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The Right To Rule

Transcript of Radio Essay originally appearing on The Final Straw.

Where does the “right to rule” come from?

I look at this vast, complex system created by poor deluded hierarchs and I see that we have those who rule-the ones Occupy called the 1%; and then there are the rest of us, the stone draggers, the ones who are ruled.
It makes me wonder where the “right to rule” comes from? Certainly such a thing has to exist. Right? What I mean is, those who rule us; kings and presidents and the corporate executives who write all their policies, lawmakers judges and cops. They give the orders, and we obey.
Where does it come from? Are they born with it? Are their two kinds of babies that come into the world, one kind that has the right, not only to rule themselves, but to rule others; and another kind far more numerous, thats born without even the right to rule themselves?
I wonder how we tell it apart, this special specie oh human who has the right to rule. Perhaps its shoe size or eye color or maybe we have to analyze the shapes of our craniums. Could be astrology. It’s certainly not brains and ability. Look at George Dubya, Sara Palin, ODRC Director Gary Mohr who sent me to the supermax facility to silence me.
These aren’t exactly exceptional specimens.But they assume ‘the right to rule.’
This right to rule has to come from somewhere , or it doesn’t exist,and if it doesn’t exist, then no human being has any right to be obeyed, has any right to order and compel the obedience of any other human being.If the right to rule doesn’t come from somewhere, if it doesn’t exist, then there is only one specie of human, not true, and that means we are all created equal-just like that hypocrite slave owner Thomas Jefferson said.
And if this right to rule at the very foundation of hierarchy is only a myth, only as real as magical beans and faerie dust, then poor deluded hierarchs are imposing a 6,000 year old fraud. Their whole system is a lie. No one has the right to rule.
That means we have a vast system designed to keep all of us under control while a small group of privileged elite exploit all of us, making us do the sweating and bleeding and dying, while they laugh at us behind our backs.They sell us on the myth of the right to rule….we’re enslaved to something no more real than magical beans and faerie dust.
Poor deluded hierarchs might say that the right to rule comes from the consent of the governed, that we vote and give permission to our rulers to rule us. Those who assume the right to rule certainly tell us that. They create billion dollar systems called schools where we are mandated to go,where we are told over and over that we give permission to our rulers to rule us, and that we are the source of the right to rule.
It takes twelve years of telling us that lie over and over again before we’re incapable of questioning it.
But this “consent of the governed ”argument that voters are the source of a rulers right to rule doesn’t really explain anything. It just transfers the problem. Now instead of asking what gives the ruler the right to rule,we have to ask what gives that voter the right to rule by proxy.What gives those voters the right to impose their ruler on others, while others lack even the right to rule themselves?
What gives anyone the right to rule, even by proxy, through a choice of ruler designee,and take from you and me even our rights to rule ourselves.Where does it come from, this right to rule, that voters imagine they have?
If it doesn’t originate from anywhere,when we are back to the right to rule being a myth.Magical beans and faerie dust. A 6,000 year old swindle that robs us of our freedom, our right to rule ourselves, while a select few benefit from our collective enslavement…to a provable lie at the very heart of hierarchy.
I say it’s a provable fact the right to rule does not exist. That means noone has the right to give orders to anyone else.That means there is no such thing as legitimate authority-not presidents, not law makers, not judges or cops. We’re all captives of a mass delusion, programmed to accept it, forcibly indoctrinated to internalize a pathology built on a lie–suffering a mass mental illness called hierarchy. And once you see the right to rule is a myth, you can never go back to your assigned seats.

This is anarchist prisoner Sean Swain from Ohio’s supermax facility, if your listening,you are the resistance!

Swivilization, Part 1

Transcript of Radio Essay originally appearing on The Final Straw.

