The Random House College Dictionary
has defined Sabotage as follows:

1. any underhand interference with
production or work

2. any undermining of a cause


The deluge of hearings and legislative
products have validated one simple
fact, time and time again throughout
the past 5 years that I have been
working this Veterans Rights arena
and that is, disability systems
for Veterans or low quality, unoversighted,
used as dumping grounds for some
other shady purpose, deceptive,
unqualified, and are set up in such
a way that by its very design,
could never in a lifetime deliver
an outcome which it is supposed
to be fixing as a solution.

This weeks hearing at the Senate
on the VA's Vocational Rehabilitation
Program, really did bring back
into the discussion the question
of why there are so MANY disability
programs existing in our cities
across the country, and yet there
is nothing but Failure and Backlog
to show for the accumulations of
these programs whenever the spotlight
is exclusively shown in U.S. military
Veterans alone and nobody else.

Part of the problem is the
alleged healthcare system itself
who insist on putting out the
fake and phoney perception that
extremely disabled people are
either "employable" or can
adequately work for a living
just as a non-disabled person
can. Bullshit I say!! Get over
yourselves.

Persons with cerebral palsy,
extreme brain injuries or
developmental limitations,
and paralysis types who
are overrun with impairments:
take your lives home, face
reality, have a good life as
well as you can make it, and
leave the idea of holding a
job behind.

These people are flooding the
disability system itself
and are becomming pockets
and havens for dumping grounds
for "charity jobs" where the
person is not really working
and not really even earning
money, but is basically sitting
in an office atmosphere taking
the rest of the public along
for the ride on their disadvantage
train, and forcing themselves
into situations of inconvenience
at the expense of those others
who really do need help and
assistance.

As I have previously pointed
out in the hearings chat Blog,
the Center for Independent Living
here in Albany, NY is exactly
one of those storefronts where
you go in for help yourself,
and you are greeted with an
army of people who are in 300
times worse of situations than
YOU are and are of NO help at
all in the end to anyone not
even themselves. This is the
true meaning of sabotage
and Veterans really do
have to step up to the plate
now and be on guard of this
kind of deception right at
the moment it is in the works
in the legislative arena.

We have held fast here at VFJ
on the simple fact that the
VA disability system was front
ended by a bunch of unqualified
fools and dumbies who succeed
into the positions either as
VSO's or VA Raters. Both the
news media and the various
Veterans Commissions have aligned
themselves with us and validated
this protest we have made as
TRUE, signed, sealed, and delivered.

Yet with all that confirmation
posted here at this website,
there are still those few and
far between who like to hold
onto the psychotic delusions that
somehow such places are actually
"legitimate" and worthy of continuation.

It has been a long standing
practice of both the VA agency
and Congress itself at times,
to speak out of both sides of
their mouths: first to say that
military Veterans are deserving
of the gold standard in healthcare
and disability systems, only to
turn around and then submit a
bunch of Bills which are laced
deceptively with shortcuts
and cheap-outs to install the
least qualified people walking
the face of the earth to occupy
the new jobs which are created
by the Bills.

This all has to stop.

Mental Illness cases passed
off as "VSO's" to do full VA
court litigation on behalf of
all other medical patients in
the system is NOT acceptable
to us. Farming out to non-VA
"community based organizations"
who will then staff the operation
with non Veterans who are clueless
about the legal traps set in place
by both VA and DOD litigation
systems is NOT acceptable to us.

We want to know the basic
fundamental questions of why
the VA, as a licensed and accredited
federal hospital facility, cannot
seem to do it's job EVER without
the farming out, the shoring up,
and the uncontrolled ripple effect
of layers upon layers of "oversight"
operations to force them to
SUPERVISE, FIRE, or MANAGE Forcefully
these operations.

Why do we need 100 "advisory boards"
to do the management jobs of
VA Directors?? Why do we need
the contracting out of 500 unoversighted
non-profits, who may or may NOT
be doing what they claim to be doing,
just to take away attention from
the VA's own malpractice failures
from inside the system??

These are fair questions for Veterans
to know.

Moderate to severe traumatic brain
injury cases may very well, might
not ever be able to work or hold
a job again. Face it and move on.
Let the system know and discover
when to call it quits and divert
attention to those who really can
be rescued.

