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To: Sea Otter who wrote (1173)	7/17/2008 4:11:55 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 3816

I like the quote, but think perhaps "oppress" goes a bit to far. Maybe not if you only consider the absolutely worse cases, or if your considering the most narrow of oppression to count, rather than only people across the country generally being oppressed by the action. I guess its largely a semantic issue about how unjust something has to be, and how firmly it has to be enforced, to amount to oppression. And of course there is the point that it would be the government oppressing people (even if on the behalf of some private interest), except in the rare cases where companies have effectively raised themselves to be the government over some area (perhaps the example of the British East India Company would apply here)

To: Sea Otter who wrote (1173)	7/22/2008 4:46:15 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 3816

Some people might say 'tough titties if you don't like it', but would that be politically correct? Tue Jul 22, 12:13 PM ET ATHENS (AFP) - An Athens court on Tuesday rejected a complaint by inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos who had wanted gay women to stop monopolising the term 'lesbian', a justice source said. The court ruled that the term "lesbian" does not define status and personality and therefore the islanders had no reason to complain that they felt personally slighted by its use. Three residents of the Aegean Sea island had filed a complaint in April, calling on the Greek Gay and Lesbian Community (OLKE), the country's main homosexual association, to drop the term. The verdict is open to appeal. Often referred to in Greece as Mytilene -- the name of Lesbos' capital -- the island was the home of the poet Sappho, who expressed her love of other women in lyric verses written in the early sixth century BC. Many locals are rankled by the fact that the resort of Eressos is a popular tourist destination for lesbians.