Oppose

OPPOSE, v.t. To assist with obstructions and objections.

How lonely he who thinks to vex

With badinage the Solemn Sex!

Of levity, Mere Man, beware;

None but the Grave deserve the Unfair.

Percy P. Orminder

2009 Update: To make a martyr or to make a satyr.

Half-man-half-beasts took up their seats

In the parliament of ancient Crete's

Under good King Minos' aegis.

The floor lay still, and what a thrill,

The King would sing in elden trill

"No law will e'er besiege us!

"So long as human source and rump of horse

Or goat-legs, with bull's heads, of course

Are joined two-in-one-creature-

The caucus lasts, and pretty fast

The opposition's votes are cast

Consensus "neighs"- a democratic feature!"

-Herodotus