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Veterans protest every Sunday, from 1 to 4.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) stood up this week and delivered an historic 13-hour filibuster that forced the Obama administration to reverse course on its policy that it had the right to use military drone strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil – without due process. This would have been unconstitutional.
The Obama administration caused an upheaval when, in a letter from U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to Sen. Paul, Holder declared the administration technically could use military force to kill an American citizen on U.S. soil in an “extraordinary circumstance.” But it has “no intention of doing so.”
There’s an interesting parallel between Sen. Paul’s stand against the Obama administration and its Dept. of Justice, and the Old Veterans Guard stand against the Obama administration and its Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the Justice Dept.
Sunday will mark the fifth anniversary of the Veterans Revolution in protest of the VA’s misuse of Veterans land and the abuse of disabled homeless Veterans.
That is 260 consecutive Sunday Rallies, or 780 hours of protest, at the corner of one of the busiest intersections in West Los Angeles.
In spite of “extraordinary circumstances,” with Los Angeles having the largest VA Home in the nation and Los Angeles being our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans, there is a legal Deed to permanently house disabled homeless Veterans on U.S. soil. The VA, however, has “no intention of doing so.”
Public servants of the U.S. government intentionally violated the U.S. Constitution when Donna Beiter, the executive director of the Los Angeles VA, and her chief of police, Ronald Mathis, suppressed my Constitutional right to free speech. A judgment was entered against them in federal court.
The ACLU filed and prosecuted the lawsuit. Defendants Beiter and Mathis were defended by U.S. Attorneys of the DOJ.
On May 26, 2011, Judge S. James Otero of the United States District Court rendered his decision, ruling in my favor: “Plaintiff’s First Amendment right was violated as a matter of law when Defendants committed impermissible viewpoint discrimination.” …. “Therefore, Defendants' selective enforcement was an effort to suppress the Plaintiff's activity due to disagreement with his view.”
Nearly two years later, Ms. Beiter is still pulling down a hefty six-figure salary as director of the largest VA in the nation, even though she violated the U.S. Constitution, which is a violation of her oath of office to support and defend the Constitution.
Meanwhile, 20,000 homeless Veterans are in Los Angeles, of which 8,000 are chronically homeless.
In spite of repeated requests to VA Secretary Erick Shinseki, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca) and U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Westside/South Bay) calling for Ms. Beiter’s termination, they all refused to take action and are consequently in violation of their own oath of office to defend and support the Constitution.
Fifteen months ago, the ACLU filed another lawsuit against Ms. Beiter and Secretary Shinseki for misusing Veterans’ lawfully deeded property and abusing disabled homeless Veterans.
Look Who Is on Wrong Side
Incredulously, the Obama administration’s DOJ is fighting this lawsuit with a vengeance while President Obama continues to talk about a “sacred trust” our nation has to care and house those Veterans who are disabled and homeless.
Judge Otero is also overseeing this lawsuit and is siding with the Obama Administration’s DOJ and U.S. Attorneys by ruling against disabled homeless Veterans and their right to housing and care on U.S. soil that was exclusively deeded in their behalf.
The Judge infamously ruled: “The government had not assumed an enforceable fiduciary duty to create housing for veterans when it accepted ownership of the land, despite explicit provisions for housing in the deed.”
According to Judge Otero, there is no law or authority for our U.S. government to assume an enforceable fiduciary duty to honor an 1887 Act of Congress and a legal Deed OF 1888 to provide permanent housing for disabled homeless Veterans.
In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, dated Sept. 11, 2007, Congressman Waxman declared:
“Here are the facts: After the Civil War, the federal government began to construct national soldiers’ homes for disabled and homeless war veterans. Soon after Congress enacted legislation in 1887 to authorize construction of the first soldiers’ home in the west, a patriotic Californian family donated 388 acres in Los Angeles for this purpose. But there was a catch – the legal deed requires that the federal government maintain the property permanently for veterans. Today that 388-acre campus houses the largest VA health care center in the nation and serves more than 300,000 veterans.”
Congressman Waxman is the elected public servant entrusted to enforce the Congressional Act and legal Deed of 1888. Yet in 38 years he never has appropriated one dollar for one blanket for one homeless Veteran.
On the other hand, he facilitated a “rent-free” public park on a billion-dollar parcel of Veterans’ property while Veteran housing is fully neglected.
His alma mater, UCLA, has the exclusive use of a state-of-the art collegiate baseball diamond while homeless Veterans sleep alongside a multi-million dollar fence built with VA money to “beautify” the entryway into Brentwood to appease Henry’s super wealthy constituents.
Mr. Rosebrock may be contacted at RLRosebrock1@aol.com
