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A few times women have asked
me the legitimate question in pursuit of justice for the Fort McClellan Veterans, whether or not I have contacted this or that womens office inside the VA. The answer is YES, I have been up and down the rat chase in more ways than I can even load into this Blog page and the outcome is always the same. Women Veterans have to know that we are entering an era of the anti-Veteran from this VA agency, and this runs across the board and into the fake and phoney womens offices too. More often than not, these womens offices are nothing more than empty dog-and-pony "road shows" who are big on showing up at a "conference" somewhere for a bunch of blow-hard grandstanding, but when women knock on their door for emergency and legitimate assistance, nobody but nobody answers the door. You should all know that nice doesn't work in their airspace, and short of portraying them as the bungling and useless assholes that they are, it's the only way to get their attention to stop wasting our time with nonsense and to force them to start delivering ACTION and SERVICES instead of empty-air workshops and conferences and luncheons. We are so done with that. Right at the top of the malpractice and incompetence heap is Dr. Irene Harris-Trowell who sounds like a soundtrack from Gone With The Wind when you get her on the phone, even though she allegedly holds a Ph.D. -- dumber than a doornail and as useless as the day is long. Getting TRUE womens rights in this VA arena starts with the FIRING of Dr. Harris. She has known for all eternity about the pcb contamination zone at Fort McClellan Alabama and sits on her lazy, do-nothing ass all day with her wall of excuses and relentless silence on the subject. "....yazzum Masta, I'z don't know nuttin about birthin no services for Veterans..." Another Monkey Circus from Stupidville is the VA Womens Advisory Committee. YEAH RIGHT !! By that they mean "...advising the VA Secretary when to run and hide from 3 million pissed off women veterans....."!! A case in point is Marsha Four who is an R.N. from Springfield, PA., and the Chair of the entire Committee. She is an Army Nurse from Vietnam and the Director of a Homeless Veterans group in Philadelphia. She is also on the Womens Committee for the national VVA Office. Miss Marsha has been directly contacted both by me personally as well as one of the other medical victims of the Fort McClellan contamination zone, by email. I invited them at the VVA to personally come meet with me at my hotel room while I was in Washington to confront the VA Disability Commission on the Fort McClellan matter. What both of us got from Miss Marsha was 3 full minutes of dead air just before the crickets started to chirp! This is the very same exact wall of silence that we get from the VA and all of it's Directors. The womens offices inside the VA are little more than storefront "rubber-stamping" operations to put forward for publicity purposes, the idea that somehow women Veterans are being taken care of some kind of mystery way which does NOT involve communication or talking to the Veterans, meeting with the Veterans, not listening to the Veterans, or even bothering to inquire with the Veterans. Apparently they plan to touch base with us telepathically and clairvoyantly and we are supposed to extrapolate our assistance that way from them!! In short, it's all about THEM and who gives a rats ass about MISSION??? It's like the old time Lily Tomlin jokes as Ernestine the Switchboard Operator: "We don't care....we're the phone company!" (laugh, snort) The fact that Marsha Four is herself a nurse, is even more of a stunning display about the lack of concern for preservation of human life, and the self-absorbed malpractice that is literally FLOODING out of the VA like the broken levees of New Orleans. We can only stand around and GUESS how many really died in Vietnam at the hands of such a "nurse". We are entering the sad new era where we all have to stand back and sort out whether we are looking at angels of mercy, or diva's of death. Viewing medical patients as "prey" for personal gain is the cultural mindset of the day at the VA agency, and the only way to address it from our side is to swing the pendulum the other way and start calling for the FIRING of all of them, plus the full CLOSIING of their offices so as to collapse the phoneyness of grandstanding and fake website pages which are relentlessly put in the face of news media reporters everywhere. Enough Already! Kick assess and collect names as we boldly march forward in the name of justice. The whole idea of women veterans being "homeless" is yet another overused CHARADE that everyone has to get real on. There are none, and if there are, they are either their voluntarily (you couldn't get them out with a crowbar if you wanted to) OR they are there by way of lawful addiction, eviction, and refusal to comply with regular housing standards. Who wants to be bothered with such a small number who have thrown themselves into a voluntary garbage pit? There are way, way, way, too many resources allocated under the concept of "homeless veterans" and entire workshops, conferences, and other do-no-real- WORK efforts which is put on by the VA is little more than an empty fairytale with no real numbers to back them up. Lazy types who want "quick prestige" without any work burden, will always lock into the homeless issue like Marsha Four. It's also a phoney excuse for the VA Hospital workers themselves to "pretend" they are doing something legitimate when they are in fact, chasing an empty fairy tale at best. I know this because I am in the housing arena myself and I live just 2 blocks from the City Mission. It's all baloney and the rest of you need to know this. I have also attended these phoney homeless Stand Down's and everyone EXCEPT the homeless shows up for them with their designer haircuts at $35 a pop, and their fashion clothes and jackets. To hear them all talk, there is a homeless woman veteran every 3 feet in every city in the country! When was the last time YOU saw one begging for nickels on a street corner?? It isn't there. In the meantime, the thousands upon thousands of us who DO need real and legitimate emergency, Code Red, MayDay type assistance receives Zero, Zip, and the sound of the clock ticking in the background. (tick....tick....tick...) There is NO real measure of action or success coming from these fake and phoney womens offices at the VA. Obviously, if they do not even ANSWER emails, faxes, or phone calls to Veterans themselves, then how can they POSSIBLY be doing anything in our name?? Fire the rubberstampers, as they are likely tied to political parties anyway and are just there for the show. And close the dam offices because they are sucking up our disabilty money for a bureacratic puppet show whose only mission is to make the VA Secretary look far better than HE really is! o-o-o-o-o-r-r-a-a-a-h !! Sue Frasier, VEV 1970 Army Signal Corps national activist/protester staff Blogger, VFJ |
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