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- Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 17th Sep, 2008 - 4:00pm
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Amy Goodman's New Column: "The Party Police"
Amy Goodman's New Column: "The Party Police"
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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, outside of campaign-finance restrictions. Scores of major corporations (and a couple of unions), barred from giving unlimited funds to political parties, could give whatever they wanted to the host committees of Denver and St. Paul, Minn. More
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