[ Jan. 8, 2016  – Letter to Vincent Kane, Special Assistant to Secretary Robert A. McDonald, Dept. of Veterans Affairs.] 

Good morning, Mr. Kane:

Beginning on March 9, 2008, the Old Veterans Guard led a peaceful protest that initiated two ACLU lawsuits against VA officials.

The result was two federal judgments. One was for violating my Constitutional right to free speech when we displayed the American lag in distress – in full compliance with the U.S. Flag Code – signifying to the public that disabled homeless Veterans lives and their legally deeded property were in “extreme danger.”

The second lawsuit and subsequent federal judgment confirmed that indeed homeless Veterans lives were in extreme danger as was their lawful land. Judge S. James Otero adjudicated real estate between the VA and nine non-Veteran entities  “unauthorized by law and therefore void.”

Instead of honoring the “clear and unambiguous” rule of law, your boss, VA Secretary Robert A. McDonald, met behind closed doors with two of his powerful friends, attorneys Bobby Shriver and Ron Olson. Neither is a  Veterans.

Mr. McDonald finagled a Trojan horse sham settlement that benefited the nine rich and greedy illegal occupants at the expense of war-injured homeless Veterans.

You lied. You said you would end Veteran homelessness by the end of 2015. The attorneys lied. They said there would be a timely exit strategy for the nine illegal occupants.

Instead, Veteran homelessness has increased. So has the illegal occupation of Veterans land.

How can you all live with yourselves?

“MYSELF”

By Edgar Guest

I have to live with myself, and so,

I want to be fit for myself to know;

I want to be able as days go by,

Always to look myself straight in the eye.

I don’t want to stand with the setting sun

And hate myself for the things I’ve done.

I don’t want to keep on a closet shelf

A lot of secrets about myself,

And fool myself as I come and go

Into thinking that nobody else will know

The kind of man I really am;

I don’t want to dress myself up in sham.

I never can hide myself from me;

I see what others may never see.

I know what others may never know;

I never can fool myself, and so,

Whatever happens, I want to be

Self-respecting and conscience free.

Mr. Kane, you and your fellow culprits involved in the biggest land-fraud scandal in American history need to look at yourselves. Admit what failures, what imposters you all are. Resign, posthaste.

God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution!

Mr. Rosebrock may be contacted at rrosebrock1@aol.com