Moderate to extreme cases do need
to face their limitations. Go home,
make yourself comfortable, surround
yourself with friends and family,
take on hobbies and work on your
social integretion. But do NOT
sabotage our "assistance facilities"
with PRETEND faker jobs which
helps noone at all, and leaves
an entire population of lost souls
headed for the homeless shelters
unnecessarily just because YOU
yourself wants to force yourself
into everyone elses faces.

I cannot walk without crutches,
so why would I enter a running
race and then sit around a bitch
that I cannot keep up with everybody
else? Personal responsibility is
the message of the day, and knowing
where your limitations are is the
only true way to HELP disabled
America.

If you have PTSD which is characterized
by memory loss and inability to keep
a story straight, then what the HELL
are you doing trying to be a VSO
and doing VA litigation claims for
other Veterans?? Get it??

Activists out here in this legislative
arena, must be wary of and suspicious
of those carefully staged and rigged
"hearings" where the Panelists themselves
do all the bragging and boasting without
a single Veteran among them to confirm
or deny their claims.

Albany NY is a national Icon of
failures and faker places all
invoking the name of disability
and Veterans, and there isn't
one of them that I have found
to date that is worth their salt
in services. They could close
all of their doors tomorrow
and my own personal life would
not be effected not one single IOTA
and you can take that to the bank
as a fact.

The disabled are seen as PREY
here, and these are the places
where political parties dump
all the dysfunctional misfits
and then rigs the law enforcement
system (including court judges)
to look the other way when they
are reported. (H-m-m-m-m, sorta
sounds like the VA now doesn't
it??)

