12-01-2025, 08:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2025, 08:43 PM by Angry Bird.)
Hello Guys !!!
I hope you're doing well! I'm here, finally. I just cracked open a Modelo Chelada Especial. It's been my favorite beer lately. I don't drink to get drunk anymore. It's rare, at the very least. I'm trying to relax though, because I want to unload a few things off my chest. I also have a bowl of Triscuits and some string cheese. I'll be snacking on that while I write.
Maniac Nebula was born because of the Occupy protests in 2011. We were out there on the streets, and we saw a lot of shit go on. I was jailed. I spent a year of my life in an LA County facility. At Maniac Nebula, I didn't talk about this much, but people in real life knew. When I first joined MN, I went as Impunity Bird. Why that? During the W Bush years, they behaved with impunity. I wanted to get the word out there. There were academic reasons behind it, but I don't want to write an essay right now. We'll move along to the important things.
Braden had problems with his dad. He was very open about it. Space Ghost had issues with his dad. Me? It's not that my relationship was horrible, but I had a few professors from that generation that just didn't get it. They don't understand what we go through. I was arrested during an Occupy protest, and I was jailed. A cop said I made a threat on him that I really didn't make. There's more to it than just this, but they wanted me to feel like I was a criminal. I'm talking about the System. The System wanted me to sit down and shut up. It wanted all of us to sit down and shut up. The System wanted to treat us like warehoused goods. It wanted us to feel like pets of the older generation. It wanted to use us for our body parts if they got sick, but it didn't want to treat us well. The bankers screwed us. For the Noobs out there, I'd like you to read what I wrote last year at Maniac Nebula:
North American Union & the Banks
We got tossed around. We got pushed around. We fought, but it was tough. They wanted me to feel shame. That much, I know. I have a criminal record, now, but I don't think of myself as a criminal in the slightest. I was a political prisoner. I'll never see it any other way. Alex Jones is polarizing public figure, but he nailed it when he named his websites. Prison Planet and Info Wars says it all. It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are, They (the Establishment) want everybody to feel like life is a prison. And how do we end it? We've got to win the information wars. At the end of 2011, right around Christmas, the mayor of Los Angeles poured salt in the wound. He said he was SUING THE PROTESTERS FOR WRECKING THE CITY HALL LAWN!!!! What kind of shit is that?!!
Maniac Nebula was just budding around this time. I still had court dates in front of me, and it didn't look good. Like I said, I wound up spending about a year locked up. I started off as Impunity Bird then when I got out, I changed my screen name to Jail Bird. I wanted to talk about my experiences. I really did! I couldn't bring myself to do it. I think most Noobs back then took it as a joke. I'm talking about the Jail Bird Name. When I was first arrested, I thought it was like the movies. I thought I'd have a lawyer provided for me in a half hour. I didn't know I'd be in a cell. By the way, because of how angry I was when I got locked up, they added a charge that I was on drugs! I swear to God! They pretended I was on something! So they put me in a holding cell with a couple of (real) drunk guys. You're supposed to be in there a maximum of twelve hours, from what I understand. I was in there fuckin' sixteen hours! Then, when they finally decided it was enough, the pulled me out and they wanted me to sign a paper. They physically pulled me out and they manhandled me. I resisted, of course, because I didn't have a lawyer yet. I wasn't going to sign any fuckin' paper until I spoke to an attorney! There was a team of about six deputies who dragged me by my legs and arms. They physically forced my thumb onto an ink pad, then they physically forced my thumb to make a print on the document they wanted me to sign. I was pissed, and I was screaming. I was demanding badge numbers left and right. Oh. While they moved me from the drunk cell to the station where the document was, they filmed me! You know how creepy that is? They had that Fox show, Cops, which ran for years and years. Then there was Fox spinoff called Jail (pretty sure that was the name). What if I wind up on national TV for this shit? All for protest the greed of the One Percent! What the fuck are we supposed to do? What is my generation supposed to do?
