March 13, 2026
Land Stealing Shapiro
Timothy Birdnow
Democrats are all corrupt. It's in their genes.
"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s neighbors are suing the Democrat, accusing him of stealing a slice of their land to erect an eight-foot-high security fence around his private residence in an ‘outrageous abuse of power,’” reports the New York Post. "The neighbors, Jeremy and Simone Mock, are currently duking it out with the governor in court over a 2,900 square foot parcel of land located between their two homes in Abington, Montgomery County, court papers show.”
It gets worse. Shapiro is essentially claiming squatter’s rights on the land.
The Mocks alleged in a lawsuit filed last month that Shapiro and his wife, Lori, unlawfully seized the stretch of land after initial negotiations to buy it from them went up in flames.
Shapiro claimed in a countersuit that he owns the disputed land due, citing an "adverse possession” loophole that makes it his because he has maintained the sliver of property for decades.
The land-grab tit-for-tat kicked off last year when the Shapiros first sought to erect the huge fence and upgrade security following an arson attack on the governor’s official residence in Harrisburg while they were all sleeping inside on April 13.
"This is a case of squatters’ rights, which is the colloquial term for the legal doctrine known as adverse possession," attorney Chad Cummings told Realtor.com. "Where a person continuously maintains possession of another’s property openly, visibly, and notoriously for a set period of time, which varies by state, the squatter can file a court action to ask the court to recognize the squatter—the 'adverse possessor'—as the legal owner through a quiet title action.”
This isn't undeveloped rural land. Shapiro claims he maintained it but that is not enough to allow him to seize it by adverse possession.
There are two elements that must be present for adverse possession - the squatter must occupy the land "openly" and "notoriously". His occupation must be clearly visible and it must be known by the community and the owner. Cutting the grass on a patch of land does not constitute this. If he were to build stuff on the land it would.
It generally requires seven years to implement "squatter's rights" on a property.
I own land in the Ozarks and my property is land-locked, meaning it does not touch a road. I have access via an easement - by law the owners of the land along the road have to give me ingress and egress. I've used the little road I've cut through the woods for twenty years now but it would in no way grant me possession via adverse possession; I never built anything on the access road. Had I paved it, or even put down gravel, it might be different (I'd have to look that up) but I can't take it even though I have labored to build the little road and maintain it because I did not "openly and notoriously" claim possession by major improvements to the land.
I'm not worried; as I say by now I have a legal easement. In fact the state of Missouri built me a little on-ramp to the state highway on the owner's property (which only improved it for him). And the owner is apparently a very old man in a retirement home who has no interest in the property at all (I would like to buy it from him but doubt he's up for selling it.) Of course, that was a few years ago when I found out who actually owned the shaggy woodland; it may have sold by now. I'm always receiving offers to buy my property, and the offers have gone up in price over the years. If I hold onto it I will probably make out very well. Taxes are still ridiculously cheap on it so why sell? And my trees keep growing; white oak, red oak, all timber that will bring a good price should I decide to harvest it. I'll make more from harvesting timber than I would for selling - which is why people want the property in the first place.
But to get back to the subject at hand, all these oh-so-loving Democrats will steal the milk money from a baby's poor mother if it is in their interest to do so. Shapiro shows he is no different here.
And despite this case not yet being settled Shappiro ordered State Police to patrol the disputed land, and they kicked the rightful owners off of it.
And he has landscaped the property and flies drones over it to make sure his neighbors don't set foot on it.
Oh, and then there is this:
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PA Democrat Gov Josh Shapiro wants to build a security wall around his house…. But promised to sue if Trump built a border wall!
Funny how Democrats zealously patrol their own property but won't patrol the United States. Shapiro is using the State Police as his personal version of ICE.
Republicans should push a bill to defund the state cops for the same reasons that guys like old Josh want to defund our border agents.
At any rate the guy may talk a good game but in the end he's a self-seeking scoundrel like every other Democrat in these modern times.
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