By Jamie Fox  #protectveteranprivacy @veteranprivacy

Dear Oakland VA Regional Office,

I want to personally thank each and every former manager and co-worker, who not only invaded my privacy, but abused their public positions to further hurt me. You absolutely know what you did to me was wrong and unethical. For some of you it wasn’t enough that I lost my case against you for retaliating against me for reporting harassment of a co-worker. In 2013 I had cut my losses and moved on, but it appears none of you did. Instead you used your public positions to add insult to injury. I was very disappointed to learn that some of you, who I thought were good and ethical people, would take such unethical measures against me. There is no justification for what you did. I know many of you think you are well insulated from the consequences of your actions, but thankfully to our founding fathers, the First Amendment gives me the right to warn the public and expose your malfeasance and heartless hypocrisy.

My journey started when I witnessed a co-worker being harassed and I wrongly thought there were protocols in place to protect her. At the time I had no idea how much of a cruel and cowardly bunch worked at the Oakland VA regional office. I had no idea some of you would use your public positions to seek revenge against me – all because I tried to protect another co-worker from getting harassed. I know some of you wrongly think management forced me to resign because they said I allegedly failed to follow instructions when I did not send Mr. Roundtree’s denial letter. Well, I am here to set the record straight, I did follow instructions – I followed the instructions of my trainers, coaches and supervisors every step of the way. For most of my life I was a very good order follower, which is demonstrated by my many years of work and college evaluations.

While I was employed at the Oakland VA regional office, 100% of my work was reviewed by a trainer, coach, or supervisor. So you tell me, if 100% of my work was reviewed, then how did one C-file escape review? It didn’t. Nothing I had done on that case at the time had flagged anyone. So what changed several months later? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that I was retaliated against for coming forward as a witness.

Yes, I can hear some of you saying, then why did I lose my EEOC claim for retaliation? It is difficult to win a case when there is no one forcing the VA to provide discovery. The whole EEOC system is a kangaroo court. EEOC is not there to enforce the law; rather it is there to protect the federal government.

Awe, I can hear some of you whining that I am just bitter because I lost. You are right. I am bitter because I witnessed firsthand how much the deck was stacked against the average person. I was once like you, I had faith in the integrity of our judicial system and was blind to government corruption.

There is sworn testimony of the administrative judge scolding me during my hearing for not motioning to compel discovery or motioning for sanctions. However, when I told her I sent multiple motions to compel and multiple motions to sanction to her, but never received any response from her, she went silent. My case was also placed on hold for 6 months because the judge assigned to my case, said she was too busy and didn’t have time to work on my case. Where is the justice in that?

No one can win in court if a judge doesn’t even use the law to force the VA to give discovery. When the VA did give me something they just copied material out of the EEOC investigation book, which was something I already had. I received multiple copies of the same discovery. Regional counsel also mailed discovery to the wrong address; a common tactic the VA uses. I have spoken to other people who said the VA mailed discovery to the wrong address and it took months to clear up the buffoon move...