My 2022 ivoter Guide 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”
Right to Life
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Strongly Disagree: Planned Parenthood provides many other vital health services. I believe that Roe vs Wade was among the most well thought out Supreme Court Decisions concerning a controversial subject ever. Why did the Democratic Party under President Obama not move to codify that court decision into law? The Hyde Amendment punishes poor women financially as to obtaining abortions! The Republican Party leadership is hypocritical when they denied social help to raise children & demanded control of their body during Covid.
I support ‘aid in dying’ laws which legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Agree: The laws should be written as to protect and safeguard the patient and other’s interests including society concerning these medical procedures! I belief I need further research and analysis of this issue!
Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
I believe that Roe vs Wade was among the most well thought out Supreme Court Decisions concerning a controversial subject ever. This court decision is supported by a significant majority of the population and should have been put into law long ago! Certainly, to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to full term is totally obscene in the case of a rape, when her health would be in danger, or the child is seriously deformed and not likely to survive! During the first trimester is when most women first become aware that they are pregnant, and it is quite reasonable that they have the right to decide then about carry the pregnancy to full term. For the court to overturn any part of the Roe vs. Wade decision, just demonstrates how politicalized the court has become. Republican attempts to overturn Roe vs. Wade by passing a multitude of state laws restricting abortion further and further is as corrupt as it gets and is an unconstitutional attempt to make a few people’s religion beliefs part of the law of the land that would force all to follow.
Economy
Redistribution of income is needed to lessen the gap between the wealthy and working classes.
Strongly Agree: Without going into details, I want a guaranteed livable income for all American citizens and tax the rich whatever it takes to make it happen! We need to tax billionaires out of existence by a 99 % max progressive tax rate without loopholes and a 25% yearly wealth tax on the wealthiest. Social Security and SSI benefits should not be lower than the 40hr state minimum wage by taxing all income and capital gains! End the wealthy control over how our tax money is spent!
The government should cut spending in order to reduce the national debt.
Disagree: The government needs to seriously reduce the massive waste in our military budget and use those resources to better the lives of its people at home. We need a much smaller military with far fewer military bases in some 100 countries.
What changes, if any, should be made to the tax code?
Without going into details, I want a guaranteed livable income for all American citizens and tax the rich whatever it takes to make it happen! We need to tax billionaires out of existence by a 99 % max progressive tax rate without loopholes and a 25% yearly wealth tax on the wealthiest. Social Security and SSI benefits should not be lower than the 40hr state minimum wage by taxing all income and capital gains!
Religious Liberty
Religious liberty is at risk in the United States and deserves the highest level of protection in the law.
Disagree: I don’t think religious liberty is at risk, in fact a significant portion of the public think their religious beliefs should take prevalence in society.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Agree: I strongly agree as to businesses, their employees and independent contract workers being required to provide advertised services to everyone equally. services. Individuals hiring themselves
What should be the relationship between the church and the state?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” – The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The five freedoms it protects: speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. Together, these five guaranteed freedoms have made the people of the United States of America among the freest in the world. Over the course of many years and court rulings, when these rights overlap or are in conflict with each other, then society as a whole has accepted that certain restrictions have become necessary. In practice there has been an increasing infringement on the right of free speech and assembly that are not in the benefit of society. At the same time there has been an increase in the rights of religious freedom in conflict with the needs of a fair and equitable society for all. We need to keep an ever-observant watch on clashes between the rights of different individuals and the rights of society as a whole.
Healthcare
Under what circumstances (if any) should a government, school, or employer be allowed to require vaccinations?
There may be a circumstance, but it should never have happened during the current Covid-19 situation. Covid was a serious health risk only to those with multiple comorbidities.
95% or more people either never suffered any symptoms or only mild cold flu symptoms. The CDC director a few months ago stated that 75% of those who have died with Covid virus association had 4 or more comorbidities. How many died with 3; with 2; with 1.
People were mandated to take experimental unproven vaccines in violation of the Nuremberg Medical Code established after the trials of medical personnel at the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi after WWII. There were some unusually rapid approvals of several of the mRNA vaccines.
However, the approved vaccines have never been distributed. The vaccine manufacturers were allowed by CDC to first deplete their large stock of the experimental vaccines. The manufacturers are in no rush to provide the approved vaccine which they are liable for adverse effects, while their experimental vaccines are immune from liability.
Meanwhile the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) released recent reports of 1,217,333 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,699 deaths and 217,301 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 1, 2022. This is about a 1000% increase in adverse reaction from all vaccines in each of the previous 10 years. Data experts also claim that less the 10% of adverse reactions to vaccines ever get officially reported. Yet CDC and media keeps claiming these vaccines are safe.
