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On July 27 of this year, a
veteran by the name of James Deshotel received a court ruling on his VA disability case, docket #05-7155 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Deshotel vs. Nicholson, Secretary of VA. He was represented by a law firm from Maine, but incredibly, the U.S. Government brought in an entire army of agency lawyers to go up against this verified disabled person to include 4 attorneys of the U.S. Dept. of Justice, (one of which was the Assistant Attorney General) and 2 attorneys from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. That's a total of 6 lawyers from the government everybody against one sick guy!! The case involved a veteran who was in a car accident during his active duty 1965-69. To make a long story short, he had filed for various head injuries shortly after he got out of the military, which he received partial percentage ratings for, but as the years went by and other head conditions emerged, he filed for other increases and new add-ons to the existing case. Some of those were granted and some were not. Every Veteran in the U.S. needs to know about this court decision because it could be abused against YOU !! Federal Circuit spent the first 5 pages of the ruling bogged down with details on filing dates and other minutia which had nothing to do with whether or not the man was disabled as a result of head injuries from his car accident. This is the dirty rotten deal that veterans get from the courts to distract from the fact that the court is really not speaking to whether or not the veteran really is service connected. They will do this brief that will take you here, there, and everywhere EXCEPT to the place where it points out that YES the veteran really was injured while in the service. But then things really started to get interesting after they take you on this hayride of details to nowhere. Federal Circuit felt the need to expand the issues of his case, and make commentary on matters larger than service connection itself. We were stunned to see that Federal Circuit branched out and proceded to rule on the issue of filing multiple claims with a single application. In two parts of the ruling, Federal Circuit decided to say that wherever the Veteran files a multiple claim with several conditions in the one application package, and the very first condition on that list is denied by the VARO, and if the other claims in that list are then not spoken to by the VARO ruling, then the second, third, or fourth claim for conditions in that string are automatically considered to be denied just as the first condition is. Furthermore, it is implied in this ruling, that the VA does not have to even notify the Veteran that this is what is going on, or to even further explain themselves for the reason of denial on the entire string of claims. It would seem here that if the veteran files separate claims with different applications, he or she could then bypass this rule. What is stunning about this ruling from Federal Circuit is that short of giving out it's usual cryptic one or two case citations that the average disabled person would have to pack up and run to a law library somewhere and then spend half a day on their feet to retrieve and then read at length, the truth is that Federal Circuit has no basis in law to support this notion and crap pile of a ruling. The VA disability system is rooted in martial law and not constitutional law. So the core source of where exactly they are drawing their contentions about the agency as expressly empowered to do this kind of thing to disabled people is nowhere discussed or elaborated upon in the July 27 ruling. It kinda causes you to ask, so what's all the disability and handicap protection laws for if the agencies and the Federal Circuit court can simply sit on their bonehead asses all day and never apply a single Americans With Disabilities Act, now doesn't it ?? Even more stunning, the veteran has significant head injuries stemming from the accident. To put the extent of this mumbo-jumbo law brief on the backs of a legitimate service connection disability case is but a glaring example of how the VA uses legal venues as a weapon of mass destruction against truly sick, medicated, and injured veterans who are verifiably disabled but cannot achieve service connection statusing in VA claims because of the relentless and psychotic "Simon-Says" childs game that is used to club veterans over the head, and to rob and cheat them from the totality and timeliness of their VA benefits. In short, we are equal to the Detainees of Guantanamo where the laws are on the books to protect us, but the criminals who are abusing them are wearing black robes and holding high government office. The mere fact that the veteran has been in the system since 1969, and all this time later in 2006 he STILL cannot get disability justice from the VA ---- and hey wait a minute, this is the VA Lawyers and Justice Department Lawyers who are gang-banging him to boot --- this really does put it front and center that all of law enforcement is completely suspended and there is noplace anywhere for Veterans to report hate-crimes coming from the VA. Instead of representing US, the Justice Department joins with the VA and goes the distance to falsify, hide, conceal, and beat to a relentless pulp the values, honor, and dignity of true and legitimate disability cases of military veterans. Since the veteran is only receiving a fraction of what he is entitled to, we can only stand around and imagine what his poverty conditions are, while the U.S. government gangs up like a hate-crime street gang syndicate and steals his life blind from the rest that he is entitled to. Another viewpoint to take is this: if they are doing this to active duty car accident victims where there is no contention over the validity of the incident, then WHAT are they doing to legitimate combat cases?? Oh my God !! This court ruling from the Federal Circuit was stuck in my bag and bused to Boston and handed over in person to the Veterans Disability Benefits Commission for their immediate study and corrective action if necessary in the arena that they are working. They have no trouble at all sorting out how a bungled and nonsensical judicial ruling from Federal Circuit can domino out and effect every Vet case in America. In the meantime, this one is for the record -- veteran James Deshotel has been denied his VA benefits and I can tell you for sure, that for him to appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court, he would have to cough up enough substantial money to hire a highly specialized law firm which only does Supreme Court cases --- they are usually found in Washington. The torture of veteran James Deshotel is now a matter of public court records, and let it shine for all the world to see that the VA agency IS NOT a hospital system or a healthcare plan. It is a relentless patient-abuse factory which kills and murders truly sick Veterans through merciless strains of life conditions inflicted upon the sick and unassisted, time and time and time and time again. This is truly a day of mourning to all veterans who are pursuing VA disability claims. Let us pray for the end of torture for James Deshotel. Sue Frasier, VEV 1970 Army Signal Corps national activist/protester staff Blogger, VFJ |
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Sounds like our dear honest congressmen and senators are steadily protecting veterans rights as usual. It all depends on race and wheather the vet is from another country. Thes4e jokers need to be contacted and vets need to let them know that they will not get anymore votes unless all vets finally get justice.
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