… Again.

They’re at it again.

While getting sued for targeting Sean Swain’s protected expression, the fascist fuckweasels have again targeted Sean, cancelling the video visits scheduled by Ben Turk, just another effort to silence the critique of an anarchist prisoner in a long train of state-terror fuckweaselry.

Here’s the pattern: First, Sean Swain wrote FREEDOM, highly critical of the fuckweasels who mismanage the Ohio prison system and, in response, the fuckweasels used their disciplinary process to say Sean encouraged a work stoppage.

Sean didn’t shut up.

Then, seanswain.org went online and they put Sean on a gang list as a gang of one. He stayed up nights, teaching himself secret handshakes.

It’s lonely to be in a gang of one. Continue reading →

Open Letter to JPay

Sean wrote this email to JPay, but they have blocked him from sending them emails anymore, so we’re posting it here and forwarding it to them.

JPay, You are in BREACH OF CONTRACT.

On 31JAN15, Ms. McDonough, a hack employed here at the super-duper-uber-mega-ultra-hyper-turbo-max, apparently went off her anti-psychotics and decided to unilaterally alter the terms of your service agreement with all of us prisoners, your customers. Specifically, at the time that I purchased a JP4, your company offered, and still offers, the service of two 20-minute sessions on your kiosks. That is a service that is included with the “bundle of rights” that I purchased with this device. Those were, and remain, the terms of your service agreement with me and with every prisoner here.

Unfortunately, Ms. McDonough, absent obviously-needed psychiatric goofball pills, has exercised authority she does not possess, and has decreed that we can only have access to your kiosk once every two days, which is 25% of the service you offer, the service I expect, the service to which I am entitled as a paying customer. BREACH OF CONTRACT. I am your customer and the service you promised and offered is NOT being provided to me. Thanks to Ms. McDonough, the kiosk that was installed and the EXTRA kiosk installed to accommodate traffic are now sitting empty half of the day while we are REFUSED the services you promised… And there exists absolutely no rational reason for this except that Ms. McDonough gets hateful when she stops taking her goofballs.

Please advise if you intend to remain in BREACH OF CONTRACT.

Sean Swain.
c: Richard Kerger, legal counsel
Dan Wagner, Senior Finance Reporter, publicintegrity.org
Ben Turk, for posting, seanswain.org

THE NEXT REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED BUT IT’S ALREADY ONLINE AT SEANSWAIN.ORG…WITH WEEKLY PODCASTS AT ASHEVILLEFM.ORG/THE-FINAL-STRAW… IF YOU’RE LISTENING, YOU ARE THE RESISTANCE….

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Anyone who wants to urge Ms. McDonough to resume taking her goofballs and to stop harassing prisoners’ electronic communication for no reason at all can call her at (330) 743-0700…Anyone who wants to urge JPay to demand that its terror-state partner put its chimpanzees on a leash and stop breaching contract can contact JPay at jpay.com or (800) 574-5729. Or JPay, Inc. 12864 Biscayne Blvd. Suite 243 Miami, FL 33181. Or https://jpay.com/contactform.aspx

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Support Sean’s Hunger Strike, Call the ODRC on Monday!

Monday morning February 2nd Sean Swain will start refusing meals until Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption officials and JPay stop interfering with his communication with the outside world. Sean demands that he be given the same access to communication as any other prisoner, and that he not be further targeted for his deeply held anarchist beliefs.

Sean needs your support!

We’re asking outside supporters to call Stephen Gray in the ODRC legal services department at central office, because we believe this restriction is all about retaliation and interference with the lawsuit Sean has pending against 11 ODRC officials. Call Stephen Gray at 614-752-1765 or write him a letter: Stephen Gray, Legal Services, 770 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43222.

Sample script: “Hello, my name is ____. I’m calling about Sean Swain’s communication access. He was denied four video visits this weekend. We’re concerned that this relates to the lawsuit Sean has pending against employees in your office, specifically Trevor Clark. Can you tell us who authorized cancelling these visits, and why?”