CDC’s own data states that death or serious injury of anyone under 19 is almost nonexistent even with no acknowledgement that those few who have suffered have also had serious comorbidities. Based on CDC data and experts, my firm opinion is that any mandated Covid vaccines for children has been a crime against humanity.
There is no proof that the vaccines really helped people concerning Covid. The number of deaths associated with Covid in the U.S. increased in 2021 (even after large numbers of people became vaccinated) from 2020 (when there was no vaccines). With many unvaccinated people prevented from working, using many public facilities, or attending public events and an increasing number of vaccinated people who were allowed to gather at same time, the vaccinated people were the prime spreader of Covid.
In fact, the vaccine manufacturers and the CDC have finally admitted that the vaccines were never able to prevent Covid or its spread despites claims otherwise. The mean age of those dying from Covid was over 80 about the same as normal life expectancy in the U.S. Again, most people died from Covid were elderly suffering from multiple comorbidities and among the first to be vaccinated.
Are the vaccines safe? I say NO! To date, the vaccine manufacturers have refused to release the complete data on their vaccine ingredients which the government and public have paid them to make while there have been reports of the toxic Graphene Oxide found in the vaccines. About 81% of COVID-19 deaths hit ages 65 and older in 2020 but fell to 69% in 2021. The deaths among people under 45 in 2021 have been more than double the deaths in that age group from 2020. This despite the latter part of the year when the dominate less virent Omicron variant was controlling. A major difference in the significant lowering of the age for deaths must be the vaccine themselves.
The vaccines have been so poor that not only were two required of Pfizer but at least two more boosters were highly recommended in one year despite dwindling time of efficacy for each one. Data seems to show that the more vaccines you get the worse your outcome in dealing with Covid.
Natural immunity from having had Covid has proven to be much better than repeated vaccines.
The vaccine manufacturers and others have made billions while many people have been financially devastated by lock downs, closed businesses, closed schools and losing their employment by refusing to be vaccinated.
The government and corporate media have relentlessly attacked the unvaccinated creating an atmosphere in society that the unvaccinated are subhuman. None of this was necessary or should have happened.
Censorship of anybody including experts with a different narrative on Covid has been overwhelming. Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology states that scientific censorship is running rampant in medical journals. Data on repurposing existing drugs to treat COVID-19 is being blocked, rejected, and buried. Scientific journals depend on revenue from selling journal reprints to pharmaceutical companies — major financial motivation to print only research that’s favorable to the pharmaceutical industry. Rampant lawlessness, in which rules and regulations about bioethics are being completely disregarded, has taken over.
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes “universal healthcare,” “medicare for all,” etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D)Tax-payer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be de-funded.
Healthcare should be a guaranteed right of all people. Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government as in “universal healthcare,” or “medicare for all”. As we have seen with covid and other diseases it only makes sense to cover everybody in the U.S. regardless of their immigration or visitor status.
Medicare for All exists in a variety of forms across the industrial nations of the world. We thus should be able to create the best Medicare for All in the world! 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 Democratic Governors. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor, he twice vetoed in 2006 and 2008 the only Democratic legislative Medicare for All bill ever passed in California. Despite increasing Democratic control in California where Republicans effectively have no say, Democrats continue to refuse to pass Medicare for All despite overwhelming support among the public.
Because of how poor our current profit driven insurance driven healthcare has been, we should expect some initial increased costs caring for people that have long been neglected. As everyone first starts getting the complete affordable healthcare that have been denied in the past, overall healthcare costs will go down gradually in future years.
With the government covering all of Medicare for All costs, the government would have a tremendous incentive to make all our lives safer in the products we buy, the food we eat, in promoting lifelong healthcare, in creating safer work and living environments, in a less toxic environment in our air, water and ground and more.
I have heard many great ideas on how Medicare for All would pay for itself. I would like to offer an additional way that I have never heard mentioned. The top 25 products or services that are shown to cause adverse medical conditions in people, should be charged a surcharge to cover those medical costs. For example, if car accidents cause several $billion in health costs each year, then the that cost over the average life of the car should be added to the manufacturing cost of the car. This would help the government in covering healthcare costs from car accidents. This shouldn’t add significant costs to the car manufacturer but would save the taxpayers significant in paying for Medicare for All. There would be additional incentive for car manufacturers to make safer vehicles!
National Security
With regard to America’s foreign policy, which view most closely resembles yours: A) The United States should intervene whenever freedom is threatened. B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny. C) The United States has become too involved in others’ policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.
We did not heed President Eisenhower’s parting words about the dangers of an increasing Military industrial complex in the U.S. We now have a Military-Industrial-Prison-Media complex that totally controls our government, both major political parties, corporate media and almost every aspect of our lives!
