Well, just when you thought the
VFW could escape the sharp sword
of my Blog crosshairs, get real
because here we go !!

As an accomplished photographer,
one day I got the bright idea
to do a few art photos and send
them into the VFW Magazine just
to see what the editors would say
and to possibly even make me a
freelance offer. The joke was on
me.

I received a copy of their
Freelance Guidelines which is a
standing "policy paper" on what
VFW Magazine does and does not
accept from us freelance types
and the words pretty much sent
my Vet-butt ballistic like a
baloon losing hot air in a
closed room!

VFW Mazine, according to the
communist editors who apparently
have no fondness for free speech,
only accepts those photographs
which are inside the VA Hospital
system [ yeah right, go ahead
and try to get permissions for
THAT kind of thing ].
It's not until you put that into
slow motion and roll it around
in your Vet-brain that you come
to understand what they are
saying is they only take
photographs which are "flattering"
to the VA Hospital system.

How, of course, could any
photographer lawfully lie in
waiting for all eternity until
that ever-important photo came
along showing the VA Hospital
system in a BAD context??
Well the answer is "You Can't".

The message from VFW was clear,
that they are locked into
VA-flattery mode; that's their
story and they're sticking to
it!!

The truth is the VFW Magazine
is a propaganda factory for the
VA. It is not "for" Veterans,
but is instead TO Veterans
or AT Veterans but in no
way shape or form should ever
be misinterpreted as "about"
Veterans, or in the Veterans
good interest. If that were the
case, then VFW Magazine's point
of emphasis would be on "truthful"
pictures of any sort, or "artful"
pictures depicting the mood
and feelings of todays veterans
about the VA system anywhere.
But such is not to be at the
VFW. At the VFW, it's all about
the VA !!!!

VFW Magazine is an
indoctrination program of
sorts, seemingly to program,
infiltrate, and relentlessly
spew forth the propaganda idea
that the VA has no ills, no
flaws, no issues to be
protested, no dark secrets
to be outted, that we Vets
just toddle off the military
bases with our discharges under
our arms and follow the yellow
brick road to Dorothy and
Toto's version of VA-Kansas
and live happily ever after
with Auntie EM !!!

VFW's system is largely taken
over by the interests of
student "interns" which has
nothing to do at all with the
prevailing interests of military
Veterans from all corners of
the industry including us
political protesting types.
And it is here that VFW joins
partners with the VAMC system
as a whole in it's
SABOTAGE-BY-ACADEMIC-
TRAINEE-PRIORITY and
displaced loyalties at the
expense of Veterans that the
VA and VFW find common ground
as partners in crime.

In the VAMC Hospital system we
are relentlessly handed over to
the pawings of one medical
"student" after another with
only a single licensed medical
practitioner anywhere to be
found up and down the halls of
such places as the Critical
Care Surgical Ward and several
other clinics of prime interest
to Veteran patients there.
And the VFW says to that "Me Too !!"
Let's just sabotage our own
operation with a group of
untrained and unsuspecting
Rug-Rats and justify our
do-nothing, know-nothing
operation as an "educational"
experience just like the VAMC]
does with it's incompetent
hospital staff!!! It's hard to
know for sure where the brains
are in this VFW Monkey Squad
because nobody there is thinking
or even minding the store.

At a recent appearance at the
public hearings for the VA
Disability Commission in
Washington DC, the VFW had
little to say about the SCC
statutes under 38 CFR Part 3
other than to suggest that PTSD
should be moved over and absorbed
into a general mental illness
diagnostic code profile and
be done away with as a
standalone class by itself.
With all the other 5 minutes
of Blah, Blah, Blah they did,
they said a whole lot of
nothing and essentially
rubberstamped all that the
VA has in place as I speak.
Who knew that we had such a
perfect system?? Surely not
ME!

