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Contributed by: Jan Jackson on 8/20/2008

In four days, the powers-that-be in a Colorado lady's homeowners association (HOA) will try to change, forever, a small rural community's "footprint" on its little corner of this earth. Gone forever will be everything that made that little community naturally beautiful and peaceful.

How did that ever happen in a small, nondescript town in Colorado? It seems to have happened because a very wealthy California developer-builder came to that small town and brought his California political "talents" with him.

In retrospect, it probably took him a while to get the political "lay of the land" in that small town. But soon after he had accomplished that, it appears that he began to methodically plan how to transform Nature's unique handiwork there into just another one of his California-style commercial developments. Now it seems that he is four days away from making his latest destructive assault on all things good and natural.

On Saturday, August 23, 2008, the money-hungry group of HOA people he appears to have so carefully brought together may give him the go-ahead to construct large rental buildings and RV "barns" all over that once-rural paradise (one of those RV "barns" is already in its final building phase), along with the infrastructure needed to make it all commercially functional.

If the Colorado lady's HOA president aka the California developer-builder succeeds in destroying that little corner of Colorado paradise, what will he destroy next?

Well, apparently with the help of his own little power-and-money-seeking group, and some other unsavory residents of a certain Colorado city, he managed to get himself elected (by an extremely small margin) as a public official in a small, nearby city. There, or so it appears, he is working toward doing it all again ... and again ... and again, in and around that city, ad infinitum -- or until someone or some group finally gets sick and tired of his meddling in their daily lives and runs him out of town. By then, though, it will be way too late to restore their community to any semblance of what it used to be. And the wealthy California developer-builder, with a ton of the people's money in his personal bank account, will have simply moved on to his next "target" of people and things to destroy.

What is the name of that wealthy California developer-builder? And who are the members of his money-loving group of HOA followers? And what is the name of their HOA? And where is that HOA located?? And in what Colorado city is the California developer-builder a public official?

Right now, the Colorado lady cannot make that information publicly available. Why? She and her attorney both believe that which is keeping her silent, i.e., a court "gag" order, is a deprivation of her Constitutional right to free speech, and they have written just that in their brief to the Colorado Appeals Court. They are now awaiting that Court's judgment on that and other legal questions concerning the lower court's ruling.

It would seem reasonable to believe that any American who asks their lawyer to ask any judge in any American court to permanently deprive an American citizen of their Constitutional right to free speech -- and that judge actually does it -- that American, that lawyer, and that judge would have perpetrated a very serious Constitutional and judicial wrong against their victim -- in this case, the Colorado lady. No intelligent, rational American citizen (or lawyer or judge) of good conscience would ever dream of doing such a thing, I would hope.E However, the Colorado lady's HOA Community Associations Institute (CAI) lawyer and its HOA president, with the blessing of her HOA's board of directors, did exactly that.And the judge in the Colorado lady's case who wrote the Order that permanently deprived her of her right to freedom of speech (as it pertains to her HOA, its president, or any of its officers) is still a Colorado judge who sits at the Bench in his court every day, albeit now -- since the Colorado lady's trial ended in his court -- he does what he does in a nearby city.

To add insult to injury, the Colorado lady's HOA Community Associations Institute (CAI) lawyer and president, again with the blessing of the rest of the board of directors, filed liens against the Colorado lady's home and another piece of property she and her husband own, claiming she owes a debt to her HOA of approximately $50,000. That claim is also on appeal. But, so that the HOA cannot foreclose on their home, she and her husband must also post a bond (take $50,000 out of their life's savings for that amount and give it to the lower court to hold as "security" for the payment of that debt in case the Colorado lady and her attorney lose their appeal in a year or so). At least that's the Colorado lady's and her husband's understanding of what that bond is for.

This is what the Colorado lady's HOA lawyer and its developer-builder president have done just recently to the Colorado lady. And there surely will be more of such awful things to come for this elderly Colorado couple.

Why is all of this happening to those two law-abiding homeowners? Because, or so it appears, after the Colorado lady's attorney filed a simple legal question about her HOA two years ago for a lower court in her district to answer -- a question that could have, and should have, been answered by the lower court in one quick and simple court ruling -- the Colorado lady's HOA CAI lawyer, president, board of directors, and all of their power-and-money-hungry followers, appear to have become determined to keep her from telling the general public about anything that goes on in her HOA.

