Politics and Dissent - What A Long Strange Trip It's Been

" Don't fret precious I'm here Step away from the window And go back to sleep Safe from pain and truth and choice And other poison devils See they don't give a fuck about you like I do..."

"I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and all your demons I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and a voice of reason I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and your choices son They're one in the same I must isolate you Isolate and save you from yourself"

from Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums

Jump from 2004 to 2007 and it would seem that nothing has changed.

The faces elected to congress in 2006 promised much and have delivered little. Typical. Were you genuinely expecting things to be otherwise?

We were talking the other day about those qualities and things which make me "subversive." Aside from the fact that I know how to think, and we all know how that is discouraged in this knee-jerk conservative political climate or by any other political agenda for that matter.

I belong to Greenpeace, TED.com, subscribe to edge.org's newsletter. I have a copy of the Quran on my computer. I am an atheist. My daughter says more of an agnostic. Which ever, whatever. I suppose when you tell god to fuck off, it is an acknowledgment that deity does exist on some level. My daughter has turned her back on Christian dogma and rhetoric as well, preferring to label herself as pagan.

Politically, I am officially registered as "independent" simply because rational anarchist was not available as a category. Truthfully, it was more a ploy to keep the politicians from filling my mail box with dead trees at election time. I support Obama for president. I'm bisexual. My web browsing habits include international and noncommercial media outlets, piercing and tattoo sites, and on line sex shops. My Google searches alone are enough to have me flagged. LOL

I despise the entitlement mentality of the liberals and the militancy of the religious reich equally. I love my country but mistrust my government. I feel that the police are low-level civil servants entrusted with a disproportionate amount of power, and that lawyers are lower than whale shit. Insurance companies follow a close second.

I feel that taxes are too high, pedophiles should be executed rather than protected by our injustice system, and there should be a $15 per pair import tax on every pair of Nike (insert any other brand/company who uses legal third-world slavery) shoes brought into this country, with that tax doubling every six months until those companies either begin to treat foreign workers equitably or relocate back to the U.S.

Judges should not be political appointees or serve for life. Access to adequate health care is a right, not a privilege. Marriage licenses should be like your drivers license... renewable. And, perhaps if it cost more to get one, we just might see a drop in the divorce rate. Speaking of licenses... why is it I have to have a license to own a dog, but they'll let anyone have a child?

Subversive? Not hardly. But, I'm sure I'm in the data base somewhere. And probably so are you. Big brother is watching, after all.