Author Archives: Sean Swain

Terry “Black Lightning” Tibbals Back in the Prison Mismanagement Business as Warden of London Corruptional Institution: Preventable Deaths, Rebellions and Escapes Soon to Follow.

blacklightningWhen you imagine someone with a nickname like “Black Lightning,” a guy like Terry Tibbals doesn’t come to mind. Husain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter, might be able to sport that nomeclature… But a pasty white guy under six feet tall whose weight easily exceeds 350 pounds should really consider a different customized plate.

The reason that former Mansfield Warden Terry Tibbals chose “Black Lightning” was, of course, to describe his black Lexis, the car of his dreams, finally obtainable thanks to his meteoric rise through the ranks of the Ohio Department of Retribution and Corruption. His car represented a kind of vindication, a statement to the high school cheerleaders who had rejected him. Finally, as Mansfield Warden, with his lucrative salary and his sleek sports car, he could bag all the high school cheerleaders he could handle.
But, unfortunate for him (and quite fortunate for untolled adolescent sex drives), his tenure at Mansfield Corruptional was short lived, marred by a string of preventable prisoner deaths, embezzlement scandals, prisoner rebellion, and successful escape. He was relieved as warden at Manci, packing the contents of his desk into a cardboard box roughly 4years after taking the reins of power.

In August 2013, Black Lightning faced exile as a desk jockey at Gestapo Headquarters, ODRC Central Office, his career in human bondage reduced to a smoking crater. Continue reading

Rave Reviews for Sean Swain’s First Year of Radio Commentary

spanky“This type of misconduct will be met with swift and significant consequences which may include criminal charges, administrative charges, security and privilege level adjustments, and/or out-of-state placement.”
–ODRC Chief Counsel Spanky Gray
(614) 752-1765

“This guy ought to be criminally charged, promoting violence against police. I don’t even know how this filth got on the radio.”
–Spokesperson, Fraternal Order of Police

“If they don’t pull the plug on this lunatic, he’s going to ruin free speech in America.”
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Inaugeration

swearOriginally aired on The Final Straw

Hear the actual (fake) press conference here.

PRESS SECRETARY: If members of the press would please be seated… My name is Umar Al-Haq, Press Secretary for Ohio Governor-in-Exile Sean Swain.
The Governor-in-Exile celebrated his inauguration on January 12th with a ceremony here in A-block. After taking the oath of office, the Governor-in-Exile signed 7 executive orders he will describe for you shortly. Invited guests then celebrated with a main course of nachos, with a choice of soda or Kool-Aid. No prison staff attended.
The Governor-in-Exile will now make a brief statement but will not be fielding any questions.
Ohio Governor-in-Exile Sean Swain…

