Fritz Springmeier - Doing Time (II)
April 21, 2011
Pioneer Illuminati researcher Fritz Springmeier recently completed eight years in prison after being framed for supposedly planning a bank robbery."At one point the system "punished" me for pointing out the law to them, and moved a satanist into my cell."
by Fritz Springmeier
(for henrymakow.com)
People often see what they expect to see. When people expect to see fear and violence, they do. As you arrive to a prison, toss out your preconceptions, and watch how they do things at that prison.
For instance, if everyone else has left the yard, you also should not be out there. Pay attention to where people sit in the chow hall. Little observations like that can save someone from a wreck.
As you observe things, quietly in an unobtrusive way, try to get a handle on what to expect from individuals, staff and inmates around you. Being a good judge of character may spare you some painful trouble.
In your past life, you may not have spent much time with criminals, now everyone around you is a criminal, and even some of the guards (for whatever reason) don't seem so different than the inmates, except for their uniform and they go back to a real home every night.
Finding a compatible cellie is half the battle to make your time go easier.
Interpersonal skills, hygiene, reputation, and your daily schedule all play a role in who you get as a cellie.
Do not get a cellie with the exact same schedule where you and he have to compete for scare resources. Most everyone will want some private cell time, and if you have the same schedule, the two of you won't get any space. Most of your time will be in a cell with a cellie, or dorm with a bunkie.
Speaking of cellies, as in life in general, living closely with someone is totally different than being friends at a distance. Take that into consideration. From a distance, the person's wit and personality may make them fun. Side by side in a small cell, the person's picking and eating what comes out of his nose, his smells, his weird behavior (like one of my cellies who slept during the day, and wanted the lights on so he could stay up nights), make living with the person unpleasant.
TWO CELLIES I'LL NEVER FORGET
At times, it's hard to predict how you will click with another person. I'll share about two cellies: one I enjoyed, the other I did not. At one point the system to retaliate against me and "punish" me for pointing out the law to them, moved out my two cellies and moved a satanist into my cell.
He was also a professional magician, and along that line he caught a bat, and secretly kept him alive in his locker and fed it at night, so that he'd have a bat to conjure up in front of a guard when he wanted. He was a delightfully funny guy, who turned out to be a good cellie.
In contrast, another cellie who had a (superficial) love of history in common with me, allowed me to see some of how he'd burned everyone in his life; and why no one in his family, including his mother would speak to him.
For jollies, he'd call up his mom each day to listen to her slam the phone down when she'd realize who was calling. He was a bad cellie for me.
I certainly have numerous cellie stories, but I am not a gossip. Minding your own business and respecting everyone go a long ways towards getting along with other inmates. Also if you are not gay or not in prison for some strange-nasty crime (like child molesters, who receive a hard time from other inmates and some staff) it also helps you.
Your foremost concern is to prevent the shredding or institutionalization of your personality. My decision from day one was not to act like an inmate, not to try to act like someone else (say for instance a tough guy), but to just be myself.
The idea was that if I were just myself, the right kind of people would come around. This was a blessed path to take, although it did feel like a difficult narrow path to tread to please all the various factions and still be myself.
Some inmates ran up to me and just visited just to experience a breath of fresh air (since I felt like someone from the street), and others just simply avoided me as strange.
TAKE HOLD OF YOUR TIME
So I can't prescribe the path that worked for me to everyone in general. But the truth I did put to work for me, and every reader can also, is that IF you don't grab your time (your life) and make it work for you; then your time will grab you and work you over.
Who is gonna' be in control? You or your time?
Grab hold of your time, and do productive things with it. What is productive for one person, will not be appropriate for another. Have your support team on the street alerted that as an inmate you will likely be cut off from the Internet, good libraries, and good stores. That is why magazines and newspapers get passed from one inmate to another.
In general, prison staff seem paranoid that inmates might actually learn something. Networking with people on the outside makes a big difference.
One could write an entire book on doing that. One of my cellies began a long prison term with no outside support. He got hundreds of women writing him and sending money, and eventually while in prison got happily married to one of his correspondents.
He created a loyal support system out of thin air, although I can't recommend the manipulative techniques he employed. If you want to improve your life, it is up to you to do it.
Now what is very interesting is that the principles for success in prison actually apply to life in general. We can make better choices when we realize the enormous spectrum of choices available to us in any given situation, and remaining positive and hopeful helps us see good choices.
We need to take control of our time and use it productively or our time will control us. We should respect everyone. We should be aware of the importance and consequences of who we pick to be around, for instance, who is our spouse, our friends, and our neighborhood.
Bad things happen to us all, but we must not fall apart when they hit us, but accept reality and focus on moving forward one step at a time, with the conviction that good things can come out of a bad situation. Have a great day, O.K.!!
