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Title: Zapatista Candidate for Ohio Governor
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Cincinnati dot com
URL Source: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politic ... atista-candidate-for-governor/
Published: Feb 26, 2010
Author: Sean Swain
Post Date: 2010-02-26 15:46:08 by Murron
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Views: 5438
Comments: 3
Democrat, a Republican, a Green, and a Libertarian aren’t enough, we’ve got a Zapatista candidate for governor. Sean Swain is running as a write-in – from his prison cell. Again. Swain ran in 2006 (the Secretary of State’s Office doesn’t record any write-in votes on its web site). This time again he’s running from Mansfield Correctional Institution and I must say – he’s got a pretty impressive web site. His goal: ”Steer Ohio into a corporation- and bank-free future.” He also claims to be the only candidate to seek endorsements from Fidel Castro, Hugh Chavez, and of course, Subcommandante Marcos http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2010/02/26/ohios-zapatista-candidate-for-governor/ Frome Swain's website: TREASON WE CAN BELIEVE IN… Isn’t it time we had an Anarchist homeland? I’m down for that. And I’m not talking about “change.” Don’t confuse me with Obama. He ripped-off a bunch of pseudo-socialist ideas from my 2006 campaign and got everybody believing in “change.” No, I’m not talking about rocking the boat—I’m talking about sinking the motherfucker. BALLOTS, BULLETS, AND BOMBS…BUT NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER… We don’t need government. What has it done for you? It takes your money and bosses you around and then hands the cash it stole from you to the greedy bastards who force you to drag stones up the side of their pyramid for 16 hours a day or else go hungry. What a fuckin’ dream. Democracy isn’t shit, I know. You choose your own slavemaster. Not cool. But just imagine if you could turn your ballot into a bullet and blow the government’s brains out, once and for all. Imagine if all the down-sized and out-sourced and fed-up and walked-on from all over the country—everybody tired of taking shit—all got together in one place at one time and hijacked one election… A NEEDLE IN THE VEINS OF THE BODY POLITIC I’m running for Governor of Ohio from prison in 2010 as a Zapatista Party candidate. I don’t want to be Ohio’s NEXT governor; I want to be Ohio’s LAST governor. And I’m not counting on the stone-dragging zombies who hug their chains and mindlessly follow the fascist program to write-in my name on the ballot. That’s not gonna happen. I’m counting on you…and millions like you from all over who want to be free, who want to escape the plantation. Ohio has the fastest shrinking population, so all we have to do is what we did in Chicago in ’68, what we did in Seattle to fight the WTO, what we did in Boulder and St. Paul in ’08…only we stick around. Abbie Hoffman said, “The ground you’re standing on is liberated territory. Defend it.” Imagine millions of us defending the ground we’re standing on…in Ohio. LET’S RIP OUT “THE HEART OF IT ALL”… One mass migration, one election. If everybody registers to vote in Ohio and writes in my name on the ballot for governor, we can get this party started. And it shouldn’t be hard. There are millions of us. Once I get elected governor of Ohio, here’s the plan: All prisoners are pardoned and the prisons are emptied. The national guard is recalled from the Oil Wars under a state of emergency and then decommissioned. The guns, tanks, bombs, and planes are returned to the people. After all, you bought them. No budget passed by the legislature gets signed. No state agency or program gets funded. Government grinds to a halt. No troops, no cops, no courts, no schools. You’re left in charge of you. Organize your own communities and develop ways of living that work for you. Good luck. In the absence of government, corporate dictators will panic and flee. Bankers will stuff their pockets and run for the border. Fuck ‘em. In their absence, there will be a hell of a sale at WalMart. Everything 100% off. To preclude intervention by the federal government, we will have to take all federal property—roads and courthouses, etc.