[Jan. 26, 2016, Letter to Vincent Kane, Special Assistant to Secretary Robert A. McDonald, Dept. of Veterans Affairs]
Good morning, Mr. Kane,
Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
With no disrespect toward the late and great Laurel and Hardy team, their legendary slapstick comedy lives on today under the name of” Cam and Vince.” Center stage is the Los Angeles National Veterans Home. Your audience is the neighboring wealthy non-Veteran alliances.
Unfortunately, your buffoonery routine is a tragedy and not a comedy. Your punchline is always is the same:
War-injured, impoverished military Veterans are forced to live homeless and hungry in deplorable conditions while your fans live in opulent mega-mansions.
Mr. Kane, the tragic fate of these Veterans is no laughing matter but your unequaled failures are.
Never have two people made bigger fools of themselves than you and fellow imposter Cameron V. Gore. He operates under the stage name of “U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Deputy Assistant General Counsel.”
Mr. Kane, a small group of thoughtful citizens has grown tired of your routine that falsely portrays you two as “homeless and legal experts.” You bungle one entrusted responsibility after another.
Neither of you could follow the script that was handed to you by your writer, producer and director, the clownish Big Mac, Robert A. McDonald. He is the master of tomfoolery and conspiracy in the federal government.
The infamous script you never could get right is titled “settlement agreement,” a fraud.
From failing your promise to end Veteran homelessness by last month to Mr. Gore’s failure to legally evict the illegal occupants on Veterans property, your performance is a sham.
To your credit, you delivered to this audience. They always got their money’s worth, even when they didn’t have to pay, like the city of Los Angeles’s “rent free” public dog park and Veterans Park Conservancy’s “rent free” public park.
They shamefully control billions of dollars of land and facilities belonging to homeless Veterans. They think it is funny.
Cam and Vince — being entertaining hucksters — always left their audience wanting more. The great imposter, Mrs. George Barrie IV, aka Carolina Winston Barrie, disgracefully rewrote the greatest script ever written, “The Deed of 1888.”
Mrs. Barrie canceled the original author’s name of this sacrosanct script, Arcadia B. de Baker, the kind, loving and benevolent matriarch of the National Veterans Home. Secretly, she etched in her own name. Self-servingly, she confiscated the historic 22-acre Governor’s mansion, the Victorian Chapel, the Trolley Depot, the Old Soldiers Barracks and small Victorian House, all under the guise of “honoring our veterans.”
Los Angeles, meanwhile, remains our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans.
On Thursday, the greatest two-bit hustler, Mr. McDonald, will be arriving in town with his infamous circus entourage that only P. T. Barnum could envy. He will unveil his illusory master scam, turning the once revered National Home into a public amusement park and entertainment center for the rich and greedy.
Cam and Vince, Thursday is your big day to join your boss and his fat-cat friends as they circle their limos around this consecrated sanctuary. Your cabal continues to make a mockery of the men and women who pledged their lives to defend our nation’s symbol of freedom and justice, the American flag.
Another of your joke writers, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, abused the power of her public trust to hijack a billion-dollar parcel of homeless Veterans’ land rent free for her powerful friends at Veterans Park Conservancy.
Her husband conspiratorially arranged a “$500,000 an acre deal” for UCLA’s baseball diamond on Veterans’ land that is worth $500 million.
Then the senator brought down the house (the Home) with her infamous joke: “There are a lot of ways to make money, but I think the worst way is to make money off of veterans.”
In his Jan. 26, 1883, speech, “The Duties of American Citizenship,” Teddy Roosevelt rightfully challenged America’s citizenry: “It is the duty of all citizens, irrespective of party, to denounce, and, so far as may be, to punish crimes against the public on the part of politicians or officials.”
Cam and Vince, the curtain is coming down on your charade. It is only a matter of time before you and your cabal of co-conspirators will be on trial for a multitude of alleged charges, including credible evidence of conspiracy to commit fraud, unjust enrichment, misappropriation of government property and funds, fraud, grand theft, malfeasance, corruption, embezzlement, aiding and abetting, racketeering, collusion, cronyism, duplicity, malice, willful neglect, violation of the Americans with Disability Act, humiliating and degrading treatment, crimes against humanity.
Cam and Vince, both of you are in a fine mess, as Laurel and Hardy used to say. The legal, moral and patriotic possession of the National Veterans Home.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Rosebrock
Director, Old Veterans Guard
U.S. Army, 1965-67
God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution!
Mr. Rosebrock may be contacted at rrosebrock1@aol.com