[lbo-talk] queer the Census

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 15:21:07 PST 2010


Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes:


> On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> Dear Doug,
>> But how can the survey accurately reflect and support the LGBT
>> community when there isn’t a single question on it that asks if you
>> are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender?
>
> There is another missing question, that also excludes another oppressed minority. Nowhere does it ask if you are a *corporation*, even though the Constitution requires that the census enumerate every "person" in the country, corporations being (according to the prevailing jurisprudence) persons with all the constitutional rights pertaining to any person. This omission, unlike the LGBT one, is likely to have the very serious effect of depriving one state--
> Delaware--of its due representation in the House of Representatives.
> Which would call into question the validity of all legislation passed
> by that Unconstitutionally Constituted body. All LBOsters from
> Delaware, corporate or natural, should get together *now* to bring a
> Federal lawsuit challenging their prospective (and continuing)
> underrepresentation.

The House of Representatives would be the *size* of Delaware.

-- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor



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