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!
The U.S. first started this war with its sponsored 2014 coup and with its promotion of Ukraine attacks on Eastern Ukraine along Russia’s border! The U.S. was eventually able to force Russia into an actual invasion of Ukraine!
With the breakup of the Soviet Union, it was agreed that Russia would fully support the reunification of Germany while the U.S. and NATO agreed not to expand NATO into the newly formed nations of the Soviet Union breakup! In fact, Russia looked forward to becoming a full partner in European society and economy! But the military-industrial complex controlling the U.S. government would have nothing of that as it saw massive profits in selling western military equipment to the newly formed NATO nations. Despite strong but peaceful complaints from Russia, NATO has gradually expanded over the years to the very borders of Russia. Then the U.S. and NATO set their sights on Ukraine. All one has to do is look at the geography of Ukraine and see that it is like a dagger into the heart of Russia. Ukraine has been the redline for Russia and its security for many years!
Then the U.S. sponsored and promoted a violent coup in 2014 to overthrow the elected president and government of Ukraine. This was because the elected Ukraine government did not want to abandon trade & association with Russian instead of joining the U.S./NATO economic system. Rather than allow elections to determine the internal affairs of Ukraine, the U.S. chose the “coup” weapon as it has done repeatedly in other nations! I was surprised at the Russian restraint when they did not come to the aid of the Ukraine government during the coup! They didn’t make that strategic mistake with Syria.
Immediately after the coup, Crimea voted overwhelming to join Russia while the eastern Dombas declared its own autonomy. For nearly 8 years Ukraine was encouraged to wage a war against the Dombas even ignoring A Minsk Peace agreement. The current President and former comedian Zelenskyy was overwhelmingly elected because he promised to bring peace, but quickly he capitulated to the heavily infiltrated neo-Nazi military units near Dombas and the fighting continued!
The U.S. and NATO’s continued militarization involvement in Ukraine was clearly crossing a red line for Russia as to its own national security. Russia tried to negotiate a satisfactory settlement for months. Russian demands were reasonable and in the spirit of real peace. No NATO membership, accept a NATO free militarization of Ukraine, stop harassing people of Crimea and Dombas!
Since the 2014 coup the U.S. has openly promoted military attacks on the Dombas and harassment of Russian Crimea. As the U.S. planned all along, finally Russia could not wait any longer and was forced to invade Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion the U.S. has viewed Ukraine as a proxy war to weaken Russia. The U.S. has encouraged the Ukraine leadership to fight Russia to the last Ukraine by supplying more and more lethal weapons.
To further weaken Russia, the U.S. has used the war to sanction and isolate Russia from Europe. However, China and much of the rest of the world has not gone along with U.S. sanctions and support of the Ukraine in its war efforts.
Much of the world, of course, has rallied to help the innocent war-ravaged Ukrainian people and demanded negotiations and peace settlements to end the war. Ukraine will never be the same! The U.S. has shown no interest in a peaceful conclusion to a war it intentionally set in motion! U.S. government response has been to escalate the destructiveness of the weapons it is sending to Ukraine forcing Russia to escalate its military offense in response!
U.S. policy seems to be willing to risk possible nuclear war and the end of all civilization rather than have any peace deal and end to the war! I am afraid the best result now will probably be a total split of Ukraine into two regions and perhaps an annexation of Eastern Ukraine into Russia. Look for the end result to be a massive military buildup on both sides of the new borders.
This never had to happen! As Martin Luther King said before his assassination, the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world! It has only become worse!
Research and years of experience have formed my opinions! I realize that I am not all knowing on everything, so of course, I will always be open to making alterations to any of my positions, but only if justified by facts and critical thinking analysis! I will not change my positions on issues to win a vote, get an endorsement or campaign funding!
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!
9/11 Attack
My Congressional Campaign Statement Absolutely nothing about the government/corporate media story is truth. The 9/11 attacks were planned, managed and covered-up by my government. Corporate media ownership joined in the cover-up. Since the release of the 9/11 Commission report, which I consider a confession, I have offered a $100K reward to the first person who can prove (even demonstrate) that the government didn’t do 9/11. More
Engineers and Architects Over 3500 Engineers and Architects have risked their professional reputation and sometimes jobs have signed petition demanding new independent investigation of 9/11 attacks, especially concerning the now proven demolition of the WTC 1 and 2 towers and WTC 7.
My Congressional Campaign Statement The Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision was an excellent compromise concerning a divisive issue. The Democratic Party has failed us in not making the Supreme Court’s excellent compromise in the Roe v. Wade decision into legislative law. That should be a priority in the future.
Why does the “Pro-Life” movement keep electing politicians who act as if the “Sanctity of Life Ends at Birth”. Social programs are often needed to guarantee the health and safety of mothers and children! Where is the Pro-Life in Pro-Life? Why do Pro-Choice people defend a woman’s right to control her own body and yet support a government policy that forces people to inject experimental vaccines into their body? Why do Pro-Life people want to force a woman to bear a pregnancy for 9 months yet scream against being forced to take a mandated vaccine that takes a minute? Lots of hypocrisy from both sides!
Assange, Julian
My Congressional Campaign Statement I demand that Julian Assange be freed immediately! Although he has done no wrong, in order to protect him from further oppression, I demand President Biden provide a full pardon! There needs to be significant reparations paid to Julian for all that he has been forced to suffer by England and the U.S. The attack on Julian has also been an attack on Wikileaks. The treatment of Assange and Wikileaks has been a grave threat to the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech and the press!
“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.” https://defendwikileaks.org/
Banking
Ban Payday Loans They often charge astronomical interest rates for short term loans which can trap low income into a never-ending struggle to survive financially. They should be banned and replace with low interest post office and community bank loan programs.
Breakup Big Banks Big Banks charge excessive fees and interest to middle and low income people while making special deals with the rich.. They promote loans to multi-national corporations for large infrastructure projects in smaller nations against the will of the local people. They take money out of local communities and give back little in return.
Cap Credit Card Interest Credit Card Interest rates are highway robbery, and they negatively affect the poor the most. Those who can’t make large payments so suffer years merely paying high interest. The interest rates should be fixed to the Fed’s prime rate at a much lower rate.
Community Banking Credit Unions and Community Banks provide reasonable financial service to most members of the community. They keep and invest the money in the local community.
Dodd-Frank Dodd-Frank should only be improved and enforced more. [The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank) is a United States federal law that was enacted on July 21, 2010.[1] The law overhauled financial regulation in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and it made changes affecting all federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every part of the nation’s financial services industry.]
Post Office Banking Would provide low-cost checking accounts to help replace the outrageous Payday loan centers.
Public Banking I support the California Public Banking Option Act (AB 1177) which has Passed the CA State Legislature.
We also have the opportunity now to build a new alternative banking system through locally-controlled socially and environmentally responsible public banks, enabling cities and counties to recapture public dollars and have a say over the financing of our own communities. Cities and counties hold billions of dollars of public money in Wall Street banks. Legally, these corporate banks own and control this money which they have used to finance harmful industries including: private prisons, immigrant detention centers, weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel pipelines, and other investments that prioritize corporate profit over the people and the planet. These too-big-too-fail banks are also engaged in risky and fraudulent practices that crashed the global economy in 2008. https://californiapublicbankingalliance.org/
Would help keep money in the community for home, business and vehicle purchases and loans.
Business
Breakup Monopolies Breakup monopolies! Monopolies enrich a few individuals at the expense of communities, workers and local small businesses. Example: Walmart and Amazon warehouses could be a number of individual businesses that supply (at same wholesale prices) all retail stores regardless of size in their region. Then there would be affordable priced local retail stores in every community.
End Corporate Welfare End tax breaks and subsidies to large corporations.
Stop Corporate Blackmail Prevent Corporations from blackmailing and pitting communities against each other for tax breaks and other perks.
Small Businesses First Eliminate unfunded bureaucratic legal paperwork on small businesses. Encourage public bank and credit union financing of small business.
Worker Cooperatives Encourage worker owned cooperatives! Allow workers first right to purchase companies being closed or moved along with public financing. Promote Cooperatives businesses!
California Democrats, the Fake Progressive Party
My Congressional Campaign Statement California has the wealth and knowledge to do the policies below. California is under total control of the Democratic Party, yet it has not implemented these policies for 12 years! One excuse after another!
Homelessness Haven’t done anything that actually solves the problem as it keeps getting worse. Homelessness is a complex, life-threatening problem. The Democrats could solve homelessness, but only if systems are designed to continually reduce and end it. Built for Zero. About 0.4% of Californians and people who live in the state (161,000) are homeless. California in 2017 had an oversized share of the nation’s homeless: 22%, for a state whose residents make up only 12% of the country’s total population. “Housing First” principle, a policy in which the government offers unconditional housing for all. To put this into perspective, cities that do not abide by the housing first principle usually want the homeless to meet certain conditions and criteria before being made eligible for permanent housing. An individual who is suffering from, for example, substance abuse, must first complete an intensive drug rehabilitation program before qualifying for public housing. Chronically homeless people cost the government a lot of money when they’re living on the street, because of services like emergency room visits and jail time.
Medicare for All Passed twice by the California legislature only to have Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger veto it both times! It hasn’t passed the CA legislature for 12 years since despite increased Democratic control while CA has had two “progressive” Democratic Governors neither of whom has publicly demanded the bill on their desk!
Public Bank Public banking serves as a powerful tool to keep taxpayer dollars in local communities. Cities and counties hold billions of dollars of public money in Wall Street banks. Legally, these corporate banks own and control this money which they have used to finance harmful industries including: private prisons, immigrant detention centers, weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel pipelines, and other investments that prioritize corporate profit over the people and the planet. These too-big-too-fail banks are also engaged in risky and fraudulent practices that crashed the global economy in 2008. We have the opportunity now to build a new alternative banking system through locally-controlled socially and environmentally responsible public banks, enabling cities and counties to recapture public dollars and have a say over the financing of our own communities. Why do Democrats refused to create a California Public Bank?
California Public Banking Option Act – AB 1177 (Santiago, Carrillo, Chiu, Garcia, Gonzalez, Kalra, Lee, Ting, Wicks, Gipson), or CalAccount, closes the financial services gap, bolsters the economy, and ensures an equitable economic recovery by providing a stable, accessible platform for underserved communities especially hit hard by the pandemic. It builds on the success of financial access programs CalSavers and CalKids and brings us closer to bridging the racial wealth gap.
Campaign Finance Reform
Electoral Reform Until there is a level field in elections as to financing and public access, we will continue to have corporate monied sponsored candidates win most elections.
100% Public Campaign Financing Allow the necessary funding to candidates and propositions to counter dark money and super PACs support of opposition. Expensive at first, but will eventually discourage use of Dark money and super PACs in elections. Way to neutralize Citizen United Supreme Court decision.
End Citizen United It is insane to consider corporations as people with more rights than people.
Rank Choice Voting Helps eliminate the spoiler effect of voting and allows voters to vote their conscious without fear of helping to elect undesirable candidates.
End Election Suppression of Third Parties Prevent collusion by Republican and Democratic Parties to suppress election participation by Third Parties.
Modify Presidential Electoral College Make each state’s Electoral College based on proportional voting rather than winner take all. Helps negate the current unrepresentative system without unfairly hurting small state influence in Presidential elections.
Modify Congressional District Format Create fewer larger Congressional Districts. Example in California: the current 52 Congressional Districts would be broken into 10 Congressional Districts where the top 5 or 6 candidates would be your Congress people. Effect is that more voters in each District would likely have Congresspersons who share their values. Also makes it more possible for Third Parties to elect some members to Congress that represent viewpoints different from the two corporate parties.
Fairer Election Media Coverage Require media as part of their FCC licensing agreements to provide free media access such that it will equalize coverage to public audience for all election candidates and propositions overwhelmed by advertising purchased by large money interests!
Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine Require the FCC to act to promote and encourage the larger and more effective use of broadcast and social media in the public interest. The airwaves and internet belong to the public.
Censorship
My Campaign Slogan Censorship and the Truth are not Compatible.
Government Censorship Right to censor and classify documents should be more limited especially concerning media access.
Whistleblowers Protection They are a vital element in keeping government honest and less corrupt. Whistleblowers who act in public interest to expose corruption and illegal activities should not only have full immunity, but reasonable compensation for their courage and risks undertaken.
Climate Change
Climate Catastrophe The U.S. needs to lead the world in attacking the climate catastrophe with the same level of effort as was made during WWII. Yet our government and many others are not doing anything of substance. The government acts like it is not an emergency and the financial market will solve the problem.
Climate Catastrophe Future? The Scientific Community gave us 10–20 years to prevent civilization ending runaway Global Warming. Little has been done politically since to address the pending Climate Catastrophe.
Covid
My Congressional Campaign Statement Is there any circumstance that the government should mandate vaccines for the public? 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. More
A simple Summation of Covid Stupidity
Imagine a vaccine so safe that you have to be threatened to take it;
a vaccine manufacturers have to be given total immunity from any damages to your health;
for a disease so deadly that you have to be tested to know you have it;
for a disease that requires you to have multiple pre-existing comorbidities to die from it;
for a pandemic that doesn’t register in increased worldwide death totals;
for a society that wants to experimentally vaccinate children that have near zero chance of death or even severe illness;
for health aftereffects that are deliberately called “long covid” instead of “long vaccine”;
for a government that managed a massive wealth transfer from the middle class to the super rich;
for a society that will believe anything that corporate media & government might say when told to be afraid;
for a government that needs massive censorship and attacks on whistle blowers to accomplish all this!
Censorship Massive censorship of even experts in the field of medicine, vaccines and mRNA technology! WHY?
The U.S. has world’s Worse Covid Death Rate This fact alone should have stopped massive censorship and opened up discussion as to why this was happening!
Worldwide Death Rate Demonstrates only a slight death rate increase in 2020 (7.612), 2021 (7.645) and 2022 (7.678) from 2019 (7.579). The death rate actually started increasing in 2019 after decades of gradually dropping from 20.15 in 1950 to a low of 7.546 in 2018. It was only in 2009 (7.969) that the death rate first dropped below 8.0. In past 72 years only 6 years had lower worldwide death rate than the covid years and barely. Where is the pandemic? More
Health Care “COVID-19 has exposed how poorly prepared the U.S. healthcare system is to handle an epidemic,” said Green Party National Co-Chair Margaret Flowers, who also serves on the Board of Advisors to Physicians for a National Health Program. “We’ve missed the window for containing the virus through screening, testing and monitoring infected people and their contacts — as they did in China, South Korea and other countries. And so we can expect millions of cases.” Flowers also warned that “getting ill in the United States carries the extra burden of potential financial ruin. We need to move to a National Improved Medicare for All health system and paid medical leave as rapidly as possible.”