To explain why I am against swivilization, I have to give you a history of the world in five minutes. If it’s ok with you, I’m probably gonna just hit the highlights. Stay with me.
For four million years humans were semi-nomadic and lived in tribes, like bees live in hives and wolves live in packs.They did not have a lot of possessions. People who migrate frequently do not want to lug 75 pairs of shoes. They did not have hierarchies.If a tribe developed a coercive authority, it already jumped the shark because compulsion degrades the social bonds of interdependence that make semi-nomadic hunter gathering successful so only failed hunter gathers would resort to hierarchy. Also we do not find caches of weapons like we always find everywhere hierarchy arises.
Humans were anarchists for four million years. And generally happy. Unhappy people don’t continue doing what makes them unhappy for four million years. Somebody would have said, “Hey lets not do this.” To abandon tribes would make as much sense as bees abandoning hives or wolves abandoning packs.
There came a group of idiots who settled in one place and grew crops, to control the future by controlling their food. They’d never starve again.They grew extra food.They grew extra food, but food availability determines population size,so by the time they harvested extra food it wasn’t extra anymore and their population grew. So they expanded the farm, regimented the natural world and turned it into resources.They took more land, planted more food, experienced population growth and took more land.You see where that’s going.
Colonization. It started right after we settled and grew crops.
Food surpluses needed management, so a social engineer with a big big brain took over. Stratification, Hierarchy, Topdown authority.Right after we settled and grew crops.
To keep people working, the social engineer with a big,big brain locked up the food. Hungry people keep working. So,the social engineer needed guards.Standing military, guards needed weapons,weapon smith specialization Right after we settled and grew.
When the fascist farm with it’s hierarchy, social engineer with a big,big brain and a standing military who locked up the food- and everyone else slaving away in the fields under threat of starvation-expanded into areas occupied by tribal people, the social engineer with a big, big brain said “We are civilized and you’re savages, get the hell out of the way.”
Genocide.Right after we settled and grew crops.Survivors became slaves in the field.More food equals more people and equals a need for more land to grow more food,You see where that is going.

These idiots didn’t solve starvation as they intended; they created an engine for runaway population growth.They weren’t civilized, they were swivelized- they set out to do one thing and got all spun backwards.
After they conquered several tribes they had to develop a universal system for maintaining order. Laws Courts Punishments: Right after we settled and grew crops.Became swivelized.
All the components but one were in place and swivelization kept expanding, colonizing, exterminating, forcibly assimilating everyone in it’s path, obliterating every tribal culture it encountered .After just one generation of the social engineer with the big,big brain who developed this slave plantation dystopia put the last component for swivelzation in a place where he declared: “it has always been this way” And that lie still gets told today when college courses teach you nothing happened until about six to eight thousand years ago, because your swivilized historians share the same delusion as that social engineer with the big,big brain.
Swivelization is distinguished by war and genocide, overpopulation, soil erosion, poverty, economic disparity, authoritarianism, political instability,mass migration, famine,depletion of drinkable, mass destruction of eco-systems, polution, toxification, crime, jails, prisons,proliferation of social deviance, rape culture, predation of children, school shootings, depression, mental illness, property crime, alcoholism,drug abuse, famine, plagues, ghettoes, polgroms, recessions , human rights atrocities, weapons of mass destruction, ozone depletion, global warming, unemployment, suicide, mass extinctions, bankers terrorism,Ponzi schemes, road rage, taxes, dictators, racism,homophobia,homelessness,inflation, and the NSA reading your e-mails
In 1492 the known world got so crowded a group of ass clowns risked falling off the planet and came to a land where they found tribal people and said WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? Before this discovery could make them question the lie passed down from the social engineer with the big,big brain(that it has always been this way)Columbus killed everybody and made kidnapped Africans build a McDonalds on the burial site, then killed them too.
Swivelization is so intolerable we’re all on Prozac or are kids are on Ritalin, we self medicate with pot just to survive the day and still every once in a while someone snaps and shoots a school full of kids.So when a prisoner with a phone and a 165iq abandon mass production, of food live in yurts and hunt the buffalo like Dances with Wolves, some glassy eyed apologist for swivelization with PSTD living in a van down by the river says “ What?And give up all of this?

On Mumia

Transcription of audio essay that originally appeared on The Final Straw.

For anyone who hasn’t heard of the case of Mumia Abu Jamal, he was convicted in the early 1980‘s of killing a cop in Philadelphia and not too long ago his death sentence was reduced to life. Mumia has maintained all along that he did not shoot that cop; and there is plenty evidence to support his claims, but you know what? If I am going to be completely honest, part of me kinda hopes Mumia did shoot him.

I’ve always had a different take on this case than most people. Remember Mumia was found at the scene shot in the chest. He almost died. We can presume the cop shot Mumia before he died, which means he was not shot yet, which means he shot Mumia before getting shot. It’s safe to assume the cop fired first, whoever it is that shot him in response.

And so what if Mumia shot him. What? Are we gonna run out of cops?

