Because of Section 511(a) of Title 38 every Veteran is denied his/her right to have his/her case brought before any Article III Federal Court and must rely totally upon the aid and assistance of recognized Veterans Representatives who are not qualified attorneys and who are employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Hired by the Department to represent the Department in the best possible light while presenting a Veteran's claim.

If a person representing a veteran before the Department is found to be in noncompliance with standing Department policy they may at the discretion of the Secretary be suspended or excluded from representing any veteran under Section 5904 of Title 38 USC. Therefore by law any person representing any veteran before the Department who fails to present their case giving the Department the best possible light is removed and denied the ability to represent any other Veterans before the Department.

Our Veterans Representatives are under the complete control of the Department and it's governing laws, regulations, and policies. They are people with a High School Education or less, a GED, who are trained by the Department on how to fill out Department forms and in Department procedures just like any other Department employee. These people are not attorneys at Law and are not trained as legal aids even though they would like for us to believe they are. They are to be considered employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Whose job it is to protect and defend the Department against all Veterans' claim.

Every National Veterans Organization that is chartered by the Congress of the United States and registered with the Department of Veterans Affairs receives free office space at the Federal Office Buildings across the country.

Section 5902 of Title 38 USC. "(2) The Secretary may, in the discretion of the Secretary, furnish, if available, space and office facilities for the use of paid full-time representatives of national organizations so recognized.

They also receive millions of tax dollars each year from the Federal Government as well as collecting their monthly dues from their members.

Let's take a look at some more of the evidence against them.

For almost 50 years the Department of Veterans Affairs showed favoritism to those citizens who happen to live in certain states with influential Senators and Representatives while denying the just benefits to America's Veterans living in other states. Over the years this had lead to several individuals who had never served this country's military Service-Connected Disability Compensations, and/or Veterans status so those unworthy individuals could get a Federal Job. In far too many cases this was done with the full knowledge and support of the National Veterans Organizations. In one case in Tampa, Florida the Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars fought to protect a civilian's job who was seeking employment at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa against a Disabled Combat Veteran who was better qualified for the job.

The National Leadership of the Veterans Organizations; like the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled American Veterans; have remained supportive of the massive cuts in Veterans' benefits and entitlements. They have actively supported and defended the use of America's Veterans as human guinea pigs by the Department for all sorts of inhumane human experimentations. While they insist that the Medical Care America's Veterans receive through the Department is an entitlement of Service. They fail to tell people the truth that the medical care and the services America's Veterans receive through the Department is in fact their workman's compensation, which the United States is liable for. That is right these so-called benefits that America's Veterans receive from the United States Government are in fact their compensation for their injuries suffered or sickness contracted while on the job. See Section 1110)

In the area of claims the Leadership of the National Veterans Organizations boast very high success rates when it comes to Veterans claims being adjudicated in the Veterans favor. Yet for the same period the Department of Veterans Affairs in testimony before the United States Congress admitted to a 65% rate of improper and unjust denials of Veterans’ claims. According to Arthur Bernklau, the Executive Director of Veterans For Constitutional Law, Ltd., the Leadership of the National Veterans Organizations have made a deal with the Department of Veterans Affairs not to win more than 4% of the cases they file on behalf of Veterans.

Then there are those cases when a Veteran has a constitutional claim against the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Veterans are instructed to contact their Senator and Congressman and to ask for their assistance with their claim. This seems kind of strange. Since several Federal Courts have told the DVA that our benefits are protected by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The National Leadership have been quick to find fault with cases such as Gardner, Plato, Devine and Johnson just to name a few. All of which by the way have told the DVA that our benefits are fully protected by the 5th Amendment and that the DVA must abide by the Laws as they are written. With the strongest condemnation of DVA administrative procedure and practices to date coming from the United States Supreme Court in the Gardner case. The National Leadership, themselves, have shown no interest in protecting any Veteran's Rights and have maintained a stature of secrecy, deceit, and have kept America's Veterans ignorant of the impact these and other cases have had on them. The National Leadership have ignored their responsibilities to their individual Members and have been actively sabotaging the members claims while originating meaningless letter writing campaigns and petitions. Then when a Veteran or a member of his or her family seeks help with a constitutional issue, they are instructed to write a letter to their Congressman or woman.

The National Veterans Service Organizations actively persecute those few Veterans who have acted on their own by filing their own complaints in the Federal Courts.

Similarly they have persecuted those few Senators and Representative in the United States Congress who have put their reputations and their careers on the line for the Veteran Community.

The National Veterans Organizations have thanked one Member of the Board of Veterans Appeals for his testimony in the Federal Courts on behalf of a group of Veterans, who had been exposed to radiation during above ground testing of nuclear war munitions, in their class action suite against the Department of Veterans Affairs and again for his testimony on behalf of all Veterans before the United States Congress by painting a swastika on the man’s desk. The Board Member is Jewish.

Every Board Member or Department employee who has ever stepped forward to speak up for us and has brought to light abuses and wrong doing by the Department have all come under severe personal attacks by the National Veterans Organizations. While at the same time the National Veterans Organizations have been giving vast amounts of money and other gifts to those Department employees who have done the most to deny Veteran’s claims and/or who have abused the most Veterans.

The National Veterans Organizations have had full knowledge that the foreign nationals the Department of Veterans Affairs hires as doctors have been sending confidential patient records to the KGB and other foreign governments. The Russians knows more about our health problems then we do and yet the National Veterans Organizations say nothing. This is a fact that the National Veterans Service Organizations have been aware for at least the past 40 years and yet they remain silent about confidential personal Veteran patient information being openly released to our enemies and to foreign governments.

Every person in a position of leadership in the National Veterans Organizations must take an oath to protect and defend Section 511(a) of Title 38.

"The Secretary shall decide all questions of law and fact necessary to a decision by the Secretary under a law that affects the provision of benefits by the Secretary to veterans or the dependents or survivors of veterans. The decision of the Secretary as to any such question shall be final and conclusive and may not be reviewed by any other official or by any court, whether by an action in the nature of mandamus or otherwise." Title 38 U. S. C. § 511. Decisions of the Secretary; finality

This has tied their hands and they have voluntarily restricted themselves from openly attacking either the Department of Veterans Affairs and/or the Department of Defense.

Finally the Military associations along with the National Veterans Service Organizations are selling their members suplemental health insurance policies. At the same time the Department of Veterans Affairs has been charging those insurance policies 15 to 20 time for each and every visit we make to a Department Hospital or Clinic for the treatment of our Service-connected Disabilities and Conditions. The National Veterans Organizations and the Military Associations all get heafty kick backs from the sale of these insurance policies and are unwilling to question this practice by the Department of Veterans Affairs out of fear of loosing their ill gotten gains.

So what is it going to take to get our National Leadership of the National Veterans Service Organizations to finally come around and to fight for us as a group and as individuals. Money. Or the lack thereof. If every person who is an active member of any one or more of the National Veterans Service Organizations would write to their Leaders at the National Headquarters threatening to drop their membership along with a copy of this page. That may just be the wake up call they need to get them motivated to help us and to support our List of Demands and our March on Washington. We need the NVSOs working with us and not fighting against us as they have been. At the same time we need to let the NVSOs and the DVA know that the jig is up and that they will not be able to hide behind Section 511 for very much longer.