Death Penalty
Abolish Death Penalty Allowing the state, the right to kill anyone is obscene. Too many innocents have been on death row! Financially it is less expensive to imprison someone for life than to execute.
Families and Community It’s a long process that further damages the families of the victims & the incarcerated. It is an emotional, moral, and financial drain on society.
Deficits
Abolish Debt Ceiling The debt ceiling is used as an excuse to limit needed social spending. The military budget needs to be sharply reduced. We spend more money on “Defense” than the next 10 nations combined. Foreign aid should only be for humanitarian and social needs. Domestic social spending and helping the poor increases the tax base as money exchanges hands more frequently!
Democrat-Republican Divide
Military-Industrial-Prison Complex 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. Both Parties use the “Good Cop – Bad Cop” to control their people bases, but they both answer to the MIPC! Both use the other as excuses on why they can never seem to be able to help the average person.
Addiction Is Illness Drug usage abuse is an addiction and mental illness. Local community should provide medications to help those addicted to recover. more
End Drug War Destroy the profit driven criminal drug empire by providing free drugs at community medical centers with offers to help end addiction! End drug use incarceration!
Legalize Marijuana Legalize marijuana use & cultivation for personal use, but severely limit corporate control & promotion. Research hemp and its uses especially those which can help alleviate environmental damage!
Pharma End Pharma financial control of Medical Schools & Journals and government officials.
Economy
Equitable Government should act to bring people out of poverty by providing free or low-cost essential services.
Tax the super-rich and billionaires out of existence.
Jobs Create a livable Minimum Wage. Guarantee public jobs to those unemployed!
Universal Basic Income A universal guaranteed livable income for all U.S. adults would create a more equitable society. It would help to eliminate poverty and a major impetus causing most crime. Tax the rich whatever it takes! I suggest:
$600/week to every adult American citizen, $31K yearly (no exceptions)
All able bodied must work average 30hr/ week, 10 months/year
5% (of $600) for every year a Green Card holder/legal resident
Convicted and serving Prison time (Your $600 distributed goes 1/2 to your family and 1/2 to your victims/victim fund)
Work requirement exceptions: pregnant, a parent w/ child under 7, over 50 years old, disabled (while temporary or permanent), full time students (part time less)
Products 3Rs Will need a 100% repairable, reusable, and recyclable society!
Education
Charter Schools No tax money should go to private charter schools
Critical Thinking Next to reading and math, critical thinking should be taught at every level of schooling. Critical thinking might be the most important subject of all, yet it is seldom taught if at all. Critical thinking is an important skill to have among the electorate, if you want a Democracy to survive and prosper.
Free Public Universities Education is an important public resource that makes our country and the world a better place. The U.S. should provide free public education from pre-K through college
Fund Public Schools Public schools should be fully funded through our income tax system rather than with separate regressive school bonds and local taxes. The quality of education and teacher salary should be the same in poor communities as well as rich.
Private Universities Low income students should be eligible for government assistance
Student Loans Forgive existing public student debt and negotiate for payment of private loan student debt. Establish program to help reimburse students for school loans already paid if they haven’t financially benefitted!
Support Teachers Teachers should be support by their communities with respect and decent livable wages. The quality of education and teacher salary should be the same in poor communities as well as rich.
Teaching and Learning The education system needs to recognize that students don’t always learn in the same way or rate. I find the grading system to be detrimental to wholesome learning. Test with pass/fail system with no negative reference if someone needs many opportunities to pass. Teaching should help encourage debate and discussion. Nothing in real life is black and white.
Election Reform
Get money out of politics. All of it. We should have a public financing system with a limited campaign window. Or allow the necessary public financing to balance voter access with candidates and issue campaigns with excessive financial advantage.
Pass a Federal Voter Rights Bill to regulate election practices of states that restrict the ability to vote fairly.
End gerrymandering. Mandate Independent Commissions to establish voting districts!
Implement Ranked Choice Voting.
End the 60 vote Senate filibuster. A filibuster should only cause a temporary delay (maybe a week) in the legislative process that allows brief expression of strong dissent by a legislator(s).
Enact Proportional Representation.
Abolish the electoral college and elect the president by popular vote.
Term limits for members of Congress. Would support only with strong public financing and equal access to public through the media.
Re-establish the fairness doctrine in media. Require social media algorithms that allow for diverse viewpoints to users!
Establish reasonable free and equal access for candidates and propositions on media that uses public airways and internet.
End ballot statement fees and include candidate website on voter ballot
Provide for fair ballot access and regulations.
Full ex-felon voting including probation period.
Lower voting age to 16. Engaging youth in the election process should help increase greater participation as adults. Non-partisan discussion and election promotion during school hours but the Equal Access Act (EAA), passed by Congress in 1984 controls as to after school clubs!
Energy & Climate
Climate Emergency The U.S. needs to lead the world in attacking the climate catastrophe with the same level of effort as was made during WWII
EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
Toxic Chemicals I support the ability of the EPA to find “reasonable certainty of no harm” before chemicals could enter or stay on the market. Because of the chemical industry’s influence in Congress, I oppose any law that would pre-empt the ability of states to impose stricter standards. CA has some of the most stringent chemical safety regs in the nation. In fact, at least 18 states have enacted more than 200 laws or policies governing chemical safety due to lack of action under TSCA.
Congress passed a major overhaul of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act with bipartisan support on June 7, 2016. The bill was a compromise between industry groups wanting predictable, federal regulations and consumer advocates who long argued TSCA didn’t do enough to protect Americans from unsafe chemicals. The new soon-to-be law includes important policy advances: The bill allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate chemicals based on their human health effects alone, and it will ultimately allow the EPA to review 20 chemicals at a time, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Generally, state action on a chemical is preempted only when EPA has acted – either by finding a chemical to be safe or by regulating a chemical to address identified risks. State action is also temporarily “paused” when EPA is evaluating a chemical, although states can avail themselves of a mandatory waiver from the “pause” if they still seek to pursue their own regulation.
For nearly 40 years, industrial chemicals have been regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, one of the oldest existing environmental statutes. Since the law was passed, though, the EPA has regulated – or attempted to regulate – just five dangerous substances that were on the books before 1976 and four new chemicals, and has fully tested only a couple hundred chemicals for safety. That’s a minuscule percent of the roughly 84,000 chemicals on the market today, or even of the 22,000 that have come on the market since the law was passed. About 62,000 chemicals were grandfathered in when the law was passed. See Open Secrets and Toxic Chemicals.
Equal Rights
The foundation of any democratic society is the guarantee that each member of society has equal rights. Respect for our constitutionally protected rights is our best defense against discrimination and the abuse of power. There is an intimate connection between our rights as individuals and our responsibilities to our neighbors and the planet.
We should strive to secure universal and effective recognition and observance of the principles and spirit expressed in the United National Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an international standard that all nations must meet.
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
My Congressional Campaign Statement I fully support the passage of the ERA. While the original United States Constitution may have been a major step in world history as to rights and freedoms it also only recognized white male property owners as worthy of those freedoms. Our constitution minus amendments would now be considered one of the worst in the world. Despite a number of amendments that have address some of our original constitution’s short comings, the recognition of the same rights and freedoms for women and LGBTQIA community has been long delayed. With the recognition that we have a Supreme Court that is especially antagonistic toward individual rights of people, we need the ERA amendment more than ever. Time to recognize the rights of women and LGBTQIA community with the passage of the ERA.
Foreign Policy
End Our Foreign Wars The U.S continues to be the greatest purveyor of violence in the world as MLK said in the late 60’s. I believe the situation is much worse today!
Guns
Universal Background Checks We need universal background checking everywhere; stores, gun shows and individual sales.
IDs on all guns like cars do. Maybe each separate part of a gun
No Assault weapons except for legitimate gun collectors.
Child Safety devices with guns.
Parents responsible for minor’s access.
Need License and training to have or use a gun
Need liability Insurance to own a gun!
Green New Deal
The Green Party first began calling for a Green New Deal in the United States in 2010. It combined a 10-year timeline for a transition to 100% clean, renewable energy and zero emissions, with an Economic Bill of Rights focused on a guaranteed living wage job, universal health care (expanded and Improved Medicare for All), housing, and education. The Green New Deal – Green Party
Healthcare
Medicare for All We need a Medicare for All similar but all the better than other industrialized nations. If government is the single payer of healthcare, it will be motivated to promote healthy people and environment.
Housing
Affordable Housing Housing should be a right. Providing decent housing to all makes for a better safer community and it is cost effective.
Rent Control Current rent control programs act to imprison low income renters to the same housing that degrades over the years from poor maintenance. All apartment complexes should be under a rent control based on inflation plus maintenance costs and not tied to a particular renter. This would help discourage speculation and free renters to move as needed without undue financial burden.
Stop Real Estate Speculation End housing speculation. End property tax on primary residence. Tax progressively hell multi-home ownership to discourage this practice! Aid public banks & credit unions to prioritize home ownership!
Walkable Neighborhoods Government should be active in maintaining friendly, safe and environmentally sound communities Create Car less communities and cities in future. Promote bicycle and pedestrian friendly communities.
Stop the Ellis Act Evictions The Ellis Act (California Government Code Chapter 12.75) is a 1985 California state law that allows landlords to evict residential tenants to “go out of the rental business” in spite of desires by local governments to compel them to continue providing rental housing.
Immigration
Amnesty Policing the U.S.’s over 15 million undocumented is a waste of tax money. It also wastes FBI, community police and border control time and energy. We need a comprehensive immigration policy.
Asylum Seekers Respect the humanitarian rights of refugees as required by International Law and the United Nations. Need to end Title 42, where over 1.7 million people seeking refuge in the United States have been expelled at the southern border, almost always without being allowed to make an asylum claim or have their day in court, despite the legal right to seek asylum in the U.S. Human Rights First documented more than 10,000 kidnappings, rapes, and attacks on people turned away at the border because of Title 42.
Need a Humane Foreign Policy Stop negatively interfering with other nations and their people. No more wars, coups, and sanctions! No more military and police aid. No more using NGOs to subvert governments! Only foreign aid should be provided that promotes Democracy and the well-being of the people (e.g. water, electricity sewage, food production).
Path To Citizenship Green cards and reasonable path to citizenship for those undocumented.
Support Dreamers Quick citizenship available for Dreamers.
Work Visas Low-cost renewable yearly work visas not connected to any company! Government should provide information, assistance and protection when needed. Limit the visas for skilled workers if Americans can do the work. Skilled worker visas have been used to lower wages and benefits in the workplace.
Inequality
Living Wages We need a guaranteed living income for all U.S. adults regardless of work status that includes those on SSI and Social Security. Tax the rich whatever it takes!
Unions Get rid of “Right to be Slave” laws. Promote right to form unions. Encourage a National Union of all workers regardless of corporate or industry status! Unions should have united and shut down the country when President Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers. Horrible mistake by the AFL-CIO. This was the beginning of union membership decline!
Cooperatives Allow workers first right to purchase companies being closed or moved along with public financing. Promote Cooperatives businesses!
Interest Rates
Prohibit Usury
Limit Credit Card Interest Rates Limit maximum rate of 10% over Federal Prime Interest Rate
Internet
Internet Neutrality I fully support Network Neutrality, most commonly called net neutrality, which is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, and not charge users different rates based on content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication. With net neutrality, ISPs may not intentionally block, slow down, or charge money for specific online content. Without net neutrality, ISPs may prioritize certain types of traffic, meter others, or potentially block traffic from specific services, while charging consumers for various tiers of service.
In 2017, Trump’s Republican FCC Board overturned Obama’s FCC net neutrality policy. Currently there is no Net Neutrality except in California. Late in 2021, Biden named Jessica Rosenworcel the permanent chair of the FCC. Biden’s other nominee for the FCC, Gigi Sohn, had her Senate confirmation hearing in December and now awaits votes from the committee and full Senate. If Sohn makes it through the confirmation process, Democrats will have the necessary 3-2 majority to lead the agency and reestablish the FCC’s authority to impose rules of the road for the internet.
Internet Access I support full free access to the internet. The internet should be a government run utility available to everyone across the country.
Judicial Law Reform
Abolishing Civil Asset Forfeiture
Legalize Cannabis at the Federal Level
Ending Cash Bail across the United States.
Labor
Unions Get rid of “Right to be Slave” laws. Promote right to form unions. Encourage a National Union of all workers regardless of corporate or industry status! Unions should have united and shut down the country when President Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers. Horrible mistake by the AFL-CIO. This was the beginning of union membership decline!
Cooperatives Allow workers first right to purchase companies being closed or moved along with public financing. Promote Cooperatives businesses!
Work Visas Low-cost renewable yearly work visas not connected to any company! Government should provide information, assistance and protection when needed. Limit the visas for skilled workers if Americans can do the work. Skilled worker visas have been used to lower wages and benefits in the workplace.
Mass Shootings
We must look at the broader issues around the epidemic of violence in this country. “We need to stop normalizing gun violence and discuss real systemic solutions. More
In the 10 years since Sandy Hook, 2,654 mass shootings have occurred. Just one day before the shooting, the FBI reported a 52.5% increase in active shooter incidents in the U.S. from 2020 to 2021. It is essential to point out that due to federal legislation in 1997 stating “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used for research on gun violence” that the federal government essentially blocked funding for preventive measures until 2019 when Congress specifically allocated funds to the CDC more than twenty years later.
Medicare
Medicare Direct Contracting and REACH Demand an end to Medicare Direct Contracting and REACH. This program pays third-party middlemen to manage seniors’ care, allowing them to keep as profit what they don’t spend on medical services. Even worse, seniors who chose Traditional Medicare are being automatically enrolled in Direct Contracting without their knowledge or consent. We cannot let Wall Street profiteers take over Medicare.
Medicare for All
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!
Military
Repeal the 2001 AUMF The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Pub.L. 107–40 (text) (PDF), 115 Stat. 224) is a joint resolution of the United States Congress which became law on September 18, 2001, authorizing the use of the United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the September 11 attacks.
