VETERANS ARE
FIGHTING BACK
MichaelConnelly.Jigsy.com
Since I wrote the
article titled “Disarming America’s Heroes” I have
been inundated with emails and phone calls from
veterans and the families of veterans. The horror
stories I am hearing are proof that the VA and the
Obama administration have launched an all out
assault on the Constitutional rights of our nation’s
wounded warriors and other veterans.
Veterans are being
declared incompetent not because they have a serious
mental illness that makes them a danger to
themselves or others, but because they have a
physical disability resulting from their service in
the armed forces or because they simply let their
spouses pay the family bills.
If veterans have minor
issues with PTSD, have expressed that they are
depressed sometimes, or even in the case of Vietnam
veterans admit that they are getting older and
sometimes forget to pay their bills on time, the
bureaucrats at the VA will seek to declare them
incompetent. (I am a 65 year old veteran and often
forget where I put my car keys, does that make me
incompetent to handle my own financial affairs and
even worse mean that I can’t own a firearm?)
According to the VA it apparently does.
All of this has resulted
in America’s heroes being declared incompetent by a
process that blatantly violates their rights to due
process under the Fifth Amendment to the
Constitution. Then, for reasons that have not been
explained these same veterans are also being denied
their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
Many of the veterans I
have heard from were initially both scared because
of what was happening to them, and hurt because it
is their own government that is causing this fear.
After all, when they joined the military they signed
a blank check to their country to defend it and its
Constitution even if it cost them their lives. Yet,
now their own government is turning on them and
taking from them the very Constitutional rights they
fought to preserve.
However, now something
else is happening; the fear and betrayal that these
veterans felt is turning to anger. Their training
and instincts as warriors is coming forth and they
are once again prepared to fight for their rights
and the rights of other Americans. I think that the
Obama administration has picked a fight with the
wrong dog. Veterans are fighting back.
As
Executive Director of the United States Justice
Foundation (www.usjf.net)
I am committed to helping these veterans and
protecting their Constitutional rights. We are
putting together a top notch legal team that is
already exploring several potential avenues
including administrative procedures and a class
action lawsuit.
It will be a huge
undertaking since we have veterans who have just
received the letter telling them that the VA is
considering declaring them incompetent, veterans who
have already been declared incompetent and lost
their Second Amendment Rights, and even veterans who
have gotten the incompetence ruling reversed, but
are still blacklisted when it comes to buying
firearms. There will be no charge to any veterans or
their families that we represent. We will raise the
money to finance our efforts from private sources.
There are those
detractors who claim that the letter from the VA is
not real even though several reporters have
contacted me and said they have talked to
representatives of the VA and it is confirmed that
it is sending out these letters. The VA apparently
downplays this by saying it is not a big deal. I
suggest that to the veterans who are losing their
rights it is a very big deal and we intend to join
them in the fight.
If you are a veteran or
have a friend or family member who is a veteran and
has received one of these letters or already been
declared incompetent, please contact me and the
USJF. We intend to come out swinging. Our veterans
deserve nothing less.