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One of the more disturbing things about Golden River’s fraudulent quiet title suit is the active and aggressive attempt to suppress all discussion of it on social media. When the notice of the suit came out a year ago, there were several posts on Facebook about it, both by individuals and in Facebook groups. Several of the people who posted about it received fake cease and desist letters that had no legal validity and were from Golden River’s owner, not her attorney. Viewing one of these letters is one of the things that motivated me to start this website so that an extremely important community issue can be reported on and talked about online. One local resident who shared one of my posts on Facebook was confronted by Golden River’s owner at a party last March about it and last week he came home to find graffiti on his house saying that “you don’t belong here”. While it can’t be certain that it’s directly related to his sharing of the posts, he feels that it is. I found a couple of my articles on a local Facebook group on a Google search of “Great Southwestern Land Co.” this past February and when I tried to share a new article to the same group last month, it was deleted and I found all the previous articles which were not shared by me also deleted. I can only assume that this was due to the intervention of person behind Golden River. Censorship doesn’t have to be from a government or institution, it can also come from an aggressive individual trying to shut opposing voices up. This is not the first time this has happened to me in the course of community activism. Those who are running on a narrative that has nothing behind it will aggressively defend that narrative when someone tries to discredit or debunk it.

There has been physical and verbal aggression running in parallel to the legal aggression used by Golden River LLC in its fraudulent quiet title suit. As Golden River LLC is nothing but a corporate alias for one person, it has all come from that self same person. Neighbors who oppose it have been accosted as they have been outside for a walk. If anyone drives on the roads in or near the land being claimed in the suit, they will likely be followed in a pickup truck and confronted. In one incident, an elderly man was returning from a road trip to his home nearby and was followed by Golden River’s owner to his home and angrily confronted by her. Later, when he was on his porch discussing it with a neighbor, gunshots rang out and the shell casings were later found on the road that goes through the area. There are no trespassing signs all over the area being fraudulently claimed, some far away from the residence of the owner and animal sanctuary buses. For the people who live nearby, it is a neighbor from hell scenario, a neighbor who is a squatter who doesn’t even own the property she is living on and trying to claim in a fraudulent quiet title suit. Tres Orejas is a community of 1/4 acre lots and she is trying to claim 230 of them, 65 acres in total while most people here own an acre or so at most. The animal sanctuary is just a pretext that enables her to spread out over a larger area and put vehicles and no trespassing signs on it. This his her second attempt to try and claim this large parcel of abandoned Great Southwestern property in a quiet title suit. The first one was in 2004 and at that time there was no pretense of any interest in the property other than for its value. She had at that time bought and sold several lots and her history of flipping lots made that obvious. The property is worth much more twenty years later and she once again is trying to claim all of it in a similar quiet title suit. The main difference this time is the corporate alias and that the attorney involved is using a very aggressive Trumpian legal strategy of avoiding having the case judged by its merits in any way possible and filing frivolous motions that always fail but run up the litigation costs for those opposing it. This is the legal aggression I refer to. In 2004, there wasn’t as much physical physical and verbal aggression like there is now but there was a lot of misinformation spread to get people not to oppose it. She got some people to like her and support her in a personal way and not look at what she was really doing and her real motivations. It was a smaller and much more tightly knit community back then and the effect of the first quiet title suit was to divide it. Some people didn’t talk to each other for years afterwards. This time there’s no charm offensive, it’s just naked aggression and greed that reflects the uglier world we live in today. And while the repression of discussion on social media and aggressive behavior towards neighbors who oppose this land grab can have a short term effect, in the long run, it just pisses people off and makes them more committed and determined in their opposition to it.