{"id":24,"date":"2008-08-03T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertyunionparty.org\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-08-03T23:10:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T03:10:12","slug":"democracy-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Democracy? Where?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Paula Diamondstone Newton &#038; Ian Diamondstone <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nDemocracy?<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Where?<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday there was a Gubernatorial Candidates Forum in Waitsfield and the public was invited. Peter Diamondstone of the LibertyUnion Party, with Major Party Status, tried to call the governor&#8217;s office and the organizers of the event so that he could fairly participate in the event but received no response.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nSo Sunday, he drove to the event to participate.Not only was he dragged off the stage but he was refused participation in the forum and then arrested for trespass at a PUBLIC FORUM. Due to the spectacle, the audience cheered when the candidate was taken away.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nI wonder how many of those people claim to believe in Democracy?<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nI wonder how many of those people would tell you that our system is not run by big money ONLY?<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nI wonder how many of those people in the audience claim to believe in freedom of speech and would claim that Vermont is a &#8220;liberal&#8221; State?<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nThink again.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nPaula Diamondstone Newton, Townshend, VT<br \/>\nIan Diamondstone Brattleboro, VT <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paula Diamondstone Newton &#038; Ian Diamondstone Democracy? Where? This past Sunday there was a Gubernatorial Candidates Forum in Waitsfield and the public was invited. Peter Diamondstone of the LibertyUnion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}