Jan. 24, 2011
Ray Klein, Esquire
President
Brentwood Community Council
Good Morning, Ray:
Sorry that we did not get to talk with each other at Thursday's VA stakeholder meeting.
This letter is to follow up on your request that I contact you on the week of Jan. 24 about being on the Brentwood Community Council’s agenda on Feb. 1, to present the Veterans “Grand Plan.”
With the VA’s long-awaited Master Plan (13 years) just being released and their very short response deadline of Feb.19 (30 days), it leaves no time to fairly debate the VA’s plan versus the Veterans plan.
After decades of delay, the VA now wants to shove this as another take-it-or-leave-it alternative with no reasonable allowance for an honest debate. No surprise there, particularly for Veterans, since it takes longer than that to get an appointment to see a doctor at the VA hospital.
Clearly, the “Annenberg Position Paper” now weighs very heavily on this debate because it essentially makes the VA’s Master Plan null and void whereas the Veterans Grand Plan is in full compliance with the Deed of 1888 and the Congressional Act of 1887.
Not sure how you are going to discuss the VA's Master Plan at the Feb. 1 meeting, but any kind of vote by your Council without a full debate from both sides would be unfair, unjust and undemocratic. Given the number of Veterans Park Conservancy supporters there are on the Brentwood Community Council, it would probably be illegal as well.
This debate needs to be between the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Veterans, (independent Veterans, Veterans’ service organizations, and Veterans’ advocate groups), including the descendants of the Land Grantors and their representatives.
Let's be forthright; to have a fair debate, we need to schedule it with a 60-day advance notice that it will be held at the Wadsworth Theater and invite the neighborhood communities and the Veteran community for an individual casting of votes. The L.A. Coliseum would probably be more appropriate, given there are more than 1 million Veterans living within 50 miles of the Home.
Since the Veterans Park Conservancy’s public park already is included in the VA's Master Plan, there's absolutely no need for them to be in this debate; the VA will have to make the Park Conservancy’s case for them since the VA approved the public park agreement.
Most importantly, it is imperative that the Deed of 1888 is legally honored as gifted to the U.S. government and accepted by the VA before there is any debate about this sacred land.
If the government and your neighbors had some unilateral plans they’d like to conduct with your own home, I’m sure you’d like to be in the debate, along with waiving the legal Deed to your home as a major part of the merits for your side of the debate. Veterans believe the same about their own legally deeded Home.
Lastly, it’s rather apparent that a certain local group has the attitude that Rosebrock is the only Veteran unhappy with the way Veterans land and fellow Veterans are abused.
You may want to read the article link by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of “Veterans Today,” the largest Veterans news network with over 20 million hits a month.
Also, the link to our Grand Plan in the current issue of “Westside Today” shows support far outside of West Los Angeles as fellow citizens all across America cannot understand the abuse and mistreatment of Veterans and their land. Further, they believe they deserve what they have been promised by our U.S. government and the benevolent Land Grantors.
All of America needs to be in this debate, because without the sacrifices of the men and women serving in our U.S. armed forces, there would be no America as we know it, and no public debate as proposed herein.
Gordon Duff; Gangsters, Veterans and Shinseki
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/23/gordon-duff-and-robert-rosebrock-gangsters-veterans-and-shensiki/
Veterans Propose Grand Plan
http://www.westsidetoday.com/s5-4226/veterans-propose-grand-plan.html
On behalf of fellow Veterans, we respectfully await your response and look forward to working with you and other Neighborhood Councils on this most important matter.
Sincerely,
Robert Rosebrock
Old Veterans Guard
cc:
General Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
ALSO COPIED:
Dave Culmer, Past Chairman, Los Angeles County Veterans Advisory Commission, Chairman, National Veterans Foundation, Service Director for the American Legion of the Los Angeles County Council; Greater Los Angeles Mental Health Consumer Advocacy Council;
Bob Handy, Chairman, Veterans United For Truth, Inc., and Chairman of the Veterans Caucus, California Democratic Party;
Dick Southern, National Board of Directors, Region 9 Director, Vietnam Veterans of America Steve Mackey, President, Vietnam Veterans of America, State of California James Maddox, President, Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 446;
Frank A. LaRosa Jr., President, Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 355 Sam Cardova, Commander, Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 13;
Walter Martin, Commander, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Chapter 1898; Larry Breazeale, Chairman, National Veterans Coalition;
John Stamatiades, Vice Chairman, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission, California American Legion John Keaveney, Co-Founder and past Chief Operating Officer, New Directions, Inc.
Stephan Sherman, World War II Veteran, Founder & CEO, Dorie Miller Memorial Foundation
Stephan Palmer, World War II Veteran, President, Veterans Coalition
Ernie Hilger, Legislative Chairman, Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 13;
Conrad Gomez, Secretary, Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 756
Newt Young, Korean War Veteran, Old Veterans Guard;
Larry Kegel, Vietnam War Veteran, Old Veterans Guard;
Gordon Duff, Senior Editor and Chairman of the Editorial Board, Veterans Today News Network.
Mr. Rosebrock may be contacted rrosebrock1@aol.com