HOMELESS VETS VERSUS THE VA - ACLU- SC SUES THE VA - THE NATION

ARTICLE by Jon Wiener on March 25, 2013 EXCERPTS : "Greg Valentini is a homeless vet in Los Angeles who took part in the initial invasion of Afghanistan and participated in the assault on Tora Bora that sought Osama bin Laden. He’s also a plaintiff in the class action suit brought by the ACLU of Southern California (ACLU-SC) arguing that the VA has “misused large portions of its West Los Angeles campus and failed to provide adequate housing and treatment for the people it was intended to serve...

”THE NATION : ACLU CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST LA VA


"Steve Lopez, the legendary Los Angeles Times columnist, has been following Valentini. When he came back from Afghanistan, Lopez wrote, Valentini “ended up in post-combat hell, living in a tent by the Long Beach Airport, bathing in a lake and eating out of garbage cans.”

"The problem is that the land, donated 125 years ago for housing disabled veterans, today houses nobody. That’s why the ACLU-SC is suing the VA. Veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, WWI and WWII lived there for decades. But since the 1970s, the dormitories have been empty, and the VA has rented parts of the site to a Rent-a-Car company and a hotel laundry, along with a neighboring private school and UCLA, which use the land for athletic fields. Meanwhile homeless veterans sleep on the street outside the locked gates."

STOP ORLANDO LAWSUIT ACLU DEFENDING PARK FEEDS

Man's inhumanity to Man is displayed in city laws that prevent FEEDS in parks. The city of Orlando Florida, which lives around DISNEY WORLD and tourism, doesn't want any homeless people - or the poor but housed - to be fed in public parks. THE ACLU is taking them to court and MAY THE ACLU WIN FOR US!

Thank you "Jerry" for alerting us!

LINK TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THIS ACTION above!