Rees Lloyd reports in on this quest by Veterans to get back land worth HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in chi chi Brentwood for a phony “park:”
Please take a moment to review this brief but extremely important video by documentary film maker Jeani DeCarlo on the fight of veterans against VA bureaucrats’ misfeasance in order to save the land of the veterans for the veterans at the National Veterans Home at the VA in West L.A., at Sepulveda, and across the country. This issue has national impact, as the VA is in control of veterans lands all across the country. In my opinion, the VA is protecting the land of the veterans much in the way the BIA has protected the lands of Indians.
Go here for background.
The American Legion Dept. of California adopted a Resolution at its 2008 State Convention which I authored and which rescinded any endorsement, express of implied, of the VA’s land transfers, and established a policy of the Dept. of California not to endorse any VA land use that is not for the “sole purpose” of providing care to veterans suffering from physical, mental, or emotional injury resulting from military service — which is the sole purpose specified by a patriotic family which donated some 500 acres to the federal government for the benefit of veterans in 1888.
The American Legion Dept. of California adopted at the 2009 State Convention in June a second resolution calling on the VA, the Congress, and the Executive Branch to take all necessary actions necessary to cease and desist VA’s give-away transfers of veterans lands, and to rescind all existing so–called “Enhanced Use Agreements“ to third–parties through give–away leases for as long as “75 years,“ for no rental fee, or a nominal $1, or, ;if anything is to be paid, far below market value.
The American Legion Dept. of California adopted at the 2009 State Convention in June a second resolution calling on the VA, the Congress, and the Executive Branch to take all necessary actions necessary to cease and desist VA’s give-away transfers of veterans lands, and to rescind all existing so–called “Enhanced Use Agreements“ to third–parties through give–away leases for as long as “75 years,“ for no rental fee, or a nominal $1, or, ;if anything is to be paid, far below market value.
The California Department will sponsor that 2009 Resolution at the National American Legion Convention in Louisville, KY, at the end of August. If it can overcome anticipated Machiavellian attempts by bureaucrats to bottle up the Resolution in committee to prevent a floor vote, I am certain the Resolution will be overwhelmingly adopted by delegates representing the more than 2.5-million members of The American Legion.
Indeed, the VA has performed its stewardship and fiduciary duties to protect the lands of the veterans with about the same level of care and competence as it has performed colonoscopies on the veterans, hundreds if not thousands of whom have been infected by the VA by its failure of elemental standards of hygiene.
Thus, this is an issue which should concern every American veteran, and every American, each of whom should stand with veterans against the misfeasance of the VA and against the third-parties who are exploiting the lands of the veterans for their own purposes
Thus, this is an issue which should concern every American veteran, and every American, each of whom should stand with veterans against the misfeasance of the VA and against the third-parties who are exploiting the lands of the veterans for their own purposes
[Rees Lloyd is a longtime civil rights attorney and veterans rights activist, who blogs on the Victoria Taft Blog.]
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