—and deposit them on the other side of the state line in a big pile with a note to the U.S. government telling them they can have their stuff back. If we ratify the Constitution of the Ohio Zapatista Autonomous Zone, the State of Ohio will cease to exist. Good riddance to bad rubbish. We’ll be free, just like the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico. And if anybody attempts to rob us of our freedom, we will have the duty, just like our Mexican counterparts, to defend our way of life. We’ll be in charge of ourselves. We’ll rely on 4 million years of non-hierarchical and tribal living experience that we amassed before some idiot imposed this miserable pyramid scheme on us. It will be like we’re on vacation…for the rest of our lives. And if anyone tries to come here and make us go back to dragging stones, we’ll just send him home in a box. Pretty soon, the other states will leave us alone and their people will run off to join us like kids joining the circus. THE BAD NEWS: It will be the end of civilization as we know it. THE GOOD NEWS: It was never worth a shit anyway. “BUT WHO WILL FLIP THE BURGERS…?” Some folks can’t imagine life without somebody bossing them around for 16 hours a day. They think that if government is gone, we’ll all be terrorized by gangs and subjected to violence by lawless thugs, bullies will kick us out of our homes and monsters will eat our children. Look, gangs rob us now. They wear suits and carry briefcases. We’re subject to constant violence by lawless thugs in flak jackets and uniforms who carry guns and drive cop cars so they can “oppress and enslave.” The ruthless predators kicking us out of hour homes are called “bankers.” The monsters eating our children worked at Pentagon for the last decade? What the fuck? Other folks panic and run in circles, convinced the sky will fall without government. Who will pick up the garbage? Who will teach the kids? Where will the food come from?Those are all valid questions. Each community will have to answer them. If you’re waiting on an answer from me—gets some chips and beer; you’ll be waiting a while. My advice is, if you’re hungry, eat. Food grows on trees. It flies, it swims, it crawls, it runs, it comes out of the ground. If you’re tired, sleep. Getting rained on? Build shelter. If you need security and interaction and social connection, form community. We’ve been doing this for 4 million fucking years. Are you a human being or a population statistic? So, look. What’s the worst-case scenario? Let’s imagine we try this experiment and it fails; you don’t enjoy working only 3 hours a day to meet your needs. All this time with family and friends is too peaceful. You can always abandon this and go to Indiana or Michigan. You can go back to crime, poverty, drug abuse, school shootings, wage-slavery, stress, insomnia, pollution, high cancer rates, homelessness, over-population, mental illness, social isolation, racism, depression, commercial commodification, intolerance, forced conformity, sexism, emotional alienation, fear, homophobia, and the pressures of bills and exploitation, and you can start the madness all over again. WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT? Some folks are skeptical and believe that the forces that keep the government and the economic system rolling over us will never give us Ohio as an Anarchist homeland and allow us to raise a middle finger right in the midst of their crumbling empire. This slavery system can’t tolerate an alternative, or the stone-draggers will leave their posts on the assembly lines and in the drive-thru windows, and they’ll abandon the plantation. They’ll run away to join us the way kids run off to join the circus. And that would mean the empire would be bleeding slaves to the Ohio Zapatista Autonomous Zone. If we prevailed, they’d have to build a giant wall around Ohio—not to keep us in, but to keep their slaves OUT. So will they let us have Ohio? No. That’s why we aren’t going to ask their permission. LOCK AND RE-LOAD If we want freedom, if we want an Anarchist homeland, if we want to live Chicago ’68 and Seattle ’99 and Boulder/St. Paul ’08 for the rest of our lives and never get pushed along by billy-clubs and tear gas, then we can defend our collective right to exist right here in the Heart of It All. We can take back our futures. Way back, the Vandals brought down the Roman Empire just by mass-migration. All they did was flock to one area, run around drunk, and shit in the bushes. We can be a million brush-fires burning. A million shoes thrown into the face of the war-mongers. A million slaves escaping the plantation. The next revolution won’t be televised but it can’t be stopped… …Unless you stay home. Freedom, Love & Rage, Sean Swain Zapatista Candidate Ohio Governor, 2010
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Reads almost like a Tea Bagger Manifesto with certain words interchanged...
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