End Our Foreign Wars The U.S continues to be the greatest purveyor of violence in the world as Martin Luther King said in the late 60’s. The Military-Industrial Complex has become that grave danger to America that President Eisenhower warned about as he left office in 1960!
Cut Military Budget Military budget has become cash cow for the Military Industrial Complex.
Close 90% of U.S. foreign military bases
Military Pay Our low-ranking military personnel are being paid close to minimum wage while required to risk their lives for our country (actually for the military-industrial complex).
Military-Industrial-Prison Complex
My Congressional Campaign Statement 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 act to smear and frame those who might successfully oppose them. 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.
MICIMATT It is the Military-Industrial-Congressional Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank Complex. They now control everything in your life. Your employment, your income, your food, your heath, your education, your politicians, your information sources. They know almost everything about you and what you do in your life. They now own you and can manipulate even what you think & believe!
Police Reform
Prosecute Police Abuse There is no excuse to train police to shoot to kill just because they believe they feel threaten. Just like anyone in society, if you kill someone you need to be independently investigated and tried the same as anyone else.
End Qualified Immunity There shouldn’t be any qualified immunity, in fact these highly trained individuals, trusted with lethal weapons should be held to a higher standard
Stop Police Militarization Equipping police like they are soldiers in a war zone does not create a safe neighborhood, but distrust and fear. It promotes a me and them attitude among police. It encourages violence over de-escalation!
Mandatory Bodycams Bodycams have helped expose false narratives by police involved in violent encounters. They need to be better and more locations including vehicle and weapons.
Community Policing Unarmed or lightly armed police walking or bicycling a community where they learn to know the people helps create a peaceful friendly neighborhood. De-escalation tactics work best with community policing where people having mental episodes or committing petty crimes are seen as humans and not threats.
Independent Investigations The State should lead independent investigations of all incidents of police involved violence, instead of local internal police/DA run investigations.
Evidence Transparency All evidence concerning violent actions by police should be promptly turned over to the DA, state agencies and attorneys for families of victims of police violence. Police should be required to immediately write report of incidents and to submit to prompt interviews by DA and other investigative offices when place on leave.
Political Activities Police, individually or through unions, should not be able to endorse, fund raise or otherwise support candidates for elected office that might have future official involvement or official business with police.
National Database of Police Misconduct On the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, President Biden issued an executive order addressing policing. While largely symbolic, one useful thing it did was finally create a national database of police misconduct. Although as an Executive Order it can easily overturned by another President.
Presidential and Government Powers
End the AUMF – Authorization for Use of Military Force The authorization granted the President the authority to use all “necessary and appropriate force” against those whom he determined “planned, authorized, committed or aided” the September 11 attacks, or who harbored said persons or groups. The AUMF was passed by the 107th Congress on September 14, 2001 and signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 18, 2001. Since 2001, U.S. Presidents have interpreted their authority under the AUMF to extend beyond al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan to apply to numerous other groups as well as other geographic locales. In December 2016, the Office of the President published a brief interpreting the AUMF as providing Congressional authorization for the use of force against al-Qaeda and other militant groups. Today, the full list of actors the U.S. military is fighting or believes itself authorized to fight under the 2001 AUMF is classified and therefore a secret unknown to the American public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001
Improve Freedom of Information Act as to access and promptness The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is a federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government upon request. The act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure procedures, and defines nine exemptions to the statute.[1][2] The act was intended to make U.S. government agencies’ functions more transparent so that the American public could more easily identify problems in government functioning and put pressure on Congress, agency officials, and the president to address them.[3] The FOIA has been changed repeatedly by both the legislative and executive branches. Apart from the U.S. federal government’s Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. states have their own varying freedom of information laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)https://www.foia.gov/
End the Patriot Act The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) was a landmark Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush. The formal name of the statute is the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001. The Patriot Act was enacted following the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks with the stated goal of dramatically tightening U.S. national security, particularly as it related to foreign terrorism. In general, the act included three main provisions:
expanded surveillance abilities of law enforcement, including by tapping domestic and international phones;
easier interagency communication to allow federal agencies to more effectively use all available resources in counterterrorism efforts; and
increased penalties for terrorism crimes and an expanded list of activities which would qualify for terrorism charges.
The law is controversial due to its authorization of indefinite detention without trial of immigrants, and due to the permission given to law enforcement to search property and records without a warrant, consent, or knowledge. (Though generally, they need a warrant or consent to conduct the search.)[2] Since its passage, several legal challenges have been brought against the act, and federal courts have ruled that a number of provisions are unconstitutional.
Protecting Our Democracy Act House passed a bill in December that would impose significant curbs on executive power after the Trump years, including a provision that would require disclosure of the emergency action documents to congressional overseers.
Prison System
Prisons Eliminate Private Prisons. Corporate Prisons have the financial incentive to lobby for harsher laws and more people to be imprisoned. Public prisons provide financial incentive to reduce prison population, rehabilitate, prevent recidivism.
Community involvement End all the obscene surcharges that help isolate family and friends from the incarcerated. Encourage family visitations and contact.
End Prison Slavery All prisoners should be paid minimum wage (rate of their home state) for any outside labor. Funds should either go into a prisoner’s monetary account or to support outside family. Monthly pay outs for commissary, etc. expenses should be established out of prisoner’s monetary account. Monitored outside family and friend contributions should be encouraged to prisoner’s account.
Probation Period After Release Housing and other living costs should be guaranteed by state for at least a year or length of probation period, along with public jobs at twice home state minimum wage. Establish programs that help encourage private employment options. Probation mission should be to continue rehabilitation into normal society and prevention of recidivism.
Prisoner Isolation Any frequent or long-term use of this punishment becomes torture and can have lasting negative psychological effects on a prisoner.
Race & Racism
Black Lives Matter This movement has played an important role in the public acknowledging the long-term systematic racism in society against people of color. It has especially brought to attention police oppression and brutality inflicted on people of color and galvanized support for the families who have lost loved ones to unjust police violence.
CRT -Critical Race Theory There needs to be acknowledgement of past wrongs by our society and in our education system. Let’s all work for a better society and world for all. [critical race theory (CRT), intellectual and social movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color.]
Equality For All All-lives matter, but special consideration needs to be acknowledged for those communities that have suffered oppression and societal forms of racism.
Reparations I believe any reparations should include programs to help those who most need extra assistance to become full and equal members of society.
Social Security
My Congressional Campaign Statement The minimum SSI and Social Security payments should be the minimum wage in each state. Time in the U.S. legally, should be only limiting factor. All income earned and unearned should be taxed. The age to get Social Security should be lowered to 50-55.
Taxation
My Congressional Campaign Statement Tax the Rich! It is insane to allow individuals to be so wealthy that they can control and compete with our government. Tax the billionaires and other super rich out of existence, income and wealth wise. Have no mercy!
Tax Reform
No tax on Guaranteed Livable Income plus first $5K, but everyone must file a tax return *
Progressive tax rate from 10% on first additional $10K to 99% on income over $10 million*
No deductions, no loopholes*
Also 25% yearly wealth tax on wealth over $20 million*
Same equivalent individual tax rates must be paid by all corporations operating in the US for any corporate management, board members, and stockholders who don’t claim US residence*
We need more wealth equity in the US.
End Regressive Taxes: Government financing from sales tax and primary residence property tax. However, tax additional homes to discourage ownership and make more homes available to first time buyers, especially families.
Transportation
City Design Create Car less communities and cities in future. Promote bicycle and pedestrian friendly communities.
Public Transit Free Public transportation should be a priority.
Trains Promote trains and its infrastructure as an extremely energy efficient transportation system of goods and products. Make high speed trains part of major infrastructure policy and public sponsored employment!
Vehicles Rapid transition from fossil fuel driven vehicles to hybrids and then to all electric. Make vehicles easy to repair, reuse or at least recycle.
Car Sharing Make liability vehicle insurance be paid at the gas pump, at least while fossil fuel dominates transportation. Liability is one of the biggest hinderance to car sharing. Regulate “Ubers” , “Doordashers”and Taxi services as to guarantee worker rights and benefits and for fossil free vehicles.
Ukraine
My Congressional Campaign Statement 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!
The U.S. first started this war with its sponsored 2014 coup and with its promotion of Ukraine attacks on Eastern Ukraine along Russia’s border! The U.S. was eventually able to force Russia into an actual invasion of Ukraine!
U.S. policy seems to be willing to risk possible nuclear war and the end of all civilization rather than have any peace deal and end to the war! For a more detailed response!
I support Washington D.C. Statehood as it is hard to believe that the residents of Washington don’t have any voting rights in Congress!
For more than 200 years, the residents of Washington, DC have been subjected to systemic inequality and denied the full rights of citizenship that the residents of states enjoy including voting representation in Congress. It is time to right a great historic wrong.
The District of Columbia is the only political and geographical entity within the United States of America whose citizens bear the responsibilities of citizenship, including taxation and Selective Service registration, without sharing in the full rights and privileges of citizenship.
Washington’s residents pay more taxes than residents in 22 states and pay more per capita to the federal government than any state—yet they have no votes in Congress.
DC is subject to the whims of the federal government where Congress interferes with our local laws, local funding and operations.
DC has all the same responsibilities, but not the same rights, as our fellow Americans—we are treated as second-class citizens
Like our counterparts in all 50 states, D.C. residents pay federal taxes, serve in the military and on juries, start businesses and families, and contribute to our national economy.
Yet, we are still unable to control our own budget or our own laws, and we still have no votes in Congress.
DC residents want statehood and made their voter clear during the 2016 referendum with an 86% in favor to make Washington, DC the 51.
Congress passed the Democrat-dominated House by a vote of 232-180. It was the first time that a chamber of Congress had passed such legislation. Currently, legislation was introduced in both chambers and has overwhelming support among Senate Democrats.
The Green Party calls for a complete, thorough, impartial, and independent investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including the role of the administration of George W, Bush, various U.S. based corporations and interests, and other nations and third parties.”
I have engaged (20 years) in my own independent 9/11 investigation!
Meanwhile, most of the left has just blindly accept the MIPM narrative that has NO facts to support it! Worse yet, many on the left have shamefully joined the MIPM in attacking those who have been trying to expose the truth about our government’s involvement that has given us the AUMF with its unending wars of terror and the Patriot Act with the loss of many of our constitutional freedoms and rights.
Host Andy Steele is joined by Green Party congressional candidate, Michael Kerr, whose campaign platform includes the call for a new investigation into the destruction of the three skyscrapers that fell on September 11th, 2001.
My Specific Congressional Campaign Statement on 9/11
Having studied Science Engineering for 5 years in college, I knew from the first day that it was quite impossible for the twin towers to collapse absent a sophisticated explosive demolition.
Days later the airlines released the passenger lists of all 4 “hijacked” planes, printed in newspapers all around the world. Not only were none of the accused hijackers listed as passengers, but there was no one with an Arabic name either! No one ever explained how the government could know all the “hijacker names” within a couple days or that Osama bin Laden was responsible.
Actually, Ossama bin Laden immediately and repeatedly denied any responsibility and at no time did the FBI ever accuse him on their most wanted list as having been involved in 9/11.
The Bush administration did not want any investigation. Eventually, family members of 9/11 victims forced the Government to investigate the 9/11 attacks. 9/11: Press for Truth
When the 9/11 Commission Report was finally released, I found it to be a fairy tale rather than a serious investigation of what happened concerning the attacks. The 9/11 Commission ignored all the serious questions, doubts and known facts about what had really happened. I saw the report as a confession by my government! The 9/11 family members also accused the government’s 9/11 Commission of lying and cover-up! David Ray Griffin exposed the 9/11 Commission cover-up in his book The 9/11 Commission Report – Omissions and Distortions and his lectures
After many years of research, I have been able to state without any doubt “Absolutely nothing is true about the government/corporate media 9/11 story. ”
9/11 was a massive staged false flag operation that has allowed our government: (1) to pass the AUMF and engage in the “War on Terror” and a series of vicious unilateral invasions of numerous small nations around the Middle East (2) to pass the “Patriot Act”; subvert our Constitutional freedoms and rights, steal $trillions; completely brainwash most of the American people, and severely censor the truth, while calling investigating whistleblowers unpatriotic and crackpots.
Saudi Arabia supplied terrorist names (17 of 19) yet several were still alive after 9/11 in Saudi Arabia.
Several of the “terrorists” were discovered to be working out of U.S. Military bases in the U.S. Unknown to them, they were being groomed to be the 9/11 terrorist patsies. Most likely, they probably thought they were being trained to infiltrate Al Queda.
There were no hijackings of the airliners.
Despite all the security cameras at the airports the government never released any videos or photos of any of these “terrorists” actually boarding any of the 9/11 airliners. The only photo released was of two of them at the Portland, Maine airport boarding an airliner earlier that morning in a flight to Boston.
A few days after 9/11, all the airlines released passenger lists of the 4 “hijacked ” airlines, printed in newspapers all over the world. Not one of the “terrorists” are listed as passengers. In fact, there is no one with an Arab name listed as a passenger!
Airline sized drones actually hit the two towers WTC1 and WTC2. The government claims that the two planes crashing into the towers were both going over 500 miles an hour at sea level. According to professional pilots, this is impossible for an airliner without the pilot loosing total control of plane and probably the plane disintegrating in flight. Yet we are told to believe extremely inexperienced pilots flying their first airliner were able to accomplish the impossible!
The towers WTC1, WTC2 and WTC 7 all collapsed from demolition. This has been proved beyond a shadow of doubt by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Over 3500 Architects and Engineers have staked their professional reputations in calling for a new independent 9/11 investigation.
Never in the over 100 years of steel frame towers has one collapsed into its footprint from fire without a professional created demolition, except on 9/11 when 3 did!
All the characteristics of a demolition were present before and during the collapses of WTC 1,2, and 7.
Dozens of witnesses including many firemen reported explosions prior and during the building collapses including many visual squids during the building collapses.
About 300 firemen died in the tower collapses. NY firemen are the experts on high rise fires, and they clearly never considered it possible for the towers to collapse. In fact, they set up their base command center in the tower ground floor. Firemen near the crash floors had already reported that the tower fires were limited, manageable and they only needed some additional equipment to extinguish these small, isolated fires.
