A quote, selected by Sean:

“Persons in power should be very careful how they deal with a man [sic] who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for riches, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous and uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you so little purchase on his soul…”

-Professor Gilbert Murry
Oxford University, Hibbert Journal
“The Soul as It Is, and How to Deal with It.”

Michael Grodhaus, Chief Legal Counsel
Office of Governor John Kasich
77 South High Street, 3Oth Floor
Columbus, Ohio 43215

June I, 2016

Dear Mr. Grodhaus:
Please be advised that the home address of ODRC Director and cabinet member Gary C. Mohr is posted online at blastblog.noblogs.org along with tasteful photos of his house and a Googlemap application that allows visitors to posting of his address there was preceded by some of his information getting posted at prisoner support sites.

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Joanna Saul, Director
Corrections Institution Inspection Committee
Riffe Center, l5th Floor
77 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215

May 18, 2016

“Those who make nonviolent change impossible, make violent change
inevitable.”
-RFK, a Famous Dead Guy

Dear Director Saul:

I enclose copies of the Ohio Administrative Code Sections that irregularly and selectively do not apply to me.

OAC S5120-9-04 does not apply to me as I may be subjected to irregular punishments without so much as accusations of misconduct. That is, I may be harassed absent any accusation of misconduct. The ODRC gives itself permission to skip the entire disciplinary process and get to the fun part, sticking it to me. OAC SS5120-9-07 and 5120-9-08 do not apply to me as the disciplinary process is not employed before imposing punishments.

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Joanna Saul, Director
Corrections Institution Inspection Committee
Riffe Center, l5th Floor
77 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215

May 14, 2016

Dear Director Saul:

I enclose communication from Trevor Clark. His misrepresentations notwithstanding, this written communication demonstrates that (1) his ever-evolving rationale for justifying my 12 Monkey frame-up continues to evolve; (2) his ever-evolving rationale does not get any more constitutional the more he changes his stories; and (3) he is now throwing prisoners under the bus by falsely snitch-jacketing them and recklessly creating the very real potential of getting prisoners harmed or killed.

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An excerpt from a letter from Sean:

Prisons are definitely operating wrong and are creating greater social problems than what they purport to “solve”. But the fact is, the justice and prison systems are not operating to address crime and criminality. Prisons serve racial, economic, and political motives, and the prisons do so quite well. So, any effort to reform the prisons must be based on the false premise that prisons “aren’t working,” when in fact, they are working perfectly. They are keeping minority populations from booming, they are working as a relief valve on the unemployment rate; they are keeping the rabble-rousers off the campuses and out of the factories and tilting the political spectrum to the right.

Also, they don’t really want prisons to succeed at the rehabilitation mission. They just don’t. If prisoners get here and receive the empowering tools they really need for productive, law-abiding lives, get out, get decent jobs, and knock some other precariously-positioned and desperate worker to the bottom of the ladder, where that worker will have to rob the liquor store to feed his or her kids.

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When I speak of prison abolition rather than prison reform, even those opposed to prison will gasp and run in circles like Chicken Little anticipating the sky falling. But I don’t even advocate JUST the abolition of the prison system, but hierarchy in general, the end of the few ruling the many, of the State dictating to everyone.

We cannot conceive of a world absent the oppression, a world where people are free. But consider: there was a time when, if you told people that kings and queens would someday hold only symbolic power, they would have laughed at you. A world NOT run by autocrats with unlimited power? Laughable. Then, in feudal times, if you told people that their whole system would soon be obliterated, they could not have possibly conceived of the system that would come next. Or during the Crusades, if you had proposed a time when the pope would someday be a figurehead in charge of a handful of guards in funny costumes, nobody would have been able to imagine what system would come after, who would hold power, and how it would work.

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“When the oppressor gives you two options, always take the third.”
-Meir Berliner, who died fighting against the SS at Treblinka Death Camp

“My flank is collapsing. My center is giving way. Situation excellent. I am attacking.”
-Communiqué, French Field Marshall Ferdinand Fuchs, First Battle the
Marne, World War I

Background

When I was tortured at Mansfield Corruptional in 2012 and 2013, I attempted resolution through the hierarchs’ alleged methods of redress, only to find (not surprising) that every single avenue for challenging the system’s wrongs proved totally useless. I exhausted every single remedy available to me and even contacted the office of Governor Kasich and the legislature’s oversight committee (called the Corrections Institution Inspection Committee), all to no avail. The torture continued.

Concluding that the fascist police state was operating beyond all limits and reserving to itself recourse to ideological profiling and torture, I saw the need for a kind of direct action approach to hold state terrorists accountable. I drafted “BLAST! Blog: A Proposal.”

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