Crashing parties @ Brain-Wash-U:
"Are you willing to be arrested?"

On Oct. 5, 2004, that was the question posed to presidential candidate David Cobb when asked by Joshua Frank of dissedent voice. Contained within a review by the AP, you will find the story(one of few) of Libertarian AND Green party presidential candidates affirming this question in St. Louis Oct. 8, 2004, when crossing police barricades at the debate.

David Cobb had this to say from an alternate report from Progress.org. "The real crime is the corporate hijacking of our democracy. The corporations sponsoring these restricted, scripted and staged events, and their two-party accomplices, don’t want the American people to know about the choices they have in this election. Both Big Business and the duopoly don’t want you to hear voices calling for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, or for health care for every American citizen."

Michael Badnarik said, "I have the freedom of speech and they have no authority to barricade that", with an Order to show cause. He was earlier blocked by security guards at the CPD(Commission of presidential Debates) headquarters in Washington. In an earlier statement from his press office: "Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Party’s 2004 presidential nominee, will debate John Kerry and George W. Bush in St. Louis on Friday. Or he’ll go to jail instead."

There was an umbrella of protest also ensueing. Police were on hand to...keep the peace and police in riot gear where waiting in the wings. The real party however, was happening back on campus at "WASH-U", where students were eager to cath views of celebrities. "I saw Kerry’s daughter", said one freshman reported by St. Louis Today. Nobody likes party poopers.

http://badnarik.org
http://votecobb.com
http://stlouis.indymedia.org
http://portland.indymedia.org