WTC 7 collapsed around 5pm later on 9/11. There were numerous preliminary claims that this 47-story building was about to collapse despite a few isolated fires. Claims were made that the building was badly damaged and dangerous, so it needed to be pulled (demolition). BBC even reported that WTC7 had collapsed, while it was still standing behind the TV reporter! WTC7 did finally collapse as if in a perfect demolition at near speed of gravity without any steel frame resistance.
WTC 1 and 2 can clearly be seen as being blown up as they collapse at near speed of gravity, blasting large steel girders hundreds of feet into other nearby buildings and the surrounding area outside its footprint.
Many of the TV announcers during live broadcasts of the tower collapses remark that it reminds them of the demolitions we have all seen before! Corporate TV never broadcast those comments again!
The 9/11 Commission Report never explains how the towers could have collapsed and never even mention WTC 7 or its collapse at all.
No plane hit the Pentagon.
The flight data released describes a plane that ignored an easy crash into the roof of the Pentagon where many of the top brass have offices and instead made a virtually impossible loop (according to many professional pilots) around to the other side of the Pentagon to hit the newly renovated reinforced walls and mostly empty offices there.
The flight data released further has the plane going over 530 miles an hour (impossible without plane disintegrating) pulling out of a dive to hit the ground floor without scratching the ground.
Pentagon damage was caused by demolition. The damaged area’s walls had just been reinforced to withstand a plane crash or bomb attack. First photos of damage prove that no plane hit Pentagon!
First Pentagon photos indicate first floor was internal blast with structure columns bent outward and to the side.
20-minutes later the strange collapse of damaged Pentagon leaves a sheer wall to the viewers left that also indicates a precision demolition. Computers, filing cabinets, open books on floors along collapsed edge were both undisturbed and not charred by any fire.
Over 10 witnesses on the ground place the Pentagon plane (drone) on a different Northern flight path that couldn’t have caused any of the known Pentagon damage.
Two witnesses working at fire station near Pentagon heliport scrambled for their lives as this drone was destroyed just before hitting Pentagon near heliport. That is the fireball in the Pentagon frames released.
The Pentagon wall and lawn was charred by heliport and all the famous “plane” debris was here.
The damaged Pentagon area included the accounting office where over 20 were killed along with all the office files.
Just the night before 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld declared that over $3 trillion was unaccounted for at the Pentagon and being investigated by the accounting office.
All the phone calls were faked. There was no technology available to make those calls. This was acknowledged by the government in the trial of one of the Guantanamo prisoners.
There was no passenger struggle with hijackers. This fake heroism was used to instill a blind rapid patriotism that made anyone criticizing the 9/11 story as crazy and unpatriotic!
No plane crashed into the Shanksville hole in the ground.
All the passengers and crew of the 4 missing airlines were exterminated but not in plane crashes.
One or two planes landed at Cleveland Airport during 9/11 after airport was abandon due to bomb threat. One plane apparently unloaded passengers at the NASA hanger. None of passengers were ever accounted for.
Several military air exercises during 9/11 created serious confusion with air traffic control centers.
Secret Service allowed President Bush to remain at Florida school for nearly hour during 9/11.
[Added later: President Bush for years kept saying he saw the first plane crash into the tower just before he entered the Florida school. Bush remarked ‘ he must be a lousy pilot’. However, the first plane crash was not broadcast live and wasn’t on TV until later in the day! Did Bush see a “CIA” video of the first plane crash? Personally, I think Bush was clueless about the government conspiracy unfolding on his watch. He may still be!]
Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks except as patsy.
Osama bin laden was on the FBI wanted list for many years, but never for the 9/11 attacks.
Osama bin Laden’s death in Pakistan raid was faked.
Osama bin Laden was the prime suspect/witness/architect of 9/11 an information treasure house!
Why wouldn’t the Navy Seals orders be to take Osama bin Laden alive at all costs.
Why with light resistance at the compound would an unarmed Osama standing next to his wife be killed.
Why was his body dumped into ocean, with no photos or DNA?
Was the helicopter crash at the “Osama” compound staged to guarantee public attention to an otherwise secret mission just to “prove” there actually was a raid that found and killed Osama bin Laden.
President Obama, VP Biden and Secretary of State Clinton and many others watched the raid on TV live, but this video was never released to public.
All Saudi and bin Laden family flown out of U.S. without interrogation while U.S. airspace closed right after 9/11 attacks.
Saudi Arabia supplied terrorist names (17) while several were still alive after 9/11 in Saudi Arabia.
Families of 9/11 victims lobbied for over one year to finally force Bush to create the 9/11 Commission.
9/11 Commission ignored witnesses that contradicted government pre-established narrative.
9/11 Commision ignored explaining how WTC towers could collapse and ignored WTC 7 totally.
9/11 Commission Director was in the Bush administration, controlled the investigation & conclusion.
Elements in the governments of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel were involved with 9/11 attacks.
9/11 has been the excuse to subvert our freedoms at home and our never-ending wars on others!
Since 2005 I have offered $100K to the first person that can prove (even demonstrate) that our government didn’t plan, manage and cover-up the 9/11 attacks. I have had no takers! But the offer still stands!
My 9/11 Reward website
BE THE FIRST PERSON to prove to my reasonable satisfaction that the United States Government (with Corporate Media as co-conspirators) didn’t manage and cover-up 9-11, then I will give you $100K using my home equity. 911Reward.org
I have had no takers! I made this challenge in 2005 after the 911 Commission Report was released! It was the families of 9/11 victims that pressured the Bush Administration to have any investigation at all and that was 14 months after the 9/11 attacks, with a “tiny” budget and a 9/11 Commision where several members would later say “the commission was set up to fail”. The 911 Commission had an opportunity to answer the many questions from the families’ of 9/11 victims. They chose to ignore almost all of them. See the documentary 9/11: Press For Truth
Petition signed by over 3500 Engineers and Architects. These professionals are normally among the most conservative group of people in America and yet they have all risked their professional careers and reputations to demand an independent investigation of 9/11. Their petition below:
To the Members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate of the United States of America,
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT:On Behalf of the People of the United States of America, the undersigned Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and affiliates hereby petition for, and demand, a truly independent investigation with subpoena power in order to uncover the full truth surrounding the events of 9/11/01 — specifically the collapses of the World Trade Center Towers and Building 7. We believe there is sufficient doubt about the official story and therefore the 9/11 investigation must be re-opened and must include a full inquiry into the possible use of explosives that might have been the actual cause of the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7.
Toronto Hearings September 5, 2012
Ten years have passed since the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, and there are still many unanswered questions surrounding that fateful day. In 2011, experts and scientists from around the world gathered in Toronto, Canada to present new and established evidence that questions the official story of 9/11. This evidence was presented to a distinguished panel of experts over a 4-day period. Through their analysis and scientific investigations, they hope to spark a new investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001. Press For Truth and The International Center for 9/11 Studies Present: “The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering Ten Years of Deception”
After years of research and analysis, I find the film “Operation Terror” closely matches my opinion of what happened concerning the 9/11 attacks. The film was never allowed to be shown in any corporate movie theaters, cable TV or YouTube to my knowledge. Why? Because the film is too close to the truth! The film’s director and writers found a way around YouTube censorship by doing a commentary of the film which is worth viewing. The film is a must purchase if you want to know a composite of what many in the authentic 9/11 truth movement thinks. The film doesn’t cover the Pentagon and only briefly the Shanksville frauds!
Concerning the Pentagon
Official Interviews – National Security Alert interviewed over 10 on the ground witnesses that placed the plane seen flying toward the Pentagon as coming in from a very different direction than the government story making it impossible to have caused the documented damage to Pentagon. These witnesses all testified to these same facts to the 9/11 Commission, but their testimony was ignored because it went against the government narrative! more at Pentagon – 9/11
Concerning Shanksville
Again, witnesses contradict government story and are ignored by 9/11 Commission. see Shanksville – 9/11
To be honest, I could speak for hours to reporters about 9/11 and none of it would probably ever make the light of day into an actual published story. I doubt the media will even mention 9/11 associated with my campaign. I certainly would love that, though!
People Demanding a New Independent 9/11 Investigation
Message: It is time for President Biden to act on the climate crisis before it is too late. He should declare a climate emergency and issue critical executive orders as outlined in ClimatePresident.org. He also needs to stop all new fossil fuels and enact a comprehensive Green New Deal with a 10 year timeline to get to zero emissions combined with a strong Economic Bill of Rights.
Tweet: We need @JoeBiden to declare a #ClimateEmergency and issue Executive Orders (ClimatePresident.org). It is time for the Democrats to say No to fossil fuels and their campaign donations. We need an ecosocialist #GreenNewDeal. (http://www.gp.org/green_new_deal)
Background: Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity. At our present rate of greenhouse gas emissions, we will exceed the 1.5 degree C threshold within 7 years. For the last decade, the various Green Party presidential candidates have pledged to take executive action on climate on their first day in office. Green Party candidates first called for a Green New Deal back in 2010.
President Biden promised voters he would take at least some action on climate. Yet he has violated his campaign pledges. For instance, he has increased the number of permits for fossil fuels on federal land despite saying he would end them. He has stood idly by while Senator Manchin, heavily invested in coal, has blocked action of his inadequate and ever shrinking Build Back Better climate budget initiative.
Last week, Biden overruled his own staff and at the last moment refused to declare a climate emergency and take essential executive action on climate. He said after decades in the Senate and the White House that he still needed more time to “study” the issue. Yet is was clear even before Biden took office that a divided Congress owned by the fossil fuel industry was never going to enact any climate legislation and that even the more limited budget reconciliation process was going to be difficult.
2022-06-22 President’s gas holiday of 18 cents/gallon will only accelerate the ravaging of our climate and ecosystems.
And so it has come to this. Today, President Joe Biden called on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes amounting to 18 cents/gallon for three months. He urged states to take similar action.
The past months’ gas prices have been painful for everyday people like us. Had Democrats and Republicans listened to the last 12 years of warnings from Greens and others calling for a Green New Deal — that dependence on fossil fuels was becoming increasingly environmentally and financially unsustainable — we might be in a very different place than we are today.
Instead of accounting for the true cost of dirty energy, pricing it accurately and using that revenue to build a system of 100% clean, renewable, public power, elites in government either obstructed reasonable carbon pricing or did nothing at all. Now, we are paying high prices at the pump and gaining no benefit. The only benefits go to Big Oil’s tyrants and profiteers.
It’s tempting to call this a lack of leadership from Biden, the Democrats and our government. But that would be a mistake. Biden is expertly distracting us from solutions that would empower everyday people, bust up fossil fuel industry collusion, make corporations and the 1% pay a fair share from their windfall profits, and provide a Just Transition away from dirty energy.
Rather than recognize this moment as a giant red flag warning the consequences of dirty energy are rapidly escalating, Biden is recommending we effectively subsidize fossils fuels through this tax “holiday.” His solution to our addiction to oil is to double down. And there is nothing to stop oil companies from offsetting this tax “relief” by increasing their prices!
At the same time, we’ll bleed even more funding away from our shamefully-neglected infrastructure. All for what is, at best, a gimmick to win votes. Abolishing student debt, for which we have long advocated, would alleviate immense stress on the households of everyday people without sending a single puff of additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Elites treat this idea with scorn.
A gas holiday of 18 cents/gallon will only accelerate the ravaging of our climate and ecosystems.
2022-06-15 Green Party VP Nominees Cheri Honkala and Ajamu Baraka Team Up to Center Opposition to War in the Fight to End Poverty
On June 16th at 10:00am EST, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) and the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) will co-sponsor a press conference on “Thinking Beyond Ukraine: Their War is not our War.”
The online press event will feature 2012 Green Party VP Nominee Cheri Honkala and 2016 VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka. These groups are coming together in the spirit of Martin Luther King’s famous Riverside Speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence” where he took a bold, visionary, and necessary stance against the Vietnam War in order to advance economic justice. Read more…
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2022-06-12 Rising prices for the necessities of life are hurting everyday people.
And while many of us are still reeling from the pandemic and related economic crash, our government’s response is to drive down wages, raise interest rates, and make sure it’s not too easy for working people to find employment.
That’s because they think it’s just fine for the wealth of billionaires to skyrocket during a global health crisis, but everyday people gaining a tiny bit of leverage against their employers can only be regarded as a problem that must corrected.
Meanwhile, state legislatures have subjected us to a disgusting display of partisan gerrymandering to make your vote worth less and ensure the security of incumbents who have sworn fealty to the corporate state.
The parties of war and Wall Street will miss no opportunity to drive down the value of your take-home pay, drive down the power of your vote, and drive down the number of choices you have on election day.
People like us have to step up and fight back against this economic and electoral squeeze. There are solutions to inflation that don’t place the burden solely on working people. There are ways to vote that don’t trap us between two wings of a corporate oligarchy.
In solidarity, The Green Party of the United States www.gp.org
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Left Unity Strategy Pays Off for California’s Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party
PRESS RELEASE
June 10, 2022, Sacramento, CA – California’s Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party are pointing to major electoral advances after Tuesday’s primary election that ensured both parties ballot status until 2026 – they credit historic cooperation between the two parties in creating the first-ever “Left Unity Slate” of statewide candidates that resulted in significantly higher-than-usual vote totals. In October of 2021, the Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party endorsed a statewide “Left Unity Slate” of Green and, Peace and Freedom candidates for the 2022 June primary and did not officially compete for the same offices.
“Those who crafted the Top Two Primary scheme did so with the intention of freezing us out,” said Kevin Akin, State Chair of the Peace and Freedom Party, adding, “Today, as a result of forming the ‘Left Unity Slate,’ most of our statewide candidates received more than 2 percent of the vote, enough to ensure ballot status for both parties for another four years.” Some “Left Unity Slate” candidates did even better than that overall, and in some parts of the state garnered nearly 10 percent. Continue Reading
2022-06-01 Green Party Calls for Real Systemic Solutions to Violence in Wake of Uvalde Mass Shooting
WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States strongly condemns the murderous rampage at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of at least nineteen elementary school children and two teachers and injured seventeen. The Green Party sends their deepest sympathies to all families affected by this senseless act of violence. CONTINUE READING
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2022-05-31 Protect and Expand Access to Abortion Services
The Green Party of the United States urges people to join actions nationwide to protect and expand access to abortion services. We must stop the criminalization of abortions to permanently protect all people’s right to safe, legal, accessible, and confidential healthcare. Reproductive rights are non-negotiable! While Supreme Court Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion is not the final Supreme Court decision, it claims the right to abortion is unconstitutional and attacks the reproductive rights of women, transgender people, and non-binary people. Lack of abortion access will also impact both parents who may be mandated to pay for child support of unwanted pregnancies. Additionally, the repercussions of ending these reproductive rights may lead to criminalizing the freedom to love and marry on the basis of race or sexual preference. CONTINUE READING
2022-05-24 Green New Deal
The Green Party first began calling for a Green New Deal in the United States in 2010. It combined a 10-year timeline for a transition to 100% clean, renewable energy and zero emissions, with an Economic Bill of Rights focused on a guaranteed living wage job, universal health care (expanded and Improved Medicare for All), housing, and education.
