Should the LA Veteran's Protests End?

Los Angeles Police close in on protesting vets.

Veterans protest against land seizures in LA Photos courtesy: Gordon Duff/VeteransToday.com.

(LOS ANGELES) - Covering the 2 year protest in Los Angeles has been frustrating. None of it is really about veteran's land. How can land be veterans land if Veterans Affairs with their police force and locked gates run it?

Veterans land is being stolen across America. This is one of a hundred things being done to veterans. It isn't about land. The issue is about people.

One question is how could police show up at a protest and harass vets, some WW2 vets in wheel chairs when their cause is so simple and so right? Everyone knows that the Veterans Conservancy Park is a scam to steal all the land, not just part, and give it to businesses, not really for a public park. Any idiot can figure this one out.

Police can threaten and coerce veterans, use ethnic slurs and make total asses of themselves because we let them. The police work, not for veterans or homeless but for the local government controlled by the businesses that would sell billions in veterans land to the Chinese, better yet, North Korea.

Police can act like thugs because the 200,000 veterans in Los Angeles are stuck in front of a TV watching Glen Beck cry over insurance companies or, more accurately, simply don't care. Vets don't care because nobody cares. Stealing is considered a joke, as long as you are stealing enough and not from folks with friends at Fox News. Veterans have no friends at Fox News. We have made ourselves easy targets.

Our other question, where are the younger vets? Have we raised a generation, yes, we did raise them, they are our kids, who lack a sense of unity with the veteran community? Has all the anti-veteran propaganda the military has subjected our kids to turned them against us, and really against themselves? Maybe they should abandon us. I never wanted to turn a country like this one over to my kids, a country in financial ruin, no jobs, constant talk about civil war and led around by the nose at the hands of human slugs on radio and TV.

The VFW is fully supporting, according to their proclamation, the protests in Los Angeles but does nothing to help. Is it a time for veterans to march as one, behind someone or something? Is there a cause, other than "tea bagging" or waving guns around like total buffoons that we should get behind?

As it is now, we have "progressive" vets, working for benefits, health care and "fighting the good fight." The only real victories in decades, meaningful ones, have been won by these groups like Veterans for Common Sense.

We have the Legion and VFW, with individual posts working hard, some at least, and a national organization operating as a GOP political front, screwing their own members.

Nobody asks real questions? Why can the government treat veterans like it treats the miltiary? Why can't veterans sue when their claims are denied for no reason or their files are destroyed or altered or if their VA doctors, some, a small number admittedly, act like criminal maniacs?

Why are veterans different, legally, than regular people? Is it really true that veterans don't have constitutonal rights? One writer, Terry Higgins, tells it like it is.

Wouldn't you think that one veterans organization would speak up, just one, asking why veterans can't be protected by the same laws as other Americans, one organization other than Veterans for Common Sense?

I am going to stick the text of Terry's article here. Please ask yourself why we have allowed this to go on? Why be represented by anyone at all if our most basic rights are totally ignored?

He is an outspoken advocate for veterans and his powerful words have brought about change. Gordon is a lifelong PTSD sufferer from his war experiences and he is empathetic to the plight of today's veterans also suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. We greatly appreciate the opportunity to feature Gordon's timely and critical reports on Salem-News.com, a news organization staffed by a number of veterans, particularly former U.S. Marines.

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