For any adult with a primary school education not to recognize the attack committed against me for the purpose of acquiring my property is an adult who has no comprehension of moral law. For my local government officials to assist in the attack against me is unbelievable. These officials have acted to the extreme level of corruption on behalf of one man. I do not understand exactly why there would commit criminal offenses to this degree. To do anything to someone else’s property without their permission shows that person has no moral turpitude. When all local government officials knowingly assist the trespasser in his quest to acquire my property I have read make them as culpable as this special neighbor.

My intent is to expose these individuals and have my day in court. The evidence does not lie. I have contacted every government local, State and Federal official, organization and agency known to have the authority to investigate my allegation, all respond they do not have jurisdiction most people or agencies do not respond at all. Chemical weapons are the most damaging weapon used in war. Agent orange continues to affect those who were exposed to it from first used in the Vietnam war.

Being intentionally exposed to chemicals by my well connected neighbor continues to physically and emotionally affect me every minute of every day. To date I have suffered from a severe skin condition, I am speaking of excruciating pain 24 hours a day. So extremely painful that it was unbearable to have anything touch my skin. This started as what I at the time referred to as an allergic reaction or rash of some kind developing on my shins. I have no history of skin eruptions, not even a case of poison ivy. The severe condition lasted over 7 years.

Apparently there is no other case in which local law enforcement have not followed their duty and filed a trespassing complaint if someone trespasses on the land of another. There was no recognition that this was a moral wrong by any of the local community. No violation of the law was recognized by the local law enforcement.

I was ready to check out of this life on a day that provided no hope. I had decided that I could not stand to suffer another day with this condition.

Then out of the blue one single Dr saved my life. As of today I have it under control. This Dr. is from the University of Iowa Hospital. I developed a large lump on my back, I have no history of lumps on my back. It has since been removed. Understand when this “allergic reaction” or “rash” rapidly worsened I went to a local dermatologist. I explained to him that I was self employed with no medical insurance. I advised him that I could not afford educated guesses. I did not advise him that my neighbor had been continuously trespassing on my property and applying chemicals. I did advise him that I had been exposed to chemicals. Why did I not tell him that the chemical exposure was ongoing and continuous? Because how could that be possible? Law enforcement has the duty to protect property owners from trespassers. That Dr. would question my sanity had I told him the truth about the amount of chemicals I had been exposed to.

This does not happen in the USA. It violates my Federal right to enjoy my own property and my Federal right to equal protection of the law. The Dr. make several educated guesses, he misdiagnosed me as being allergic to the sun. When I went for a checkup a week later he believe that I had ignored his advice and had been in the sun. I had not been in the sun, what he believed to be sunburn was the chemical burn resulting from the chemicals applied to my property by my neighbor. He gave me oral steroids the first appointment, no positive effects resulted from the steroids. He then determined my condition was caused by something else. I do not recall what that diagnosis was, I recall that the steroids given for that diagnosis were ineffective. He did not consider the chemical exposure to be the cause of my condition. He did advise me to find out what the chemical was, stating that he could better treat if he knew the chemical.

I went to the next monthly city council meeting to inquire as to what the chemical used on the city easement of my property was. The room went silent. The Mayor and council members stared blankly at each other. The neighbor was a sitting council member, he did not utter a word. Not one of the members spoke one word. Professional courtesy would suggest one of them may have offered to find out. I advised them when I had the floor that I needed the information for medical purposes. Nobody cared that I was standing in a weakened condition, arms clearly visible and raw. I exited the building with no answers. The following day I saw the Street dept director was coming down the street my way. I walked to the street and stopped him. I advised him what took place at the meeting and how brutal I felt I had been treated by the community leaders. His response was they could not tell me the chemical as they were not aware any chemicals had been applied on my property, or anywhere else in the city for that matter.

Only my neighbor/council member knew the answer to my question. He had an intent for his actions, he was not going to say a word about what the chemical was that he applied to my property. The dermatologist had ran his limit on educated guesses with my finances. I did not return to him. The pain I was suffering increased as rapidly as the skin condition began to cover my entire body.

I requested the neighbor be issued a trespassing complaint from the Chief of Police the day I discovered the evidence that chemicals had been applied to my property. The chief of police advised me that he did not want to make this neighbor mad and denied my request. I requested an incident report from the police chief when I first discovered chemicals had been applied to my property. I received and insufficient incident report. I rejected that report and insisted a report be given to me that had the factual information included. A week later I received a report that was substandard but I accepted it as it touched on what took place. One problem with this requested incident report was the fact that I received the report 16 months after I first discovered the chemicals on my property. The timeliness was supportive to the neighbors motive for applying the chemicals as by this time I was completely unable to function. I went to several different Drs. during this time. None could offered any remedy, all offered oral steroids having no relief from the pain. This had been ongoing now for several years, beginning in spring 2005. This neighbor had the chemicals applied to my property as part of his own yard maintenance routine. I had decided I could not suffer one more day. I was making arrangements to get to the other side.