Call President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer today to demand a true Green New Deal. (If you can’t make the call today, contact them any day you want!)
Message: We need bold action now on climate change.
Enact the Green Party’s original ecosocialist Green New Deal with an immediate halt to new fossil fuels
a rapid ten-year transition to real zero emissions and 100% clean renewable energy
several trillion dollars annually for an Economic Bill of Rights
funds need to be targeted for a Just Transition and environmental justice
More for President Biden: We need the White House to declare a climate emergency and issue executive orders on climate as outlined in climatepresident.org
Don’t leave the climate — and our future — hanging! Make the call today.
In solidarity, The Green Party of the United States www.gp.org
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2022-05-19 Green Party US Statement on Mass Shooting in Buffalo, NY
WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States stands in coalition with all who seek to end the culture of violence and politics of corruption that enable violent extremists. CONTINUE READING
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2022-05-12 $40 billion worth of arms to pour gasoline on the already-raging inferno in Ukraine
Can you believe it? $40 billion worth of arms to pour gasoline on the already-raging inferno in Ukraine.
Every. Single. House. Democrat voted in favor, sending this bill to the Senate.
Meanwhile? Parents in this country are struggling to afford (or even find!) baby formula to feed their infants. Baby formula. COVID relief is “languishing,” according to Common Dreams. The cost of living is skyrocketing.
Enough is enough, Michael. We have two parties prioritizing war and Wall Street at the expense of everyone else and no one looking out for the people and our planet.
Here are some of the Green Party’s priorities:
We need an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and an international commitment to diplomacy and negotiations. The killing must stop and all parties must end the cycle of escalation and violence.
We need an ecosocialist Green New Deal at home to invest in our communities’ healthcare, education and jobs while saving our planet from the climate crisis.
We need to finally democratize our elections through measures like proportional representation, ranked choice voting, fair ballot access and public campaign finance to end the tyranny of elites over women, LGBTQ+ people and BIPOC communities.
At home, they’re making war on the right to an abortion.
People power can elect more Greens and win a Green Agenda while in office. People power can transform our system and end these travesties.
In solidarity, The Green Party of the United States www.gp.org
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2022-05-08 Happy Mother’s Day
The origins of Mother’s Day has values that speak to the Green values of today. Women of the time organized for peace, fighting poverty and alleviating unsanitary living conditions for poor women and children.
The Green Party stands against wars and imperialism that brutalize, displace and traumatize women and children. Our 10 Key Values resonate with the early iterations of a “Mother’s Day” that had peace, equal rights and access to child care as its focus.
What does Mother’s Day 2022 offer the over 17 million U.S. women and their children living in poverty today? The Democrats have failed to renew the Child Tax Credit that provided critical assistance during the pandemic. In the long term, neither corporate political party has prioritized a national initiative to eliminate poverty and hunger in the richest country in the world. In fact, their positions on war, climate and health care contribute to the loss of life in our most vulnerable communities.
On this Mother’s Day let’s honor the women who nurture us by building a political movement that promotes peace and non-violence here and abroad. Cutting billions from the bloated military budget will give the gift of improved Medicare-For-All, food security and universal, federally funded child care to all families. It takes a political party like the Green Party to replace aggression and occupation with disarmament and diplomacy and we need your support to promote that project for peace.
—Michael O’Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party Communications Manager
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2022-05-08 Leaked Supreme Court Roe v. Wade Decision Could Mean Massive Danger to Reproductive Healthcare, Invasion of Privacy
WASHINGTON – The Green Party of the United States has expressed alarm and calls to organize for the right to safe, legal and confidential access to abortions, following reports of a leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
“This is an extremely disturbing decision from the Supreme Court,” said Green Party National Women’s Caucus Spokesperson Holly Hart. “It would overturn decades of understanding and policy that protected women’s privacy and health. If access to safe abortion is handed to state legislatures, we will see a greater erosion of access throughout the country. Tragically, some of the most severe limitations and hardships will fall on poor women, and women with health problems. Denying access to safe abortions in the past has done little or nothing to reduce their number. Instead, we can expect to see ‘destination clinics’ where women will have to travel. Those without resources will resort to ‘back-alley’ abortion providers,” said Hart. Read more…
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2022-0508 National Women’s Caucus Petition on Roe v. Wade: Email Congress
The Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States stands firmly on the right of choice for women everywhere — always!
We hope that you will take this stand with us. There are lots of ways to do this. One that is easy enough to do right now is to send your Representatives this message asking them to represent the rights of all women, not just the rights of those who are anti-abortion. Email Congress through our online action tool…
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2022-05-08 National Lavender Greens Caucus Statement on Leaked Draft SCOTUS Opinion
The National Lavender Green Caucus unequivocally denounces this assault on the bodily autonomy of those who can become pregnant. The leaked draft US Supreme Court opinion first circulated by Politico, if finalized, would throw out nearly five decades of protection for an individual’s right to a safe and legal abortion. The draft decision also makes it abundantly clear that the conservative majority on our nation’s highest court is setting up future challenges to LGBTQIA+ rights.
Justice Alito’s reasoning for overturning Roe v. Wade could be applied to existing case law in cases such as Obergefell v. Hodges (marriage equality), Lawrence v. Texas (sexual equality) and even Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage). While the opinion attempts to dismiss these concerns, those statements ring hollow. Put simply, this decision sets the stage for the eventual erosion of the fundamental protections that queer people have been fighting for in the country for generations. Time and time again we see the people in power in both the big parties using our bodies, our safety, and our pleas for justice as rallying cries for votes and donations, only to abandon us once elected. Read more…
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2022-05-03 Leaked Supreme Court Roe v. Wade Decision Could Mean Massive Danger to Reproductive Healthcare, Invasion of Privacy
The Green Party of the United States has expressed alarm and calls to organize for the right to safe, legal and confidential access to abortions, following reports of a leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-25 Green Party says U.S. complicit in Yemen humanitarian crisis; arms sales to Saudis must end
WASHINGTON – Green Party leaders called on President Biden to take advantage of the April 2nd cease-fire among warring parties in Yemen, to follow through on his promise to end support for all offensive operations, to end weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and to help end the blockade of Saudi warships off the coast of Yemen to allow humanitarian aid to enter the country. The war between the Saudi-led coalition and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-19 Green Party Co-sponsors Earth Day Strike 2022, Calls for Gas Boycott April 22
The National Committee of the Green Party of the United States voted on March 27 to endorse and co-sponsor the Earth Day Strike 2022 and Gas Boycott. The Green Party joins the coalition of citizen activist groups calling for a Gas Boycott as part of a ten-day program of nonviolent action to advance the causes of peace, environmental protection, and social justice from Earth Day, April 22, through May Day. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-18 Green Party US Condemns Attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque
WASHINGTON, DC – Green Party leaders strongly condemned the April 15, 2022, attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem by Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF conducted an early morning raid on the mosque as thousands of worshippers were gathering for morning prayers, injuring over 100. The mosque is an Islamic holy site. The IDF has previously attacked Al Aqsa as an intimidation effort. This was done last June, following protests against forced evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-07 Green Party on IPCC Report: US Must Halt Fossil Fuel Emissions, Enact a Green New Deal
The Green Party of the United States said today that world leaders must interpret the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as highlighting the need to immediately halt the burning of fossil fuels. CONTINUE READING
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2022-03-04 Green Party SOTU rebuttal: parties of war and Wall Street place profits before people
The Green Party rebuttal to the State of the Union, given by North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Matthew Hoh, is available for viewing on the Matthew Hoh for Senate website. The full rebuttal is just under 30 minutes. Excerpts are posted below. CONTINUE READING
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2022-02-25 Green Party Calls for Ceasefire and Diplomatic Solution to Ukraine Crisis
Greens stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and Russia who oppose the invasion The Green Party is calling on the leaders of the United States, NATO and Russia to immediately initiate diplomatic talks together with Ukrainian leadership to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a ground-and-air invasion throughout Ukraine, including the capital city of Kyiv. CONTINUE READING
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2022-02-02 Stop the Saber-Rattling! Greens Call for Immediate Diplomacy to Resolve Ukraine Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders called on the Biden administration to immediately cease escalating military tensions and pursue a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. CONTINUE READING
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2022-01-25 Fed Bails Out Wall Street, Ignores Main Street (Again)
Statement from the Green Party of the United States WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States (Green Party US) and the Green Party’s Banking and Monetary Reform Committee (BMRC) have released the following statement in light of recent reports that banks including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup received $4.5 trillion in potentially illegal repurchase agreement loans (“repo loans”) from the Federal Reserve in the final quarter of 2019: CONTINUE READING
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2022-01-18 Biden Must Issue Executive Orders on Climate, Halt Fossil Fuels
WASHINGTON, DC — The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States (Green Party US) condemns President Biden’s year of climate negligence and renews the call to pressure the president to declare a climate emergency and issue a comprehensive series of related Executive Orders, as described on ClimatePresident.org. CONTINUE READING
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2021-12-08 Statement From Green Party US Steering Committee on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mandates
[Note: While I do support the view that Covid-19 has exposed the need to abandon for-profit healthcare in favor of a Medicare for All healthcare system, I do not agree in total with the Green Party on Covid. I do not support vaccine mandates and my research indicates there has actually been no pandemic from Covid-19. See my candidate statement on Covid-19 for a more detailed explanation! And my research on Covid-19! It is my hope that the Green Party leadership will take a more critical review of this massive wealth transfer under the ruse of a fake pandemic that was merely a serious illness for those with existing life-threatening morbidities! I have serious concerns about the safety of the vaccines themselves. I have strong reason to believe that “Long Covid” is actually “Long Vaccine”! Michael E. Kerr]
WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States Steering Committee strongly supports the use of vaccines, vaccine mandates and quarantines as part of a comprehensive public health effort to curb and eradicate the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has swept the globe since early 2020. CONTINUE READING
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2021-11-22 Greens’ Elections Observer in Venezuela Impressed by “Advanced,” “Fair and Democratic” Process
Report from Green Party of the United States National Co-Chair Ahmed Eltouny as the Green Party’s onsite observer at the November 21 Venezuelan elections CONTINUE READING
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2021-11-16 COP26 Agreements Will Lead to Climate Collapse, Says Green Party
Greens rebuke false solutions from world leaders, call for a Global Green New Deal WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States said today that the COP26 world climate summit in Glasgow failed to produce the radical action scientists say is needed to avoid climate collapse, and that the only way for humanity to prevent catastrophe for life on Earth is a global Green New Deal. CONTINUE READING
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2021-11-05 Greens Score at Least 22 Victories in November Elections
WASHINGTON — Maine Green Independent Party candidates Anna Trevorrow and Scott Harriman winning city council races in Portland and Lewiston (the state’s first- and second-most populous cities, respectively) are highlights among the national party’s 22 electoral victories declared since polls closed on Tuesday. CONTINUE READING
Nancy Pelosi has to go, and Shahid is the one to do it
I fully support Shahid Buttar in his bid to replace Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi’s wealth is between $40 and $200 Million. She opposed the billionaire tax and supports insider trading by members of Congress. Pelosi actively supported Henry Cuellar—a corporate Democrat backed by the National Rifle Association who has also openly opposed abortion rights helping him to a razor thin victory against a strong progressive Jessica Cisneros. Pelosi is a corrupting influence in California politics! Pelosi has been a disaster for the Democratic Party for promoting losing corporate policies over publicly supported progressive ones like Medicare for All.
Michael Ernest Kerr – Green Party candidate for CA Congressional District 10
2022-06-16 Shahid Buttar Concedes Election Loss and gives his Reflections on the Campaign
I’m sorry to report that—despite our best efforts—we were unable to emerge from the jungle primary and proceed to the general election. The final results from the SF Board of Elections show us finishing with 19,431 votes.
Unfortunately, that result leaves us 587 votes (out of 186,473 cast) away from the second place finish that would have placed us in the general election.
In each of those appearances, I offered some reflections on our race and suggested a few opportunities for the movement going forward.
I’d be interested to read any responses to those reflections that you might be moved to share.
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Shahid has slowly gained on the Republican candidate as the votes are being conducted.
2022-06-12 Unofficial Election Results Results will be certified by July 15, 2022.
( 537 of 537 ) precincts partially reporting as of June 12, 2022, 3:03 p.m.
Visit the County Reporting Status page to determine when a county has submitted its latest report.
Precincts are listed as “partially” reporting since vote-by-mail, provisional, and other ballots will continue to be processed and counted after Election Night.
Election results will change throughout the canvass period as vote-by-mail ballots, provisional ballots (including conditional voter registration provisional ballots), and other ballots are tallied.
Candidate
Votes
Percent
Shahid Buttar (Party Preference: DEM)
19,322
10.4%
Nancy Pelosi (Party Preference: DEM)
133,053
71.7%
Jeffrey Phillips (Party Preference: DEM)
3,577
1.9%
Bianca Von Krieg (Party Preference: DEM)
2,489
1.3%
Eve Del Castello (Party Preference: REP)
7,278
3.9%
John Dennis (Party Preference: REP)
19,935
10.7%
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2022-06-07 Voter Turnout very Low, News Coverage almost Non-existent
Voter turnout in the United States is notoriously low as a general rule. But even by our country‘s sad historical standards, turnout in the jungle primary concluding today remains embarrassingly low.
Across the State of California, fewer than 15% of of eligible voters having cast ballots during the early voting period. That means that we enter today’s jungle primary knowing that every vote can make a difference.
In 2020, winning the top-two primary made me the first Democrat to ever face the sitting Speaker of the House in a general election.
Now, we’re back to build on the unprecedented 81,000 votes that we secured despite a media whiteout, a global pandemic, and a public character assassination relying on (and unfortunately reinforcing) racial and religious stereotypes.
