Green Party Presidential Candidate Arrested Outside Debate Site
October 17th, 2012Via: Washington Post:
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested outside Long Island’s Hofstra University ahead of tonight’s debate.
After being denied entrance to the campus because they lacked credentials, the two candidates sat down in the street in front of the university with an American flag on their laps, the Long Island Report explains. They were led away by police officers after refusing to move.
Stein and Honkala objected to being excluded from the debate, saying they are on 85 percent of state ballots and should be part of the national discussion.
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Jill Stein did an interview on Democracy Now today.. she was handcuffed to a chair for 8 hours in a warehouse set up for protesters, even though it was only basically her and her VP candidate being watched by over a dozen cops. Beyond ridiculous, but par for the course in 21st century ‘Murica.
They kept her under arrest until the debate was over, then let her go.
Actually, DN! has been doing a pretty neat thing with third party candidates, playing the “official” presidential debates and pausing to give equal time to third party candidates.
They even brought on the Constitution Party guy to rant about immigrants for a while.