Why would they care if the general public knew about what they are doing now in their HOA, and have done in the past?E Do they want the general public to only hear and read what they themselves tell the general public?

That's an interesting question in and of itself, isn't it? But how they succeeded in stopping the Colorado HOA lady from telling the general public about what's going on in their HOA is even more interesting.

They seem to be doing what all money-and-power-crazed HOA presidents all over Colorado and this nation are doing these days. That is, they hire a Community Associations Institute (CAI) lawyer (if they don't already have one) who will set about running any questioning HOA homeowner out of money, That CAI lawyer does that by filing continuous false claims against the questioning homeowner which eventually bankrupts him and his family. Then, the HOA CAI lawyer and the HOA president foreclose on the home of the questioning homeowner who can no longer defend himself because he (or she) doesn't have the money to do so. Then the HOA CAI lawyer and its president sell the homeowner's home and everything in it, and share the (usually) large amount of money they get from that sale among themselves and their supporters (or keep it and rent it for a continuous stream of revenue for their waiting pockets).

Sound like some kind of a new, very frightening, HOA scam? It does to me. But that appears to be exactly what's in the process of happening to the Colorado lady in her own HOA, as well as to thousands and thousands of other hapless and helpless questioning homeowners throughout this country. And here in Colorado, our state legislators turn a blind eye to it all through their (and the CAI lawyers-lobbyists) Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act ("CCIOA"), as do other states through their own legislative -- government-mandated -- homeowners associations Acts.

But wait. What if the Colorado lady has been tracking some... shall we call them "interesting"?... things in her HOA? What if she doesn't have to wait a whole year for the Appeals Court to decide her fate. What if she can do something, right now, to prevent her HOA from taking her (and her husband's) home and other real and personal property that they worked hard for all of their adult lives, as well as bankrupt both of them in the process.?E Does the Colorado lady already know some things that her HOA's president, board of directors, and everyone else in the Colorado lady's HOA who is associated with them, want to hide? Something that they all believe the Colorado lady might tell the public if she wasn't silenced by that court Order against her?

On Saturday, August 23, 2008, the Annual Meeting of the Colorado lady's HOA will take place in her HOA beside what once was an illegal HOA lake; a lake which the powers-that-be in the Colorado lady's HOA denied was illegal for many years -- even after documents attesting to its illegality were shown to them and the Colorado Division of Water Resources warned them to drain that illegal lake or be sued by that Colorado agency.

On Saturday, by that illegal, now drained, lake, her HOA's obsessed-with-money President and board of directors and their money-loving supporters will probably vote on several of the things they may have been trying to hide for quite a long while. Improper things that they, and many boards of directors in her HOA seem to have done over a period of 30 years. All of which led to this coming Saturday's meeting.

Improper things which may go back to the basic reason why the Colorado lady's current HOA developer-builder president came to that naturally beautiful, small rural Colorado community on its little corner of this earth in the first place, and what that California developer-builder and his followers will try to implement in the Colorado lady's community in Colorado this coming Saturday.

By the way, the "basic" reason-for-living that may exist in the HOA's developer-builder-president is called "the love of MONEY." And, as we all know, "the love of POWER to control others" always goes along with the love of money.

Will the Colorado lady get her "voice" (freedom of speech) back in time to save her naturally beautiful little community from the greed-ridden ravages of her HOA's wealthy California developer-builder president and his do-and-say-anything-for-money followers? If she does, will she also tell the entire state of Colorado and the nation the name of her HOA developer-builder president, the names of her HOA's board of directors, and the names of all of the rest of his HOA member followers, as well as the name of her HOA and its Colorado location? And will the Colorado lady reveal all of the things that her HOA's powers-that-be apparently don't want revealed to the public?

Or will somebody else, not the Colorado lady, whose freedom of speech has not been taken away from them by a very questionable court order, tell Coloradans and the nation those names, as well as other facts about the Colorado lady's HOA that her HOA's power-and-money-seekers may all be trying to hide?

Stay tuned.

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