2022 My Ballotpedia Questionnaire
MICHAEL ERNEST KERR
GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE FOR 2022 CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 10
MICHAEL KERR FOR CONGRESS WITH PEACE AND JUSTICE
“CENSORSHIP AND THE TRUTH ARE NOT COMPATIBLE”
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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign.
First Key Message* Military Industrial Complex control of media and the two main political parties and censorship of alternative information from their profit driven narratives.
Second Key Message* Our government and media are not treating climate change like the serious crisis it has become
Third Key Message* The Military Industrial Media Complex has split the country into extreme hatred between Republicans & Democrats despite both having similar basic needs and wants
What is your campaign slogan?
Censorship and Truth are not Compatible!
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What are your thoughts on term limits?
I think that we need to have a society that has equal access to all viewpoints! In other words, we need a truly informed public first. We also need an election system where money does not determine the views and opinions of candidate. At the moment money has a greater ability to elect candidates rather than one views and policy beliefs, so term limits would act to eventually eliminate progressive minded people.
What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?
We have a government and mainstream media under the control of the military-industrial-prison complex and a few hundred powerful and rich people who comprise the Deep State. They are real and too be feared.
The Deep State relentlessly promotes racial, religious, and social issues to divide, control and conquer us. The Republican and Democratic Parties along with the Corporate Media have become the Deep State tools to subvert us. Only when we understand this will we have a chance to unite and slay this demon that would willingly destroy us and the world for power and wealth.
With the Corporate Media long censoring opposing viewpoints of the government narrative on important issues, now we are seeing massive flagrant censorship in social media platforms at a level only seen in the most authoritative of governments.
I will be a bullhorn exposing the corruption in Congress, all our government agencies and in the corporate world!
Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?
It would be especially great if the elections were 100% publicly financed, so that representatives didn’t have to always find it necessary to be fund raising! Representatives could then be devoted 100% to doing the people’s business and run for reelection on the issues instead of raising money for self-serving promotions.
I will never accept campaign donations from corporations. I will only accept donations from individuals! If elected, I don’t intend to spend much time fundraising as I will let my actions and bullhorn on the issues speak for me!
What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?
I believe someone elected must keep in touch with his/her constituents. I believe one must keep their constituents informed about the issues of the day and what is happening in congress. I believe one must be attentive to the problems of constituents and determine if future legislation might be necessary or just guidance dealing with government bureaucracy. I believe one should not be afraid to speak out on controversial issues in fear of losing votes. I believe that one should listen to all sides, work toward compromise, but in the end be as decisive as possible about solutions that will benefit one’s constituents, people in general, our society and the world as a whole!
As there are many lobbyists vying for one’s attention especially from monied special interests, I believe that one should engage with representatives of all sides of an issue. I believe that a Representative should actively seek out those individuals and organizations of possible different views on issues. One should always seek the advice of trusted experts concerning issues and events.
I believe one should use his bullhorn when addressing important and especially controversial issues.
What is your most recent career to date?
Social Justice Advocate
Is there any other professional experience you would like voters to know about?
Restaurant Management -1 ½ years
Computer Technician – National Semi-Conductor -7 years
Self-Employed in Organic Gardening and Home Maintenance – 30 years
Managed Home with 5-9 Roommates – 25 years
Designed, Constructed and Managed Community Garden – 5years
Served on Boards: Our Revolution Contra Costa, Injured Workers United, Nuremberg Actions, Sunnyvale Renters Association, Bay Point Residence Association
What organizations are you affiliated with?
Currently most active with Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, and the Oscar Grant Committee.
What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?
I have been a Peace and Social Justice Advocate most all of my adult life. This has been my vocation, my purpose in life. I have never been paid for my vocation. I have contributed my own money and time to my vocation. I have primarily acted independently, but often in coordination with other groups or organizations. I have been official members of some groups, but also so closely active with some that I would qualify as an active member.
I am a problem solver and always try to engage in active research and study before taking a position especially concerning controversial issues. Yet my positions are always open to change based on new information and facts.