Over the course of the primary election cycle, media outlets serving San Francisco have widely chosen to ignore this race entirely. News organizations from CNN and Politico to the LA Times have even written stories presuming the outcome, prognosticating about Pelosi’s plans to put her daughter in her seat presuming that she is allowed—despite documented corruption—to retire on her own terms.
That’s one reason why we’ve been so grateful to the few journalists who have shown up for work, like Eric Ting at SF Gate, Valerie Ibarra and “Diamond” Dave Whitaker at Mutiny Radio, SF Examiner columnist Lincoln Mitchell, and Timothy Regan at KPFA.
Make sure that everyone you know here in San Francisco heads to the polls today! Statistically speaking, it’s more likely than not that they have yet to vote.
Shahid Buttar (excerpt)
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2022-06-07 Empathy Circle
Joined by an Occupy SF organizer, Regan hosted an “Empathy Circle” among candidates in our race that KPFA 94.1 FM aired this past weekend on his weekly program, “Talk It Out.” It was a fascinating experience, both in substance and process.
In process, the Empathy Circle enabled a very different style of dialog from a debate. Unfortunately, even the collaborative and non-adversarial format remained too intimidating for Pelosi to show up. Substantively, it offered a chance to reflect on the incumbent’s sad relationship to democracy.
“I’ve spent a lot of time…trying to liberate our city’s voice in Washington, noting that the oligarch who inhabits this seat has never debated a challenger in the 35 years that she has held it. [That’s] an absolutely preposterous reflection of entitlement and privilege of the worst conceivable kind….[indicating] disrespect for the voters and district…implicit in not showing up for a debate for an entire generation….If you’re not going to debate in public…someone has no business running for office.”
Shahid Buttar (excerpt)
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2022-06-03 Marianne Williams’ “Time for a Change” Endorsement
This is a sad and chaotic time in America, and we are challenged to change. From mass shootings to environmental damage to attacks on our reproductive rights, things are not working. We are faced with the knowledge that in many ways our system has failed us.
Nothing will seriously change if we continue to elect the same people who led us into this mess, in the hopes they can lead us out of it.
Nancy Pelosi has served in the House of Representatives since 1987; she has been Speaker of the House for a total of seven of those years. Even if I did not object to her support for a Congressional candidate who has an NRA A rating and is the sole pro-choice Democrat in the House, and even if I did not object to her support for stock trading by members of Congress; even if I did not object to her support for endless defense spending and oil drilling and subsidizing Big Oil – I would still be hoping for a new era of leadership in America.
No one who has served in the halls of power for almost 35 years then has the consciousness or temperament to oppose that system; at this point they have become the system.
That is why I support Shahid Buttar in his primary bid to replace her as the Democratic candidate for Congress in California’s 11th congressional district. Nancy Pelosi’s leadership is a perpetuation of what has become a corrupt system in Washington, and we will not drive the car out of the ditch by looking to the same people who drove us into it.
Shahid’s background as a lawyer, non-profit leader and peace activist has made him a strong voice for change. This isn’t an election about personalities; it’s an election about policies. I am longing to see new faces, new voices, and new policies in Washington. We can turn what has become a government “of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations” back into a government that at least tries to be “of the people, by the people and for the people.” It is up to us to make the change, to end the season of our political despair.
2022-05-30 Challenging the Military Industrial corruption
Too many other veterans come home with shattered bodies, or minds torn by memories of what they’ve seen, or families challenged by burdens like remote parenthood or living in constant fear of a loved one’s safety.
We’re working on Memorial Day weekend to challenge an oligarch with a long history of complicity in military industrial corruption. Can you join us today to put the lives of veterans before the profits of weapons manufacturers?
Veterans sign up to defend the United States. But time after time, a bipartisan consensus in Washington emerges to place them at grave risk not to defend our country, but instead to extend Wall Street’s interests. That has proven to be the case in every conflict since the Second World War.
Veterans are not expendable salespeople for weapons contracts. Yet, that’s how Washington treats them, whichever party is in the White House.
They deserve civilian leadership that reflects the enormity of their sacrifice and treats them with the respect they deserve—not just in words, but in action.
Shahid Buttar (excerpt)
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2022-05-26 Yesterday was the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
It was also the day after our nation’s latest mass shooting, in which 19 students and two teachers died during a 40 minute rampage by a gunman while police stood outside the building, working mostly to prevent parents from attempting to rescue their children.
On the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, President Biden issued an executive order addressing policing. While largely symbolic, one useful thing it did was finally create a national database of police misconduct. We’ve called for that since 2018, and are pleased to see the White House finally step up, even if the move is years late and too many lives short.
Other reforms that we brought forward include ending Qualified Immunity so that police can be held responsible in court for their abuses of civil rights, abolishing civil asset forfeiture, legalizing cannabis at the federal level, and ending cash bail across the United States.
Each of these measures remains vital, and important parts of a vision that amounts to more than the sum of its parts. Ultimately, our country needs to invest in alternatives to predatory policing, particularly social workers better poised to promote public safety and support people and communities in crisis.
Shahid Buttar (excerpt)
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2022-05-25 Pelosi and Corporate Democrats help NRA supporter and Anti-Choice Democrat win primary against strong Progressive candidate Cisneros
Yesterday, the future took several steps backwards in Texas. We write to observe some patterns that you won’t hear about from most news sources.
The latest mass shooting left 21 young people dead at an elementary school in a mostly Latino neighborhood outside San Antonio, just a week after a white supremacist murdered 10 Black shoppers in a grocery store in Buffalo, NY.
On the very same day that schoolchildren were executed en masse in Texas, local voters went to the polls for a runoff election in the 28th congressional district. Rather than embrace progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros, voters chose incumbent Henry Cuellar—a corporate Democrat backed by the National Rife Association who has also openly opposed abortion rights.
First, Cuellar’s margin of victory was absurdly fragile. Based on last night’s preliminary results, he exceeded Cisneros by less than 200 votes, in an election in which over 50,000 people voted.
In that context, Nancy Pelosi’s outrageous support for Cuellar played a crucial role in keeping Cisneros out of the House, undermining widespread calls for both gun control and reproductive freedom.
While the press is reporting on last night’s election as a Cuellar victory, or as a Cisneros loss, it’s ultimately a victory for Pelosi, Wall Street, and the corruption of the past as it continues to undermine any hope for the future.
That’s why it’s important to hold leadership—who many other voices appear unwilling to name—accountable. And there’s only one way to do that.
Shahid Buttar (excerpt)
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2022-05-24 Can you join us today to hold hypocrisy accountable?
Cisneros is facing headwinds including the substantial weight of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who outrageously supports Cuellar despite mouthing support for abortion rights.
The archbishop of San Francisco denied Nancy Pelosi communion, citing her supposed support for abortion rights. There are so many things wrong with this that I’ll just summarize them quickly.
It’s an impermissible attack on the separation of church and state. Our Constitution includes an Establishment Clause for many good reasons.
It’s an offensive projection of a religious leader’s preferences on the democratic process to undermine fundamental human rights. We invite the archbishop to stay in his lane.
It’s a sad reflection of outright ignorance, since Pelosi is actively undermining the right to choose today, long after having abandoned it years ago. We invite the archbishop to get his facts straight.
It’s yet another example of how journalists construct cults of personality, undermining democratic accountability and their own profession by ignoring facts. We invite editors to expose the hypocrisy that both Pelosi and the archbishop share.
It distracts the news cycle from alternative subjects that could, with any independence, enable change. For instance, the press not only fabricated a narrative that Pelosi is paying a personal price for her supposedly stalwart defense of rights that she is undermining in practice, but continues to ignore stories that could actually help. We invite editors to cover our proposal for states, including California, to pass bills that would activate boycotts of states poised to deny basic rights should Roe fall, in order to threaten commerce and compel the Justices to reject the draft opinion leaked a few weeks ago.
Shahid Buttar (excerpt)
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2022-05-21 Congressional members financially benefit by giving Ukraine $40 billion rather than use money to end homelessness!
This week, Congress approved another $40 billion of weapons purchases. That’s twice the amount it would have taken to end homeless across the United States.
Half a million Americans live without housing. Congress made an affirmative choice to abandon their needs, prioritizing the profits of weapons manufacturers first.
The human rights crisis in Ukraine is real. The Pentagon—enabled by Congress—also helped instigate it.
Meanwhile, at least 20 Members of Congress are personally invested in the publicly traded stocks of weapons manufacturers, positioning them to personally profit from their decisions.
This is worse than mere corruption. This is corruption enabling international conflict.
Would you rather see San Francisco’s voice in Washington advocating for a ban on congressional insider trading to stem this corrupting corporate influence on Congress, or instead embodying that corruption?
Nancy Pelosi supporting Congressional insider trading. The video is available on YouTube, as well as Facebook and Twitter, and we encourage you to share it on whichever platforms you use.
Coordinator, Un Chong Sexual Harassment Support Team, 1979-1985
Member, Korea Link – Human Rights Korea, 1975-1976
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Vote Smart Positions MEK 2020
Pro-Choice
Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation? Pro-choice!
I am strong supporter of a women’s right to choose based on Roe vs. Wade guidelines. While I understand that individuals may have honest religious beliefs against abortion. Pro-Choice does not interfere with that right. It is an individual choice. I do not support harassment of women in making that choice. The issue of abortion has been used by both the Democratic and Republican Parties to divide Americans, so people ignore other important issues. The real moto of most politicians and organizations should be “Sanctity of Life Ends at Birth”. Wars and Corporate Profits take precedence over needs of People.
Wealth Inequality
In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket? Yes!
Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare? Yes!
Wealth Inequity in America and the World is totally unacceptable. We need to tax billionaires out of existence. We need a guaranteed livable income for all American citizens and a partial one for Green card holders. We need the tax rates of the President Dwight ” Ike ” Eisenhower administration but without all the loopholes. I don’t know what maximum income should be, but $3 million (Minimum top 0.1% 2018) seems a more than adequate reward. Corporation need to pay taxes for the society, workers, consumers and environment they profit from. Remaining profits should be split between workers, investors.
Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions? Yes
The Citizen’s United decision by the Supreme Court demands certain Justice’s Impeachment. It is insane to think that our Republic will long survive where big money has free reign over our election system. It is outrageous that a corporation as a legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners should have the same, but more rights of people in our election system. To refer a corporation as a “legal person” is insanity!
Military-Industrial-Prison Complex
Do you support increasing defense spending? No!
I would slash military spending drastically. We don’t need 800 bases across the globe in over 100 countries. The Military-Industrial-Prison (MIP) complex steals our limited taxes to create more and more weapons. They lobby our Congress on unsubstantiated fears for more wars, continued wars and military sales to other countries. Our foreign Policy is based on providing our tax money to foreign leaders on the condition they buy more U.S. Corporate weapons to threaten neighbors and oppressive their people. The MIP fears a Peaceful oriented Foreign Policy that would help the people of other nations. End mass incarceration!
Economic Growth
Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth? Yes!
Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth? No!
Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19? (2022 Question) Yes
The Government should take an active role in providing decent paid jobs toward maintaining and rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure and affordable housing. For Profit corporations only care about their bottom line and not the betterment of society and people’s living standards. Our Government needs to spend and loan money to promote a Green New Deal. This needs the attention (and more) given to the Race to Moon in the 60’s. Corporate and Income on the top 0.1% need to be drastically increased. No more stock buy backs to inflate stock market at expense of the economy for the bottom 99%.
Education
Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards? Yes!
We do need protected minimum standards on the Federal Level. I never have supported “No Child Left Behind” or most of the Obama’s corrections under “Common Core”. Education should be more locally controlled. Education funding should not be based on property taxes pitting seniors against children. Federal and State tax money should support education. I support a pass/fail system rather than grades. My experience in High School and College, is that the grading system was used mainly to reward a few elites and punish and discourage the rest. Beyond Reading and Math, Critical Thinking should be most important learning skill.
Energy and Environment
Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)? Yes!
Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions? Yes
Scientists now say we have 10 years, maybe less with Trump, to prevent a runaway climate catastrophe. The government needs to treat Climate Change like it did the Race to the Moon. We need more International cooperation with Russia and China. We need to end this crazy anti-Russia narrative and promotion of a new “Cold War”. We either all unite during next 10 years or we all will suffer the dire consequences. The Green New Deal should not become just an empty slogan! Fossil fuels has always been a known limited resource. Now it’s an emergency to end its use!
Gun Safety
Do you generally support gun-control legislation? Yes!
Gun safety issues have always been used as wedge issue between Republicans and Democrats. Mental health screenings and treatment, universal background checks, red flag laws and requiring gun licenses all get broad bipartisan support, according to polls, even among a majority of gun owners. Mass killings, especially at schools, seldom respect politics, religion or social standing. We need sensible gun safety regulations. The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a right to keep handguns at home. In a National Poll, 73%, believed the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of Americans to own guns. Confiscation of guns is scare tactic.
Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border? No!
Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship? No
End our cruel illegal foreign policy of wars, coups, sanctions and destabilization of other nations that is the number one reason for mass immigration. Grant Dreamers prompt opportunity for citizenship. Grant everyone now in U.S. a permanent Green card and a reasonable path to citizenship. Issue 10-month work visas not tied to a specific job or corporation with minimum 2 months outside of country allowing indefinite work visa renewals. Encourages needed low skilled workers but discourages family entry. Right now, the strict border control encourages family migration because too risky and expensive to come and go to the U.S.
National Security
Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)? No!
Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts? Yes!
I would slash military spending drastically. We don’t need 800 bases across the globe in over 100 countries. The Military-Industrial-Prison (MIP) complex steals our limited taxes to create more and more weapons. They lobby our Congress on unsubstantiated fears for more wars, continued wars and military sales to other countries. The destabilization of greater Middle East is the sole result of U.S. Military and Foreign Policy. With proper monitoring, the U.S. must help people of the Middle East rebuild their own nation. Diplomacy and positive economic aid create positive Peaceful Democratic government. Sanctions and military force create hatred & violence.
Trade
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
I believe that all international trade deals should be done if it benefits workers, consumers, the environment of the participating nations. International trade deals should not be done just for the benefit of Multi-National Corporations to make more profit. Trade deals must address worker’s fair living wages, working conditions, health and safety in each nation. Trade deals must deal with worker/consumer product safety. Trade deals must be justified in consideration of Green New Deal. No trade deal should in any way supersede the Constitutional Authority of each and all nations. Current trade deals must be scrapped if violating the above.
