Former Santa Monica City Counciloman Bobby Shriver, who is not a Veteran, sends emails under the illusory “bobby@veteranadvocate.org.”
To attend next Monday evening’s 7 o’clock event, “We Own It. What Do We Want on It?” program at the Santa Monica Civic Center, a one must RSVP to contact@veteranadvocate.org, which is linked to www.vatherightway.org
The “We Own It” property that Mr. Shriver indicates is land deeded exclusively for disabled, disadvantaged Veterans but was stolen away by non-Veteran entities. Veterans won a federal judgment proving that there are nine occupants on this sacred land with leases that are “unauthorized by law and therefore void.”
A behind-closed doors “settlement agreement” was orchestrated by wealthy attorneys, including Mr. Shriver. None is a Veteran. They promised “to end veteran homelessness in Greater L.A. in 2015 and beyond.”
The agreement also called for “an exit strategy for those non-VA entities now located at VA’s West LA campus whose use of property at VA’s West L.A. campus does not both comply with applicable law …”
The ink was hardly dry on the scandalous agreement that vacated the federal judgment when VA Secretary Robert McDonald, his close attorney friends Mr. Shriver, Ron Olson and the ACLU attorneys — along with corrupt members of Congress — were already divvying up this land with even more behind-closed-door deals, protecting fat-cat friends at the private Brentwood School, UCLA, Veterans Park Conservancy and elsewhere.
Mr. Shriver’s daughter attends Brentwood School. His influential involvement in vacating the federal judgment that listed Brentwood School as one of the nine unauthorized lease holders, is a direct conflict of interest and immediately nullifies any validity of the settlement agreement. Mr. Shriver needs to have his law license revoked from the state bar.
Last month, Secretary McDonald and Mayor Garcetti shamefully admitted that they had already failed at “ending veteran homelessness in Greater L.A. in 2015 and beyond,” nullifying the agreement.
This fraudulent settlement is a Trojan horse scam of the most immoral magnitude that protects the wealthy while dispossessing destitute homeless Veterans.
A recent e-mail distribution announced: “Bobby Shriver and others are co-hosting for stakeholders in reference to the West LA VA Campus. The special event will be held at the Civic Center in Santa Monica on Monday night, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m.”
This is billed as “A Special Event for Veterans and Veteran Organizations to determine the future of the West L.A. VA Campus” and further proclaims “We Own It – What Do We Want on It?”
Mr. Shriver and his charlatan cronies (stakeholders) are nothing more than self-imposed dictators who control the “planning” of Veterans’ land for their personal gain and benefit at the expense of war-injured homeless Veterans.
Mr. Shriver has hoodwinked well-meaning Veteran advocates into believing he and his cronies are supportive of protecting their land with a “master plan.” In truth they have already stolen Veterans land with their own unilateral “master scam.”
“What Do We Want on It?”
Here’s a hardcore, albeit inhumane, fact: These wealthy, non-Veteran dictators have zero plans to build permanent supportive housing for disabled homeless Veterans on VA property, deeded exclusively in their behalf.
That’s because the blatant message these robber barons are sending is “We Own It,” while deceiving unassuming Veterans into believing they own it.
More than a month ago, Bobby Shriver along with the “master plan” team of HOK Architecture and VA bureaucrats, were invited to organize and participate in a town hall meeting at Skid Row to talk with homeless Veterans about what they would want on this land, but they all refused to respond.
Now Mr. Shriver is co-hosting a “We Own It!” event in posh Santa Monica where he lives.
The foregoing notwithstanding, “We the People,” headed by the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition, Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council, West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council, Vietnam Veterans of America, Region 9, Justiceville USA and the Old Veterans Guard, will be hosting a Humanitarian Relief Crusade for homeless Veterans at Skid Row on Thursday, Sept. 24. We will subsequently be busing as many homeless Veterans as possible to the Los Angeles VA for proper housing and healthcare.
These disadvantaged and destitute homeless Veterans own this land, not Mr. Shriver and his friends. Now we are bringing these homeless Veterans home.
God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution!
Mr. Rosebrock may be contacted at rrosebrock1@aol.com
Crazy Horse said “One does not sell the land people walk on”, and it’s the universal truth, even if some Crazy Cronies disagree.” Mr.Shriver, it’s neither “We own it”, nor “We own you”so please make sure to spell it correctly to our homeless Veterans and to Bob Rosebrock who is fighting for their rights:”WE OWE YOU”.