Springmeier - How to Do Time
April 18, 2011
COULD YOU SURVIVE IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST??Pioneer Illuminati researcher Fritz Springmeier recently completed eight years in prison after being framed for a bank robbery he wasn't even at.
-- by Fritz Springmeier
(for henrymakow.com)
If you've never been incarcerated, you can only speculate how you'd do if you were.
Like a green soldier facing the possibility of killing, a person facing incarceration for the first time is indeed facing some scary unknowns.
While every prison and prisoner is unique, I can guarantee you two things will happen during your incarceration: LOSS and WAIT.
You will suffer loss; in fact you may seemingly lose everything, and it may all be lost before you transition from jail to prison.
Hopefully you won't lose your sanity, hope, and sense of humor. Also hold on to the integrity of your word. For a man in prison has little, but if his words mean nothing, he truly is destitute.
And for sure you will find yourself waiting. Prison may end up to be a dreary succession of lines and lockdowns, while you meanwhile endlessly wait for your release date. But during those spells of waiting, for food, for mail, for the chance to telephone, for visits, in fact for almost everything...the experienced inmates have learned to have peace, and not get doubled up with stress. Being stressed won't make your time shorter.
Let's learn right now from the mistakes of others....One middle class gentleman, who got a piddly 3 month sentence for lying on some federal paperwork, totally fell apart and had convinced himself his whole life was over.
Please spare all of us the emotional weakness. It seems those who are used to a life of ease and having things their own way, like the rich and famous (and I won't mention any names), seem to fall apart like babies when incarcerated.
Challenge yourself to be a real man or woman of real character. Half the battle of doing easy time is to accept that you are in prison. Don't fight the facts. Simply accept that this is now your home away from home, you're not visiting.
However, don't lose complete sight of the distant reality that nothing lasts forever. It is very important to maintain two attitudes, first that someday you will leave prison (but the future will take care of itself); and second, that you must survive and live in the present moment (and only by living in the present will you make the best of it).
Accept reality. Sure, many people don't accept reality and don't live in reality, that's their choice!! My article is merely making suggestions, what a person does with those suggestions is his or her own choice. Did you catch that???
You still have choices, even in prison. I wish I had a dollar for every time the system or an inmate has told me that we'd lost choices in prison. BAH!
That's one of the first major mind games you'll confront. Realizing how many choices you still have is very important to beating the system, which given a chance will shred or steal your life and personality. But don't let them do it.
This valuable lesson, seeing our choices in life, applies to life in general for everyone. And that's the beauty of prison--you can be learning valuable positive lessons, (if you pay attention with a constructive mindset) that apply to life in general. Hey, prison isn't 100% bad.
O.K. you need to function in the here-and-now reality, so let's begin by tossing out some myths.
Of course this is an article not a book, so I'll only give you 3 myths to toss out, you can find and toss the other hundreds of myths on your own. It will give you something constructive to do, eh?
MYTH NO. 1. In prison you must make pleasing your captors your first priority.
First, you are a piece of human garbage to them, so skip the delusions that you will ever be more than a piece of garbage. And skip the delusion that somehow the Constitutional Bill of Rights's ban on cruel and unusual punishment will protect you. It doesn't protect human garbage, in fact the opposite happens in this land; people are downright proud that their government is powerful enough to crush its opposition (meaning you).
You are by your existence displeasing to your captors. The people who you need to please are the people you live with 24/7---THE INMATES! They also are more dangerous than the guards.
Don't whine and snitch to the guards. Nobody respects a Judas. Even though Judas could be the nickname of half the population, and you may see people snitch, like I did one time, when the line server gave more mash potatoes to the inmate in front of the snitch, you value yourself and your integrity, and your success too much to waste it on being a whining snitch. Right? We're grown ups now.
MYTH NO. 2. Rehabilitation exists.
No one is out to rehabilitate you. Remember lesson one, you are human garbage. How much money do you invest in the garbage under your sink?
That's what the system really wants to invest in you--NOTHING. ...But they must make a pretense to deflect criticism so they have a few pretend helps.
More than once I've seen a novice inmate (called by some a "fish") excitedly tell me how he was going to take advantage of all the college and rehabilitation classes the prison offered. If you do get some rehab, the bottom line is that you are going to have to be the primary motivation force behind it. Staff are not waiting on you like customer service to help you out.
I took the better part of two years to daily teach myself Japanese. Malcolm X used his time to daily improve his English vocabulary, by intense study of the dictionary. And this is a good lesson. For too long we have taken too many things for granted. (Society tries to give each American a valuable free education in the public schools, and most Americans take it for granted because public education is free. Americans tend to value what they pay for.)
Part of growing up is to take responsibility for ourselves. Malcolm X did that and matured in prison. Once again I'll say it, good can come out of a bad situation. In prison, you may hear inmates say, "I have to go get my money."
They are referring to getting their exercise routine. The trend in prisons is to take away the exercise weights and machines, so an inmate has to sometime be creative to "get his money", but many inmates do "get there money". I have seen many lose 100 or 200 pounds, now that they can't get their favorite junk food, and don't have a couch to be a potato.
And this makes me smile knowing that their improved health may give them back the years that their sentence will take from them. I'm sure you can think of a number of other advantages that exercise gives a person. Just remember, you may have to get creative during captivity to get your exercise. The system may think we are garbage, but we have the choice to think differently!
MYTH NO. 3. Federal Prison is easy.
In general, federal prison is no easier than state prison; and the Feds make the State prisons obey rules--no one makes the Federal government do anything, so there is no accountability. Hence, Guatamano Bays can come or go unhindered.
No matter where you are incarcerated, your captors want you to learn that you have nothing positive coming to you. They like to believe that you are not entitled to anything. So choose your "battles" and your "battle tactics" with the prison system wisely and carefully.
Note that even the guards get frustrated that the system is resistant to change, so do you really think anyone wants to hear from an inmate on how to change the way things are being done? Crusading against the system is a goal in the opposite direction than surviving and even thriving during your incarceration.
Asking for even a positive change is rocking the soulless bureaucratic boat and is not appreciated by those running the ship. And under Admiralty Law, which Black's Law Dictionary will tell you is also Federal law, the captain of the ship has total control. How hot of water do you want to swim in?
So once again, let's learn from mistakes...in this case, someone else's (fortunately)....human drama based on silliness and myths, which I watched play out from start to --well, finish. The inmate was relatively new and a jokester.
An old-time inmate needed a cellie, and took the jokester in without either getting to know each other. The next day after he moved in, the new inmate went to his counselor and asked to be moved again, this time out of the cell.
When the counselor predictably denied him, he jokingly told the counselor in half seriousness that if he didn't move him, someone in the cell would be dead the next day. Upon this declaration, the counselor immediately put him into the hole, and then after several months there, his custody level points were raised and he was shipped from Sheridan medium (a mild prison) to the Federal penitentiary Atwater (a gladiator school).
And by coincidence, I watched the whole miserable drama unfold, including being on the bus when the inmate got dropped off at the pen. By the way, he was still making stupid jokes that could get him into trouble with both inmates and staff, but I noticed he sobered up when dropped off at the imposing pen. If you don't know, the federal pens have armed guard towers, manned by guards looking for an excuse to shoot their M-16s.
