On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Chris Caldwell wrote in his current NY Press column:
>
> >On the other hand, the President
> >was in danger of impeachment because he himself had signed a
> >Violence Against Women Act that was an outrage to freedom worthy of
> >the Khmer Rouge. And not just signed it-crowed about it, and
> >belittled those who raised libertarian objections to it. Under the
> >act's feminist-dictated terms, any woman suing a man for the
> >nebulous "crime" of sexual harassment was entitled to demand under
> >oath his entire sexual curriculum vitae. And that's just what Paula
> >Jones did.
Yes, but that's not what led to impeachment charges. That came from the illegal leaking of the grand jury testimony, which was then made into trumped up perjury case. None of that has anything to do with the sexual harassment law, whatever its merits or demerits. Application of the sexual harrassment laws, even bent to their extreme and aided by several nearly unique perversions (including another VSOP Supreme Court decision, and a rare confluence of celebrity and national politics and massed enemy funds) were insufficient in themselves to make anything stick.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com