Speaking of my Congresswoman's office, a problem I have encountered is that there seems to be a lot of "information sharing" going on even BEFORE signing a privacy release form. I knew that because of what my Congresswoman's office was telling me. Albeit, the information is VA slander and libel. I had to remind my Congresswoman's office that I have not appointed or designated anybody at the VA as my spokesperson. If they want to know what I feel, think, and believe, they should ask me. Pursuant to the VA's ledger that it has created on me, you would believe that I am a raging violent psychotic who is incapable of articulating a single coherent thought. Yet, I have never even been in a fight. By the time the VA gets done slandering me, I stand little chance of getting any help from anybody.
So my Congresswoman's office wasn't helping me. And then my Congresswoman's office wanted me to come in and sign a privacy release form....AFTER the information sharing had begun. As I look back on this, I think they wanted to cover their own arses. So my Congresswoman's office began to flirt with the idea they were going to help me, even telling me about things they had discovered which prove that what I was saying was correct, which tells me that somebody inside the VA did leak some truth about what was happening to me--e.g., how I, as a 40% SC veteran for my shoulder (see picture of what it looks like here: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/29685...054090710lSGyou ), was literally being turned away by the VA, unable to even get appointments (Las Vegas VAMC).
So my Congresswoman's office acted like they were going to help me. My Congresswoman's office even said to me, "We have to get your benefits back." This means that it wasn't only in my mind, but I, as a 40% SC veteran, have been so targeted by the VA that, objectively, my benefits are being withheld. But as soon as I would bring up any objective issues to get resolved, I would immediately be interrupted and told that I should go to the VA for an appointment. In other words: they didn't want to actually resolve any issues, they just wanted me to go BACK to the VA. For what? I can only imagine so that the VA could get me into a clinical setting in order to "finish me off," by giving some kind of diagnosis that could potentially cause me to lose my right to vote, etc. So, while my own Congresswoman's office admitted there is a problem here, my Congresswoman's office seemed to be playing the role of gatekeeper.