Defiant & Abused - Brendon O'Connell's Prison Ordeal

Though
jail was stressful in more ways than you could imagine, I wouldn’t
change it for the world. They’ve physically wrecked my shoulder, my arm
and at times my dignity but what a life experience! For me it was a
“rite of passage”. I’ve been to battle. I’ve survived. I’ve earned my
stripes and they can do their worst – I spit on them.

There were times
in jail I would have gladly been in Iraq in a USMC squad in the worst
part of Baghdad and that would have been a relief for me, and again, I’m
not being funny. There is nothing more stressful than having ALL your
personal power taken from you. Where you can hear the words, “O’Connell
to Reception! O’Connell to Reception!” and your heart starts racing,
“What now?” You ask a guard, “what’s happening?” “Oh I’m sure its
nothing, just a medical escort or something.”

 But you know
better. So, 30 minutes later you’re stripped naked and in front of two
people you are lifting your testicles, squatting naked and ‘coughing’
and getting thrown in a prison truck to God knows where.

All your meager
possessions will be gone through. Many will “disappear” – some stolen
by prisoners in the property section of the jail or things like paper
work sent to ‘Justice Intelligence Service’ (diaries+xrays+Qu’ran) to be
“disappeared” until you kick up such a stink they give them back –
minus a few things “They” have complete control over you and you
never know what little game they are going to play next. In that way –
solitary confinement was like paradise and I would have happily done the
entire three years alone in solitary if it hadn’t been for the need to
do paperwork.

TRANSFERS

Now, off to a new jail where I have to start all
over again. I have to explain my case to the long line of “Noongyar”
boys (Native Australian Tribe) who have heard through the prison grape
vine you are here and you are a “racist”. Stressful as it was they
accepted my explanations at face value and I gave Elders within the jail
some of the reporting and paperwork. Some even knew about Palestine and
the bad habits of Jewish racial supremacism so I taught them more.

That
was something the legal establishment wasn’t expecting – they did their
best to make sure I was bashed the moment I went in. Prison Officers
were also clearly stirring up trouble. Just as things would settle down,
it would start again – comments in the food line, harsh stares etc. This
all stopped when a few well known prisoners I had become friends with
started demanding from the ‘tattle tales’ exactly “who was saying what
to whom?”

It all stopped right there because a simple ‘working
down the line’ would have ended back at the local prison informant
population and the prison officer who handled them. Don’t ever try to
out Scorpio a Scorpio on the Machiavellian battlefield. I thrived in
that dark little cesspit environment. I like getting dirty and there are
a few prison officers with their tails stuck firmly between their legs
since meeting me. One day we might meet on the outside and I will record
the meeting for posterity. Absolute fucking cowards. They disgust me
more than the pathetic informants they handle in the jail.

CONCLUSION

The ultimate lesson learned was that with population
pressure and ‘scarcity’ (artificial or otherwise), you are going to get a
nightmare. Civilized behavior will go out the window. You haven’t seen
pathetic, desperate, and low-life until you’ve been to jail. Sad fact is
you end up heading that way yourself – how else do you get along?
Especially in maximum security.

As they make it all a “Prison
Planet” I can see exactly how people are going to behave. They will
gladly accept a Police State as long as they are fed, watered and
entertained. I bet Henry if a poll was taken where “The Leader” stood up
and said these words: “Citizens, democracy doesn’t work. Too much
infighting and most of you are stupid and uninterested in running your
own life anyway so we have decided that a fascist/corporatist system is
the best way of doing things.

Your betters (Elders) will decide what is
good for you. We will do psychological profiling based on your Facebook
and Google data collected from your Smart Phone and put you in the right
job. We will do detailed profiling and run it through our Quantum
Computer in Jerusalem to decide on your best sexual Mate to produce
children with; as well as genetic testing before licensing you to have
children and you will be able to keep them and raise them if you make
sure the correct “values” are instilled – otherwise the State will do it
in a child care center for you. Only the best and brightest will be
able to breed. Population reduction will be done humanely. Return to
work citizen.”