Harassment Allegations Against Thomas
In response to “It Looks Like Principle, Smells of Politics,” by Tom Clancy, Commentary, Oct. 10:
Clancy conveniently overlooked the fact that neither Ted Kennedy nor William Kennedy Smith are nominees for the Supreme Court! The impact of the allegations against Smith are nowhere near as important (not to sugarcoat an alleged rape) to the future of this country as the allegations against Thomas.
And the fact that Clancy had to “nearly scream” at his woman friend to get her to go to law enforcement agencies to report sexual abuse just shows how afraid women are to speak out about it.
Clancy is confusing his macho fiction with cross-gender politics.
ALAN KIRK, Van Nuys
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