Congressman Filner disappoints Vets
ACLU moves to stop VA police from Vet abuse
This week, the ACLU informed Veterans Today that they will be representing Robert Rosebrock, a well know veterans advocate, who has, along with groups including the American Legion and Military Order of Purple heart, protesting VA polices that are harming homeless vets in California.
VA security guards had, according to the ACLU, illegally ticketed demonstrators on public property. These demonstrations were protesting attempts by wealthy homeowners in Brentwood and West Los Angeles who, according to spokesman Robert Rosebrock, advocate a “not in my backyard” policy toward homeless vets.
This move by the ACLU to defend the rights of veterans protesting mistreatment by their own government is tied to nearly 2 years of protests by aging veterans who had become the target of an aggressive program of “protest suppression” by VA security forces who ticketed demonstrators on city property with violations of Federal law, this putting them in Federal court.
The heart of the protests have been attempts for more than 20 years to use the massive West Los Angeles veterans facility, donated, not to the government but “California’s veterans” to be held in trust for housing homeless vets, its original purpose and not to be leased out to prep schools, local homeowners groups or for wine tastings for the elite of the area.
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Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues. Gordon can be reached at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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