I was in jail, and it was scary. It wasn't just the obvious reasons of fights with inmates. I got jumped, I got blindside socked, and I was in a cell riot between races. Those were scary things, but they weren't the most scary. The scariest things were the deputies themselves. Most of them? I think they're doing their jobs, and they're fine leaving people alone. Others? They have a trip. Whether it's because they were treated bad as kids, or because they think it's wrong that inmates should "have it easy" inside of jail, they fuck with you. They try to break your spirit. Unlike fighting inmates, there's an incredible consequence. If you fight another inmate, you might end up with a bloody nose. If you fight a deputy because he pressed the right buttons, you wind up with another 5 years on your sentence! It spirals! I thought I could do life in jail for simply protesting a public event! I headbutted a deputy when I was in cuffs, and they were moving me from one cell to another. Why? The cuffs were cutting off my circulation. Like I said, they didn't give me a lawyer immediately. I started getting delusions of grandeur, actually. I thought I was some special character in the grander scheme of things. I swear to God, I told them I was in the CIA!!!!!
Jesse Ventura was a Navy Seal. He was also a professional wrestler, and he became the governor of Minnesota as an independent! Jesse had a show on TruTV called Conspiracy Theory, and he was a regular on RT. He said that government agents came to interview him after he won the governor's race. "How'd you do?" they wanted to know. Weird stuff! But I believe it! With all of his experience, Jesse talked about interrogation techniques. This is stuff they used in Vietnam! If they're pulling your fingernails out and demanding answers, you'll blurt something out even if it's not true, and it doesn't make sense. "I'm the archduke of Madagascar!!!!" That sort of thing! When I was locked up in jail, I screamed that I was in the CIA!!!! I had no idea where this voice came from! I was pushed to my limits, and that's what came out.
Los Angeles County had it's main, old jail in LA Proper. It's grimy, and it's like a dungeon. The bars still operated mechanically, and it had different sections. There were cells for individual inmates. They called this "Million Dollar Row" and that's where I was at the beginning. This place, though it's for individual inmates, is different than The Hole. The Hole is where they send you to penalize you. Million Dollar Row is where they kept inmates with absurd bail amounts. I was one of them! I don't know why! I'll never know why! I went to a liberal college, and that was my only guess. If you look at these cells from the outside, they form two L's, one upright and the other upside down. It's like Tetris so there's inmates sleeping above and below each other separated by a thin wall. There's graffiti all over the place, and there are rats. I didn't see the rats, but everybody said they lived there.
I bounced around. I also stayed in two-man and six-man cells. Then, they moved me to a satellite jail near Magic Mountain in Castaic. There, the jail is newer. It's situated like a bee hive. The deputies are in the middle, and they oversee seventy-five-man cells in different directions. I stayed in high security there. There were 187s (those charged with murder) and regular guys who got DUIs. They also put me in medium security for a while, and the tone was much more loose. Finally, at the end of it all, they put me with the Crazies. These people had psych issues. They said I was bipolar because of how combative I was. That's what actually saved my ass with the deputy I headbutted. First of all, it wasn't clean contact. I merely grazed him, but I could've done more time. He wound up forgiving me. I had a 243b coming my way, but they changed it to a booking error. Why? Maybe the CIA intervened and they told them they better do it! I don't know. Now it seems silly, but at the time, it made sense to me and it really fucked with my head.
I did my time in LA County jail, and they set me up with a program on the way out. I forgot to mention that they tried to peg me with a felony at the beginning, but my lawyer plea bargained down to a misdemeanor. They wanted to send me to Patton Hospital! This is a place for the criminally insane! All this for protesting an Occupy gathering! Patton is only those with felony convictions, though, so the plea bargain knocked that avenue out. Either way, when I got released, I had to agree to spend time in a halfway house. The program was AB2439, and I spent time with people in my same circumstance. Not one of us thought of themselves as criminal, but somehow this is where it led.
