The Department of Veterans Affairs has failed again. Kenneth Harrelson, a US Army veteran, medically retired after a bit under five years in, and his family are getting their VA benefits cut off because they’ve been accused of a crime. Conviction be damned; the VA don’t need no stinkin’ conviction.
The federal government plans to suspends or terminate benefits to a military veteran and his family as a result of him being charged in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot.
The Department of Veterans Affairs informed the veteran, Kenneth Harrelson, and his wife in a June 13 correspondence that such actions are the result of the Justice Department telling the agency that Harrelson has been charged with “indicted and charged with Seditious Conspiracy….”
What he loses as a result of the VA’s action—which comes at the request of the Biden/Garland DoJ, to which the VA has no obligation to submit—even though the man is innocent, since no trial has been held and so no conviction is possible:
- suspend payment of “gratuitous benefits” pending disposition of the criminal proceedings
Even though the VA knows he’s innocent [emphasis added]: If convicted, gratuitous benefits are forfeited…. Gratuitous benefits are things like burial in a national cemetery.
- suspend “compensation benefit payments” starting Sept. 1, which is the first day of the month following a 60-day due process period
Regardless of whether that due process period includes even the start of his trial, much less its completion and conviction.
Guilty by accusation—off with his benefits. Congressman Louis Gohmert (R, TX) has the right of it on this:
This is what you have when vindictive leftists get in charge of major parts of the government[.]
Happy belated–suspended–Independence Day, guys.
Veteranos Administratio delende est.
