TOO MANY ENSLAVED BY IGNORANCE INTO TURNING ON THEIR OWN
VETERANS RIGHTS ADVOCATES UNDER ATTACK BY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND MEMBERS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
While a million families wait, up to 18 years, for veterans disability claims, while soldiers are sent to fight a war with no purpose, sent to fight, sick, sent to fight suicidally depressed, while veterans are dying of service related diseases from AO to GWI in unpublished and shocking numbers, while "appointed" special courts crush veterans rights, service and retiree organizations and the majority of veterans and serving military do and say absolutely nothing. Some go further, "sleeping with the enemy."
It’s worse, much worse. Not only do they say nothing good, most work openly against veterans who, especially recently, have won huge victories for veterans rights, victories won, not only against an uncaring government but with no support from millions of fellow veterans and the organizations who have rubber stamped every oppressive act, every abuse that has for decades destroyed veterans and their families.
Truth is very simple. For 60 years things have gotten worse for veterans although tens of billions of dollars have bloated Veterans Affairs into the most dysfunctional and oppressive bureaucracy in our entire government. Courts now "officially" find the DVA proven "troubling" but nobody seems to know why. We know. Sick veterans know. Veterans who have worked claims thru the system know.
What vets don’t know is how the American Legion, VFW and other groups have advised the DVA and Congress, led us, every step of the way, to the total failure and utter disaster we have now. These groups "played" at helping vets but became a home for political extremists or dimwits addicted more grandstanding than the hard work required by informed veterans advocacy.
Service and retiree organizations, their members and most serving military fail to comprehend critical issues:
- CLAIMS BACKLOGS AND RECORD DESTRUCTION AND ALTERATION
- LACK OF "DUE PROCESS" IN VETERANS APPEALS
- MASSIVE FAILURES IN HEALTH CARE
- RETALIATION (AND PROSECUTON) OF WHISTLEBLOWERS
- CORRUPTION, BONUSES AND MISALLOCATION OF RESOURCES
- THEFT OF BILLIONS IN VETERANS LAND MANAGED BY DVA
- LACK OF RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF SERVICE SPECIFIC ILLNESSES, AO, GWI, RADIATION SICKNESS, ETC
The majority of veterans and active duty military, not only know nothing but usually support groups and political candidates whose positions hurt veterans and hurt the military. Lazy and careless members of the military and veterans community fall for childish propaganda like a rat sniffing out a stinking corpse.
It isn’t enough, failing to help or supporting vet hating candidates. Millions are spent to push real veterans advocacy agendas off the table to be replaced by phony flag waving and half hearted patriotic issues. Why are they half hearted? Real support for a strong America requires real support for her veterans and military and not misinformation and political games.
This is a bit of the damage done:
- "TALKING’ MEDICAL AND CLAIMS PROBLEMS TO DEATH FOR YEARS WITH NO SOLUTIONS
- SUPPORTING POLITICIANS WHO CUT FUNDING AND CLOSE FACILITIES
- HELPING COVER UP VA CORRUPTION
- HELPING THE VA DELAY RESPONSIBLITY FOR SERVICE SPECIFIC DISEASES
- FAILURE TO SUPPORT WHISTLE BLOWERS, SILENT SUPPORT FOR VA RETALIATION
- CONTINUALLY MISINFORMING CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC ON CRITICAL VETERANS ISSUES
- SUPPORTING "SMOKESCREEN" ISSUES LIKE FLAG BURNING, COVERING UP REAL PROBLEMS
- RUNNING POLITICAL PROPAGANDA PROGRAMS PUSHING VETERANS VOTES TO VETERANS ENEMIES
- OPENLY OPPOSING GROUPS FIGHTING FOR VETERANS RIGHTS
- SUPPORTING ANY AND ALL WAR INITIATIVES, NO MATTER HOW SENSELESS
- SUPPORTING ABUSE OF OUR MILITARY
- SUPPORTING ABUSE OF OUR CONSTITUTION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
- ABANDONED VIETNAM VETS, OFTEN DENYING MEMBERSHIP AND SUPPORT FOR YEARS
- SUPPORTED NEGATIVE MEDIA STEREOTYPES OF VIETNAM VETS FOR DECADES
For every failure of the service organizations, most military retiree groups even go further. Some actively oppose funds for veteran medical care and benefits feeling it threatens retiree privileges. On one landmark issue, retiree groups continually oppose use of Space A military flights for disabled veterans and Medal of Honor winners, yet millions of tax payer dollars are spent to subsidize both flights and facilities, terminals, hotels, for retirees to use.
All the game playing, be it retirees against vets, conservatives against liberals, delusional idiots against less delusional idiots or serving military who are systematically instructed by our military to disrespect veterans and their service, makes unity an impossibility.
The industry that breeds ignorance is too powerful and ingrained to convert. Veterans have been too polite and understanding, not only with the public and their leaders who could care less what happens to us but with other veterans whose utter ignorance has left us powerless.
The idea that social organizations with good and decent members operate under a national bureaucracy so less decent than the members themselves, or most of them anyway, that reason itself is challenged.
How do we say, thanks for your service, thanks for the flowers and the motorcycle processions but keep the hell out of politics and please, please dump your leadership, fire your lobbyists and get connected to the real world?
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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