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      %OPPRESSION MINORITIES LIBERATION SLAVE CLASS+960428
       %SECOND PRIVACY INVASION FREE SPEECH MEETING 960428

     It will be helpful to agree on what are signs  of the
oppression  of  minorities  and  what  are  signs  of  the
liberation of minorities.

     Signs of Minority Oppression

     1.  Formally  sanctioned  laws   which  protect slave
owners  and  regulate the sale of slaves;   e.g.,   saying
formally that blacks may be captured,  sold and bought  as
slaves.

     2.  Formally sanctioned laws  which  relegate certain
classes of  people  to second class  citizenship where the
classification  has  to  do  with  race,   ethnic  origin,
religion, language, etc.

     3.  Informal  traditions  which  sanction  slavery or
second class citizenship status---in the absence of formal
laws prohibiting  slavery  and second class citizenship---
all  in  the presence of  informal  agreements  that  such
formal   laws   prohibiting  slavery  and   second   class
citizenship should not be passed.

     4.  Formally sanctioned laws  which  provide  for the
invasion   of  private  homes  and  settings  to  regulate
harmless private  behaviors which would never come to  the
attention  of  the  community  at large  apart  from  such
invasions of private homes and  settings.   (Here harmless
private behaviors are those  behaviors  in  which  none of
those  involved   feel oppressed,   overwhelmed,   harmed,
coerced,   violated or are in any way inclined  to  object
to.)

     5.  Some informal traditions  tacitly approve of  the
subtle  invasion of private homes and settings to  try  to
regulate  and/or  control harmless private  behaviors  ---
behaviors  which  would never come to the attention of the
community at  large  ---  apart from  invasions of private
homes   and  settings  in  the  absence  of  formal   laws
prohibiting  such  invasions.    Such informal  traditions
often function in the presence of informal agreements that
formal  laws prohibiting  such invasions  of private homes
and settings should not be passed.

     6.  Formal and/or  informal  traditions  under  which
minority groups are excluded from deliberations which lead
to the  development of formal and/or  informal  traditions
and/or  laws  which  put them  at  a  disadvantage.   Such
exclusion  may  entail  nothing  more  than  threats   and
intimidations  which chill open and honest descriptions of
experiences, feelings,  views,  beliefs,  ideals,  values,
ideas, hopes, aspirations and fears.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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