Administrative Priorities
1. Initiate implementation of the Green New Deal immediately.
1. Climate Crisis needs to be addressed at same level of emergency as we did for WWII. (2022)
2. Implement immediately Medicare For All.
3. Get Big Money out of our Elections via 100% Public financing. Circumvent Citizen United ruling by funding candidates and issues publicly to effectively neutralize big money expenditures. Obtain Funds by special tax on multi-national corporations.
Will use my Congressional bullhorn to attack any policies, tax schemes that don’t help address these issues above.
We have 10 years to save, not just America, but the world from runaway climate catastrophe.
Additional Vote Smart Positions MEK 2022
Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct? No
There is too much corruption in our government and law enforcement. There are inadequate internal protections, investigations and punishment of individuals in our government who are engaged in misconduct and corruption. If necessary, it is also necessary, we must allow external civil lawsuits to change corrupt policies, activities with personal liability for those individuals involved.
Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”)? No
Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19? Yes
I am a strong supporter of Medicare for All (Sigle Payer). We need to keep the inadequate for-profit corporate written ACA until we can replace it with a much better Medicare for All. This needs to be done ASAP! It was criminal that Obama and the Democratic Party leadership refused to allow debate on M4A in 2008. The ACA did not protect the middle class from exorbitant price increases in their health insurances. This resulted in the Republicans sweeping the house and Senate in 2010. And eventually the election of Donald Trump.
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!
Personal and Family
Since I bought the Peace House in 1989, many people have shared my home. I currently have 8 roommates. One is my supportive partner.
I was first married to Un Chong Oh who was my Korean language teacher in Seoul Korea. Although separated for 1 1/2 years after my sudden removal from Korea, we were married in February 1977 in SF at a Mormon woman’s house by a United Methodist minister with best man and woman provided by good Quaker Friends. A professional burglar did amazing magic tricks. He was notorious as the SFGate (like Water Gate) burglar who broke into a number of peace activist groups during the Vietnam war at the request of the FBI and then exposed his activities to those same groups when he felt he might be on a FBI hitlist for knowing too much! Of course, that never happens in America!
As explained elsewhere, my wife died in 1985 after undergoing kidney dialysis for 5 years and after a year and half of severe sexual harassment by her director at her job with the SF Alemany ESL college District. While this trauma helped destroy her physical heath, along with supporters and myself we were, at least, able to help her recover most of her dignity and spirit.
In 1989, I met a young mother of 3 children while on a caravan trip to El Salvador. Long story, but because of death threats from the Death Squad government of El Salvador I helped smuggle her, a brother, a sister, and a cousin into the U.S. that December. Actually, 3 were captured by U.S. immigration when abandoned by “coyotes”. Back then immigration laws were more humane and profitable. I was able to bail them out of detention quickly for about $2000 which the government eventually kept. We were married in February 1990 and the 3 relatives all obtained legal refugee status. A year and half later we were able to legally bring her three young children to the U.S. The children are now all grown. I had a cordial divorce with my wife about 20 years ago. However, I am still close with everyone.
My parents are both deceased. My dad was a construction engineer and served as a bomber navigator during WWII in the Pacific. My mom was a “Rosie Riveter” during WWII and later was an accountant. My brother is a retired wildlife forest ranger in Montana and my sister is a retired judge in Minnesota. My older half-sister lives in Minnesota and the younger one is a veteran and nurse in Fairfield.
Professional Experience
I delivered local newspapers while in Junior High School.
I worked as a student Engineer at International Harvester while attending Northwestern University in the field of Science Engineering.
I was the last of the draftees and served 3 years in the U.S. Army Signal Corp while mostly stationed in South Korea from October 1972 to October 1975. I was honorably discharged along with a Good Conduct Metal. But one of my greatest honors was when I was secretly removed from Korea by the U.S. Military at the demand of the Korean dictatorship! While under guard for 24 hours before I was on a plane home, my removal orders stating that, “I was a discredit and embarrassment to the United States of America”. Writing letters to Congress and the President sometimes gets rewarded in strange ways! A progressive activist was born!
I worked at National Semiconductor in Sunnyvale for almost 7 years in the early days of computers in the Silicon Valley, mostly as the lead computer technician in the computer repair department. Back then we had to repair computers down to the basic simple IC gates, now of which are thousands in a single IC. We were told back then that someday all the information in the world would be available on our watches. So, it has come to pass, however now this wide unlimited access to information is threatened by governments and corporate interests that would censor, distort and literally ban individuals and viewpoints that contradict the official narratives!
Besides a number of jobs at various pizza restaurants, I was a self-trained organic gardener and home maintenance person for many years.
Civic Involvement
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.
Primarily, I am currently mostly active with 3 groups: Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, Oscar Grant Committee. I have been active less recently or in the in past with Diablo Greens, Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center, Crosses of Lafayette, Our Revolution Contra Costa, ACCE, Bay Point Residence Association, Bay Point Garden Club, Injured Workers United, San Jose NOW, Sunnyvale Renters Association, Korea Link – Human Rights Korea, Un Chong Sexual Harassment Support Team and Nuremberg Actions.
When a rent control initiative was put on the ballot in Sunnyvale, I joined in that effort which involved a joint effort between young liberal activists and conservative senior citizens from the many mobile home parks. More people voted for the initiative than had voted in the previous off year election, but the landlords and real estate backed by corporate media spent millions to get homeowners to believe rent control would destroy the city and we loss by a narrow margin.
A year and a half later, when I couldn’t get anyone else to, I ran in a short special election to fill a vacant City Council seat. I actually thought I could win as I was the only candidate in favor of rent control out of six candidates. Unfortunately, the city had earlier agreed to some rent control on mobile home parks, so the conservative seniors abandoned me, and apartment renters didn’t vote in mass. When the reporter called me to say I had finished only a few votes behind the landlord candidate, I exclaimed “you mean she won”. Actually, I had finished 4th behind the Democrat and Republican Party candidates.
In 2020 I ran for Congress as the Green Party candidate in the current District 11 which comprised most of Contra Costa County.
My campaign website http://www.CreatingBetterWorld.org is meant to be a public resource to access various alternative news, opinions and information that is ignored, censored or distorted by the Military industrial Prison Media complex! When an important and serious issue arises don’t just trust your corporate media for the whole story or even the truth. Please refer to my website resources! Personally, I would rather you use my website resource than just vote for me. My website will be there long after any election!
Political Experience
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 ran for Sunnyvale city council in 1985 and finished a close 4th to a landlord candidate, a year after I was involved in a losing but highly successful rent control campaign. While apartment renters did not win any concessions from the existing city council, the mostly senior citizen and family mobile home parks did obtain some relief from increasing renter space rents.
I am again running for U.S. Congress as the Green Party candidate in the new CA 10th District. I thank the nearly 15,697 voters (7.4%) who supported me in 2020 in the current CA District 11. I intend to be a bullhorn on issues that corporate politicians and media don’t want you to either know & talk about. You may not always agree with me on every issue, but I do try to base my opinions on serious research while always keeping an open critical mind to additional facts and information.
My campaign website http://www.CreatingBetterWorld.org is dedicated to providing extensive alternative political resources and viewpoints on most every issue confronting society today. My website is an ongoing education resource that will continue and improve long after this election. To be honest your regular use of my website is more important than your vote.
Religious Beliefs
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 and 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 needs of the people that could make everyone’s lives so much better.
Accomplishments and Awards
I take pride in the many things I have done to help make this a better world. For example:
In late 2007, I learned that Loaves and Fishes had closed down its food operation for the homeless and needy. Using my home equity funds, I personally fed a community of some 20-40 people at a local park Monday thru Friday. We affectionately became the Anuta Park Picknickers. We sent a petition to Loaves & Fishes pleading them to return to Bay Point and fortunately they did finally return later in 2008. We also sent a letter to the Bill Gates Foundation signed by about 35 of us asking that they consider the possibility of financing a high school in Bay Point whose teens had to travel many miles to another town’s High School. The Gates Foundation rudely rejected our plea!
In a fruitless effort due to liability concerns to grow some of our own homeless community food in one of the numerous vacant lots in Bay Point, I was informed that the Ambrose Park District might offer the vacant lot next to the community center for a garden.
After a lot of effort, I was able to secure permission to build a community garden by a 5-0 vote as long as the district was not financially responsible or otherwise involved. With my home equity money and a loan from the District, I and many of my homeless community friends built the garden in just over a month. For 5 years, I financed and managed the garden with help from friends and community volunteers. Without notice, the garden was taken away from me by the Park District in a 5-0 vote. This was clearly done in retaliation for my successful efforts in saving the community pool from destruction. The Pool has since been remodeled but sadly the community garden was neglected and ignored by the Park District for many years until recently.
I have been involved with the Crosses of Lafayette project since its founding in 2006. I built, painted and erected 75 of the first 300 crosses. That first New Year’s Eve, I helped lead a candlelight vigil display by each of the then 1000 crosses. The Crosses of Lafayette represents the now over 8000 American young men and women who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan both clearly illegal according to our Constitution and International Law. When the hillside across from the Lafayette Bart Station reached 4000 crosses, it became too full for additional crosses, but a sign there reflects the number of service people killed to date. Unfortunately, the City Council of Lafayette refused other signs to address the much larger number of service people seriously injured or the many hundreds of thousands of civilians needlessly killed and the millions forced into refugee status or terrorized on the ground in at least 5 other countries.
Over the years, I have been arrested about 40 times and risked arrest many other times to help publicize immoral and illegal activities by our government and multinational corporations.
Educational Background
I somehow managed to be accepted into the elite Northwestern University after High School. I suspect this happen because of a convergence of two new situations. First, I had chosen a new field Science Engineering desperate for student majors. Secondly, this was the first year Blacks were accepted as students in the school’s 100 plus years of existence. Much later, I realized that I had also benefitted from Affirmative Action. I and a high school classmate were the first students, in anyone’s memory, from our poor working-class neighborhood who had been accepted into Northwestern.
I was in college during the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement with a low draft number staring me in the face. I was mostly clueless and never got really involved against the war. I was working off campus as a student engineer when Kent State happened. Students tore up all the iron wrought fencing and block the road in front of the campus for weeks with bond fires. The road was a major commuter route into Chicago. I missed all that, or maybe I might have become an anti-war activist sooner. Certainly, I had thought, my country wouldn’t attack Vietnam unless it was necessary and the right thing to do! I would learn better! Of course, I probably did do some small things in college that were signs of my activism to come. I actually completed my 5-year Science Engineering program, but never graduated or ever practiced Engineering. Never had any regrets about that.
After my military service using the GI Education program, I did obtain an AS in Computer Technology from Heald College in San Francisco.
After I bought my Peace House in 1989, I self-taught myself skills in home maintenance and gardening.
Of course, for some 50 years now, I have self-taught myself and become actively involved in many political issues confronting society and the world.
Military Service
My activist days actually began in earnest when I was the last of the draftees in October 1972. After training at Ft. Polk, LA and Ft. Gordon, GA, I was assigned to the U.S. Army Signal Corp in South Korea. It was Christmas Day 1973, when I traveled from Seoul to Pusan to meet the Korean orphan whom I had been sponsoring through a magazine ad. Later stationed in Wonju, I also became involved with a nearby World Vision orphanage. My two visits to Pusan orphanage led me to investigate corruption in the Korean orphan situation.
This would eventually lead me on a path of investigating the U.S. support of the South Korean dictatorship of Park Chung Hee. In 1974, I extended my time in the Army for another year time to stay in Korea. I then began exposing the U.S. support of the Park Chong Hee dictatorship in letters to Congress and President Gerald Ford. 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.
I was also applying to stay in Korea to both marry my Korean Language teacher Un Chong and travel around Korea as a civilian. After a long delay in approval, I arranged to meet with the base Inspector General. The Major had me meet him alone after normal hours. Upon arrival he immediately stated that whatever it was that I was doing, the Korean Government was not going to let me stay in the country. I told him I had been writing letters to Congress and would he like to see my letters and responses. I then asked how the Korean government would know about my mail to Congress when I was never involved with Korean activists and had been using the military mail system. He immediately refused to review my letters and abruptly ended the meeting.
A week or two later under disguise of a fake military exercise with most of my base personnel scattered across distant Korean hillsides, I was abruptly and secretly removed from Korea by the U.S. Military command at the demands of the Korean Government. Under the Freedom of Information Act requests, I discovered that the Korean Foreign Minister was actually demanding the U.S. Military command do something about me. Article 15, Court Marshal and sending me back to the States were all considered. But it was determined that I was of a martyr disposition, so in order to please the Korean dictatorship and prevent any embarrassing incidents by me, the U.S. High Command finally decided to send me back to the U.S. illegally with no advanced notice. I was put under arrest and in less than 24 hours I was on a plane to Travis AFB in the U.S. My official removal orders stated that I was a discredit and embarrassment to the United States of America. My proudest award ever, this was like being given a Ph.D. in Korean Human Rights study all certified by U.S. Military and the Korean dictatorship.
During my removal processing, I was to publicly disobey my First Sargent numerous times always forcing him to allow Un Chong to be with me. In the back of a jeep on that two-hour ride to Seoul that night we exchanged vows with rubber band rings.
It was October 1975 when I was released from the military at Ft. Lewis, WA. I went on a 4-month hitch hike and bus journey across the Northwest speaking at churches and colleges. I spent much of the next 3 years, working on Korean Human Rights.
General Philosophy My Bio
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 currently mostly active with 3 groups: Veterans For Peace, Code Pink , Oscar Grant Committee. I have also been involved with Our Revolution, Diablo Greens, Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center, Crosses of Lafayette and ACCE of Bay Point.
With VFP and Code Pink I have protested against my country’s illegal immoral Drone Assassination Program with vigils and arrests at both Beale AFB and Creech AFB, Nevada.
I was involved with Our Revolution Contra Costa as a founder and Board member from 2017 until I ran for Congress in 2020. I was among thousands active outside the 2016 Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia in support of Bernie Sanders.
I am active with the Oscar Grant Committee especially these past 3-4 years. The OGC works with and on behalf of families who have had their loved ones senselessly murdered or attacked by police.
In late 2007, when Loaves and Fishes temporarily closed I personally fed 20-40 people for several months. Later I and the homeless community built a community garden which I managed for 5 years.
In 2006, I became involved with the Crosses of Lafayette which represents the now over 8000 American young men and women who have died in the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan according to our Constitution and International Law.
