No U.S. Military troops were sent, and not a single shot was fired. Yet the United States government willfully and woefully surrendered a billion-dollar parcel of Veterans’ sacred land in West Los Angles to another domestic enemy.
In a shameful display of disrespect and ingratitude, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs put up no fight or offered any defense whatsoever as a plutocracy of neighboring homeowners moved in and seized Veterans’ hallowed grounds for a public community park
Boasting that “it took unprecedented compromises at the highest level of government, including the Secretary of the VA and the Congressional delegation,” Sue Young, West L.A.’s open-space, land-coveting extremist, and her cabal of wealthy homeowners, took command of 16 acres of Veterans property with absolutely no resistance to their unilateral plan of building a public park “for the enjoyment of the entire community.”
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Actual rendering of homeowner group’s plan for a public park on Veterans sacred land
A Home For Homeless Veterans
How could such a brazen invasion possibly occur in America with the strongest national defense in the world? How could the takeover happen on land that was exclusively deeded to America’s Military Veterans 122 years ago as a permanent and safe haven to heal from defending our nation?
Incredulously, this land was permanently deeded as a National Veterans Home. Yet more than 20,000 homeless Veterans must fend for themselves on the dangerous streets of Los Angeles. On the other hand, this rich and infamous gang lives safely and luxuriously in multi-million dollar mansions.
The 16-acre Veterans’ parcel that was seized is commercially valued at nearly a billion dollars. Yet the super-rich homeowner group that operates under the ruse of Veterans Park Conservancy (VPC), which is not a Veterans organization by any stretch, will occupy the land rent-free while thousands of Veterans are without shelter, even though this is their rightful “Home.”
Non-Veteran Sue Young, the $100,000-a-year executive director of the rogue homeowner group, has been hell-bent for nearly a quarter-century to keep Veterans land from being a “Home for homeless Veterans.” Instead, she has forced nearly 20,000 Veterans to be homeless while she continues to hoodwink the VA, politicians, and the unsuspecting citizenry to support her “save the open space” agenda to beautify Brentwood.
The actual surrender and seizure of the property was conducted more than two years ago behind closed doors in Washington D.C. In the meantime, Ms. Young and her ultra-wealthy homeowner group have been trying desperately to raise money from unsuspecting citizens to build the public park to beautify the entryway into their ritzy enclave.
A National Park Scam
If there are any doubts about VPC’s unilateral and self-serving agenda regarding the Veterans property, their original website revealed plans for “the creation of the first new community park to be built in West Los Angeles in over 50 years.”
What originally started out as a plan for a 10-acre public park has nearly doubled in size. Who knows when enough land will ever be enough for this tyrannical group of selfish invaders, particularly since they envision turning Veterans hallowed property into their own fiefdom for a “Central Park West.”
As a result, there’s serious reason to be concerned that the rogue homeowner group will eventually wrest all of this land away from the feeble and inept guardianship of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. That’s because they’ve already met with officials from the National Park Service and the Dept. of Interior, which would supervise the land instead of the VA if these ingrates fulfill their selfish motive to convert the Los Angeles National Veterans Home into a public national park.
At the front entry of the Veterans Home, these arrogant and audacious plutocrats have already engraved in stone with bronzed letters: “Los Angeles National Veterans Park.”
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A Veteran’s makeshift home on the outside of his Veterans Home
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A homeless Veterans sleeps outside the locked front gates
This same unsavory faction also used their wealth and power to manipulate members of Congress and the VA into allowing them to plagiarize West Point’s “Duty, Honor, Country” creed and sacrilegiously engrave in stone “Beauty, Honor, Country” on these same hallowed grounds where Veterans are trying to heal from the ugliness of war. The justification: It‘s VPC’s mission to “beautify” the drive along Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards to their multi-million dollar mansions; hence, the conversion of a Veterans Home into a public park.
U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-West L.A.), the entrusted public servant of the 30th Congressional District that includes the Los Angeles National Veterans Home, smilingly approves of the rendering that shows the pretentious wrought iron fence to beautify the entryway into Brentwood, which the VA was hoodwinked into donating $1 million of Veterans healthcare money so that the wealthy homeowner group could complete their own property enhancing project.
The concrete base of the fence on the lower right side of this rendering actually depicts the disparaging slur of “Beauty, Honor, Country.”
No Veteran Left Behind
The legal Deed of 1888 to the Veterans property is as sacred as the United States Constitution they pledged to protect and defend when they raised their right hand and solemnly swore: “I am prepared to give my life for my country.”
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James Miller, a homeless and disabled Vietnam War Veteran, outside the locked gates.
Like all those who serve in the Military, they pledged to make the ultimate sacrifice for the benefit of their fellow Americans. So, instead of building a public park that benefits neighboring homeowners while homeless Veterans are left behind on the streets, let’s open the front gates to their rightful Home and give them a chance at starting anew. That’s certainly a very small sacrifice to make for the very big debt that is owed for our freedom and independence.