Look, we live in a capitalist society. It’s governed by capitalist values.One of the central principals of capitalism is the law of supply and demand.The more plentiful a product, the lower it’s value; the more rare a product, the higher it’s value. That’s why coal is cheaper than diamonds. Continue reading →

Idiot Factories

This is a transcript of an audio essay that originally aired on The Final Straw. Imagine the government hired you for a secret program and it turned out you were the manager of an idiot factory. This idiot factory took normal people and mangled their minds. Idiots come off the assembly line. Do you think you’d feel a moral duty to shut down that idiot factory?And if you couldn’t shut it down would you find some way to burn it down?
Okay.Well, if you are a school teacher and you care about the best interests of the students, I urge you to go into the idiot factory that employs you on Monday with a can of gasoline and a book of matches.

Consider: We do more learning from birth to the age of five than we do the rest of our lives. All of us. All humans. And if you think about it, it makes sense the incredible amount of learning we have to do. Learning for instance that we are separate from the rest of the world, that we end at the bottoms of our feet and tops of our heads: object permanence, the idea things still exist when you can’t see them; language- that sounds mean something, and that words are symbolic representations of something, and which words apply to which things. We learn gravity by throwing mashed potatoes. We learn to walk. The most crucial event for any swivilized human: we learn to control our bowels. We learn that it is bad to walk around leaking and then we learn a complex process to dispose of our leakage.

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Radio Essay: Little Rock Reed.

From The Final Straw

The world needs to know the truth about Timothy Little Rock Reed, whose criticism of the Ohio prison system made him a target of assassination by Ohio governmental officials.
Little Rock was sent to Lucusville in the early 1980’s for theft of drugs and robberies. A Lakota Sioux, Little Rock began practicing traditional religious beliefs and pushed prison fascists to accommodate Native American practices.
He also learned law and began helping other prisoners, making the prison staff hostile. Then he published The American Indian in the White Mans Prison: A story of Genocide, and other articles.
In 1990, the Ohio Adult Parole Authority granted Little Rock a parole but demanded he sign a “contract” that would allow prisoncrats to control his speech activities. When he refused, his parole was rescinded until 1992.
When finally released, he became director of the Native American Research and Rehabilitation Project and wrote, Today’s Prison Administrators were Trained by Fascists: and What About Tomorrow? He spoke at Ohio State University about suppression of religion by the Ohio Prison System. Shortly after, the Chair of the Ohio Parole Board issued a directive that Little Rock was not to speak again. He was forced to cancel speaking engagements and was prevented from appearing before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs.
And that was when friends of Little Rock still inside Lucusville wrote to him to warn him that they overheard prison officials talking about a plan to murder Little Rock. Continue reading →

Radio Essay #1 transcript

Recorded by The Final Straw.
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by Sean Swain

I remember reading an interview a decade ago where a taxi driver in Saudi Arabia was talking about Osama bin Laden. In response to a question, he said that it was the humiliation of the Arab world that the one guy willing to tell the truth had to do it from a cave.

My name is Sean Swain. I’m an anarchist prisoner held hostage at Ohio’s supermax facility. I think about what that cab driver said as I sit here in my cell on the top floor–which might be a good measure of how dangerous they think I am.

My cell looks a lot like a cave.

I think about the implications. Back in the old days the whole continental United States was a free speech zone…or, at least, that was the happy narrative. Then came FREE SPEECH ZONES, where you can remain silent where people are, or else you can express yourself where there’s no one to listen. Continue reading →

Sean Swain Radio

Sean Swain is now providing regular commentary to The Final Straw, an anarchist radio show out of Asheville NC. They’ll be featuring a five minute segment from Sean on most every episode starting last Sunday and going until the ODRC takes away phone access.

Here’s the first show with this feature: http://www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw/01/2014/hunger-strike-at-westville-in-in-sean-swain-radio-and-more

Here’s an episode from a few months back featuring a longer interview with Sean and Blackjack: http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2013/11/11/sean-swain-blackjack-the-army-of-the-12-monkeys/

The Final Straw Radio Interview with Sean and Blackjack

The Final Straw, an anarchist radio show out of Asheville, NC recently did a show about Sean, the army of the 12 monkeys, and various related topics.

You can find it here: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2013/11/11/sean-swain-blackjack-the-army-of-the-12-monkeys/

More about The Final Straw:

The Final Straw is an hour-long radio show that strives to provide information and contribute to awareness of and participation in self-liberatory activities around the world by providing a platform to English-language listeners to learn about current struggles and ideas. Simply stated, we promote non-sectarian Anarchism(s) to enrich the struggle and widen participation in the battles against Capital, State & Coercion. We believe that the liberation of each is tied to the liberation of all, and so work to cover struggles against Prisons, Police, Sexism, Racism, Hetero-patriarchy and able-ism. We support autogestion and autonomy.