Ohio: The Truth Behind Bob's Lanes

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by  Sean Swain

OHIO
On the Validity of Bob's Lanes
by Sean Swain

Part I: Indian Territory
1 The Problem 41 "The State Of Ohio;' Role Model
2 The Facts, Like Them or Not 42 Behind Bars
12 What This Means. .. 43 Authority
15 A Lie for Everything 44 Peace and Dignity
17 It All Goes Together. .. 45 My Case
18 What Real Humans Do 46 Indian Territory, Part II
20 The Imperative 47 Tecumseh
22 Two Realities 48 What is a Law
23 Everybody Knew 48 Two Things
26 Truth, Re-Packaged 49 The Taino
28 A Tool for Everything 50 Reputable
29 Crime Pays 50 Changing History
32 Good Fences (Sometimes) 52 Really Low-Down Atrocities
32 Reality on the Ground 53 Real
33 Tools 54 Strong vs The United States
35 It's About "The State Of Ohio" 56 Authority, Part II
35 Tools. .. Again 58 You Can't Do That
36 A Puppy Killer 59 Real, Part II
37 Indian Territory 60 The Milgram Experiments
38 What This Means, Part II 62 The Point?
40 Power 62 Justice
Part II: The Contract
65 Origins 72 Contracts, Part III
66 The Charter 73 Democracy, Part
66 Contracts, Part I 73 Democracy, Part IV
68 Contracts, Part II 73 Contracts, Part IV
69 Democracy, Part I 74 Democracy, Part V
70 Without Consent 76 Contracts, Part V
71 Democracy, Part II 76 Without Consent, Part II
76 Implied Consent, Part I 95 Implied Consent, Part V
77 Democracy, Part VI 97 The No-Fly List Threshold
78 Contracts, Part VI 99 You Can't Protect, Part I
79 Democracy, Part VII 100 Rights, Part VI
81 Democracy, Part VIII 100 You Can't Protect, Part II
81 Implied Consent, Part II 101 Personhood
82 Contracts, Part VII 102 The Right to Create a God
84 Rights, Part I 103 Subjects and Slaves
86 Democracy, Part IX 103 Rights, Part VII
86 Contracts, Part VIII 105 Contracts, Part IX
87 Implied Consent, Part III 105 Rights, Part VIII
88 Rights, Part II 105 Contracts, Part X
91 Rights, Part III 106 God
91 Democracy, Part X 107 No-Fly List Revisited
91 Rights, Part IV 107 All of Us
92 Implied Consent, Part IV 108 Intelligent Life
93 Rights, Part V 109 Government-less
Part III: The Myth
111 Magical Beans, Part I 124 The Right to Rule, Part II
111 Flat Earth, Part I 127 An Explanation
112 Magical Beans, Part , 128 Acquiring the Right to Rule
113 Flat Earth, Part II 130 Gang Activity
114 An Observation 131 Flat Earth, Part III
115 Respecting the Laws, Part I 132 Benevolence
117 What is a Law? Part II 134 The Right to Rule, Part III
118 The Right to Rule, Part I 135 Freedom
119 Milgram Again 140 Magical Beans, Part III
121 Respecting the Law, Part II 141 The Right to Rule, Part IV
121 Submission 143 The Right to Rule, Part V
123 Truth from the Futue 144 Consent, Part I
145 Laws, Part I 155 Necessary, Part VI
146 Consent, Part II 155 Gang Activity, Part II
146 The Right to Rule, Part VI 156 Government-less, Part II
146 Necessary 160 Government-less, Part III
149 Necessary, Part II 162 Convergences, Part II
149 Necessary, Part III 162 Convergences, Part III
152 Necessary, Part IV 163 Convergences, Part IV
152 The Right to Rule, Part VII 164 Necessary, Part VII
153 Necessary, Part V 165 Back to Ohio
154 The Idiot Factory
Part IV: Tipping Things Over
167 A Brief Recapitulation 205 Political Violence, Part IV
169 Taking Down What??? 205 Shock-u-py and Awe-cu-py
171 No Other Option 206 Marching Orders and Invitations
172 The Audacity 207 Political Violence, Part V
176 To Abolish Anything, Start 208 The Army of the 12 Monkeys
178 Why Ohio, Part I 211 The Barbarians
179 No Other Option, Part II 211 Political Violence, Part VI
183 Why Ohio, Part II 212 What Stops Torture, Part I
185 No Other Option, Part III 214 Political Violence, Part VII
186 Why Ohio, Part III 216 What Stops Torture, Part II
188 The Audacity, Part II 219 Guerrilla Warfare, Part I
189 Political Violence, Part I 223 Good Danes
191 Why Ohio, Part IV 225 Why Ohio, Part VII
192 Political Violence, Part II 227 An Analogy, Part I
195 Why Ohio, Part V 227 Reality Doesn't Matter, Part II
196 Convergences, Part V 228 Guerrilla Warfare, Part II
199 Political Violence, Part III 231 Guns and Bombs, Part I
201 Why Ohio, Part VI 234 An Approach to an Approach
202 Reality Doesn't Matter 235 Guns and Bombs, Part II
235 Potato Guns, Super-Soak.ers 243 Back to Greeneville
235 Lessons from the Viet Cong 243 Decolonization
236 From the Air 244 Tanks and Bombers and
237 Unready 246 Twelve Rebels and a Yacht
239 Block Everything 247 An Analogy, Part II
240 Molotovs 248 No Other Option, Part IV
241 Veterans 249 An Analogy, Part III
241 Drones 250 Too Dangerous for Ohio
242 Government and Control 252 Columbus Day

PART I: Indian Territory
There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture
which serve as categories of denial.
-Susan Griffin,
A Chorus of Stones
If rape is violence, as feminists correctly insist, then so too
is the interculture analogue of rape: colonial domination.
-Ward Churchill,
Acts of Rebellion
The Problem with Telling the Truth
I had this bright idea when I started formulating the writing
of this project. I was going to tell you the whole truth about
this thing we call "The State of Ohio:' I would present the
historical facts, the whole context, and then I would present
to you my brilliant and captivating arguments.
That seemed like a winning plan to me. But then I wrote
up the next section, "The Facts:' complete with a lot of re­
search conducted by smarter people than me, including
Ward Churchill, Derrick Jensen, and John Zerzan, among
others. And that's when I realized I couldn't just spring this
on readers without preparing them for it first. I can't just tell
you the truth. The truth hurts. And it hurts because we're not
used to hearing it. We live in a culture where there's a lie for
everything.
Think about it. Where do babies come from? Storks. Who
delivers Christmas presents? Santa Claus. Who hides Easter
eggs? The Easter Bunny. Who exchanges standard currency
for baby teeth left under pillows? The Tooth Faerie. These are
just the small lies at the beginning that get us adapting to the
larger, more important lies later. We accept the Tooth Faerie
exchanging currency for teeth, then later the schools con­
vince us to accept the value of the currency. We get molded
and become something useful to the larger program. The im­
portant lies help with that.
So if I just go blurting out the objective, undeniable truth,