Wednesday, April 30, 2014
SINCE WHEN DOES AN IDIOT NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE IDIOTIC REMARKS?
I will absolutely agree that Sterling’s remarks are reprehensible, but in this country the constitution guarantees everyone the right to make reprehensible remarks.
If the constitution did not guarantee this right, Al Sharpton and the reverend Jeremiah Wright would both be rotting away in some prison cell, as would hundreds of thousands of other people.
I do realize that the NBA is a private organization and can create bylaws that only please themselves; however, they are still required to recognize the players’ right to join a union and be subject to scrutiny by the NLRB. They also have to deal with OSHA and other constitutionally supported government entities, including the IRS. So basically, as I see it, bylaws must still be constitutional.
The disregard of the Constitution in favor of almost anyone who claims to be offended is terrifying. What comes next? Stripping the ownership of Hobby Lobby from the Green family, simply because an abortion activist is offended? Shall the ownership of Wal-Mart be taken away from the Walton family because the socialistic President is dedicated to wealth redistribution?
It is my understanding that the provisions in NBA bylaws allowing owners to expel one of their members are limited to a current owner having the financial inability to run a team, gambling on a team or game fixing. Mr. Sterling has not been accused of any of those transgressions. His punishment is based on racially bigoted comments he has allegedly made, which were apparently taped illegally according to California law.
I have found no news reports that Mr. Sterling had any opportunity to address those who have leveled this charge.
The NBA bylaws apparently allow the other owners to act as a jury to determine whether or not Sterling can continue as the owner of the Clippers, and will allow the league to operate the team until such time as it can be sold, with the proceeds of such a sale going to Sterling.
Isn’t it big of them to allow Sterling to keep the proceeds from his own property? What a great bunch of guys. So Mr. Sterling’s property, reported to be worth in the neighborhood of $700 million, will be sold out from under him. He will have no influence, apparently, on the final price of the sale, as in saying that the prospective buyer’s offer is unacceptable. So, it is conceivable that there will be a substantial loss for Sterling on the sale of the Clippers. And that “substantial” loss could mean a loss measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
I’m not defending what this idiot said; I’m only defending his constitutional right to be an idiot.
DISARM THE IRS AND THE BLM
Utah lawmaker moves to disarm BLM, IRS, says ‘They’re not paramilitary units’
OF COURSE THEY SHOULD BE DISARMED!
THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARMED IN THE
FIRST PLACE, EXCEPT PERHAPS WITH HANDGUNS.
The job of the BLM is to MANAGE federal land. The
job of the IRS is to audit and process federal income tax
returns. Nether of which requires that
they be armed. I believe SOME members of
the BLM, such as park rangers, and perhaps even SOME IRS agents may need to be armed with handguns. However they do not need to have assault weapons
and sniper rifles.
If the federal government needs
civilian agents armed with more firepower than a handgun, that’s what the FBI
is for. I could be wrong, but I believe handguns
were all they had until King Obama turned them into a paramilitary assault force.
I
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Obama to Eradicate Racial Bias in Law Enforcement
The Obama Administration to Launch Database to Eradicate Racial Bias in Law Enforcement
Attorney General Eric Holder
announced another government initiative in the Obama Administration’s ongoing
effort to stir up racial friction. He announced a grant program that will award
cities money to participate in a race-tracking law enforcement database.
“Noting that African-American
and Hispanic males are arrested at disproportionately high rates, U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder said Monday that the Justice Department will seek to
collect data about stops, searches and arrests as part of a larger effort to
analyze and reduce the possible effect of bias within the criminal justice
system,” the Department of Justice announced in a statement on its website Monday.
According to the statement,
the new initiative stems from President Barack Obama’s call last year for law
enforcement agencies to reach out to minority communities in the wake of George
Zimmerman’s acquittal in the Trayvon Martin self-defense shooting case.
“Racial disparities contribute to tension in
our nation generally and within communities of color specifically, and tend to
breed resentment towards law enforcement that is counterproductive to the goal
of reducing crime,” Holder said in his weekly video address.
Why does this administration
always blame everything on race?
Apparently it has never occurred to this administration that Blacks and
Hispanic males are arrested and jailed a disproportionate amount of the time
because they perpetrate a disproportionate amount of crimes. Maybe, just maybe that could be because a disproportionate
number of Blacks and Hispanic males were raised with no father in their lives.
