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...video camera, trying to prove that people were manipulating him with psychic messages. "It occurred to me that I was losing my mind, but it was only a fleeting thought," Williamson recalls. "I thought the whole mental-illness line of thought was just a trick designed to mislead and oppress...
...late 19th century, Henry Morrison Flagler and a few other characters of the Gilded Age decided that the harsh northern winters were severely cutting into their ability to oppress the northern masses year-round. Wearing all that wool, how could they be expected to exploit workers? Settling temporarily in northern Florida, Flagler and Co. moved farther south, eventually stumbling upon the small Barrier Island of Palm Beach. One hundred years later the island of Palm Beach is still where the mega-rich go to escape the grind of winter life in East Egg. Easily bored, they have gone...
...writing in response to Melissa Langsam's piece, "The Last Oppressed Minority" (Opinion, March 31), in which she parallels political intolerance for Republicans with the discrimination that historically persecuted sexual, ethnic and religious minorities have faced for centuries. She writes of "being in the closet" as a Republican while here at Harvard, comparing the historically homosexual hiding place with her own reticence about her political beliefs. Such a comparison is disingenuous at best, downright offensive at worst. Homosexuals have been actively discriminated against from the Holocaust to the Red Scare, and I am not aware of any such movements...
Bork's proposal is a frightening one, one that would mean the end of democracy in America. If the majority were given the power to interpret the Constitution, which is what this proposal amounts to, the only check on the people's power to oppress the minority would be eliminated. The justices and their judgments would be rendered impotent. The justices would be mere mouthpieces. We would do well to remember Madison's admonition in Federalist No. 47: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many...may justly...
...character of the opponents of the multicultural center. It was not a surprise to find that his column quickly degenerated into a series of mind-numbingly repetitive attacks against his favorite target, Peninsula "hacks." Substituting insults for arguments, Kaufman painted a bleak picture of a WASP establishment seeking to oppress the evernoble minority hordes...