So, I spent time online with Rod and Braden. We've had many conversations, but I never, ever went into detail about what life in jail was like. Rod and Braden wrote autobiographies, and I read here that Rod might do another. I'm game, man. I want to get the rest of this off my chest. This world kicks you to the curb, and it leaves you for dead! I was doing great in college, and I never saw this happening in my life. I bottled this in for many years out of fear of revenge. Also, I had to prove to family and friends that I wasn't crazy. Sure, they said I was bipolar, but I wasn't. I was just pissed at the System. I pity the docile Sheeple more than I pity myself.
Maniac Nebula was launched more than a decade ago. The stuff we said was conspiratorial in straight in your face, now! By "you", I mean the public. Mamdani wouldn't have been elected in New York if the relevance of the Occupy movement didn't still persist. We're still fighting greed. We're still fighting oligarchs. When I started serving time, I had too many (formerly) trusted people tell me that the cops wouldn't lie. I was probably doing something wrong. They weren't there, but they were preaching to me like they witnessed what was going on. Now? You see it everywhere. It's happening with ICE agents in cities across the country. They're smashing windows. They're beating up grandmas. They're zip-tying kids. It's fuckin' crazy, but I don't have to feel crazy any longer. We're all witnessing the same thing, right? And the revenge? The DOJ went after James Comey and Letitia James. That was pure revenge, and the charges were so weak that they got dropped. There are people I no longer talk to, but I hope they're seeing this. I hope they feel a little bad for treating me like I was some kind of fuck up for protesting absurd policies.
I like this site. I wanted to shout out to Brick Jayne and Liz besides Rod and Braden. Brick Jayne is a really good authoer, and Kiribati changed the way I look at society. Liz? I haven't seen her here yet, but she posted some of the better stuff at Maniac Nebula. I hope she joins this place.
Alrighty Then,
-- Angry Bird
formerly Impunity Bird, Jail Bird, and Little Bird
I hope you're doing well! I'm here, finally. I just cracked open a Modelo Chelada Especial. It's been my favorite beer lately. I don't drink to get drunk anymore. It's rare, at the very least. I'm trying to relax though, because I want to unload a few things off my chest. I also have a bowl of Triscuits and some string cheese. I'll be snacking on that while I write.
Maniac Nebula was born because of the Occupy protests in 2011. We were out there on the streets, and we saw a lot of shit go on. I was jailed. I spent a year of my life in an LA County facility. At Maniac Nebula, I didn't talk about this much, but people in real life knew. When I first joined MN, I went as Impunity Bird. Why that? During the W Bush years, they behaved with impunity. I wanted to get the word out there. There were academic reasons behind it, but I don't want to write an essay right now. We'll move along to the important things.
Braden had problems with his dad. He was very open about it. Space Ghost had issues with his dad. Me? It's not that my relationship was horrible, but I had a few professors from that generation that just didn't get it. They don't understand what we go through. I was arrested during an Occupy protest, and I was jailed. A cop said I made a threat on him that I really didn't make. There's more to it than just this, but they wanted me to feel like I was a criminal. I'm talking about the System. The System wanted me to sit down and shut up. It wanted all of us to sit down and shut up. The System wanted to treat us like warehoused goods. It wanted us to feel like pets of the older generation. It wanted to use us for our body parts if they got sick, but it didn't want to treat us well. The bankers screwed us. For the Noobs out there, I'd like you to read what I wrote last year at Maniac Nebula:
North American Union & the Banks
We got tossed around. We got pushed around. We fought, but it was tough. They wanted me to feel shame. That much, I know. I have a criminal record, now, but I don't think of myself as a criminal in the slightest. I was a political prisoner. I'll never see it any other way. Alex Jones is polarizing public figure, but he nailed it when he named his websites. Prison Planet and Info Wars says it all. It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are, They (the Establishment) want everybody to feel like life is a prison. And how do we end it? We've got to win the information wars. At the end of 2011, right around Christmas, the mayor of Los Angeles poured salt in the wound. He said he was SUING THE PROTESTERS FOR WRECKING THE CITY HALL LAWN!!!! What kind of shit is that?!!