I have been involved in several environmental actions concerning the approaching Climate Catastrophe including an arrest at Monsanto Headquarters concerning Round-up’s Glyphosate poison and their GMO terminator seeds.
When the Veterans for Peace made a call for veterans to gather at Standing Rock, South Dakota in late November 2016 in support of the Sioux and other Native Americans fighting to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), I made the journey with two other fellow activists.
(NA) on September 1, 1987, when Peace activist Brian Willson and two others were run over and assaulted by an ammunition train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station. I soon became a full-time member of Nuremberg Actions and Peace House manager of the two-year 24/7 vigil action in front of the Naval base. With over 500 hundred arrests, we blocked every military ammunition train for 2 years along with countless weapons trucks. Weapons were mostly destined for right wing dictatorships oppressing their own people in Central America. I currently own and live in that Peace House ever since the action wound down in late 1989.
I was accepted into elite Northwestern University after High School. I realized later that I had probably benefitted from Affirmative Action. I and another classmate were the first students from our poor working-class neighborhood who had been accepted into Northwestern.
I was in college during the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement with a low draft number staring me in the face and never got really involved against the war.
My activist days 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. There I became involved with Korean orphanages and investigated some corruption.
Eventually I was investigating the U.S. support of the South Korean dictatorship of Park Chung Hee. In 1974, I began exposing the dictatorship in letters to Congress and President Gerald Ford. In July 1975, I was secretly removed from Korea by the U.S. Military at request of Korean Government. My official orders stated that I was a discredit and embarrassment to the United States of America.
During my removal processing, I was to publicly disobey my First Sargent numerous times always forcing him to allow Un Chong to be with me. In the back of a jeep on that two-hour ride to Seoul that night we exchanged vows with rubber band rings. Separated for 1½ years, my Korean love, Un Chong was finally able to come to the U.S. and married in February 1977 in SF.
My wife was sexually harassed by her Director at the SF Community College ESL Division. During a long a 6-year lawsuit, SF Radical Woman and WOASH (Woman Organized Against Sexual Harassment) helped my wife. These were the early years of the sexual harassment movement. We were involved with the San Jose NOW.
During this time, I joined a rent control initiative on the ballot in Sunnyvale, and later unsuccessfully ran for City Council seat.
According to many lawyers who became aware of my wife’s case, it was considered one of the worst sexual harassment incidents they had ever heard. My wife’s health declined eventually requiring Kidney Dialysis. In September 1985, she died from the severe emotional stress that had aggravated and damaged her health.
I was slowly recovering from the loss of my wife when Brian Wilson was attacked by the train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS).
In March of 1989, I joined a caravan to El Salvador. When I returned the Peace House was for sale and Nuremberg Actions had mostly ended. With money from Un Chong’s Lawsuit, I was able to purchase the Peace House.
I had lived with a large family in El Salvador and had developed a romantic relationship with the eldest daughter. With a friend who spoke Spanish and after two harrowing weeks I helped bring her and 3 relatives into the U.S in December 1989. I married Felicita and a year later she brought her 3 young children to the U.S. The children are now all grown. I had a cordial divorce with my wife 20 years ago. However, I am still close with everyone.
I am a 9/11 truther! Since the release of the 9/11 Commission report in 2005 I have offered a reward of $100,000 to the first person who can 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 joined millions across the globe protesting the impending invasion of Iraq in 2003.
I am currently mostly active with 3 groups: Veterans For Peace, Code Pink , Oscar Grant Committee. I have also been involved with Our Revolution, Diablo Greens, Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center, Crosses of Lafayette and ACCE of Bay Point.
With VFP and Code Pink I have protested against my country’s illegal immoral Drone Assassination Program with vigils and arrests at both Beale AFB and Creech AFB, Nevada.
I was involved with Our Revolution Contra Costa as a founder and Board member from 2017 until I ran for Congress in 2020. I was among thousands active outside the 2016 Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia in support of Bernie Sanders.
I am active with the Oscar Grant Committee especially these past 3-4 years. The OGC works with and on behalf of families who have had their loved ones senselessly murdered or attacked by police.
In late 2007, when Loaves and Fishes temporarily closed I personally fed 20-40 people for several months. Later I and the homeless community built a community garden which I managed for 5 years.
In 2006, I became involved with the Crosses of Lafayette which represents the now over 8000 American young men and women who have died in the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan according to our Constitution and International Law.
I have been involved in several environmental actions concerning the approaching Climate Catastrophe including an arrest at Monsanto Headquarters concerning Round-up’s Glyphosate poison and their GMO terminator seeds.
When the Veterans for Peace made a call for veterans to gather at Standing Rock, South Dakota in late November 2016 in support of the Sioux and other Native Americans fighting to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), I made the journey with two other fellow activists.
(NA) on September 1, 1987, when Peace activist Brian Willson and two others were run over and assaulted by an ammunition train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station. I soon became a full-time member of Nuremberg Actions and Peace House manager of the two-year 24/7 vigil action in front of the Naval base. With over 500 hundred arrests, we blocked every military ammunition train for 2 years along with countless weapons trucks. Weapons were mostly destined for right wing dictatorships oppressing their own people in Central America. I currently own and live in that Peace House ever since the action wound down in late 1989.
I was accepted into elite Northwestern University after High School. I realized later that I had probably benefitted from Affirmative Action (my first year, was also the first year that blacks were allowed to attend NU). I and another classmate were the first students from our poor working-class neighborhood who had been accepted into Northwestern.
I was in college during the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement with a low draft number staring me in the face and never got really involved against the war.
My activist days 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. There I became involved with Korean orphanages and investigated some corruption.
Eventually I was investigating the U.S. support of the South Korean dictatorship of Park Chung Hee. In 1974, I began exposing the dictatorship in letters to Congress and President Gerald Ford. In July 1975, I was secretly removed from Korea by the U.S. Military at request of Korean Government. My official orders stated that I was a discredit and embarrassment to the United States of America.
During my removal processing, I was to publicly disobey my First Sargent numerous times always forcing him to allow Un Chong to be with me. In the back of a jeep on that two-hour ride to Seoul that night we exchanged vows with rubber band rings. Separated for 1½ years, my Korean love, Un Chong was finally able to come to the U.S. and married in February 1977 in SF.
My wife was sexually harassed by her Director at the SF Community College ESL Division. During a long a 6-year lawsuit, SF Radical Woman and WOASH (Woman Organized Against Sexual Harassment) helped my wife. These were the early years of the sexual harassment movement. We were involved with the San Jose NOW.
During this time, I joined a rent control initiative on the ballot in Sunnyvale, and later unsuccessfully ran for City Council seat.
According to many lawyers who became aware of my wife’s case, it was considered one of the worst sexual harassment incidents they had ever heard. My wife’s health declined eventually requiring Kidney Dialysis. In September 1985, she died from the severe emotional stress that had aggravated and damaged her health.
I was slowly recovering from the loss of my wife when Brian Wilson was attacked by the train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS).
In March of 1989, I joined a caravan to El Salvador. When I returned the Peace House was for sale and Nuremberg Actions had mostly ended. With money from Un Chong’s Lawsuit, I was able to purchase the Peace House.
I had lived with a large family in El Salvador and had developed a romantic relationship with the eldest daughter. With a friend who spoke Spanish and after two harrowing weeks I helped bring her and 3 relatives into the U.S in December 1989. I married Felicita, a year later she brought her 3 young children to the U.S. The children are now all grown, and I had a cordial divorce with my wife 20 years ago. However, I am still close with everyone.
I am a 9/11 truther! Since the release of the 9/11 Commission report in 2005 I have offered a reward of $100,000 to the first person who can 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 joined millions across the globe protesting the impending invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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My Political Philosophy
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.
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.
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. My investigation of corruption in the Korean orphanages, lead me to U.S. support of the South Korean dictatorship of Park Chung Hee. In 1974, I began writing letters to Congress and President Gerald Ford. My letters were usually signed by 5-6 other soldiers. On my 4-page letter to the President, had 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. My official removal orders stated that I was a discredit and embarrassment to the United States of America.
In 1979, when I learned of my wife’s sexual harassment by her Director at the SF Community College ESL Division, I joined her in a long a 6-year lawsuit. Radical Woman in SF and WOASH (Woman Organized Against Sexual Harassment) helped create a dynamic support team to help my wife in her struggle and in exposing the reality of sexual harassment to the general public. These were the early years of the sexual harassment movement. We were also both involved with the San Jose NOW.
According to many lawyers who became aware of my wife’s case, it was considered one of the worst sexual harassment incidents they had ever heard. In September 1985, my wife died from the severe emotional stress that had aggravated and damaged her health. But justice and the legal system often are at odds. Laws passed to protect corporations and government entities quickly stole most the potential money damages from my wife’s case, causing our latest attorney to quit. Eventually, forced to settle without the trial my wife and I had wanted.
I was introduced to Nuremberg Actions (NA) on September 1, 1987 when Peace activist Brian Willson and two others Rev. David Duncomb and WWII Veteran Duncan Murphy were run over and assaulted by an ammunition train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station. I soon became a full-time member of the two-year 24/7 vigil action in front of the Naval base. Brian’s words became our rallying cry “We are not worth more; They are not worth less!” With over 500 hundred arrests, we blocked every military ammunition train for 2 years along with countless weapons trucks. These weapons were mostly destined for right wing dictatorships oppressing their own people in Central America.
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 was arrested along with a couple dozen others including Daniel Ellsberg and the President of the Pacific Stock Exchange. The invasions and occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria are all War Crimes in violation of our Constitution and International Law. Our overt involvement in the coups in Libya, Honduras, Ukraine, Bolivia, and failed attempt in Venezuela are also War Crimes. Every American should be ashamed. With NO respect for national sovereignty and Human rights, we have a terrorist government run by the Deep State.
I have been arrested about 40 times most recently protesting U.S. drone assassination program. I am also active with the Oscar Grant Committee to defend and support families of police violence and abuse.
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!
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My Top Priorities
1. Military Industrial Complex control of media and the two main political parties and censorship of alternative information from their profit driven narratives.
2. Our government and media are not treating climate change like the serious crisis it has become
3. The Military Industrial Media Complex has split the country into extreme hatred between Republicans & Democrats despite both having similar basic needs and wants
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Candidate Questions
1: What legislation, if any, would you support to reduce American greenhouse gas production? Please explain the reasons for your position. Source: League of Women Voters of California
New Green Deal – creates new jobs in alternative energy fields would promote use and creation of products away from need for fossil fuels,
Medicare for All – besides creating affordable comprehensive healthcare for everyone it would encourage government as the payer to promote more healthy diets (less corporate fossil fuel agriculture) and to promote the elimination of toxic sources of pollution
Tax the billionaires and those with more than $10 million out of existence through aggressive income tax and wealth taxes. These super wealthy people distort our government system by helping elect politicians that cater to their profit-making desires rather than the long term needs of the people and society.
Guaranteed livable income for all American adults that would (besides Medicare for All) end the economic grip of the “for short term profit” multinational corporations in favor of more local small and co-op business workers that would care more for long term health, safety, and sustainability of their society
Use of 100% renewable, reusable and repairable products that would drastically cut down of extraction and waste of the world’s valuable resources.
2: Should immigration laws be changed? What changes would you support? Please explain why. Source: League of Women Voters of California
Change our foreign policy into one that acts in the best interests of both the American people and the people in other lands. Provide foreign aid to other countries that will help the people live better lives instead of more military aid that promotes the worst in these countries. If we help to make other countries better for the people living there then there is less pressure for them to immigrate except in a more natural regulated way.
As to our near neighbor, Mexico, and other countries, I would propose creating a simple low cost 10-month work entry visa for anyone to enter the U.S. which is renewable as long as they leave the U.S. for at least two months between Visa entries. This would help eliminate most of the “coyote” business, the need for the dangerous illegal entry, and discourage the need to bring families. No control of immigrant workers by any specific business or corporation. Might require some proof of employment and special Social Security # via same documents other Americans have with the IRS. Not sure how to deal with pregnant women that might enter U.S. just to give birth to an American citizen. Maybe not a problem!
3: As Congress Member what, if any, policies or legislation would you support to preserve democracy for all US residents? Source: League of Women Voters of California
Keep the internet free and do not allow social media giants to censor and control speech for any political reasons. There has been massive censorship, banning and removal of videos and posts that do not support the government/ corporate media narratives. This is the major tools of authoritative and Fascist governments.
Bring back and expand the fairness doctrine that was eliminated in the early 80s. It has resulted in divisive talk shows, news outlets that have polarized the nation into hate filled Democratic and Republican constituencies.
Eliminate the open primary unless the top 4 candidates along with write-ins can go to the General election. Ballot statements for all candidates should be allowed without cost. These two items have effectively eliminated third parties from the full election system in CA.
If the above items and others to create a well-informed population about issues from many viewpoints is addressed, then every American citizen 16 and older should be allowed to vote with no exceptions. Even the incarcerated should be allowed to vote according to their last known address or voting registration.
No laws should be enacted that would prevent, discourage, or make difficult the ability for any American citizen to vote! There should be allowed local consideration for Green Card holders and eligible family to vote in some local elections such as school boards and park districts.
4: The Federal Government plays a part in California water allocation and use through a variety of projects and laws. What, if any, new programs or projects or reforms to existing programs and projects would you support in an effort to handle water shortages caused by the current and any future drought? Source: League of Women Voters of California
Water resources and distribution systems should never be allowed to be privatized for profit. Corporate agriculture farming that grows water intensive plants should be discouraged such as rice in the central valley desert. There should be a special water usage tax on the profits of large corporate farms for their water usage whether from canals, pipe systems, rivers, lakes or underground well sources. Water costs should be determined by food crops grown, usage in CA, rest of the U.S. and the world market.
The federal government needs to declare the existing climate crisis an emergency and tackle the problem as we did when we mobilized for WWII.
Reservoirs have proved important in the past, but such projects must be highly scrutinized for cause-and-effect problems on the environment, people and species protection. If it can be done energy and environmentally safe perhaps desalination projects might be possibility.
Recycled use of water and keeping water from being polluted are also areas that should be addressed. Single use bottled water and other drinks should have increased CRV costs and be evaluated as to their water sources and effects on various communities.
As with all issues this candidate would never create or support legislation once in office without serious research and education that considers all viewpoints on every aspect of the issue.
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
