The Sum of All My Fears

     We are standing on a major tipping point in this country. The people have joined together in unison to protest that which is wrong with this country, and our Government is attacking us for it. With the recent injury of a Marine Vet at Occupy Oakland I'm forced to think of all that might now follow.

     In my mind I see one of two things happening, and it is the worst of these that I'm going to write about.

     If the Occupy Movement for one reason or another turns violent I can see the Corporate owned Republican Party using that to take the White House and keep their seats in Congress. If this happens we will see a full on police state the likes of which we could never imagine. The Patriot Act will most likely be expanded to the point of full on marshal law, and the Constitution will be forever lost. I can see another civil war rise up and send this country to ruin. But the resistance to this new Republican Corporate Theocracy will be cut down and used to make new laws to restricted or even abolish our freedoms all together. I know how this sounds, but if you look at the world and how it is currently moving you can see this as a real possibility.

     It is thoughts like this that make me so adamant about keeping the Occupy Movement non-violent. We can ill afford for the Republicans to take full control of our Government. Fore if it happens, the freedoms we are fighting to keep will be all but lost.

Guest Blog: I am...not alone.

This blog was written by my wife on her public Facebook page, Opinionated Wife of Mr Liberal OWL and she agreed to be a guest on this blog.

Yesterday Brony (an admin over at High on Quack) posted his 'Coming Out Day' statement. I thought, "what a great idea!" I can express my (almost) deepest darkest secret over here, where my open-minded friends will be all warm and fuzzy. I wouldn't dare reveal my REAL sexuality on my personal page...my professional networking would be dead. 

So, I thought, here I go, "I'm bisexual...well, except...and not really...." Ok, stop. I've gone through this my entire life. I don't know what I am, and because of this, I didn't know who I was either. Several weeks ago a friend of mine posted that she supported LGBTA. Someone asked what that meant, and she responded with an answer I knew well, but she continued. She said it should actually be "LGBTAQIA." At that point I learnd the meaning of 'intersexual' (the others I knew). I thought, "Well, I must be 'questioning' because I sure don't fit any of the others really." Then, Brony posted that he was 'pangendered.' Stranger and stranger...

I didn't know I could be anything other than male, female or androgenous. I guess I thought there were three categories and I had to pick one. Well, it just never fit. It didn't fit to the point that I couldn't even properly describe my gender identity or sexuality. For example, if you tell a heterosexual, biological male that he is essentially the same as a homosexual woman, he looks at you weird..ok, well Mr. Liberal does anyway. No, Mr. Liberal knows he's male. To me, this was a foreign concept. 

I was so confused that I assumed there must simply be a continuum on which everyone existed somewhere. I've debated with Mr. Liberal, my childhood (homosexual, biological male) best friend and even with Duck about whether anyone can truly be ONLY homosexual or ONLY heterosexual. It was my opinion that everyone was at least a little bit of both...kinda like Republicans and Democrats, few people agree 100% with either side. 

So, back to me...When Brony posted that he was pangendered, I Googled it. Interesting concept, "a person who cannot be labeled as either male or female, but as a third gender entirely" (or somethin close to that). We were getting closer...but more important, I was starting to realize that I was not alone. I have always used the best descriptions I knew, but my ignorance caused me much strife. 

As open minded as I am, I was ignorant enough to think that my life-long problem describing my gender and sexuality was unique...now I learn that I simply did not have the necessary vocabulary to even find others like me. How good it feels to know I am not alone!  I feel like shackles have been removed that I do not have to use those three traditional words anymore.

So, what am I? Eh, I don't know yet. I want to find the perfect words before labeling myself again. All I know is, I am not alone. :)

UPDATE: I wrote this last night and almost posted it. Then, I freaked. Mr. Liberal was in bed and I didn't know how he would react. I mean, I know he's extremely liberal and he accepts all gender and sexuality identities as 'normal.' However, I realize that things could be different when they hit home. He knows I've identified myself as both 'bisexual' and 'a lesbian who fell in love with a man.' He knows that I always dreamed as a man until I met him. He knows I'm masculine...but how would he feel when I told him I may not actually be 100% female? I mean, what if he just isn't attracted to someone who is pangendered or two-spirited or whatever I might be...

His response: "I love you for you. I love all of you. I have always known you weren't simply female. Just because you didn't label it doesn't mean I couldn't recognize it. I will always love you for what you are, regardless of how you label it." 

I cried. (I don't do that often. :)

Mrs. Liberal

The Invasion within the Occupy Movement

Since the Occupy Movement has spread worldwide I have noticed one particular political group who has been trying to, and in some cases been successful at turning some of the Occupy branches into one-sided political platforms. Some of you already know what I mean.

From what I've read and participated in with Occupy, it's supposed to be a leaderless movement where everyone gets a say and they only move in a direction when all are in agreement. With some Occupy groups however, that is not the case. I went to one of the local "Occupy" protests recently and saw it being overtaken by none other than a group of Libertarians. Can someone please tell me what the hell Libertarians are doing in a movement that goes against everything they stand for? We have all heard, whether we wanted to or not, Ron "Corporations will police themselves" Paul say time and time again that Government has no place telling businesses what to do whatsoever. And seeing as how I have yet to see one Libertarian disagree with Ron Paul on this or any other issue, I'm forced to ask "What the hell are they doing here?"

Well, if you Google Occupy Wall St, Libertarians or Libertarian Occupy, you will find a million Libertarians asking how they can infiltrate and take over the movement and use it as a tool to further their own agenda. In case you don't believe me I've posted some links from my search at the end of this article. The YouTube video might make you sick though, especially the description.

I know Occupy is about people from all walks of life and politics coming together to try and fix our broken money driven system, but I wish like hell the Libertarians would just stay the hell out of it and stop trying to twist Occupy into a tool to bring about their view of America as their Utopia. And by Utopia I mean an even worse system in place than we have now or could even fathom.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6jbcq7i6g

http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2011/10/5/a-message-to-occupy-wall-street.html

http://www.libertariantoday.com/

And these are just some of what's out on the web, imagine this kind of stuff being said in person.