Police arrested Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala, after they tried to enter the site of tonight’s presidential debate at the Hofstra University.
“Jill Stein, Cheri Honkala arrested, call tonight’s debate a “mockumentary”,” said a tweet posted on her account.
The presidential candidate and her vice-presidential nominee were arrested by local police when they tried to enter the grounds of Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York, Stein’s campaign website says. The women are currently still in police custody.
A video posted on YouTube shows police officers ushering Stein and Honkala away after they apparently tried to stage a sit-in.
The arrest comes after an announcement by the Green Party that the candidates will take “Occupy the Commission on Presidential Debates” action on the night of the debate.
“Stein and Honkala will walk from Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum at 2 PM to the debate perimeter at Hofstra, where they will then attempt to walk through security checkpoints and reach the debate hall,” read the release.
“This is a great day for democracy,” Stein told The Philadelphia Weekly by phone as she headed to the debate site. “It’s a great day for the politics of courage.” She said they’re attempting their stunt because fighting the exclusion of this debate is a “push-back against the stranglehold of the economic elite — and especially of this forum.”
The candidates claim that the Commission on Presidential Debates is an unfair entity formed by Democratic and Republican leaders designed to exclude any opposition.
Jill Stein is the Green Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. A Harvard-educated physician, she also stood for election for Governor of Massachusetts in both 2002 and 2010. A staple of her campaign is the “Green New Deal,” a plan to recharge the US by giving “every American willing and able to work” a job on renewable energy projects in the country. She is backed by American leftist icon Noam Chomsky and acclaimed journalist and harsh critic of unregulated capitalism Chris Hedges.
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The best thing what could happen to her and America. Because this is exactly what makes 1% is scary: political leaders-martyrs. Establishment like Hoffa’s story, not Gandhi, MLK, Kennedy.
I see patriots behind arrest: CIA, military, Tea Party, Ron Paul, even dems/reps.
This is great false flag. Dr Stein became world wide known person from evening to morning. Thats huge hit to establishment’s system in USA.
Put aside, how great she and GP is. Green Party is taking support from private donors only, not corporate world. Tell this to gringos. They will love her. As Ron Paul is out, follow Dr Stein. She is not Sarah or Hill @ all. Very respectfull and honest lady, with great knowledge about illneses of american society.