Harassment Allegations Against Thomas

What we are seeing in the Thomas situation is the airing of the tenets of “political correctness.” It is obvious to me that the underlying purpose of those who hysterically pursue laws that address “harassment” are in effect pursuing the control of speech in the work place.

When it becomes illegal for a man to ask a woman for a date, we will be controlling personal interaction by use of the strong arm of the state.

This nonobjective approach to law is probably the most dangerous event in American history. Last Wednesday night on PBS, a Harvard law professor commented that it was the “attitude” that determined the guilt or innocence of those accused of sexual harassment. When law is reduced to the interpretation of such things as “attitude of speech,” we have much to fear.

This irrational approach to law is one of the paramount reasons that government must consist of law made and enforced by reason rather than law by feelings, superstition or intuition about “attitude.” These people are not concerned about women. They only wish to “deconstruct” the logical base to our 200-year tradition of law founded on the procedures of logical evidence. It is indeed unfortunate, but the American people are just too dense to know the truth about the dangerous waters in which they so eagerly swim.

HUGH THOMAS, Granada Hills