They call themselves Richard and Edith now, but this time they have their eyes on Don and Susie Kirlin’s property:
Despite owning the land, despite living only 200 yards from the property, despite hiking past it every week with their three dogs, despite spraying for weeds and fixing fences, despite paying homeowner association dues and property taxes each year, someone else had taken a shine to it. Someone powerful.
Former Boulder District Judge, Boulder Mayor, RTD board member - among other elected positions - Richard McLean and his wife, attorney Edith Stevens, used an arcane common law called "adverse possession" to claim the land for their own.
David Harsanyi chronicles:
The story is so absurd, so unfair, so ludicrous, I had a difficult time believing that it could actually happen - even in Boulder.
Actually Boulder is a natural. Or any other locale leftists congregate. In Monterey County CA, for instance, they control property they don’t own “to preserve open space and their quality of life”:
While environmentalists and farmers battled and little new housing was built, immigrants suffered, with more and more workers living in difficult conditions.
Harsanyi finds this absurd. It is when measured against the Judeo-Christian ethics most of this nation shares. Stealing land is less likely to occur where these values are still respected. But it is not hard to believe left wing sanctuaries, such as Boulder, known for luminaries like Marxist Ward Churchill, have less compunction about it. Liberals have been liberating themselves from old fashioned virtues, but not without replacing them with even older vices.
More at boingboing.
h/t Instapundit
Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 22, 2007
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