VA POLICE COWED AS INTERNATIONAL “SUPER-BANKER”
AND CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE JOIN PROTEST OVER LAND THEFT
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
For 2 years, veterans have protested the misuse of veterans land, not “government” land, land donated to build housing for vets long ago. Instead, you see private swimming pools, tennis courts and a running track behind a million dollar fence. The words on the fence read, LOS ANGELES VETERANS PARK.
Police, sometimes a dozen or more, have hounded the aging demonstrators but not today. TV crews crowded around as Daniel Overmyer, international banker and Congressional Candidate Ari David joined the protest. Police were nowhere to be seen. Their swat vans and high powered cruisers stayed in the garage and the forces usually stalking protesting veterans were kept indoors and out of sight.
Overmyer, who helped found the international banking firm COPS after WW2, top financial adviser to dozens of governments including Russia and China, joined Robert Rosebrock, Ari David, Mark Reed, a fellow WW2 vet and Dave Culmer of the Los Angeles County Veterans Advisory Commission and a host of others from the American Legion, Military Order of Purple Heart and other organizations for the event.
Overmyer told Miram Hernandez of KABC TV and others gathered for the protest:
l’m speaking today on behalf of the million or more men and women who
have served their country in wars past and present. In the 1800s over
L50 acres of land on the west side of Los Angeles was given to Veterans,
for the sole purpose of building a Veterans Retirement Home.Currently,
attempts are underway to privatize the land and use it for other
purposes. This land is extremely valuable, which is why attempts are
being made to pervert its use.
As Veterans we have the right to thwa’rt these attempts and protect the
original goal of the family who donated this land. Unfortunately, the
construction of a Veteran’s Home on the land has not occurred, even
though it was mandated by Congress many years ago.We are obligated by the original owner, who gifted this property to
Veterans, to conserve it for its original purpose and only for that purpose.
We must deny the current attempts to privatize the land or use it for
some other purpose.We pledge our devotion to insuring that a Veterans Retirement Home is
constructed on this property.
Daniel H. Overmyer
WWll – Warrant Officer Junior Grade/ Serial Number W2131134
Front: 86-year old WW II Veteran Steve PalmerBack: Left, Bill Earn, 84-year old WW II Veteran with Mark Reed, Congressional Candidate in the 27th District, and Ari David, Congressional Candidate in the 30th Congressional District, Henry Waxman’s District.
The Los Angeles veteran land is the single most valuable financial asset American veterans own, valued at up to 3 billion dollars. Political groups tied to Congressman Waxman of Los Angeles and wealthy homeowners in Brentwood have secured 75 year leases that, when truth is told, lock veterans off the land as part of a program to keep “undesirables” away from their community.
The regional VA has responded to the nearly 2 years of protests against their unauthorized actions by tripling police funds, hiring more officers, buying new cars, building a new police facility and putting up a fence to keep veterans out, a fence costing over 1 million dollars.
Veterans have been photographed, followed and even assaulted. American Legionnaire, Rosebrock, is facing Federal charges for protesting on non-Federal land with the full consent and supervision of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The ACLU has called this “bizarre.”
When Overmyer asked organizers why Governor Schwarzenegger has failed to support the veterans, he was told the “Governator’s” two children are among the students of the exclusive private academy using the veteran’s facilities the actual veterans are currently banned from using.
Overmyer demanded that Attorney General Holder appoint a special prosecutor to look into the complex 10 year web of shadow organizations, insider leases and political favors that have led to veterans being locked out, banned from what now is being dubbed, “Brentwood Country Club Annex.”
Veterans who have “trespassed” on the “Veterans Park” which is open to students at the exclusive prep school now located on veterans property, wealthy Brentwood residents and public traffic have been arrested and charged with loitering. Homeless veterans, the rightful residents of the home never built, often sleep along the fence, an area providing easy access to nearby Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and the ability to visit their friends and comrades at the National Veterans Cemetery on the grounds.
Rosebrock, when asked how long he plans to continue protesting said, “We will stay as long as it takes, as long as needed for people in Los Angeles to wake up. Today the powerful are stealing from veterans. Anyone who think they will be satisfied, stopping with our land is mistaken. They take
anything they want, they feel money and political power can justify anything. We are here to prove them wrong.”
VT Senior Editor 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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