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#REALPOLITICALCOURAGETEST Draft Revision 9/5/14

25) In what ways do you plan to support NY State farmers? Large and small? Organic and non-organic?
Note to the public: Please get these out to all NY State Gubernatorial candidates ASAP! They should be given 2 weeks from date of
delivery to respond. Serve them in person by a group that truly represents your community! And the younger the constituents, the 26) Do you advocate for state-wide freeze on all "development" projects that have the possibility of destroying community, contribute to
better! Please do your homework beforehand, make appointment, get meeting on video, etc. future gentrification, pollute the environment, recklessly endanger the community or bring in outside labor and not hire from the local
community?
Note to the politician: Feel free to provide any helpful reference to articles or studies! Please elaborate when needed. Use
separate paper to fill out answers! 27) Do you feel that the current healthcare system is broken? If so, what steps would you take to fix it?
i.e. what is your solution for providing high-quality health-care and true healthy lifestyle to all New Yorkers? Please elaborate.
Please call 646-470-3890 or e-mail occupyunionsquare@gmail.com to confirm that youve completed.
28) What is your opinion on immigration of peoples from other countries to the U.S.A.? What rights, if any, do you support for existing
immigrants & illegals? What rights for new immigrants. Please elaborate.
Questions:
29) Do you support LGBT community? How, Why?
1) Top 10 things you would fund? / Top 10 things you would DE-fund?
30) What is your opinion of nuclear power plants? What immediate steps would you take to promote or eliminate?
2) List the main steps you would take to protect our food, water, atmosphere, soil & oceans?
31) What is your opinion on fracking? What immediate steps would you take to promote or eliminate?
3) What short & long-term energy technologies do you support for fuel, heat & electric for NY State? What will you immediately do to make
these happen as quickly as possible? 32) What, if anything, should be done to prevent police abuses of law and to address popular grievances and genuine community concerns
with local police? If you were elected, would you immediately and directly do to help out with this?
4) Do you believe in the right to have a job if a person wants one? If so, what would you immediately do to make this happen?
33) How do you feel about the militarization of our country's police force? What, if anything, do you immediately plan to do about it if you
5) What are things you would do in office to immediately address the increased homelessness issue in our cities and state? take office?

6) Would you advocate for an official state agency to address individual residents' grievances against their local governments and agencies? 34) How to plan to combat increasing racism?
How would you envision this agency functioning effectively?
35) How do you plan to address situations of long-time and recent political prisoners in NY State and USA? If you can, please list 5 examples
7) What role, if any, do you see for the President & Congress in the building of strong local economies nationwide? Can we do it ourselves as of people you see as political prisoners and who should be released ASAP?
NY State? Or how can we get help from them? Please elaborate.
36) What, if anything, should be done to address our government's known history of sabotaging social movements (CoIntelPro) and creating
8) What are the top five things you would immediately do to stimulate the NY State economy that ensures fairness? disorder and chaos worldwide via the C.I.A. and corrupt politicians? What type of societal structure do you envision that would be effective
in stopping this type of injustice?
9) What is your view on the current popular resistance to injustice & oppression and the popular restoring of democratic principles,
humanity, dignity, and mutual-respect to our system of governance and commerce? 37) What is your opinion on the use of torture? What, if anything, would you immediately do to address the issue? Do you see solitary
confinement as torture?
10) What, if anything would you do to improve our education system? Be specific. Is there any flaws in the pay-for-education system? If so,
what? Please elaborate. 38) Do you see homelessness as a form of torture? Please elaborate.

11) What would you do to immediately address our severely broken local, state and federal <In>justice systems and rife corruption? 39) What is your opinion on the National Defense Authorization Act and it's allowance of military detainment of any American citizen
without due process and violating Posse Comitatus? What, if anything, would you immediately do to address the issue?
12) Would you immediately push for the forming of a U.S. Truth Commission to investigate true crimes & other projects kept secret from the
people of the U.S.A. by Federal, State and local governments, U.S. military & U.S. corporations? Projects and crimes that violate our 40) What is your view on the U.S. Federal Reserve bank? Do you feel that anything should be done about it short/long-term? If so, what?
Constitutional rights and may be considered "crimes against humanity? If so, does anything come to mind that you would want the truth to
come out about and to have the guilty parties somehow pay for their crime? Please elaborate. 41) How do you feel about a basic income for all residents of NY State? If you see this as a possibility, who should be entitled to it? And how
does the amount get chosen?
13) If you support a free and independent grassroots-led press and journalists with integrity, what steps do you immediately plan to take if
elected to support this? What if anything needs to be done about our mainstream media domination of the airwaves and questionable 42) What is your view on the IMF bank? Do you feel that anything should be done about it short/long-term? If so, what?
reporting / distortions / omissions ?
43) What is your view on the U.N.? Has it been effective in addressing serious crime and poverty? Do you feel that anything should be done
14) What is your view on 3rd party political candidates? Do you feel that any can ever be viable? And under what circumstances should about it short/long-term? If so, what?
they be heard and debated in the public sphere?
44) Is there any conceivable way you would authorize ANY level of force against peaceful protesters exercising their right to free speech and
15) What is your view of the Federal, state, and local political & election process? Can we truly have a representative democracy? If so, what to publically assemble? If so, under what circumstances? What levels of force are ok in your opinion to use: tear gas, rubber bullets, live
would you vow to do to make this a reality? grenades, smoke grenades, water hoses, dogs, batons, tazers, MRAPS, nets, sirens, lights, fences, fists, cameras? Any of these OK? If so, when?

