Presidential Candidates Arrested at Debates

h8macs writes "Third party Presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green) were arrested while attempting to enter the presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis."

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vote with your dollars.

[blind_abraxas]

It worked for Family Guy, it can work for POTUS! Stop watching the partisan media networks! They'll lose advertising dollars! Get the word out on the biggest megaphone around, the Internet!

Btw, I watched a Family Guy DVD marathon instead of the debates, and I consider myself more educated on the issues as a result.

Damn donkeys and retarded elephants.

Re:vote with your dollars.

[senor_burt]

Speaking of which, I loved the Family Guy line:

"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change" -Peter Griffin

...just says it all, really.

Why wasn't Bush arrested?

[BushCheneyCriminals]

Bush lied about Saddam presenting a clear and present danger to the United Stats. Then he incompetently started a war with absolutely no planning for postwar security. Without security American troops and Iraqi civilians are picked off and slaughtered every day.

This at least constitues criminal negligence that has resulted in death. That makes it manslaughter. At least 1000+ counts for the American troops alone.

Who cares who wins the election - Bush/Cheney shouldn't even be eligible. They should be awaiting trail instead.

Re:You couldn't make this up!

[LP Hyperactivist]

See previous postings on the subject of tax dollars, Washington U-STL and private property. The fact of the matter is that they were on a PUBLIC CITY STREET and were arested by CITY POLICE, not by campus rent-a-cops. A public street is by definition a public forum. You know, I see a few people who understand it here, but far too many idiots. To put it bluntly, your lack of real schooling is showing. what it comes down to is this: who can do things better, you or the government?, who is responsible for your actions, you or the government, and who can best make decisions for your own life, you or the government? The answer for libertarians all 3 times is YOU. The answer for everyone else is government. Answer the first one government and you are communist. Answer the second one government and you are a neo-con fascist. Answer the third one government and you are a neo-lib socialist. I got news for all of you--those don't work. So why do you insist on them anyway?

nutbags

[fw3]

"Ohh whoa is me" descry the possibly 3% of the people out there who might actually favor the Green or Libertarian candidate.

This pair of morons did a publicity stunt specifically intending to get arrested. Big deal.

Their arrest had *nothing whatever* to do with either constitutional free speech rights or election politics.

They attempted to trespass onto private property, and to force their way across a police line.

To the Greens and Libertarians:

Ok you're fucking desperate for attention. Big deal. The Green party *and* Nader are seriously discredited across the US for having handed the election to Bush. Most of Nader's goddamned funding is coming from the Republicans already.

I knew Libertarians were a bunch of goddamned windbags. They whine about theoretical 'solutions' to the political & governmental process which haven't a snowball's chance in hell of passing the electorate, which is the Acid Test in a democracy (remember?). This stunt is the sort of crap expected.

Plays great on /. ignored by everyone else.

Get a clue: When you're even 5% of the vote in a democracy you are *nothing*. You're not an interest block large enough to bargain for a paper bag to contain your crappy ideas.

Back to the *legal* context of these morons' arrests: They trespassed on private property and were duly arrested for that. End of story.

To all the locals whining about why it is that they're stuck with only a 2-party system:

On the one hand I suggest you go look at Italy and think on whether you really want a multitude of parties and the fucked-up coalition building that's part of that.

Second (and more important) --- the last *honorable* 3rd party candidate I can think of was John Anderson who had the guts to run as an independent against Reagan's voodoo economics. Since then we've had Perot who had a very specific axe to grind in getting Bush Sr unseated and had the money to buy his way into a campaign that could accomplish that. He like Nader in '00 was nothing but a spoiler who accomplished nothing but further poisoning thei political process.

Now if the Greens and Libs here actually have anything like the open minds that they might like us to think, I suggest they go find a copy of 'Going up river: The long war of John Kerry' which makes a pretty damned good case why he's not just another mainstream politician. (And why he's a far smarter *and effective* politician than Badnarik or Cobb).