Did the judge steal his neighbors land? What if it was your land?

i know. i'm in colorado myself, and this makes me suspicious of EVERYONE and EVERYTHING right now. i can't trust anyone, and that makes me sad, but we have to protect ourselves anymore. it's all just so ridiculous. i could go off on a huge rant right now, but choose not too!

I will say good luck to the retired judge. He has to take care the large parcel of land all by himself. Ha Ha Ha. If it was my land, I will ask for his evidence of ownership else he has to pay money for it.

Good for you for starting this discussion. I almost did, too. But I pooped out and did not get around to it. This man and his wife are members of the bar. A judge and a lawyer. To some of "these people" the rest of us are sheep to be shorn given that we have antiquated obsolete concepts like right and wrong. These two did this merely because they knew they could. "These people" can only be avoided and ignored when and where possible. I personally think the fact the orginal owner was current on his taxes proves he should be allowed to retain title. If not, the new owner should be required to at least reimburse the taxes the "real" owner paid over the years. The judge and lawyer wife must have some "pull" with the local legal establishment to get away with this crap.

I don't think we have ever had many property rights. The IRS and government can come along and take your property. I think we are only renting property, even when we pay taxes, upkeep and the originl cost. This is appalling when the legal system fails the legal owner. This judge dude has no morals or integrity as far as I can see. This is outright stealing. I totally disagree with the judge (that title is a hoot!) being able to lay claim to this property. Sounds like some left-over laws from the late 1800's are still on the books. By the way, think about this. True freedom comes not from ownership, but by owning nothing. Think of all the things you own and how they end up owning you. This in the form of paying taxes, insurance, upkeep, etc and the time spent to maintain all this property. Is it worth the time spent worrying about losing the things you have? Even holding cash can be temporary, as it can lose value over time. Just a thought.

That eminent domains case awhile back demonstrated that property owners have no rights if someone wants your property bad enough. This judge is a criminal and a thief, he has already admitted to illegally trespassing on this property for a long period of time, and used this fact as the basis for stealing his neighbor's property in court. No, the judge should not have been able to lay claim to that property, and it looks like he capitalized on his relationship and contacts with the court system to get his judge buddy to find in his favor. This is a fine example of the law abusing property owners. There was a time when stealing a person's land would get you shot by the owner. Now the law helps you to steal it, if you have the right connections. Am I the only one to notice that this judge is very possibly a democrat considering that his plaintiff partner is the former chairman of the Democratic Party in Boulder county? That kind of helps further illustrate how the democrats view private property and citizens rights.

This is one of the more outrageous examples of this sort of thing. Here is another link with lots of info on the same scoundrels: http://www.landgrabber.org/ Stories that make an honest person's toes curl. But you know, the more history you read, and the more life experience you get, the more you begin to realize that this is not anything new. The difference is that the internet brings things to the limelight that used to happen but they got swept under the dirt. Many of those westerns people watch on the movie channel has some basis is fact underlying the plots despite all the Hollywood hype. Fencing off people's creeks to steal the water, cattle rustling, tearing down people's fences are dramatic examples. But thievery is going on all the time right under our noses, isn't it? What about that judge (blissfully now former judge?) who sued the poor couple who ran a laundry, pretending that he was grievously harmed over a misplaced suit? Of course, it was his own lawsuit that was misplaced, along with his common sense and sense of decency, but see how you get me off on tangents? There needs to be a huge public outcry whenever these kinds of things happen, but the public, that is you and me, is too overwhelmed with other kinds of silly bureaucracy to have time to take out and act on every incident. And the perpetrators know that.

People with power have been abusing it as long as there have been people with power. Yes, it's wrong. As Destiny pointed out, in this case it was related to the Democrats, but I knew that as soon as I saw the story was on World Net Daily. They wouldn't report on a Republican abuse of power, except to make excuses for it.

Oh wow that is scary. You mean my neighbors could take my land from me just because they want it? This is a first. Being a retired judge was to his advantage. He knows the laws and could get away with something like that.