On August 1, Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, was arrested by Philadelphia police. She had been protesting outside the Fannie Mae office, a protest against certain evictions. See this story.
On August 1, Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, was arrested by Philadelphia police. She had been protesting outside the Fannie Mae office, a protest against certain evictions. See this story.
Anyone who runs for president should act presidential. Breaking laws and getting arrested is not presidential. I don’t care what her reasons for protesting were; her getting arrested puts the Green Party in a bad light.
Good for her.
My grandfathers would always brag that the first vote they cast for President was for Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs while he was in a prison cell. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is one of the seminal documents of our democracy, as its predecessor, Henry David Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government” (“On Civil Disobedience”). Getting arrested for protesting injustice is the most American thing a presidential candidate can do.
#1, I don’t agree. Many heroic figures have not only been arrested, they have served lengthy prison terms.
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” – Oscar Wilde
Since she is virtually unknown, if it puts her in the newspapers its good for her campaign.
God bless Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala! I am so proud of them. This just makes me want to work that harder for the Green Party national ticket as well as Green and other progressive alternative candidates down ballot.