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convention's security staff, because they were there to enforce a very strict caste system of entrance privileges. We all had color-coded passes that we wore around our neck, and security was tight. White passes allowed us onto the grounds of the convention, yellow into the arena, green into the seating areas, purple into the hospitality suites and so forth. This was necessary of course. This was the first convention since the Oklahoma bombing, since Ted Kazinsky, the alleged unibomber was apprehended, and since the World Trade Center incident. I am happy that both conventions concluded safely. After all, each convention gathered quite a combination of federal workers, advanced technology, and people of power in the American government into one small area; and these are the entities that have incurred so much hostility over the last few years.
The advanced technology available at the convention did impress me. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic News Service provided the Democratic candidates with facilities that allowed me to send a satellite interview to a local television station, conduct an extended Internet conversation, and send multiple radio actualities out to local radio stations in the 10th District. The Media Pavilion, where the DCCC was headquartered, was very impressive in itself, and probably an Alice-in-Wonderland experience for the Democratic political junkies that volunteered their time as convention staff. Five enormous white tents housed dozins of national publications, television networks, national radio stations, and
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