{"id":2069,"date":"2004-10-09T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2004-10-09T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T14:59:00","slug":"making-democracy-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/10\/09\/10\/59\/making-democracy-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Democracy Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=Badnarik+debate+arrested&#038;btnG=Search+News\">tough story to find<\/a> because so little media are covering it. The second US Presidential debate held last nigth was funded by $2m of Arizona State taxpayer dollars. Apparently Arizona State law explicitly proevents public officials from spending money to promote any parties. The Libertarian Party obtained a <a href=\"http:\/\/badnarik.org\/supporters\/blog\/2004\/10\/08\/a-private-debate-with-public-funds\/\">court order for an injunction<\/a> to allow their candidate to particpate in the debate because to do otherwise would amount to an illegal subsidy for both the Democratic and the Republican parties. Basically, a free 90-minute campign advert.<\/p>\n<p>So what happened when Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate, turned up at the debate with his court papers and attempted to serve them? He got <a href=\"http:\/\/badnarik.org\/newsfromthetrail.php?p=1346\">arrested<\/a>, handcuffed, and locked up for the night. Oh, and the cops also banged up the Green Party candidate,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votecobb.org\/\">David Cobb<\/a>, as well for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy is safe yet again from troubling dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a tough story to find because so little media are covering it. The second US Presidential debate held last nigth was funded by $2m of Arizona State taxpayer dollars. Apparently Arizona State&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}