State GOP convention similar to a police state

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By William Edward Samuels • September 19, 2008
At the Republican National Convention, all of Missouri's 58 delegates arrived pledged to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whom we had voted 2-1 against in the primary.

The Missouri Republican Party settled this at the state convention in Branson with the closest thing I have ever seen to a police state in America: a carnival of low testosterone Stalinism.

For the first time, I saw uniformed armed guards patrolling a Republican convention. They had the local sheriff's department, an unarmed but uniformed private agency, and even a biker gang. Brief cases, rucksacks, cameras and recording devices were barred.

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