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From: barry levine
Date: Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:12 PM
Subject: re: How to Really End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:12 PM
Subject: re: How to Really End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
If, as mr. Dellinger implies, our Department of Justice is motivated to appeal the court's rejection of DADT by a zeal to execute the will of Congress, other expectations follow. The Congress of the U.S. has ratified,e.g. treaties obliging us to prosecute or extradite those who torture. Why does our Department of Justice leap to enforce one law, but not the other? Are we really to believe that enforcing the bigotry of some individuals in our Armed Forces is a value greater than protecting human dignity and human lives? It seems that Justice is not blind to political calculation.
Barry Levine
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