KEN HILDEBRANDT – 5th DISTRICT

Green Party

Dr. Ken Hildebrandt will represent the 5th district in the state of Virginia as he runs for the U.S. House of Representatives Nov. 4. Hildebrandt worked in New Jersey as a former chiropractic physician for 13 years, but he left his practice when he felt called to enter the political realm to fight the “pain” his patients were receiving from Washington.

Hildebrandt is running under the Green Party, according to his campaign website. The Green Party was formed in 2001, and members focus their attention on the environment, social justice and those who are not in favor of corporate dominated politics.

Hildebrandt started his political career through journalism in 2000 after he left the medical field. He was one of the first early online political videographers. While working as a videographer, Hildebrandt interviewed presidential, gubernatorial, senatorial and congressional candidates.

After completing a candidate interview in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 2012, Hildebrandt was recognized by the Independent Greens Executive Committee National Chairman Carey Campbell, who asked Hildebrandt to run for Congress. Hildebrandt initially declined. However, once he discussed it with his wife, they both knew it was something he “had” to do.

Hildebrandt also voiced his opinion on other various political issues, such as, growing the economy through producing U.S. owned oil, tax reform, social security and medicare, human rights, national security and getting rid of Uranium mining.

During a campaign video, Hildebrandt stated his unhappiness with politicians in Washington by suggesting the criminal justice system is not focusing on the right
criminals.

“How did the land of the free go to the land of the caged?” Hildebrandt said. “We have more prisoners in the United States, thanks to this drug war, than any other nation on earth, including China, even though they outnumber us by far. In the 1960s, 90 percent of homicides were solved. Nowadays, it is only 63 percent, so remember that this drug war comes at a real high price.”

Q: Why should a college student vote for you?

A: Because I have worked full-time free of charge for 14 years trying to inform Americans about solutions that were right at our fingertips but that we were not using. Now we have a chance to present those solutions to a wider audience and finally begin to steer in a more reasonable direction.

Q: What, if any, legislation could be considered to give religious institutions, such as Liberty University, the right to be exempt from federal mandates that violate their conscience?

A: I disagree with a lot of my government’s policies, but I still have to fund them by law. I do not like it. I think we should focus on making our laws more reasonable.

Q: What plans do you have or support to help alleviate student loan debt while simultaneously ensuring quality higher education?
A: Reduce our spending on the military, which equals or exceeds that of the rest of the world combined, and follow the path of Germany, who is offering free university educations to its citizens.

Q: What is your position onabortion?

A: It is largely a distraction issue aimed at getting the oppressed to vote for their oppressors. I am not saying it is not important, yet we can tell from history that Republican leaders do not care about abortion, or they would have tried to do something about it when they had both houses of Congress, the presidency and the judiciary, but they did not. So, the best thing to do is provide education, make embryology mandatory high school curriculum and push for legislation that would make abortion illegal (except in cases of rape in which the victim did not have the option of abortion earlier) once the embryo can feel pain, which is about 20 weeks.

Q: With the recent spread of terrorism, particularly ISIS, how do you think the U.S. should respond?

A: We should learn from our past and do what a two-tour Iraq War veteran said to me: “Nothing.”

Q: What are your thoughts on the use of executive action?

A: If Obama was to use this somehow to save the thousand children who die every hour of neglect for what just a fraction of the Pentagon budget could easily cover, as discussed below, I would be all for that, but otherwise, generally speaking, it is not a good thing.

Q: What are your top three priorities concerning congressional legislation?

A: Legalize all of what many refer to as “God given plants,” including industrial hemp and marijuana.
Revert the tax structure to something similar to what it was all the way until Ronald Reagan.
Enact legislation to help rapidly put an end to the “silent slaughter” of children who die of neglect at a rate of a thousand per hour, meaning a holocaust of children every 250 days, and that estimate is low. This slaughter must stop. How would we explain this to an outside intelligence? How will future historians, if there are any, look back at this time when we allowed profit to come before people at the very risk of life on earth as we know it, while discarding innocent children en masse as if they are not even real?

Q: What separates you from other candidates?

A: My focus on those children who are dying of neglect at a rate of at least 24,000 per spin of the earth.