16) Are you aware of the Universal Declaration of Rights for Mother Earth? The Declaration of Interdependence? What do you think of these 45) How would your government deal with agent provocateurs?
documents? What, if anything, do you intend to do to honor these documents?
46) Do you believe in "false-flag" events? Can you give 5 examples? If you believe that these are real, do you see any way for a government
17) Do you believe in the right for animals to existing without being hurt by humans for commercial or habitual purposes? Are you yourself or a people to effectively stop them?
vegetarian?
47) What is your view on the democratically collectively decided willful succession of a city or town from State and /or Federal rule?
18) How to you view secret negotiations of politicians and corporate leaders (like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Bilderberg meetings etc.)
behind closed doors in which they decide public policy and sometimes make decisions and pass laws that violate our U.S. Constitution? 48) What is your view on the democratically collectively decided willful succession of a state from Federal rule?

19) Do you feel that the People of NYC and NY state should have the ability to expediently IMPEACH a politician if they wish to 49) Do you believe something needs to be done to empower indigenous peoples in USA territory? Or retribution/ remediation/
democratically? How do you envision this process working? How can we insure that they are replaced with someone that is better and not acknowledgement for / recognition of past crimes? If so, what? What steps would you immediately take to address their concerns?
same/worse?
50) What is your opinion on Columbus Day holiday? Thanksgiving?
20) Do you agree that the People of NYC and NY State should have a way to expediently vote and implement BALLOT INIATIVES into effect?
If you agree, how would you immediately facilitate this process and ensure inclusiveness, fairness, openness and oversight? 51) What is your opinion on July 4th / Independence Day holiday?

21) What is your view on public service workers having the right to collectively bargain and strike? And support one another. What about 52) What is your opinion on May Day holiday? Labor Day? Veterans Day?
workers in privately own businesses?
53) Any others holidays you'd like to mention?
22) If they choose to do so democratically, do you believe that he People can penalize or possible seize a company thats been found guilty of
break Common law and violating the Peoples trust 54) What is your opinion of nuclear weapons? What immediate steps would you take to promote or eliminate?

23) Do you support worker co-ops? If so, what would you immediately do in office to support? 55) What is your opinion on scalar weapons? What immediate steps would you take to promote or eliminate?

24) What, if anything, do you plan to do about food waste in NY State towns and cities? 56) What is your opinion on net-neutrality? And unrestricted high-speed Internet for all NY State residents?

57) What is your view on "private property" rights? 90) Do you advocate for the immediate legalization of organic "magic mushrooms" and LSD for NY public by responsible parties? If so, how
do you envision the legalization process? Timeframe? Regulation?
58) What is your opinion of graffiti? Should it be allowed? Tolerated? Discouraged? Under what circumstances?
91) Do you believe sex workers have rights to practice safe sex for money? If so, should they have a right to form a workers union? And/or
59) What is your opinion of public art? Who decides what is 'quality' art? Do you feel there is enough 'quality' art in public spaces? work independently?

60) What, if anything, would you do in office to support the arts and artists? 92) What do you think about women going topless in NYC?

61) Should women have the same basic rights as men? If not, explain. If so, how will you empower women if elected? 93) What is your knowledge of secret societies like Skull & Bones, Freemasons, Jesuits, Gladio, Bildgerbergers & their relation to CIA, FBI,
Secret Service, FEMA, NASA, NSA, Homeland Security, Nazis, Zionists, Ku Klux Klan, world leaders, Wall St. bankers & military contractors?
62) How do you feel about access to abortion for women?
94) Do you feel that its important for any public figure to disclose if theyre a member of a secret society?
63) What, if anything, would you do to stop male violence against women? Push for equal pay for women? Push for voices of women heard?
Assistance with motherhood and parenting, career, etc. 95) Are you a member of a secret society? If so, what?

64) What is your opinion on the closure of town and city public parks at night? Do you believe that that they should be closed at night OR 96) What societal changes and structures, if any, do you see for NY State and USA that can be put in place to prevent corporate crime,
open 24/7? Under what circumstances? environmental polluters, mass land & resource grabs by nation-states and corporations, corruptable "leaders", criminal thugs and gangsters,
& psychopathic-military-industrial-congressional-complex?
65) What, if anything, should be done as far as continued economic support for USA's 700 worldwide military bases?
97) What would be effective in stopping organized concentrations of evil-worshipping, power-driven, conspiratorial, elitist CEOs/ politician
66) What should be done about the State of Israel and other illegal occupations like Tibet etc.? Do you believe in the right to return for the terrorist murderers who control our money, food & water supply and ALL of our dominant institutions?
Palestinian people? Tibetans? What is your vision of a solution to these problems?
98) What societal changes & structures do you see that can be put in place to prevent an apathetic, disconnected, unaware, afraid, &
67) Are you aware that AIPEC is one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, DC? What, if anything, do you plan to do about this? irresponsible public?