A neighbor, a registered nurse requested that I please go to the ER as a final attempt at offering me some relief from the constant physical pain. Initially they gave me oral steroids. When she returned home from work that evening she could see that my condition if anything was worse. I advised her that they gave me a shot of steroids. She advised me that they should have given me an IV of steroids. She advised me to wait 24 hours and go back. The break of daylight I returned to the ER. At that time they gave me IV steroids. Before I had arrived back at my house, my condition was significantly improved. Barely detectable was the horrible looking skin that was present just an hour before. I felt no itching at all. Oh my god, thank you Jesus. I do not recall but the medical records will show how long the temporary fix lasted. Perhaps a couple days. I could feel it erupting by the second, Within a couple days my condition was back. As painful if not worse that before the amazing steroids.

The only option available to me for relief was to wait until I could not bare the pain any longer and return to the ER and they would administer another steroid IV. As time went on the less time relief was given by the IV steroids. To me even if I felt relief for 30 minutes it was 30 more minutes I could tolerate on this earth. It had not occurred to me the side effects that I had as a result of the IV steroids.

One day a friend stopped to check on me. She loudly mentioned if my face was any closer to the computer monitor I would have to climb on top of it. My vision had become significantly affected. I could not read, I could not recognize people. I had no business driving. I had been basically homebound throughout these years because wearing clothes was unbearable. I only drove when I had to make it to appointments. I did drive into ditches because I could not see exactly where driveways were. I had applied for disability online and only discovered I was declined because I could not read the email requesting I submit more documentation.

I applied and was approved for County general relief. At that time I was able to see an optician. The nurse had to read the patient information form for me and I orally told her the answers. When he was checking my vision he advised me that he had never seen such a severe case of cataracts from a person my age. When I told him I had been having taking oral and IV steroid injections for an extended period of time he advised me that the steroids caused of the severity of my cataract. I was not aware that steroids caused cataracts.

Prior to being intentionally exposed to these chemicals I owned an operated an upholstery shop from my property in this city when the chemicals had been applied to my property against my permission. From having no problem threading a needle to the point when I had a driver’s license exam and when asked to read the third row of letters my response was that I could not see a third row. I was issued my drivers license in spite of not being able to pass the vision test because my cataract surgeon sent a note to the drivers license division stating that I was scheduled for cataract surgery within the following 2 weeks. The timeline from the day I discovered chemicals had been applied to my property until the cataract surgery was spring 2005 through 2012. I was still having to get steroid IV’s for relief from skin condition. Still requesting law enforcement file a trespassing complaint against this neighbor and still being denied, I was forced to flee from my property to escape the chemicals in summer 2010.

I was living in a camper behind my sons home when I began feeling confused and knew that my thoughts were not right. I remember hearing Charlie Sheen speaking to me as a sort of private message to me from the television. My actions were not at all in my character. One day I remember being out back of the house and although I knew I was talking to a cedar tree I was talking to it as if it was my sister, I was asking one cedar tree why he (her boyfriend) had cut off her legs with a chainsaw. It was the strangest thing I have ever experienced in my life. I was taken to the ER and it was determined that my hallucination were caused by IV steroid overdose administered by the Ft Madison Community Hospital ER. I was kept for observation the next 2 days and released. My mental state was normal. Urine and blood tests proved negative for drugs conflicting with what the local officials claimed to defame my character publicly beginning in the year 2004.

My medical history has always been good up to the point of being exposed to the chemicals. I alway practiced preventive medicine since I was one of the many self employed Americans who was without health insurance. I had the 6 months basic living expenses saved back in case of an unexpected emergency as Suzie Orman suggests. I followed all the standard procedures to remedy the unlawful application of chemicals on my property. I was well aware that having good health was a must to being successfully self employed. I certainly  never expected one man who was held above the law in the redevelopment of his newly purchased lot adjoining mine to become a threat to my health.

He made the choice to purchase the legally nonconforming lot adjoining mine from the Mayor. He made the choice to disregard the stringent State guidelines required to redevelop a legally nonconforming property. All with the assistance of the City building official. Had this have gone to court, the court would have required him to remove the illegal oversized structures.  When he was finished with his illegal redevelopment issue by illegal city building permits he went to get this illegal property recorded on the County plat map. The accessor in no way could have recorded this redevelopment legally.  I believe  it was rejected. It was then that this neighbor/council member determined the remedy to his problem was to eliminate me.  He had to acquire my property to ever be able to get enough land to comply with State building code. He chose to use chemicals as a weapon to accomplish his goal. He achieved his goal only with the full support of local government officials. He nearly took my life, but that was of no concern to any of them. I want the evidence reviewed with a full investigation. I am requesting an legitimate investigation into public corruption as described as the duty of the FBI, and  Federal charges brought against these government subdivisions and the individuals who without participating I would still be whole.

Melody Boatner

songboat@gmail.com