September 7, 2011
Los Angeles Times
Dear Editor:
Re: “Colossal Mismanagement Sweep Out the Coliseum Commission” — Editorial in today’s edition
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-coliseum-20110907,0,6653581.story?track=rss
Your editorial today regarding the mismanagement by the Coliseum Commission is noteworthy, but certainly not newsworthy when compared to the mismanagement, malfeasance and misappropriation of Veterans’ property at the largest VA in the nation, the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.
Thus, “In a region rife with embarrassing governmental mismanagement,” the recent Coliseum mismanagement doesn't even register on the radar screen of what has been going on for decades at the West Los Angeles VA.
It is highly commendable that the Times exposed the city of Bell corruption and broke a story regarding gross mismanagement by trustees and other leaders regarding the renovation of nine campuses within the Los Angeles Community College District.
But now the Times is pursuing the paltry kickbacks by sponsors of events at the Coliseum, which are pennies and nickels compared to what's happened at the VA. There's been $200K embezzled at the golf course, and rent-free or $1-a-year rent for billion-dollar parcels of land given away to special interest groups for non-Veteran use.
The three commercial leases that the VA recently agreed to rescind should be a serious tipoff that there's corruption behind these gates that locks out disabled and disadvantaged Veterans, and invites in rampant crime.
You mention the death of a 15-year-old girl at a rave dance at the Coliseum and what the Times reporter turned up as “outrageous.” What happened on that isolated occasion and as tragic as it was, just doesn't compare to two unsolved homicides on VA property, the numerous suicides that go unreported, not to mention 20,000 homeless Veterans who have been exiled from their legal property while some of the most corrupt government officials use this land to reward cronyism with rent-free billion-dollar parcels of Veterans land, including other sweetheart backroom deals for privileged groups and businesses.
How often does the L.A. Coliseum get used in comparison to the Veterans property?
Yet where is the accountability — and the outrage?
Consider that the VA bureaucrats allow endless non-Veteran use and special events on this sacred land — including a public dog park, public community parks, a private school playground and athletic field, a youth soccer field, UCLA baseball stadium, a public entertainment and amusement center with two theaters, a public farmers market, Getty Museum shuttle-bus parking, PGA tournament and UCLA parking, Enterprise car storage, Tumbleweed bus storage, Sodexo hotel laundry, private celebrity carnivals, public running marathons and bicycle events, etc. It also includes misappropriation of Veterans’ land for the National Guard and Army Reserve, FBI Federal Building and public U.S. Postal Stations.
Meanwhile, 20,000 Veterans are exiled from their legally deeded land and forced to live homeless and hungry in back-alley squalor.
Martha Groves, Bob Pool and Richard Winton of the Times have done outstanding jobs on reporting isolated incidents at the VA.
However, they need to join as an investigative team to fully expose the biggest land-fraud scam in American history and some of the cruelest crimes committed against humanity on American soil. Rest assured, there's a Pulitzer Prize awaiting the writers who expose and lead to investigating and prosecuting this national disgrace of biblical proportion. Correspondingly, there's a Pulitzer Prize awaiting the L.A. Times for initiating and pursuing this lowest of crimes, stealing property from disabled and disadvantaged Veterans.
President Obama is now proposing a $300 billion economic lift by renovating schools to create more jobs, along with other infrastructure improvements. How about the Times stepping up on behalf of thousands of disabled, disadvantaged and homeless Veterans in Los Angeles and demanding a multi-billion investment with construction of a new “Home,” in accordance with the Congressional Act of 1887 and the Deed of 1888? Think of the jobs it would create for local homeless Veterans, plus restoring this benevolent gift to its purpose and glory days of yore.
How about an editorial exposing the most corrupt public officials who continue to eat at the public trough? You can begin by exposing Donna Beiter, the executive director of the largest VA in the nation, and Ronald Mathis, her chief of police, who are both federal criminals, having been adjudicated by a federal judge in U.S. Court for violating my Constitutional rights, as well as violating their oath of office that requires them to support and defend the U.S. Constitution.
How can the Times be taken seriously when you demand a sweep of lightweight Coliseum Commissioners running the nearly always empty Coliseum while turning your back on federal criminals running the largest VA in the nation as 20,000 Veterans remain homeless?
NOTE: 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 (Beiter and Mathis) committed impermissible viewpoint discrimination.” …
“Therefore, Defendants' selective enforcement was an effort to suppress the Plaintiff's activity due to disagreement with his view.”
In sum, defendants Beiter and Mathis censored my free speech and violated my Constitutional right under the First Amendment. This is a federal crime: “Federal Statute 18 USC Section 242 makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S.”
On behalf of fellow Veterans, particularly our disabled and disadvantaged Brothers and Sisters, we respectfully request that the Los Angeles Times initiate a full-blown investigation into the crime and corruption at the largest VA in the nation, and help us to rebuild this National Veterans Home into a place of honor, dignity and respect.
Did I mention there are 20,000 homeless Veterans in Los Angeles County?
Mr. Rosebrock, Director of the Old Veterans Guard and Director of the Veterans Revolution, may be contacted at RRosebrock1@aol.com