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Homeless Veterans outside their National Home
FBI Investigation Needed
The U.S. government’s shameful surrender of Veterans land for non-Veteran use is a serious breach and violation of the legal Deed of 1888 and the Congressional Act of 1887.
Clearly, the sole purpose behind this land-takeover is to enhance the residential property value of the homeowner group, but at the distressful expense of America’s disabled and homeless Veterans.
As though rubbing psychological salt into this agonizing wound is not insulting enough, these modern-day robber barons condescendingly proclaim that the public park is “a shrine to honor our veterans.” How much lower can these ingrates sink?
There is nothing in the Congressional Act or the legal Deed that even remotely hints that there could ever be a public park, a dog park, a carnival, a used-car parking lot, a bus parking lot, an athletic field for a private school, two Veterans’ theaters converted into a community cultural center, or any other abuse or misuse of this sacred property that has been facilitated with compliant VA bureaucrats and submissive politicians.
Compounded by the wealthy homeowners’ greed, the VA’s malfeasance, and the politicians’ dereliction of duty to protect this land as it was patriotically deeded, there continues to be thousands upon thousands of homeless Veterans in Southern California as a result.
Tragically, government bureaucrats, along with ruthless members of society and Congress, have systematically turned America’s Veteran warriors into “Prisoners of Neglect” and forced them to become “Missing in Action” within the very country they defended on behalf of all others.
In the simplest of terms, Veterans have been cheated and defrauded out of their land and there needs to be a major FBI investigation into the brazen and flagrant corruption of those who aided and abetted in this land-heist scheme, which includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the homeowner group, the VA bureaucrats, and local, state and federal politicians entrusted to protect this land.
How can our government possibly ask the selfless men and women of the United States Armed Forces to go to war and pledge their lives to defend the U.S. Constitution and our nation’s homeland, when it will not even defend the Deed of 1888 to their sacred Veterans Home land?
The Legal Deed and Congressional Act are binding promises that this will be a permanent sanctuary for America’s Veterans to heal from Military injuries after they return from war. Yet, it has been hijacked and desecrated to satisfy the selfish wants of some of the wealthiest and privileged people in the USA.
Terry Richards of St. Petersburg, FL, a tireless Veterans advocate and staff writer for Veterans Today, has filed a formal complaint with the IRS to investigate “Tax fraud, criminal and civilian chain conspiracy, malfeasance, misfeasance and misrepresentation by “Veterans Park Conservancy,” et al., to defraud disabled Veterans out of property specifically and exclusively deeded to them for Veterans Homes and Medical Care, inter alia.”
Senior Editor Gordon Duff, along with other staff writers and management have also been relentless and very vocal on the necessity of a full-blown investigation to the ongoing malfeasance and corruption regarding the abuse and misuse of Veterans land in Los Angeles and across the country.
But where is the FBI? Where is an investigation by Congress? Where are the Dept. of Justice and U.S. Attorneys’ Office? Where is the VA’s Office of Inspector General?
Who knows! Yet everyone knows that this land has been stolen from Veterans and there are more than 20,000 homeless Veterans who belong inside these locked gates, not on the outside.
The Silent Lamb
Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs has been in office more than 15 months and he was notified on Day One about the toxic infestation of wealthy elitists and special interest groups that have fraudulently infiltrated the sacred grounds of America’s Veterans.
The only thing he has done is compound the problem by sending his VA police to harass, intimidate and retaliate against the Old Veterans Guard of 60-, 70- and 80-year old Veterans who are trying to defend this sacred land.
While Gen. Shinseki was thought and trusted to be a warrior-like lion against the West Los Angeles corruption and desecration of Veterans land, he has been nothing more than a silent lamb.
The Old Veterans Guard
American Military Veterans from World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War will soon be filing a formal complaint with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Dept. of Justice, requesting a full investigation into the Los Angeles VA, local politicians, and the neighboring homeowner group for disparaging and desecrating their Honorable Duty to our Country; for misappropriating billions of dollars of Veterans’ sacred land for public and non-Veteran use; and for violating their civil rights to protest against the abuse and corruption.
plagiarism, desecration, defamation, slander, hate speech, defacing government property, graffiti, vandalism, littering, dereliction of duty, contempt of Congress, subverting a legal Deed, aiding and abetting, misappropriation of government funds and property, embezzlement, grand theft, fraud, conspiracy, duplicity, sabotage, subterfuge, malfeasance, willful neglect, deliberate inaction, discrimination, harassment, oppression, stalking, espionage, filing false police reports, malicious prosecution, obstruction of justice and treason, among other egregious and illicit conduct against America’s Military Veterans and their exclusive property.
The Old Veterans Guard has already served notice of their serious intent with two years of consecutive Sunday Rallies to “Save Our Veterans Land,” proclaiming that business as usual will not be tolerated on their watch.
An Invitation
This Sunday will be the 111th consecutive Sunday Rally of the Veterans Revolution to “Save Our Veterans Land.”
Join the Veterans Revolution every Sunday at the northeast corner of Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards, adjacent to Brentwood, from 1 to 4 o’clock.
Mr. Rosebrock may be contacted at RRosebrock1@aol.com