Its sorta funny because I agree with the majority of your statement, and yet I have a lot of what you said should just stay at home, but I'm the excpetion to the rule. I had the worst TBI in Tampa FL where I went through my TBI clinic. Then there's I'm blind yeah its a bitch, but I get by. I'm not totally blind just legally. I have 2 degrees and was working on my law degree until I had shoulder surgery, and my ex-wife ran off to Hawaii with my kids. I'm going to finish that as soon as rehab is over. Yet with all that education I can't get a job. I mean no one will hire a person with no license. Although get this the state of Alabama offered me my license and yet they have me in blind voc. rehab. They paid my first semesters tuition until my GI Bill and scholoarships kicked in because unless your a entering freshman out of highschool there isnt anything for you, so yeah they know I'm blind, but hey just give the blind vet his license and he'll kill himself, and that means we can just drop his appeal. I don't mean any offense to anyone here, but heres how I feel. The VA is a system for the old vet. Everyone I call is all gun ho when I call, but when I walk in and they see how young I am they lose that urge to help me. My Mawmaw got my Pawpaw and my uncle Wayne started on the first attempt, but me who has actual evidence in my medical files can't get crap from the same VSO.Okay heres a more detailed idea of my case. I joined the service disappeared for two years. I went to No Hope Pope in 1998. I had been flying for two years. I was in the back of a C-130 one day doing my thing, and all of a sudden I started seeing black spots in my vision, and the more active I was the bigger the spots. Finally I had a huge black blur. I thought okay thats weird I need glasses or something so I went to see my flight doc. Now remeber this is 1998. I got grounded for like 6 to 8 months. I was sent to an opthmologist at Fort Brag. The guy says okay you have pigmentary disperssion syndrome with secondary glucoma. I went back to my flight surgeon he said Eason Im sorry, but you probaly getting a medical discharge at 50% sorry buddy. Okay the USAF had been paying a lot of my crew position to get I forget what its called, but opps guess what they did the dumbasses caused a man power shortage. Well I kept failing my physical because of eye pressure problems. I got sent back to Bragg they told me okay look its something you grew into, and will grow out of, and we could fix it with a laser surgery, but thatd leave you night blind and unfit for service, so we can't do that because your crew position is considered critical. Well they finally figure out hey if we test you after ten and you dont work out or do pt your pressure is low enough for us to get a waiver. My flight surgeon was horrified he sit me down and told me Eason this isnt right because every time you fly your doing more damage to your vision. Well I couldnt get a numbered USAF wavier or MAJCOM, but guess what the Secrtary of the USAF signed off on one. Okay I'm taking three diffrent eye drops a day for my glucoma, and still having my black spots, and black blured vision, but hey I'm keeping my family safe, and they would'nt hurt me they are watching out for me right. Okay jump forward to 2000 okay here you go they decide that two of drops arent working anymore because these drops lose their effectivness over time, so they change my drops. Whops I'm allergic to the new ones. Hmm what to do now because they've tried all the drops they had. Oh my vision is closeing in and getting worse also. This was in May of 2000, well I was going to get out, but then the army offered me a warrant officer slot, and a chance to pilot a chopper. I thought hey rock on. I'm in well my squadron commander caught wind of this, and the USAF offered me a pretty package to re-enlist, and I said okay. Were in July I re upped. The date 17 Jul. that day my buddies came oever to watch WWE Monday Night Raw with me. We had a couple drinks, but I had to fly the next day so I stopped drinking around nine. Well my acting first shirt was there he was a golfing buddy. At one when he was leaving he told me to take them home and not let them drive or it was my ass. I did, and went through a Harrnet County road block on my way home around 3 a.m. Well somewhere between there and my house a deer walked out in front of me I was speeding, but still yanked the wheel to miss it. They were widening the road so my front tire made it to the turn lane, and my back went off where they were working when I went back on the pavement it ripped my axle into two pieces and I flipped end over end seven times hitting head first 5 of the rolls. Well I was pronounced DOA I still have the letter wrote to my mother from the Ops group commander. Wait it gets better did I MENTION I WAS 22 WHEN THIS HAPPENED. Well okay I dont remeber anything until the end of Aug. first of Sept. I woke up in the hospital and found they had charged me with a DUI. Well it was a blank to me because I couldnt remeber anything about that night then. Well they convince me to go plead guilty to dui. I did I went to Tampa I passed everything with flying colors after I made them to stop giving me the pain meds. Well things were fuzzy, but things started coming back. Well the VA hospitial rated me at 100 % service connected due to my prior medical evidence. Well they also told me to go home and remain on convolesant leave until I was discharged. Well the USAF said no made me go back to Pope. i got there the first part of Dec. Okay my squadron is deployed. My acting first shirt and commander told me I had to live with the acting first shirt until they thought I was okay, but wait that happened the same time they finished my line of duty which they started while I was in the hospital at pope. I never saw anything just signed a bunch of blank docs they said theyd fill in later. Well they finished up in Jan of 2001. They decided well you can go home until you out process now on convolesant leave. I out processed with 40% service connected from the USAF. Well they told me to elect the VA to pay me because they paid tax free and had rated me at 100 while in Tampa, so I did. Well now remeber I'm still active duty supposed to be getting paid,a nd they told me when they stopped the VA would pick up. Well I go home opps they forgot to mention they were taking my bouns back thats okay I still had it because I had been in the hospital since I got it. I cut them a check. Opps again they want the taxes back so I didnt get paid. Okay they took my last few months pay checks for the taxes. No worries because the VA is going to help me out. Damn wrong again how wrong can a young guy be. They denied me due to my own willful misconduct. Well hell I argue but I had glucoma way before the wreck so I appeal, I get ten percent thats 01, and thats what I'm still getting and fighting for now. Wait theres more news. I started law school okay I had to get admitted to the state bar as a student. Well dam it if the USAF still isnt screwing me. They never sent my drinking class to the DMV. Well no big deal I will just re-do it. Opps you have to know your bac to sign up. Well then I think hey I will get mental health to send a copy again so I do that paper work opps they destroy your file after 5 years. Okay so I ask for my bac because I dont know it and its not on the ticket or the court crap. Weird huh. Well so I think okay go through my medical records opps nothing there either. Well okay the court has to have it right so I call Harrnet county court house. Opps they never got one back because when it came back there was no bac it was .oooo. Shit what the county clerk told me to hire an atty. I did and there is no dui anymore. So I say hell I will resubmit my claim to the VA with new evidence and their done because they said it was all due to the DUI. Dman wrong again because now they say its my line of duty. Okay so I ask when I fix that can nayone tell me whats next. And also why am I not getting the at least the 40% the USAF had me rated at, or better yet the 100% I was rated by one group of the VA. And you want the one thing that pissed me off beyond all belief I was told if I was older I'd be getting paid 6 years ago. How would that make you feel...... Any help I would love. I mean I will help you guys anyway I can. I have just realized a lot of what you guys are saying. They made the wrong persons shit list. I'm going to win somehow, and then its my mission to help everyone else win and cost them more money and time like they've done me...... I'm just now getting up to speed on these laws and regs, but any insight you guys could offer owuld be great. Thanks

Shawn Eason