It seems to me treating the
cause rather than the symptom would achieve a more positive outcome. I’m not saying there isn’t any racism in law
enforcement, I’m sure there is some, but not nearly to the extent that exists
in the minds of this administration. This
administration has used race as a wedge to open up wounds that had been healed
for years.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Harry Reid; Guilty as Hell, but Free as a Bird...
Democrat Leader “DIRTY HARRY” Reaped $1.1 Million from sale of land he
didn't own.
Senate Democratic Leader
Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the
property for three years, property deeds show.
Harry Reid has been involved
in land scandals before and since the cited case. Reid has been “cleared of any
wrong-doing” repeatedly because of the same political influence he used to
perpetrate the wrong-doing in the first place. Harry Reid, like Bill Ayers,
“guilty as Hell, but free as a bird.”
Sunday, April 27, 2014
WHO ARE THE REAL RACISTS IN AMERICA?
Great Moments in Democrat Racism
Isn't it ironic, how racism
comes out of the Democrats mouth to this day, and yet the majority of black
people support Democrats every single election. It’s like they want to self destruct.
Democrats have always enjoyed
the degrading and oppressing of the Blacks, they were against Civil Rights, and
they are still to this day some of the worst racists in the world. For example, you have probably heard about
the racist remarks made by the owner of the Clippers NBA team.
The main stream media is
trying to keep quite the fact that he is a DEMOCRAT. You have to go to sources other than
mainstream media. Like these two examples:
ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE
Are Polar Bears Threatened By Global Warming and melting Ice?
READ THE TRUTH HERE:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/alaskan-polar-bears-threatened-too-much-spring-ice-0
OR, you could believe this idiot: http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/al-gore-extreme-weather-events-100-times-common-30-years-ago-due-global-warming/
ObamaCare Update
Latest Obamacare “Glitch”: Dishonoring America’s Elderly
READ STORY HERE:
http://politichicks.tv/column/latest-obamacare-glitch-dishonoring-americas-elderly/
EVERYONE WILL BE ELDERLY SOMEDAY...If they’re not dead
Saturday, April 26, 2014
HARRY REID & BUNDY RANCH UPDATE
Harry Reid is a crook and a liar.
Yes, I know most career politicians are, but
“Dirty Harry” is worse that most of them.
He may have sealed his own
fate, with his many mis-steps of the Bundy Ranch, and BLM fiasco. Reid brought a great deal
of unwanted focus onto this criminal and dysfunctional Administration.
WATCH VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXufo0Uy6_g
Harry Reid is trying to
discredit Cliven Bundy by calling him a racist.
The news media is assisting him by broadcasting an edited version of
Bundy’s remarks. Here is the edited
version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbnRnhrNFEY
Now here is the FULL version. You be the judge. Is he a racist? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agXns-W60MI
Black people who know him say
he IS NOT A RACIST.
Looks to me like Dirty Harry is just trying to
discredit his opposition.
It’s this for Nevada voters to “take out the trash”.
Please Watch this Short Video.
Hobby Lobby Releases Anti-Obamacare Video
PLEASE WATCH
WATCH VIDEO HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py5Tqglm0dg
In a
recently released video by Hobby Lobby, a family-run chain of arts and crafts
stores, an employee describes the company’s lawsuit against the federal
government to protect their right to religious freedom in refusing to pay for
insurance that covers abortion-inducing birth control.
The
company feels that the federal government has overstepped its bounds in this
requirement, especially because their conservative Christian values have come
under fire.
This family has a strong religious belief that life begins at conception. You may or may not agree with that
belief. It doesn’t matter; in this
country (before
we elected a non-citizen Muslim President) we respect everyone’s freedom of religion.
Please support this family in any way you can. If nothing else, at least forward the link to
this video to everyone you know
Thank you and God Save America.
Impeach Obama Campaign
Impeach Obama Campaign Sweeping the South
READ STORY HERE: http://www.mrconservative.com/2014/04/39947-impeach-obama-campaign-sweeping-the-south/
All we get is a lot of talk but no action.
If he were a White Republican, he would already be setting in a Prison
cell.
Friday, April 25, 2014
Obama Tried to Stop Fox News from Reporting Benghazi
It now appears that Obama’s administration went beyond just stalling or being uncooperative, and were actively trying to silence the coverage of the attack by Fox News.
As more
and more truth is discovered about the Benghazi terror attack on 9/11/2012, the more that the
Benghazi coverup spun by the White House is collapsing. Even liberal
bastions like MSNBC and the New York Times
have reluctantly admitted there is a coverup.
The vast
majority of Americans want the truth about Benghazi, and are demanding
a special investigation to uncover it.
The
American people are beyond tired of the stalling and uncooperative attitude
displayed by the White House towards Congress and certain members of the media.
It now
appears that Obama’s administration went beyond just stalling or being
uncooperative, and were actively trying to silence the coverage of the attack
by Fox News. Greta Van Susteren wrote about it on her blog.
(H/T: Newsbusters)
“After Benghazi on 9/11/2012, the Obama administration tried very hard
to discourage Fox News Channel from reporting on it. The effort was obstruction
– pure and simple.”
“They
tried to prevent the truth from coming out and the Administration tried just
about everything to discourage Fox from investigating and reporting,” she
continued. “All the American people wanted, and all I ever wanted, was just the
facts – why did 4 Americans die? What happened?”
“The
Obama Administration put out that phony video story — but who could not have
been suspicious of the Administration after hearing that?” Van Susteren asked.
“Frankly, if they had been candid on day 1, the Benghazi story would have been over in short
order. It would not be to the point we are now: with a Senate Bi Partisan
Intelligence Committee report with the very painful conclusion that the murders
at Benghazi could have been prevented.”
Greta
shares some specific proof that validates her claims of White House
obstruction.
In the
early days after Benghazi, the State Department omitted only Fox News Channel from
its conference call to all the media when it claimed to be answering questions
about Benghazi for the media. Our friends in other media
outlets were scandalized that Fox was not included and told us all about it.
They were suspicious of State Department forgetting us/Fox and courageous to
tip us off. The State Department claimed it was accident and not intentional.
And then
shortly thereafter, there was the CIA briefing about Benghazi at the CIA for all the networks – except one: Fox
News Channel. The CIA would not let Fox News Channel attend. [...]
And
there were many times in the months and years since September 2012 when Obama
Administration officials would make comments to suggest that Fox was just doing
the Benghazi reporting for political reasons. The
Administration was doing what it could to deter and demean the Fox News Channel
investigation. They did not want to give us the facts — so their strategy was
to attempt to belittle and demean our reporting.
Even
more specifically, Greta says that she was warned by a friend in the
administration about Fox reporter Jennifer Griffin, and was told to rein her
in, as she was asking too many questions and digging too deep.
[M]y
friend told me that my colleague Jennifer Griffin, who was aggressively
reporting on Benghazi, was wrong and that, as a favor to me, my friend in the
Administration was telling me so that I could tell Jennifer so that she did not
ruin her career. My friend was telling me to tell Jennifer to stop her
reporting. Ruin her career?
In 20
plus years, I have never received a call to try and shut down a colleague – not
that I even could – this was a first.
Told by
her friend that Griffin was wrong in her assessments of Benghazi, Van Susteren demanded proof that her
colleague Griffin was wrong.
I got no
proof. Zero. I smelled a rat. Favor to me? Hardly. My friend was trying to use
me. I feel bad that a friend did that to me, tried to use me for a dirty
reason. I knew then — and it is now confirmed by BIPARTISAN Senate Intelligence
Committee — Jennifer was getting her facts right. I think it is really low for
the Administration to stoop this low.
This
news doesn’t really come as a shock to anybody. A vast majority
of Americans believe that Obama is covering up the truth of Benghazi. It is not a stretch to think his
administration would warn and shun certain reporters and news organizations
that posed a danger to their cover story.
Th Obama
administration has gone to great lengths to disguise the true events of
Benghazi, from changing
the original talking points for the media, to changing
the names of survivors to prevent their stories from reaching the
public. It is time for a special select committee to fully investigate Benghazi and hold whoever is responsible to full
account for their actions.
Please
share on Facebook and Twitter if you are unsurprised that Obama’s White House
tried to prevent Fox News from covering the Benghazi terror attack.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
IF YOU STILL DON'T BELIEVE OBAMA IS A MUSLIM; You Must Read This
40 Mind-Blowing Quotes From Barack Hussein Obama On Islam And Christianity
FROM OBAMA’S OWN MOUTH http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15200
IS MARIJUANA SAFE TO USE?
Everyone who uses Pot insists it’s harmless. Research (and history) tells us an entirely different story.
If you use the stuff, you need to do a little research. Check out these links…
AND THERE’S THIS:
Patrick Kennedy to President Obama: Pot has changed
HOW DID HARRY REID BECOME SO WEALTHY?
Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power & Wealth
Hey you people who live in Nevada; it's time to take out the trash...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
WAKE UP AMERICA...
Homelessness is growing by leaps and bounds under Obama
READ STORY HERE: http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2014/04/22/homelessness-is-growing-by-leaps-and-bounds-under-obama/
RELATED STORY HERE: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/04/22/Obamacare-Spawning-Medical-Homelessness-Crisis
Shame on You, Glenn Beck
I used to respect Glenn Beck because I thought
he was one who was determined to stand up to American enemies and our
tyrannical government.
Apparently I was wrong about
him. He seems to have shifted sides, and
joined the liberal lunatics.
Glenn fails to realize is
that this militia was composed of brave patriotic Americans that decided to
take a stand against the tyrannical actions of the aggressive federal
government snipers, which threatened to put the Bundy family in body bags.
SEE VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-kqi9gWj40
NEVER FORGET BENGHAZI...Make the guilty pay
What Difference Does It Make?
The Benghazi nightmare was supposed to be a kidnapping of Ambassador Chris Stevens which went bad. Once he was kidnapped, he was going to be offered in trade for the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Khalid Sheik Muhammad. But, because the three others who died with him in the fight, Sean Smith, Glen Dougherty, Tyrone Woods, and others did their jobs by fighting the attackers, the attack escalated to the point where the attackers ultimately killed Stevens and the others.So what did Barry and Hillary do? They blamed a video, posted an apology and acted concerned for the deaths of these devoted Americans by assuring the families “everything will be done to bring the killers to justice.”
READ MORE HERE: http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2014/04/23/what-difference-does-it-make/
What Difference Indeed!
Another case of law enforcement out of control
Elbert Breshears called for an ambulance for
his wife, who suffers from dementia, but it was police who showed up first, and
they beat him up.
I hope He finds Justice for
the brutality these officers gave, and the suffering they caused.
Not knowing the situation at
the House, the police should NOT have jumped first, but found out what was
happening before acting like a thug.
WATCH VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTPSRSFEL0
TEXAS WARNS FEDS EYING LAND GRAB: “STAY OUT”
The BLM eyeing land grab along Texas-Oklahoma border
Texas officials are raising alarm that the Bureau of
Land Management, on the heels of its dust-up with Nevada rancher
Cliven Bundy, might be eyeing a massive land grab in northern Texas.
READ MORE HERE:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/22/republicans-warn-blm-eyeing-land-grab-along-texas-oklahoma-border/
Nothing’s Too Unethical for Harry Reid.
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again
The Republican National Committee has released a
brutal memo on Senate majority leader Harry Reid, savaging him for repeatedly
lying. The memo, under the name of press secretary Kirsten Kukowski, is titled
"Nothing’s Too Unethical for Harry Reid."
READ MORE HERE:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gop-savages-harry-reid-if-first-you-don-t-succeed-lie-lie-again_787271.html
Monday, April 21, 2014
Did the Police Over React?
Police beat up entire wedding party, ruin pro baseball player’s career
It also appeared in the Houston
Chronicle: http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/Ex-Astro-says-police-ruined-pitching-career-5368734.php
ETHANOL UPDATE
Biofuels made from the
leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming
Fuels from corn
waste not better than gas. READ MORE
HERE
Sunday, April 20, 2014
This is Government Cronyism and Corruption at its very Worst.
Sen. Feinstein Rewards Rich Cronies at The Expense of Homeless Veterans
by Robert Rosebrock
LOS ANGELES – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) continues to violate her public trust which has already linked her to the misappropriation of Federal VA property that rewards her wealthy and powerful friends while punishing war-injured and impoverished homeless Veterans.Now, the Senator has rewarded a U.S. Attorney who waged war against the landmark ACLU lawsuit that exposed what Veteran activists have known and openly protested over the past six years, that the VA is dealing in illegal real estate contracts.
Correspondingly, Senator Feinstein has submitted a Federal District Judgeship recommendation to President Barack Obama on behalf of Andre Birotte Jr., the U.S. Attorney who defiantly fought the ACLU lawsuit that was filed against his clients, VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki and Los Angeles VA executive director Donna M. Beiter, for the misuse of Federal VA property.
This sacred land was exclusively deeded and entrusted to the U.S. government in 1888 for the sole purpose of establishing and permanently maintaining a National Soldier’s Home for war-injured and needy Veterans.
Nevertheless, Mr. Birotte aggressively fought the ACLU lawsuit on behalf of his VA Defendants and against the Plaintiffs, Vietnam Veterans of America and homeless Veterans.
On August 29, 2013, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero legally confirmed what had already become common knowledge when he entered a Federal Judgment against Mr. Birotte’s clients for engaging in nine illegal real estate dealings at the Los Angeles VA that involved third-party non-Veteran entities.
To compound these duplicitous acts of ingratitude and disrespect toward disabled homeless Veterans, Mr. Birotte, who is not a Veteran, irreverently appealed the Federal Judgment on behalf of his VA Defendants and at the added expense of the American Taxpayer and the prolonged misery and suffering of tens of thousands of homeless Veterans in Los Angeles.
By the VA’s own admission, nearly half of all homeless Veterans today — 47% — are from the Vietnam War era that ended nearly 40 years ago.
John Rowan, National President of Plaintiff Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), added an even more sobering reminder: “Today, there are more homeless Veterans from the Vietnam War era than were killed during the war. These Veterans are elderly, frail and in declining health and are being forced to live in deplorable circumstances. Make no mistake; VVA is fully committed to ending these inhumane living conditions by ensuring that our fellow Veterans get the quality housing and care they need and deserve.”
U.S. Attorney Birotte’s vindictive appeal of the Federal Judgment is morally and legally indefensible as Judge Otero unequivocally ruled that the VA Defendants had violated the “clear and unambiguous” language of the law in all nine illegal real estate dealings.
Correspondingly, Senator Feinstein, who is not a Veteran, is directly linked to at least two of the nine illegal contracts.
One of the unlawful contracts is with her affluent and influential friends in a neighboring community adjacent to the VA property, who manipulated a 30-year agreement to build a public park on Veterans’ property “for the enjoyment of the entire community,” while tens of thousands of disabled and disadvantaged Veterans have been exiled and forced into inhumane conditions of homelessness, misery and suffering.
Another of the illegal real estate deals involves Senator Feinstein’s husband who is a member of the University of California’s Board of Regents, which negotiated a real estate deal with the VA bureaucrats to lease a hundred-million dollar parcel of Veterans land “dirt cheap” for UCLA’s state-of-the-art baseball stadium.
This misappropriated Federal VA property is in U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman’s (D-Beverly Hills) 33rd Congressional District.
Congressman Waxman is not a Veteran of our Armed Forces, but he is an alumni of UCLA. Do you want to go out on a limb and guess where his loyalty is?
Meanwhile, Los Angeles is our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans and instead of building new quality housing on this land to care for our war-injured and destitute Veterans, it has been corruptly leased to non-Veteran entities for non-Veteran use.
As anticipated, the hard-fought lawsuit against the VA was won by the ACLU’s stellar team of attorneys that comprise some of our nation’s most prestigious law firms and top legal scholars.
With the irony of poetic and military justice, U.S. Attorney Birotte and his team of government attorneys were soundly defeated in their hostile war against Vietnam Veterans of American and disabled homeless Veterans.
Even though U.S. Attorney Birotte and his courtroom warriors were fairly and squarely beaten on the battlefield of the California Central District Court, he has unforgivably appealed the Judgment and continues to wage war against Plaintiffs Vietnam Veterans of America and homeless Veterans by instigating a new battle in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
As though this isn’t sinister and despicable enough, Senator Feinstein has recommended Mr. Birotte for a Federal Judgeship in the California Central District Court.
Fellow Americans, this is “cesspool cronyism” at its very worst because it doesn’t get any lower or disgusting, nor has the stench of political payback ever stunk any fouler.
The Senator’s Judgeship recommendation makes a mockery of the American Judicial system and is a sacrilegious assault against the very men and women who pledged their lives to defend our US. Constitution and the safety of our Nation.
Let there be no misunderstanding: Senator Feinstein’s Judgeship recommendation was reinforced and solidified after Mr. Birotte proved his loyalty to the Defendants and the illegal occupiers by appealing the Federal Judgment.
In sum, this Judgeship recommendation is political payback for Mr. Birotte’s determined and loyal commitment to defend the illegal real estate contracts that were manipulated behind closed doors between the VA bureaucrats and influential non-Veteran entities.
More than a century ago, Teddy Roosevelt forewarned of this kind of insidious conduct: “Behind the ostensible government sit enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
To underscore Mr. Birotte’s own bias and selective enforcement of the law, he fought against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Jail system, claiming mistreatment of incarcerated prisoners who already have a roof over their head, a warm bed and shower, three hot meals a day, television, recreation, etc.
On the other hand, Mr. Birotte fought against disabled and disadvantaged Veterans and the misuse of their deeded property by bowing to the dictates of Senator Feinstein who bows to the dictates of her rich and powerful cronies while thousands of war-injured Veterans have been exiled and forced to live alone, homeless and hungry in back-alley squalor.
What’s taking place on Senator Feinstein’s “watch,” is the biggest land-fraud scandal in American history that transformed into some of the most heinous crimes against humanity on American soil … against disabled homeless Veterans who have been inhumanely neglected, tormented and persecuted.
Senator Feinstein crowned this International disgrace with one of the most traitorous and scandalous recommendations for a Federal District Judgeship in American history … on behalf of a U.S. Attorney who shamefully wages war against disabled homeless Veterans who pledged their lives to defend our US. Constitution and the American way of life.
Summary of abuse of power, breach of public trust and cronyism:
- On March 3, 1888, John P. Jones and Arcadia B. de Baker agreed to deed 600 acres of land in West Los Angeles to the U.S. government for the sole purpose of establishing and maintaining a National Soldier’s Home for war-injured and needy veterans to be housed and cared for on this hallowed property.
- Today, there’s 388 acres left and no semblance of housing and care commensurate with the founding principles enshrined in the Congressional Act of 1887 and the legal Deed of 1888, because the VA has been illegally leasing this land and facilities to non-veteran entities for non-veteran use, even though Los Angeles is our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans and President Barack Obama has promised to end all Veteran homelessness by 2015.
- This Federal VA property is situated in the 33rd Congressional District of U.S. Representative Henry Waxman and it’s his fiduciary duty and responsibility to oversee and protect this national sacred trust, along with the entrusted stewardship of California’s U.S. Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.
- One of the illegal contracts the VA has with non-Veteran entities is Veterans Park Conservancy (VPC), which is not a Veterans organization but a wealthy and powerful homeowner group situated adjacent to the VA property.
- For nearly two decades, Senator Feinstein and Congressman Waxman have been listed as “Federal Government Supporters” on VPC’s website.
- In May, 2007, three months before VPC signed an unprecedented arrangement for a public park on Veterans property, Senator Feinstein violated her public trust by aiding and abetting on behalf of the wealthy homeowner group at the expense of disabled homeless Veterans.
- On August 24, 2007, VPC was awarded a 30-year agreement to build a public park on a 16-acre parcel of Veterans property estimated to be worth more than a billion-dollars, and the homeowner group got it “rent-free.”
- Soon after the agreement was consummated, Sue Young, the executive director and founder of VPC, boasted in the ‘Brentwood News’ that “This [public park] arrangement was unprecedented as it required lengthy discussions and compromises with Veterans Administration in Los Angeles and Washington. The agreement also called for approvals at the highest levels, i.e., Secretary Nicholson, and the involvement of the Congressional delegation.”
- In 2009, Senator Feinstein recommended Andre` Birotte, Jr., for U.S. Attorney and the top federal law enforcement officer in the Central District of California. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in February, 2010.
- On June 12, 2010, the ‘Los Angeles Times’ featured an article titled “U.S. Attorney to Target Corruption” and it was about Andre` Birotte, Jr. who proclaimed that he was “creating a specialized unit to prosecute public corruption, such as those involving politicians or police officers accused of crimes.”
- U.S. Attorney Birotte further promised “to bring to justice those public officials and public employees who violate the public trust.”
- One year later, on June 8, 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU), joined by a stellar legal team with Vietnam Veterans of America and homeless Veterans as Plaintiffs, filed a landmark lawsuit against federally employed public officials — VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and Los Angeles VA director Donna Beiter — for the misuse of Veterans land.
- Three months later, on September 8, 2011, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero held a Hearing between the Plaintiff’s and Defendant’s attorneys and stressed the case’s importance for needy veterans, and that it could justify some departure from the precedent.
- Judge Otero forewarned U.S. Attorney Birotte’s and his staff of deputy attorneys: “I’m not going to let the federal government hide behind bureaucracy.”
- Disregarding and disrespecting a Federal Judge’s directive, and total disregard for disabled and needy Veterans, U.S. Attorney Birotte filed a Motion to have the ACLU lawsuit dismissed.
- When Judge Otero denied the Motion, Mr. Birotte and his extensive staff of deputy attorneys shamefully waged war against the Plaintiffs, Vietnam Veterans of America and disabled homeless Veterans.
- On August 29, 2013, Judge Otero issued a Federal Judgment against the VA Defendants for nine real estate contracts with third-party entities for non-Veteran use, declaring they are “unauthorized by law and therefore void.”
- U.S. Attorney Birotte and his team of deputy attorneys lost their hostile and unpatriotic war against Vietnam Veterans of American and disabled homeless Veterans.
- Six years after the public park agreement had been signed by the VA at Senator Feinstein’s influence and insistence, it was formally adjudicated in Federal Court as “unauthorized by law and therefore void.”
- Another of the nine illegal real estate dealings the VA entered into is with the University of California’s Board of Regents on behalf of the University of California of Los Angeles (UCLA), which has a state-of-the-art baseball stadium on Veterans land and they pay a pittance of $5,000 a month for property that is worth more than a hundred-million dollars.
- Richard C. Blum is a Board Regent and was first appointed by Governor Grey Davis on March 12, 2002 to a 12-year term that expired on March 1, 2014. He was recently re-appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to another term expiring on March 1, 2026. Mr. Blum is a past chairman of the Board of Regents.
- Mr. Blum is a billionaire, International financier, speculator, real estate executive and deal-maker extraordinaire.
- Mr. Blum is the chairman of the board of the CB Richard Ellis Group (now CBRE Group, Inc.), the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm.
- Mr. Blum is the husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.
- U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman, whose 33rd District includes the Los Angeles VA property, is an alumni of UCLA.
- As outlined above, U.S. Attorney Birotte and his government staff of deputy attorneys vigorously fought against the ACLU lawsuit while defending the VA’s misappropriation of Federal VA property that included the VPC and UCLA agreements, even though the land was exclusively and permanently deeded to the U.S. government in 1888 as a National Home for Disabled Soldiers (Veterans).
- Today, there are tens of thousands of disabled and needy Veterans in Los Angeles who are forced to live homeless and hungry because the VA illegally leased this land for a public park and collegiate baseball stadium, among other illegal occupancy, instead of building and establishing quality Veteran housing and care in accordance with the Congressional Act of 1887 and legal Deed of 1888.
- On October 28, 2013, two months after Judge Otero entered his indisputable Judgment against the VA officials, U.S. Attorney Birotte appealed it in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- Mr. Birotte’s appeal is morally and legally indefensible as Judge Otero staunchly declared that the VA had violated the “clear and unambiguous” language of the law in all nine real estate contracts.
- According to the ACLU, briefing on Mr. Birotte’s appeal is scheduled to conclude this summer, with oral arguments likely to be scheduled in late 2014 or early 2015.
- In spite of U.S. Attorney Birotte’s disrespect toward Judge Otero’s moral and legal ruling, and at the extended cost to the American Taxpayer and the prolonged misery and suffering of homeless Veterans, Senator Dianne Feinstein astoundingly submitted Mr. Birotte’s name to President Barack Obama for a Federal District Judgeship.
- As incredulous as this may seem, given Mr. Birotte’s hostile attack against disabled and homeless Veterans and their rightful land, Senator Feinstein still knowingly and willingly recommended him for a Federal District Judgeship.
- Contrary to Mr. Birotte’s promise “to bring to justice those public officials and public employees who violate the public trust,” he has broken his promise and violated his own public trust.
- The foregoing notwithstanding, on April 3, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated U.S. Attorney Andre` Birotte, Jr. for a Federal District Judgeship in the Central District of California, which covers seven counties, including Los Angeles.
- At the nomination announcement, President Obama declared U.S. Attorney Birotte has “demonstrated the talent, expertise and fair-mindedness Americans expect and deserve from their judicial system.”
- After the President’s nomination was officially announced, Senator Feinstein declared: “It was my great honor to recommend André Birotte to serve as a federal district judge in Los Angeles. In 2009 I recommended Birotte to President Obama for the position of U.S. attorney, and I have been very impressed with his performance over the last four years. He has a record of excellence and fairness, and I am confident he will serve the people of the Central District very well as a U.S. district judge.”
Remember, the victims are war-injured and impoverished Veterans who are forced to live homeless and hungry while the perpetrators who have benefitted from the misappropriation of this sacred land live nearby in multi-million dollar mega-mansions.
This is betrayal of the public trust beyond anything imaginable as U.S. Attorney Andre’ Birotte Jr. unconditionally promised “to bring to justice those public officials and public employees who violate the public trust.”
This charlatan’s name must be removed from any consideration for an entrusted Federal District Judgeship.
Andre` Birotte, Jr, the President’s nominee, is unqualified and unable to live up to the Oath of Office for Federal Judges as he has protected the ill-gotten benefits of the rich and powerful at the expense of disabled and destitute Veterans who have defended the very U.S. Constitution that Mr. Birotte is being asked to equitably uphold.
The Judiciary Act of 1789, established an additional oath taken by federal judges: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution, and laws of the United States. So help me God.” (underlined for emphasis)
On behalf of our disabled and destitute Veterans who have been illegally and immorally exiled from these sacred grounds for the benefit of wealthy non-Veteran special interest groups, this is to respectfully request that President Barack Obama immediately withdraw the embarrassing nomination of U.S. Attorney Andre` Birotte, Jr. for a Federal District Judgeship.
President Obama must further demand that Mr. Birotte drop his unjustifiable appeal of Judge Otero’s Federal Judgment so that the illegal occupiers can be immediately evicted and we can move forward to build a new and modern Veterans Home on these sacred grounds for our disabled and needy Veterans.
Unquestionably, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein has abused and violated her entrusted power as a public servant and has conspired against disabled and homeless Veterans and their legally deeded property.
Fellow Americans, the Old Veterans Guard respectfully requests your full support to expose this travesty against our Judicial System and disabled homeless Veterans, and that you assist in demanding that there be full Congressional, FBI and Grand Jury investigations into the biggest land-fraud scandal in American history along with the most corrupted Federal District Judgeship nomination in American history.
Correspondingly, please read our Resolution below calling for the President’s withdrawal of Andre` Birotte, Jr’s. nomination for an entrusted Federal District Judgeship.
Please support and endorse this Resolution by sending it to President Obama, your Congressional and Senatorial Representatives, and to Senator Leahy of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
God Bless America and the Veterans Revolution!
RESOLUTION
To Oppose U.S. Attorney Andre` Birotte Jr’s Nomination for a Federal District Judgeship
WHEREAS, in 1888, private land in West Los Angeles was donated to the federal government for the sole purpose of establishing and maintaining a National Soldier’s Home for war-injured and needy veterans to be housed and cared for on this hallowed property, while today these services have become unavailable because the VA has been leasing this land and facilities to non-veteran entities for non-veteran use, even though Los Angeles is our nation’s capital for homeless Veterans and President Barack Obama has promised to end all Veteran homelessness by 2015; andWHEREAS, on June 8, 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined by some of our nation’s most prestigious law firms and top legal scholars with Vietnam Veterans of America and homeless Veterans as Plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit against Defendants Eric K. Shinseki, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs and his Los Angeles VA director, Donna M. Beiter, for misuse of these sacred grounds; and
WHEREAS, the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice, led by U.S. Attorney Andre` Birotte Jr. who is the top federal law enforcement officer in the Central District of California, filed a Motion to have the lawsuit dismissed and when the Motion was denied, Mr. Birotte and his extensive staff of Deputy U.S. Attorneys assertively fought against the lawsuit, effecting U.S. District Judge S. James Otero to issue a Federal Judgment on August 29, 2013 against the VA Defendants for nine non-Veteran real estate contracts, which are “unauthorized by law and therefore void”; and
WHEREAS, On October 28, 2013, U.S. Attorney Birotte appealed Judge Otero’s Judgment at the added expense of the American taxpayer and prolonged misery and suffering of thousands of homeless Veterans in Los Angeles who need immediate housing and care, while less than six months later U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein inexplicably submitted Mr. Birotte’s name to President Obama for a Federal Judgeship in the Central District of California.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that on behalf of thousands of disabled and homeless Veterans in Los Angeles, the Old Veterans Guard of the Veterans Revolution supports the Federal Judgment and opposes U.S. Attorney Birotte’s appeal of it, and further opposes Senator Feinstein’s recommendation and President Obama’s nomination of Mr. Birotte for a Federal District Judgeship, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Old Veterans Guard of the Veterans Revolution calls on President Barack Obama and Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Judicial Committee, to withdraw Andre` Birotte Jr’s nomination for a Federal District Judgeship, and that U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein likewise withdraw her recommendation.
Old Veterans Guard – Adopted on April 9, 2014
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