The U.S. Government has no history since WWII of helping any nation to promote democracy outside of some of WWII devastated European nations and Japan.
The U.S needs to drastically reduce its military budget and close most of the 800 some military bases across the globe.
The U.S. foreign policy and aid should only be for improving the lives of the citizens of foreign nations.
The U.S. needs to stop becoming the world’s largest weapons manufacturer and distributor! That’s our tax money being wasted to kill other people rather than make our lives better at home. We should act to discourage other nations that have joined us to distributing weapons all across the world.
Before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King boldly stated that the U.S. had become the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I say it has only gotten much worse. If we want a better world, we need to make the U.S. the greatest purveyor of Peace & Justice in the World ASAP. We are all doomed if we don’t do this!
I support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, remove the separation barrier in the West Bank, allow full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees.
Strongly Agree: The U.S. needs to take the lead on ending Israel’s block aid of goods into Gaza, if necessary, by military escort of ships trying to unload in Gaza. No further aid should be given Israel until they tear down all the wall barriers in the West Bank and the U.N. and various humanitarian groups can certify that Palestinians are being treated humanely and fairly. The U.S. & U.N. should help Israel to reintegrate Palestinians into Israel society and stop blocking U.N. actions concerning Israel.
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Strongly Disagree: The climate catastrophe rapidly approaching the world requires a WWII like 100% response that must involve all nations especially China & Russia. There is no sanity in creating any kind of conflict with two smaller but still military powerful nations if civilization and the world are to be saved!
What should the United States do to help eradicate the threat of Islamic terrorism?
Investigate the 9/11 attacks as it was clearly an inside job. Severely punish those in our government that have been responsible by ratifying the U.S. acceptance of the international Court and help the prosecution these traitors as many were pardoned by President Obama when he took office as President.
Apologize for all the wars, lives lost and damage we have caused the people of the greater Middle East nations and paid serious reparations to rebuild and compensate all that we have done wrong these past 21 years.
I have since 2005, after the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, offered $100K in reward to anyone who can prove or demonstrate that our government with corporate media assistance was not involved in planning, implementing, and covering up the 9/11 attacks. Absolutely, nothing is true about the government’s narrative on the 9/11 attacks. http://www.911Reward.org
Immigration
The U.S. should do more to physically secure the southern border.
Strongly Disagree: The increased security at the border has only increased the dangers and deaths of thousands of people desperate to leave their family, friends and homes!
Rather than all this massive security, along with its costs to taxpayers and to those trying to come to the U.S., we need to use our foreign aid to help create better democracy and lives for people through peaceful means rather than through military aid and installation of dictatorships. Our militaristic foreign aid is the problem right now!
State and federal funds shall be denied to any public or private entity, such as a sanctuary city, that is not in compliance with immigration laws.
Strongly Disagree: Sanctuary Cities are one of the only humane aspects of U.S. foreign policy!
Who should be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and under what circumstances?
All of the DACA people certainly should be allowed to remain in the U.S. Until U.S. foreign policy improves, people fleeing oppression and economic disaster should all be considered fairly and justly as to their rights to immigrate. We need to follow international law concerning those asking for refugee status. The U.S. needs a comprehensive immigration policy that has long been delayed. A yearly work visa could be created where after 10 months an immigrant must leave the U.S. for at least 2 months after a 10 month stay. This visa could be renewed indefinitely for people not committing serious felonies. These work entry visas would officially allow immigrants to work in the U.S. at any job and would be independent of employers. All these workers would have to work under the IRS tax system with special SS equivalent numbers.
Values
Sexual orientation and gender identity should be protected classes in non-discrimination laws.
Strongly Agree
I agree with Critical Race Theory (CRT) which asserts that the institutions in the United States are fundamentally racist.
Agree
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
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 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!
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 Karen Silkwood, 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 since 2015.
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 and all our government agencies! My purpose in life is to help make the world a better place for everyone and every living creature.
In closing, I would prefer people use critical thinking in looking closer at the issues I am highlighting in my website and campaign. Rather than win any election, I would love to see people finally vote based on the issues rather than blindly supporting Democrat or Republican candidates. Both Parties are owned by the Deep State. If a candidate is financed by corporate big money interests, you need to be very concern about whose interests they will promote. It probably won’t be yours!
Elections and Voting
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Agree
What laws would you propose to change present voting practices?
