Debate 'Crash' Attempt by 3rd Party Candidates TONITE!

"IT IS NOT TOO SOON FOR HONEST MEN TO REBEL ..."
LP Prez Candidate Badnarik: I will debate or be arrested

October 8, 2004
For Immediate Release
Contact: Stephen P. Gordon
Office: (512) 637-6867
Cell: (256) 227-8360
[email protected]

Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Party's 2004 presidential nominee, will
debate John Kerry and George W. Bush in St. Louis on Friday. Or he'll go to
jail instead.

"A majority of Americans say that I should be included in the events sponsored
by the Commission on Presidential Debates," says Badnarik, 50, of Austin,
Texas. "And the CPD, as a non-profit, has received special treatment from
government on the requirement that they be non-partisan in their activities. Bi-
partisan is not non-partisan.

"Unless I am allowed to participate, the debates become a massive campaign
contribution to two of the candidates, illegal under the very campaign finance
laws those two candidates have passed and signed as Senator and President."

At 8 p.m. on Friday evening, Badnarik, along with the demonstrators expected to
assemble in protest against his exclusion, will proceed to the police line
erected to keep himself and the other legitimate candidates out during
broadcast of the "bi-partisan campaign commercial."

And then he will cross it.

"We'd have preferred to see John Kerry and George Bush stand up like men to
debate the issues facing America," says Badnarik's communications director,
Stephen Gordon. "However, they have interposed the machinery of government
between the American people and the honest debate which must precede any honest
election. Now it's up to patriots like Michael Badnarik to force the issue." In
Arizona, the Libertarian Party is taking the state university to court to
prevent the expenditure of state money on a similar event.

Badnarik has previously debated David Cobb, the Green Party's candidate;
Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party; and Walt Brown of the Socialist
Party. Kerry and Bush, as well as Independent Ralph Nader, declined to
participate in those debates. He will proceed from a New York taping with Bill
Moyers to St. Louis, ready to take on the Republican and Democratic machines in
defense of American democracy.

[MoyersAppearanceBackground http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/message/23744 -tlp]

Voters in 48 states and the District of Columbia will be able to vote for
Badnarik on November 2nd. More than 600 Libertarians currently serve in public
office across the United States.
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Additional press information:

- The protest will proceed from Northmoor Park on Big Bend Ave., just south of
Washington University to the corner of Big Bend and Forsyth, where the police
line is expected to be arrayed. Badnarik's crossing onto the Washington
University campus will take place at that point, some time between 8 and 8:15 p.
m. Badnarik and Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb plan to cross
the police line together.

- The headline quote is from Thoreau, and intended to apply to the US
occupation of Iraq:

"In other words, when ... a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by
a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon
for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent
is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the
invading army." -- Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience



We must be FOR a brave love of

life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;

as it triumphs over the tyranny of fear!



-Terry Liberty Parker

see Liberty's Premise

at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/message/20500

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