To the Editor:

According to a story in the Cedar City Daily News Jan. 29 “Parowan City Attorney Justin Wayment said Thursday he is working to change a city ordinance that allows the killing of a dog under certain circumstances … Wayment and Mayor Don Landes told the room full of Parowan residents that all ordinances within the city dealing with animal rights and gun rights should be viewed with common sense.”

I would interject here a thought: Does Government have the right or authority to regulate rights? If so “common sense” tells me they are no longer rights!

“Wayment said he understands both sides of the issue, and plans to rewrite the ordinance so that the livestock owner must call the police and wait for their arrival before taken drastic action against a dog,” the article said.

Let’s do some thinking here: Where did the police get their authority? Is not police authority delegated or granted? Does not Garn Page have more power, authority and rights on his own property than Preston Griffiths, or Kerry Jenson, or Natalie Jenson, or Lance Stubbs, or Don Landes or Justin Wayment? Does no Garn Page as a Sovereign Citizen on his own property have the God-given unalienable Constitutional Common Law right to enact his own laws?

If not is he no longer an American Citizen, but a mere citizen? In The Constitution for the United States of America 1789 (this not being The Constitution of the United States of America 1871, the Corporations’ Constitution) it states:

Article IV, Section 2: “The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.”

Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage other retained by the people.”

Amendment XIV, Section 1 (ratified in 1868): “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Note here and this is a very important distinction: Garn Page should be a Citizen under the original Constitution and not a 14th Amendment citizen and therefore he is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States or any of its subsidiaries and this including Parowan.

James Clarence Quada

Parowan