Declaration of Ownership

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Los Angeles National Veterans Home

 

by Robert Rosebrock

 

FOR CENTURIES, nations have waged war over land ownership and territory boundaries. After America’s triumphant victory in the Revolutionary War, the United States Government appreciatively awarded personal land ownership to those who sacrificed on behalf of our new Nation. This reward was conveyed through Land Warrants, which were promises made and kept to the brave and selfless individuals who defended our country during the American Revolution, as well as the War of 1812 and the American-Mexican War.

Following the American Civil War, our federal government established permanent resident facilities for Soldiers who sustained physical, mental and emotional injuries while fighting to save our Union. On March 3, 1865, the day before Abraham Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address, he signed the final bill passed by Congress to establish the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, an Agency that would ensure permanent and safe residency, backed with the President’s patriotic pledge “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan.”

These promises were a small token of public gratitude for Soldiers who served and became disabled from their war injuries. On January 23, 1873, the name was changed from the National Asylum to a National Home because the public servants of yore had the compassion and respect to know that there should never be a “homeless” Veteran living in America, the very country they defended on behalf of our citizenry.

On March 2, 1887, the Forty-Ninth Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, assembled and approved an Act of Congress, declaring ”That the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers are hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to locate, establish, construct, and permanently maintain a branch of said National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to be by such Board located at such place in the States west of the Rocky Mountains as to said Board shall appear most desirable and advantageous.”

Section 2, of the Congressional Act of 1887 stipulates “That all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served in the regular and volunteer forces of the United States, and who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living, shall be entitled to be admitted to said home for disabled volunteer soldiers, subject to like regulations as they are now admitted to existing branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.”

Section 3, of the Congressional Act stipulates “That as soon thereafter as practicable from the approval of this Act, the said Board of Managers shall secure the necessary lands and commence the erection of suitable buildings for the use of said branch.”

This Congressional Act garnered the interest and inspiration of Los Angeles landowners John P. Jones and Arcadia B. de Baker who had the foresight to understand that America would always require a strong and vigilant Military to protect our nation’s homeland.  Like Plato, (c. 429 – c. 347 BC) they understood “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” Moreover, they intuitively knew that protecting America without human casualties, particularly the infliction of physical and psychological harm to our brave defenders, would virtually be impossible.

Correspondingly, one year after the Congressional Act of 1887 was signed into law, Senator Jones and Ms. de Baker agreed to give the United States Government 600 acres to be held in Trust for a National Soldiers Home. In compliance with the Congressional Act, their Land Grant Deed contained the covenant, “To locate, establish, construct, and permanently maintain a branch of said National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.” This inviolable promise created a Charitable Trust and guaranteed a National Home in perpetuity for Disabled Veterans.

The Agency that governed the National Soldiers Home was comprised of a Board of Managers headed by the President of the United States, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Secretary of War, along with nine other reputable Managers who held the Deed of 1888 in Trust. Together, they oversaw this Grand Estate with Victorian-style resident halls and large verandas overlooking beautifully landscaped gardens.

In 1930, forty years after the Los Angeles National Soldiers Home was originally constructed, the Veterans Administration took over and assumed the Land Grant Deed as its fiduciary responsibility. Soon thereafter, it replaced the stately Victorian structures with new Mediterranean-style buildings. Eighty years hence, the VA refuses to construct a new and modern Home for today’s Disabled Veterans.

Instead, the VA has immorally and illegally breached its entrusted duty to permanently maintain this land as a Veterans Home, particularly over recent years when these hallowed grounds have been leased, shared, and essentially given away, sometimes rent-free, for non-Veteran use.  This shameful misappropriation is done at the painful expense of thousands of disadvantaged Veterans who suffer from a multitude of disabilities.

Tragically, this sacred land has been pillaged and plundered with the consent of VA officials and powerful politicians who subverted the legal Deed and Congressional Act to appease their cronies and special-interest groups that covet Veterans property for their own benefit and enjoyment, including a public dog park, public community parks, a private school playground and athletic field, a youth soccer field, UCLA baseball stadium, a public entertainment and amusement center with two theaters, a public farmer’s market, Getty Museum shuttle-bus parking, PGA tournament and UCLA parking, Enterprise car storage, Tumbleweed bus storage, Sodexo hotel laundry, private celebrity carnivals, public running marathons and bicycle events, etc. It also includes misappropriation of Veterans land for the National Guard, FBI Federal Building, and public U.S. Postal Stations.

This once-revered Home of legacy and pride has now become desecrated ruins of scandal and shame. The existing 1930-era buildings are asylum-looking and dysfunctional with 11 declared “vacant,” while 41 are designated as “historic.” This misappropriated property has become a playground and entertainment center for neighboring aristocrats and privileged factions. Meanwhile, 20,000 disabled and disadvantaged Veterans have been exiled and live homeless and hungry on the streets of Los Angeles. These dastardly, shameful and immoral actions against America’s Veterans are of Biblical proportion and they must cease, posthaste.

To those who have aided and abetted in this egregious land-fraud scam that has further injured our disabled and disadvantaged Veterans, your days of dictatorial rule are over!  This National Home is a sacred and sovereign refuge for the multitude of Veterans to heal from war, not an amusement park for the chosen few. The Deed of 1888 is the Law of the Land, not your wealth, power and greed. This benevolent Land Gift is for the sole benefit of America’s Military Veterans.  Unlawful occupants must take heed; leave voluntarily or face legal eviction.

THE MISSION OF THE VETERANS REVOLUTION is to peacefully claim full and clear ownership to our Promised Land.  However, unlike the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution, we will not forget all past misunderstandings and differences.

WE HOLD THIS TRUTH TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, that the Old Veterans Guard will not abandon our duty to protect, preserve and defend this sacred National Trust. The years may have weakened our bodies but they have also strengthened our spirit and resolve.  We will not retreat nor will we surrender. Nor will we desert our fellow Veterans who need help. We pledged to “Save Our Veterans Land” and after 3 1/2 years and 183 consecutive Sunday Rallies, our promise is being delivered as the VA recently canceled three commercial leases on Veterans property. This commences the irreversible ending of a long train of abuse and usurpations by the U.S. Government against America’s Veterans and their land.

ON BEHALF OF ALL VETERANS of the United States Armed Forces, particularly our Brothers and Sisters who are disabled and disadvantaged, the Old Veterans Guard hereby declares full and clear ownership to this indisputable property. Henceforth, any American Military Veteran in need of safe shelter and care shall be cordially welcomed and properly provided for at their National Home.

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT shall immediately honor its fiduciary duty by vacating all unlawful occupants from this sacred and sovereign land and begin urgent construction of a new and modern National Home under the general guidelines of the Veterans “Declaration of Enforcement” and the “Grand Plan.” Additionally, a reputable 12-Member Board of Trustees shall be re-established to ensure full compliance of the U.S. Government’s stewardship to protect and preserve this National Trust and provide quality accommodations for Veterans of the United States Armed Forces who are in need of shelter and care.

THIS DECLARATION OF OWNERSHIP shall be reverently conveyed to the President of the United States and the Speaker of the House of the United States Congress to execute this Document for prompt action to ensure that the 1887 Act of Congress and the Deed of 1888 are permanently honored to benefit the greater good of America’s disabled and disadvantaged Veterans.

So Declared by the Old Veterans Guard on the Fifteenth Day of September in the Year Two Thousand Eleven.

 

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