The Party Police

The Democratic and Republican national conventions have passed, but controversy surrounds how they were funded and how they were run. Mass arrests of peaceful protesters, excessive police violence, wholesale disregard for the Bill of Rights and the targeting and arrest of journalists marred what should have been celebrations of democracy. The "host committees," the legal entities that organize and pay for the conventions, act as large party slush funds, ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Goodman recounts the morass of corporate bribery and police violence that has become the national party conventions. She portrays it as a national disgrace. She has correctly identified a problem; who will identify a solution?

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