2008 Woodie Awards
Rooting Out Dissent
In past decades, civil disobedience had been at the core of the Harvard Law School experience. In the 2000s, however, such activism has gone out of style. It was refreshing, therefore, that the HLS chapter of Lambda sparked meaningful debate about the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy this week by imploring students to protest their presence on campus.…
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Government-sanctioned discrimination
While flying my helicopter over the Iraqi desert four years ago, I thought a lot about the state of our military and about the many decisions our government had made in recent years. One policy that I found particularly frustrating is Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT), which prohibits gays and lesbians who openly declare their sexual orientation from serving in the military.…
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Lambda protests are disrespectful browbeating
Any reasonable observer would note that this protest seems designed to fail to change either public opinion or the policy itself. Looking a little more closely, it seems like that doesn't matter. Maybe the point of this protest is to let a person browbeat a member of the military for 20 minutes. Is this protest? No. This is throwing spit wads. This is beneath us.…
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