It should not surprise any American Patriot that "Brentwood News," the so-called news-magazine for the neighboring community adjacent to the National Veterans Home, has NOT ONCE written about the Veterans Sunday Rally, even though today will be our 143 consecutive Rally at the corner of Wilshire and San Vicente Boulevards, the entryway into Brentwood.
Nor, has it ever once published anything about our mission to "Save Our Veterans Land," and to "Bring Our Homeless Veterans HOME," even though virtually every car that passes us entering into Brentwood on San Vicente, honks, waves, give us the thumbs up, V-for-Victory, fist-pumps, high-fives and hand salutes in support.
Nor, has the "Brentwood News" ever published the fact that the ACLU is representing us in a lawsuit (filed nine months ago) against top VA bureaucrats regarding "viewpoint discrimination," i.e., censorship, and violating our First Amendment Right to freedom of expression.
The publisher, Jeff Hall, who is not a Veteran, wrote an article a few years ago calling for an "Act of Congress" to convert the Veterans Home into a public park like the Presidio in San Francisco, even though there was an "Act of Congress" in 1887 lawfully establishing that this land was "to be permanently maintained as a National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers."
Not once did Mr. Hall mention the word Veteran in his article, but referred to the land as being VA, and made a reference that this was once called an "Old Soldiers Home" and essentially was no longer of any valid use. Instead, he wanted to change a Congressional Law and a Legal Deed for his own self-gratification for a public community park to look good in the eyes of his elitist Brentwood friends who seemingly detest Veterans in or near their wealthy enclave.
The front page of Mr. Hall's November publication was about the public being invited to the "Nutcracker" ballet that is being featured at the Veterans' Wadsworth Theater on Veterans land. (Note: some tickets go for $75 and upward, and it doesn't go to Veterans)
Now, I've had several interactions with Mr. Hall over the years, and unless you bow down and kowtow to his personal beliefs and whims, he considers you to be uncooperative, and this is then followed by his self-righteous insults.
He once said "there's more to this community than the vets." Really? Without the "vets," there would be no American way of life that he takes for granted, nor a "freedom of the press" for him to profit from.
Nonetheless, Mr. Hall recently refused to publish information that I submitted to him about the Veterans "Grand Plan" for rebuilding Veterans land, and a "Homeless Emergency Plan" that calls for a Tent City, parking for Veterans living in their cars, vans, campers and RV's, etc., because he claimed that the deadline had already passed for the December issue.
True to his self-serving "reporting," Mr. Hall plagiarized our Tent City plan and passed it off as his own in the current addition of the "Brentwood News," even though he declared the deadline had already passed for introducing our vision. He even published a front page photo and caption / story about a local resident who had befriended a homeless Veteran and gave him some help.
Yet he has never written about the numerous Veterans who help their fellow homeless Veterans, nor has he ever honored the Deed of 1888, but instead supports the local homeowner group's plan to subvert the Deed and convert Veterans sacred land into a "central park west" for the benefit of the Brentwood community.
And while homeless Veterans are restricted from parking overnight in vans and campers in Brentwood, and also denied parking privileges on Veterans property, (read following letter and attachment) Mr. Hall, a non-Veteran, had a privileged parking pass on Veterans property, even though his office was two blocks away and it offered monthly parking for its tenants.
Now, after nearly three years of Sunday protests against the VA's malfeasance, a forthcoming trial, and other remarkable progress of taking back "The Home," Mr. Hall is jumping on the bandwagon by plagiarizing the hard work and planning of 60, 70 and 80-year old Veterans and passing it off as him being the sole innovator for a Tent City on Veterans property.
And we wonder why Los Angeles has the largest homeless Veteran population in the nation, and why we have to go outside the country we pledged our lives to defend to have access to "freedom of the press" that Veterans also defended.
Lastly, Veterans took an open-ended pledge to defend our country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yes, Veterans have found the domestic enemy, and it is Jeff Hall and his fellow self-serving Brentwoodians.
God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution
