The Constitutional Guarantee Illusion

How Veterans are treated by our own government–"'Bout time we started "telling it like it is!"
by Charles Kelley, A Vietnam Veteran

Every segment of our society has a constitutional guarantee of the right to an attorney of law in a “fair and just” legal system.  Whether it is the rapist, pedophile, murderer, serial killer, terrorist, and even the enemy combatant on the battlefield, all have legal rights under our nation's laws. 

Within this guaranteed and just legal system, it matters not if one is Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, or Protestant or derivatives of all of them.  This guarantee applies to all citizens/residents, even the ones that are illegal.   

There is an underground legal system for those in our nation that has been set aside by our Congress and adopted philosophy of White House after White House. A hidden legal system that can ignore court mandates…

and/or mandamus actions.  It is a stealthy legal system that creates its own laws, rules and weights of evidence, and one man appointed by a President, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, can override the most insightful and valid scientific and statistical findings used to decide legal cases of government-created death and disability in favor of the government.  One appointee by a President, the Secretary of Defense can legally approve biological chemical warfare (BCW) testing of this segment of society with no ramifications for his actions.  Actions that are then denied as long as "plausible denial" can be achieved.  Definitions within this legal system are used with a distinct and defined Government conflict of interest.  

One can imagine the media outrage if it was found that BCW was being used on prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. 

If this was to happen to any of the above, no matter how criminal or insidious the act, some of our media and even some politicians would be appalled by the façade.   

For the singled out segment of society, there is no outcry by anyone except for the cries of those in the ranks and the cries of widows of the fallen for their unjust treatment. 

What is that one segment of society with this “guaranteed illusion” that cannot use professional legal counsel until they are told they are allowed after years and even decades of stalling by the Department of Veterans Affairs and its power given by a White House and Congress? 

What segment of society has this nation set aside for this despicable legal treatment and in many cases inhumane behavior? 

It is The United States Military Veteran and His/Her Family. 

The Congress, media, and our nation at large continually remain silent. 

Charles Kelley
Vietnam DMZ 67-68
Veteran
Author of "Vietnam's Rain Agents Orange, White, and Blue Weapons of Mass Destruction)"