I will be a bullhorn in exposing corruption in congress, all our government agencies and in our corporate world! I aways do my best toward creating a better world for people and all living things!
Who are you? Tell us about yourself in 200 words or less
I have been a Peace and Social Justice Advocate most all of my adult life. This has been my vocation, my purpose in life. I have never been paid for my vocation. I have contributed my own money and time to my vocation. I have primarily acted independently, but often in coordination with other groups or organizations. I have been official members of some groups, but also so closely active with some that I would qualify as an active member.
My activist days actually began in earnest when I was the last of the draftees in October 1972. After training, I was assigned to the U.S. Army Signal Corp in South Korea. After a year of research, I started sending letters to Congress and President Gerald Ford complaining of the U.S. support of the Park Chong Hee dictatorship. My letters were usually signed by 5-6 other soldiers. On my 4-page letter to the President, I collected over 100 signatures from my base. in July 1975, I was abruptly and secretly removed from Korea by the U.S. Military command at the demands of the Korean Government.
I am agnostic and I respect all religions. I, however, find that most people do not really practice the most sacred values of their religions as to peace, loving thy neighbor and doing no harm to others. This is particularly evident in the way people blindly believe corporate media and then vote for government officials that promote war and violence, destroy the environment, and ignore the basic needs of the people for a fair and just life!
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
I am a 9/11 truther! Since the release of the 9/11 Commission report in 2005 which I consider a flat-out confession by my government, I have offered an unclaimed reward of $100,000 to the first person who can prove or at least demonstrate to my satisfaction that my government did not plan, manage, execute and cover-up the events around the September 11, 2001, attacks. My website is http://www.911reward.org.
I have been arrested over a dozen times protesting against the U.S. Drone Assassination program at either Beale AFB or Creech AFB for close to 10 years. These drone attacks have killed thousands of civilians, terrorized millions more in countries we are not at war. These drone attacks are in violation of our U.S. Constitution and International Law.
It is insane that the U.S. does not have Single Payer Medicare for All like most of the nations in the industrial developed world. Millions of Americans have died and tens of millions have suffered from the lack of affordable quality healthcare. Although Democrats have had total control of California for years and their platform calls for Medicare for All, the corporate beholden Democratic Party always finds a reason not to pass Medicare for All during the past ten years despite supposedly progressive Governors. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor, he twice vetoed in 2006 and 2008 the Democratic legislature passed Medicare for All bills.
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
These are the types of people I look up to as examples on how I should live my life!
All of the people mentioned below, including others I have either momentarily forgotten or have still to learn about, are people I look up to as role models because in their lives they have pursued peace, justice, human rights, the environment and the truth!
We have a government and mainstream media under the control of the military-industrial-prison complex and a few hundred powerful and rich people who comprise the Deep State. They are real and too be feared. They act to smear and frame those who might successfully oppose them. When that fails, they have orchestrated the deaths of outspoken leaders such as JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X. They attack, imprison, exterminate whistleblowers and activists like Paul Robeson, Karen Silkwood, S Brian Willson, Judi Bari, Mumia Abu Jamal, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Ralph Nader, among others. They conspire to keep or remove from political office those who would defy them publicly, such as Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Bernie Sanders.
I highly respect the many censored Journalist, Researchers and Activists for example: Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Glenn Greenwald, Richard Wolff, Rosa Parks, Jesse Ventura, John Pilger, Ray McGovern, Robert F Kennedy Jr., Media Benjamin, Richard Falk, Noam Chomsky, Jim Hightower, Norman Solomon, Benjamin Linder, Rachel Corrie, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Kim Chi Ha, Harvey Milk, Che Guevara, Medgar Evers, Eugene Victor “Gene” Debs, Steve Biko, Leonard Peltier, Cesar Chavez, Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ed Ashner, Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda, Richard Boyle, Óscar Romero and the many who have worked hard to expose the lies about 9/11 .
I also have had many personal activist friends over the years whom I greatly respect for their pursuits of peace, justice, human rights and the environment, whom I won’t mention because the list would be long but always incomplete. They know who they are and I thank them for being a part of my life’s journey!
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