After passing through my own appeal
at the BVA Washington DC just prior
to the Memorial Day holiday, it came
to my attention as we started that
the judge hearing my case, Robert E.P.
Jones, had not read my case at all
prior to the hearing nor did he
possess any of my last minute fax
filings where permitted under the
Noticing letter for the hearing
itself.

He was basically showing up and
reading only the last known VARO
ruling in the case, without regard
to what the issues really were,
and with no up to the minute knowledge
of what had been filed from the
Veterans side of the case.

To rescue from that situation,
Veterans DO have to think on their
feet and immediately enter something
into the microphone so that the oral
part of the hearing transcript shows
that you DID make last minute paper
filings by fax and that way it forces
the BVA judge to include it in the
final ruling.

A complaint was issued shortly
after I got back from that trip
under our organizational banner
to OUT the fact that the BVA
was conducting appeals hearings
without ever reading or knowing
what the cases were prior to
that point.

You would want any judge to know
the case before he or she arrives
and starts the hearings so they
can phrase relevant questions in
an exacting way that probes the
case. It also is a sign that they
are just rubber-stamping whatever
the VARO says, without regard to
the HUGE difference that the BVA
judge is a licensed attorney, whereas
the VARO Raters are unqualified
Slackers.

By not reading the cases in advance
of the docket, it tends to point
to the idea that this is an important
signal that they really ARE falsifying
papers, not by the evidence and
testimony of record, but just by
taking any ole CRAP that the VARO
Raters write, no matter how wrong
or falsified they may be, and treating
it as golden while the Veteran who
is loaded with evidence to the contrary
is ignored like he or she is not
even in the room for their own hearing.

We will keep you posted if we
hear anything on the complaint
that was filed, but News Flash:
my congressional advocacy email
list all received CC copies of
it the day it was rammed into their
faces.

No ruling has been issued as of
yet, and if he screws it up this
time, then this failure to read
the papers prior to the hearing
minutes will be the very first
strike of incompetence that I
file to have him removed from
the job.

Veterans, be suspicious of them
when you go through this process
and notice every little detail
about them and how they are conducting
these procedings. Don't let them
treat you like you don't exist
while they SNORE through their
own Slacker games.

These are the small details which
makes up for a bungled up and botched
up ruling in your cases so don't
let them skate on by with their
nonsense to nowhere.

BVA Washington DC: wake up, wake up!!