First, we need to reinstate an even stronger and more comprehensive Fairness Doctrine that was eliminated in the early eighties! The public needs to hear and learn a variety of opinions in order to be a responsible voter on the issues and candidates. Only, then can we have an educated population where all adult citizens can be automatically registered to vote. Without the Fairness Doctrine we have become a polarized nation where people feel forced to vote for one or another of the two major political parties which represent the deep hate filled split in our population. There is no longer much voting on the merits of candidates and their viewpoints since the Fairness Doctrine was eliminated! Without an educated population charismatic popular name recognized authoritative demigods are more likely to win elections
No state or federal laws should be allowed that prevent, discourage, or hinder the right of adult citizens to vote. Laws should only be enacted to encourage more voter participation not less. I believe 16-year-olds should be allowed to vote. Youth studying and participating in elections while in high school would help create a more engaged and educated future electorate.
We need to get big money out of our elections. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United was a disaster for honest elections. Barring changing the court decision, publicly financed candidates should be given enough funding to neutralize the advantage of big money sponsored candidates then might run against.
Likewise, we need an election system that encourages and promotes third party participation. The two major parties along with corporate media have made third parties almost irrelevant if not extinct in many places! The electoral college should be abolished or neutralized as is being attempted in getting enough states to pledge all their delegates to the popular vote winner in Presidential elections.
Race Relations
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Agree: Reparations should be given based on the level of oppression that is ongoing and in the past. Most oppression has been based on race! Reparations are best determined by those of the oppressed group and in consideration of society as a whole. I tend to lean more to a societal reparation where those in need receive special help whether it be in education, housing, health, business opportunity or general living conditions!
Is racism a threat to domestic security in the United States? Why or why not?
Certainly, there are racist elements in the discourse and laws enacted by Republican leadership. The country is currently severely polarized and deeply divided. Racism seems to be a significant if not the only reason splitting our nation in two.
Energy & Environment
I support the use of hydraulic fracking to extract oil and natural gas resources.
Strongly Disagree
Which comes closest to your view? A) Stricter environmental laws and regulations cost too many jobs and hurt the economy. B) Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost.
Stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost. I believe the rapidly pending climate catastrophe demands we deal with the issue with a global effort that is similar to the efforts that went into fighting WWII by nations!
Qualifications
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Very Liberal
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
I believe my answers to the iVoterguide besides my website covers any validation required!
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized in either civil or criminal court for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
No
What else would you like voters to know about you, including your legislative priorities?
I intend to continue to be a bullhorn on progressive issues win or lose this any future elections. I will also research issues that the government and corporate media actively censor and hopefully I will discover what they are hiding! It is usually something very negative as to people and society!
Criminal Justice
Police officers should be personally immune from prosecution for conduct consistent with departmental policy (qualified immunity) while on duty.
Strongly Disagree: I am a member of the Oscar Grant Committee. We fully support the prosecution of police who have committed unnecessary violence against people they have interacted. The police should be highly trained in deescalating situations not turning them into an excuse to use violence often fatally in many cases.
I support redirecting funds from police departments to mental health and community programs.
Strongly Agree: The police have shown themselves to be total incapable of positive interaction with those they interact with who have mental problems or episodes. Highly trained unarmed social workers should be first responders to situations of mental crisis. If it is determined by these social workers that armed police might be necessary at the scene, the police should still be under the direction of the social worker as to helping deescalate the situation.
2nd Amendment
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
We have many restrictions concerning the training and use of motor vehicles. There is no excuse for not having safety restriction on the ownership and use of guns.
Expanded gun purchase background checks with no exceptions for private, gun shows or dealers to sell a weapon. A license and certified training should be required. No one with a violent felony should be allowed to own a gun. All guns should have an ID number that is recorded and submitted if sold. Would be purchasers of guns should be required to be certified as mentally competent and otherwise allowed to own a gun. Possession, creation or distribution of Ghost guns should be a felony. Parents are criminally and financially responsible for the possession and use of firearms by their children.
I would favor not allowing open carry of weapons unless approved for a specific place and time! Assault weapons ownership should be illegal except by certified collectors. All firearms should have safety mechanism that prevents young children from firing it accidentally.
Victims of gun violence should be able to sue firearms dealers and manufacturers.
Agree
Background
Education
- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, None, 1967-1972
- Heald College, San Francisco, AS, 1977
Work & Military
- U.S. Army Signal Corp, E-5, 3
Affiliations
- Veterans for Peace, Member
- Code Pink, Member
- Oscar Grant Committee, Member
- Diablo Greens, Member
- Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center, Member
- Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) of Bay Point, Member
- Our Revolution Contra Costa, Founder, Former Board Member
- Ambrose Community Garden, Founder & Former Manager
- Bay Point Residence Association, Former Board Member
- Injured Workers United, Former Board Member
Offices
- None
- Sunnyvale City Council, Sought 1985
- 2020 CA Congressional District 11, Sought 2020
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