Los Angeles Times
Dear Editor:
Re: Today's Editorial - "
Let Rahm run"
It is simply amazing that the Los Angeles Times finds it important enough to write an editorial about the Chicago mayoralty race and defending the residency of Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's former chief of staff.
Your lead sentence reads: "Consider Rahm Emanuel , a man with no city to call home."
It’s stunning that you would show so such compassion and concern about the legal residency of one very well-connected politician who does not even live in Los Angeles, while 20,000 homeless Veterans in Los Angeles County have no place to call home, even though they really do have a legal "Home."
This, of course, refers to the benevolent land grant Deed of 1888 that states repeatedly this Gift from two American Patriots, on behalf of America’s Military Veterans, is "to be permanently maintained as a National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers." There's an 1887 Act of Congress that mandates this Deed is to be honored as stipulated, and in perpetuity.
The abuse and misappropriation of Veterans property and subsequent dispossession of thousands of Veterans from their rightful Home is devastating and unconsciounable.
The fact that the West Los Angeles VA is the steward of the largest Veterans Home in the nation would seem like something this city should be proud of. Instead, it's a national disgrace that Los Angeles County is the homeless Veteran capital of the United States.
This incredulous news has been both suppressed and perpetrated by a rogue regime of ranking VA bureaucrats who are essentially guilty of malfeasance and dereliction of duty. This must cease and top echelon VA employees need to be terminated, post haste.
VA's breach of fiduciary responsibility that has fostered this embarrassing homeless Veteran travesty
VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki must take immediate action to replace the following top echelon VA administrative employees at the Los Angeles VA:
- Donna Beiter, Executive Director;
- Lynn Carrier, Associate Director;
- Ralph Tillman, Director of Asset Management and Chief of Public Affairs;
- Ronald Mathis, Chief of VA Police
The Times' silence on LA's dirty little secret cannot remain a secret much longer because the Annenberg Foundation, at the behest of Board Director Lauren Bon, and through their Philadelphia law firm, have thoroughly investigated and released an extensive "position paper" that fully exposes the VA's breach of fiduciary responsibility that has fostered this embarrassing homeless Veteran travesty.
While Veterans have long proclaimed that the West Los Angeles VA has violated its fiduciary duty to uphold the Deed of 1888, the recent release of the “Annenberg Position Paper” legally establishes and reinforces this unyielding assertion.
Please see attached Veterans "
Declaration of Enforcement (pdf)" that underscores the absolute necessity of holding the VA accountable in accordance with the forthright Annenberg report and our own no-nonsense document that defends and protects the Deed of 1888 and the Los Angeles Veterans Home.
Hopefully, the Los Angeles Times will begin to devote as much time and concern to the legal residency of 20,000 homeless and hungry Veterans in Los Angeles County, as it does about one well-to-do politician who already has a home in Washington D.C.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Rosebrock
Director, Old Veterans Guard
Director, Veterans Revolution