SEAN SWAIN: Thank you.
I would like to preface my press statement with a reminder that the State is a swindle, authority sucks, and obedience is boring.
I ran for Ohio Governor on the promise of abolishing the S that we would all have the chance to dance naked around a bonfire where the Ohio Statehouse used to be. When I insisted on being included in the debates, both corporate candidates, for the first time in history, agreed to NOT have any debates. Both the democrat and republican hierarchs feared the powerful ideas of an anarchist.
Relegated a write-in candidate, my votes were never counted and despite the fact that JWow Kasich was declared the winner by his hierarch friends who swap dogs with him behind the Masonic Lodge, I never conceded the election. As mentioned, while this fraudulent pretender JWow was sworn in, I too was sworn in, right here in A-block. 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?
So, as to the orders I signed, all of them are perfectly legal and become effective after 30 days, on February 11th. I ordered the Ohio prison system emptied and turned into squats. I made every day of the calendar year a state holiday, so no one will ever go to work. I de-commissioned the national guard and ordered all their weapons turned over to the Native American tribes who legally own Ohio according to the Treaty of Greeneville. I ordered the State of Ohio dissolved and the Statehouse burned to the ground.
On February 11th, anyone claiming to exercise authority as a state official may be “shot, stabbed, hanged, impaled, beheaded, dismembered, drowned, shot from a cannon, lit on fire, run down with a motor vehicle of any variety, ground to pieces in a wood chipper or similar device, bludgeoned, dropped from extreme heights, and/or subdued upon train tracks to be hit by a train.” I specified that anyone claiming authority after February 11th may be killed AND eaten.
No sense letting all that meat go to waste.
Henry David Thoreau, a famous dead guy, once wrote, “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men(sic) are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
I agree. I say, let’s roll that beautiful bean footage, and let’s see what happens.
Of course, the United States is going to have to cut one of those stars off of their flag, and we’ll need volunteers to dig up all the federal highways and give the United States their pavement back.
We’re going to be the first area in the last 6,000 years of dystopic swivelization to brag 100% unemployment. Our closest competitor will be the Republic of Haiti. All the slaves dragging stones up the sides of the pyramids in the states that surround us will see how much fun we’re having and they’ll topple their masters too. The hierarch delusion will be exposed for the false mythology that it really is and obedience to tyrants wil be a nightmare of the past. We’ll swim and forage during the day and at night we’ll dance around bonfires lit with useless paper currency. We’ll scare the kids with the story of swivelization, just to make sure they never repeat THAT mistake.
And if anyone attempts to impose their will on the rest of us, they can end up on a spit over the fire just like the last crew of tyrants we shrugged off.
February 11th. There’ll be a 2-11 in progress. We’ll steal back the future, dissolve the state, and, weather permitting, dance naked around that bonfire where the Ohio Statehouse used to be.
This is Ohio Governor in Exile Sean Swain from Ohio’s supermax facility. If you’re listening, you ARE the resistance…
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Fuckweasels Answer 12 Monkey Lawsuit… sort of.

clarkOn 09 December 2014, the fascist fuckweasels of the Ohio Department of Retribution and Correction “answered” the civil rights complaint filed by Sean Swain’s counsel, Richard Kerger. These fuckweasels, including Director “Gestapo Gary” Mohr and Staff Counsel “Trainwreck Trevor” Clark, were accused of conspiring to frame Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain with 12 Monkey involvement in order to silence his constitutionally-protected speech.
Their “answer” was filed by Assistant Attorney General Thomas C. Miller, chief of the State-Terror Defense Bureau. You can read it here:  answer. In the one country with more lawyers per capita than any other, with vast industries created to support lawyers, Tom Miller couldn’t find a REAL job so he now works as a bottom-feeder defending fuckweasels who torture and terrorize prisoners for “ideological” offenses. Continue reading

Luke O’Donovan

lukeFirst aired on The Final Straw.

In the area of gay rights, the United States feels like it’s made great strides. As a nation, the U.S. is pretty self-congratulatory. In the last Olympics, you had a whole contingent of gay former athletes dispatched to Russia in order to send a “message” to Vladimir Putin about his homophobic laws. On the heals of that, gay marriage is now legal, allowing people of all sexual orientations to promise lifelong commitments that will make them as miserable as heterosexuals have historically been. And, of course, you’ve got Mitch and Cam on the sitcom “Modern Family” to remind us how far we have come from the Stonewall Riots. So, the U.S. is engaged in one big, happy group hug to celebrate our inclusiveness.
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Los Zapatistas

Originally aired on The Final Straw

This past January 1st marked the 21st anniversary of the Zapatistas’ emergence. On New Year’s Day, 1994, masked guerrillas, some carrying wooden rifles, descended from the foggy mist of the Lacandon Jungle in southern Mexico. They called themselves, pardon the accent, El Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion de Nacional– the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
They took their name from Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who was betrayed and assassinated in the Revolution of 1914– his assassination marking a pivotal turning point. The ruling elite recuperated the revolution, and for 80 years continued to push the poor and indigenous off of their lands– all in the name of progress and profit.
Then, the same day that NAFTA came into effect, Zapatista rebels swept down out of the mountains, seized 12 towns, shot the corrupt officials, and chased off the predatory landlords. And then, in a masterful strategy, they held a press conference. Continue reading

2015 is the Year

From the EF! Newswire.

So, check it out. I’m hopped up on coffee. A lot of it. I’m going to try to continue to combine nouns and verbs in each of the sentences that follow, but I can’t make any promises.

2015 is the year that swivilization—this oppressive death machine—is going to grind to a halt. We can resolve to make it happen, not in some distant and nebulous future but right now… our every act of resistance, small daily acts in pulling the proverbial fire alarms, can accumulate into one massive clusterfuck. Continue reading

Re-Launch of Fire to the Prisons.

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In early 2011, a fire went out. We got so caught up in all of the hectic shit going on, we forgot to keep that fire going. So, it burned down and burned out.

That really sucks, because this particular fire burned red hot and shed a lot of light on a dark, dark world. In its absence, that dark world hasn’t gotten any brighter. Swivelization is still slowly grinding all of us down.

So, it’s really heartening that a small conspiracy of unswivelized savages want to get that fire going again, and have invited the rest of the world to help stoke it and keep it burning. If we all pitch in and gather up bits of fuel to keep the fire burning, we can collectively build a blazing, raging bonfire that spreads and consumes everything… Banks, statehouses, WalMarts, malls, frankenfood factories, torture mills… The entire infrustructure of swivelization’s inimical system is a veritable tinderbox. Continue reading

Debate About ISIS

One of the contributors to this site disagreed with Sean’s dispatch on ISIS, which kicked off a debate that Sean is requesting be made public. So, here goes…

TW for sexual assault, mansplaining, and discussions of war, colonialism and Freud.

Read Sean’s thoughts here first.

BEN: The ISIS radio essay went up on monday, I posted it, and when looking for a picture, I found one of some arab feminists bleeding and shitting on an ISIS flag, but that seemed counter to your thoughts, so instead I just posted one of Kobani fighters. I can agree that US activities created ISIS, and that the thing to do is to keep fighting the US, but I disagree with some of your views there. All states are oppressive and patriarchal, but some are more oppressive and patriarchal, and conduct themselves in different ways. I think this goes back to our disagreement about socialism and the single spectrum thing you’ve got into it with Crimethinc about. If we agree that there’s a simple single spectrum (which I don’t, but for reasons of argument, I’ll accept it) ISIS is dragging the middle east to the fascist side of the spectrum, they’re emboldened and empowered by US activities (possibly on purpose, cuz the US likes to see Muslims kill each other) the Kurds in Kobani are clearly pulling to the other side- from the interviews I’ve heard, their systems and ideas would be wholly rejected as liberal and ultimately statist if people in western anarchist communities proposed them.

The question for me is: which side is more likely to tip the state over and allow total liberation? Some people think a super authoritarian fascist state provokes angry rebellion, while democracy and socialism foster dependence and acceptance of the state, therefore, let the state get brutal.

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BODY CAMS

body camFirst aired on The Final Straw.

In the wake of the murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner, which occurred in the wake of the murders of Oscar Grant and Amadou Diallo, which occurred in the wake of thousands of other murders committed by law enforcement going all the way back to the lynchings of escaped slaves– there’s now a national call to equip all law enforcement with body cams. Body cams… The idea, of course, is that we can use the technology of the digital surveillance state to spy on police and keep them honest. If we compel all law enforcement to wear body cameras they cannot turn off, the argument goes, the police will behave better and, even when they don’t, the video evidence will expose them and we can then weed out the bad apples.
If I remember right, that was the argument for installing cruiser cameras. Those are ubiquitous now. Police cruisers routinely have dash-cams. And yet, on November 29, 2012, over 60 Cleveland police cruisers took part in a car chase that ended with 13 officers firing 137 shots into the unarmed bodies of Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell. Even though, conceivably, we have 60 different angles to watch the grisly slaughter, that didn’t stop Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo from jumping on the hood of the bullet-riddled vehicle and unloading on unarmed civilians right through the windshield.
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