Maniac Nebula was just budding around this time. I still had court dates in front of me, and it didn't look good. Like I said, I wound up spending about a year locked up. I started off as Impunity Bird then when I got out, I changed my screen name to Jail Bird. I wanted to talk about my experiences. I really did! I couldn't bring myself to do it. I think most Noobs back then took it as a joke. I'm talking about the Jail Bird Name. When I was first arrested, I thought it was like the movies. I thought I'd have a lawyer provided for me in a half hour. I didn't know I'd be in a cell. By the way, because of how angry I was when I got locked up, they added a charge that I was on drugs! I swear to God! They pretended I was on something! So they put me in a holding cell with a couple of (real) drunk guys. You're supposed to be in there a maximum of twelve hours, from what I understand. I was in there fuckin' sixteen hours! Then, when they finally decided it was enough, the pulled me out and they wanted me to sign a paper. They physically pulled me out and they manhandled me. I resisted, of course, because I didn't have a lawyer yet. I wasn't going to sign any fuckin' paper until I spoke to an attorney! There was a team of about six deputies who dragged me by my legs and arms. They physically forced my thumb onto an ink pad, then they physically forced my thumb to make a print on the document they wanted me to sign. I was pissed, and I was screaming. I was demanding badge numbers left and right. Oh. While they moved me from the drunk cell to the station where the document was, they filmed me! You know how creepy that is? They had that Fox show, Cops, which ran for years and years. Then there was Fox spinoff called Jail (pretty sure that was the name). What if I wind up on national TV for this shit? All for protest the greed of the One Percent! What the fuck are we supposed to do? What is my generation supposed to do?
I was in jail, and it was scary. It wasn't just the obvious reasons of fights with inmates. I got jumped, I got blindside socked, and I was in a cell riot between races. Those were scary things, but they weren't the most scary. The scariest things were the deputies themselves. Most of them? I think they're doing their jobs, and they're fine leaving people alone. Others? They have a trip. Whether it's because they were treated bad as kids, or because they think it's wrong that inmates should "have it easy" inside of jail, they fuck with you. They try to break your spirit. Unlike fighting inmates, there's an incredible consequence. If you fight another inmate, you might end up with a bloody nose. If you fight a deputy because he pressed the right buttons, you wind up with another 5 years on your sentence! It spirals! I thought I could do life in jail for simply protesting a public event! I headbutted a deputy when I was in cuffs, and they were moving me from one cell to another. Why? The cuffs were cutting off my circulation. Like I said, they didn't give me a lawyer immediately. I started getting delusions of grandeur, actually. I thought I was some special character in the grander scheme of things. I swear to God, I told them I was in the CIA!!!!!
Jesse Ventura was a Navy Seal. He was also a professional wrestler, and he became the governor of Minnesota as an independent! Jesse had a show on TruTV called Conspiracy Theory, and he was a regular on RT. He said that government agents came to interview him after he won the governor's race. "How'd you do?" they wanted to know. Weird stuff! But I believe it! With all of his experience, Jesse talked about interrogation techniques. This is stuff they used in Vietnam! If they're pulling your fingernails out and demanding answers, you'll blurt something out even if it's not true, and it doesn't make sense. "I'm the archduke of Madagascar!!!!" That sort of thing! When I was locked up in jail, I screamed that I was in the CIA!!!! I had no idea where this voice came from! I was pushed to my limits, and that's what came out.
Los Angeles County had it's main, old jail in LA Proper. It's grimy, and it's like a dungeon. The bars still operated mechanically, and it had different sections. There were cells for individual inmates. They called this "Million Dollar Row" and that's where I was at the beginning. This place, though it's for individual inmates, is different than The Hole. The Hole is where they send you to penalize you. Million Dollar Row is where they kept inmates with absurd bail amounts. I was one of them! I don't know why! I'll never know why! I went to a liberal college, and that was my only guess. If you look at these cells from the outside, they form two L's, one upright and the other upside down. It's like Tetris so there's inmates sleeping above and below each other separated by a thin wall. There's graffiti all over the place, and there are rats. I didn't see the rats, but everybody said they lived there.
I bounced around. I also stayed in two-man and six-man cells. Then, they moved me to a satellite jail near Magic Mountain in Castaic. There, the jail is newer. It's situated like a bee hive. The deputies are in the middle, and they oversee seventy-five-man cells in different directions. I stayed in high security there. There were 187s (those charged with murder) and regular guys who got DUIs. They also put me in medium security for a while, and the tone was much more loose. Finally, at the end of it all, they put me with the Crazies. These people had psych issues. They said I was bipolar because of how combative I was. That's what actually saved my ass with the deputy I headbutted. First of all, it wasn't clean contact. I merely grazed him, but I could've done more time. He wound up forgiving me. I had a 243b coming my way, but they changed it to a booking error. Why? Maybe the CIA intervened and they told them they better do it! I don't know. Now it seems silly, but at the time, it made sense to me and it really fucked with my head.
I did my time in LA County jail, and they set me up with a program on the way out. I forgot to mention that they tried to peg me with a felony at the beginning, but my lawyer plea bargained down to a misdemeanor. They wanted to send me to Patton Hospital! This is a place for the criminally insane! All this for protesting an Occupy gathering! Patton is only those with felony convictions, though, so the plea bargain knocked that avenue out. Either way, when I got released, I had to agree to spend time in a halfway house. The program was AB2439, and I spent time with people in my same circumstance. Not one of us thought of themselves as criminal, but somehow this is where it led.
So, I spent time online with Rod and Braden. We've had many conversations, but I never, ever went into detail about what life in jail was like. Rod and Braden wrote autobiographies, and I read here that Rod might do another. I'm game, man. I want to get the rest of this off my chest. This world kicks you to the curb, and it leaves you for dead! I was doing great in college, and I never saw this happening in my life. I bottled this in for many years out of fear of revenge. Also, I had to prove to family and friends that I wasn't crazy. Sure, they said I was bipolar, but I wasn't. I was just pissed at the System. I pity the docile Sheeple more than I pity myself.
Maniac Nebula was launched more than a decade ago. The stuff we said was conspiratorial in straight in your face, now! By "you", I mean the public. Mamdani wouldn't have been elected in New York if the relevance of the Occupy movement didn't still persist. We're still fighting greed. We're still fighting oligarchs. When I started serving time, I had too many (formerly) trusted people tell me that the cops wouldn't lie. I was probably doing something wrong. They weren't there, but they were preaching to me like they witnessed what was going on. Now? You see it everywhere. It's happening with ICE agents in cities across the country. They're smashing windows. They're beating up grandmas. They're zip-tying kids. It's fuckin' crazy, but I don't have to feel crazy any longer. We're all witnessing the same thing, right? And the revenge? The DOJ went after James Comey and Letitia James. That was pure revenge, and the charges were so weak that they got dropped. There are people I no longer talk to, but I hope they're seeing this. I hope they feel a little bad for treating me like I was some kind of fuck up for protesting absurd policies.
I like this site. I wanted to shout out to Brick Jayne and Liz besides Rod and Braden. Brick Jayne is a really good authoer, and Kiribati changed the way I look at society. Liz? I haven't seen her here yet, but she posted some of the better stuff at Maniac Nebula. I hope she joins this place.
Alrighty Then,
-- Angry Bird
formerly Impunity Bird, Jail Bird, and Little Bird