68) What should be done by NY State and USA for the people of Gaza & the West Bank? Tibet? Other nations? 99) Assuming it is possible, what are the necessary immediate steps to create peace on Earth and abolish rogue-government, corporate-
funded destruction through wars, lies, plunder, land-theft, starvation, poisoning, poverty, sickness & death?
69) What is your view on allowing small or large drones (remote-controlled flying vehicles) to operate in NYC skyline? For surveillance?
For distribution/delivery systems? Weaponization? 100) HAARP? Real or fiction? If real, what do we the people and you the politician do about it?

70) What is your view on development of robot police and military? 101) Chemtrails poisoning / geoengineering / weather-modification? Real or fiction? If real, what do WE the people and YOU the politician
do about it?
71) What is your view on government and private industry whistleblowers? What, if anything, do you immediately intend to do in office to
protect whistleblowers and encourage them to come forward? 102) 9/11 cover-up? Real or fiction? If real, what do WE the people and YOU the politician do about it?

72) What is your view on mandatory vaccinations for toddlers and adults? 103) After listening to speeches and interviews by Fmr. Canadian Minister of Defense Paul Hellyer and countless others, is there a UFO / E.T.
cover-up by U.S. Government? If yes, what do WE the people and YOU the politician do about it?
73) What is your view on municipal water fluoridation?
104) Do you have any knowledge of the U.S. Government agencies, state governments, or local municipalities having been involved in any
74) What is your view on mandatory "smart meters"? conspiracy that recklessly endangers or harms unsuspecting members of the public? If so, what? And what do you plan to do about this
injustice?
75) In light of recent International Criminal Court findings, what is your opinion of The Vatican and the Catholic Church? What, if anything,
would you do to address? 105) What is your view of how over 110,000 Japanese Americans were treated by US Government in 1942?

76) What is your opinion of the violent raid / expulsion of Occupy Wall St. protesters from Zuccotti park at 3am? What, if anything, should 106) Are you aware (at the first time you read this) of the etymology of the word government?
be done about this?
107) Are you familiar (at the first time you read this) with Strawman theory? Admiralty, Common Law, the Sovereign?
77) What is your view of the Occupy Movement as it was and as it is?
108) What is your view about a document like this? Please elaborate.
78) How do you intend to support small grassroots community groups and <insert: usually broke> organizers and activists that are doing
good work?
I , _________________________________________ ______________________________________________, am willing to tell my potential constituents where I stand on
79) Do you believe in the issuance of a sound permit for anyone that has effectively proven that they can inform, inspire, or organize the NYC the issues I may face if elected. I have demonstrated my Political Courage by indicating my position on the above issues.
public in a responsible way for peaceful positive progressive revolution?

80) Whats your opinion on drum circles? Signed: _________________________________________________________________________________ State_________________________

81) Would you allow tent cities and occupations to be allowed in public parks and spaces? If so, under what circumstances?
Office Sought:__________________________________________________________________________ Date: ________________________
82) What is your opinion on private property damage as a means of social protest? Do you see this as a crime? If so, what should be the
penalty for this form of protest? Is this any different than indiscriminate vandalism?

83) Do you believe FREE (i.e. publically funded) high-speed transportation for all residents could be a reality for NY State towns and cities in
Please look at following URLs (COMMENT/LIKE/SHARE!!!)
the next 5 years? If so, what would you do to create this?

84) List the top things in the permaculture movement that excite you (if any)? www.NYCActivism.org

85) Do you believe in municipal spraying of pesticides against mosquitos?
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86) How do you feel about the recent disclosures of the U.S. government & private companies collection and monitoring of massive
electronic communication data by all people corresponding to, from, within the U.S.A.? What, if anything, would you do to immediately to -------
address this issue?


87) Do you believe in publically funded personal mobile phone and high-speed internet service for all NY State residents? Twitter Hashtags: #WakeUpNYC #RiseUpNYC #911WakeUp #TakeOurLivesBack

88) Do you advocate for the immediate legalization of organic cannabis and other plants for use in NY public by responsible parties? If so, #3rdPartiesCanWin #REALPoliticalCourageTest #JumpstartGreenEconomy
how do you envision the legalization process? Timeframe? Regulation? Should it be free to grow, or should the government control it?

#TakeBackTheLand #AlternativeEconomy
89) Do you advocate for the immediate free (non-state inhibited) growing of organic fruits, vegetables and grains? Why or why not? State
subsidies for organic growers? If so, what?