by Ralph Nader http://www.votenader.com/contact/index.php(unverified)
02 Aug 2004
The Democratic Party-Party Convention is over, and its singular memory will be its predictable banality and the commercialism that mostly financed it.
Historically, conventions were newsworthy because there was a struggle over who would receive the nomination and what the Parties would stand for in their platforms.
Today, there is a coronation for the nominee and inquiries about what would be on the menus of the 250 parties that corporations and their smooth-tongued lobbyists were throwing for their favorably-positioned congressional bigwigs.
This is the most important, censored news story of our time. We must work to close ALL U S bases on foreign soil. We must begin by closing the Base at Diego Garcia.
The DNC’s “free speech” cage in Boston was a shameful thing, but it shows how we can expect a President Kerry to respond to protest if he wins in November