Also, after a monitored phone call in which Sean discussed sending Ben more information about the situation, prison officials cut prisoner access to the email Sean was going to use for everyone on Sean’s security level. They used to be able to check their emails twice a day, now they’re only allowed every other day. Call OSP at 330-743-0700 and ask for Mrs Franklin. You can also ask to talk to the Warden, or email assistant warden Laura Gardner, here: Laura.Gardner@odrc.state.oh.us

Sample script: “Hello, my name is _____. I’m calling about the recent policy change regarding prisoner access to the email kiosk for prisoners on level 4A. I’m requesting that you please reverse this policy, stop arbitrarily restricting prisoners’ access to their loved ones, and stop using collective punishment to set prisoners against each other. Thank you.”

DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THESE RESTRICTIONS AND WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT:
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Warning Labels and Swivilization

Originally aired on The Final Straw

I think the warning labels we see on consumer products today are a perfect analogy for what’s wrong with the swivelization program. Warning labels represent the kind of faulty thinking at the very foundation of swivelization.

Consider: To be swivelized as opposed to being “savage” boils down to food acquisition. That’s what distinguishes one from the other. Swivelized people mass produce food through farming, while savages hunt and gather. Where swivelized, mass producing farmers encounter savage hunter gatherers, the swivelized thing to do is to exterminate the savages and steal their land to grow crops.

That’s led to a global population of 7 billion swivelized people. 7 billion mouths to feed, provoking the slash and burn of enough acreage to grow food to stuff in 7 billion mouths. And that means pushing lots of other species out of existence.

But that also leads to 7 billion bowel bags pooping up the planet. What comes in, goes out. So we’ve engineered a complex, centralized management system to get toilet paper and batteries, burgers and tampons where they need to go. In the process we’ve toxified our air, our land, and our water. Those are the prices we pay for maintaining 7 billion of us… at the expense of other species… and at the expense of the landbase that sustains us. Continue reading →

Executive Orders of the Governor in Exile

We have received the executive orders Sean Swain mentioned in his inaugural address as governor-in-exile of Ohio. They will go into effect thirty days after being signed, which means, if you recognize the authority of Sean Swain as governor, the State of Ohio will effectively cease to exist on Feb 11th. This day may or may not be celebrated with a bonfire at or… of the state capital building.

Here’s a piece of Sean’s speech summarizing the orders:

“Consistent with my campaign promises, I immediately signed 7 executive orders, which I will describe briefly. These orders will be scanned and available at seanswain.org. My cabinet will be providing copies of these orders to Ohio lawmakers and Supreme court judges so they can recognize ME as the REAL governor and abide by my legally-binding executive orders.
Isn’t this great fun? Continue reading →

Civil Suit Legal Update: Initial Disclosures and Discovery Plan.

On 15 January, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Miller filed initial disclosures in the 12 Money frame-up civil action filed by Sean Swain. These disclosures are provided to Sean Swain’s counsel, Richard Kerger, in order to identify people likely to have discoverable information and to identify relevant documents. Read the initial disclosures. And some other paperwork: motion to excuse from phone call, telephonic case mgmt.

According to that other paperwork, Assistant Attorney General Thomas “Beer-Pong” Miller has agreed to disclose the recordings and transcripts of the RIB, which we tried to get through public records requests months ago. The deadline for discovery is November 30th. So, like all the grinding wheels of US injustice, this is gonna be a slow process.

Here’s Sean’s analysis of the initial disclosures…

Fuckweasels’ Initial Disclosures Throw Trainwreck Trevor Under the Bus… Where he Belongs.

Regarding eleven of the twelve named persons, the fuckweasels’ counsel characterized each this way: “At this point in time it is not clear what discoverable information X may have with respect to the claims advanced by Plaintiff in this case.” Only one person was described differently: Trevor Clark. Continue reading →

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