Last Wednesday DHS Federal Protective Service (FPS) showed up the VA Mission Valley Health Care Clinic in San Diego in 8 white vans in full combat dress that lacked any identification and, refusing to identify themselves, blocked all access to parking for disabled veterans. Veterans arriving for care were quite alarmed and some were frightened away.
According to a formal complaint filed with VA OIG, veterans on site were harassed and threatened when they took pictures and questioned what was happening. One veteran was even threatened with $10,000 fine and arrest if he didn’t delete a photo he took.
The exercise was for the purpose of “presence deterrence” at a VA health care facility in San Diego. Many veterans’ legal advocates are concerned about what this “presence deterrence” actually means and what it seeks to accomplish for veterans needing care.
Navy Captain Joseph John (Ret), chairman of Combat Veterans For Congress PAC, was not surprised when the report crossed his desk. After a cursory investigation, Capt. John concluded, “Due to [confidentiality] concerns, we can only get personnel in the office of Honoring Our Troops to tell us that the parties who witnessed the exercise [saw. The witnesses included] a retired Navy Chief, employees of the VA Medical Center, patients inside the building, etc., who witnessed armed FPS officers in SWAT gear walking up and down the corridors inside the VA Medical Clinic in Mission Valley.”
Capt. John opposes unannounced police actions at VA medical facilities that resemble “para-military exercises.” His deepest concerns are for elderly veterans with “heart conditions, suffering from PTSD, or elderly Veterans from the WWII or Korean era could be frightened and negatively affected by these [secret police] exercises in the middle of [their medical treatments].” For these reasons, Capt. John believes DHS and its FPS division “should be prevented from holding these para-military exercises at any VA medical Center,” especially during patient treatment and service times during the day.
Since the OIG complaint, HRT received numerous threatening calls to their organization’s volunteers by individuals whom they believed were VA or DHS employees. Callers blasted the organization saying, “VA does not need this type of exposure right now; bringing this up will not help veterans.” Other harassing calls threatened the staff with stalking and investigations into their own personal conduct. According to HRT, the calls were all blocked to hide the caller’s phone number.
A spokesman for the San Diego VA Regional Office, Alejandro Mendio la Flores,verified this FPS police action and stated it was part of Operation Shield for “presence deterrence.” VA claims the official count of FPS officers was only 8, and that the FPS does not owe VA any explanation for its actions or training exercises — even if it affects a VA medical facility or its patients. Nor does DHS-FPS have to give VA any advance notice that these exercises will occur or get VA’s permission to conduct them. Just what is going on here?
VA already has in place a “patient security flag” procedure under VHA Directive 2010-053. Even though this procedure is completely illegal and occurs in secret VAMC staff councils behind closed doors, it is nevertheless the main device VA has created to deal with security issues with any veterans who give them reason to be concerned for potential violent incidents. The VA-OIG made a rather shocking report about this illegal procedure just last year — and any lawyer or judge who reads it would be horrified at the blatant “due process” violations, since veterans cannot know who made the complaints about them or in any way have a chance to refute or defend against false allegations by VA staff. See OIG Report No. 11-02585-129, March 7, 2013.
The DNS and their supervisors should fired then arrested
Thats exactly what a s.o.b. like him does 2 strong arm people. GIVE UP MY GUN ! HELL NO U S.O.B. IS THE REASON I KEEP THEM
Linda .( great idea )
SO SAD , PEOPLE CANT SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY.
Where is the outrage? How dare they disrespect our veterans like that….Now it is the DHS that is out of control and I’d like to know who signed their bully-papers! Instead of cleaning up the system they want to get in there and destroy the proof of the cooked books in the system nation wide………..just like it is being done at the IRS…..another search & destroy mission that protects Lois Lerner & the Obama regime!
You life will be on it’s death edge!… And you’ll have to start life over just for threating my family!
My knowing of life
Thinking of perpetual biology… 1+1=3 or more explanation, infinity symbol + infinity sign equals an additional infinity or more depending on your biological form…
Theory of perpetual biology
Theory of eternal consciousness
When the body dies your consciousness falls to a singularity. When it hits it’s gravitational point it no longer falls. Its universal center. It makes a flash like a camera… That flash transmits informational code to the smallest estimated matter in which to create a new flesh, a new body, a new form to hold all this knowledge of the cosmos…
And life starts agin within death or dekay… And when death or the fall off the mass or giant consciousness happens, it uses it’s new body to form it’s next world…
Written by Robert Andrew Smith
Just like a television screen turning off. The light just goes to a single point on the screen. Our consciousness dose the same thing. Projecting telepathy to the smallest point on this plain…Telepathy added evolution thru a path set by God… The everlasting life Code! Or Gravity produced by an intelligent pattern…Tell me when separated DNA reconnect in it’s own pattern or in a new an stronger strain…
It’s for my personal search.!!!..!!!!…
Please excuse the spelling and grammar mistakes…
Try that $#%&!@* around us! FPS…
Obambam”s Privet Army in Operation!
thanks so very much Obama, pitiful what he’s doing to us.
Doesn’t it make you wonder about what kind of people would engage in this type of behavior. They are more like a gang than a government agency.