Fort Monmouth Earth Renaissance Peace Alliance (FMERPA)

Questions Concerning Fort Monmouth Public Assets and Taxpayer Resources

1. When will there be an investigation into the appraisal of Fort Monmouth being awarded to the family business of the lobbyist for the Patriots Alliance who are trying to get the same buildings, labs and land for his clients?

2. Isn’t this a blatant conflict of interest to appraise government assets that you want to be privatized and given to you for free or at firesale prices along with huge tax breaks. What about the revolving door between the pentagon and private sector paybacks?

3. How is the Patriots Alliance a nonprofit entity when they represent multibillion dollar defense corporations who are making obscene profits from war profiteering? Was the public invited when Gov. Corzine met with the patriot’s alliance?

4. Does this private war profiteering of $720 million a day lessen the incentive for peaceful alternatives?

5. Why is Fort Monmouth hoping that Monmouth County will take over the fort’s dumps as green space and nature walking trails? Why did county Freeholders get rejected from a Feb. 20, 2008 tour of the toxic dumps? Is this a type of trojan horse gift that will lead to taxpayers liability for cleanup in years to come? Why was there talk of removing monitoring wells because of cost? Is this a literal coverup? Why was the model geothermal renewable energy system at Fort Monmouth disconnected?

6. Why do fmerpa- fort monmouth economic revitalization planning authority members go on travel junkets to Miami, San Diego, and next week to New Orleans where  Frank Cosentino and Rick Harrison are spending $4,739 of your tax dollars.  How did Frank stay extra time last year in California and get an extra over $1,000 and a wink and a nod from Gov. Corzine appointee Bob Lucky?  Why did state lawyers not object to a lessening of oversight?  Why are bills never listed anymore on the paperwork at public meetings and never voted upon when it is done at other government meetings?

7. Why did FMERPA then raise the spending limit to $2,500 that could be spent without the authority’s approval and only requiring the signature of Bob Lucky.

8. Why don’t cable public access channels not cover these public meetings?

9. Why doesn’t other media like the Asbury Park Press act like lap dogs not watch dogs on these issues?

10. Why did the Asbury Park Press interview a person arrested for speaking over 3 minutes at a FMERPA meeting and not publish anything?

11. Is all of this a type of grand theft pentagon or an inside job of robbing state assets from the public treasury?

12. Why as of 2005 does the BRAC (base relocation and closing) require the public to buy back assets that we already paid for and were given back to the community prior to 2005? Is this a type of military coup d’ etat and shift of power and money from the people to the pentagon and private military multibillion dollar war profiteering contractors?

13. Why is the Paterson veterans hospital/ clinic at Fort Monmouth closing and already 4 doctors removed? Isn’t this a criminal act of abandonment with all the growing needs of huge numbers of sick, maimed, and dying, and suicidal vets with TBI (traumatic brain injury), PTSI (post traumatic stress injury), DUP (depleted uranium poisoning-the new agent orange) and other cancers and health illnesses.

14. Why have military families been removed from the Howard Commons on Pinebrook Road in Eatontown and the area fenced off and gas turned off in hopes of mold growing and justifying the demolition of hundreds of units of housing even after they wee rehabbed for $20 million? Does this violate the McKinley Act law? Where do all the veterans who are homeless go?

15. Why are native American archaeological sites being ignored and possibly destroyed with the development?

16. Why are FMERPA subcommittees loaded with corporate lobbyists under the title public members and members of the public kept off the subcommittees and denied information.

17. Why are public meetings minutes censored and or partially deleted before signed by Gov. Corzine?

18. When will elected officials send investigators to uncover the potential fraud and corruption?

19. When will taxpayers demand accountability and get to the public meetings and subcommittee meetings as watchdogs?

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