In the past year I went out
in search of a licensed attorney
at various national service
organization offices here in
Albany, NY and I found the
VFW Office sitting in a little
obscure rathole in one of the
VAMC hallways. An incompetent
jackass by the name of James
Jewell and his parrot-head
secretary were sitting in there
as I walked in and tried to
get them to help me on my
SCC case whereby my adjudication
documents have been falsified
through VARO since 1977.

James Jewell and his predatory,
bungling, untrained, unlicensed
disability law practice on
behalf of unsuspecting disabled
veterans wanted to take my
case but with the condition
that HE was to choose the laws
and methodoligy (legal theories
etc.) by which the case would
be moved through the system.

"No deal" I said as I sat there
holding my Judgement Obtained
By Fraud supreme court case
that I had carefully xeroxed
from the Albany Law School which
is right across the street from
the VA Hospital.

The truth is that the VFW is
a patient-abuse preservation
factory. It works through it's
unlicensed, untrained, unsuspecting
so-called DSO's [ whatever THAT
means ] to preserve and protect
the VA's system of abuse and
murder through infinite and
perpetual hate-crimes such
as document falsification and
harrassment and so on to
sick and injured medical patients
who are themselves with access
to licensed attornies.

I got up and told James Jewell
to take his job and shove it.

The VFW, with it's bars for
drinking, and bingo nights for
gambling, and other lame and
useless contributions to Veterans
circles that we don't really
need [ or can get anywhere else
by looking up and down any
sidewalk in America ] while
at the same time refusing,
denying, rejecting, stonewalling,
and perpetuating the services
that Veterans really do need
to move their lives ahead
inside this VA crime syndicate,
is the basis for tax exemption
and Congressional authority to
even exist. We all have to stop
and think between ourselves to
determine whether or not it is
in our best survival interests
to continue supporting this
VFW jerk-around factory as they
are currently operating.

I say No-get rid of it and shut
it down. We now have Vets For
Justice and The Veterans Party
to lobby for our access to
licensed attornies.
Go home VFW and have a nice life!

James Jewell will likely be sued
at some point for deprivation
of services and impersonating a
law practice, but until then,
it behooves all Veterans everywhere
to take a huge step back from
VFW and get a load of who and
what they really are.

Combat Veterans in particular
have a vested interest in moving
away from VFW for the AWOL,
malpracticed, useless, and
dysfunctional know-nothings
that they are. In many ways,
us Vets are creatures of habit
and often confuse a social
entity to be a legitimate reason
to exist as a tax exempt
organization or a reason to
branch out into a
tavern-and-gambling franchise
funded by public donations under
the disguise that they actually
provide licensed law services
to us in VA litigation claims
when really they do not. We
as Veterans must learn how
to break our military habits
and discover the new and more
convenient technology-based
social doors which are now
open to us in Vet groups
across the country such as
VetFriends.com for that all
important social Vet experience
and hookups for a night of unit
rememberance chats.

Todays modern young Veterans
are schooled and counselled
at every turn about the rewards
of good diet, and the hazards
of substance indulgences, and
to that end it would seem
that VFW Tavern franchises
are obsoleted, misapplied,
counterproductive, illadvised,
self-sabotaging, and ripe
for phasing out of business
by those of us Vets who are
truly looking out for raising
the standard in our overall
quality of life in todays
Veterans Community. War
recovery is NOT found at the
end of a beer bottle, trust
me on that one!

VFW needs to take it's
incompetent Monkey Squad and
it's anti-free speech propaganda
factory and hit the scrap
heap of businesses gone by
and no longer needed or wanted
in todays economy, and they
need to go home to their wives
and find something else to do.

The student "interns" who have
apparently hijacked the
interests of their magazine
need to go back to the Dorms
and find another place to
sabotage with a new and
unsuspecting audience who
won't catch onto their
subversive efforts to control
and convert a free press
into a student biased press.

Shut it down, it's a fraud,
it's a hoax, it's a trick,
it's unnecessary, and we
don't need it.

What do YOU think?